Research Topics:
Optical high-Q microresonators in precision measurements:
Theory of optical whispering-gallery microresonators;
Development of promising radiophotonic devices;
Quantum effects of interaction of optical and microwave fields in nonlinear cavity;
Optomechanics of microresonators.
Optical microresonator based frequency combs (with EPFL, Prof. T. Kippenberg):
Stable low-noise Kerr frequency combs;
Stable microwave oscillators;
Generation of femtosecond pulses;
Optical dissipative solitons.
Laser gravitational-wave antennae (in LIGO Scientific Collaboration):
Quantum limitations of measurement;
Fundamental mechanisms of noises;
Perspective optical materials for the next generation antennae.