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Created 8.12.2020
Updated 11.11.2022

Biography
Stefka Stefanova Cartaleva
(18.07.1943 – 20.11.2020)



Born She was born in Veliko Tarnovo

Education:

Graduated Moscow State University Optics and Spectroscopy (1968)

Ph.D. (Moscow State University) "Laser oscillation influence on the line shape of coupled transitions in Ar+ laser" (1973)

Scientific Research

Physics, physics of gas lasers, molecular and atomic physics, single frequency and frequency stabilized lasers, high resolution spectroscopy, coherent population trapping, magnetometry

Professional experience

Associate Professor (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Electronics, 1991)

Award

2014 High quality results

Publications

  1. S. Cartaleva, T. Dreischuh, V. Ilkova, Some behavioral peculiarities of a single-frequency helium-neon laser in a longitudinal magnetic field, Journal of Applied Spectroscopy (48) 472-476 (1988)

  2. S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, V. Gerginov,The influence of Ne isotopes on the single mode operation of He-Ne and He-Ne/I2 lasers,IEEE Trans. Instrum. Measur. 46 (1997) 149-152

  3. V. Gerginov, Y. Dancheva, M. Taslakov, S. Cartaleva, Frequency tunable monomode diode laser at 670 nm for high resolution spectroscopy, Opt. Commun. 149 (1998), 162-169

  4. S. Gateva, R. Djulgerova, Ch. Andreeva, M. Taslakov, S. Cartaleva, Optigalvanic effect in hollow cathode discharge for wavelength calibration of diode lasers in the visible”, Proc. SPIE 3573 (1998), pp.351-354

  5. S. Gateva, Ch. Andreeva, P. Petkov, Z. Donko, M. Janossy, R. Djulgerova, M. Taslakov, S. Cartaleva, Optogalvanic atomic transition references for wavelength stabilization of diode lasers in the visible, Proc. SPIE 3571, (1998) 214-218

  6. G. Alzetta, L. Botti, S. Cartaleva, R. Celli, A. Rossi, Superposition of states and quantum interference in Rb by diode laser modulation, Proc. SPIE 3571 (1998), p.195-199

  7. L. Abramova, Yu. Zakharenko, V. Fedorine, T. Blajev, S. Kartaleva, H. Karlsson, Gh. Popescu, A. Chartier, J.-M. Chartier, International comparisons of He-Ne lasers stabilized with 127I2 at ??633 nm (July 1993 to September 1995), Part VI: Comparisons of VNIIM (Russian Federation), NCM (Bulgaria), NMS (Norway), NILPRL (Romania) and BIPM lasers at 633 nm", Metrologia 37 (2000), pp.115-120

  8. G. Alzetta, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, Ch. Andreeva, S. Gozzini, L. Botti, A. Rossi, A. Yanev, B. Todorov, Influence of the pumping field polarization on the coherent effects at Zeeman sublevels of hyperfine states in Rb, Proc. SPIE 4397, 146 (2000)

  9. Ch. Andreeva, Y. Dancheva, G. Alzetta, A. Rossi, S. Cartaleva, CPT effect and its applications for weak magnetic fields detection, J.Appl.Electromagn., Special Issue– full papers of Bulgarian Contributions to Second International Symposium on Applied Electromagnetism, Xanthi, Greece, June 2000

  10. E. Andreoni, J. Xu, S. Cartaleva, R. Celli, F. Mango, S. Gozzini, A simple system of thermal control and frequency stabilization of solitary diode lasers, Rev. Scient. Instum. 71 (2000) 1

  11. S. Cartaleva, G. Alzetta, Y. Dancheva, Ch. Andreeva, R. Celli, Coherent effects in optical pumping of atoms, Bulg.J.Phys. 27 (3) 21 (2000)

  12. Y. Dancheva, G. Alzetta, S. Cartaleva, M. Taslakov, Ch. Andreeva, Coherent effcts on the Zeeman sublevels of hyperfine states in optical pumping of Rb by monomode diode laser, Opt. Commun. 178, (2000) 103

  13. M. Janossy, S. Gateva, Ch. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, Optogalvanic effect sign change in a hollow cathode discharge plasma, Vacuum 58 (2000) 272-279

  14. G. Alzetta, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, Ch. Andreeva, S. Gozzini, L. Botti, A. Rossi, Coherent effects on the Zeeman sublevels of hyperfine states at the D1 and D2 lines of Rb, J.Opt.B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 3, 181 (2001)

  15. Ch. Andreeva, Y. Dancheva, M. Taslakov, A. Markovski, P. Zubov, S. Cartaleva, Continuously tunable extended cavity diode laser at 780 nm for high resolution spectroscopy, Spectr.Lett. 34 (3) 395 (2001)

  16. F. Renzoni, S. Cartaleva, G. Alzetta, E. Arimondo, Enhanced absorption Hanle effect in the configuration of crossed laser beam and magnetic field, Phys.Rev. A63, 065401 (2001)

  17. C. Affolderbach, G. Mileti, C. Andreeva, D. Slavov, T. Karaulanov, S. Cartaleva, Reducing light-shift effects in optically-pumped gas-cell atomic frequency standards. Frequency Control Symposium and PDA Exhibition Jointly with the 17th European Frequency and Time Forum, 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International, IEEE, 2003, 27-30

  18. C. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, V. Biancalana, A. Burchianti, C. Marinelli, E. Mariotti, L. Moi, K. Nasyrov, Coherent Spectroscopy of Degenerate Two-Level Systems in Cs, Phys.Rev. A66, 012502 (2002)

  19. C. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, G. Di Domenico, S. Jaquet, T. Karaulanov, G. Mileti, P. Thomann, B. Todorov, A. Yanev, Influence of external parameters on the locking position of a diode laser, Proceedings SPIE v.5226 (2003), p.124

  20. C. Andreeva, G. Bevilaqua, V. Biancalana, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, T. Karaulanov, C. Marinelli, E. Mariotti, L. Moi, Two-color coherent population trapping in a single Cs hyperfine transition, with application in magnetometry, Appl. Phys. B76 (2003) p. 667-675

  21. E. Alipieva, S. Gateva, E. Taskova, V. Sarova, S. Cartaleva, Magnetic field influence on coherent resonance in a degenerate two-level system, Proceedings SPIE, v. 5226, p. 134, 2003

  22. E. Alipieva, S. Gateva, E. Taskova, S. Cartaleva, Narrow structure in the CPT resonance in Rb, Opt. Lett. 28 (19) 1817-1819 (2003)

  23. G. Alzetta, S. Cartaleva, S. Gozzini, A. Lucchesini, C. Marinelli, L. Moi, T. Karaulanov, C. Andreeva, V. Biancalana, Y. Dancheva, E. Mariotti, Temperature dependence of coherent resonances in Na and Cs cells, Proceedings SPIE v. 5226 (2003) p. 129

  24. S. Gateva, M. Janossy, S. Cartaleva, Optigalvanic effect sign change of the 667.8 nm He line in a hollow cathode discharge plasma, Vacuum 69 (2003) 201-205

  25. T. Karaulanov, C. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, B. Todorov, A. Yanev, S. Jaquet, G. Di Domenico, P. Thomann, G. Mileti, Light shift and laser sidebands in gas-cell atomic clocks using optical pumping and coherent population trapping, Proc. SPIE v. 5137 (2003), p.364

  26. C. Affolderbach, C. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, G. Mileti, D. Slavov, Frequency stability comparison of diode lasers locked to Doppler and sub-Doppler resonances, Proc. SPIE, v. 5449 (2004) p. 396-403

  27. C. Affolderbach, C. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, T. Karaulanov, G. Mileti, D. Slavov, Light shift reduction in atomic clocks, Proc. SPIE, v.5449 (2004) p. 342-349

  28. C. Affolderbach, G. Mileti, D. Slavov, C. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, Comparison of simple and compact "doppler" and "sub-Doppler" laser frequency stabilisation schemes. IET Conference Publications, 499, 2004, 375-379

  29. G. Alzetta, S. Gozzini, A. Luchesini, S. Cartaleva, T. Karaulanov, C. Marinelli, L. Moi, Complete electromagnetically induced transparency in sodium atoms excited by a multimode dye laser, Phys. Rev. A 69, 063815 (2004)

  30. G. Alzetta, S. Cartaleva, S. Gozzini, T. Karaulanov, A. Lucchesini, C. Marinelli, L. Moi, K. Nasyrov, V. Sarova, Lossless formation of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Sodium atoms, Proc. SPIE, v. 5449 (2004) p. 280

  31. C. Andreeva, V. Biancalana, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, T. Karaulanov, E. Mariotti, L. Moi, K. Nasyrov, Coherent effects in the field of elliptically polarized light, Proc. SPIE, v.5449 (2004) p. 404

  32. C. Andreeva, G. Bevilaqua, V. Biancalana, E. Bresci, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, T. Karaulanov, C. Marinelli, E. Mariotti, L. Moi, Coherent spectroscopy in Cs for precise magnetic field measurement, Proc. SPIE, v. 5449 (2004) p.307

  33. C. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, T. Karaulanov, V. Biancalana, Y. Dancheva, E. Mariotti, L. Moi, K. Nasyrov, Coherent resonances in degenerate two-level systems for magnetic field measurement, in Nanoscale Magnetic Oxides and Bio-World, ed. I. Nedkov and Ph. Tailhades, Heron Press, Sofia 2004, p. 166

  34. N. Petrov, T. Karaulanov, A. Yanev, B. Todorov, S. Cartaleva, All-optical method and device for magnetic field measurement. Proceedings of SPIE, 5449, 2004, 388-395

  35. C. Affolderbach, C. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, T. Karaulanov, G. Mileti, D. Slavov, Light shift suppression in laser optically pumped vapour-cell atomic frequency standards, Appl. Phys. B: Lasers and Optics, v.80 (7) (2005) p. 841-848

  36. E. Alipieva, C. Andreeva, L. Avramov, G. Bevilaqua, V. Biancalana, E. Borisova, E. Breschi, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, S. Gateva, T. Karaulanov, R. Lammegger, L. Moi, L. Petrov, N. Petrov, D. Slavov, E. Taskova, G. Todorov, L. Windholz, A. Yanev, Coherent population trapping for magnetic field measurements. Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 5830, 27, SPIE, 2005, 170-175

  37. G. Alzetta, S. Cartaleva, S. Gozzini, T. Karaulanov, A. Lucchesini, C. Marinelli, L. Moi, K. Nasyrov, V. Sarova, K. Vaseva, Magnetic Coherence Resonance Profiles in Na and K, Proc. SPIE (5830) p. 181 (2005)

  38. G. Bevilacqua, V. Biancalana, E. Breschi, Y. Dancheva, C. Marinelli, E. Mariotti, L. Moi, C. Andreeva, T. Karaulanov, S. Cartaleva, Towards a simple and performing CPT based magnetometer: optimization of experimental parameters, Proc. SPIE (5830) 150-158 (2005)

  39. G. Bevilacqua, V. Biancalana, E. Breschi, Y. Dancheva, L. Moi, Ch. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, T. Karaulanov, Coherent population trapping spectra in presence of ac magnetic fields, Phys. Rev. Lett. (95) 123601 (2005)

  40. T.Varzhapetyan, D.Sarkisyan, L. Petrov, C. Andreeva, D. Slavov, S. Saltiel, A. Markovski, G. Todorov, S. Cartaleva, Sub-Doppler spectroscopy and coherence resonances in submicron Cs vapour layer, Proc. SPIE (5830) 196-200 (2005)

  41. K. Nasyrov, S. Cartaleva, N. Petrov, V. Biancalana, Y. Dancheva, E. Mariotti, L. Moi, Coherent population trapping resonances in Cs atoms excited by elliptically polarized light. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 74, 1, 2006

  42. N. Petrov, S. Cartaleva, D. Slavov, T. Karaulanov. AC magnetic field influence on Coherent Population Trapping resonanses. 23rd Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases, Kapaonik, Serbia, 2006, 75-78

  43. C. Andreeva, A. Atvars, M. Auzinsh, K. Blush, S. Cartaleva, L. Petrov, D. Slavov, Ground-state magneto-optical resonances in cesium vapor confined in an extremely thin cell. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 76, 6, American Physical Society, 2007, 1-13

  44. C. Andreeva, S. Cartaleva, L. Petrov, S. Saltiel, D. Sarkisyan, T. Varzhapetyan, D. Bloch, M. Ducloy, Saturation effects in the sub-Doppler spectroscopy of cesium vapor confined in an extremely thin cell, Physical Review A, 76, 1, 2007

  45. S. Cartaleva, T. Karaulanov, N. Petrov, D. Slavov, K. Vaseva, A. Yanev, M. Mijailovic, Z. Grujic, B. Jelenkovic, All-optical magnetometer based on resonant excitation of rubidium atoms by frequency modulated diode laser light. Acta Physica Polonica A, 112, 5, Polish Academy of Sciences edition, 2007, 871-876

  46. S. Cartaleva, K. Koynov, S. Saltiel, D. Sarkisyan, D. Slavov, P. Todorov, K. Vaseva, High resolution laser spectroscopy of extremely thin Cs-vapour layers. 34th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2007, EPS 2007 - Europhysics Conference Abstracts, 31, 2, 2007, 1250-1253

  47. D. Slavov, G. Bevilacqua, V. Biancalana, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, T. Karaulanov, L. Moi, N. Petrov, A. Yanev, Coherent population trapping for continuous and alternating magnetic fields measurements. AIP Conference Proceedings, 899, AIP Publishing, 2007, 175-176

  48. K. Vaseva, P. Todorov, D. Slavov, S. Cartaleva, K. Koynov, S. Saltiel, Fluorescence spectra study in extremely thin Cs-vapor layers. Acta Physica Polonica A, 112, 5, Polish Academy of Sciences edition, 2007, 865-870

  49. J. Belfi, G. Bevilacqua, V. Biancalana, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, L. Moi, Cesium coherent population trapping magnetometer for cardiosignal detection in an unshielded environment. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 24 (9) 2357-2362 (2007)

  50. J. Belfi, V. Biancalana, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, E. Mariotti, L. Moi, K. Nasyrov, D. Slavov, P. Todorov, K. Vaseva, Electromagnetically induced absorption resonance sign reversal, Acta Physica Polonica A, 112 (5) Polish Academy of Sciences edition (2007) 823-828

  51. T. Karaulanov, A. Yanev, S. Cartaleva, D. Slavov, N. Petrov, M. Mijailovic, Z. Grujic, A. Krmpot, Coherent population trapping resonances on the D1 line of rubidium. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 6604) SPIE (2007)

  52. P. Todorov, K. Vaseva, S. Cartaleva, D. Slavov, I. Maurin, S. Saltiel, Absorption and fluorescence in saturation regime of Cs-vapor layer with thickness close to the light wavelength, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (7027) SPIE (2008)

  53. S. Gozzini, S. Cartaleva, D. Slavov, L. Marmugi, A. Lucchesini, Coherent spectroscopy in potassium vapor with amplitude modulated light, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering (7027) SPIE (2008)

  54. S. Cartaleva, S. Saltiel, A. Sargsyan, D. Sarkisyan, D. Slavov, P. Todorov, K. Vaseva, Sub-doppler spectroscopy of cesium vapor layers with nanometric and micrometric thickness, Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 26 (11) OSA Publishing (2009)

  55. K. Vaseva, P. Todorov, S. Cartaleva, D. Slavov, S. Saltiel, Investigation of the fluorescence spectra of Cs-vapor layers with nanometric thickness, Acta Physica Polonica A, 116 (4) (2009)

  56. J. Belfi, G. Bevilacqua, V. Biancalana, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, M. Khanbekyan, L. Moi, Dual channel self-oscillating optical magnetometer, JOSA B, 26 (5) (2009)

  57. J. Belfi, G. Bevilacqua, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, L. Moi, Application of a differential optical atomic magnetometer to ultra-low field NMR detection, CLEO/Europe - EQEC 2009 - European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the European Quantum Electronics Conference, art. no. 5192128 (2009)

  58. V. Biancalana, S. Cartaleva, Y. Dancheva, P. Gosh, E. Mariotti, S. Mitra, L. Moi, N. Petrov, B. Ray, D. Sarkisyan, D. Slavov, Population loss in closed optical transitions of Rb and Cs atoms confined in micrometric thin cells, Acta Physica Polonica A, 116 (4) (2009)

  59. S. Gozzini, S. Cartaleva, T. Karaulanov, A. Lucchesini, D. Slavov, Coherent Population Trapping on the Second Resonance Line of Potassium, Acta Physica Polonica A, 116 (4) Polish Academy of Sciences Publishing House (2009)

  60. S. Gozzini, S. Cartaleva, A. Lucchesini, C. Marinelli, L. Marmugi, D. Slavov, T. Karaulanov, Coherent population trapping and strong electromagnetically induced transparency resonances on the D1 line of potassium, European Physical Journal D, 53 (2) Springer (2009)

  61. S. Gozzini, D. Slavov, S. Cartaleva, L. Marmugi, A. Lucchesini, Analysis of high efficiency electromagnetically induced transparency in potassium vapor, Acta Physica Polonica A, 116 (4) Polish Academy of Sciences Publishing House (2009)

  62. D. Slavov, S. Cartaleva, D. Sarkisyan, P. Ghosh, B. Ray, S. Mitra, Rubidium vapor cell miniaturization-influence on the optical pumping process, Indian Journal of Physics, 84 (8) Springer (2010)

  63. S. Mitra, M. Hossain, B. Ray, P. Ghosh, S. Cartaleva, D. Slavov, On line shape of electromagnetically induced transparency in a multilevel system, Optics Communications, 283 (7) Elsevier (2010)

  64. S. Cartaleva, A. Sargsyan, D. Sarkisyan, D. Slavov, K. Vaseva, New narrow resonance in the fluorescence of closed optical transition observed in nanometric Cs - vapor layers, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 7747, SPIE (2011)

  65. A. Krasteva, D. Slavov, S. Cartaleva, Coherent Population Trapping Resonances in Cs atomic Vapor Layers of Micrometric Thickness, International Journal of Optics (2011) 683415 Hindawi Publishing Corporation

  66. S. Gozzini, L. Marmugi, A. Lucchesini, S. Gateva, S. Cartaleva, K. Nasyrov, Narrow structure in the coherent population trapping resonance in sodium, Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 84 (1) (2011)

  67. S. Gozzini, L. Marmugi, A. Lucchesini, S. Gateva, S. Cartaleva, K. Nasyrov, Narrow structure in the coherent population trapping resonance in sodium, Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 84 (1) 013812 (2011)

  68. S. Gozzini, L. Marmugi, D. Slavov, A. Lucchesini, S. Cartaleva, Coherent Population Trapping resonances in potassium with amplitude-modulated light, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 7747, SPIE (2011)

  69. S. Mitra, M. Hossain, B. Ray, P. Ghosh, S. Cartaleva, D. Slavov, Coherent laser spectroscopy of rubidium atoms, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 7747, SPIE (2011)

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