A Russian Star in the Provence Sky!

The AKA Optics Story Russian professor Alexis Kudryashov is a pioneer in the field of adaptive optics systems, which pushes the limits of standard optics. After a thesis at Lomonosov Moscow State University and research undertaken with the US Air Force and at Imperial College London, in 1999 he founded Active Optics Night N, a small Moscow-based business that has since become a world leader in high-powered lasers. His meeting Provence Promotion proved a key point in the company’s history, recounted for us by its France director Gilles Borsoni…