Vladislav Yakovlev, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named recipient of the 2015 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics for his work on random lasers.
The Lamb Award is presented annually for outstanding contributions to the field and is sponsored by the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE).
Yakovlev, who joined Texas A&M in 2012, has made many significant contributions to the field of optical instrumentation for biomedical sensing and imaging, including advancing the technology of ultrasfast solid-state lasers, making it an indispensable tool for multiphoton microscopy, imaging and sensing.
Yakovlev holds the rank of Fellow in the Optical Society of America, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and the International Society for Optics and Photonics. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, given 50 invited public presentations and more than 100 presentations at different conferences. He also has edited one book on the biochemical applications of nonlinear optical spectroscopy and contributed to several books as co-author.
Yakovlev received his master’s degree in physics and Ph.D. in quantum electronics from Moscow State University.
Named for Willis E. Lamb, Jr., famous laser scientist and 1955 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, the Lamb Award is presented at the PQE Winter Colloquium in Snowbird, Utah. The conference, now in its 45th year, attracts researchers in laser physics and quantum electronics from around the globe.
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