Professor Alexander Kaplan has retired from the Johns Hopkins Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Kaplan received his MS degree in Physics from the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) in 1961, and his PhD in Physics & Mathematics from the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Gorkii State University, Gorkii, USSR, in 1967.
His research focused on the areas of nonlinear optics and quantum electronics. During his career, he made pioneering contributions to the fields of very-high order sub-harmonics generation, self-bending effect, nonlinear interfaces and optical bistability, hysteretic and multi-photon resonances of a single trapped electron, light-induced non-reciprocity, soliton physics, X-ray nonlinear optics, sub-cycle sub-femtosecond pulses, shock waves in nanoclusters, relativistic nonlinear optics, etc.
He authored or coauthored approximately 370 research publications, among them more than 120 journal papers, which can be found in Nature, Phys. Rev. Letts., Optics Letts., JOSA B, Phys. Rev. A, IEEE J. Quant. Electr., etc, a few books and more than 40 book chapters and conference proceedings in the field.