Atomic spectroscopy department

The Department of Atomic Spectroscopy was created by the founder of the Institute, the Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Prof. S.L.Mandelshtam, who had been in charge of it right until his retirement in 1989. The purpose of the department is the receiving of experimental and theoretical data about energy structures of atoms and ions which are necessary for astrophysics, for works on controlled thermo-nuclear synthesis, for the creation of vacuum ultra-violet and X-ray lasers, and also for the development of spectral diagnostics of high temperature plasma.

Department subdivisions

Laboratory of atomic spectroscopy (head of laboratory - Prof. Dr. A.N. Ryabtsev);

Section of high-temperature plasma spectroscopy (head of section - Dr. P.S. Antsyferov);

Section of plasma light sources (head of section - V.M. Krivtsun);