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    Signal-to-Noise Ratio Reduction in Non-Kolmogorov Jet Engine Exhaust Turbulence
    (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2026) Baykal, Yahya
    In a medium experiencing non-Kolmogorov jet engine exhaust turbulence, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is evaluated. SNR is naturally degraded due to the presence of turbulence. The reduction in the SNR in non-Kolmogorov jet engine exhaust turbulence is calculated and presented with respect to the power law for various wireless optical communication link and turbulence parameters. The reduction in SNR is referenced to the SNR achieved in the link when there is no turbulence. SNR, being an important entity in determining the link performance, knowledge about the reduction in SNR will help the designers of wireless optical communication links, especially installed in airport environments where jet engine exhaust turbulence mostly occurs.
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    Formal Verification for I2C Communication Protocol in Aerospace and Aviation Industries
    (Elsevier B.V., 2026) Berik, Merve; Baykal, Yahya
    The aerospace industry comprises many safety-critical applications that involve a vast number of interacting subsystems. Reliable data communication between devices and components is therefore essential. In this context, Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) communication protocol is widely preferred due to its simplicity, flexibility, low power consumption, and reliability. However, issues such as data corruption, data loss, and increased latency may still occur and can lead to serious consequences in aviation, including safety risks, electronic malfunctions, air traffic management problems, and incorrect navigation information. To avoid such failures, the I2C RegisterTransfer Level (RTL) design must be both correctly implemented and rigorously verified. There are several verification methods for digital design verification. Among several digital design verification approaches, Formal Verification (FV) is one of the most precise and reliable methods for safety- critical systems, as it provides mathematical proofs of conformance to specified properties. In this work, an open-source, Yosys-based formal verification flow is applied to an open-source I2C master design using the SymbiYosys framework. The verification environment is developed in SystemVerilog with SystemVerilog Assertions, enabling the detection of design errors directly against the protocol requirements. By combining bounded model checking, cover analysis, and theorem-proving, the proposed flow systematically verifies all five finite-state-machine (FSM) states and nine transitions of the I2C master. The results demonstrate that formal verification can systematically ensure robust and fault-tolerant I2C operation for avionics applications.
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    Citation - WoS: 1
    Scintillation Index in Non-Kolmogorov Jet Engine Exhaust Turbulence
    (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2026) Baykal, Yahya
    In a non-Kolmogorov jet engine exhaust turbulence environment, scintillation index is found and evaluated. Effects of non-Kolmogorov turbulence spectrum, i.e., power law on the scintillations are studied. Variations of the scintillations against the change in the power law are found for various link lengths, structure constants, wave numbers, jet engine exhaust turbulence strengths, source sizes and scale parameters of jet engine exhaust turbulence. When the power law of non-Kolmogorov turbulence varies, the changes in the scintillations in jet engine exhaust turbulence are not large. The results in this paper could be of help to designers of optical wireless communication systems operating in atmosphere experiencing non-Kolmogorov jet engine exhaust turbulence.
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    Transmittance of Gaussian Beam in Anisotropic Jet Engine Exhaust Turbulence
    (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2026) Baykal, Yahya
    Transmittance is a metric that provides information on how much of the intensity is transferred to the receiver for a given medium. One of the definitions of transmittance is the ratio of the average received intensity in the presence of turbulence to the received intensity in the absence of turbulence. Under such definition, transmittance is found in an anisotropic jet engine exhaust turbulent environment. For various receiver points, transmittances versus the wireless optical communication (WOC) link and anisotropic jet engine exhaust turbulence parameters are presented. The results are useful for designers of WOC links that are installed in the premises such as the airports that possess jet engine exhaust turbulence.
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    Mitigation of Laser Beam Fluctuation and Performance of Probability of Fade in Weak Ocean Turbulence
    (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2026) Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Baykal, Yahya
    Utilizing the Rytov method in weakly turbulent oceanic medium, minimum scintillation index of sinusoidal Gaussian (SG) laser beams, named as the optimum beam (OB), is investigated for the underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC). Horizontal link between any underwater vehicles is considered. The formulation of the on-axis scintillation index of these beams is derived analytically, and the minimum scintillation index is determined with suitable adjustment of the complex displacement parameters. The complex displacement parameters are identified and tabulated for the selected propagation distance and source size. Obtained scintillation index results are drawn against the propagation length and source size. When compared with the plane, spherical, collimated, focused Gaussian, cos-Gaussian and cosh-Gaussian beams, OB is found to possess essential advantage. Additionally, with the obtained scintillation index values, probabilities of fade of these beams are calculated and their behaviors are also presented. OB also has a significant advantage when considering the fade probability.
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    Beam Moments of Higher-Order Annular Gaussian Beams in Tissue Turbulence
    (Optica Publishing Group, 2025) Arpali, Serap Altay; Arpali, Caglar; Baykal, Yahya
    Beam moments of the laser beam at the receiver plane were analyzed using our previously developed formula for the average light intensity of a higher-order annular Gaussian (HOAG) beam in the presence of biological tissue turbulence. HOAG beam moments are examined for the entities of power-in-the-bucket (PIB) and kurtosis across various tissue types such as the upper dermis (human), liver parenchyma (mouse), intestinal epithelium (mouse), and deep dermis (mouse). Moreover, beam moments are explored considering factors like the strength coefficient of the refractive-index fluctuations and the propagation distance. The PIB values for all HOAG beam modes are found to decrease exponentially and steadily, behaving similar to Gaussian beams as tissue length increases. As turbulence intensity increases, higher-order HOAG beam modes transfer optical energy to the receiver more efficiently than the lower order modes. Kurtosis analysis shows that at intermediate distances, the beam energy is distributed toward the edges, while at longer distances, the energy concentration is lower at the edges than at the center. This trend is reflected in increasing kurtosis values across all HOAG modes and tissue types. Considering the changes in PIB and kurtosis, higher-order HOAG modes transfer energy more conservatively within the tissue. Furthermore, the tissue type with the best transfer of optical power was observed to be the deep dermis (mouse). (c) 2025 Optica Publishing Group. All rights, including for text and data mining (TDM), Artificial Intelligence (AI) training, and similar technologies, are reserved.
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    Laser Ablation Device with a Closed-Loop Control System
    (Optica Publishing Group, 2025) Beldek, Ulas; Erdogan, Kubra; Arpali, Caglar; Baykal, Yahya
    A laser ablation device with real-time beam power control is designed and implemented. This platform regulates the intensity of the laser beam by continuously measuring its intensity distribution. The quality of the ablation process is optimized through a closed-loop control system that uses a rule-based decision-making approach. The controller generates a starting signal for both the laser power and the motors based on the estimated quality of the ablation. The effects of laser power and light intensity on the formation of microchannels in polymethylmethacrylate material were investigated using the laser beam. The quality of the ablation geometry was assessed through image processing and inspection under a scanning electron microscope. The generated microchannels were analyzed in terms of roughness and residual thermal stress. A comparison of the experimental results with theoretical calculations and simulations revealed that the closed-loop control of laser beam power is effective for material etching and for creating smoother channel profiles. (c) 2025 Optica Publishing Group. All rights, including for text and data mining (TDM), Artificial Intelligence (AI) training, and similar technologies, are reserved.
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    Scintillation Characteristics of Annular Beam Array in Underwater Optical Links
    (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2025) Erdogdu, Ekin; Gokce, Muhsin Caner; Baykal, Yahya
    Underwater optical wireless communication systems offer a promising alternative to traditional acoustic methods for achieving high data rate transmission. However, the propagation of optical waves in underwater environments is severely impacted by oceanic turbulence, leading to intensity fluctuations and consequent performance degradation. In this work, we employ a laser beam array to model transmit spatial diversity for suppressing these fluctuations. The model uses annular-shaped lasers at the transmitter as a representation of beam shaping for turbulence mitigation, with a point detector assumed at the receiver. Through the use of the Huygens-Fresnel principle, we derive two key optical parameters: the average received intensity and the average of the intensity squared. We subsequently determine the scintillation index for this model. Our findings demonstrate reductions in scintillation under varying system parameters. For instance, increasing the number of beams in the array, the ring radius, and the secondary field amplitude of the annular beam leads to a lower scintillation index.
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    Effects of Receiver Diversity on Bit Error Rate of Underwater Optical Wireless Communication Systems in Weak Oceanic Turbulence
    (Springer, 2025) Gokce, Muhsin Caner; Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin
    The receiver spatial diversity techniques are employed in underwater optical wireless communication (OWC) systems to mitigate oceanic turbulence, improving the bit error rate performance. In this paper, we consider an OWC system employing a binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulated Gaussian beam at the transmitter and employing receiver spatial diversity at the receiver. The techniques for receiver spatial diversity systems considered in the study are selection combining (SC), equal gain combining (EGC), and the maximum ratio combining (MRC). The bit error rate (BER) performance of the OWC system operating in weak oceanic turbulence is investigated by calculating the Gaussian beam's turbulence-induced scintillation index and the received optical intensity. It is found that the receiver spatial diversity techniques, especially EGC and MRC, are very effective for reducing the BER of an OWC system in weak oceanic turbulence. Furthermore, the BER performance of the underwater OWC system sees an improvement with an increase in the number of photodetectors or a decrease in the level of oceanic turbulence. Moreover, an improvement in the photodetector responsivity or a reduction in the system's noise factor contributes to achieving a favorable BER performance.
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    Citation - Scopus: 1
    Multimode Laser Beam Field Correlations for Vertical Links Operating in Oceanic Turbulence
    (IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers inc, 2025) Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Baykal, Yahya; Gokce, Muhsin Caner; Caner Gokce, Muhsin
    In underwater optical vertical link medium, based on the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle, multimode laser beam field correlation is derived and evaluated analytically in the Atlantic Ocean at high latitude and high latitude- low latitudes. With the depth of seawater, the coherence length of a spherical wave operating in the underwater turbulent medium is demonstrated for the range of 0-4000 m. By utilizing the coherence length varying with parameters such as the rate of dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy per unit mass of fluid epsilon, the rate of dissipation of the mean squared temperature chi(T) and non-dimensional representing the relative strength of temperature and salinity fluctuations omega, which depend on depth, the field correlation is examined in detail for single modes and multimode. Their variations are exhibited. Our results indicate clearly that as the mode increases, field correlation gets better.