Pavel Peterka, Ph.D.

Research interests:

Research in the field of fiber lasers and amplifiers, specialty optical fibers and optical fiber components.

Professional activities:

2017: chairman of conference Micro-structured and Specialty Optical Fibres, part of SPIE Optics+Optoelectronics

2016: co-chairman of the photonics section of interdisciplinary symposium EU-US Frontiers of Engineering, Oct 17-19, 2016, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. Organisation: National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and European Council of Academies of Applied Sciences, Technologies, and Engineering (EuroCASE)   

2016: chairman of summer school "International Training School on Fibre Lasers & Optical Fibre Technology," https://its.ufe.cz/    

2014 - today: Management Committee member of the European Action COST MP1401 "Advanced Fiber Lasers" 

2014 – today: member of the Academy Assembly of the Czech Academy of Sciences 

2013 - today: Deputy head of the team of Fibre lasers and non-linear optics (ÚFE) 

2013 - 2017: Member of the Council for popularisation of science of the Czech Academy of Sciences 

2012 - today: Vice-chairman of the Supervisory board of the ÚFE 

2007 - 2012: Secretary of the Supervisory board of the ÚFE 

2012 - today: Board member of the Alpha sub-programme 1 of the Technological Agency of the Czech Republic 

2011 - 2015: Vice-chairman of the evaluation panel P102 „Electrical Engineering and Electronics“ of the Czech Science Foundation and member of its Discipline committee OK1 „Technical sciences“

2009: Professeur invité at LPMC (6 weeks)

2007 - today: External lecturer of the subject „Fiber lasers and amplifiers“ in the CTU

2001-2003: Postdoctoral fellow (13 months) in Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée (LPMC), CNRS - Université de Nice – Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France

1993 - today: Institute of Photonics and Electronics (ÚFE), senior research scientist since 2013

Memberships: Optical Society of America (OSA) Senior Member, The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Senior Member, Czech and Slovak Society for Photonics (ČSSF) and European Optical Society (EOS)

Materials for students:

Student materials from lectures can be found here

Education:

2000: Ph.D. - in Radioelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague

1993: Ing. - in Physical Engineering, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Prague

Current research projects:

Principal investigator of projects:

• Research of novel geometries and layouts of double-clad rare-earth-doped fibers for high power fiber lasers

Co-principal investigator of projects:

Member of projects:

Selected past projects:

Principal investigator of projects:

• Self-sweeping of laser wavelength and associated instabilities of fiber lasers
• European Action COST MP1401 Advanced fiber lasers
• eyesafe2u - Fiber optic components for "eye-safe" spectral region around 2 um
• FILA - Compact high-power passively Q-switched all-fiber lasers
• scan4surf - Inline Process Metrology for Laser Structuring Systems (project of the European Micro and Nano Technology program MNT-ERA.net)
• Compact high-power passively Q-switched Yb3+:Cr4+ all-fibre laser
• Thulium doped silica fibres for fibre amplifiers
• Cladding-pumped erbium-ytterbium-doped fibres with asymmetric cross section

Co-principal investigator of projects:

• Biomedical photonic devices for advanced medical diagnostics and therapy

Project Manager:

• Project Open Science

Member of projects:

• Novel optical fibers and their spectroscopy for fiber lasers operating beyond 2 um
• Thulium fibre lasers for industrial and medical applications
• Mid-Infrared Radiation Generation, Delivery and Applications
• Novel silica-based Ho -doped nanomaterials for 2-μm-class fibre laser research
• COST - Novel and Reliable Optical Fibre Sensor Systems for Future Security and Safety Applications (OFSeSa)
• Preparation and properties of silica-based optical glasses containing rare-earth- and chromium-doped nano-particles

Supervised students:

Undergraduate students:

Jan Zahradník (Ing. 2012), Petr Navrátil (Ing. 2010), Adam Novozámský (Ing. 2010), Jan Černík (Ing. 2010), Jiří Slánička (Ing. 2007), Pavel Dvořáček (Bc. 2006, Ing. 2009), Pavel Dymák (Ing. 2001), Aleš Procházka (Ing. 2000) 

Ph.D. students:

Jakub Cajzl (Ph.D. 2019), Michal Kamrádek, Petrh Navrátil (Ph.D. 2018), Michael Písařík (Ph.D. 2017)

Patents:

• Pavel Peterka, Pavel Koska, Ondrej Podrazky, Vlastimil Matejec, Ivan Kasik, "Amplifying module, method of making the same, and cladding pumped optical device incorporating the module," CZ Pat. 305888, 9 March 2016.
• Pavel Koska, Pavel Peterka, Michael Pisarik, "Mode field adapter for signal branch of pump and signal combiners, combiner, and optical device," CZ Pat. 305868
• P. Peterka, P. Honzatko and R. Slavik, "All-fiber laser with passive Q-switching", CZ Pat. 303333, 21 June 2012.
• P. Peterka, I. Kašík, V. Matějec: “Method and device for coupling the signal and pump into double-clad optical fiber for fiber amplifiers and lasers”, CZ Pat. 301215.

Publications:

Selected Journal Papers:

1. A. A. Jasim, O. Podrazký, P. Peterka, M. Kamrádek, I. Kašík, P. Honzátko “Impact of shaping optical fiber preforms based on grinding and a CO2 laser on the inner-cladding losses of shaped double-clad fibers”, Optics Express, Vol. 28, Issue 9, (2020). Link
2. J. Aubrecht, P. Peterka, P. Honzátko, O. Moravec, M. Kamrádek, I. Kašík “Broadband thulium-doped fiber ASE source”, Optics Letters, Vol. 45, No. 8 (2020). Link.
3. Y. Baravets, P. Dvořák, F. Todorov, J. Čtyroký, P. Peterka, P. Honzátko „Broadly tunable laser based on novel metallic resonant leaky-mode diffraction grating”, Optics Express 4340, Vol. 28 (2020). Link
4. I. Kašík, Vl. Matějec, M. Hayer, M. Kamrádek, O. Podrazký, J. Mrázek, P. Peterka, P. Honzátko „GLASS MATERIALS FOR OPTICAL FIBERS”, Ceramics-Silikáty 64 (1), 29-34 (2020). Link
5. K. Nithyanandan, A. Theodosiou, J. Aubrecht, P. Peterka, M. Kamrádek, K. Kalli, I. Kašík, P. Honzátko „All fiber mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser using a novel femtosecond-laser-inscribed 45°-plane-by-plane-tilted fiber grating“, Laser Phys. Lett. 16, 095104 (2019). Link.  
6. M. Kamrádek, I. Kašík, J. Aubrecht, J. Mrázek, O. Podrazký, J. Cajzl, P. Vařák, V. Kubeček, P. Peterka, P. Honzátko „Nanoparticle and solution doping for efficient holmium fiber lasers“, IEEE Photonics Journal (2019). Link. 
7. Vytykacova, S.; Mrazek, J.; Puchy, V.; Dzunda, R.; Skala, R.; Peterka, P.; Kasik, I., Sol-gel route to highly transparent (Ho0.05Y0.95)(2)Ti2O7 thin films for active optical components operating at 2 mu m. Opt. Mater. 2018, 78, 415-420. link
8. P. Peterka, P. Koška, and J. Čtyroký, "Reflectivity of superimposed Bragg gratings induced by longitudinal mode instabilities in fiber lasers," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron. 24, 0902608 (2018).
9. P. Navratil, P. Peterka, P. Honzatko, and V. Kubecek, "Reverse spontaneous laser line sweeping in ytterbium fiber laser," Laser Physics Letters 14, 035102, (2017). https://doi.org/10.1088/1612-202X/aa548d
10. Jan Aubrecht, Pavel Peterka, Pavel Koška, Ondřej Podrazký, Filip Todorov, Pavel Honzátko, and Ivan Kašík, "Self-swept holmium fiber laser near 2100 nm," Opt. Express 25, 4120-4125 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.004120
11. M. Písarik, P. Peterka, J. Aubrecht, J. Cajzl, A. Benda, D. Mares, F. Todorov, O. Podrazky, P. Honzatko, I. Kasik, "Thulium-doped fibre broadband source for spectral region near 2 micrometers,"    Opto-Electronics Review 24, 223-231 (2016).  https://doi.org/10.1515/oere-2016-0022
12. P. Koska, P. Peterka and V. Doya, “Numerical modeling of pump absorption in coiled and twisted double-clad fibers,” IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron. 22(2):55-62, 2016.
13. Pavel Koška, Pavel Peterka, Jan Aubrecht, Ondřej Podrazký, Filip Todorov, Martin Becker, Yauhen Baravets, Pavel Honzátko, and Ivan Kašík, "Enhanced pump absorption efficiency in coiled and twisted double-clad thulium-doped fibers," Opt. Express 24, 102-107 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.000102
14. P. Peterka a J. Zavadil: "60 let světla v Ústavu fotoniky a elektroniky AV ČR, v.v.i.," Jemná mechanika a optika, 60(5-6):200-203 (2015).
15. P. Peterka, P. Honzatko, M. Becker, F. Todorov, M. Pisarik, O. Podrazky, and I. Kasik, "Monolithic Tm-doped fiber laser at 1951 nm with deep-UV femtosecond-induced FBG pair," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., 25, 1623-1625, (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2013.2272880
16. P. Peterka, I. Kasik, A. Dhar, B. Dussardier, and W. Blanc, "Theoretical modeling of fiber laser at 810 nm based on thulium-doped silica fibers with enhanced 3H4 level lifetime," Opt. Express 19, 2773-2781 (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.002773
17. P. Peterka, I. Kasik, V. Matejec, V. Kubecek, and P. Dvoracek, "Experimental demonstration of novel end-pumping method for double-clad fiber devices", Opt. Lett., 31, 3240-3242 (2006). Excerpts of this article appeared also in the following journals: Photonics Spectra, January 2007, p. 105-106, "End-pumping fiber amplifiers made easy", Laser Focus World, December, p. 11, 2006, "End-pumping scheme improves fiber-based devices".

List of publications

Publications in the ASEP database