Ignac Bugar

Personal data:

Birthday: 18th October 1972, Sala (Slovakia)

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phone number: +43 1 58801 38747

family status: married, 3 children

Main research areas:

Nonlinear propagation of femtosecond pulses in microstructured optical fibers

Nonlinear propagation of high energy femtosecond pulses in gas media

Diagnostics of ultrafast laser pulses

Ultrafast spectroscopy of confined structures

Development of fiber lasers

Academic career:

1996 master degree, Faculty of Matematics and Physics, Comenius University Bratislava (CUB), specialization: Optics-Optoelectronics

1999 – 2003 research assistant, International Laser Centre Bratislava (ILCB)

2003 phd degree, Faculty of Matematics and Physics, CUB, Specialization: Quantum Electronics and Optics

2003 –  head of Femtosecond Spectroscopy Laboratory (ILCB)

2007 independently working scientific employee status

2009 phd supervisor status on Faculty Matematics Physics and Informatics (CUB) for specialization Quantum Electronics and Optics

2008 – research assistant, Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty Matematics Physics and Informatics (CUB), part-time job

2012 -  project assistant, Photonics Institute, Vienna University of Technology

Professional recognitions:

Organization committee prize among the student posters on the 7th Femtochemistry conference held in Toledo (2001)

Invited paper for Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics with title: A. B. Fedotov, A.N. Naumov, I. Bugar, D. Chorvat Jr., D. A. Sidorov-Biryukov, D. Chorvat, A. M. Zheltikov, Supercontinuum generatiom in microstructure fibers: photonic molecules versus photonic crystals, IEEE JSTQE 8 (2002) 665-674

National delegate of European COST action P11 Linear, nonlinear and active photonic crystals (2003-2007)

Program committe member of conference „Photonic Crystals and Fibers“ in the SPIE Europe Optics and Optoelectronics congress held in Warsaw (2005)

National delegate of European COST action MP0702 Towards functional sub-wavelength photonic structures (2008-2012)

Invited talk on conference International conference on transparent optical networks with title: I. Bugar, M. Koys, R. Buczynski, F. Uherek, Nonlinear spectral and spatial redistribution of light in dual core photonic crystal fiber held in Stockholm (2011)

10 most important publications:

1. Bugár, I., Koyš, M., Buczynski, Uherek, F.: Nonlinear Spectral and Spatial Redistribution of Light in Dual Core Photonic Crystal Fiber, ICTON 2011: 13th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks , art. no. We.C4.4, 4 pp. (2011) DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2011.5971117

2. Janek, M., Matejdes, M., Szocs, V., Bugar, I., Gaal, A., Velic, D., Darmo, J., Dielectric properties of micaceous clays determined by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, Philosophical Magazine 90 (17-18), pp. 2399-2413 (2010) DOI: 10.1080/14786430903575124

3. Zitnan, M., Szöcs, V., Janek, M., Bugar, I., Bdzoch, J., Palszegi, T., Link, G., Velic, D., Fluorescence dynamics of coumarin C522 on reduced-charge montmorillonite in aqueous dispersion, Langmuir 25 (12), pp. 6800-6807 (2009) DOI: 10.1021/la9006795

4. Bugar, I., Fedotov, I.V., Fedotov, A.B., Koys, M., Buczynski, R., Pysz, D., Chlpik, J., Uherek, F., Zheltikov, A.M., Polarization-controlled dispersive wave redirection in dual-core photonic crystal fiber, Laser Physics 18 (12), pp. 1420-1428 (2008) DOI: 10.1134/S1054660X08120086

5. Ivanov, A.A., Lorenc, D., Bugar, I., Uherek, F., Serebryannikov, E.E., Konorov, S.O., Alfimov, M.V., Chorvat, D., Zheltikov, A.M., Multimode anharmonic third-order harmonic generation in a photonic-crystal fiber, Physical review. E 73, pp. 016610 (2006) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.016610

6. Mitrofanov, A.V., Linik, Y.M., Buczynski, R., Pysz, D., Lorenc, D., Bugar, I., Ivanov, A.A., Alfimov, M.V., Fedotov, A.B.; Zheltikov, A.M., Highly birefringent silicate glass photonic-crystal fiber with polarization-controlled frequency-shifted output: A promising fiber light source for nonlinear Raman microspectroscopy, Optics Express 14 (22), pp.10645-10651 (2006) DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010645

7. Konorov, S.O., Sidorov-Biryukov, D.A., Bugar, I., Kovac, J., Fornarini, L., Carpanese, M., Avella, M., Errico, M.E., Chorvat, D., Kovac, J., Fantoni, R., Chorvat, D., Zheltikov, A.M., Diffuse optical harmonic generation in SiC nanopowder films: hunting scattered photons, Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 78 (1), pp. 73-77 (2004) DOI: 10.1007/s00340-003-1295-3

8. Fedotov, A.B., Bugar, I., Sidorov-Biryukov, D.A., Serebryannikov, E.E., Chorvat, D., Scalora, M., Chorvat, D., Zheltikov, A.M., Pump-depleting four-wave mixing in supercontinuum-generating microstructure fibers, Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics 77 (2-3), pp. 313-317 (2003) DOI: 10.1007/s00340-003-1206-7

9. Fedotov, A.B., Naumov, A.N., Zheltikov, A.M., Bugar, I., Chorvat, D., Chorvat, D., Tarasevitch, A.P., von der Linde, D., Frequency-tunable supercontinuum generation in photonic-crystal fibers by femtosecond pulses of an optical parametric amplifier, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 19 (9), pp. 2156-2164 (2002) DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.19.002156

10. Fedotov, A.B., Naumov, A.N., Bugar, I., Chorvat, D., Sidorov-Biryukov, D.A., Chorvat, D., Zheltikov, A.M., Supercontinuum generation in photonic-molecule modes of microstructure fibers, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 8 (3), pp. 665-674 (2002) DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.1016371