• BS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1992
• MS, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1995
• Student, Japanese Language, Nagoya University, 1996
• Research Student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Shizuoka University, 1997
• Ph D, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Shizuoka University, 2000

Journal Articles

C Guria, Q Zhong, Sahin Ozdemir, S S Patil, R El-Ganainy and J Harris, 2024, "Resolving the topology of encircling multiple exceptional points", Nature Communications, 15, pp. 1369

I I Arkhipov, A Miranowicz, F Nori, Sahin Ozdemir and F Minganti, 2023, "Fully solvable finite simplex lattices with open boundaries in arbitrary dimensions", Phys. Rev. Research, 5, pp. 043092

H Lee, A Kecebas, F Wang, L Chang, Sahin Ozdemir and T Gu, 2023, "Chiral exceptional point and coherent suppression of backscattering in silicon microring with low loss Mie scatterer", eLight, 3, pp. 20

K Y Bliokh and Sahin Ozdemir, 2023, "Roadmap on structured waves", Journal of Optics, 25, pp. 103001

I I Arkhipov, A Miranowicz, F Minganti, Sahin Ozdemir and F Nori, 2023, "Dynamically crossing diabolic points while encircling exceptional curves: A programmable symmetric-asymmetric multimode switch", Nature Communications, 14, pp. 2076

J T Bu, J T Zhang and Sahin Ozdemir, 2023, "Enhancement of Quantum Heat Engine by Encircling a Liouvillian Exceptional Point", Physical Review Letters, 130, pp. 110402

L Simonson, Sahin Ozdemir, K Busch and R El-Ganainy, 2023, "Resolvent expansion for discrete non-Hermitian resonant systems", Opt. Mat. Exp, 13, (1), pp. 229-236

Amin Hashemi, Kurt Busch, Sahin Ozdemir and Ramy El-Ganainy, 2022, "Uniform optical gain as a non-Hermitian control knob", Physical Review Research, 4, pp. 043169

R Varol, S Omeroglu, G Aydemir, A Karadag, H E Meco, A A Demircali, A Yilmaz, G C Kocal, G Gencoglan, M E Oruc, G B Esmer, Y Basbinar, Sahin Ozdemir and H Uvet, 2022, "Acousto-holographic reconstruction of whole-cell stiffness maps", Nature Communications, 13, pp. 7351

J W Zhang and Sahin Ozdemir, 2022, "Dynamical control of quantum heat engines using exceptional points", Nature Communications, 13, pp. 6225

L Simonson, Sahin Ozdemir, A Eisfeld, A Metelmann and R El-Ganainy, 2022, "Nonuniversality of quantum noise in optical amplifiers operating at exceptional points", Physical Review Research, 4, pp. 033226

Qi Zhong, Haoqi Zhao, Liang Feng, Kurt Busch, Sahin Ozdemir and Ramy El-Ganainy, 2022, "The missing link between standing- and traveling-wave resonators", Nanophotonics, 11, pp. 4427-4437

R Huang, Sahin Ozdemir, J Liao, F Minganti, L Kuang, F Nori and H Jing, 2022, "Exceptional Photon Blockade: Engineering Photon Blockade with Chiral Exceptional Points", Lasers & Photonics Reviews, 16, pp. 2100430

A Hashemi, K Busch, D N Christodoulides, Sahin Ozdemir and R El-Ganainy, 2022, "Linear response theory of open systems with exceptional points", Nature Communications, 13, pp. 3281

M S Ergoktas, S Soleymani, Nurbek Kakenov, Kaiyuan Wang, Thomas B Smith, Gokhan Bakan, Sinan Balci, Alessandro Principi, Kostya Novoselov, Sahin Ozdemir and C Kocabas, 2022, "Topological engineering of terahertz light using electrically tunable exceptional point singularities", Science, 376, (6589), pp. 184-188

S Soleymani, Qi Zhong, Mohammad Mokim, Stefan Rotter, R El-Ganainy and Sahin Ozdemir, 2022, "Chiral and degenerate perfect absorption on exceptional surfaces", Nature Communications, 13, pp. 599

Baijun Li and Sahin Ozdemir, 2021, "Nonreciprocal optical solitons in a spinning Kerr resonator", Phys. Rev. A, 103, pp. 053522

A Hashemi, S M Rezeai, Sahin Ozdemir and R El-Ganainy, 2021, "New perspective on chiral exceptional points with application to discrete photonics", APL Photonics, 6, pp. 040803

Q Zhong, A Hashemi, Sahin Ozdemir and R El-Ganainy, 2021, "Control of spontaneous emission dynamics in microcavities with chiral exceptional surfaces", Physical Review Research, 3, pp. 013220

Q Zhong, J Kou, Sahin Ozdemir and R El-Ganainy, 2020, "Hierarchical construction of higher-order exceptional points", Physical Review Letters, 125, pp. 203602

Anindya Ghoshroy, Sahin Ozdemir and Durdu Guney, 2020, "Loss compensation in metamaterials and plasmonics with virtual gain", Optical Materials Express, 10, (8), pp. 1862-1880

Saeid Asgarnezhad-Zorgabad, Rasoul Sadighi-Bonabi, Bertrand Kibler, Sahin Ozdemir and Barry Sanders, 2020, "Surface-polaritonic phase singularities and multimode polaritonic frequency combs via dark rogue-wave excitation in hybrid plasmonic waveguide", New Journal of Physics

Q Zhong, Sahin Ozdemir, A Eisfeld, A Metelmann and R El-Ganainy, 2020, "Exceptional points-based optical amplifiers", Physical Review Applied, 13, pp. 014070

Q Zhong, S Nelson, Sahin Ozdemir and R El-Ganainy, 2019, "Controlling directional absorption with chiral exceptional surfaces", Optics Letters, 44, (21), pp. 5242-5245

Sahin Ozdemir and Ramy El-Ganainy, 2019, "Topological lattices lit at the corners", Nature Photonics, 13, pp. 660-662

Ievgen I Arkhipov, Adam Miranowicz, Omar Di Stefano, Roberto Stassi, Salvatore Savasta, Franco Nori and Sahin Ozdemir, 2019, "Scully-Lamb quantum laser model for parity-time-symmetric whispering-gallery microcavities: Gain saturation effects and non-reciprocity", Physical Review A, 99, pp. 053806

Akshay Wali, Akhil Dodda, Yang Wu, Andrew Pannone, Likhith K Reddy, Sahin K Ozdemir, Ibrahim T Ozbolat and Saptarshi Das, 2019, "Biological physically unclonable function", Communications Physics, 2, pp. 39

Q Zhong, J Ren, M Khajavikhan, D N Christodoulides, Sahin Ozdemir and R El-Ganainy, 2019, "Sensing with exceptional surfaces in order to combine sensitivity with robustness", Physical Review Letters, 122, pp. 153902

Sahin Ozdemir, Stefan Rotter, Franco Nori and Lan Yang, 2019, "Parity-time symmetry and exceptional points in photonics", Nature Materials, 18, pp. 783-798

Ramy El-Ganainy, Mercedeh Kajhavikhan, Demetrios Christodoulides and Sahin Ozdemir, 2019, "The dawn of non-Hermitian optics", Communication Physics, 2, pp. 5

Akhil Dodda, Akshay Wali, Yang Wu, Andrew Pannone, Likhith K Reddy, Arnab Raha, Sahin K Ozdemir, Ibrahim T Ozbolat and Saptarshi Das, 2019, "Biological One-Way Functions for Secure Key Generation", Advanced Theory and Simulations, 2, (2), pp. 1800154

Hui Jing, H Lu, Sahin K Ozdemir, Tal Carmon and Franco Nori, 2018, "Nanoparticle sensing with a spinning resonator", Optica, 5, (11), pp. 1424-1430

Jing Zhang, Bo Peng, Sahin K Ozdemir, Kevin Pichler, Dmitry O Krimer, Guangming Zhao, Franco Nori, Yu-xi Liu, Stefan Rotter and Lan Yang, 2018, "A phonon laser operating at an exceptional point", Nature Photonics, 12, (8), pp. 479

Fernando Quijandría, Uta Naether, Sahin Ozdemir, Franco Nori and David Zueco, 2018, "PT- Symmetric Circuit QED", Phys. Rev. A, 97, pp. 053846

SA Uriri, T Tashima, X Zhang, M Asano, M Bechu, D Guney, T Yamamoto, Sahin K Ozdemir, M Wegener and M S Tame, 2018, "Active control of a plasmonic metamaterial for quantum state engineering", Physical Review A, 97, (5), pp. 053810

Steven H Huang, Xuefeng Jiang, Bo Peng, Corey Janisch, Alexander Cocking, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Zhiwen Liu and Lan Yang, 2018, "Surface-enhanced Raman scattering on dielectric microspheres with whispering gallery mode resonance", Photonics Research, 6, (5), pp. 346--356

Weijian Chen, Jing Zhang, Bo Peng, Sahin K Ozdemir, Xudong Fan and Lan Yang, 2018, "Parity-time-symmetric whispering-gallery mode nanoparticle sensor", Photonics Research, 6, (5), pp. A23--A30

Sahin K Ozdemir, 2018, "Fermi arcs connect topological degeneracies", Science, 359, (6379), pp. 995--996

S. G Dlamini, J. T. Francis, X. Zhang, Sahin Ozdemir, S. Nic Chormaic, F Petruccione and M Tame, 2018, "Probing Decoherence in Plasmonic Waveguides in the Quantum Regime", Phys. Rev. Applied, 9, pp. 024003

H Lu, S K Ozdemir, L-M Kuang, F Nori and H Jing, 2017, "Exceptional Points in Random-Defect Phonon Lasers", Physical Review Applied, 8, (4), pp. 044020

Yu-Long Liu, Rebing Wu, Jing Zhang, Sahin Ozdemir, Lan Yang, Franco Nori and Yu-xi Liu, 2017, "Controllable optical response by modifying the gain and loss of a mechanical resonator and cavity mode in an optomechanical system", Phys. Rev. A, 95, pp. 013843

Fang Bo, Sahin Ozdemir, Faraz Monifi, Jing Zhang, Guoquan Zhang, Jingjun Xu and Lan Yang, 2017, "Controllable oscillatory lateral coupling in a waveguide-microdisk-resonator system", Scientific Reports, 7, (1), pp. 8045

Weijian Chen, Sahin Ozdemir, Guangming Zhao, Jan Wiersig and Lan Yang, 2017, "Exceptional points enhance sensing in an optical microcavity", Nature, 548, (7666), pp. 192

Michal Micuda, Robert Starek, Petr Marek, Mikova, Martina, Ivo Straka, Miroslav Jezek, Toshiyuki Tashima, Sahin K Ozdemir and Mark Tame, 2017, "Experimental characterization of a non-local convertor for quantum photonic networks", Optics Express., 25, pp. 7839--7848

H Jing, S. K Ozdemir, H Lu and F. Nori, 2017, "High-order exceptional points in optomechanics", Scientific Reports, 7, pp. 3386

J. Francis, X. Zhang, Sahin Ozdemir and M. S. Tame, 2017, "Quantum random number generation using an on-chip plasmonic beamsplitter", Quantum Science and Technology, 2, pp. 035004

Guangming Zhao, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Tao Wang, Linhua Xu, Eshan King, Gu-Lu Long and Lan. Yang, 2017, "Raman lasing and Fano lineshapes in a packaged fiber-coupled whispering-gallery-mode microresonator", Science Bulletin, 62, pp. 875--878

Mohammad H Teimourpour, Sahin K Ozdemir and Ramy El-Ganainy, 2017, "Reverse PT phase transition across exceptional points of any order", EPL (Europhysics Letters), 119, (3), pp. 34003

Huzeyfe Yilmaz, Abdon Pena-Francesch, Robert Shreiner, Huihun Jung, Zaneta Belay, Melik C Demirel, Sahin Ozdemir and Lan Yang, 2017, "Structural Protein-Based Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators", ACS Photonics, 4, (9), pp. 2179--2186

Huihun Jung, Chester Szwejkowski, Abdon Pena-Franchesh, John Tomko, Benjamin D Allen, Sahin Ozdemir, Patrick E Hopkins and Melik C Demirel, 2017, "Ultrafast laser-probing spectroscopy for studying molecular structure of protein aggregates", Analyst, 142, pp. 1434--1441

Weijian Chen, Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Bo Peng and Lan Yang, 2016, "A simple method for characterizing and engineering thermal relaxation of an optical microcavity", Appl. Phys. Lett., 109, pp. 061103

M Asano, KY Bliokh, YP Bliokh, AG Kofman, R Ikuta, T Yamamoto, YS Kivshar, L Yang, N Imoto, SK Ozdemir and F Nori, 2016, "Anomalous time delays and quantum weak measurements in optical micro-resonators", Nature Communications, 7, pp. 13488

Bo Peng, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Matthias Liertzer, Weijian Chen, Johannes Kramer, Huzeyfe Yilmaz, Jan Wiersig, Stefan Rotter and Lan Yang, 2016, "Chiral modes and directional lasing at exceptional points", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, (25), pp. 6845--6850

M Asano, Sahin Ozdemir, W Chen, R Ikuta, L Yang, N Imoto and T Yamamoto, 2016, "Controlling slow and fast light and dynamic pulse-splitting with tunable optical gain in a whispering-gallery-mode microcavity", Applied Physics Letters, 108, (18), pp. 181105

Can Yesilyurt, Sinan Bugu, Fatih Ozaydin, Azmi Ali Altintas, Mark Tame, Lan Yang and Sahin Ozdemir, 2016, "Deterministic local doubling of W states", Journal of Optical Society of America (JOSA) B, 33, (11), pp. 2313--2319

Xiao-Fei Liu, Fuchuan Lei, Ming Gao, Xu Yang, Chuan Wang, Sahin Ozdemir, Lan Yang and Gui-Lu Long, 2016, "Gain competition induced mode evolution and resonance control in erbium-doped whispering-gallery microresonators", Optics Express, 24, (9), pp. 9550--9560

Zhong-Peng Liu, Jing Zhang, Sahin Ozdemir, Bo Peng, Hui Jing, Lu Xin-You, Chun-Wen Li, Lan Yang, Franco Nori and Yu-xi Liu, 2016, "Metrology with PT-symmetric cavities: Enhanced sensitivity near the PT-phase transition", Physical Review Letters, 117, (11), pp. 110802

M Asano, Y Takeuchi, W Chen, Sahin Ozdemir, R Ikuta, N Imoto, L Yang and T Yamamoto, 2016, "Observation of optomechanical coupling in a microbottle resonator", Laser & Photonics Reviews, 10, (4), pp. 603--611

Faraz Monifi, Jing Zhang, Sahin Ozdemir, Bo Peng, Yu-xi Liu, Fang Bo, Franco Nori and Lan Yang, 2016, "Optomechanically induced stochastic resonance and chaos transfer between optical fields", Nature Photonics, 10, pp. 399--405

T Tashima, MS Tame, Sahin Ozdemir, F Nori, M Koashi and Weinfurter H, 2016, "Photonic multipartite entanglement conversion using nonlocal operations", Physical Review A, 94, (5), pp. 052309

Motoki Asano, Yuki Takeuchi, Sahin Ozdemir, Rikizo Ikuta, Lan Yang, Nobuyuki Imoto and Takashi Yamamoto, 2016, "Stimulated Brillouin scattering and Brillouin-coupled four-wave-mixing in a silica microbottle resonator", Optics Express, 24, (11), pp. 12082--12092

M Asano, S Komori, R Ikuta, N Imoto, Sahin Ozdemir and T Yamamoto, 2016, "Visible light emission from a silica microbottle resonator by second-and third-harmonic generation", Optics Letters, 41, (24), pp. 5793--5796

Motoki Asano, Muriel Bechu, Mark Tame, Sahin Ozdemir, Rikizo Ikuta, Durdu Guney, Takashi Yamamoto, Lan Yang, Martin Wegener and Nobuyuki. Imoto, 2015, "Distillation of photon entanglement using a plasmonic metamaterial", Scientific Reports, 5, pp. 18313

Jing Zhang, Bo Peng, Sahin Ozdemir, Yu-xi Liu, Hui Jing, Xin-you Lu, Yu-long Liu, Lan Yang and Franco Nori, 2015, "Giant nonlinearity via breaking parity-time symmetry: A route to low-threshold phonon diodes", Physical Review B, 92, (11), pp. 115407

Fang Bo, Jie Wang, Jiao Cui, Sahin Ozdemir, Yongfa Kong, Guoquan Zhang, Jingjun Xu and Lan Yang, 2015, "Lithium-Niobate--Silica Hybrid Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonators", Advanced Materials, 27, pp. 8075--8081

Hui Jing, Sahin Ozdemir, Z Geng, Jing Zhang, Xin-You Lu, Bo Peng, Lan Yang and Franco Nori, 2015, "Optomechanically-induced transparency in parity-time-symmetric microresonators", Scientific Reports, 5, pp. 9663

Mehdi Sadatgol, Sahin Ozdemir, Lan Yang and Durdu Guney, 2015, "Plasmon Injection to Compensate and Control Losses in Negative Index Metamaterials", Physical review letters, 115, (3), pp. 035502

Md Abdullah al Farooqui, Justin Breeland, Muhammad I Aslam, Mehdi Sadatgol, Sahin Ozdemir, Mark Tame, Lan Yang and Durdu Guney, 2015, "Quantum entanglement distillation with metamaterials", Optics express, 23, (14), pp. 17941--17954

Adam Miranowicz, Sahin Ozdemir, Bajer Jiri, Go Yusa, Nobuyuki Imoto, Yoshiro Hirayama and Franco Nori, 2015, "Quantum state tomography of large nuclear spins in a semiconductor quantum well: Optimal robustness against errors as quantified by condition numbers", Physical Review B, 92, (7), pp. 075312

Xu Yang, Sahin Ozdemir, Bo Peng, Huzeyfe Yilmaz, Fu-Chuan Lei, Gui-Lu Long and Lan Yang, 2015, "Raman gain induced mode evolution and on-demand coupling control in whispering-gallery-mode microcavities", Optics Express, 23, (23), pp. 29573--29583

Fang-Jie Shu, Chang-Ling Zou, Sahin Ozdemir, Lan Yang and Guang-Can Guo, 2015, "Transient microcavity sensor", Optics Express, 23, (23), pp. 30067--30078

Fang Bo, Sahin Ozdemir, Bo Peng, Jie Wang, Guoquan Zhang, Jingjun Xu and Lan Yang, 2015, "Vertically coupled microresonators and oscillatory mode splitting in photonic molecules", Optics express, 23, (24), pp. 30793--30800

G Di Martino, Y Sonnefraud, MS Tame, S Keena-Cohen, F Dieleman, Sahin Ozdemir, MS Kim and SA Maier, 2014, "Observation of quantum interference in the plasmonic Hong-Ou-Mandel effect", Physical Review Applied, 1, (3), pp. 034004

Fuchuan Lei, Bo Peng, Sahin Ozdemir, Gui Lu Long and Lan Yang, 2014, "Dynamic Fano-like resonances in erbium-doped whispering-gallery-mode microresonators", Applied Physics Letters, 105, (10), pp. 101112

Fatih Ozaydin, Sinan Bugu, Can Yesilyurt, Ali Azmi Altintas and Sahin Ozdemir, 2014, "Fusing multiple W states simultaneously with a Fredkin gate", Phys. Rev. A, 89, pp. 042311

Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu, Xu Yang, Bo Peng, Huzeyfe Yilmaz, Lina He, Faraz Monifi, Steven He Huang, Gui Lu Long and Lan Yang, 2014, "Highly sensitive detection of nanoparticles with a self-referenced and self-heterodyned whispering-gallery Raman microlaser", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, (37), pp. E3836--E3844

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Ozdemir and Lan Yang, 2014, "Infrared light detection using a whispering-gallery-mode optical microcavity", Applied Physics Letters, 104, (17), pp. 171114

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Ozdemir, Huzeyfe Yilmaz, Bo Peng, Mark Dong, Matthew Tomes, Tal Carmon and Lan Yang, 2014, "Interfacing whispering-gallery microresonators and free space light with cavity enhanced Rayleigh scattering", Scientific Reports, 4, pp. 6396

F Bo, S H Huang, Sahin Ozdemir, G Zhang, J Xu and L Yang, 2014, "Inverted-wedge silica resonators for controlled and stable coupling", Opt Lett., 39, (7), pp. 1841--1844

P Edwards, C. T. Janisch, B. Peng, J. Zhu, Sahin Ozdemir, L. Yang and Zhiwen Liu, 2014, "Label-free particle sensing by fiber taper based Raman spectroscopy", Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE, 26, (20), pp. 2093--2096

B Peng, Sahin Ozdemir, S Rotter, H Yilmaz, M Liertzer, F. Monifi, C. M. Bender, F. Nori and L. Yang, 2014, "Loss-induced suppression and revival of lasing", Science, 346, (6207), pp. 328--332

Bo Peng, Sahin Ozdemir, Fuchuan Lei, Faraz Monifi, Mariagiovanna Gianfreda, Gui Lu Long, Shanhui Fan, Franco Nori, Carl M Bender and Lan Yang, 2014, "Parity-time-symmetric whispering-gallery microcavities", Nature Physics, 10, (5), pp. 394--398

Hui Wang, Zhixin Wang, Jing Zhang, Sahin Ozdemir, Lan Yang and Yu-xi Liu, 2014, "Phonon amplification in two coupled cavities containing one mechanical resonator", Phys. Rev. A, 90, pp. 053814

Hui Jing, Sahin Ozdemir, L\"u, Xin-You, Jing Zhang, Lan Yang and Franco Nori, 2014, "PT-Symmetric Phonon Laser", Physical Review Letters, 113, (5), pp. 053604

Junsoo Park, Sahin Ozdemir, Faraz Monifi, Tandeep Chadha, Steven He Huang, Pratim Biswas and Lan Yang, 2014, "Titanium Dioxide Whispering Gallery Microcavities", Advanced Optical Materials, 2, (8), pp. 711--717

Toshiki Kobayashi, Rikizo Ikuta, Sahin Ozdemir, Mark Tame, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2014, "Universal gates for transforming multipartite entangled Dicke states", New Journal of Physics, 16, (2), pp. 023005

Bo Peng, Sahin Ozdemir, Weijian Chen, Franco Nori and Lan Yang, 2014, "What is and what is not electromagnetically induced transparency in whispering-gallery microcavities", Nature Communications, 5, pp. 5082

Faraz Monifi, Sahin Ozdemir, Lan Yang and Jacob Friedlein, 2013, "Encapsulation of a microtoroid resonator side-coupled to a fiber taper into a polymer matrix", Photonics Technology Letters, 25, (15), pp. 1458--1461

Ishac Kandas, Baigang Zhang, Chalongrat Daengngam, Islam Ashry, Chih-Yu Jao, Bo Peng, Sahin Ozdemir, Hans D Robinson, James R Heflin, Lan Yang and others, 2013, "High quality factor silica microspheres functionalized with self-assembled nanomaterials", Optics express, 21, (18), pp. 20601--20610

Jing Zhang, Yu-xi Liu, Sahin Ozdemir, Re-Bing Wu, Feifei Gao, Xiang-Bin Wang, Lan Yang and Franco Nori, 2013, "Quantum internet using code division multiple access", Scientific Reports, 3, pp. 2211

M S Tame, K R McEnery, Sahin Ozdemir, J Lee, M S Kim and S Maier, 2013, "Quantum plasmonics", Nature Physics, 9, pp. 329--340

Lina He, Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu, Faraz Monifi, Huzeyfe Yilmaz and Lan Yang, 2013, "Statistics of multiple-scatterer-induced frequency splitting in whispering gallery microresonators and microlasers", New Journal of Physics, 15, pp. 073030

Faraz Monifi, Sahin Ozdemir and Lan Yang, 2013, "Tunable add-drop filter using an active whispering gallery mode microcavity", Applied Physics Letters, 103, (18), pp. 181103

Carl M Bender, Mariagiovanna Gianfreda, Sahin Ozdemir, Bo Peng and Lan Yang, 2013, "Twofold transition in PT-symmetric coupled oscillators", Physical Review A, 88, (6), pp. 062111

L He, Sahin Ozdemir and L Yang, 2013, "Whispering gallery microcavity lasers", Laser & Photonics Reviews, 7, (1), pp. 60--82

Faraz Monifi, Jacob Friedlein, Sahin Ozdemir and Lan Yang, 2012, "A Robust and Tunable Add-Drop Filter Using Whispering Gallery Mode Microtoroid Resonator", Journal of Lightwave Technology, 30, (21), pp. 3306--3315

Woosung Kim, Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu, Monifi Faraz, Cevayir Coban and Lan Yang, 2012, "Detection and size measurement of individual hemozoin nanocrystals in aquatic environment using a whispering gallery mode resonator", Optics express, 20, (28), pp. 29426--29446

Bo Peng, Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu and Lan Yang, 2012, "Photonic molecules formed by coupled hybrid resonators", Optics letters, 37, (16), pp. 3435--3437

Giuliana Di Martino, Yannick Sonnefraud, Kena-Cohen Stephane, Mark Tame, Sahin Ozdemir, MS Kim and Stefan A Maier, 2012, "Quantum Statistics of Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Metallic Stripe Waveguides", Nano Letters, 12, (5), pp. 2504--2508

Sahin Ozdemir, Eiji Matsunaga, Toshiyuki Tashima, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2011, "An optical fusion gate for W-states", New Journal of Physics, 13, (10), pp. 103003

Lina He, Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu, Woosung Kim and Lan Yang, 2011, "Detecting single viruses and nanoparticles using whispering gallery microlasers", Nature nanotechnology, 6, (7), pp. 428--432

Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu, Lina He and Lan Yang, 2011, "Estimation of Purcell factor from mode-splitting spectra in an optical microcavity", Physical Review A, 83, (3), pp. 033817

Woosung Kim, Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu and Lan Yang, 2011, "Observation and characterization of mode splitting in microsphere resonators in aquatic environment", Applied Physics Letters, 98, (14), pp. 141106--141106

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Ozdemir and Lan Yang, 2011, "Optical detection of single nanoparticles with a subwavelength fiber-taper", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 23, (18), pp. 1346--1348

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Ozdemir, Lina He and Lan Yang, 2011, "Optothermal spectroscopy of whispering gallery microresonators", Applied Physics Letters, 99, (17), pp. 171101--171101

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Ozdemir and Lan Yang, 2011, "Sensors: Bypassing the diffusion limit", Nature Photonics, 5, (11), pp. 653--654

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Ozdemir, Lina He, Da-Ren Chen and Lan Yang, 2011, "Single virus and nanoparticle size spectrometry by whispering-gallery-mode microcavities", Optics express, 19, (17), pp. 16195--16206

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Ozdemir, Lina He He and Lan Yang, 2010, "Controlled manipulation of mode splitting in an optical microcavity by two Rayleigh scatterers", Optics Express, 18, (23), pp. 23535--23543

Toshiyuki Tashima, Tsuyoshi Kitano, Sahin Ozdemir, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2010, "Demonstration of local expansion toward large-scale entangled webs", Physical review letters, 105, (21), pp. 210503

Woosung Kim, Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu, Lina He and Lan Yang, 2010, "Demonstration of mode splitting in an optical microcavity in aqueous environment", Applied Physics Letters, 97, (7), pp. 071111--071111

Lina He, Sahin Ozdemir, Yun-Feng Xiao and Lan Yang, 2010, "Gain-Induced Evolution of Mode Splitting Spectra in a High-Q Active Microresonator", IEEE journal of quantum electronics, 46, (11-12), pp. 1626--1633

Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Ozdemir, Yun-Feng Xiao, Lin Li, Lina He, Da-Ren Chen and Lan Yang, 2010, "On-chip single nanoparticle detection and sizing by mode splitting in an ultrahigh-Q microresonator", Nature Photonics, 4, (1), pp. 46--49

Lina He, Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu and Lan Yang, 2010, "Scatterer induced mode splitting in poly (dimethylsiloxane) coated microresonators", Applied Physics Letters, 96, (22), pp. 221101--221101

Lina He, Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu and Lan Yang, 2010, "Ultrasensitive detection of mode splitting in active optical microcavities", Physical Review A, 82, (5), pp. 053810

Lina He, Sahin Ozdemir, Jiangang Zhu and Lan Yang, 2010, "Self-pulsation in fiber-coupled, on-chip microcavity lasers", Optics letters, 35, (2), pp. 256--258

Toshiyuki Tashima, Sahin Ozdemir, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2009, "Local expansion of photonic W state using a polarization-dependent beamsplitter", New Journal of Physics, 11, (2), pp. 023024

M S Tame, S K Ozdemir, M Koashi, N Imoto and MS Kim, 2009, "Compact Toffoli gate using weighted graph states", Physical Review A, 79, (2), pp. 020302

C-H Dong, L He, Y-F Xiao, VR Gaddam, SK Ozdemir, Z-F Han, G-C Guo and L Yang, 2009, "Fabrication of high-Q polydimethylsiloxane optical microspheres for thermal sensing", Applied Physics Letters, 94, pp. 231119

Toshiyuki Tashima, Tetsuroh Wakatsuki, Sahin Ozdemir, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2009, "Local transformation of two Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen photon pairs into a three-photon W state", Physical review letters, 102, (13), pp. 130502

Koji Azuma, Naoya Sota, Ryo Namiki, Sahin Ozdemir, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2009, "Optimal entanglement generation for efficient hybrid quantum repeaters", Physical Review A, 80, (6), pp. 060303

Karol Bartkiewicz, Adam Miranowicz and Sahin Ozdemir, 2009, "Optimal mirror phase-covariant cloning", Physical Review A, 80, (3), pp. 032306

Lina He, Yun-Feng Xiao, Jiangang Zhu, Sahin Ozdemir and Lan Yang, 2009, "Oscillatory thermal dynamics in high-Q PDMS-coated silica toroidal microresonators", Optics express, 17, (12), pp. 9571--9581

Sahin Ozdemir, Isao Ohno and Shigenobu Shinohara, 2008, "A comparative study for the assessment on blood flow measurement using self-mixing laser speckle interferometer", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 57, (2), pp. 355--363

Toshiyuki Tashima, Sahin Ozdemir, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2008, "Elementary optical gate for expanding an entanglement web", Physical Review A, 77, (3), pp. 030302

Yun-Feng Xiao, Sahin Ozdemir, Venkat Gaddam, Chun-Hua Dong, Nobuyuki Imoto and Lan Yang, 2008, "Quantum nondemolition measurement of photon number via optical Kerr effect in an ultra-high-Q microtoroid cavity", Optics express, 16, (26), pp. 21462--21475

Takashi Yamamoto, Kodai Hayashi, Sahin Ozdemir, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2008, "Robust photonic entanglement distribution by state-independent encoding onto decoherence-free subspace", Nature Photonics, 2, (8), pp. 488--491

Sahin Ozdemir, Junichi Shimamura and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2007, "A necessary and sufficient condition to play games in quantum mechanical settings", New Journal of Physics, 9, pp. 43

Takashi Yamamoto, Ryoji Nagase, Junichi Shimamura, Sahin Ozdemir, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2007, "Experimental ancilla-assisted qubit transmission against correlated noise using quantum parity checking", New Journal of Physics, 9, (6), pp. 191

A Miranowicz, S K Ozdemir, Y-x Liu and N. Imoto, 2007, "Quantum Entanglement and Teleportation of Quantum-Dot States in Microcavities", e-J. Surf. Sci. Nanotec, 5, pp. 51--59

Adam Miranowicz, Sahin Ozdemir, Bajer Jiri, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2007, "Selective truncations of an optical state using projection synthesis", Journal of Optical Society of America B, 24, (2), pp. 379--383

Sahin Ozdemir, Karol Bartkiewicz, Yu-xi Liu and Adam Miranowicz, 2007, "Teleportation of qubit states through dissipative channels: Conditions for surpassing the no-cloning limit", Physical Review A, 76, (4), pp. 042325

Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, Sahin Ozdemir and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2006, "Entanglement distillation and quantum communication over noisy channels", Oyo Butsuri (Japanese Applied Physics Society), 75, (11), pp. 1359--1363

Takashi Yamamoto, Sahin Ozdemir, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2006, "Faithful Quantum Communication Over Noisy Environment", IEEE LEOS Newsletter, 20, (6), pp. 4--10

Y Hirayama, A Miranowicz, T Ota, G Yusa, K Muraki, SK Ozdemir and N Imoto, 2006, "Nanometre-scale nuclear-spin device for quantum information processing", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 18, (21), pp. S885

Sahin Ozdemir, A Miranowicz, T Ota, G Yusa, N Imoto and Y Hirayama, 2006, "Nuclear Spins in a Nanoscale Device for Quantum Information Processing", e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology, 4, (0), pp. 669--673

T Yamamoto, J Shimamura, SK Ozdemir, M Koashi and N Imoto, 2005, "Faithful Qubit Distribution Assisted by One Additional Qubit against Collective Noise", Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, pp. 040503

Sahin Ozdemir, Junichi Shimamura, Fumiaki Morikoshi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2004, "Dynamics of a discoordination game with classical and quantum correlations", Physics Letters A, 333, (3), pp. 218--231

Junichi Shimamura, Sahin Ozdemir, Fumiaki Morikoshi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2004, "Entangled states that cannot reproduce original classical games in their quantum version", Physics Letters A, 328, (1), pp. 20--25

Yu-xi Liu, Sahin Ozdemir, Adam Miranowicz, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2004, "Exciton entanglement in two coupled semiconductor microcrystallites", Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 37, (15), pp. 4423

Yu-xi Liu, Sahin Ozdemir, Adam Miranowicz and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2004, "Kraus representation of a damped harmonic oscillator and its application", Physical Review A, 70, (4), pp. 042308

Sahin Ozdemir, Junichi Shimamura and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2004, "Quantum advantage does not survive in the presence of a corrupt source: Optimal strategies in simultaneous move games", Physics Letters A, 325, (2), pp. 104--111

Junichi Shimamura, Sahin Ozdemir, Fumiaki Morikoshi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2004, "Quantum and classical correlations between players in game theory", International Journal of Quantum Information, 2, (01), pp. 79--89

Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, Sahin Ozdemir and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2003, "Experimental extraction of an entangled photon pair from two identically decohered pairs", Nature, 421, (6921), pp. 343--346

Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, Sahin K Ozdemir and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2003, "Extraction of Entangled Pairs from Decohered Many Pairs.", Japanese Physics Society Journal (Nippon Butsuri Gakkaishi), 58, (10), pp. 761--765

Sahin Ozdemir, Takashi Yamamoto and Masato Koashi, 2003, "Quantum State Generation and Entanglement Manipulation Using Linear Optics", Turkish Journal of Physics, 27, pp. 459--480

Yu-xi Liu, Adam Miranowicz, Sahin Ozdemir, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2003, "Size-dependent decoherence of excitonic states in semiconductor microcrystallites", Physical Review A, 67, (3), pp. 034303

Sahin Ozdemir and Gonul Turhan-Sayan, 2003, "Temperature effects on surface plasmon resonance: design considerations for an optical temperature sensor", Journal of lightwave technology, 21, (3), pp. 805

Adam Miranowicz, Sahin Ozdemir, Yu-Xi Liu, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2002, "Physical realizations and Wigner representation of coherent states of finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces", RIMS Kôkyûroku Bessatsu (Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences Lecture Notes Series), 1266, pp. 9--20

Yu-xi Liu, Sahin Ozdemir, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2002, "Dynamics of entanglement for coherent excitonic states in a system of two coupled quantum dots and cavity QED", Physical Review A, 65, (4), pp. 042326

Adam Miranowicz, Sahin Ozdemir, Yu-xi Liu, Masato Koashi, Nobuyuki Imoto and Yoshiro Hirayama, 2002, "Generation of maximum spin entanglement induced by a cavity field in quantum-dot systems", Physical Review A, 65, (6), pp. 062321

Sahin Ozdemir, Adam Miranowicz, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2002, "Optical qubit generation by state truncation using an experimentally feasible scheme", Journal of modern optics, 49, (5-6), pp. 977--984

Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Adam Miranowicz, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2002, "Pulse-mode quantum projection synthesis: Effects of mode mismatch on optical state truncation and preparation", Phys. Rev. A, 66, pp. 053809

Yu-xi Liu, N Imoto, Sahin Ozdemir, Guang-ri Jin and CP Sun, 2002, "Semiconductor-cavity QED in high-Q regimes: Detuning effect", Physical Review A, 65, (2), pp. 023805

Sahin Ozdemir, Shigenobu Shinohara, Satoshi Ito, Sotetsu Takamiya and Hirofumi Yoshida, 2001, "Compact optical instrument for surface classification using self-mixing interference in a laser diode", Optical Engineering, 40, pp. 38

Sahin Ozdemir, Adam Miranowicz, Masato Koashi and Nobuyuki Imoto, 2001, "Quantum-scissors device for optical state truncation: A proposal for practical realization", Physical Review A, 64, (6), pp. 063818

Sahin Ozdemir, 2001, "Speckle signal generation in semiconductor lasers with optical feedback: theory and applications", Shizuoka University Graduate School of Electronic Science Research Report, 22, pp. 168--171

Sahin K Ozdemir, Shigenobu Shinohara and Hirofumi Yoshida, 2000, "Effect of linewidth enhancement factor on Doppler beat waveform obtained from a self-mixing laser diode", Optical Review, 7, (6), pp. 550--554

Sahin Ozdemir, Shigenobu Shinohara, Sotetsu Takamiya and Hirofumi Yoshida, 2000, "Noninvasive blood flow measurement using speckle signals from a self-mixing laser diode: in vitro and in vivo experiments", Optical Engineering, 39, (9), pp. 2574--2580

Sahin Ozdemir, Sotetsu Takamiya, Satoshi Ito, Shigenobu Shinohara and Hirofumi Yoshida, 2000, "Self-mixing laser speckle velocimeter for blood flow measurement", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 49, (5), pp. 1029--1035

Sahin Ozdemir, Sotetsu Takamiya, Shigenobu Shinohara and Hirofumi Yoshida, 2000, "A speckle velocimeter using a semiconductor laser with external optical feedback from a moving surface: effects of system parameters on the reproducibility and accuracy of measurements", Measurement Science and Technology, 11, (10), pp. 1447

SK Ozdemir and S Shinohara, 2000, "Self-mixing Interference in a semiconductor laser and its applications in optical sensing", Reports-Graduate School of Electronic Science and Technology Shizuoka University, 21, pp. 17--26

Sahin Ozdemir, Satoshi Ito, Shigenobu Shinohara, Hirofumi Yoshida and Masao Sumi, 1999, "Correlation-based speckle velocimeter with self-mixing interference in a semiconductor laser diode", Applied optics, 38, (33), pp. 6859--6865

Sahin Ozdemir, Tatsuya Takasu, Shigenobu Shinohara, Hirofumi Yoshida and Masao Sumi, 1999, "Simultaneous measurement of velocity and length of moving surfaces by a speckle velocimeter with two self-mixing laser diodes", Applied optics, 38, (10), pp. 1968--1974

• Highly Cited Researcher 2019, Web of Science, November 2019

• Highly Cited Researcher 2022, Web of Science, November 2022

• Highly Cited Researcher 2023, Web of Science, November 2023

• Highly Cited Researcher 2020, Web of Science, November 2020

• Outstanding Research Award 2020, The Penn State Engineering Alumni Society (PSEAS), March 2021

• Highly Cited Researcher 2021, Web of Science, November 2021

• Fellow, Optica (Formerly Optical Society of America, OSA), 2022

• Fellow, Institute of Physics (IOP), October 2021

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016

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