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Pavel Peterka

Assoc. Prof. Pavel Peterka, Ph.D.

Position: Director of the Institute; Senior research scientist

Department: Fiber lasers and non-linear optics, Management of the Institute

+420 266 773 404

Location: Main building of UFE, Praha 8 - Kobylisy

Research interests:

Research in the field of fiber lasers and amplifiers, specialty optical fibers and optical fiber components.

Education:

2000 Ph.D., Radioelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague

1993 MSc., Physical Engineering, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague

Professional activities:

2017–today: Chairman of conference Specialty Optical Fibres, part of SPIE Optics+Optoelectronics

2016: Co-chairman of the photonics section of interdisciplinary symposium EU-US Frontiers of Engineering, Oct 17-19, 2016, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. Organisation: National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies, and Engineering (EuroCASE)

2016: Chairman of summer school “International Training School on Fibre Lasers & Optical Fibre Technology,” https://its.ufe.cz

2014–2018: Management Committee member of the European Action COST MP1401 “Advanced Fiber Lasers”

2014–today: Member of the Academy Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences

2013–today: Deputy head of the team of Fibre lasers and non-linear optics (ÚFE)

2013–2017: Member of the Council for popularisation of science of the Czech Academy of Sciences

2012–2021: Vice-chairman of the Supervisory board of the ÚFE

2007–2012: Secretary of the Supervisory board of the ÚFE

2012–2019: Board member of the Alpha sub-programme 1 of the Technological Agency of the Czech Republic

2011–2015, 2019–2023: Vice-chairman of the evaluation panel P102 „Electrical Engineering and Electronics“ of the Czech Science Foundation and member of its Discipline committee OK1 „Technical sciences“ (2011–2015)

2009: Professeur invité at LPMC (6 weeks)

2007–today: External lecturer of the subject „Fiber lasers and amplifiers“ in the CTU

2001–2003: Postdoctoral fellow (13 months) in Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (LPMC), CNRS – Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

1993–today: Institute of Photonics and Electronics (ÚFE), senior research scientist since 2013

Memberships:

Optical Society of America (OSA) Senior Member, The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Senior Member, Czech and Slovak Society for Photonics (ČSSF) and European Optical Society (EOS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Patents and utility models:

P. Peterka, P. Koška, O. Podrazký, V. Matějec, I. Kašík. Zesilovací modul, způsob jeho výroby a pláštěm čerpané optické zařízení jej obsahující. Česká republika. Patent, č. 305888, 9.3.2016.
P. Koška, P. Peterka, M. Písařík. Přizpůsobovací člen profilu pole signálové větve slučovačů signálu a čerpání, slučovač a optické zařízení. Česká republika. Patent, č. 305868, 2.3.2016.
P. Peterka, P. Honzátko and R. Slavík. Celovláknový laser s pasivním Q-spínáním. Česká republika. Patent, č. 303333, 21.6.2012.
P. Peterka, V. Matějec, I. Kašík. Spojovací prvek a způsob výroby spojovacího prvku pro navázání signálu a čerpání do dvouplášťového optického vlákna. Česká republika. Patent, č. 301215, 12.4.2005.
P. Peterka, P. Koška, M. Písařík. Přizpůsobovací člen profilu pole signálové větve slučovačů signálu a čerpání, slučovač a optické zařízení. Česká republika. Užitný vzor, č. 28064, 09.4.2015.

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P. Peterka and V. Matějec, "Optical fibers have come to the Nobel price for physics", Pokroky matematiky, fyziky & astronomie. 55(1), 45597 (2010) doi:

P. Peterka, J. Maria, B. Dussardier, R. Slavík, P. Honzátko and V. Kubeček, "Long-period fiber grating as wavelength selective element in double-clad Yb-doped fiber-ring lasers", Laser Physics Letters. 6(10), 732-736 (2009) doi:10.1002/lapl.200910067

P. Peterka, J. Kaňka, P. Honzátko and D. Káčik, "Measurement of chromatic dispersion of microstructure optical fibers using interferometric method", Optica Applicata. 38(2), 295-303 (2008) doi:

M. Pospíšilová, P. Adámek, P. Peterka, V. Kubeček, I. Kašík and V. Matějec, "Influence of Si-Al-Ge-Sb Matricies on Tm3+ Excitation Levels", Materials Science Forum. 587-588(Jun), 293-297 (2008) doi:

D. A. Simpson, K. W. E. Gibbs, S. F. Collins, W. Blanc, B. Dussardier, G. Monnom, G. Baxter and P. Peterka, "Visible and near infra-red up-conversion in Tm3+/Yb3+ co-doped silica fibers under 980 nm excitation", Optics Express. 16(18), 13781-13799 (2008) doi: