Mikhail Polyanskiy, Ph.D
[Lasers, laser applications and optics]
 Brookhaven National Laboratory

bldg. 820M, Upton, NY 11973, USA

Tel.: +1 (631) 344-2505

Cell.: +1 (631) 603-1141

E-mail: polyanskiy@bnl.gov

CURRICULUM VITAE
BORN
April 22, 1976 in Krasnogorodsk, Pskov region, Russia
EDUCATION
  • 2004: Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2000: Master's degree in physics. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 1997: Bachelor's degree in physics. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
EXPERIENCE
  • 10/2011~now: Associate Physicist at Accelerator Test Facility, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA. Ultra-high-power CO2 laser R&D, Laser ion acceleration experiments support.
  • 07/2009~09/2011: Assistant Physicist at Accelerator Test Facility, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA. Facility laser system development and maintenance, user experiments support.
  • 07/2007~07/2009: Research Associate at Accelerator Test Facility, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA. Development of advanced CO2 laser system for applications in high energy physics research. [Experience in gas lasers, ultrashort pulses, laser pulse characterization, simulation software development]
  • 11/2004~07/2007: Senior Engineer in Samsung SDI CO., LTD., Production Engineering Research Laboratory, Suwon, South Korea. Development of laser equipment for plasma display panel (PDP) production processes. [Experience in optical design, high-power industrial lasers, MOEMs, diffractive optics, lithography and laser ablation. Being responsible for optical system development project from concept to prototype stage]
  • 03/2000~09/2004: Ph.D. research project "Overtone pre-excitation – infrared multiple photon dissociation under collisional conditions: new potential for laser isotope separation", Laboratory of Molecular Physical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland [Experience in molecular spectroscopy, gas and solid state lasers, nonlinear optics, masspectrometry, vacuum equipment, data acquisition and analysis] PhD thesis full text: http://library.epfl.ch/en/theses/?nr=3084
  • 1999~2000: Master diploma project "LIF analysis of mixtures of complex organic compounds", Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 1997: Diploma project "Development of LIDAR system for atmospheric ozone probing", Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
PUBLICATIONS
Journals
  • I. V. Pogorelsky, M. N. Polyanskiy, M. Babzien, V. Yakimenko, N. P. Dover, C. A. J. Palmer,Z. Najmudin, P. Shkolnikov, G. Dudnikova "Laser induced cavities and solitons in overcritical hydrogen plasma," Laser Physics, 21:1288-1294, 2011
  • Z. Najmudin, C. Palmer, N. Dover, I. Pogorelsky, M. Babzien, A. E. Dangor, G. I. Dudnikova, P. S. Foster, J. S. Green, M. Ispiriyan, D. Neely, M. Polyanskiy, J. Schreiber, P. Shkolnikov and V. Yakimenko, "Observation of impurity free monoenergetic proton beams from the interaction of a CO2 laser with a gaseous target," Phys. Plasmas, 18:056705, 2011
  • M. N. Polyanskiy, I. V. Pogorelsky, and V. Yakimenko, "Picosecond pulse amplification in isotopic CO2 active medium," Optics Express, 19:7717-7725, 2011
  • C. A. J. Palmer, N. P. Dover, I. Pogorelsky, M. Babzien, G. I. Dudnikova, M. Ispiriyan, M. N. Polyanskiy, J. Schreiber, P. Shkolnikov, V. Yakimenko, and Z. Najmudin, "Monoenergetic proton beams accelerated by a radiation pressure driven shock," Phys. Rev. Lett., 106:014801, 2011
  • I. V. Pogorelsky, V. Yakimenko, M. Polyanskiy, P. Shkolnikov, M. Ispiryan, D. Neely, P. McKenna, D. Carroll, Z. Najmudin and L. Willingal, "Ultrafast CO2 laser technology: Application in ion acceleration," Nucl. Instrum. Meth. Phys. Res. A, 620:67-70, 2010
  • M. N. Polianski, O. V. Boyarkin, and T. R. Rizzo, "Efficient, highly-selective laser isotope separation of carbon-13," Appl. Phys. B, 83:311-317, 2006
  • M. Polianski, O. V. Boyarkin, and T. R. Rizzo, "Collisionally assisted, highly-selective laser isotope separation of carbon-13," J. Chem. Phys., 121:11771-11779, 2004
  • M. Polianski, O. V. Boyarkin, T. R. Rizzo, V. M. Apatin, V. B. Laptev, and E. A. Ryabov, "Infrared laser chemistry of trichlorosilane in view of silicon isotope separation," J. Phys. Chem. A, 107:8578-8583, 2003
  • V. B. Borisov, V. M. Nemets, M. N. Polyanskiy, and A. A. Solov'ev, "Possibility of application of multidimensional statistical analysis of spectra in LIF study of complex mixtures of organic compounds," Analitika i kontrol', 4:151-156, 2000 (in Russian)
  • V. B. Borisov, V. M. Nemets, A. A. Pastor, M. N. Polyanskiy, and A. A. Solov'ev, "LIF technique for analysis of petroleum products and detection of organic compounds in water," Pribori i Sistemi Upravleniya, 6:43-44, 1999 (in Russian)
Book chapter
  • M. N. Polyanskiy and M. Babzien, "Ultrashort pulses," in: CO2 laser – optimization and application, D. C. Dumitras (ed.), InTech, 2012, ISBN 978-953-51-0351-6, pp 139-162
Meetings & Conferences
  • I. Pogorelsky, M. Polyanskiy, V. Yakimenko, I. Ben-Zvi, P. Shkolnikov, Z. Najmudin, C. A. J. Palmer, N. P. Dover, P. Oliva, M. Carpinelli, "Proton- and x-ray beams generated by ultra-fast CO2 lasers for medical applications", Laser Acceleration of Electrons, Protons, and Ions, Prague (Czech Republic), April 18-20, 2011 Proc. SPIE, 8079:80791L
  • M. N. Polyanskiy, I. Ben-Zvi, I. Pogorelsky, V. Yakimenko, and Z. Najmudin, "Prospects for proton accelerators driven by the radiation pressure from a sub-PW CO2 laser" (poster), Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC), New York (USA), March 28 - April 1, 2011 Proc. PAC-11
  • A. Tremaine, S. Boucher, A. Murokh, S. Anderson, W. Brown, J. Duris, P. Musumeci, J. Rosenzweig, I. Jovanovic, I. Pogorelsky, M. Polyanskiy, V. Yakimenko "Inverse free electron laser accelerators for driving compact light sources and detection applications" Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC), New York (USA), March 28 - April 1, 2011 Proc. PAC-11 [slides]
  • M. Polyanskiy "CO2 laser R&D", Accelerator Test Facility User's Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), October 6-7, 2010 [slides]
  • I.V. Pogorelsky, M. Babzien, M.N. Polyanskiy, V. Yakimenko, N.P. Dover, C.A.J. Palmer, Z. Najmudin, P. Shkolnikov, O. Williams, J. Rosenzweig, P. Oliva, M. Carpinelli, B. Golosio, P. Delogu, A. Stefanini, and M. Endrizzi, "Lasers as particle accelerators in medicine: From laser-driven protons to imaging with Thomson sources", Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI). Fort Worth, TX (USA), August 8–13, 2010 AIP Conf. Proc., 1366:386-390
  • M. N. Polyanskiy, I. V. Pogorelsky, and V. Yakimenko, "Picosecond 10 µm pulse amplification in isotopic CO2 active medium", Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (AAC), Annapolis, MD (USA) June 13-19, 2010. AIP Conf. Proc., 1299:743-7461
  • C. A. J. Palmer, N. Dover, I. Pogorelsky, M. Babzien, G. Dudnikova, M. Ispiriyan, M. Polyanskiy, J. Schreiber, P. Shkolnikov, V. Yakimenko, and Z. Najmudin. "First experiments on laser acceleration of protons in overdense gas jets", Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (AAC), Annapolis, MD (USA) June 13-19, 2010 AIP Conf. Proc., 1299:699-703
  • I. Pogorelsky, M. Babzien, M.N. Polyanskiy, V. Yakimenko, N. Dover, Z. Najmudin, C.A.J. Palmer, J. Schreiber, G. Dudnikova, M. Ispiryan, P. Shkolnikov, "Laser energy conversion to solitons and monoenergetic protons in near-critical hydrogen plasma", International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC), Kyoto (Japan), May 23-28, 2010 Proc. IPAC’10
  • M. Polyanskiy, I. Pogorelsky, V. Yakimenko, "Picosecond 10 μm pulse amplification in isotopic CO2 active medium", Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA (USA), May 16-21, 2010 [abstract]- Post-deadline talk
  • V. Yakimenko, I. Pogorelsky, M. Polyanskiy, "Linac based Compton source and CO2 laser development at ATF" (web talk), International Linear Collider Workshop (ILC), Beijing (China), March 26-30, 2010
  • M. Polyanskiy, I. Pogorelsky, V. Yakimenko, "Development of a picosecond CO2 laser system for a high-repetition γ-source". Frontiers in Optics, San Jose, CA (USA), October 11-15, 2009
  • M. Polyanskiy, I. Pogorelsky, V. Yakimenko, and V. Platonenko, "Multi-pass CO2 laser cavity for high repetition pulse trains" (web talk), TILC09 - Joint ACFA Physics and Detector Workshop and GDE Meeting on International Linear Collider, Tsukuba (Japan), April 17-21, 2009
  • M. Polyanskiy, I. Pogorelsky, V. Yakimenko, and V. Platonenko, "Multi-pass CO2 laser cavity for high repetition pulse trains", Accelerator Test Facility User's Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), April 2-3, 2009
  • M. Polyanskiy, I. Pogorelsky, V. Yakimenko, "Simulation and diagnostic tools for better understanding and upgrade of the CO2 laser", Accelerator Test Facility User's Meeting, Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA), April 2-3, 2009
  • M. N. Polyanskiy, I. V. Pogorelsky, V. E. Yakimenko, and V. T. Platonenko, "Development of a picosecond CO2 laser system for a high-repetition γ-source", XII International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers (GCL-HPL), Lisbon (Portugal), September 15-19, 2008 Proc. SPIE, 7131:71310K
  • I. Pogorelsky, M. N. Polyanskiy, V. Yakimenko, and V. T. Platonenko, "Development of a high-average-power Compton source for lepton colliders", Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (AAC), Santa Cruz, CA (USA), July 27 - August 2, 2008 AIP Conf. Proc., 1086:726-731
  • M. Polyanskiy, "Computer modeling of regenerative CO2 laser amplifier", ILC Positron Source Collaboration Meeting, Argonne National Laboratory (USA), September 17-20, 2007
  • M. Polianski, O. V. Boyarkin, R. Bossart and T. R. Rizzo, "Collisionally-enhanced, highly selective laser isotope separation of carbon-13" (poster), The XIV symposium on atomic, cluster and surface physics; La Thuile (Italy), February 1-6, 2004
  • M. Polianski, O. V. Boyarkin, R. Bossart and T. R. Rizzo, "Overtone pre-excitation - infrared multiphoton dissociation approach for highly selective laser isotope separation (poster), Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Lausanne (Switzerland), October 9, 2003
  • M. Polianski, O. V. Boyarkin, R. Bossart and T. R. Rizzo, ”Overtone pre-excitation - infrared multiphoton dissociation approach for highly selective laser isotope separation” (poster), 39th Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry: Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Gwatt Lake Thun (Switzerland), September 28 - October 2, 2003
  • M. Polianski, O. V. Boyarkin, and T. R. Rizzo, "Control of the CO2 laser pulse duration for application in laser isotope separation" (poster), Conference on Laser Optics for Young Scientists (LOYS), St. Petersburg (Russia), June 30 - July 4, 2003 – Best paper award
  • M. Polianski, V. Boyarkin and M. Kowalczyk, "Overtone pre-excitation - infrared multiphoton dissociation technique for carbon isotope separation" (poster), International Quantum Electronics Conference / Conference on Lasers, Applications and Technologies (IQEC/LAT), Moscow (Russia), June 22-27, 2002
Patents
  • M. Polianski, J. S. Park, G. W. Han. "Exposure device including diffraction optical device". Korean patent unexamined publication. #10-2008-0082051 (Sept. 11, 2008)
  • W. S. Park, M. Polianski. "Equipment for direct patterning using backward lightening". Korean patent. Registration #10-0670433-0000 (Jan. 10, 2007)
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Developing and maintaining on-line refractive index database RefractiveIndex.INFO
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Languages
  • Russian: native
  • English: fluent
  • French: intermediate (able to communicate in most situations)
  • Korean: basics
Computer skills
  • Operating systems: Linux, Windows
  • Programming: C/C++, QT, PHP, Win32 API
  • Data acquisition and analysis: LabView, IgorPro, SciLab, Mathematica
  • Optical design: ZEMAX
  • Mechanical design: QCad, basics of SolidWorks
  • Office and text tools: LaTeX, OpenOffice.org, etc.
AFFILIATIONS
  • Optical Society of America: member since 2003
  • American Physical Society, Division of Laser Science: member since 2011
AWARDS
Best paper award for “Control of the CO2 laser pulse duration for application in laser isotope separation” poster. Conference on Laser Optics for Young Scientists, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2003
HOBBIES
Traveling, skiing, riding bicycle, walking, reading
last modified: 2012-04-13