Gennady I. Freidman
Chief scientist
Dr. Sc. in physics and mathematics

Date of birth: November 8, 1931
Place of birth: Nizhny Novgorod, USSR

Education:
1954: graduated from Lobachevsky State University of Gorky (Faculty: Physics)
1963: Ph.D. thesis “On electromagnetic shock waves in an infinite nonlinear medium and two-wire transmission lines with nonlinear filling” (supervisor: A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov)
1976: Dr. Sc. thesis “On the parametric interaction of wave packets and parametric generation of light”
1991: Awarded the title of professor

Scope of professional interests:
Nonlinear wave processes, nonlinear optics (parametric amplification and generation of light, the processes of stimulated scattering)

Professional carrier:
1954-1956: Yakut River College (lecturer)
1956-1958: Yakutsk Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (senior laboratory assistant)
1958-1963: Department of Radio Engineering of the Gorky Polytechnic Institute (assistant)
1963-1977: Research Radiophysics Institute, Gorky (senior research scientist)
1977-1990: Institute of Applied Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences (head of research laboratory)
1990 - present: IAP RAS (leading research scientist, chief scientist)

Membership in professional organizations:
Editorial Board of Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics (Izvestiya VUZ. Radiofizika) journal
Member of the Scientific Council of the Nonlinear Dynamics and Optics Division of IAP RAS
2 thesis councils

Awards, Grants:
1984: State Prize Laureate
Project manager of the President Program of Support for Leading Scientific Schools (grant "Nonlinear conversion of laser radiation")

Most significant papers:
Gaponov A.V. and Freidman G.I. Shock electromagnetic waves in ferrites // ZhETF. 1959. V.36, N3. P.957.

Freidman G.I. Reflection of electromagnetic waves in gyrotropic media from the wave of a magnetic field // ZhETF. 1961. V.41, N1. P.226.

Freidman G.I. Shock-wave structure as a function of the system dispersion characteristic in the linear approximation // Izv. VUZ. Radiofizika. 1963. V.6, N3. P.536-550.

Sushchik M.M., Fortus V.M., and Freidman G.I. Trapping of parametrically coupled waves by pulses and beams of pump radiation // Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics. 1969. V.12, N2. P.235-238

Pasmanik G.A. and Freidman G.I. Theory of parametric and Raman interaction in an incoherent pumping field // Sov. J. Quantum Electron. 1974. V.4, N3. P.304-310.

Babin A.A., Belyaev Yu.N., Sushchik M.M., Fortus V.M., and Freidman G.I. Investigation of optical parametric oscillators with noncollinear interaction // Sov. J. Quantum Electron. 1976. V.6, N8. P.950-958.

Morozov S.F., Piskunova L.V., Sushchik M.M., and Freidman G.I. Some characteristics of nonlinear interaction of wave packets in media with quadratic nonlinearity // Sov. J. Quantum Electron. 1976. V.6, N3. P.293-298.

Morozov S.F., Piskunova L.V., Sushchik M.M., and Freidman G.I. Formation and amplification of quasisoliton pulses in head-on stimulated scattering // Sov. J. Quantum Electron. 1978. V.8, N5. P.576-580.

Babin A.A., Belyaeva N.N., Belyaev Yu.N., Bredikhin V.I., Karov A.V., Petryakov V.N., Feldstein F.I., and Freidman G.I. Powerful, tunable sources of IR-based optical parametric oscillators, parametric and Raman  converters // Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Fiz. 1984. V.48, N8. P.1511-1521.

Ruvinsky K.D., Feldstein F.I., and Freidman G.I. Numerical simulations of the quasi-stationary stage of ripple excitation by steep gravity-capillary waves // J. Fluid Mech. 1991. V.230. P.339-353.

Freidman G.I., Feldstein F.I., Lozhkarev V.V., Pasmanik G.A., Shilov A.A., and Yakovlev I.V. Prospects of using parametric and SRS oscillators and amplifiers for remote spectroscopy of the atmosphere and image amplification // Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Phenomena (Vladimir V. Shuvalov, Alexei M. Zheltikov, eds.). Proc. SPIE. 1996. V.2797. P.299-310.

Freidman G., Andreev N., Ginzburg V., Katin E., Khazanov E., Lozhkarev V., Palashov O., Sergeev A., and Yakovlev I. Parametric amplification of chirped laser pulses at 911 nm and 1250 nm wavelengths // Solid State Lasers XI (Richard Scheps, ed.). Proc. SPIE. 2002. V.4630. P.135-146.