Research Interests: atmospheric optics, mitigation of environment effects in space and on planets, bionanophotonics, light driven actuators, photonic polymers, fiber optics, photonic nanocomposites, integrated optics, nonlinear optics, electro-optic modulators, optical sensors, holography, optical information processing, optical memory, and computer image processing

Currently Funded Projects: Measurement of cloud-cover mitigation of optical turbulence, US Army SMDC Grant W9113M-04-1-0008, $185K, 2004-2006, PI.

Total Number of Publications: 180, including 32 in peer review journals and 91 in proceedings, plus 2 patents and 2 US patent applications.

1. Zhifu Liu, Sergey S. Sarkisov, Michael J. Curley, Alexander Leyderman, Charles Lee, Thin film electro-optic modulator based on single crystal of N-(4-nitrophenyl)-(L)-prolinol (NPP) grown from melt by modified Bridgman method, Opt. Eng. 42, No. 3 (2003) 803-812.
2. S.S. Sarkisov, Slab-waveguide interferometer for sensing ammonia in wet air, NASA Tech Briefs 26, No. 10 (2002) 34-35.
3. Vladimir N. Nesterov, Tatiana V. Timofeeva, Sergey S. Sarkisov, Alexander Leyderman, Charles Y.-C. Lee, and Mikhail Yu. Antipin, 3,5-Bis[4-(diethylamino)benzylidene]-1-methyl-4-piperidone and 3,5-bis[4-(diethylamino)cinnamylidene]-1-methyl-4-piperidone: prospective biophotonic materials, Acta Cryst. C59 (2003) o605-o608.
4. Sergey S. Sarkisov, Elena I. Radovanova, Burl H. Peterson, Alex Leyderman, Michael Curley and Paul Fleitz, Optical spectroscopic and nonlinear transmittance study of fullerene C60 in mixture with 2-cyclooctylamino-5-nitropyridine (COANP), Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials (JNOPM) 13, No. 1 (2004) 113-127.
5. Sergey S. Sarkisov, Michael J. Curley, Aisha Fields, Sergey S. Sarkisov II, Grigory Adamovsky, Photomechanical effect in films of polyvinylidene fluoride, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, No. 14 (2004) 2747-2749.
6. Sergey S. Sarkisov, Burl H. Peterson, Michael J. Curley, Vladimir N. Nesterov, Tatiana Timofeeva, Mikhain Antipin, Elena I. Radovanova, Alex Leyderman, Paul Fleitz, Two-photon absorption and fluorescence of new derivatives of cyclohexanone and piperidone, will be published in Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials (JNOPM)

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