The Vavilov State Optical Institute in St Petersburg,

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

(named after Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov) 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, ultra ...

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

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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 whi ...

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

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