Dr. Aidas Matijošius

Dr. Aidas Matijošius

Phone: +370 523 66 020

E-mail: aidas.matijosius@ff.vu.lt

Laser Research Center (LRC)

Natural Sciences, Physics

Professor, Dean of Faculty of Physics

Singular Optics; Complex Light Structures: their linear and nonlinear transformations; Nonlinear Optics; Diagnostics of Spatial-temporal Light Structures

• Dubietis, A.Matijošius, “Table-top optical parametric chirped pulse amplifiers: past and present” (REVIEW), Opto-Electronic Advances V.6, 220046 (2023).
• Vaičaitis, O.Balachninaitė, A.Matijošius, I.Babushin, U.Morgner, “Direct time-resolved plasma characterization with broadband terahertz light pulses“, Phys. Rev. E, V.107, p. 015201 (2023).
• Levinas, A.Grigucevičienė, T.Kubilius, A.Matijošius, L.Tamašauskaitė-Tamašiūnaitė, H.Cesiulis and E.Norkus, „Femtosecond Laser-Ablated Copper Surface as a Substrate for a MoS 2-Based Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalyst“, Materials, V.15, p. 3926 (2022).
• Balachninaitė, J.Skruibis, A.Matijošius and V.Vaičaitis, „Temporal and spatial properties of plasma induced by infrared femtosecond laser pulses in air“, Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., V.31, p. 045001 (7pp) (2022).
• Vaičaitis, O.Balachninaitė, A.Matijošius, “Plazmos tankio matavimo metodas ir sistema, naudojant plačiajuosčius terahercų dažnio elektromagnetinius impulsus”, Patent ID: LT2021 568 (2021).
• Ivanov, A.Matijosius and V.Tamuliene, “Improving purity of the radially polarized beam generated by a geometric phase retarder with spatially variable retardance“, App. Opt., V.59, p. 1618-1626 (2020).
• Gecevicius, M.Ivanov, M.Beresna, A.Matijosius, V.Tamuliene, T.Gertus, A.Cerkauskaite, K.Redeckas, M.Vengris, V.Smilgevicius, and P.G.Kazansky, “Toward the generation of broadband optical vortices: extending the spectral range of a q-plate by polarization-selective filtering”, JOSA B, V.1, p. 190–196 (2018).
• Stanislovaitis, A.Matijošius, M.Ivanov, V.Smilgevičius, “Topological charge transformation of beams with embedded fractional phase step in the process of second harmonic generation“, Journal of Opt., V.19, p. 105603 (6pp) (2017).
• Stanislovaitis, M.Ivanov, A.Matijošius, V.Smilgevičius, T.Gertus, „Generation of radially polarized beams and higher order polarization singularities by optical parametric amplification of optical vortices, Opt. Engineering, V.56, p. 095101–1 – 095101–8 (2017).
• Matijošius, P.Stanislovaitis, T.Gertus, V.Smilgevičius, „Formation of second order optical vortices with a radial polarization converter using the double-pass technique”, Opt. Commun., V.349, p. 24–30 (2015).
• Matijošius, V. Jarutis and A.Piskarskas, “Generation and control of the spiraling zero-order Bessel beam”, Opt. Express, V.18, p. 8767–8771 (2010).
• Jarutis, A.Matijošius, P.Di Trapani and A.Piskarskas, „Spiraling zero-order Bessel beam“ Opt. Lett., V.34, p. 2129–2131 (2009).

• Laserlab-Europe V, 2019 – 2023. Project manager (VU LRC part)

• High Technology Development Program 2007-2013: project "Conical Wave technologies" (ConTeX), 2008 – 2010 years. Project manager.

• P. Di Trapani, G. Valiulis, A. Piskarskas, O. Jedrkiewicz, J. Trull, S. Trillo, C. Conti, A. Matijosus, and M. Porras, “X-waves: a spatio-temporal localization between linear and non-linear optics”, “Non-linear and transverse optics” symposium of the German Physical Society, Hannover (2003)

• Matijošius A., Piskarskas A., Smilgevičius V., Tamošauskas G., “Vortex pumped optical parametric amplification”, Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS 2002), Long Beach, USA, May, 2002. Technical Digest, p. 50-51.

Ssupervisor of PhD student Maksym Ivanov 2015 – 2019. The dissertation was successfully defended 24-09-2019

• Optics (LT and EN)

Prepared courses:

• "Modern optics" (lithuanian)
• "Optics and atomic physics" (lithuanian)
• "Optics" (english)
• "Optics" (lithuanian)

Was a supervisor of more than 10 Student Thesis

• Participation in the national/international governing bodies, commissions, committees, boards etc.

• Delegate of the Lithuania to ELI ERIC General Assambly, Board member of Lithuanian Laser Association (since 2021)
• Member of the Board of Lithuanian Laser Association (since 2021)
• Delegate of the Lithuania to ELI ERIC General Assambly, Board member of Lithuanian Laser Association
• Member of the master's theses commission at Vilnius Gediminas technical university (VILNIUS TECH) (2018 – 2022)
• The Chairman of the Defence Panel for the defence of the doctoral dissertations:
  • Justina Anulytė (2025-01-23) Center for Physical Sciences and Technology
  • Paulius Šlevas (2024-06-28) Center for Physical Sciences and Technology
  • Balys Momgaudis (2022-09-30) Vilnius University
  • Ernesta Bužavaitė - Vertelienė (2022-09-23) Center for Physical Sciences and Technology
  • Agnė Šuminienė (2021-07-18) Vilnius University
  • Linas Jonušauskas (2021-03-26) Vilnius University
  • Rosvaldas Šuminas (2021-01-29) Vilnius University
  • Lina Mažulė (2020-12-18) Vilnius University
  • Ieva Pipinytė (2020-07-03) Vilnius University
• Member of the Defence Panel for the defence of the doctoral dissertations:
  • Lukas Ramalis (2025-05-28) Center for Physical Sciences and Technology
  • Gustas Liaugminas (2024-05-15) Center for Physical Sciences and Technology
  • Giedrius Sinkevičius (2021-11-09) Vilnius Gediminas technical university (VILNIUS TECH)
  • Simas Butkus (2020-02-14) Vilnius University

Expert activity in the evaluation of projects submitted to the Latvian Science Council.

Peer review of articles for scientific journals:

• "Optical Review"
• "Optics & Laser Technology"
• "Optical Engineering"
• "Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications"

Coordinator of „OPTICA“ (OSA) Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide Student chapter at VU Faculty of Physics

• A. Matijošius, “Faculty of Physics at Vilnius University: study and science“, The International Conference on Global Research and Education Inter-Academia 2024, 2024 September 4-7 d., Warsaw, Poland.
• A. Matijošius, “VU Faculty of Physics: Opportunities for study and science“, Taiwan-Lithuania Laser Conference, 2023 May 30-31, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Member of Lithuanian Physical Society
• Senate member at Vilnius University (2018 - 2023)
• Director of Laser Research Center FoP VU (2019 - 2023)
• Delegate of the Lithuania to ELI ERIC General Assambly