Published: 2010
Alphan Sennarogğlu is a professor in the Departments of Physics and Electrical-Electronics Engineering at Koç University in İstanbul, Turkey, and founded and leads the Koç University Laser Research Laboratory. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University. Dr. Sennarogğlu was a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the 2002–2003 and 2009–2010 academic years and in the summers of 2005 to 2008. In 2010 he was the program chair of the Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) Topical Meeting organized by the Optical Society of America (OSA), and in 2004 and 2006 he was the program chair of the Solid-State Lasers and Amplifiers Conference during the Photonics Europe meeting in Strasbourg, France. Dr. Sennarogğlu has also served as a member of the technical program committees for CLEO-America: Ultrafast Optics (2005–2007), CLEO-Europe: Ultrafast Optics (2005, 2009), Photonics Europe—Solid-State Lasers (2004, 2006, 2008), and ASSP (2008–2009). He has been elected an associate member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences, and is a senior member of IEEE and a member of OSA and SPIE. His research interests include solid-state lasers, femtosecond lasers, nonlinear optics, and spectroscopy.
