Alexander Gaydardzhiev

Optical parametric generators and amplifiers, Ultra fast phenomena.
Ultra short laser pulse generation and characterization, Nonlinear optics, Solid state lasers

Jan 2007 - Present:
PhD student, wave physics (including nonlinear optics and quantum electronics)
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Institute for Laser Technique Research

Oct. 2001 - July 2006:
MS student, plasma physics
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Department of Physics

ICTP STEP fellow - 2009 Scholarship for research at the Max-Born institute for nonlinear optics, Berlin, Germany, 2007
Scholarship from “Evrika” foundation, Bulgaria for excellence in physics studies, 2006
Graduated with honours bachelor degree, Department of physics, Sofia University, 2005
Scholarship for education from Rotary Club Sofia Vitosha - 2003
Diplomas from national competitions in physics - 2001

   1. I. Nikolov, A. Gaydardzhiev, I. Buchvarov, P. Tzankov, F. Noack and V. Petrov; Ultrabroadband continuum amplification in the near infrared using BiB3O6 nonlinear crystals pumped at 800 nm; Optics Letters 32 (2007) 3342-3344;

   2. A. Gaydardzhiev, I. Nikolov, I. Buchvarov, V. Petrov and F. Noack; Ultrabroadband operation of a femtosecond optical parametric generator based on BiB3O6 in the near-IR; Optics Express 16 (2008) 2363-2373;

   3. V. Petrov, A. Gaydardzhiev, I. Nikolov, I. Buchvarov, P. Tzankov and F. Noack; The application of the monoclinic BiB3O6 nonlinear crystal in ultrafast laser technology; Proceedings of SPIE , 6875-32V/1-15;

   4. M. Ghotbi, M. Beutler, V. Petrov, A. Gaydardzhiev, F. Noack, High-energy, sub-30 fs near-IR pulses from a broadband optical parametric amplifier based on collinear interaction in BiB3O6, Optics Letters 34 (2009) 689-691

   5. V. Petrov, M. Ghotbi, A. Esteban-Martin, O. Kokabee, F. Noack, A. Gaydardzhiev, I. Nikolov, P. Tzankov, I. Buchvarov, K. Miyata, A. Majchrowski, I. V. Kityk, F. Rotermund, E. Michalski, M. Ebrahim-Zadeh, Femtosecond nonlinear frequency conversion based on BiB3O6, accepted at Laser and Photonics Reviews

E-mail: a.gaydardzhiev@phys.uni-sofia.bg

Tel.: +359 2 8161708