Prof. Dr. Alper Kiraz

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOptics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas,Spectroscopy,Biophysics
KeywordsOptics, quantum optics, single molecule spectroscopy, Fluorescence microscopy, microcavities

Current contact address

CountryTurkey
CityIstanbul
InstitutionKoc University
InstituteDepartment of Physics
Homepagehttp://home.ku.edu.tr/~akiraz/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Christoph BräuchleInstitut für Physikalische Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Andreas ZumbuschInstitut für Physikalische Chemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2003

Program(s)

2002Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008I. Bukusoglu, C. Basdogan, A. Kiraz, and A. Kurt: Haptic Manipulation of Microspheres Using Optical Tweezers Under the Guidance of Artificial Force Fields. In: Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 2008, 344-364
2008A. Kiraz, Y. Karadağ, and A. F. Coskun: Spectral tuning of liquid microdroplets standing on a superhydrophobic surface using electrowetting. In: Appl. Phys. Lett., 2008, 191104
2007A. Kiraz, S. Doğanay, A. Kurt, and A. L. Demirel: Enhanced energy transfer in single glycerol/water microdroplets standing on a superhydrophobic surface. In: Chemical Physics Letters, 2007, 181-185
2007A. Kiraz, S. Ç. Yavuz, Y. Karadağ, A. Kurt, A. Sennaroglu, and H. Çankaya: Large spectral tuning of liquid microdroplets standing on a superhydrophobic surface using optical scattering force. In: Appl. Phys. Lett., 2007, 231102
2007A. Kiraz, A. Sennaroglu, S. Doğanay, M. A. Dündar, A. Kurt, H. Kalaycıoğlu, and A. L. Demirel: Lasing from single, stationary, dye-doped glycerol/water microdroplets located on a superhydrophobic surface. In: Optics Communications, 2007, 145-148
2007A. Sennaroglu, A. Kiraz, M. A. Dündar, A. Kurt, and A. L. Demirel: Raman lasing near 630 nm from stationary glycerol-water microdroplets on a superhyrophobic surface. In: Optics Letters, 2007, 2197-2199
2007A. Kiraz, A. Kurt, M. A. Dündar, M. Y. Yüce, and A. L. Demirel: Volume stabilization of single, dye-doped water microdroplets with femtoliter resolution. In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2007, 1824-1828
2006A. Kiraz, A. Kurt, M. A. Dündar, and A. L. Demirel: Simple largely tunable optical microcavity. In: Appl. Phys. Lett., 2006, 081118
2005Alper Kiraz, Moritz Ehrl, Thomas Hellerer, O. E. Mustecaplioglu, Christoph Bräuchle, Andreas Zumbusch: Indistinguishable Photons from a Single Molecule. In: Phys. Rev. Lett., 2005, 223602
2005Alper Kiraz, Moritz Ehrl, Christian Hellriegel, Christoph Bräuchle, and Andreas Zumbusch: Vibronic excitation of single molecules: A new technique for studies of low temperature dynamics. In: ChemPhysChem, 2005, 929-925
2004Alper Kiraz, Mete Atatüre, and Atac Imamoglu: Quantum-dot single photon sources: Prospects for applications in linear optics quantum information processing. In: Physical Review A, 2004, 032305
2004Alper Kiraz, Moritz Ehrl, Christoph Bräuchle, and Andreas Zumbusch: Ultralong coherence times in the purely electronic zero-phonon line emission of single molecules. In: Applied Physics Letters, 2004, 920-922
2003Alper Kiraz, Moritz Ehrl, Christoph Bräuchle, and Andreas Zumbusch: Low temperature single molecule spectroscopy using vibronic excitation and dispersed fluorescence detection. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2003, 10821-10824