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5 papers

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.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…

cs.ET2025

Genetically programmable optical random neural networks

Bora Çarpınlıoğlu, Uğur Teğin

Today, machine learning tools, particularly artificial neural networks, have become crucial for diverse applications. However, current digital computing tools to train and deploy a…