OPTICAL FIBER METROLOGY AND SENSORS LABORATORY
Dr. Kıvılcım YÜKSEL ALDOĞAN
Ertunga Burak KOÇAL (research assistant)
Şamil ŞİRİN (research assistant)
Fiber Sensor Lab is accepting enthusiastic grad/undergrad students who are interested in developing novel technologies for sensing applications.
Please contact Dr. Kıvılcım Yüksel Aldoğan if you are interested.
- Optical fiber metrology
- Distributed and quasi-distributed optical fibre sensors
- OFDR, Phase-OTDR, OTDR
- Applications of Fiber Bragg Gratings
- Chemical (SRI), Physical (temperature, strain, pressure)
- Development of innovative concepts for low cost intelligent traffic management and transportation systems
- Optical access networks, Passive Optical Networks (PONs)
- Physical layer monitoring of PONs, Fiber to the home (FTTH) technologies.
Full list of our publications:
Interested in realising a Master Degree in Fiber Optics?
Contact us: kivilcimyuksel@iyte.edu.tr
THESES SUPERVISED IN OUR LAB
Şamil SIRIN. Investigation of phase-sensitive time domain reflectometry for optical fibre sensing, IYTE, September 2019-ongoing.
Ertunga Burak KOCAL Development of a Simulation Tool for FBG-based Phase-OTDR Vibration Sensors, IYTE, September 2018-ongoing.
Melike DEMIREL Framework for evaluating security and maintenance issues in optical fiber access networks: case for Turkey, IYTE, December 2018-ongoing.
Hurriyet YUCE CAKIR. Potential Applications of Inorganic Optical Elements and Polymeric Systems, IYTE, 2018-ongoing.
Cansu IDE. Analysis and implementation of long period fiber grating and Fresnel reflection-based sensors for refractive index measurement of liquids, IYTE, July 2017.
Anil YILMAZ. Analysis and implementation of optical fiber sensors for process monitoring of composie materials, IYTE, December 2016.
Gizem SOYLU. Exploiting second harmonic generation for microelectronics interface characterization, IYTE, July 2016
Deniz OZCAN PALA. Analysis and modeling of a novel approach for the interrogation unit of fiber Bragg gratings sensors using optical frequency- domain reflectometry techniques, IYTE, July 2014.
Interested in realising a graduation project in Photonic Technology?
Contact us: kivilcimyuksel@iyte.edu.tr
PAST GRADUATION PROJECTS
- 2020. Unidirectional wireless data transfer between multiple devices using visible light spectrum. (Click here: Poster of the project.)
(by Arda Şahin)- Tubitak 2209
- 2019. Development of a Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) Prototype
(by Florent Dransart, HELHa, Belgium)-Erasmus Internship Programme
- 2019. Development of a simulation tool for optical fibre vibration sensor
(by Şamil Şirin)-Tübitak-2209
- 2019. Design and Implementation of a Computer-Aided Calibration System for Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
(by Hazal Kahraman)-Tübitak 2209
- 2019.Analysis and implementation of Li-Fi System
(by Onur Ateş)-Tübitak 2209
- 2018. Fundamentals of Optical Fiber Sensing Schemes based on Coherent OTDR
(by Doğuş Karabulut)
- 2017. Analysis and Implementationof a New Sensor InterrogationApproachBasedon Fiber CavityRing-Downand OTDR
(by Nazlıcan Yılmaz, Büşra Akbulut)
- 2016. Analysis and implementation of opticalfiber sensors for monitoring of composite materials
(by Ali Yılmaz, UMONS, Belgium)-Erasmus Internship Programme
- 2016. Analysis and implementation of a refractive index sensor based on Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
(by Remzi Altunörs and Çağla Demir)
- 2015. Analysis and implementation of a tool for the physical-layer monitoring of optical access networks (TRA method)
(by Serkan Ormancı)
- 2014. Theoretical Study of the Birefringence Effect in FBGs Using Transfer Matrix Method
(by Anıl Yılmaz)
Technical elective courses on Photonics.
COURSE LIST
- EE-513. Fiber Optic Sensors (Syllabus)
- EE-511. Fiber Optic Communications
- EE-412. Lightwave Communications (Syllabus)
- EE-411. Fundamentals of Photonics
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Where are they working now?
AFTER OBTAINING A MASTER’S DEGREE
Cansu İDE ÇETİN (2014-2017): Research and development engineer at Optify (The Netherlands).
Formerly worked at Ermaksan and Nanotam upon graduation.
Anıl YILMAZ (2013-2016): System Safety Engineer at Volvo Cars (Sweden)
Deniz ÖZCAN PALA (2012-2014): International Projects Team Leader at Kentkart (Izmir, TR)
AFTER REALISING A GRADUATION PROJECT AT OUR LAB
Hazal Kahraman (2019): System design engineer at ASELSAN (Ankara, TR).
- Şamil Şirin (2019): Research assistant at Izmir Institute of Technology (Izmir, TR)
Doğuş Karabulut (2018): Data scientist at Veriff (Estonie).
Nazlıcan Yılmaz (2017): System engineer at ASELSAN (Ankara, TR)
Büşra Akbulut (2017): Product and support engineer at OSIsoft (Germany).
Çağla Demir (2016): Information security engineer at NETSMART (Istanbul, TR)
VIDEOS FROM GRADUATES
News
January 2021
Term Project Seminars
- A Market Research of Fiber Optic Sensors
by Ceren Özkal
- A review of Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)-based fiber optic biosensors
- An Overview of Optical Fiber Sensors in Large-Scale Particle Accelerator Facilities
July 2020
An overview of FBG-assisted Phase-OTDR Techniques presented at ICTON’2020
An invited talk was given by Dr. Kıvılcım Yüksel Aldoğan about Recent Advances in FBG-assisted Phase-OTDR technique and its applications.
The 22nd Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) was held in remote online version due to Covid-19 pandemic.
June 2020
Şamil Şirin gave a research seminar on fiber optic current sensors
Şamil Şirin realised his Master Thesis Proposal seminar June 26 2020, 11:00am.
Project title is “Development of a Simulation Tool for Fiber Optic Current Sensors”.
March 2020
Arda Şahin has been awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 support
Arda Şahin has been awarded TÜBİTAK 2209 support (research project supporting programme for university students) with his project called “Data Communication System Between Two Devices Through Visible Light Spectrum”.
The project is consulted by Dr. Kıvılcım Yüksel Aldoğan and aimed to enhance the performance parameters of a Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) prototype previously developed at the Department. Second aim of the project will be implementing a Medium Access Control to increase the number of users supported by the system.
February 2020
Our paper has been accepted for a poster presentation at the International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS 2020)
Combined Effect of Multi-Reflection and Spectral Shadowing Crosstalk in Phase-OTDR System Using Fiber Bragg Grating Array.
The multi-reflection crosstalk when combined with the spectral-shadowing effect has been shown to make the interpretation of spectral analysis more difficult in Phase-OTDR sensing system based on weak fiber Bragg grating array.
The International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS), established in 1983, is acknowledged as the world’s leading conference on all topics related to photonic sensing technologies. OFS provides a forum for reporting and exchanging ideas on the latest advances in research and development on fiber-optic and photonic sensing.
January 2020
Şamil Şirin joined EE Department and our Lab as research assistant
Şamil Şirin completed the B.S. degree in 2019 in İzmir Institute of Technology, Electronics Engineering Department.
He is currently pursuing a master degree and working as a research assistant.
December 2019
Ligth Fidelity (Li-Fi) demo realised
Li-Fi Prototype has been successfully designed and implemented by Florent Dransart (HELHA, Belgium) in the framework of Erasmus student exchange programme.
Set-up demo video:
December 2019
We participated to Technology Days organised by Izmir Universities Platform
November 2019
Şamil Şirin gave a talk on “Development of a simulation tool for vibration sensors based on Phase-OTDR interrogator” at ASYU’2019
November 2019
Dr. Yüksel Aldoğan organised and chaired a special session at ASYU’2019
Conference on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (ASYU 2019) was organized by Yaşar University, in cooperation with Yildiz Technical University. The topics of interest mainly cover Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Smart Systems, Machine Learning, and Data Mining.
July-August 2019
Dr. Yüksel Aldoğan was at UMONS (Belgium)
A fruitful collaboration was realised on the interrogation of FBG sensors by Phase-OTDR.
June 2019
Tubitak 2209-A Grant obtained for three graduation projects
Hazal Kahraman, Şamil Şirin and Onur Ateş completed their projects supported by TÜBİTAK 2209 Grant Program for undergraduate students.
October 2019
Ertunga Burak Koçal joined EE Department and our Lab as research assistant
Ertunga B. Koçal completed the B.S. degree in 2018 in İzmir Institute of Technology, Electronics Engineering Department.
He is currently pursuing a master degree and working as a research assistant.
June 2017
Dr. Yüksel Aldoğan’s project proposal for TUBITAK BIDEB-2219 International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program was granted
In the framework of this collaboration with UMONS, Development of a phase-OTDR interrogator based on coherent detection scheme was accomplished.
The short-term mission blossomed significantly and we have published the results, in the form of journal paper and conference presentations.
October 2016
Dr. Yüksel Aldoğan became an academic board member of Photonics Department of IZTECH
October 2012
Dr. Yüksel Aldoğan became an academic collaborator of Electromagnetism and Telecommunication Department of Mons University (UMONS, Belgium)