Vladimir Protopopov
Principal Laser Engineer at MKS Instruments
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolVladimir Protopopov is a Principal Laser Engineer with over 30 years of deep expertise in laser optics, nonlinear and fiber optics, and integrated photonics, now based in San Jose. He combines strong theoretical foundations from MIPT with hands-on experience building fiber and free-space laser systems, frequency converters, and Bragg-grating devices across wavelengths from 589 nm to 2 μm. His work spans design, simulation and modeling of fiber lasers and amplifiers, sensor development with FBGs, embedded firmware for AVR/ARM controllers and FPGA implementations in Verilog. Notably, he has driven R&D that led to visible Raman fiber amplifiers recognized at CLEO/Europe and has repeatedly translated complex lab physics—up-conversion, concentration quenching, Raman conversion—into production-ready systems. Practical, multidisciplinary, and experimentally adept, he thrives at the intersection of optics, electronics, and software to deliver robust laser solutions.
10 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
MS diploma, MS diploma at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
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Github Skills (8)
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capcom7
smd7
nes5
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spin3
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Github contributions (5)
ProtonNoir/SNES-decompression-tools
Feb 2018 - Dec 2021
SNES graphics decompression tools
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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ProtonNoir/Warriors-of-The-Blue-Dragon-Legend
Feb 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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