Kahraman Güçlü Köprülü

Associate Professor
TOBB Economics and Technology University
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Sogutozu Cad. No. 43 Sogutozu, Ankara, TR-06560 TURKEY
Phone:
+90 (312) 292-4081 (office)
e-mail: koprulu_at_etu.edu.tr

Biography

Part time education in Classical Guitar, School of Arts, Hacettepe University, 1985-1991.
Ankara Fen Lisesi, 1987-1990.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Physics, Middle East Technical University, 1990-1994.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, 1994-1996.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, 1996-2002. (Supervisor: Dr. Orhan Aytür )
Instructor of GE308 Thermodynamics at the department of Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, 2002.
Post-doctoral fellow at Center of Photonic Communication and Computing, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 2002-2005(Supervisor: Dr. Prem Kumar)
Assistant Professor at the department of Electrical Engineering, TOBB-ETU, 2005-2009
Associate Professor at the department of Electrical Engineering, TOBB-ETU,2009-

Courses at TOBB-ETU

Research interests

Nonlinear optics: Three-wave mixing and four-wave mixing processes, optical parametric amplification, optical parametric oscillation, fiber amplifiers, mathematical modelling of Gaussian-beam pumped optical parametric amplifiers.

Quantum optics: Quantum theory of light, statistical optics, nonclassical states of light, squeezed states, generation of nonclassical states of light via optical parametric amplification, parametric down-conversion, quantum imaging.

Journal publications

  1. K. G. Köprülü, ``Analysis of quantum noise in a singly resonant nondegenerate optical parametric oscillator,'' Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 55, pp. 1871-1890, 2008.
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  2. K. G. Köprülü and P. Kumar, ``Quantum analysis of the z-scan technique,'' Journal of the Optical Society of America Part B, vol. 24, pp. 77-83, 2007.
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  3. P. Voss, K. G. Köprülü, and P. Kumar, ``Raman-noise-induced quantum limits for chi-3 nondegenerate phase-sensitive amplification and quadrature squeezing,'' Journal of the Optical Society of America Part B, vol. 23, pp. 598-610, 2006.
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  4. A. R. Altman, K. G. Köprülü, E. Corndorf, P. Kumar, and G. A. Barbosa, ``Quantum imaging of nonlocal spatial correlations induced by orbital angular momentum,'' Physical Review Letters, vol. 94, p.123601 2005.
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  5. P. L. Voss, K. G. Köprülü, S. K. Choi, S. Dugan, and P. Kumar, ``14-MHz rate photon counting with room temperature InGaAs / InP avalanche photodiodes,'' Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 51, pp. 1369-1379, 2004.
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  6. K. G. Köprülü and O. Aytür, ``Analysis of amplitude-squeezed light generation with Gaussian-beam degenerate optical parametric amplifiers,'' Journal of the Optical Society of America Part B, vol. 18, pp. 846-854, 2001.
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  7. K. G. Köprülü and O. Aytür, ``Analysis of Gaussian-beam degenerate optical parametric amplifiers for the generation of quadrature-squeezed states,'' Physical Review A, vol. 60, pp. 4122-4134, 1999.
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  8. K. G. Köprülü, T. Kartaloglu, Y. Dikmelik, and O. Aytür, ``Single-crystal sum-frequency generating optical parametric oscillator,'' Journal of the Optical Society of America Part B, vol. 16, pp. 1546-1552, 1999.
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  9. T. Kartaloglu, K. G. Köprülü , O. Aytür, M. Sundheimer, and W. P. Risk, ``Femtosecond optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled KTiOPO4,'' Optics Letters, vol. 23, pp. 61-63, 1998.
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  10. T. Kartaloglu, K. G. Köprülü, and O. Aytür, ``Phase-matched self-doubling optical parametric oscillator,'' Optics Letters, vol. 22, pp. 280-282, 1997.
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Conference publications

  • Kahraman G. Köprülü, Alexander Locquet, and Paul Voss, ``Evolution of spatial paterns of optical quantum noise by z-translation of thin Kerr nonlinear media,'' in the proceedings of International Workshop on Instabilities, Patterns, and Spatial Solitons, Metz, France, 28-30 March 2007.
  • Kahraman G. Köprülü , Geraldo A. Barbosa, and Prem Kumar, ``Quantum imaging of nonlocal spatial correlations induced by pump beam profile,'' in the proceedings of Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.,23-28 May 2005.
  • Adam R. Altman, Kahraman G. Köprülü , Eric Corndorf, Geraldo A. Barbosa, and Prem Kumar, ``Quantum imaging of nonlocal spatial correlations induced by orbital angular momentum,'' in the proceedings of Conference on Nonlinear Optics, Waikoloa, Hawaii, A.B.D., 2-6 August 2004.
  • Paul Voss, Kahraman G. Köprülü, Sang-Kyung Choi, Sarah Dugan, and Prem Kumar, ``Room temperature high speed InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode single photon counters,'' in the proceedings of Frontiers in Optics 2003, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., 8 October 2003.
  • Paul Voss, Marco Fiorentino, Kahraman G. Köprülü, Jay Sharping, Xiaoying Li, and Prem Kumar, ``Room temperature IR InGaAs/InP APD photon counters for quantum optics experiments,'' in the proceedings of Workshop on Single-Photon: Detectors, Applications, and Measurement Methods, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S.A., 31 March-1 April 2003. (Invited)
  • K. G. Köprülü and O. Aytür, ``Analysis of amplitude-squeezed light generation with Gaussian-beam degenerate optical parametric amplifiers,'' in the proceedings of the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 7-11 May 2000.
  • K. G. Köprülü and O. Aytür, ``Degenerate optical parametric amplification with focused Gaussian beams,'' in the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A., 22-27 August 1998.
  • K. G. Köprülü, T. Kartaloglu, Y. Dikmelik, and O. Aytür, ``Advances in femtosecond single-crystal sum-frequency generating optical parametric oscillators,'' in the proceedings of the Conference on Nonlinear Optics, Kauai, Hawaii, U.S.A., August 10-14 1998.
  • K. G. Köprülü, T. Kartaloglu, and O. Aytür, ``Single-crystal sum-frequency generating optical parametric oscillator,'' in the proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., May 18-23 1997.
  • T. Kartaloglu, K. G. Köprülü, and O. Aytür, ``Phase-matched self-doubling optical parametric oscillator,'' in the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 18-21 November, 1996.