The Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IAP RAS) was created in accordance with the Decree of the Council of Ministers of July 28, 1976 on the basis of several divisions of the Radiophysical Research Institute (RRI) of the Ministry of Higher Education of Russian Federation. Academician A.V.Gaponov-Grekhov was appointed its director. In 2003 academician A.G.Litvak headed the IAP RAS and academician A.V.Gaponov-Grekhov became the scientific leader of the IAP RAS.

Scientific researches entrusted with the IAP RAS are concentrated in three scientific division:

• Plasma Physics and High-Power Electronics Division
• Hydrophysics and Hydroacoustics Division
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Optics Division

The main lines of the scientific researches include:

• high power electronics (gyrotrons and their applications, relativistic electronics, microwave processing of materials),
• plasma electrodynamics (powerful radiation interaction with plasma, plasma astrophysics, geophysical electrodynamics),
• radiophysical methods of diagnostics (plasma diagnostics, millimeter and submillimeter radioastronomy, remote diagnostics of natural media, coherent seismoacosutics, vibroacostics and spectroscopy, nonlinear acoustics, optical tomography),
• low-frequency ocean acoustics (low-range sound propagation in the ocean, acoustic tomography of the ocean, low-frequency radiating complexes, hardware of underwater acoustics),
• dynamics of nonlinear processes (nonlinear waves, dynamic chaos and structures, internal and surface waves),
• laser physics and nonlinear optics (femtosecond lasers and superstrong fields, processes in phase conjugation systems, laser dynamics, water-soluble crystals).

 

Annually the IAP RAS carriers out about 350 scientific researches of the main trends in IAP activities, takes an active part in implementation of federal special, academic, inter-industry, interdepartmental, international and other programs and projects.

Among the most prominent achievements of the Institute of Applied Physics RAS are the invention of gyrotrons and gyroklystrons and their upgrading to a high technical level, the development of effective methods to convert and transport powerful electromagnetic radiation, the elaboration of physical principles for excitation and reception of low-frequency sound fields in the ocean and the creation of hardware for hydroacoustics and long-term acoustical monitoring in the ocean, complexes for research of noise radiation characteristics of moving objects, the development of high-rate growth and precision processing of water-soluble crystals, working out of optical coherent tomography to image biotissue structures and designing an optical tomograph for medical diagnostics of human internal organs.