Publications

2026

• Programmable emergence through hierarchical self-organisation. A. Şura, F. Ö. Ilday, arXiv (2026).
   
• Sub-50-femtosecond gain-managed amplified pulses enhance nonlinear ablation efficiency. Liam J. Price, Kai Zhang, Nicholas J. Otero, Paul Repgen, Pablo A. Valdes, Frank Wise, Fatih Ömer Ilday, and Bryan Q. Spring, Biomedical Opt. Exp. 17 (2026), DOI: 10.1364/BOE.582102.
   

2025

• Ultrafast Laser Synthesis of Zeolites. S. Galioglu, M. Hagverdiyev, M. M. Doğan, Ö. Yavuz, Ü. S. Nizam, G. Makey, A. Şura, M. Laçin, B. A. Kurç, P. Elahi, F. Ö. Ilday, S. Ilday, Adv. Mater. 2415562 (2025), DOI: 10.1002/adma.202415562.
   

2024

• High efficiency laser ablation of gold thin film by 2.8 GHz intraburst repetition rate pulses. E. Hasar, S. Aşmanoğlu, F. Ö. Ilday, P. Elahi, Opt. Quant. Electron. 56, 1357 (2024), DOI: 10.1007/s11082-024-07264-z.
   
• Driven by feedback, unlimited by diffraction. F. Ö. Ilday, Nature Photon. 18, 771 (2024), DOI:10.1038/s41566-024-01485-0.
   
• Development of a selective wet-chemical etchant for precise 3D sculpting of silicon enabled by infrared non-linear laser modification. M. Zolfaghari Borra, B. Radfar, H. Nasser, T. Çolakoğlu, O. Tokel, A. Turnalı, M. Demirtaş, D. Işık Taşgın, H. Üstünel, D. Toffoli, F. Ö. İlday, R. Turan, I. Pavlov, A. Bek, Optics & Laser Technology 176, 111022 (2024) DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2024.111022.
   

2023

• The Universality of Self-Organisation: A Path to an Atom Printer?. S. Ilday and F. Ö. Ilday, In: Stoian, R., Bonse, J. (eds) Ultrafast Laser Nanostructuring. Springer Series in Optical Sciences 239. Springer, Cham (2023), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14752-4_4.
  (The chapter preview is available in arxiv.org/abs/2209.06883v1 ).
   
• Analogy of harmonic modelocked pulses to trapped Brownian particles improves laser performance. M. Laçin, P. Repgen, A. Şura, Ç. Şenel, F. Ö. Ilday, Appl. Phys. B 129 (2023), DOI: 10.1007/s00340-023-07979-z.
   

2021

• (invited) In‐Volume Laser Direct Writing of Silicon—Challenges and Opportunities. M. Chambonneau, D. Grojo, O. Tokel, F. Ö. Ilday, S. Tzortzakis, S. Nolte, Laser Photonics Rev. (2021), DOI: 10.1002/lpor.202100140.
   

2020

• Universality of dissipative self-assembly from quantum dots to human cells. G. Makey, S. Galioglu, R. Ghaffari, E. D. Engin, G. Yıldırım, Ö. Yavuz, O. Bektaş, Ü. S. Nizam, Ö. Akbulut, Ö. Şahin, K. Güngör, D. Dede, H. V. Demir, F. Ö. Ilday, S. Ilday, Nature Phys. (2020), DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-0879-8.
   
• (invited) Mode-locking dissected. F. Ö. Ilday, Nature Phys. (2020), DOI: 10.1038/s41567-020-0811-2.
   

2019

• Intracavity optical trapping of microscopic particles in a ring-cavity fiber laser. F. Kalantarifard, P. Elahi, G. Makey, O. M. Marago, F. Ö. Ilday, G. Volpe, Nature Commun. 10, 2683 (2019), DOI: /10.1038/s41467-019-10662-7.
   
• Breaking crosstalk limits to dynamic holography using orthogonality of high-dimensional random vectors. G. Makey, Ö. Yavuz, D. K. Kesim, A. Turnalı, P. Elahi, S. Ilday, O. Tokel, F. Ö. Ilday, Nature Photon. 13, 251 (2019), DOI: 10.1038/s41566-019-0393-7.
   

2018

• Generation of 2-µJ 410-fs pulses from a single-mode chirped-pulse fiber laser operating at 1550 nm. S. Pavlova, H. Rezzaei, I. Pavlov, H. Kalaycioglu, F. Ö. Ilday, Appl. Phys. B 124, 201 (2018), DOI: 10.1007/s00340-018-7065-z.
   
• Tailored design of mode-locking dynamics for low-noise frequency-comb generation. Ç. Şenel, R. Hamid, C. Erdoğan, M. Çelik, and F. Ö. Ilday, Phys. Rev. Appl. 10, 024027 (2018), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.10.024027.
   
• (invited) Discrete similariton and dissipative soliton modelocking for energy scaling ultrafast thin-disk laser oscillators. F. Ö. Ilday, D. K. Kesim, M. Hoffmann, C. J. Saraceno, IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron. 24, 1102712 (2018), DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2018.2832651.
   
• Spatio-temporal dynamics of femtosecond laser pulses at 1550 nm wavelength in crystal silicon. V. Kadan, S. Pavlova, I. Pavlov, H. Rezaei, Ö. Ilday, I. Blonskyi, Appl. Phys. A 124, 560 (2018), DOI: 10.1007/s00339-018-1986-6.
   
• NLL-assisted multilayer graphene patterning. E. Kovalska, I. Pavlov, P. Deminskyi, A. Baldycheva, F. Ö. Ilday, and C. Kocabas, ACS Omega 3, 1546−1554 (2018), DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.7b01853.
   
• The alignment of nematic liquid crystal by the Ti layer processed by nonlinear laser lithography. I. Pavlov, A. Rybak, A. Dobrovolskiy, V. Kadan, I. Blonskiy, F. Ö. Ilday, Z. Kazantseva, I. Gvozdovskyy, Liq. Cryst. (2018), DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2018.1429027.
   
• (invited) High-repetition-rate ultrafast fiber lasers for material processing. H. Kalaycioglu, P. Elahi, Ö. Akcaalan, F. Ö. Ilday, IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron. 24, 8800312 (2018), DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2017.2771745.
   
• High-power Yb-based all-fiber laser delivering 300-fs pulses for high-speed ablation-cooled material removal. P. Elahi, H. Kalaycioglu, Ö. Akçaalan, C. Ertek, K. Eken, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 43, 535-538 (2018), DOI: 10.1364/OL.43.000535.
   

2017

• Nonlinearity-tailored fiber laser technology for low-noise, ultra-wide-band tunable femtosecond light generation. X. Liu, J. Lægsgaard, R. Iegorov, A. S. Svane, F. Ö. Ilday, H. Tu, S. A. Boppart, and D. Turchinovich, Photonics Res. 5, 750-761 (2017), DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.5.000750.
   
• In-chip microstructures and photonic devices fabricated by nonlinear laser lithography deep inside silicon. O. Tokel, A. Turnalı, G. Makey, P. Elahi, T. Çolakoğlu, E. Ergeçen, Ö. Yavuz, R. Hübner, M. Zolfaghari Borra, I. Pavlov, A. Bek, R. Turan, D. K. Kesim, S. Tozburun, S. Ilday, F. Ö. Ilday, Nature Photon. 11, 639–645 (2017), DOI: 10.1038/s41566-017-0004-4.
   
• Burst-mode thulium fiber laser delivering femtosecond pulses with 1-GHz intra-burst repetition rate. P. Elahi, H. Kalaycıoğlu, Ö. Akçaalan, Ç., Şenel, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 42, 3808-3011 (2017), DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.003808.
   
• 175 fs-long pulses from a high-power single-mode Er-doped fiber laser at 1550 nm. P. Elahi, H. Kalaycıoğlu, H. Li, Ö. Akçaalan, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Comm. 403, 381-384 (2017), DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2017.07.072.
   
• Femtosecond laser written waveguides deep inside silicon. I. Pavlov, O. Tokel, S. Pavlova, V. Kadan, G. Makey, A. Turnalı, Ö. Yavuz, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 42, 3028-3031 (2017) DOI: 10.1364/OL.42.003028.
   
• Rich complex behavior of self-assembled nanoparticles far from equilibrium. S. Ilday, G. Makey, G. B. Akgüç, Ö. Yavuz, O. Tokel, I. Pavlov, O. Gülseren, F. Ö. Ilday, Nature Commun. 8, 14942 (2017), DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14942.
   

2016

• Development of a fiber laser with independently adjustable properties for optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy. E. Aytac-Kipergil, A. Demirkiran, N. Uluc, S. Yavas, T. Kayikcioglu, S. Salman, S. Karamuk, F. O. Ilday, and M. B. Unlu, Sci. Rep. 6, 38674 (2016), DOI: 10.1038/srep38674.
   
• Direct control of mode-locking states of a fiber laser. R. Iegorov, T. Teamir, G. Makey, and F. Ö. Ilday, Optica 3, 1312-1315 (2016), DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.3.001312.
   
• Ablation-cooled material removal with ultrafast bursts of pulses. C. Kerse, H. Kalaycıoğlu, P. Elahi, B. Çetin, D. K. Kesim, Ö. Akçaalan, S. Yavaş, M. D. Aşık, B. Öktem, H. Hoogland, R. Holzwarth, and, F. Ö. Ilday, Nature 537, 84-88 (2016), DOI: 10.1038/nature18619.
   
• Simulations and experiments showing the origin of multi-wavelength mode locking in femtosecond, Yb-fiber lasers. J. S. Feehan, F. Ö. Ilday, W. S. Brocklesby, and J. H. V. Price, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 33, 1668-1676 (2016), DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.33.001668.
   
• Multiscale self-assembly of silicon quantum dots into an anisotropic three-dimensional random network. S. Ilday, F. Ö. Ilday, R. Hübner, T. J. Prosa, I. Martin, G. Nogay, I. Kabacelik, Z. Mics, M. Bonn, D. Turchinovich, H. Toffoli, D. Toffoli, D. Friedrich, B. Schmidt, K.-H. Heinig, and R. Turan, Nano Lett. 16, 1942-1948 (2016), DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b05158.
   
• Nano patterning of AISI 316L stainless steel with Nonlinear Laser Lithography: Sliding under dry and oil-lubricated conditions. I. Gnilitskyi, F. Rotundo, C. Martini, I. Pavlov, S. Ilday, E. Vovk, F. Ö. Ilday, L. Orazi, Tribol. Int. 99, 67–76 (2016), DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2016.03.011.
   

2015

• (invited) 3.5-GHz intra-burst repetition rate ultrafast Yb-doped fiber laser. C. Kerse, H. Kalaycıoğlu, P. Elahi, Ö. Akçaalan, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Commun. 366, 404-409 (2015), DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2015.12.064.
   
• All-fiber nonlinearity- and dispersion-managed dissipative soliton nanotube mode-locked laser. Z. Zhang, D. Popa, V. J. Wittwer, S. Milana, T. Hasan, Z. Jiang, A. C. Ferrari, and F. Ö. Ilday, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 241107 (2015), DOI: 10.1063/1.4937461.
   
• Amplified spontaneous emission in high-power burst-mode fiber lasers. S. Yılmaz, P. Elahi, H. Kalaycıoğlu, and F. Ömer Ilday, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32, 2462-2466 (2015), DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.32.002462.
   
• Nonlinear laser lithography to control surface properties of stainless steel. L. Orazi, Ia. Gnilitskyi, I. Pavlov, A.P. Serro, S. Ilday, F. Ö. Ilday, CIRP Annals – Manufacturing Technology 64, 193-196 (2015), DOI: 10.1016/j.cirp.2015.04.038.
   
• Burst-mode Yb-doped fiber amplifier system optimized for low-repetition-rate operation. H. Kalaycıoğlu, Ö. Akçaalan, S. Yavaş, Y. B. Eldeniz, and F. Ö. Ilday, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 32, 900-906 (2015), DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.32.000900.
   

2014

• Prediction of pulse-to-pulse intensity fluctuation characteristics of high power ultrafast fiber amplifiers. K. Gürel, P. Elahi, L. Budunoğlu, Ç. Şenel, P. Paltani, and F. Ö. Ilday, Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 011111 (2014), DOI: 10.1063/1.4888298.
   
• Diffraction-limited, 10-W, 5-ns, 100-kHz, all-fiber laser at 1.55 μm. I. Pavlov, E. Dülgergil, E. Ilbey, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 39, 2695-2698 (2014), DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.002695.
   
• Generation of picosecond pulses directly from a 100 W, burst-mode, doping-managed Yb-doped fiber amplifier. P. Elahi, S. Yilmaz, Y. B. Eldeniz, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 39, 236-239 (2014), DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.000236.
   

2013

• Nonlinear laser lithography for indefinitely large-area nanostructuring with femtosecond pulses. B. Öktem, I. Pavlov, S. Ilday, H. Kalaycıoglu, A. Rybak, S. Yavas, M. Erdogan and F. Ö. Ilday, Nature Photon. 7, 897–901 (2013), DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.272.
   
• (invited) Turbulent times. F. Ö. Ilday, Nature Photon. 7, 767-769 (2013), DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.254.
   
• Development of a rapid-scan fiber-integrated terahertz spectrometer. H. Keskin, H. Altan, S. Yavas, F. O. Ilday, K. Eken, A. B. Sahin, Opt. Quant. E. (2013), DOI: 10.1007/s11082-013-9794-x.
   
• Sub-50 fs Yb-doped laser with anomalous-dispersion photonic crystal fiber. Z. Zhang, Ç. Şenel, R. Hamid, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 38, 956-958 (2013).
   

2012

• All-fiber-integrated soliton-similariton laser with in-line fiber filter. Z. Zhang, B. Öktem, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 37, 3489 (2012), DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.003489.
   
• Doping management for high-power fiber lasers: 100-W, few-ps pulse generation from an all-fiber-integrated amplifier. P. Elahi, S. Yilmaz, Ö. Akçalan, H. Kalaycioglu, B. Öktem, Ç. Senel, F. Ö. Ilday, K. Eken, Opt. Lett. 37, 3042-3044 (2012), DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.003042.
   
• 1-mJ Pulse Bursts from a Yb-doped Fiber Amplifier. H. Kalaycioglu, Y. B. Eldeniz, Ö. Akçaalan, S. Yavas, K. Gürel, M. Efe, and F. Ö. Ilday, DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.002586Opt. Lett. 37, 2586-2588 (2012).
   
• Application of a mode-locked fiber laser for highly time resolved broadband absorption spectroscopy and laser-assisted breakdown on micro-plasmas. B. Niermann, I. L. Budunoglu, K. Gürel, M. Böke, F. Ö. Ilday, and J. Winter, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 45, 245202 (2012), DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/45/24/245202.
   
• High-power high-repetition-rate single-mode Er-Yb-doped fiber laser system. I. Pavlov, E. Ilbey, E. Dülgergil, A. Bayri, and F. Ö. Ilday, “,” Opt. Express 20, 9471-9475 (2012), DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.009471.
   
• Fiber laser-microscope system for femtosecond photodisruption of biological samples. S. Yavaş, M. Erdogan, K. Gürel, F. Ö. Ilday, Y. B. Eldeniz, and U. H. Tazebay, Biomed. Opt. Express 3, 605-611 (2012), DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.000605.
   
• Air-guided photonic-crystal-fiber pulse-compression delivery of multimegawatt femtosecond laser output for nonlinear-optical imaging and neurosurgery. A. A. Lanin, I. V. Fedotov, D. S. Sidorov-Biryukov, L. V. Doronina-Amitonova, O. I. Ivashkina, M. A. Zots, C.-K. Sun, F. Ö. Ilday, A. B. Fedotov, K. V. Anokhin, and A. M. Zheltikov, Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 101104 (2012), DOI: 10.1063/1.3681777.
   

2011

• 83 W, 3.1 MHz, square-shaped, 1 ns-pulsed all-fiber-integrated laser for micromachining. K. Özgören, B. Öktem, S. Yilmaz, F. Ö. Ilday, K. Eken, Opt. Express 19, 17647-17652 (2011), DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.017647.
   
• Fiber amplification of pulse bursts up to 20 µJ pulse energy at 1 kHz repetition rate. H. Kalaycioglu, K. Eken, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 36, 3383 (2011), DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.003383.
   
• Pulse fidelity control in a 20-µJ sub-200-fs monolithic Yb-fiber amplifier. A. Fernandez, L. Zhu, A. J. Verhoef, D. Sidorov-Biryukov, A. Pugzlys, A. Galvanauskas, F. Ö. Ilday, A. Baltuska, Laser Phys. 21, 1329-1335 (2011), DOI: 10.1134/S1054660X11130111.
   
• Semianalytic theory of self-similar optical propagation and mode-locking using a shape-adaptive model pulse. C. Jirauschek, F. Ö. İlday, Phys. Rev. A 83, 063809 (2011), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.063809.
   
• Texturing of titanium (Ti6AI4V) medical implant surfaces with MHz-repetition-rate femtosecond and picosecond Yb-doped fiber lasers. M. Erdoğan, B. Öktem, H. Kalaycıoğlu, S. Yavaş, P. Mukhopadhyay, K. Eken, K. Özgören, Y. Aykaç, U. H. Tazebay, and F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Express 19, 10986 (2011), DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010986.
   
• Demonstration of a cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification system. A. Siddiqui, K.-H. Hong, J. Moses, J. Chen, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. X. Kärtner, Opt. Lett. 36, 1206-1208 (2011), DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.001206.
   

2010

• Soliton-similariton fibre laser. B. Oktem, C. Ülgüdür and F. Ömer Ilday, Nature Photon. 4, 307 (2010), DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.33.
   
• All-fiber all-normal dispersion laser with a fiber-based Lyot filter. K. Özgören, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 35, 1296 (2010), DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.001296.
   
• Microjoule-energy, 1 MHz-repetition rate pulses from an all-fiber-integrated nonlinear chirped-pulse amplifier. H. Kalaycioglu, B. Oktem, C. Senel, P. P. Paltani, F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 35, 959 (2010), DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.000959.
   

2009

• A filterless all-fiber all-normal dispersion laser. K. Özgören, F. Ö. Ilday, Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS, (2009), DOI: 10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343218.
   
• Broadly tunable carrier envelope phase stable optical parametric amplifier pumped by a monolithic ytterbium fiber amplifier. A. Fernández, L. Zhu, A. J. Verhoef, D. Sidorov-Biryukov, A. Pugzlys, A. Baltuska, K.-H. Liao, Ch.-H. Liu, A. Galvanauskas, S. Kane, R. Holzwarth, and F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 34, 2799 (2009), DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.002799.
   
• Intensity noise of mode-locked fiber lasers. İ. L. Budunoğlu, C. Ülgüdür, B. Oktem, and F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Lett. 34, 42916 (2009), DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.00251.
   
• Highly stable ultrabroadband mid-IR optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier optimized for superfluorescence suppression. J. Moses, S.-W. Huang, K.-H. Hong, O. D. Mücke, E. L. Falcão-Filho, A. Benedick, F. Ö. Ilday, A. Dergachev, J. A. Bolger, B. J. Eggleton, and F. X. Kärtner, Opt. Lett. 34, 1639-1641 (2009), DOI: 10.1364/OL.34.001639.
   
• All-fiber low-noise high-power femtosecond Yb-fiber amplifier system seeded by an all-normal dispersion fiber oscillator. P. K. Mukhopadhyay, K. Özgören, İ. L. Budunoğlu, F. Ö. İlday, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant. 15, 145 (2009), DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010261.
   

2008

• 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. K.-H. Hong, A. Siddiqui, J. Moses, J. Gopinath, J. Hybl, F. Ö. Ilday, T. Y. Fan, and F. X. Kärtner, Opt. Lett. 33, 2473-2475 (2008), DOI: 10.1364/ol.33.002473.
   

2007

• Ansatz from nonlinear optics applied to trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. M. Keçeli, Ö. Öktel, F. Ö. Ilday, Phys. Rev. A 75, 035601 (2007), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.035601.
   
• Pulse shaping for a long-distance optical synchronization system. F. Ö. Ilday, A. Winter, F. X. Kärtner, and M. B. Danailov, IEICE Trans. Electron. E90-C, 450 (2007), DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e90-c.2.450.
   

2006

• Fibre-based source of femtosecond pulses tunable from 1.0 to 1.3 μm. H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, A. Chong, F. W. Wise, Electron. Lett. 42, 950 (2006), DOI: 10.1049/el:20062180.
   
• Generation of parabolic bound pulses from a Yb-fiber laser. B. Ortac, A. Hideur, M. Brunel, C. Chedot, J. Limpert, A. Tünnermann, and F. Ö. Ilday, Opt. Express 14, 6075 (2006), DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006075.
   
• Cavity-enhanced optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification with nonlinearity management. F. Ö. Ilday, and F. X. Kärtner, Opt. Lett. 31, 637 (2006), DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.000637.
   
• Towards high-performance optical master oscillators for energy recovery linacs. A. Winter, F. Ö. Ilday, O. D Mücke, R. Ell, H. Schlarb, P. Schmüser, and F. X. Kärtner, Nucl. Instr. & Meth. A557, 299 (2006), DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2005.10.089.
   

2005

• High-performance, tensile-strained Ge p-i-n photodetectors on a Si platform. 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, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 103501 (2005), DOI: 10.1063/1.2037200.
   
• Generation of sub-100 fs pulses at 200 MHz repetition rate from a passively mode-locked Yb-fiber laser. F. Ö. Ilday, J. Chen, and F. X. Kärtner, Opt. Express 13, 2716 (2005), DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.002716.
   
• 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, Opt. Lett. 30, 1066 (2005), DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.001066.
   
• Femtosecond fiber lasers with pulse energies above 10 nJ. J. R. Buckley, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, Opt. Lett. 30, 1888 (2005), DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.001888.
   
• 220-fs erbium-ytterbium:glass laser mode locked by a broadband low-loss silicon/germanium saturable absorber. 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, Opt. Lett. 30, 329 (2005), DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.000329.
   

2004

• Possibility of self-similar pulse evolution in a Ti:sapphire laser. F. Ö. Ilday, F. X. Kaertner, and F. W. Wise, Opt. Exp. 12, 2731 (2004), DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002731.
   
• Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser cavity. F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, and F. W. Wise,Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 213902-1 (2004), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.213902.
   
• Frequency-shifting with local nonlinearity management in non-uniformly poled quadratic nonlinear materials. K. Beckwitt, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise, Opt. Lett. 29, 763 (2004), DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.000763.
   
• Fiber-based source of femtosecond pulses tunable from 1.0 to 1.3 μm. H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, A. Chong, and F. W. Wise, Electron. Lett. 40, 1523 (2004), DOI: 10.1049/el:2004709.
   
• Controllable Raman-like nonlinearities from non-stationary cascaded quadratic processes. F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, Y.-F. Chen, H. Lim, and F. W. Wise, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21, 376 (2004), DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.21.000376.
   

2003

• Generation of 36-fs pulses from a ytterbium fiber laser. F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, L. Kuznetsova, and F. W. Wise, Opt. Exp. 11, 3550 (2003), DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.003550.
   
• Generation of 50-fs, 5-nJ pulses at 1.03 micron from a wave-breaking-free fiber laser. F. Ö. Ilday, J. Buckley, H. Lim, and F. W. Wise, Opt. Lett. 28, 1365 (2003), DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.00136.
   
• Practical, all-fiber source of high-power, 120-fs pulses at 1 micron. F. Ö. Ilday, H. Lim, J. Buckley, and F. W. Wise, Opt. Lett. 28, 1362 (2003), DOI: 10.1364/ol.28.001362.
   
• Generation of 2-nJ pulses from a femtosecond Yb fiber laser. H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise, Opt. Lett. 28, 660 (2003), DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.000660.
   

2002

• Femtosecond ytterbium fiber laser with photonic crystal fiber for dispersion control. H. Lim, F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise, Opt. Exp. 10, 1497 (2002), DOI: 10.1364/OE.10.001497.
   
• High-energy femtosecond stretched-pulse fiber laser with a nonlinear optical loop mirror. F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, and T. Sosnowski, Opt. Lett. 27, 1531 (2002), DOI: 10.1364/OL.27.001531.
   
• Long-wavelength continuum generation about 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, Opt. Lett. 27, 1558 (2002), DOI: 10.1364/OL.27.001558.
   
• Highly nonlinear Ge-As-Se and Ge-As-S-Se glasses for all-optical switching. J. M. Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, and B. G. Aitken, IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett. 14, 822 (2002), DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.1003105.
   
• Highly nonlinear As-S-Se glasses for all-optical switching. J. M. Harbold, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, J. S. Sanghera, V. Q. Nguyen, L. B. Shaw, and I. D. Aggarwal, Opt. Lett. 27, 119 (2002), DOI: 10.1364/OL.27.000119.
   
• Nonlinearity management: a route to high-energy soliton fiber lasers. F. Ö. Ilday, and F. W. Wise, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 470 (2002), DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.000470.
   

2001

• Fiber delivery of femtosecond pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser. S. W. Clark, F. Ö. Ilday, F. W. Wise, Opt. Lett. 26, 1320 (2001), DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001320.
   

2000

• Femtosecond nonlinear polarization evolution based on cascade quadratic nonlinearities. X. Liu, F. Ö. Ilday, K. Beckwitt, and F. W. Wise, Opt. Lett. 25, 1394 (2000), DOI: 10.1364/OL.25.001394.