Uğur Teğin
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Uğur Teğin
@utegin.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. at Koç Uni. Electrical & Electronics Engineering. Working on photonics. Postdoc @caltech.edu, PhD @EPFL, MS and BS @Bilkent
Our new graduate students have joined the team, and we’ve refreshed our lab website with an updated group photo. Take a look: lpt.ku.edu.tr/people.html
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Exciting news! Our project, “Multiphoton Imaging System with Spatiotemporal Fiber Lasers for Real-Time Optical Biopsy,” has been selected as one of seven projects funded under the Turkish–Italian Bilateral Cooperation Programme (TÜBİTAK–MAECI).

tubitak.gov.tr/en/announcem...
2524 TÜBİTAK-Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) Bilateral Cooperation Programme Call Results Announced! | TÜBİTAK | Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kuru...
T.C. Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı'nın ilgili kuruluşudur.
tubitak.gov.tr
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Greetings from Denver, CO! This year, I am attending Frontiers in Optics with my PhD student Bora Carpinlioglu. Both of us delivered our talks today. Now, we can enjoy the rest of the conference.
October 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Excited to share our latest preprint “Engineering Rogue Waves via Multimode Interactions in Integrated Waveguides” now on arXiv!

In this study, we show that rogue waves—rare extreme optical pulses—can be engineered via modal excitation in multimode Si₃N₄ waveguides.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.07082
Engineering Rogue Waves via Multimode Interactions in Integrated Waveguides
We explore rogue wave formation in multimode silicon nitride (Si$_3$N$_4$) waveguides with multimode nonlinear Schrödinger equation-based simulations. Pure fundamental-mode excitation produces smooth ...
arxiv.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Reposted by Uğur Teğin
I am recruiting a postdoc to work experimentally in my group @astonphotonics.bsky.social on electro-optic frequency combs for microscopy applications!

If you are interested please write me!

You find more details here 👇👇👇

jobs.aston.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at Aston University: Postdoctoral Research Associate
We are hiring a postdoctoral research associate at the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AIPT), that will join the group of Dr. Auro Perego. You will perform experimental and numerical simulat...
jobs.aston.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It’s not fancy, but it marks a special moment for us . We coupled light into our first in-house fabricated chip! Next time we will take fancy pictures with neon colors :)
October 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
On my way back to NYC, I visited Cornell and shared our recent studies with colleagues. I had great discussions with Frank Wise, Nicholas Rivera, and Peter McMahon, enjoyed inspiring lab tours, and appreciated the warm hospitality of the Wise group.
September 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Had a great time visiting Corning and giving a talk! It was inspiring to meet brilliant scientists and see their cutting-edge production and scientific innovations firsthand.
September 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Our recent preprint “Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Pulse Dynamics in Multimode Silicon Nitride Waveguides” now on arXiv!

Dive into the details here arxiv.org/abs/2508.18945
Spatiotemporal Nonlinear Pulse Dynamics in Multimode Silicon Nitride Waveguides
We present an open-source multimode nonlinear Schrödinger equation-based simulation to investigate spatiotemporal nonlinear pulse propagation in thin-film silicon nitride (SiN) waveguides. Using this ...
arxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Our new paper is out in Communications Physics of Nature Portfolio!

We present a genetically programmable optical random neural network, combining optical computing with adaptive control for efficient machine learning.

doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Genetically programmable optical random neural networks - Communications Physics
Optics offers highly parallelized and energy-efficient computations, making it suitable for answering the ever-increasing demands of artificial intelligence systems. Here, the authors demonstrate a pr...
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Good morning! Morning walk at 6:30
August 24, 2025 at 5:56 AM
We just published Fiber-D2NN in Optics Letters! This optical computer works by tuning linear mode coupling inside multimode fiber. It enables simple-readout or all-optical inference and reaches competitive accuracy on BreastMNIST, FashionMNIST & RSSCN7. doi.org/10.1364/OL.5...
Fiber-based diffractive deep neural network
Optical computing has reemerged as a promising alternative computing paradigm for providing energy-efficient information processing in the age of artificial intelligence. Among various photonic neural...
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We have received a TÜBİTAK 1001 grant to elevate our AI for Optics research to the field of Quantum.

With our “Unscrambling quantum light in scattering media with artificial neural networks” project, we will teach neural networks to “see”quantum light through messy environments.
August 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We have received a TÜBİTAK 1001 grant to elevate our AI for Optics research to the field of Quantum.

With our “Unscrambling quantum light in scattering media with artificial neural networks” project, we will teach neural networks to “see”quantum light through messy environments.
August 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by Uğur Teğin
Very sad to hear that the great soliton pioneer Akira Hasegawa has died on June 22. His work truly was revolutionary in so many ways and impacted so many different fields. An obituary from Columbia is below. www.apam.columbia.edu/memoriam-pro...
In Memoriam: Prof. Akira Hasegawa (1934-2025)
Dr. Akira Hasegawa, former adjunct professor at Columbia’s Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, has passed away.
www.apam.columbia.edu
August 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
After SPIE conference at San Diego, we visited UCLA and Caltech. We had the chance to get lab tours from Prof. Aydogan Ozcan and Prof. Alireza Marandi. It was truly inspiring to see their groundbreaking research and enjoy such generous hospitality!
August 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Conference selfie with my students
#SPIEOpticsPhotonics
August 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Greetings from San Diego!

It was a pleasure to present my invited talk at the Emerging Topics in AI conference, SPIE Optics + Photonics this week. I shared our recent optical computing architectures.

@spie.org #SpieOpticsPhotonics
August 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Next week at ETAI conference of @spie.org Optics + Photonics, our Lab. of Photonic Techs will be in San Diego with 6 talks and 1 posters. We are excited to share our recent works on Optics for AI and AI for optics!
August 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
From Beyoğlu to entrance of Bosphorus. Right side you can see that Hagia Sophia is under restoration
July 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Greetings from Berlin! Today I will be giving an invited talk about our recent studies on optical computing at IEEE Summer Topicals.
July 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Since I am out of town for conferences, my team made a surprise birthday for me previous week. I wasn’t expecting it and it was total surprise for me!
July 17, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Greetings from Marseille! Today I will be giving an invited talk on our recent studies about optical computing with waveguides at Optica Advanced Photonics Congress
July 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Our students, Yaren and Bahadır, did an amazing job presenting our talks and posters at #CLEOEurope
June 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Next week at #CLEOEurope 2025, our Lab. of Photonic Techs will be in Munich with 3 talks and 2 posters. We are excited to share our recent works on optical computing and ultrafast imaging!
June 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM