Oleg V. Minin (russian: link=no, Олег Владиленович Минин) was born on March 22, 1960, in

Novosibirsk Novosibirsk (, also ; rus, Новосиби́рск, p=nəvəsʲɪˈbʲirsk, a=ru-Новосибирск.ogg) is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the Russian Census ...

, Academytown, Russia. He is a Russian

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Metrology, and a full professor of Physics at the

Tomsk Polytechnic University National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) is a technical university in Russia. TPU was a member of 12 international associations, including the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) un ...

. He is renowned for his contributions to creating new scientific directions, including THz 3D

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, Mechatronics ( mesoscale photonics), hyper cumulative

shaped charge A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to form an explosively formed penetrator (EFP) to focus the effect of the explosive's energy. Different types of shaped charges are used for various purposes such as cutting and forming metal, init ...

, subwavelength structured light, encompassing

acoustics Acoustics is a branch of physics that deals with the study of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including topics such as vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician ...

and surface

plasmon In physics, a plasmon is a quantum of plasma oscillation. Just as light (an optical oscillation) consists of photons, the plasma oscillation consists of plasmons. The plasmon can be considered as a quasiparticle since it arises from the quantiz ...

Biography

Oleg V. Minin obtained his M.S. from

Novosibirsk State University Novosibirsk State University is a public research university located in Novosibirsk, Russia. The university was founded in 1958, on the principles of integration of education and science, early involvement of students with research activities an ...

in 1982. He earned his PhD in physics and mathematics from the Tomsk Institute of Atmospheric Optics in 1987, specialising in radiophysics and quantum physics.Alina Karabchevsky
''Development of mesoscale photonics and plasmonics: a tribute to the jubilee of Professors Igor V. Minin and Oleg V. Minin''
SPIE Photonics Europe, 2020. During this period, he also worked part-time as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Applied Physics (

, Academytown), founded by his father, scientist

Vladilen F. Minin Vladilen Fyodorovich Minin (russian: Влади́лен Фёдорович Ми́нин; born 27 May 1932, Rudinka, Ryazan Oblast) is a Soviet and Russian physicist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, a professor, a member of the Academy of Technolog ...

, in 1966. In March 2004, Oleg defended his doctoral thesis at the

Novosibirsk State Technical University Novosibirsk State Technical University (Abbreviation: NSTU), until 1992 the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute (NETI), is one of the major research and educational centers of Russia as well as one of the top technical universities located in ...

and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences, equivalent to a Habilitation degree. His dissertation, which received recognition from the

Ministry of Defence (Russia) The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (russian: Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, Минобороны России, informally abbreviated as МО, МО РФ or Minoboron) is the govern ...

for the best scientific work during 1997-2000, served as the foundation for several monographs, including "Diffraction Optics of Millimetre Waves," "Basic Principles of Fresnel Antenna Arrays," and later, "Diffractive Optics and Nanophotonics: Resolution Below the Diffraction Limit," and "The Photonic Hook: From Optics to Acoustics and Plasmonics." In 2007, his biographical data was included in Marquis Who's Who in the World. Much of Oleg's scientific work was conducted with his twin brother,

Igor V. Minin Igor V. Minin (russian: link=no, Игорь Владиленович Минин) (born March 22, 1960 in Novosibirsk Academytown, Russia), a Russian physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Metrology and a full professor of Ph ...

. In April 2007, a book dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Novosibirsk Institute of Applied Physics led to accusations by the FSB of Russia that Oleg and his brother Igor had revealed sensitive information about projects conducted at an institute that conducts research for the

. This case gained significant public attention, and well-known scientists and human rights activists came forward to defend the physics brothers. However, in July of the same year, the FSB investigators dropped the charges against Oleg and Igor, and prosecutors in

issued a rare apology to the scientists.

Research

O.V. Minin has established strong research foundations in various fields of physics, holding global priority in areas such as shock wave focusing using diffractive optics, explosive

plasma antenna A plasma antenna is a type of radio antenna currently in development in which plasma is used instead of the metal elements of a traditional antenna.subwavelength structured light, mesoscale acoustic

lens A lens is a transmissive optical device which focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction. A simple lens consists of a single piece of transparent material, while a compound lens consists of several simple lenses (''elements''), ...

es, and hyper cumulative

. In collaboration with his twin brother,

, in 2015, he discovered the so-called photonic hook effect in optics, plasmonics, and acoustics. This effect involves artificially curving a light beam with subwavelength curvature and beam waist. Additionally, they experimentally verified the existence of

surface plasmon Surface plasmons (SPs) are coherent delocalized electron oscillations that exist at the interface between any two materials where the real part of the dielectric function changes sign across the interface (e.g. a metal-dielectric interface, such a ...

photonic jet and photonic hook phenomena. In dielectric structures with Mie size parameter on the order of ten, which lie between wave and

geometrical optics Geometrical optics, or ray optics, is a model of optics that describes light propagation in terms of ''rays''. The ray in geometrical optics is an abstraction useful for approximating the paths along which light propagates under certain circumstan ...

, O.V. Minin and his colleagues discovered new and unusual effects, including high-order

Fano resonance In physics, a Fano resonance is a type of resonant scattering phenomenon that gives rise to an asymmetric line-shape. Interference between a background and a resonant scattering process produces the asymmetric line-shape. It is named after Italian ...

in dielectric mesoscale particles, also known as the super-resonance effect. This effect allows for the generation of giant magnetic and electric fields. With his colleagues also pioneered the study of the unusual optical properties of superresonance and photonic hooks in and near a rotating dielectric sphere, based on the

Magnus effect The Magnus effect is an observable phenomenon commonly associated with a spinning object moving through a fluid. The path of the spinning object is deflected in a manner not present when the object is not spinning. The deflection can be expl ...

. With his brother, he also founded the new field of "

freezing Freezing is a phase transition where a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point. In accordance with the internationally established definition, freezing means the solidification phase change of a liquid o ...

droplet optics" with the discovery of unusual time domain effects of Fano resonancesand photonic hook. The presence of these unusual properties and applications indicates the formation of a promising new direction in optics called "Mesotronics". O.V. Minin conducted pioneering investigations of plasma jets produced by intense laser-matter interactions based on hyperaccumulation principles. This research aims to understand better

astrophysical jet An astrophysical jet is an astronomical phenomenon where outflows of ionised matter are emitted as an extended beam along the axis of rotation. When this greatly accelerated matter in the beam approaches the speed of light, astrophysical jets bec ...

s, as cumulative jets are observed to originate from

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s and

active galactic nuclei An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the center of a galaxy that has a much-higher-than-normal luminosity over at least some portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with characteristics indicating that the luminosity is not prod ...

. The findings also provide insight into

shock wave In physics, a shock wave (also spelled shockwave), or shock, is a type of propagating disturbance that moves faster than the local speed of sound in the medium. Like an ordinary wave, a shock wave carries energy and can propagate through a med ...

s. O.V. Minin is the author or co-author of over 150 patents in the USSR/Russia and has contributed to about 450 research publications, including 22 monographs (12 in Russian, 9 in English, and 1 in Chinese).

Awards

* O.V. Minin received the medal of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

, named after Kh.A. Rakhmatulin, in 2013 for his contribution to the theory of hyperaccumulation.Medal Award List named after Kh.A. Rakhmatuli

/ref> * Additionally, he has been awarded Russian medals named after V.I. Vernadsky and A. Nobel.

Selected papers

* Minin O.V. and Minin I.V. ''Diffractional Optics of Millimetre Waves'', lOP Publisher, 2004. 396 p. * Minin I.V. and Minin O.V. ''Basic Principles of Fresnel Antenna Arrays'', Springer, 2008. * Minin I.V. and Minin O.V. ''Diffractive Optics and Nanophotonics: Resolution Below the Diffraction Limit'', Springer, 2016. * Minin I.V. and Minin O.V. ''Control of focusing properties of diffraction elements'', Sov. J. Quantum Electron, 20, 198 (1990). * Minin I.V. and Minin O.V. ''3D diffractive lenses to overcome the 3D Abbe subwavelength diffraction'', Chinese Optics Letters, 12(6), 060014 (2014). * Pacheco-Peña V., Beruete M., Minin I.V. and Minin O.V. ''Terajets produced by dielectric cuboids'', Appl. Phys. Let., 105, 084102 (2014). * Luk’yanchuk B.S., Paniagua-Domínguez R., Minin I.V., Minin O.V. and Wang Z. ''Refractive index less than two: photonic nanojets yesterday, today and tomorrow (Invited)''. Optical Materials Express 7(6), 1820 (2017). * Pham H.-H. N., Hisatake S., Minin O.V., Nagatsuma T. and Minin I.V. Enhancement of Spatial Resolution of Terahertz Imaging Systems Based on Terajet Generation by Dielectric Cube, APL Photonics 2, 056106 (2017). * Minin I.V., Minin O.V., Katyba G.M., Chernomyrdin N.V., Kurlov V.N., Zaytsev K.I., Yue L., Wang Z. and Christodoulides D.N. ''Experimental observation of a photonic hook'', Appl. Phys. Lett., 114, 031105 (2019). * Rubio C., Tarrazó-Serrano D., Minin O.V., Uris A. and Minin I.V. ''Acoustical hooks: A new subwavelength self-bending beam'', Results in Physics, 16, 102921 (2020).

References

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