CURRICULUM
VITAE
Vladimir
Petricevic
Associate Professor of Physics
Department of Physics, City College of the City University of New
York
138th Street & Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031
Telephone: 212-650-5550, 650-5531; Fax: 212-650-6940.
e-mail: vpetricevic@ccny.cuny.edu

- Ph. D., Electrical Engineering, City University of New York, 1990. Ph.D. Thesis: "Laser
and Spectroscopic Properties of Chromium -Doped Forsterite".
- Diploma, Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979. Diploma Thesis:
"Numerical Solutions of Dye-Laser Rate Equations".
- Associate Professor, Department of Physics, City
College of New York, January 1, 2000 - present.
- Senior Engineer, Dorsal Networks, September
15, 2000-September
16, 2002 (Authorized Leave from CCNY)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, City College of New York, March
1, 1994 – Dec.
31, 1999.
- Visiting Research Professor, Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers and Center for
Analysis of Structures and Interfaces, City College of New York, September
1, 1990 - February
28, 1994.
- Research Assistant, Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers, City College of
New York, New York, September 1, 1984 - August 31, 1990.
- Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Miami
University, Oxford, Ohio, March 1, 1983 - August 31, 1984.
- Research Scientist, Institute for Applied Physics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, September
1, 1979 - February
28, 1983.
- Research
Activities and Interests
- Development
of ultra-broad bandwith optical amplifiers for
optical communications
- Development of tunable
solid-state laser materials
- Development of compact
all-solid-state near-IR tunable laser systems
- Applications
of near-IR tunable solid-state lasers
- Most Important Publications
- V. Petricevic, S. K. Gayen,
and R. R. Alfano, "Laser
Action in Chromium-Activated Forsterite for
Near Infrared Excitation: Is Cr4+ the Lasing Ion?" Appl. Phys. Lett. 53, 2590 (1988).
- V. Petricevic, A. Seas, and R. R. Alfano,
"Slope Efficiency
Measurements of Chromium-Doped Forsterite Laser",
Opt. Lett. 16,
811 (1991).
- Seas, V.
Petricevic, and R. R. Alfano,
"Generation of
Sub-100-fs Pulses From a Continuous-WaveMode Locked Chromium-Doped Forsterite
Laser", Opt. Lett. 17, 937 (1992).
- V. Petricevic, A. B. Bykov, J.
M. Evans, and R. R. Alfano, "Room-Temperature
Near-Infrared Tunable Laser Operation of Cr4+:Ca2GeO4 Laser",
Opt. Lett. 21,
1750 (1996).
- J. M.
Evans, V. Petricevic, A. B. Bykov,
A. Delgado, and R. R. Alfano, “Direct Diode-Pumped
Continuous Wave Near-Infrared Tunable Laser Operation of Cr4+:forsteriteand Cr4+:Ca2GeO4”,
Opt. Lett. 22,
1171 (1997).
- A. B. Bykov, V. Petricevic, J.
Steiner, Di Yao, L.
L. Isaacs, M. R. Kokta, and R. R. Alfano, "Flux Growth
and Characterization of Cr4+:Ca2GeO4 as
a New Near-Infrared Tunable Laser Material", J. Cryst. Growth 211,
295 (2000).
- Patents and Patent Applications
- R. R. Alfano, V. Petricevic, and
S. K. Gayen, "Chromium-Doped
Forsterite Laser System", U. S. Patent No. 4,932,031, June 5,
1990.
- R. R. Alfano and V. Petricevic,
"Tetravalent
Chromium (Cr4+) as Laser-Active Ion for Tunable Solid-State
Lasers", U. S. Patent No.4,987,575,
January 22, 1991.
- R. R. Alfano, V. Petricevic, and
P. P. Ho, "Tetravalent
Chromium (Cr4+)-Doped Crystalline Particles in Index Matching
Cylindrical Amplifying Structure forOptical
Communications", U. S. Patent No. 5,717,517, Feb.
10, 1998.
- W. Shieh, V. Petricevic, and
T. R. Clark Jr., “Pump
assembly employing coupled radiation sources for multiple fibers”, U.
S. Patent No.6,618,195, Sept. 9,2003.
- W. Sieh, T. R. Clark Jr., and V. Petricevic,
“Balanced
coupler for radiation sources“, U. S. Patent No. 6,671,429, Dec.
30, 2003.
- T. R.Clark Jr., W. Shieh, and V. Petricevic,
“Shared
forward pumping in optical communications network”, U. S. Patent No.
6,687,047, Feb. 3, 2004.
- Z. C.
Yu, W. Shieh, T. R. Clark Jr., and V. Petricevic, “Terminals
having sub-band substitute signal control in optical communication
systems”, U. S. Patent Application 20030048508, March 13, 2003.
- Z. C.
Yu, W. Shieh,
T. R. Clark Jr., and V. Petricevic, “Methods
of signal substitution for maintenance of amplifier saturation”, U.
S. Patent Application 20030048502, March 13, 2003.
- B.
Pedersen, W. Shieh, V. Petricevic,
and T. R. Clark Jr., “Method
of pump wavelength combing for enhanced power dynamic range and
redundancy broad band Raman optical amplifier system”, U. S. Patent
Application 20020167719, November 14, 2002.
- Q. Z.
Wang, W. Shieh,
and V. Petricevic, “Optical
amplification system or group employing multiple pump laser groupings”,
U. S. Patent Application 20020149838, October
17, 2002.