The Vavilov State Optical Institute in

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

(named after

Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Вави́лов ( – January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from July 1945 until his death. His elder brothe ...

) is the largest research institute in

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviole ...

in Russia. It works both in pure and applied optics, and has a high reputation in the field of

holography Holography is a technique that enables a wavefront to be recorded and later re-constructed. Holography is best known as a method of generating real three-dimensional images, but it also has a wide range of other applications. In principle, i ...

. It was established in 1918 along the lines of a proposal by the

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 ...

Dimitri Rozhdestvensky Dimitri Sergeevich Rozhdestvensky (7 April 1876 St. Petersburg – 25 June 1940, Leningrad) was a Russian physicist. He worked on spectroscopy, examining the dispersion of sodium lines. He drew up a proposal for the State Optical Institute whic ...

, who was the first director, a post he held until 1932. It is part of the

Shvabe Shvabe Holding (russian: Швабе) is a holding company within the Russian state-owned Rostec group responsible for development and production of high-tech optical-electronic systems both for military and civil purposes, manufacturing of optical ...

holding. It designs optical systems (Froptas In German) for many applications, including Russian

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. It publishes the ''Journal of Optical Technology'' (Научно-технический «ОПТИЧЕСКИЙ ЖУРНАЛ»). Institution also known for developing of .

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