User:G.pasmanik

Guerman Pasmanik (born October 31, 1945) is the president of the private laser company Passat Ltd. A native of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Pasmanik graduated from the Gorky State University in 1967. He is involved in the research of nonlinear effects in laser propagation in the atmosphere since 1968. Pasmanik received two Russian State awards for laser optics (Phase conjugation in 1983 and Development of High Energy Lasers with Brilouin mirrors in 1988). He also published several books devoted to nonlinear and adaptive optics. After his immigration from Russia in 1994, he opened Passat Ltd, which aimed at laser development and manufacturing of lasers. In particular, Passat’s laser was included in the Phoenix Martian Mission and used for the monitoring of Martian atmosphere in 2008. Recently Passat’s lasers allowed to excite backward stimulated scattering in air opening for the first time. This opened new doors for adaptive optics and remote sensing. Some of Pasmanik’s awards include the USSR State Award, the Council of Minister of USSR, Certificate for Canadian Government Mars Travel, and many more. A few of the achievements are such things as the reflection from air, the Mars Phoenix mission, and the highest power for a uv ps laser.