Projects, funded only by the budget subsidy of BAS:

1. Optical and energy characteristics of copper bromide vapour laser and laser systems – Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr D. Astadjov, Co-Participants: TU-Plovdiv , Plovdiv University, budget subsidy, 2007 — 2008.

2. High-power strontium atomic laser of high beam quality excited in a longitudinal nanosecond pulsed He-SrBr₂ discharge for laser ablation and modification of tissues – Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr K. Temelkov, 2008.

3. Spectroscopic and spectral-elipsometric studies of layers of polycrystalline and amorphous materials with embedded nanoclusters – Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr A. Sekeresh, ISSP, BAS Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr K.Temelkov, 2007.

4. Experimental and theoretical determination of the cross sections and speed constants of population through charge exchange and of the radiation constants of some excited Ag+, I+ and Cu+ states – Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr K.Temelkov, 2006 — 2007.

Projects, additionally funded by contracts with the National Science Fund /NSF/:

1. Modelling and analysis of complex physical systems – Projetc Director: Prof. DSc N. Vitanov, NSF, Contract VU-205/2006 — 2008.

2. Encoding, processing and measurement of quantum information by ultra-cold atoms – Project Director: Prof. DSc N. Vitanov, NSF, Contract VU-301/2007 — 2008.

3. UV and infrared CuBr and SrBr₂ lasers – Project Director: Prof. DSc N. Vuchkov, NSF, (China) Contract 2K-11-02/2006 — 2008.

4. UV metal vapour lasers - Project Director: Prof. DSc N. Vuchkov, NSF, Contract F-1204, 2004 — 2007.

5. Conducting polymer and metal-polymer films for electrochemical sensors for bioactive substances – Participant: Prof. DSc N. Vuchkov, NSF, Contract X-1405, 2006 — 2008.

6. Nano-modification of dielectric and conducting layers for obtaining new electro-catalysts and sensors – Participant Prof. DSc N. Vuchkov, NSF, Contract X-1405, 2008.

7. Method for maintaining the hydrogen partial pressure in the active medium of the copper bromide vapour laser – Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr T. Petrov, NSF, Contr. DO1-413/16.06.2006, Ministry of Education and Science, The National Science Fund, Contract #MSP-08, Programme "Promotion of  innovations in small and medium enterprises", 2006 — 2008.

8. High-energy scanning laser system for materials microprocessing – Project Director: Prof. DSc N. Sabotinov, Ministry of Education and Science, The National Science Fund, Programme "Development of research potential", Contract #UNA-11, 2005 — 2007.

Projects, additionally financed by contracts with ministries, organizations and private companies from the country:

1. Nanostructure coatings – new biomaterials for bone implants produced by the interaction laser-solution- substrate (Nanocomposits) – Participants: Assoc. Prof. Dr T. Petrov, Assist. Prof. Dr P. Zahariev, Assist. Prof. Dr O. Sabotinov, Bulgaria Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency,  National Innovation Fund, 2008.

2. Industrial investigation of a medical (dermatology) scanning laser system – Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Dr M. Grozeva, Bulgaria Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency,  National Innovation Fund, Contract #8, 2006 — 2007.

Projects, additionally financed according to contracts and programs of EU, NATO, UNESCO and other international organizations:

1. High Beam Quality UV Lasers for Microelectronics – (Germany, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Belgium, Netherlands, France), Project Co-Director: Prof. DSc N. Sabotinov, NATO, the Science for Peace Programme of NATO,  Project NATO SfP971989 'NATO SfP-Excimer Laser', 1999 — 2004.

2. Coherence and Control in Atomic and Molecular Systems and Processes – (Germany, Sweden, UK, the Netherlands, France, Greece, Bulgaria ), Project Co-Directors: Prof. DSc N. Vitanov, Prof. DSc N. Sabotinov, under the Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) of the European Union, Project No.:HPRN-CT-1999-00129, COCOMO, (Improving Human Potential Programme – Research Training Networks), 2000 — 2004.

Projects funded under the Academy’s bilateral agreements and in the framework of institute-to-institute cooperation:

1. UV CuBr and IR SrBr₂ lasers – Project Co-Director: Prof. DSc N. Vuchkov, Dept. of Physics, Zhejiang University, Metal Vapor Laser Laboratory, Hangzhou, China, 2006 — 2008.

2. High-End-Performance Solid-State-Power-Supply Copper Lasers for Fine Material Processing – Project Co-director: Prof. DSc N. Sabotinov, Indo –Bulgarian Inter-Governmental Programme of Cooperation in Science & Technology, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, 2008.

3. High-power and high beam quality copper and copper halide lasers for industrial applications – Project Co-director: Prof. DSc N. Sabotinov, Indo – Bulgarian Inter-Governmental Programme of Cooperation in Science & Technology, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, 2005 — 2007.

4. Plasma technologies and their applications – Project Co-Directors: Prof. DSc N. Sabotinov, Agreement on Scientific Cooperation between the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, (2004-2008-2008), Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery – Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdansk, Poland, 14 days, 30.10 – 12.11, 2006, 2004 — 2008.

Projects/contracts and commissions assigned from outsourcers, including state or private companies from the country or abroad:

1. Investigation of the energy yield limit of a self-terminating strontium laser oscillating on the self-terminating transition of 6.45-mikrometer wave length – Project Director: Prof. DSc N. Sabotinov, Pulslight company, Bulgaria, 2004 — 2005.

2. Processing of substrates having a polymer film with a UV CuBr laser generating 248.6 nm – Project Co-director: Prof. DSc N. Vuchkov, NEMOPTIC Company, France, 2004.

3. Fabrication and testing of optical elements – Project Co-director: Prof. DSc N. Vuchkov, NEMOPTIC Company, France, 2006.

4. UV-laser irradiation induced surface modification of poly-3,4-ethylenediopxythiophene (PEDOT) – ESCAMICROSCOPY – Prof. DSc N. Vuchkov, No 2008361 with European Sincrotrone Center ELETTRA, Trieste, Italy, 2008.