{"id":9795,"date":"2016-06-30T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?p=9795"},"modified":"2016-06-30T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T12:00:48","slug":"alexander-kaplan-retires-from-ece","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/alexander-kaplan-retires-from-ece\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Kaplan retires from ECE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kaplan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4198\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/kaplan.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Kaplan\" width=\"162\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Professor Alexander Kaplan has retired from the Johns Hopkins Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>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 &amp; Mathematics from the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, and Gorkii State University, Gorkii, USSR, in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"http:\/\/psi.ece.jhu.edu\/~kaplan\/fields.html\">research<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>He authored or coauthored approximately 370 <a href=\"http:\/\/psi.ece.jhu.edu\/~kaplan\/PUBL\/public.html\">research publications, <\/a>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-9795","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alexander Kaplan retires from ECE - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/alexander-kaplan-retires-from-ece\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alexander Kaplan retires from ECE - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Professor Alexander Kaplan has retired from the Johns Hopkins Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/alexander-kaplan-retires-from-ece\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Alexander Kaplan retires from ECE - 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