email: wzk111@rsphysse.anu.edu.au
Education
1976-1981 Warsaw University of Technology, Poland; MS in Physics (1981).
1988 PhD in Physics from Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
2001 DSc (habilitation) in Physics from Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.
Academic positions
1981-1983 Research Assistant in fibre and integrated optics group at the Institute of Physics, Warsaw Technical University, Poland
1984-1988 Research Assistant at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
1987 - visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institut fur Quantum Optik, Garching, Germany
1988-1991 Research Associate at the Electro-Optics Technology Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts USA.
1992- 2003 Senior Fellow at the Laser Physics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
2004- present Professor at the Laser Physics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Current topics of interest
* Theoretical and experimental nonlinear optics in photorefractive crystals - multiple-wave interaction, phase-conjugation, etc.
* Optical solitons - solitons in non Kerr media, soliton effects in discrete nonlinear systems (waveguide arrays), photorefractive solitons.
* Nonlinear dynamics.
* Fiber and integrated optics.
* Holography.
* Optical signal processing.
Publications
L. Grochowski, J. W. Y. Lit, W. Królikowski, Polarization behavior of fiber waveguide coupler, Opt. Quantum Electron. 16, 283-286 (1984).
A. Bledowski, W. Królikowski, A. Kujawski, Role of boundary conditions in four-wave mixing in photorefractive media, Ferroelectrics Letters, 3, 123 (1985).
A. Bledowski, W. Królikowski, A. Kujawski, Multistability in reflection grating real -time holography, IEEE J. Quantum Electron.QE-23, 1574-1550 (1986).
W. Królikowski, Multigrating phase conjugation in photorefractive media, Opt. Commun., 60, 319-323 (1986).
A. Bledowski, W. Królikowski, A. Kujawski, Forward phase conjugate wave in four-wave mixing in photorefractive media, Opt. Commun., 61, 71-74 (1987).
A. Domanski, W. Królikowski, Transmission characteristics of the electrooptically perturbed, planar dielectric waveguide, Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA), 800, 84 - 89 (1987).
A. Bledowski, W. Królikowski, Anisotropic four-wave mixing in cubic photorefractive crystals, IEEE J. Quantum Electron. QE- 24, 652 (1988).
A. Bledowski, W. Królikowski, New method of exact solution of four-wave mixing in photorefractive media, Optics Letters, 13, 146 (1988).
W. Królikowski, M. R. Belic, Multigrating phase-conjugation: exact results, Optics Letters, 13, 149 (1988).
W. Królikowski, M. R. Belic, A. Bledowski, Phase transfer in optical phase conjugation, Phys. Rev. A 37, 2224 (1988).
A. Bledowski, W. Królikowski, and A. Kujawski, Model of the phase conjugate mirror, Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA), 859, 177-182 (1988).
A. Bledowski, W. Królikowski, S. Odulov, O. Oleinik, Reflection holographic gratings in barium - sodium niobate crystals, Ukr. Fiz. Zhurnal, 34, 350 (1988) (in Russian).
M. R. Belic, W. Królikowski, Multigrating phase - conjugation: numerical results, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 6, 901 (1989).
A. Bledowski, W. Królikowski, and A. Kujawski, Temporal instabilities in single grating photorefractive four-wave mixing, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 1544 (1989).
W. Królikowski, K. D. Shaw, M. Cronin-Golomb, A. Bledowski, Stability analysis and temporal behavior of four-wave mixing in photorefractive crystals, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 6, 1828 (1989).
W. Królikowski, M. Cronin-Golomb, A. Bledowski, A. Kujawski, Temporal instabilities and chaos in photorefractive four-wave mixing, Conference on Quantum Optics VI, J. H. Eberly et al. eds., (Plenum Press, New York, 1990) pp 621 - 624.
A. W. Domanski, S. Kostrzewa, S. Saddavvi, Z. Luczynski and W. Krolikowski, Electro - optical cut-off effect for TE/TM modes in lithium niobate waveguides , Int. J. Optoelectronics (UK) 4, 261-279 (1989).
W. Królikowski, M. Belic, M. Cronin-Golomb, A. Bledowski, Chaos in photorefractive four -wave mixing with single grating and single interaction region, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 7, 1204 (1990).
W. Królikowski, M. Cronin-Golomb, Bo Su Chen, Photorefractive effect in ferroelectric lead germanate, Appl. Phys. Lett. 7, 57 (1990).
W. Królikowski, M. Cronin-Golomb, Optical bistability in the semilinear phase-conjugate mirror, Applied Phys. B. 52, 150 (1991).
W. Królikowski, Bo Su Chen, M. Cronin-Golomb, Temporal instabilities in ring phase conjugator, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 8, 1455 (1991).
M. R. Belic, K. Timotijevic, W. Królikowski, Multigrating phase - conjugation: chaotic results J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 8, 1723 (1991).
M. R. Belic, W. Królikowski, and P. Stojkov, Chaos in optical phase conjugation, in "Nonlinear World", V. G. Barkhatar et. al., editor, p. 387 (World Scientific, Singapore, 1990)
W. Królikowski, and M. Cronin-Golomb, Photorefractive wave-mixing with finite beams, Optics Commun. 89, 88 (1992).
M. Cronin-Golomb, H. Kong, and W. Królikowski, Photorefractive two-beam coupling with light of partial spatiotemporal coherence, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 9, 1698 (1992).
W. Królikowski and B. Luther-Davies, The effect of high electric external field on a ring phase-conjugator, Appl. Phys. B 55, 180 (1992).
W. Królikowski and B. Luther-Davies Analytical solution for soliton propagation in a saturable nonlinear medium, Opt. Lett. 17, 1414 (1992).
W. Królikowski and B. Luther-Davies Dark solitons in a saturable nonlinear medium, Opt. Lett. 18, 188 (1993).
W. Królikowski, N. Akhmediev, and B. Luther-Davies, Darker than black solitons: dark solitons with the phase shift greater than p. , Phys. Rev E. 48, 3980 (1993).
E. Jaatinen, W. Królikowski and B. Luther-Davies Dynamic control of spatial modes in the external resonator of the semilinear phase conjugate mirror, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 10, 933 (1993).
Xiaoping Yang, B. Luther-Davies and W. Królikowski. On the properties of waveguide X-junctions written by spatial solitons, Int. Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics 2, 339 (1993).
W. Królikowski, X. Yang, B. Luther-Davies and J. Breslin, Dark soliton steering in saturable nonlinear medium, Optics Communications 105, 219 (1994).
W. Yu, W. Królikowski and B. Luther-Davies, Mutual phase conjugator in the geometry of bidirectional ring resonator, J. Opt. Soc. Am. 11, 1872 (1994).
Yu. Kivshar, W. Królikowski, O. Chubykalo, Dark solitons in discrete lattice, Phys. Rev. E. 50, 5020 (1994).
W. Królikowski, U. Trutschel, C. Schmidt-Hattenberger, M. Cronin-Golomb, Solitonlike optical switching in a circular fiber array, Opt. Lett. 19, 320 (1994).
D. Anderson, X. Yang, W. Królikowski and B. Luther-Davies, Technique for phase matching parametric gain in nonlinear waveguides, J. Opt. Soc. of Am. B 11, 1374 (1994).
Y.Kivshar, W.Królikowski, Lagrangian approach for dark solitons, Opt. Commun. 114, 353 (1995).
W.Królikowski, Photorefractive four-wave mixing in a large contrast regime, Appl. Phys. B 60, 39 (1995).
W. Yu, W. Królikowski, B. Luther-Davies, M. Webster and M. Austin, Wave mixing and beam profile control in a photorefractive waveguide, Opt. Lett. 20, 563 (1995).
Y.Kivshar and W.Królikowski, Instabilities of dark solitons, Opt. Lett. 20, 1527 (1995).
W.Królikowski, Wenqian Yu, B.Luther-Davies, M.Webster and M.Austin, Wave mixing and refractive index gratings in photorefractive waveguides, Journal of Optics (India) 24, 143-153 (1995).
W.Królikowski and Y.Kivshar, Soliton-based optical switching in waveguide arrays, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 13, (1996).
W. Krolikowski, N. Akhmediev and B. Luther-Davies, Multimode structure of bright+dark vector solitons in photorefractive media, Opt. Lett. 21, 782 (1996)
W. Królikowski, N. Akhmediev, D. Andersen and B. Luther-Davies, Effect of natural optical activity on the propagation of photorefractive solitons, Opt. Commun. 132, 179 (1996).
W. Królikowski, Coherence properties of photorefractive ring oscillator, Opt. Commun. 129, 44 (1996).
N. Akhmediev, W. Królikowski, and J. Lowery, Influence of Raman effect on solitons in optical fibers, Opt. Commun. 131, 260, (1996).
W. Królikowski, N. Akhmediev, B. Luther-Davies, and M. Cronin-Golomb Self-bending photorefractive solitons, Phys. Rev. E 54, 5761 (1996)
W. Królikowski, B. Luther-Davies, S. Holmstrom and N. Akhmediev Propagation and collision of photorefractive screening solitons, Optica Applicata 26, 249 (1996).
W.Królikowski and S. Holmstrom, Fusion and birth of spatial solitons upon collision, Opt. Lett. 22, 369 (1997).
W.Królikowski, Photorefractive four wave mixing with partially coherent optical beams, Appl. Phys. B 65, 541 (1997).
W.Królikowski, B.Luther-Davies, C.Denz, T.Tschudi Annihilation of photorefractive solitons, Optics Letters 23, 97-99 (1998)
W.Królikowski, Mark Saffman, B.Luther-Davies, Cornelia Denz, Anomalous interaction of photorefractive screening solitons, Phys. Rev. Lett 80, 3240(1998)
A.Stepken. M.Belic, F.Kaiser, W.Królikowski, Interaction of incoherent two-dimensional photorefractive solitons, Phys. Rev. E 58 , R4108 (1998).
W.Królikowski, Cornelia Denz, M.Saffman, B.Luther-Davies, S. Holmstrom, Coherent and incoherent interaction of photorefractive solitons, Asian Journal of Physics 7 698 (1998).
W.Królikowski, Cornelia Denz, M.Saffman, A.Stepken, B.Luther-Davies, Coherent and incoherent interaction of photorefractive solitons, Quant. Semiclassical Opt. 10, 823 (1998).
Nail Akhmediev, W.Królikowski, A.Snyder, Partially coherent solitons of variable shape, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4682 (1998).
W.Królikowski, N.Akhmediev, B.Luther-Davies, Collision induced shape transformations of partially coherent solitons, Phys. Rev. E, 69 4654 (1999).
A.Stepken. M.Belic, F.Kaiser, W.Królikowski, B.Luther-Davies, Three-dimensional trajectories of interacting incoherent photorefractive solitons Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 4632 (1999).
W.Królikowski, B.Luther-Davies, C.Denz, J.Petter, C.Wilenau, A.Stepken, M.Belic, Interaction of incoherent solitons in photorefractive medium Appl. Phys. B, 68 975 (1999).
A.Ankiewicz, W.Królikowski, N.Akhmediev, Partially coherent solitons of variable shape in a slow Kerr-like medium: exact results, Phys. Rev. E, 59 6079 (1999).
N.Litchinitser, W.Królikowski, N.Akhmediev, G.Agarwal, Asymmetric partially coherent solitons in saturable nonlinear media, Phys. Rev. E 60 , 2377 (1999).
C.Denz, J.Petter, C.Weilnau, W.Królikowski, Time-resolved formation and incoherent interaction of photorefractive screening solitons, OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics, 27 , Advances in Photorefractive Materials, Effects and Devices, P.E.Andresen, P.M.Johansen, H.C.Pedersen, P.Petersen, and M.Saffman, eds. (OSA, Washington DC 1999), 471-478.
N.Akhmediev, W.Krolikowski, A.Snyder, Incoherent solitons: new objects in optics, Australian Opt. Soc. News, 13, No. 1, 7 (1999).
O.Bang, D.Edmundson, W.Królikowski, Collapse of incoherent light beams in inertial bulk Kerr media, Phys. Rev. Rev. Lett. 83, 5479 (1999).
B.Luther-Davies, V.Tikhonenko, J.Christou, W.Krolikowski, Y.Kivshar, N.Akhmediev, Spatial solitons in saturating nonlinear materials in Optical solitons: Theoretical Challenges and Industrial Perspective, Eds. V.Zakharov, and S.Wabnitz, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1999) 335-348
W.Królikowski, B.Luther-Davies, G.McCarthy, A.Bledowski Analytical solution for photorefractive screening solitons, Phys. Rev. E 61, 2010 (2000).
W.Królikowski, D.Edmundson, O.Bang, A unified model for partially coherent solitons in a logarithmically nonlinear medium, Phys. Rev. E 61, 3122 (2000).
L.Berge, O.Bang, and W.Krolikowski, Influence of four-wave mixing and walk-off on the self-focusing of coupled waves, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3302 (2000).
W.Krolikowski, E.Ostrovskaya, M.Geisser, C.Weilnau, G.McCarthy, Y.Kivshar, C.Denz, B.Luther-Davies, Observation of dipole-mode vector solitons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1424 (2000).
W.Krolikowski, B.Luther-Davies, Glen McCarthy, Mathias Geisser, E.Ostrovskaya, Y.Kivshar, J.Garcia-Ripoll, V.Perez-Garcia, Molecules of light: dipole-mode vector solitons, Optics and Photonics News 11 36 (2000).
W.Krolikowski, O.Bang, Bright and dark spatial solitons in weakly nonlocal nonlinear medium: exact solutions, Phys. Rev. E 63, 016610 (2001).
A.Desyatnikov, D.Neshev, E.Ostrovskaya, Y.Kivshar, W.Krolikowski, B.Luther-Davies, J.Garcia-Ripoll, V.Perez-Garcia, Multipole spatial vector solitons, Opt. Lett. 26, 435 (2001).
C.Weilnau, C.Denz, M. Ahles, W.Krolikowski, G. McCarthy, M. Geisser, B. Luther-Davies, E.Ostrovskaya, Y.Kivshar, Composite spatial solitons in a saturable nonlinear bulk medium, Appl. Phys. B 72, 723 (2001).
W.Krolikowski, B.Luther-Davies, G.McCarthy, M.Geisser, D.Neshev, Y.Kivshar, E.Ostrovskaya, A.Desyatnikov, C.Weilnau, C.Denz, Vector incoherent solitons, Proc. SPIE -Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (USA) 4271, 89-96 (2001).
W.Krolikowski, Multi-component spatial optical solitons in photorefractive medium, Acta Physica Polonica A 99, 67-76 (2001).
D.Neshev, G.McCarthy, W.Krolikowski, E.Ostrovskaya, Y.Kivshar, G.F. Calvo, F. Agullo-Lopez, Dipole-mode vector solitons in anisotropic nonlocal self-focusing media, Opt. Lett. 26, 1185 (2001).
W.Krolikowski, O.Bang, J.Rassmusen, J.Wyller, Modulational instability in nonlocal nonlinear media, Phys. Rev. E 64 016612 (2001).
W.Krolikowski, B.Luther-Davies, Y.Kivshar Photorefractive materials and solitons, Opto-electronics Review 9, 287 (2001).
D. Neshev, G. McCarthy, W. Krolikowski, E. Pelinovsky, Y. Kivshar, Transverse instability of vector solitons and generation of dipole arrays, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 103903/1-4 (2001).
Yu. Kivshar, W. Krolikowski, Making "Molecules" from Light, Australian Opt. Soc. News, 15, No. 4, 7 (2001).
A. Desyatnikov, D. Neshev, E. Ostrovskaya, Y. Kivshar, G. McCarthy, W. Krolikowski, B.Luther-Davies, Multipole spatial optical solitons: theory and experiment, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 586 (2002).
G.F.Calvo, F.Agullo-Lopez, M. Carrascosa, M.Belic, W.Krolikowski, Locality vs nonlocality of (2+1) dimensional light-induced space charge field in photorefractive crystals, Europhys. Lett. 60, 847-853, (2002).
J.Wyller, W.Krolikowski, O.Bang, J.J.Rasmussen, Generic properties of modulational instability in nonlocal nonlinear media, Physical Review E 66, 066615 (2002).
K.Motzek, F. Kaiser, C. Weilnau, C. Denz, G. McCarthy, W. Krolikowski, A. Desyatnikov, Y. S. Kivshar Multi-component vector solitons in photorefractive crystals , Opt. Commun. , (2002).
O.Bang, W.Krolikowski, J.Wyller, J.Rasmussen, Collapse arrest and beam stabilization in nonlocal nonlinear media, Phys. Rev. E. (2002).
B.Luther-Davies, W.Krolikowski, Y.Kivshar, Scattering and interaction of spatial optical solitons, in Scattering, Eds. R.Pike and P.Sabatier, Academic Press (2002) 987-1001.
W.Krolikowski, B.Luther-Davies, C.Denz, Photorefractive solitons, IEEE J. Quantum Elect. 39, 3-12 (2003).
W.Krolikowski, O.Bang, J.Wyller, J.Rasmussen, Optical beams and solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media, Acta Physica Polonica A 103, 133 (2003).
D.Neshev, A.Sukhorukov, Y.Kivshar, E.Ostrovskaya, W.Krolikowski, Discrete solitons in light-induced index gratings, Opt. Lett. 28, 710 (2003).
N.Nikolov, D.Neshev, O.Bang, W.Krolikowski, Quadratic solitons as nonlocal solitons, Phys. Rev. E 68, 36614 (2003).
S.Tomljenovic-Hanic, W.Krolikowski, New design of variable optical attenuator based on a bent channel waveguide Applied Phys. B 77, 19-23 (2003).
G.McCarthy, T.Breuninger, D.Neshev, J.Schroder, C.Denz, W.Krolikowski, Mutual trapping of photorefractive solitons, Applied Phys. B (September, 2003).
W.Krolikowski, G.McCarthy, Y.Kivshar, C.Weilnau, C.Denz, J.Garcia-Ripoll, V.Perez-Garcia, Scattering of the dipole-mode vector solitons: Theory and experiment, Phys. Rev. E (July, 2003).
N.Nikolov, D.Neshev, O.Bang, W.Krolikowski, Quadratic solitons as nonlocal solitons, Phys. Rev. E 68, 036614 (2003).
A.Sukhorukov, D.Neshev, W.Krolikowski, Y.Kivshar, Nonlinear Bloch-Wave Interaction and Bragg scattering in optically induced lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 093901 (2004).
D.Neshev, A.Sukhorukov, Y.Kivshar, B.Hanna, W.Krolikowski, Controlled generation and steering of spatial gap solitons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 083905 (2004).
D.Neshev, A.Sukhorukov, Y.Kivshar and W.Krolikowski, Observation of transverse instabilities in optically induced lattices, Opt. Lett. 29, 259-261 (2004).
N.Nikolov, D.Neshev, W.Krolikowski, O.Bang, J.J.Rasmussen, P.L. Christiansen, Interaction of dark nonlocal solitons, Opt. Lett. 29, 286-288 (2004).
K Lim, B. Boland, M. Saffman, W. Krolikowski, Creation, doubling, and splitting of vortices in intracavity second harmonic generation, J. Opt. A 6, 486-489 (2004).
W.Krolikowski, O.Bang, N.Nikolov, D.Neshev, J.Wyller, J.K.Rasmussen, D.Edmundson, Modulational instability, solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 6, S288-S294 (2004).
M. Saffman, G. McCarthy, and W. Królikowski, Two dimensional modulational instability in photorefractive media, J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 6, S397-S403 (2004).
W. Krolikowski, O. Bang, J. Wyller, Nonlocal incoherent solitons, Phys. Rev. E 70, 036617 , (2004).
D. Briedis, D.E. Petersen, D. Edmundson, W. Krolikowski, and O. Bang, Ring vortex solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media, Optics Express, 13, 435-443 (2005).
W.Krolikowski, B.Hanna, D.Neshev, A.Sukhorukov, E. Ostrovskaya, Y.Kivshar, Spatial solitons in photorefractive lattices, Optoelectronics Review 13, 85-91 (2005).
C.R. Rosberg, D. Neshev, A. Sukhorukov, Y. Kivshar, W. Krolikowski, Tunable positive and negative refraction in optically-induced photonic lattices, Opt. Lett. 30, 2293-2295 (2005).
P.D. Rasmussen, O. Bang, W. Krolikowski, Theory of nonlocal soliton interaction in nematic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 72, 066611 (2005).
V. Shvedov, W. Krolikowski, A. Volyar, D. N. Neshev, A. S. Desyatnikov, and Yu. S. Kivshar, Focusing and correlation properties of white-light optical vortices, Opt. Express 13, 7393-7398 (2005).
C.R. Rosberg, B. Hanna, D.N. Neshev, A.A. Sukhorukov, W. Krolikowski, Y.S. Kivshar, Discrete interband mutual focusing in nonlinear photonic lattices, Opt. Exp. 13, pp. 5369-5376 (2005).
C.R. Rosberg, D.N. Neshev, A.A. Sukhorukov, W. Krolikowski, Y.S. Kivshar, Tunable Negative Refraction of Light in Photonic Lattices, Opt. Phot. News, 16, No. 12, 38 (2005).
R. Fischer, D. Trager, D.Neshev, A.Sukhorukov, W. Krolikowski, Yu. S. Kivshar, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2006).
M. Matuszewski, C. Rosberg, D.Neshev, A. Sukhorukov, A.Mitchell, M.Trippenbach, M. Austin, W. Krolikowski and Y. Kivshar, Crossover from self-defocusing to discrete trapping in nonlinear waveguide arrays, Opt. Express (2006).
A.Dreischuh, D.Neshev, D.E. Petersen, O.Bang, and W. Krolikowski Observation of attraction between dark solitons, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 043901 (2006).
H.Trompeter, W.Krolikowski, D.Neshev, A.Sukhorukov, Y.Kivshar, U.Poeschel, T.Pertsch, F.Lederer, Photonic Bloch oscillations and Zener tunneling in two-dimensional optical lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2006).
K.Bezuhanov, A. Dreischuh, G.G. Paulus, M.G. Schatzel, H. Walther, D.Neshev, W. Krolikowski, Y.Kivshar, Spatial phase dislocations in femtosecond laser pulses, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B (2006).