Research Interests: bionanophotonics, light driven motors and 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:

  1. Construction and evaluation of nonlinear integrated optical devices, NASA Grant "Alliance for Nonlinear Optics", Subcontract from the Mew Mexico Highlands University, $46K for 2002 (1994-this time), PI.
  2. Electro-optic modulator based on organic planar waveguide integrated with prism coupler, NASA Grant #NAG8-1498, $240K (1999 - this time), PI.
  3. All-optical micro motors based on moving gratings in photosensitive media. Cooperative agreement #NCC3-736 with NASA GRC, $187,128 (1999 - this time), Co-PI.
  4. Organic glasses and crystals for miniature electro-optic devices, AFOSR Grant #F49620-01-1-0561, Subcontract from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, $120K (2001- this time), PI.
  5. Synthesis and characterization of polyimides to be used in the fabrication of low driving voltage electro-optic modulator, BMDO/AFOSR Grant #F49620-02-1-0014, Subcontract from the Grambling State University, $100K (2001- this time), PI

Total Number of Publications: 164 including 6 patents.

  1. Sergey Sarkisov, Michael Curley, Aaron Wilkosz, and Vladimir Grymalsky, "Optical channel waveguides formed by upconverted photobleaching of dye-doped polymer film in regime of dark spatial soliton," Optics Communications 161 (1999) 132-140.
  2. Sergey S. Sarkisov, Michael J. Curley, Darnell E. Diggs, Aaron Wilkosz, Vladimir Grimalsky, and Grigory Adamovsky, "Dark spatial solitons in photo-polymer films for optical interconnections," Opt. Eng. 39 (2000) 616-623.
  3. S.S. Sarkisov, M.J. Curley, E.K. Williams, D. Ila, V.L. Svetchnikov, H.W. Zandberegn, G.A. Zykov, C. Banks, J.-C. Wang, D.B. Poker, and D.K. Hensley, "Nonlinear optical waveguides produced by MeV ion implantation in LiNbO3," Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 166-167 (2000) 750-757.
  4. Sergey S. Sarkisov, Darnell E. Diggs, Grigory Adamovsky, Michael J. Curley, "Single-arm double-mode double-order planar waveguide interferometric sensor," Applied Optics LP40 (2001) 349-359.
  5. Mykola Kulishov, Sergey Sarkisov, Yuri Boiko, and Pavel Cheben, "Switchable optical element with Bragg mode diffraction," Optics Letters 26 (2001) 759-761.
  6. S.S. Sarkisov, M.J. Curley, N.V. Kukhtarev, A. Fields, G. Adamovsky, C.C. Smith, and L.E. Moore, "Holographic surface gratings in iron-doped lithium niobate," Appl. Phys. Lett.79 (2001) 901-903.

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