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August 2016 Ferda Canbaz is among the recipients of best poster award at the 18th National Photonics Workshop, Bilkent University, Ankara

May 2016 Dr. Ümit Demirbaş visited DESY (The Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) at Hamburg, and gave a talk titled "A Decade of Research with Cr:Colquiriite Lasers: A Summary of Results"

September 2016 Alp Emre Acar's second paper on pulsed Cr:LiSAF lasers has been pubslihed in JOSA-B. Alp is seniour year student at the EEE department of Anatşya International University.

August 2015 Dr. Demirbaş gave an invited talk at the Workshop on Photonics: Fundementals and Applications organized by Euroasian Center for Advanced Research (ICTP-ECAR) titled "Femtosecond Cr:Colquirrite lasers with zeptosecond timing itter noise" at İzmir Institute of Technology.

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November 2013 İlyas Baali’s work on “Development of tapered diode pumped continuous-wave Alexandrite lasers” has been published in December 2013 issue of Journal of Optical Society of America B (JOSA-B). Local newspapers highligted İlyas's sucsess:

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October 2013 Dr. Umit Demirbas, Ersen Beyatli and Ferda Canbaz have given oral presentations on “Efficient Tunable Blue Light Sources Based on Diode-Pumped Low-Cost Cr:LiCAF Lasers”, “Efficient and Low-Threshold Alexandrite Lasers Pumped by High-Brightness Diodes” and “Efficient and Robust Kerr-Lens Mode-Locking of Cr:LiSAF Lasers Using Gain-Matched Output Couplers” at the Advanced Solid State Lasers (ASSL) Congress, (Paris, 27 October – 1 November 2013).

Spetember 2013 LTL has attended the 15th National Photonic Conferance at Aselsan.

March 2013 Active research at LTL has been started with the construction of tapered diode pumped Alexandrite and Cr:LiCAF lasers.

April 2013 Laser Technology Laboratory will receive 304,500 TL of support in the next two years from the TUBİTAK 1001 program to perform research on "Development of diode-pumped, low-cost and low-noise femtosecond Cr:Colquiriite lasers at GHz repetition rates for optical frequency comb applications".

February 2013 Dr. Halil Tekin from David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology visited LTL, and gave a talk titled "Microengineered Responsive Platforms for Spatial and Geometrical Control of Multicellular Organizations".

February 2013 Ersen Beyatlı has given an oral presentation on Self-Q-swtiched Cr:LiCAF lasers at SPIE Photonics West conference.

January 2013 LTL has received its first optical table.

September 2012 Laser Technology Laboratory (LTL) of Antalya International University has become operational with the arrival of first set of tables, diode drivers, oscilloscopes, optical spectrum analyzers, optomechanics etc... LTL currently occupies 30 m2 of climate-controlled, state-of-the-art research space on the ground level of the faculty building (room AB-12). So far, LTL has attracted about 1 Million TL of total funding from TUBİTAK, European Union, Humboldt Foundation, Konstanz University and Antalya International University.

September 2012 Dr. Demirbas gave an invited talk on Cr:Colquirrite lasers titled "Dalgaboyu ayarlanabilir, verimli, kompakt ve ekonomik Cr:Colquiriite lazerleri" at the Fotonik 2012 Conference. The conference was held at Koç University on Sept 14,2012 and had more than 300 participants mostly from institutions in Turkey. This invited presentation gave Dr. Demirbas the opportunity to introduce his research to the photonics community in Turkey. For more information, please follow the link.

August 2012 Dr. Demirbas has been awarded with 6,500 Euro from the Return Fellowship Support Program of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The support will be used to establish long-term collaborative relations with Prof. Alfred Leitenstorfer's Group at Konstanz University and Dr. Demirbas's Group at Antalya International University. For more information, please follow the link.

July 2012 Laser Technology Laboratory will receive 265,000 TL of support in the next years from the TUBİTAK National Young Researchers Career Development Grant (3501). The fund will be used initiate research efforts on development of diode-pumped, low-cost and efficient optical sources broadly-tunable in the blue (375-425 nm) and near-to-mid-infrared (750-850 & 1100-3000 nm) regions.Tunable cw and femtosecond sources at these spectral regions are critical for many scientific and technological applications. Hence, the proposed developments will potentially help wider spread use of this technology, which we hope to accelerate and transform fundamental research in several important areas of science and technology. For more information, please follow the link.

July 2012 Laser Technology Laboratory has been awarded with 20,000 Euro from the equipment subsidy program of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The support aims to help Humboldtians (Humboldt fellows) to continue their research projects started in Germany at their institute abroad after their stay in Germany has come to an end. This is one way of sponsoring sustainable collaboration with academic hosts or other specialist colleagues in Germany well beyond the duration of the initial stay. Dr. Demirbas was an postdoctoral Humboldt fellow at Konstanz University of Germany, in the group of Prof. Alfred Leitenstorfer. This support will help Dr. Demirbas o transfer his know-how from Germany to Turkey, and will enable him to continue his cooperative work with Prof. Leitenstorfer. The support will be used to purchase laser diode controllers for the Antalya International University Laser Technology Laboratory. For more information, please follow the link.

May 2012 Dr. Demirbas has received European Union Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, with his project titled "Route to Low-cost, High-energy, and Tunable Femtosecond Laser Technology Based on Diode-Pumped Cr:Colquirrites". The European Union support will provide a total of 100,000 Euro in the next four years, and will mostly be used in establish the infrastructure of Antalya International University Laser Technology Laboratory. For more information, please follow the link.

April 2012 Dr. Demirbas has attended SPIE Photonics Europe Conference at Brussels (16-19 April) to make two oral presentations on single-mode and tapered diode pumped Cr:Colquirrite lasers. For more information, please follow the link.

March 2012 Dr. Demirbas has been awarded with 1000 Euro from the book donation program of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The support will be used to purchase cutting-edge research textbooks for the Laser Technology Laboratory inventory. For more information, please follow the link.

January 2012 As of January 1 2012, Dr. Demirbas has started his duties at Antalya International University. He will serve as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He will also establish and lead the Laser Technology Laboratory.