Dr. Alexander V. Prokhorov
Alexander Prokhorov born in 1956 in the former USSR. He obtained master's degrees with honor in Physics (Saratov University, 1978) and in Measurement Systems (Kiev Polytechnic Institute, 1979) and started working in such areas of optical radiometry as pyrheliometry, measurements of spectral radiance and spectral irradiance of thermal radiation sources, measurement of physical properties of absorbing materials for optical radiation detectors, uncertainty analysis and evaluation, and numerical modeling of measuring devices and processes.
His Ph. D. work was dedicated to optical and thermophysical properties of cavity sources and detectors of optical radiation (Moscow, 1989). In 1980ths, he participated in design and metrological certification of national radiometric and photometric standards of the former USSR; later, he worked for National Physical Laboratory (UK) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA). Dr. Prokhorov is the solo creator of the first program for Monte Carlo calculation of effective emissivities of nonisothermal blackbody cavities. He is world-recognized expert in theoretical and computational problems of optical radiometry.
Dr. Prokhorov lives in the USA since 1999; he is the member of the Optical Society of America. In 2000-2009, he worked as a guest researcher in the Optical Technology Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, MD).
Dr. Prokhorov established Virial, Inc. in 2000; it becomes Virial International, LLC in 2011. Currently, Dr. Prokhorov continues his research in the area of computational problems of optical radiometry, radiation thermometry, and photometry. Inter alia, he works on the new program for computer modeling of integrating spheres and develops BRDF models suitable for Monte Carlo modeling of optical radiometry problems.
Dr. Prokhorov established Virial, Inc. in 2000; it becomes Virial International, LLC in 2011. Currently, Dr. Prokhorov continues his research in the area of computational problems of optical radiometry, radiation thermometry, and photometry. Inter alia, he works on the new program for computer modeling of integrating spheres and develops BRDF models suitable for Monte Carlo modeling of optical radiometry problems.