F. Ömer Ilday Assistant Professor, Department of Physics B.S. 1998 (Bogazici), M.S. 2001 (Cornell), Ph.D. 2003 (Cornell) Phone: +90-312-290-1076 Fax: +90-312-266-4579 Email: Address: ARL-101, Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Cankaya, Ankara 06800, Turkey

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Current Research Topics

Overall guiding principles in all of our activities are: (1) We aim to better understand and utilize the underlying nonlinear dynamics of the laser systems we develop and their interactions with materials. All research carried out is performed using about 20 lasers with various parameters, all of which were developed in house. (2) All our application-driven efforts are in collaboration with experts in those fields. (3) We seek out applications where our several existing capabilities and techniques can be synergictically combined.

• Development of high-power and high-energy fiber lasers and amplifiers, both experiment and theory.
• Ultrafast laser-material processing from micromachining, and surface texturing to creation of nanostructures.
• Tissue processing with ultrafast pulses under MRI guidance.
• Laser noise, development fiber-based frequency combs.
• Applications of ultrafast lasers and metrology concepts to nanobiophotonics.

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