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physics.optics2026

Deep Inverse-Designed Nanophotonic Processors with Structural Nonlinearity from Repeated Phase Encoding

Azka Maula Iskandar Muda, Uğur Teğin

Passive nanophotonic scattering regions implement linear optical transformations, and cascading input-independent regions alone does not create functional depth because the resulti…

physics.optics2026

Resolution-Agnostic Lensless Imaging via Fourier Neural Operators

Kerem Ekec, Uğur Teğin

Lensless cameras based on thin diffusers offer a compact alternative to conventional refractive imaging but rely on computational reconstruction, since the diffuser's point spread…

physics.optics2026

Self-optimizing multichannel optical computing

Fatma Nur Kılınç, Uğur Teğin

Optical computing offers ultrafast, energy-efficient alternatives to conventional digital processors, yet most implementations remain confined to single-channel processing, severel…

physics.optics2025

Optical Spiking Neural Networks via Rogue-Wave Statistics

Bahadır Utku Kesgin, Gülsüm Yaren Durdu, Uğur Teğin

Optical computing could reduce the energy cost of artificial intelligence by leveraging the parallelism and propagation speed of light. However, implementing nonlinear activation,…

physics.optics2025

The role of modes in nonlinear fiber optical computing

Firdevs Yüce, Bora Çarpınlıoğlu, Uğur Teğin

We investigate the nonlinear propagation of light in graded-index multimode fiber, utilizing it as an optical computing unit, and quantify how it employs waveguide modes to process…

physics.optics2025

Fiber-based diffractive deep neural network

Bahadır Utku Kesgin, Firdevs Yüce, Uğur Teğin

Optical computing has reemerged as a promising alternative computing paradigm for providing energy-efficient information processing in the age of artificial intelligence. Among var…

physics.optics2024

Optical computing with supercontinuum generation in photonic crystal fibers

Azka Maula Iskandar Muda, Uğur Teğin

We introduce a novel photonic neural network using photonic crystal fibers, leveraging femtosecond pulse supercontinuum generation for optical computing. Investigating its efficacy…

physics.optics2020★ 187 cited

Scalable Optical Learning Operator

Uğur Teğin, Mustafa Yıldırım, İlker Oğuz +2

Today's heavy machine learning tasks are fueled by large datasets. Computing is performed with power hungry processors whose performance is ultimately limited by the data transfer…

physics.optics2020★ 56 cited

All-fiber spatiotemporally mode-locked laser with multimode fiber-based filtering

Uğur Teğin, Babak Rahmani, Eirini Kakkava +2

We demonstrate the first multimode fiber interference-based filtering in an all-fiber spatiotemporally mode-locked laser. The oscillator generates dissipative soliton pulses at 103…

physics.optics2020★ 123 cited

Single mode output by controlling the spatiotemporal nonlinearities in mode-locked femtosecond multimode fiber lasers

Uğur Teğin, Babak Rahmani, Eirini Kakkava +2

The performance of fiber mode-locked lasers is limited due to the high nonlinearity induced by the spatial confinement of the single-mode fiber core. To massively increase the puls…

physics.optics2019★ 160 cited

Spatiotemporal self-similar fiber laser

Uğur Teğin, Eirini Kakkava, Babak Rahmani +2

In this Letter, we demonstrate, to the best of our knowledge, the first spatiotemporally mode-locked fiber laser with self-similar pulse evolution. The multimode fiber oscillator g…

physics.optics2018★ 93 cited

All-fiber all-normal-dispersion femtosecond laser with nonlinear multimodal interference based saturable absorber

Uğur Teğin, Bülend Ortaç

In this letter, we demonstrate the first all-fiber all-normal dispersion ytterbium-doped oscillator with nonlinear multimodal interference based saturable absorber capable to gener…

physics.optics2017★ 43 cited

High power high repetition rate supercontinuum generation in graded-index multimode fibers

Uğur Teğin, Bülend Ortaç

Graded-index multimode fibers can handle high average powers and feature unique nonlinear dynamics due to spatio-temporal evolution of the light inside. We report on generation of…

physics.optics2017★ 36 cited

Observation of Spatio-temporal Instability of Femtosecond Pulses in Normal Dispersion Multimode Graded-Index Fiber

Uğur Teğin, Bülend Ortaç

We study the spatio-temporal instability generated by a universal unstable attractor in normal dispersion graded-index multimode fiber (GRIN MMF) for femtosecond pulses. Our result…