Curriculum Vitae of F. Ömer Ilday
 
Nationality: Turkey
Born: 24 August 1976
 
ACADEMIC DEGREES

2003,  Ph.D. Degree in Applied Physics: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
1998,  B. S. Degree in Physics: Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey 
 
PROFFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2006-           Assistant Professor, Physics Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
2003-2005    Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
2003-2005    Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, MA, USA
1998-2003    Teaching and Research Assistant, Cornell University, Department of Applied Physics
 
AWARDS RECEIVED

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 
 
Edtior for Optics Letters.

Reviewer for Optics Letters, Optics Express, Journal of Optical Society of America B, Physical Review Letters, Physics Review E, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Optics Communications, Modern Physics Letters B, Optica Applicata (in total, about 80 reviews completed).

Reviewer for various TUBITAK 1001 Proposal Review Committees, monitor for various 1001 Projects.

Review for TUBITAK TEYDEP Projects.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. T. Akdogan, E. Arik, S. Cetin, Ö. Ilday, M. Karagoz, A. Koroglu, A. Mailov, K. Nurdan, and G. Unel, “Photoelectron counting using a position sensitive photomultiplier under Linux,” Balkan Physics Letters 5, 179 (1997).
  2. X. Liu, F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, and F. W. Wise, “Femtosecond nonlinear polarization evolution based on cascade quadratic nonlinearities,” Opt. Lett. 25, 1394 (2000).
  3. S. W. Clark, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, “Fiber delivery of femtosecond pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser,” Opt. Lett. 26, 1320 (2001).
  4. F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise, “Nonlinearity management: a route to high-energy soliton fiber lasers,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 470 (2002).
  5. J. M. Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, J. S. Sanghera, V. Q. Nguyen, L. B. Shaw, and I. D. Aggarwal, “Highly nonlinear As-S-Se glasses for all-optical switching,” Opt. Lett. 27, 119 (2002).
  6. J. M. Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, and B. G. Aitken, “Highly nonlinear Ge-As-Se and Ge-As-S-Se glasses for all-optical switching,” IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 14, 802 (2002).
  7. J. M. Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, and Z. Chen, “Long-wavelength continuum generation about the second dispersion zero of a tapered fiber,” Opt. Lett. 27, 1531 (2002).
  8. F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, and T. Sosnowski, “High-energy femtosecond stretched-pulse fiber laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror,” Opt. Lett. 27, 1558 (2002).
  9. H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise, “Femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser with photonic crystal fiber for dispersion control,” Opt. Exp. 10, 1502 (2002).
  10. H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise, “Generation of 2-nJ pulses from a femtosecond Yb fiber laser,” Opt. Lett. 28, 660 (2003).
  11. F. Ö. Ilday, H. Lim, J. Buckley, and F. W. Wise, “Practical, all-fiber source of high-power, 120-fs pulses at 1 micron”, Opt. Lett. 28, 1362 (2003).
  12. F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, H. Lim, and F. W. Wise, “Generation of 50-fs, 5-nJ pulses at 1.03 micron from a wave-breaking-free fiber laser”, Opt. Lett. 28, 1365 (2003).
  13. F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, L. Kuznetsova, and F. W. Wise, “Generation of 36-fs pulses from a ytterbium fiber laser”, Opt. Exp. 11, 3550 (2003).
  14. F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, Y.-F. Chen, H. Lim, and F. W. Wise, “Controllable Raman-like nonlinearities from non-stationary cascaded quadratic processes”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21, 376 (2004).
  15. K. Beckwitt, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise, “Frequency-shifting with local nonlinearity management in non-uniformly poled quadratic nonlinear materials”, Opt. Lett. 29, 763 (2004).
  16. F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, and F. W. Wise, “Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser cavity”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213902-1 (2004).
  17. F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kaertner, and F. W. Wise, “Possibility of self-similar pulse evolution in a Ti:sapphire laser,” Opt. Exp. 12, 2731 (2004).
  18. H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, “Fiber-based source of femtosecond pulses tunable from 1.0 to 1.3 microns,” Electron. Lett. 40, 1523 (2004).
  19. F. J. Grawert, S. Akiyama, J. T. Gopinath, F. Ö. Ilday, H. Shen, J. Liu, K. Wada, L. C. Kimerling, E. P. Ippen, and F. X. Kaertner, “Broadband low-loss Si/Ge saturable absorber mode-locking a 220 fs Er-Yb:glass laser,” Opt. Lett. 30, 329 (2005).
  20. J. R. Buckley, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, “Femtosecond fiber lasers with pulse energies above 10 nJ,” Opt. Lett. 30, 1888 (2005).
  21. F. J. Grawert, F. Ö. Ilday, D. Kielpinski, J. T. Gopinath, L. A. Kolodziejski, G. S. Petrich, E. P. Ippen, and F. X. Kärtner, “Automatic feedback control of an Er-doped fiber laser with an intracavity loss modulator,” Opt. Lett. 30, 1066 (2005).
  22. F. Ö. Ilday, J. Chen, and F. X. Kärtner, “Sub-100 fs pulses at 200 MHz repetition rate from a passively mode-locked Yb-fiber laser,” Opt. Express 13, 2716 (2005).
  23. J. Liu, J. Michel, W. Giziewicz, D. Pan, K. Wada, D. D. Cannon, S. Jongthammanurak, D. T. Danielson, L. C. Kimerling, J. Chen, F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kaertner, J. Yasaitis, “CMOS-compatible, high performance tensile strained Ge p-i-n photodetectors on Si,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 103501 (2005).
  24. A. Winter, F. Ö. Ilday, O. D Mücke, R. Ell, H. Schlarb, P. Schmüser, and F. X. Kärtner, “Towards high-performance optical master oscillators for energy recovery linacs,” Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A557, 299 (2006).
  25. F. Ö. Ilday, and F. X. Kärtner, “Cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification with nonlinearity management,” Opt. Lett. 31, 637 (2006).
  26. B. Ortac, A. Hideur, M. Brunel, C. Chedot, J. Limpert, A. Tünnermann, and F. Ö. Ilday "Generation of parabolic bound pulses from a Yb-fiber laser," Opt. Express 14, 6075 (2006).
  27. H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, A. Chong, F. W. Wise, “Fibre-based source of femtosecond pulses tunable from 1.0 to 1.3 microns,” Electron. Lett. 42, 950 (2006).
  28. F. Ö. Ilday, A. Winter, and F. X. Kärtner, “Pulse shaping for a long-distance optical synchronization system,” IEICE Trans. Electron. E90-C, 450 (2007).
  29. M. Keçeli, Ö. Öktel, F. Ö. Ilday, “Similariton Ansatz for Gross-Pitaevskii Equation,” Phys. Rev. A 75, 035601 (2007).
  30. K.-H. Hong, A. Siddiqui, J. Moses, J. Gopinath, J. Hybl, F. Ö. Ilday, T. Y. Fan, and F. X. Kärtner, “Generation of 287 W, 5.5 ps pulses at 78 MHz repetition rate from a cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG amplifier seeded by a fiber chirped-pulse amplification system,” Opt. Lett. 33, 2473-2475 (2008).
  31. P. Mukhopadhyay, “All-fiber low-noise high-power femtosecond Yb-fiber amplifier system seeded by an all-normal dispersion fiber oscillator,” to be published in IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant. in 2009.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

  1. “An Euler-space representation for musical notes,” F. Ö. Ilday, and M. Arik, Balkan Physics Union Conference, Cluj - Napoca, Romania, September 1997.
  2. “Nonlinear polarization evolution from cascaded quadratic processes,” X. Liu, F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, F. W. Wise, Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena 2000, Charleston, SC, July 2000.
  3. “Femtosecond nonlinear polarization evolution from cascaded quadratic processes,” X. Liu, F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, F. W. Wise, Conference on Nonlinear Guided Waves, Tampa, FL, April 2001.
  4. “Nonlinearity management: An approach to high-energy fiber lasers,” F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, Conference on Nonlinear Guided Waves, Tampa, FL, April 2001.
  5. “Multiple stable points of a soliton laser with nonlinear polarization evolution,” F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, Conference on Nonlinear Guided Waves, Tampa, FL, April 2001.
  6. “High-energy femtosecond stretched-pulse laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror,” F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, Conference on Advanced Solid State Lasers, Quebec City, QC, Canada, February 2002.
  7. “High-energy femtosecond stretched-pulse laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror,” F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena, Van Couver, Canada, May 2002.
  8. “Continuum generation at telecommunication wavelengths using the second dispersion zero of a tapered fiber,” J. M.  Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, and Z. Chen, CLEO, Long Beach, CA, May 2002.
  9. “High-energy femtosecond stretched-pulse laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror,” F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, CLEO, Long Beach, CA, May 2002.
  10. “Nonlinear properties of chalcogenide glasses and fibers,” J. S. Sanghera, P. Thielen, L. B. Shaw,  P. Pureza, V. Nguyen, I. D. Aggarwal, R. Slusher, J. Hodelin, J. Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. Wise, NOGS, Pardubice, Czech Republic, September 2002.
  11. “Continuum generation at telecommunication wavelengths using the second dispersion zero of a tapered fiber,” J. M.  Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, T. A. Birks, W. J. Wadsworth, and Z. Chen, Conference on Nonlinear Guided Waves, Italy, September 2002.
  12. “Studies of nonlinear glasses for telecommunication applications,” J. M. Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, J. S. Sanghera, I. D. Aggarwal, and B. G. Aitken, The International Symposium on Photonic Glasses, Shanghai, China, October 2002.
  13. “A new capability of cascaded processes: Controllable blue and red shifting of femtosecond pulses,” F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, H. Lim, F. W. Wise, presented at the Conference on Advanced Solid State Photonics, San Antonio, TX, February 2003.
  14. (postdeadline) “Femtosecond  fiber laser with photonic crystal  fiber,” H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, the Conference on Advanced Solid State Photonics, San Antonio, TX, February 2003.
  15. “Femtosecond Yb fiber lasers with Ti:sapphire laser performance,” F. Ö. Ilday, H. Lim, J. Buckley, F. W. Wise, the Conference on Advanced Solid State Photonics, San Antonio, TX, February 2003.
  16. “All-fiber femtosecond laser at 1 micron,” H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, CLEO, Baltimore, MD, June 2003.
  17. “High-energy pulses from a femtosecond Yb fiber laser and their soliton self-frequency shift in photonic crystal fiber,” H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, CLEO, Baltimore, MD, June 2003.
  18. “A new capability of cascaded quadratic processes: controllable red and blue shift of femtosecond pulses,” F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, H. Lim, F. W. Wise, QELS, Baltimore, MD, June 2003.
  19. “High-energy and high-power femtosecond pulses at 1 micron from a practical, fiber-based source,” F. Ö. Ilday, H. Lim, J. R. Buckley, F. W. Wise, CLEO, Baltimore, MD, June 2003.
  20. (postdeadline) “Similariton laser,” F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, F. W. Wise, CLEO, Baltimore, MD, June 2003.
  21. “Controllable Raman-like nonlinearities from non-stationary cascaded quadratic processes,” F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, H. Lim, Y.-F. Chen, F. W. Wise, Ultrafast Optics IV Conference, Vienna, Austria, June 2003.
  22. “50-fs, 5-nJ pulses at 1.03 micron from a wave-breaking-free fiber laser,” F. Ö. Ilday, H. Lim, J. R. Buckley, F. W. Wise, Ultrafast Optics IV Conference, Vienna, Austria, July 2003.
  23. (invited) “Controllable Raman-like nonlinearities from nonstationary cascaded quadratic processes,” F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, H. Lim, Y.-F. Chen, and F. W. Wise, IEEE LEOS Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 2003.
  24. (invited) “Similaritons: a new regime of femtosecond fiber lasers,” F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, and F. W. Wise, IEEE LEOS Meeting, Tucson, AZ, October 2003.
  25. (invited) “High-Energy Femtosecond Fiber Lasers via Self-Similar Pulse Evolution,” F. Ö. Ilday, H. Lim, J. Buckley, F. W. Wise, L. Walker, W. G. Clark, Photonics West, San Jose, CA, January 2004.
  26. “Cascade-Raman soliton compression with 30-fs, terawatt pulses,” K. Beckwitt, J. A. Moses, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, J. Nees, E. Power, K. H. Hong, B. Hou, and G. Mourou, Conference on Nonlinear Guided Waves, Toronto, Canada, March 2004.
  27. “Frequency-shifting with local nonlinearity management in non-uniformly poled quadratic nonlinear materials,” K. Beckwitt, F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, and F. W. Wise, Conference on Nonlinear Guided Waves, Toronto, Canada, March 2004.
  28. “Period-doubling route to stable multiple-pulsing in fiber lasers,” F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, and F. W. Wise, Conference on Nonlinear Guided Waves, Toronto, Canada, March 2004.
  29. “Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a fiber laser,” F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, and F. W. Wise, Conference on Nonlinear Guided Waves, Toronto, Canada, March 2004.
  30. “Period-doubling route to multiple-pulsing in soliton-like fiber lasers,” F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, and F. W. Wise, CLEO, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.
  31. “Self-similar pulses as a route to low-repetition-rate femtosecond fiber lasers,” J. R. Buckley, F. Ö. Ilday, H. Lim, and F. W. Wise, CLEO, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.
  32. “Generation of 36-femtosecond pulses from a ytterbium fiber lasers,” F. Ö. Ilday, J. R. Buckley, L. Kuznetsova, and F. W. Wise, CLEO, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.
  33. “Frequency-shifting with local nonlinearity management in non-uniformly poled quadratic nonlinear materials,” K. Beckwitt, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise, CLEO, San Francisco, CA, May 2004.
  34. (invited) “Experiments in Laser Seed Generation,” F. X. Kaertner, F. Ö. Ilday, W. S. Graves, Seeded FEL Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2004.
  35. (invited) “Femtosecond technologies for optical clocks, timing distribution, and RF synchronization,” J.-W. Kim, F. Ö. Ilday, T. Schibli, F. G. Grawert, J. Chen, O. D. Muecke, M. H. Perrot, F. X. Kaertner, XFEL 2004, SLAC, CA, July 2004.
  36. “Large-scale timing distribution and RF-synchronization for FEL facilities,” J. Kim, F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kaertner, O. D. Muecke, M. J. Perrott, W. S. Graves, D. E. Moncton, T. Zwart, FEL Conference, Trieste, Italy, August 2004.
  37. “Silicon-germanium saturable absorber mirrors,” F. J. Grawert, S. Akiyama, J. T. Gopinath, F. Ö. Ilday, J. Liu, H. Shen, K. Wada, L. C. Kimerling, E. P. Ippen, and F. X. Kaertner, LEOS Conference, Puerto Rico, November 2004.
  38. “Self-similar pulse evolution in a Ti:sapphire laser,” F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, and F. X. Kaertner, LEOS Conference, Puerto Rico, November 2004.
  39. “High-energy, single-mode, femtosecond fiber lasers,” F. Ö. Ilday, J. Chen, F. X. Kaertner, Advanced Solid State Photonics, Vienna, Austria, February 2005.
  40. “Sub-100 fs Pulses from a 200 MHz repetition rate passively-modelocked Yb-fiber oscillator,” F. Ö. Ilday, J. Chen, F. X. Kaertner, F. W. Wise, Advanced Solid State Photonics, Vienna, Austria, February 2005.
  41. “Self-similar pulse evolution in a Ti:sapphire laser,” F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, and F. X. Kaertner, Advanced Solid State Photonics, Vienna, Austria, February 2005.
  42. “Q-switch suppression in an Er-doped waveguide laser with an intracavity loss modulator,” F. J. Grawert, F. Ö. Ilday, D. Kielpinski, J. T. Gopinath, L. A. Kolodziejski, E. P. Ippen, F. X. Kaertner, F. W. Wise, Advanced Solid State Photonics, Vienna, Austria, February 2005.
  43. “220 fs Er-Yb:glass laser mode-locked by a broadband low-loss Si/Ge saturable absorber,” F. J. Grawert, J. T. Gopinath, F. Ö. Ilday, H. M. Shen, E. P. Ippen, F. X. Kaertner, S. Akiyama, J. Liu, K. Wada, L. C. Kimerling, Advanced Solid State Photonics, Vienna, Austria, February 2005.
  44. “Self-similar femtosecond fiber lasers with pulse energies above 10 nJ,” J. R. Buckley, F. W. Wise, F. Ö. Ilday, T. Sosnowski, Advanced Solid State Photonics, Vienna, Austria, February 2005.
  45. “Fiber lasers for timing distribution,” Energy Recovery LINACs Workshop, Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA, March 2005.
  46. (invited) “Period-doubling route to a non-chaotic state in a soliton laser,” F. W. Wise, and F. Ö. Ilday, 4th IMACS Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory, Athens, GA, April 2005.
  47. “Phase noise characteristics of fiber lasers as potential ultra-stable master oscillators,” A. Winter, P. Schmueser, H. Schlarb, F. Ö. Ilday, J. Kim, J. Chen, F. X. Kärtner, Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, May 2005.
  48. “Stabilized optical fiber links for the XFEL,” A. Winter, P. Schmueser, H. Schlarb, F. Ö. Ilday, J. Kim, J. Chen, F. X. Kärtner, Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, May 2005.
  49. (invited) “Progress in large-scale femtosecond timing distrubution and RF-synchronization,” F. X. Kärtner, F. Ö. Ilday, J. Kim, and A. Winter, Particle Accelerator Conference, Knoxville, TN, May 2005.
  50. “Low-noise, high-energy, single-mode, femtosecond fiber laser system,” F. Ö. Ilday, J. Chen, A. Winter, F. W. Wise, O. Skhurikhin, and D. Gapontsev, CLEO, Baltimore, MD , May 2005.
  51. “14-nJ pulses from a femtosecond Yb-fiber laser,” J. R. Buckley, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, T. Sosnowski, CLEO, Baltimore, MD , May 2005.
  52. “Automatic feedback control of an Er-doped fiber laser with an intracavity loss modulator,” F. J. Grawert, F. Ö. Ilday, D. Kielpinski, J. T. Gopinath, L. A. Kolodziejski, G. S. Petrich, E. P. Ippen, and F. X. Kärtner, CLEO, Baltimore, MD , May 2005.
  53. “Single-mode fiber source of 0.8-uJ, 150-fs pulses at 1 micron,” L. Kuznetsova, S. Zhou, F. W. Wise, F. Ö. Ilday, and T. Sosnowski, CLEO, Baltimore, MD , May 2005.
  54. (invited) “Synchronization of femtosecond pulses,” A. Winter, H. Schlarb, J. Chen, F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kärtner, J. W. Kim, P. Schmuser, FEL 2005, Palo Alto, CA, August 2005.
  55. “Femtosecond timing distribution using optical pulses,” A. Winter, H. Schlarb, J. Chen, F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kärtner, J. W. Kim, P. Schmuser, FEL 2005, Palo Alto, CA, August 2005.
  56. “Next Generation Synchronization System for the VUV-FEL at DESY,” H. Schlarb, V. Ayvazyan, F. Ludwig, D. Noelle, B. Schmidt, S. Simrock, A. Winter, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. X. Kaertner, FEL 2005, Palo Alto, CA, August 2005.
  57. “Generation and distribution of stable timing signals to synchronize RF and lasers at the FERMI FEL facility,” M. Ferianis, J. W. Staples, R. Wilcox, J. Chen, F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kaertner, J. W. Kim, A. Winter, FEL 2005, Palo Alto, CA, August 2005.
  58. “Integrated design of laser systems for a FEL user facility,” M. B. Danailov, F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kaertner, FEL 2005, Palo Alto, CA, August 2005.
  59. (invited) “FERMI@Elattra: a seede harmonic cascade FEL for EUV and soft x-rays,”C. J. Bocchetta, D. Bulfone, P. Craievich, M. B. Danailov, G. D'Auria, G. De Ninno, S. Di Mitri, Bruno D., M. Ferianis, G. Penco, M. Trovo, J. Corlett, W. M. Fawley, S. M. Lidia, G. Penn, A. Ratti, J. W. Staples, R. Wilcox, A. Zholents, F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kaertner, W. Graves, D. Wang, T. Zwart, M. Cornacchia, P. Emma, Z. Huang, J. Wu, FEL 2005, Palo Alto, CA, August 2005.
  60. “A semi-analytic theory of the self-similar laser oscillator,” C. Jirauschek, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. X. Kärtner, NLGW, Dresden, Germany, September 2005.
  61. (invited) “Ultrafast photonics: from optical clocks to attosecond physics,” F. Ö. Ilday, Photonics Panel, TFD Conference 2005, Mugla, Turkey, September 2005.
  62. “Cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped pulse amplification,” F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kärtner, Ultrafast Optics V Conference, Nara, Japan, September 2005.
  63. (invited) “Long-distance femtosecond-level synchronization,” F. Ö. Ilday, A. Winter, F. X. Kärtner, FALS 2006, Daresbury, UK, March 2006.
  64. (invited) “Long-distance femtosecond-level synchronization,” F. Ö. Ilday, A. Winter, F. X. Kärtner, AP-MWP 2006, Kobe, Japan, April 2006.
  65. “Cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification,” F. Ö. Ilday, A. Siddiqui, O. D. Muecke, F. X. Kärtner, CLEO, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
  66. “Long-distance optical synchronization system for x-ray free electron lasers,” F. Ö. Ilday, A. Winter, J. Chen, J.-W. Kim, F. X. Kärtner, CLEO, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
  67.  “Theory of the self-similar laser oscillator,” C. Jirauschek, F. Ö. Ilday, CLEO, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
  68. “Soliton self-frequency shift from 1.03 µm to 1.55 µm and related timing jitter,” J. Chen, F. Ö. Ilday, F. Kärtner, CLEO, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
  69. “Generation of 10-cycle Pulses from a Yb-Fiber Laser with Cubic Phase Compensation,” J. R. Buckley, S. W. Clark, F. W. Wise, and F. Ö. Ilday, CLEO, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
  70. “A balanced optical-RF phase detector,” J.-W. Kim, F. Ludwig, D. Cheever, F. Ö. Ilday, J. Burnham, F. X. Kaertner, CLEO, Long Beach, CA, May 2006.
  71. “FERMI @ Elettra: conceptual design for a seeded harmonic cascade FEL for EUV and soft X-ray,” C. J. Bocchetta, E. Allaria, D. Bulfone, P. Craievich, M. B. Danailov, G. D'Auria, G. De Ninno, S. Di Mitri, B. Diviacco, M. Ferianis, A. Gambitta, A. Gomezel, E. Karantzoulis, G. Penco, M. Trovo, J. Corlett, W. M. Fawley, S. M. Lidia, G. Penn, A. Ratti, J. W. Staples, R. Wilcox, A. Zholents, F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kaertner, W. Graves, D. Wang, M. Cornacchia, P. Emma, F. Parmigiani, EPAC, Edinburgh, UK, June 2006.
  72. (invited) “High-precision laser master oscillators for optical timing distribution systems in future light sources,” A. Winter, P. Schmüser, F. Ö. Ilday, F. Ludwig, H. Schlarb, J. Chen, F. X. Kaertner, EPAC, Edinburgh, UK, June 2006.
  73. “An integrated femtosecond timing distribution system for XFELs,” J.-W. Kim, J. Burnham, J. Chen, F. X. Kaertner, F. Ö. Ilday, F. Ludwig, H. Schlarb, A. Winter, M. Ferianis, D. Cheever, EPAC, Edinburgh, UK, June 2006.
  74. “High-power ultrafast fiber lasers: from solitons to similaritons,” F. Ö. Ilday, C. Jirauschek, Balkan Physics Union Conference, Istanbul, Turkiye, August 2006.
  75. “Recent Developments and Layout of the Master Laser System for the VUV-FEL,” A. Winter, H. Schlarb, F. Ö. Ilday, Future Light Sources, Hamburg, Germany, September 2006.
  76. (invited) “Fiber lasers as ultra-low noise frequency synthesizers: Long-distance femtosecond-level synchronization,” F. Ö. Ilday, A. Winter, H. Schlarb, and F. X. Kärtner, Fotonik 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2006.
  77. (invited) “Long-Distance Femtosecond-Level Synchronization,” F. Ö. Ilday, A. Winter, J.-W. Kim, J. Chen, P. Schmüser, H. Schlarb, and F. X. Kärtner, Optics East, Boston, MA, USA, October 2006.
  78. (invited) “Integration of the laser systems in a seeded free electron laser facility using fibre laser technology,” M. Danailov, A. Demidovich, R. Ivanov, I. Nikolov, P. Sigalotti, F. Ö. Ilday, ICONO, Minsk, Belarus, May 2007.
  79. “Femtosecond Yb-doped fiber laser system at 1 µm wavelength with variable pulse structure and multi-nJ pulse energy for accelerator diagnostics,” A. Winter, B. Steffen, F. Ö. Ilday, DIPAC, Venedik, Italya, May 2007.
  80. W. Graves, W. Brown, F. O. Ilday, F. X. Kaertner, D. Moncton “The MIT Compact X-ray Source Project,” Particle Accelerator Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, June 2007.
  81. (invited) “A toy theory of transition to multiplepulsing in soliton lasers,” F. Ö. Ilday, IFG, Istanbul, June 2007.
  82. “Farkli Kiplerdeki Femtosaniye Fiber Lazerlerin Gürültülerinin Incelenmesi,” L. Budunoglu, C. Ülgüdür, F. Ö. Ilday, Fotonik 2007, Ankara, September 2007.
  83. (invited) “Laser physics and femtosecond lasers for dentistry application” F. Ö. Ilday, Lasers in Periodontology Symposium, Adana, October 2007.
  84. (invited) “Basic laser physics and applications of lasers to dentistry” F. Ö. Ilday, 2nd DILAD International Congress, Istanbul, November 2007.
  85. “Two-Micron Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier for Long-Wavelength Driven High Harmonic Generation,” J. Moses, O. D. Muecke, A. Benedick, E. L. Falcao-Filho, S.-W. Huang, K.-H. Hong, A. M. Siddiqui, J. R. Birge, F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kaertner, CLEO, May 2008.
  86. “Spectrally Breathing Femtosecond Pulses from an Er-Doped Fiber Laser,” B. Öktem, C. Ülgüdür, F. Ö. Ilday, CLEO, May 2008.
  87. (invited) “Lazer Fizigi ve Dis Hekimligi Uygulamaları,” F. Ö. Ilday, 100. Yil Dis Hekimligi Kongresi, Istanbul, July 2008.
  88. (invited) B. Öktem, C. Ülgüdür, F. Ö. Ilday, “Spectrally breathing femtosecond pulses,” Turkish-Greek Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Statistics, September 2008.
  89. (invited) F. Ö. Ilday, “Femtosaniye Lazerler ve Nanotip Uygulamalari,” Nanotip Sempozyumu, Gazi University, Ankara, September 2008.
  90. (invited) F. Ö. Ilday, “Dynamics of Fiber Lasers,” Optical Synchronization Workshop, DESY, Hamburg, October 2008.


SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA

  1. “Nonlinearity management for optical communications,” Corning Inc., Corning, NY, September 2000.
  2. “Towards a “perfect” short-pulsed laser,” Department of Physics Seminar, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, February 2001.
  3. “Applications of cascaded quadratic processes to femtosecond fiber lasers,” University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany, March 2001.
  4. “Nonlinearity management and fiber lasers,” Clark-MXR Inc., Dexter, MI, April 2001.
  5. “Towards high-energy femtosecond fiber lasers,” Faculty of Engineering Seminar, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2001.
  6. “High-energy femtosecond fiber lasers and amplifiers,” Department of Physics Seminar, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, June 2002.
  7. “Fiber lasers and amplifiers: Practical light sources for femtosecond science,” Seminar Series in Photonics, ECE Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November 2002.
  8. “High-power femtosecond fiber lasers: How to avoid wave-breaking,” Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2003.
  9. “Wave-breaking-free fiber lasers and amplifiers,” Clark-MXR Inc., Dexter, MI, May 2003.
  10. “Self-similarly Evolving Pulses for High-Energy Fiber Lasers,” Optics and Quantum Electronics Group, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2003.
  11. “A Toy Theory of the Period-doubling Route to Multiple-pulsing in Fiber Lasers,” Optics and Quantum Electronics Group, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 2003.
  12. “Observation of the Period-doubling Route to Multiple-pulsing in Fiber Oscillators,” Faculty of Engineering and Sciences Seminar, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2004.
  13. “Temporally Advanced and Delayed Nonlinear Response from Cascaded Quadratic Processes,” Physics Department Seminar, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2004.
  14. “Self-similarly Evolving Pulses for High-Energy Fiber Lasers,” Faculty of Arts and Sciences Seminar, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2004.
  15. “Non-instantaneous Nonlinear Responses from Cascaded Quadratic Processes,” Optics and Quantum Electronics Group Seminar, RLE, MIT, March 2004.
  16. “Solitons, similaritons, and high-energy ultrafast fiber lasers,” Department of Physics Seminar, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, February 2005.
  17. “Self-similar pulse evolution in a Ti:sapphire laser: route to sub-10-fs, 1-µJ pulse generation,” Optics and Quantum Electronics Group, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2005.
  18. “Solitons, similaritons, and high-energy ultrafast fiber lasers,” Lazer Zentrum, Hannover, Germany, September 2005.
  19. “Femtosecond Fiber Lasers as Optical Master Oscillators,” DESY, Hamburg, Germany, January 2006.
  20. “High-Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers,” DESY, Hamburg, Germany, January 2006.
  21. “Ultrafast Fiber Lasers: Toward Higher Energies with Similaritons,” NICT, Tokyo, Japan, April 2006.
  22. “Soguk Lazer Nesterleri: Femtosaniye Lazerlerin Tibbi Uygulamalari,” GATA, Ankara, Turkey, April 2006.
  23. “Femtosecond fiber lasers as ultra-stable microwave oscillators,” NICT, Tokyo, Japan, April 2006.
  24. “Laser Teknolojisinde Son Gelişme: Fiber Lazerler,” Arcelik ArGe, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2006.
  25. “High-Power Ultrafast Fiber Lasers: from Solitons to Similaritons,” METU, Ankara, Turkey, June 2006.
  26. “Femtosecond Fiber Lasers as Ultra-Stable Microwave Oscillators,” University of California, Merced, CA, USA, October 2006.
  27. “Laser Teknolojisinde Son Gelişme: Fiber Lazerler ve Malzeme İşleme,” Arçelik R&D Department, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2006.
  28. “Yüksek Enerjili Fiber Lazerler: Solitonlardan Similaritonlara,” ITU, Istanbul, Turkey, February 2007.
  29. “High-power ultrafast fiber lasers: from solitons to similaritons,” Boğazici University, İstanbul, Turkey, March 2007.
  30. “Fiber Laser Research at Bilkent: from ‘the most nonlinear laser’ to material processing,” Bilkent University, May 2008.
  31. “Development of all-fiber high-power low-noise femtosecond fiber laser sources for material processing applications” Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2008.

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