Alexander S. Solntsev

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How can RG factor be improved to become a proper measure of scientific reputation?

It appears that most researchers disagree that in its current form RG factor can become a useful metric to help estimate scientific reputation. The most common concerns are too much emphasis on...

09 September 2014 5,819 0 View

Can metallic nano-particles be high-quality single-photon emitters (i.e. better than quantum dots)?

If no, why not? If yes, in which ways?

09 September 2014 5,697 5 View

What are the typical causes of spontaneous parametric down-converted photon-pair quantum state impurity when performing polarisation tomography?

We are performing polarisation quantum state tomography of photon pairs generated through spontaneous parametric down-conversion by following the approach described in this...

09 September 2014 713 6 View

How to build a successful academic career?

There are several guides on this topic from a few years...

08 August 2014 5,938 16 View

How to switch from one area of research to a completely different one?

I've heard that up to 10% of PhD graduates manage to completely switch topics and even areas of science when starting their postdoc (i.e going from physics to medicine or from chemistry to...

08 August 2014 1,975 3 View

Do you think tenure will/should be completely abolished in the future?

In some countries (for example Germany) academic tenure most of the time means a life-long position and a certain degree of freedom. In other countries (for example Australia) academic "tenure" in...

08 August 2014 6,582 6 View

Can anyone provide some information on optical quadratic nonlinearity of Strontium Barium Niobate (SBN)?

Does anyone have the data on the optical quadratic nonlinearity of Strontium Barium Niobate (SBN) [Sr_x Ba_(1-x) Nb_2 O_6] for any material composition and any Chi^2 matrix element? I've been only...

08 August 2014 8,956 4 View

What is an intuitive way to understand nonlinear optical scaling?

It appears that the power-efficiency for second-order nonlinear optical processes is proportional to the square of the nonlinear interaction length along the propagation direction (~...

06 June 2014 9,437 3 View