G S Sokolovskii is the Leading Research Fellow at Ioffe Institute (St.Petersburg, Russia). He has graduated from the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University ‘LETI’ (St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1994 (MSc) and has received his PhD and Doctor of Science (Habilitation) degrees from Ioffe Institute (1998 and 2010, respectively). His main research interests include Laser Physics, Nanophotonics and Physics of Semiconductors. He has authored and co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and 10 patents on these topics. He is the Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences and serves as the Vice-chair and Treasurer of the St. Petersburg Chapter of IEEE Photonics Society. [email protected] G S Sokolovskii is the Leading Research Fellow at Ioffe Institute (St.Petersburg, Russia). He has graduated from the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University ‘LETI’ (St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1994 (MSc) and has received his PhD and Doctor of Science (Habilitation) degrees from Ioffe Institute (1998 and 2010, respectively). His main research interests include Laser Physics, Nanophotonics and Physics of Semiconductors. He has authored and co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and 10 patents on these topics. He is the Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences and serves as the Vice-chair and Treasurer of the St. Petersburg Chapter of IEEE Photonics Society. [email protected]

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