Silaev Alexander
senior research scientist, Department of Plasma Physics , Ph.D

Date of birth:
September 24, 1986

Place of birth:
Gorky, Soviet Union

Education:
2009: graduated from Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (faculty: Advanced School of General and Applied Physics; Master in physics).
2009—2012: postgraduate study at IAP RAS (specialty: 01.04.08 — «plasma physics»).
2013: Ph.D. degree in physics and mathematics; the Ph.D. thesis: «Excitation of polarization currents during gas ionization with few-cycle laser pulses» (specialities: 01.04.08 — «plasma physics» and 01.04.21 — «laser physics»; supervisor: N. V. Vvedenskii).

Scope of professional interests:
Nonlinear-optical effects in the process of interaction of laser radiation with matter; numerical simulation of phisical phenomena.

Professional career:
2007—present — senior laboratory assistant, junior research scientist, research scientist, senior research scientist in Department of Plasma Physics, IAP RAS.

Awards, prizes, grants:
Stipend of the Dynasty Foundation for students and postgraduates (2009-2012).
Presidential stipend for young scientists and postgraduates (2012—2014, 2015—2017).
Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research # 12-01-31270 «Development and implementation of quantum-mechanical approaches to modeling the processes of gas ionization, electron acceleration and generation of electron currents with intense femtosecond laser pulses" (2012—2013).
Grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research # 16-32-60200 «Quantum calculations of electron currents excitation during ionization of atoms and molecules by two-color laser pulses" (2016—2018).

Publications:
28 articles in peer-reviewed journals

Most significant papers and results:
1. A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii. Residual-current excitation in plasmas produced by few-cycle laser pulses // Physical Review Letters. — 2009. — Vol. 102. — P. 115005.
2. A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii. Quantum-mechanical approach for calculating the residual quasi-dc current in a plasma produced by a few-cycle laser pulse // Physica Scripta. — 2009. — Vol. T135. — P. 014024.
3. A. A. Silaev, M. Yu. Ryabikin, N. V. Vvedenskii. Strong-field phenomena caused by ultrashort laser pulses: Effective one- and two-dimensional quantum-mechanical descriptions // Physical Review A. — 2010. — Vol. 82. — P. 033416.
4. M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii. Analytic description of high-order harmonic generation by atoms in a two-color laser field // Physical Review A. — 2010. — Vol. 81. — P. 063407.
5. M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii, A. F. Starace. High-order harmonic generation by atoms in a few-cycle laser pulse: Carrier-envelope phase and many-electron effects // Physical Review A. — 2011. — Vol. 83. — P. 021405(R).
6. M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. M. Popov, O. V. Tikhonova, E. A. Volkova, A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii, A. F. Starace. Analytic theory of high-order-harmonic generation by an intense few-cycle laser pulse // Physical Review A. — 2012. — Vol. 85. — P. 033416.
7. N. V. Vvedenskii, A. I. Korytin, V. A. Kostin, A. A. Murzanev, A. A. Silaev, A. N. Stepanov. Two-color laser-plasma generation of terahertz radiation using a frequency-tunable half harmonic of a femtosecond pulse // Physical Review Letters. — 2014. — Vol. 112. — P. 055004.
8. A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii. Analytical description of generation of the residual current density in the plasma produced by a few-cycle laser pulse  // Physics of Plasmas. — 2015. — Vol. 22. — P. 053103.
9. A. A. Silaev, O. V. Meshkov, M. Y. Emelin, N. V. Vvedenskii, M. Y. Ryabikin. Control of the photoelectron dynamics for the effective conversion of short-pulse, frequency-modulated optical radiation into X-ray radiation  // Quantum Electronics. — 2015. — Vol. 45. — P. 393-400.
10. V. A. Kostin, I. D. Laryushin, A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii. Ionization-Induced Multiwave Mixing: Terahertz Generation with Two-Color Laser Pulses of Various Frequency Ratios  // Physical Review Letters. — 2016. — Vol. 117. — P. 035003.
11. M. V. Frolov, T. S. Sarantseva, N. L. Manakov, K. D. Fulfer, B. P. Wilson, J. Troß, X. Ren, Erwin D. Poliakoff, A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii, Anthony F. Starace, C. A. Trallero-Herrero. Atomic photoionization experiment by harmonic-generation spectroscopy // Physical Review A. — 2016. — Vol. 93. — P. 031403(R).
12. M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, T. S. Sarantseva, A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii, A. F. Starace.
Control of threshold enhancements in harmonic generation by atoms in a two-color laser field with orthogonal polarizations  // Physical Review A. — 2016. — Vol. 93. — P. 023430.
13. N.V. Vvedenskii, A.N. Zheltukhin, A.A. Silaev, D.V. Knyazeva, N.L. Manakov, A.V. Flegel', M.V. Frolov. Suppression of the contribution of short trajectories into above-threshold ionisation spectra by a two-colour laser field  // Quantum Electronics. — 2016. — Vol. 46. — P. 361–365.
14. T. S. Sarantseva, A. A. Silaev, N. L. Manakov. High-order-harmonic generation in an elliptically polarized laser field: analytic form of the electron wave packet // J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. — 2017 — Vol. 50. — P. 074002.
15. A. A. Silaev, A. A. Romanov, N. V. Vvedenskii. Multi-hump potentials for efficient wave absorption in the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation //
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. — 2018. — Vol. 51. — P. 065005.
16. A. A. Silaev, V. A. Kostin, I. D. Laryushin, N. V. Vvedenskii. Ionization Mechanism of the Generation of Tunable Ultrashort Pulses in the Mid-Infrared Range // JETP Letters. — 2018. — Т. 107. — С. 151–156.
17. M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. A. Minina, N. V. Vvedenskii, A. A. Silaev, M. Yu. Ivanov,  A. F. Starace. Control of Harmonic Generation by the Time Delay Between Two-Color, Bicircular Few-Cycle Mid-IR Laser Pulses // Physical Review Letters. — 2018. — Vol. 120. — P. 263203.
18. T. S. Sarantseva, M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. A. Silaev, N. V. Vvedenskii,  A. F. Starace. XUV-assisted high-order-harmonic-generation spectroscopy // Physical Review A. — 2018. — Vol. 98. — P. 063433.
19. M.V. Frolov, N.L. Manakov, A.A. Minina, A.A. Silaev, N.V. Vvedenskii, M.Y. Ivanov, A. F. Starace. Analytic description of high-order harmonic generation in the adiabatic limit with application to an initial state in an intense bicircular laser pulse // Physical Review A. — 2019. —Vol. 99. — P. 053403.