Peter G. Eliseev

Peter G. Eliseev
Professor Emeritus
University of New Mexico,

Biography

Prof. ELISEEV Peter received Master Deg. from Moscow State University (MSU), Physics Dept. (Moscow, Russia), in 1959. He received PhD (1965) and DrSci (1974) degrees from P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute (LPI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, where he had been affiliated since 1963 to 2008 after post-graduated staying at MSU (1959-1963). His last position at the LPI was Head of the Injection Laser Laboratory. He joined the Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM, University of New Mexico) in 1994 on leave from the LPI as a visiting professor, and he has retired since 2008. At present he is Professor Emeritus at the CHTM. Fields of his scientific interests are physics and technology of semiconductor lasers and related photonics devices: semiconductor optical amplifiers, laser gyros, light-emitting diodes. He is author or co-author of more than 550 publications and books “Semiconductor Lasers” (1976, in Russian and in French), “Introduction into Physics of Injection Lasers” (1983, in Russian), and “Reliability Problems of Semiconductor Lasers” (1991, in English). He has been awarded by the USSR-GDR Academy Prize (1979), the State Prize of the USSR in Science and Technology (1984), and N. Holonyak Optical Society of America Award (2004).