Department of Plant-Soil and Nano Systems, Nano-Bio Laboratory, Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade e-mail: dvt@imsi.bg.ac.rs
Positions held
Research Professor
Research interests
Nonlinear dynamics: chaos theory, nonlinear optics, optical properties of metamaterials and liquid crystals.
Institute of Physics Photonics Center Pregrevica 118, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia email: jovic@ipb.ac.rs room : 368
EDUCATION 2006 Ph.D. in Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia (Adviser: M. Belić) Thesis: Dynamics of counterpropagating optical beams in photorefractive crystals 2004 M. Sc. in Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia Thesis: Counterpropagating spatial solitons in photorefractive crystals 2000 B. Sc. in Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Serbia Thesis: Simon’s quantum algorithm 1996 H.S. Diploma, School of Mathematics and Physics, Kragujevac
POSITIONS HELD 2015-present Research Professor, Photonics Center, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia 2010-2015 Associate Research Professor, Center of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia 2007-2010 Assistant Research Professor, Center of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia 2004-2007 Research Assistant, Center of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia
VISITING POSITIONS 2008-2011 Visiting Researcher Postdoctoral position, Texas A&M University, Doha, Qatar 2004-2005 Optique Nonlineaire, Theorique, Universite Paris Sud
FELLOWSHIPS 2011-2012 Humboldt Fellow, Institute for Applied Physics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
RESEARCH INTERESTS -Nonlinear photonics: surface waves, Anderson localization. -Nonlinear optics: spatial solitons, optical patterns. -Nonlinear dynamics: instabilities and chaos, transverse patterns. -Photonic crystals: optoelectronics, photonic crystal fibers. -Liquid crystals: spatiotemporal instabilities in nematic solitons. -Solid state physics: photorefractive materials, effects and devices, band structure of solids and photonic crystals, laser-crystal interactions. -Computational physics: computational nonlinear optics, dynamics of laser-crystal interactions. PDE algorithms, spectral beam propagation methods.
MAJOR RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Wave propagation in optically induced photonic lattices.
Counterpropagating vector solitons and waveguides in saturable media.
Development of the split-step beam propagation method, and its application to a number of interesting problems. -Introduction of dynamical counterpropagating vector solitons and waveguides in saturable media, -Introduction of dynamical counterpropagating waveguides in optically induced photonic lattices, -Demonstration of angular momentum transfer and non-conservation of angular momentum in photonic lattices.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2022-2024 Project leader, The Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia, Program-IDEAS “Control and manipulation of light in complex photonic systems”.
2016-2017 Project leader, DAAD Project, Serbian-German Program “Control of light by deterministic aperiodic and complex photonic lattices”
2012-2013 Project leader, Humboldt Return Fellowship project, “Light propagation and localization in advanced photonic systems” (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany)
2013-2014 Project leader, DAAD Project, Serbian-German Program “Light propagation and light localization in complex photonic lattice systems”
2011-2019 Project leader, “Nonlinear photonics of inhomogeneous media and surfaces”, (Ministry of Science and Technological Development, Serbia)
2011-2012 Project leader, Humboldt fellow project, “Anderson localization and surface solitons in optically induced photonic lattices” (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany)
2010-2013 “Light bullets, fractional vortices, nonlocal solitons and surface waves for all-optical information transmission in photonic crystals, optical lattices, dispersion-managed systems, and distributed fibers,” Project NPRP 09-462-1-074 Texas A&M University, Doha, Qatar, QNRF Qatar
2008-2010 “Nonlinear Photonics for All-optical Telecommunication and Information Technologies”, QNRF National Priorities Research Program, Project NPRP 25-6-7-2, Texas A&M University, Doha, Qatar, QNRF Qatar
2006-2010 “Nonlinear dynamical phenomena in photorefractive media, liquid crystals, plasmas and left-handed materials” (Ministry of Science and Environmental Protection, Serbia)
2003-2005 “Spatial solitons, vortices, and self-organized structures in photorefractive crystals, fusion plasma and ionosphere” (Ministry of Science, Technologies, and Development, Serbia)
Welcome to the pages of the Nonlinear Photonics group!
We aim to achieve experimental realization of advanced optical materials and fundamental theoretical understanding of wave phenomena in complex structured media. The basis of our research is interconnections between the structured light, material properties, nonlinearity, and disorder that collectively shape the behaviour of light propagation. Our mission is to advance predictability and control of light propagation effects in structured media, beam shaping, new ways to manage diffraction, localization, and discover novel nonlinear optical phenomena.
Nonlinear Photonics group started in 2010 at the Institute of Physics of the University of Belgrade to control nonlinear phenomena and exploit them for novel optical systems. Controlling light in all its features is the key to various applications. We achieve it by nonlinear structuring of matter with light. Our research activities are therefore centered around the basics of nonlinear physics and applications in communications, bioscience, neural networks, nano- and optical technologies.
