Professional Biography, List of publications

Birthdate

• 30.Oct.1965 in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

• PL/I programmer, Secondary school, Stara Zagora (1983)
• University of Sofia, Physics Department, M. Sc. in Physics (1990)
• Ph. D. in Optics (1996) at the Central Laboratory of Optical Storage and Processing of Information. (thesis subject: Investigations on the Photoanisotropy of Polarization Sensitive Materials)
• Short Abstract in English
• (in Bulgarian) Aвтореферат 322kb .PDF
• (in Bulgarian) Цялата Дисертация

Research activities:

• Physicist in the Central Laboratory of Optical Storage and Processing of Information 1990–1991
• Ph. D. Student 1992 – 1995.
• Research associate 1995-2000.
• STA Fellow in AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, since 2001

• Polarization Holography,
• Optical Recording in Photoanisotropic Materials
• Measuring the state of polarization of light

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,
Tsukuba Science City, Ibaraki-ken, Japan
305-8564, Namiki 1-2 Micro-Nano Center
phone: (+81) 298-584281-37110  fax: (+81) 298- 617871 (in Japan)  (+1) 415-430-2160 ext.1726 (in the USA)
e-mail: mario@optics.bas.bg, m.ivanov@aist.go.jp

1. M. Ivanov, I. Naydenova, T. Todorov, L. Nikolova, T. Petrova, N. Tomova, V. Dragostinova, Light-induced optical activity in optically ordered amorphous side-chain azobenzene containing polymer,  Journal of Modern Optics,   Vol. 47  No. 5  p. 861-867, (2000)  2. L. Nikolova, T. Todorov, M. Ivanov, Influence of the type of light polarization on photoinduced trans-cis isomerization in rigid dye systems, Optical and Quantum Electronics, 29, (1997) p.405-412  3. Nikolova, L., T. Todorov, M. Ivanov, F. Andruzzi, S. Hvilsted and P. S. Ramanujam, Photoinduced circular anisotropy in side-chain azobenzene polyesters, Optical Materials Vol. 8, No. 4, p.255, Nov. 22, 1997  4. L. Nikolova, T. Todorov, M. Ivanov, F. Andruzzi, S. Hvilsted, P. S. Ramanujam, Polarization holographic gratings in materials with linear and circular anisotropy, Applied Optics, 35 (No 20), 3835, (1996)  5. M. Ivanov, T. Todorov, L. Nikolova, N. Tomova, V. Dragostinova, Photoinduced changes in the refractive index of azo-dye/polymer systems, Applied Physics Letters, 66 (No 17), 2174 (1995)  AIP 6. M. Ivanov, L. Nikolova, T. Todorov, N. Tomova, V. Dragostinova, Photoinduced dichroism and birefringence in films of mordant pure yellow/polyvinilalcohol: simultaneous real time investigations at two wavelengths, Optical and Quantum Electronics, 26, 1013 (1994)  7. L. Nikolova, M. Ivanov, T. Todorov, S. Stoyanov, Spectrophotopolarimeter: A simplified version for real time measurement at selected wavelengths, Bulgarian Journal of Physics, 90 (No 3-4), 46 (1993)  8. L. Nikolova, T. Petrova, M. Ivanov, T. Todorov, E. Nacheva, Polarization holographic gratings and their realization in AgCl emulsions, Journal of Modern Optics, 39 (No 9), 1953, (1992)  9. P.Yankov, M. Ivanov, I. Chaltakov, Differential polarization interferometer for measuring of surface profiles, Bulgarian Journal of Physics, Numbers 3-4, vol.19, p. 89-95 (1992)

Conference Presentations
 

1. M. Ivanov, T.Eiju, Azodye gelatin films for polarization holographic recording,  Optical Engineering for Sensing and Nanotecnology (ICOSN 2001), Yokohama, Japan, proceedings of SPIE, vol.4416, p.486 (2001)  2. M. Ivanov, T.Eiju, Stable Polarization Recording in MPY/gelatin films, The 48th spring meeting, 2001 of  the Japan Society of Applied Physics and Related Societies. 3. M. Ivanov, Two wave mixing in thin films with linear and circular birefringence, proceedings of the 10th ISCMP Varna, 1-4 September, 1998  4. L.Nedelchev, T.Todorov, G.Stoilov, M.Ivanov, "Photoinduced Dichroic Spectra of Azopolymer Thin Films Measured with a Fast Spectrophotometer", 10th ISCMP, Varna '98. 5. M. Ivanov, L. Nikolova, T. Todorov, N. Tomova, Photoinduced dichroism and birefringence in azo-dye polymer materials, proceedings of the 8th ISCMP Varna, 18-23 sept, 1994, p.307-310 6. L. Nikolova, T. Petrova, M. Ivanov, T. Todorov, Investigations on the Weigert effect in AgCl emulsions, Proceedings of international conference on materials science and technology 20-23. Oct. 1993 7. M. Ivanov, T. Todorov, L. Nikolova, Real time polarimetric measurement of light induced anisotropy of materials optical constants, Proceedings of international conference on materials science and technology 20-23. Oct. 1993 8. T. Todorov, L. Nikolova, M. Ivanov, N. Tomova, V. Dragostinova, Photoinduced dichroism and birefringence in azo-dye polymer materials, Proceedings of international conference on materials science and technology 20-23. Oct. 1993

 

Last updated: June.2001