Publications

Preprints

Peer-reviewed journal articles

1. A. Ammar, S. F. Şener, M. Ercan, and H. Yılmaz, “Upper bounds on focusing light through multimode fibers”, Physical Review Applied 24, 054006 (2025).

2. R. E. McIntosh, A. Goetschy, N. Bender, A. Yamilov, C. W. Hsu, H. Yılmaz, and H. Cao, “Spectral width of maximum deposition eigenchannels in diffusive media”, Physical Review B 111, 144202 (2025).

3. A. N. K. Reddy, H. Zacharias, H. Yılmaz, V. V. Kim, V. Kӓrcher, V. Anand, and R. A. Ganeev, “Generating high-harmonic array beams”, APL Photonics 10, 026109 (2025).

4. L. Shaughnessy, R. E. McIntosh, A. Goetschy, C. W. Hsu, N. Bender, H. Yılmaz, A. Yamilov, and H. Cao, “Multiregion light control in diffusive media via wavefront shaping”, Physical Review Letters 133, 146901 (2024).

5. J. Rosen, S. Alford, B. Allan, V. Anand, S. Arnon, F. G.Arockiaraj, J. Art, B. Bai, G. M. Balasubramaniam, T. Birnbaum, N. S. Bisht, D. Blinder, L.Cao, Q. Chen, Z. Chen, V. Dubey, K. Egiazarian, M. Ercan, A. Forbes, G. Gopakumar, Y. Gao, S. Gigan, P. Gocłowski, S. Gopinath, A. Greenbaum, R. Horisaki, D. Ierodiaconou, S. Juodkazis, T. Karmakar, V. Katkovnik, S. N. Khonina, P. Kner, V. Kravets, R. Kumar, Y. Lai, C. Li, J.Li, S. Li, Y.Li, J. Liang, G. Manavalan, A. C. Mandal, M. Manisha, C. Mann, M. J. Marzejon, C.Moodley, J. Morikawa, I. Muniraj, D.Narbutis, S. H. Ng, F. Nothlawala, J. Oh, A. Ozcan, Y. K.Park, A. P. Porfirev, M. Potcoava, S. Prabhakar, J. Pu, M. R. Rai, M. Rogalski, M. Ryu, S.Choudhary, G. R. Salla, P. Schelkens, S. F. Şener, I. Shevkunov, T. Shimobaba, R. K. Singh, R. P. Singh, A. Stern, J. Sun, S. Zhou, C. Zuo, Z. Zurawski, T. Tahara, V. Tiwari, M. Trusiak, R. V. Vinu, S. G. Volotovskiy, H. Yılmaz, H. B. De Aguiar, B. S. Ahluwalia, and A. Ahmad, “Roadmap on computational methods in optical imaging and holography”, Applied Physics B 130, 166 (2024).

6. R. McIntosh, A. Goetschy, N. Bender, A. Yamilov, C. W. Hsu, H. Yılmaz, and H. Cao, “Delivering broadband light deep inside diffusive media”, Nature Photonics 18, 744-750 (2024).

   • Highlighted in New & Views by Roarke Hortsmeyer and Lucas Kreiss, Nature Photonics 18, 654-655 (2024).

7. N. Bender, A. Goetschy, C. W. Hsu, H. Yılmaz, P. J. Palacios, A. Yamilov, and H. Cao, “Coherent enhancement of optical remission in diffusive media”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 119, e2207089119 (2022).

8. H. Kuniyil, H. Ozel, H. Yılmaz, and K. Durak, “Noise-tolerant object detection and ranging using quantum correlations”, Journal of Optics 24, 105201 (2022).

9. S. Gigan, O. Katz, H. B. de Aguiar, E. R. Andresen, A. Aubry, J. Bertolotti, E. Bossy, D. Bouchet, J. Brake, S. Brasselet, Y. Bromberg, H. Cao, T. Chaigne, Z. Cheng, W. Choi, T. Čižmár, M. Cui, V. R. Curtis, H. Defienne, M. Hofer, R. Horisaki, R. Horstmeyer, N. Ji, A. K. LaViolette, J. Mertz, C. Moser, A. P. Mosk, N. C. Pégard, R. Piestun, S. Popoff, D. B. Phillips, D. Psaltis, B. Rahmani, H. Rigneault, S. Rotter, L. Tian, I. M. Vellekoop, L. Waller, L. Wang, T. Weber, S. Xiao, C. Xu, A. Yamilov, C. Yang, and H. Yılmaz, “Roadmap on wavefront shaping and deep imaging in complex media”, Journal of Physics: Photonics 4, 042501 (2022).

10. N. Bender, A. Yamilov, A. Goetschy, H. Yılmaz, C. W. Hsu, and H. Cao, “Depth-targeted energy delivery deep inside scattering media”, Nature Physics 18, 309-315 (2022).

    • Highlighted in New & Views by Oluwafemi S. Ojambati, Nature Physics 18, 227-228 (2022).

11. H. Yılmaz, M. Kühmayer, C. W. Hsu, S. Rotter, and H. Cao, “Customizing the angular memory effect for scattering media”, Physical Review X 11, 031010 (2021).

12. Y. Eliezer, G. Qu, W. Yang, Y. Wang, H. Yılmaz, S. Xiao, Q. Song, and H. Cao, “Suppressing meta-holographic artifacts by laser coherence tuning”, Light: Science & Applications 10, 104 (2021).

13. N. Bender, M. Sun, H. Yılmaz, J. Bewersdorf, and H. Cao, “Circumventing the optical diffraction limit with customized speckles”, Optica 8, 122-129 (2021).

    • Highlighted in wavefrontshaping.net

14. S. Mahler, Y. Eliezer, H. Yılmaz, A. A. Friesem, N. Davidson, and H. Cao, “Fast laser speckle suppression with an intracavity diffuser”, Nanophotonics 10, 129-136 (2021).

15. N. Bender, A. Yamilov, H. Yılmaz, and H. Cao, “Fluctuations and correlations of transmission eigenchannels in diffusive media”, Physical Review Letters 125, 165901 (2020).

16. W. Xiong, S. Gertler, H. Yılmaz, and H. Cao, “Multimode-fiber-based single-shot full-field measurement of optical pulses”, Optics Letters 45, 2462-2465 (2020).

17. H. Yılmaz, C. W. Hsu, A. Goetschy, S. Bittner, S. Rotter, A. Yamilov, and H. Cao, “Angular memory effect of transmission eigenchannels”, Physical Review Letters 123, 203901 (2019).

18. N. Bender, H. Yılmaz, Y. Bromberg, and H. Cao, “Creating and controlling complex light”, APL Photonics 4, 106103 (2019).

    • Selected as a featured article by the editors.

    • Research highlight by Savannah Mandel, “Creating and controlling non-Rayleigh speckles”, AIP Scilight (2019).
    
    

19. H. Yılmaz, C. W. Hsu, A. Yamilov, and H. Cao, “Transverse localization of transmission eigenchannels”, Nature Photonics 13, 352-358 (2019).

20. N. Bender, H. Yılmaz, Y. Bromberg, and H. Cao, “Introducing non-local correlations into laser speckles”, Optics Express 27, 6057-6067 (2019).

21. S. Bittner, S. Guazzotti, Y. Zeng, X. Hu, H. Yılmaz, K. Kim, S. S. Oh, Q. J. Wang, O. Hess, and H. Cao, “Suppressing spatiotemporal lasing instabilities with wave-chaotic microcavities”, Science 361, 1225-1231 (2018).

    • Perspective by Lan Yang, “Fighting chaos with chaos in lasers”, Science 361, 1201 (2018).

    • Highlighted in the special issue of Optics & Photonics News, Dec. 2018, “Taming Laser Instabilities with Chaos”.

22. N. Bender, H. Yılmaz, Y. Bromberg, and H. Cao, “Customizing speckle intensity statistics”, Optica 5, 595-600 (2018).

    • Appeared on the cover of Optica 5, Issue 5, 20 May 2018.
    
    

23. H. Yılmaz, H. Yılmaz, M. S. Tamer, O. Gürlü, M. S. Murib, and A. Serpengüzel, “Whispering-gallery modes observed in elastic scattering from submerged high-refractive-index silica microspheres”, Optical Engineering 56, 126110 (2017).

24. O. S. Ojambati, H. Yılmaz, A. Lagendijk, A. P. Mosk, and W. L. Vos, “Coupling of energy into the fundamental diffusion mode of a complex nanophotonic medium”, New Journal of Physics 18, 043032 (2016).

25. H. Yılmaz, H. Yılmaz, M. S. Murib, and A. Serpengüzel, “Fiber optic excitation of silicon microspheres in amorphous and crystalline fluids”, Fiber and Integrated Optics 35, 60-71 (2016).

26. H. Yılmaz, E. G. van Putten, J. Bertolotti, A. Lagendijk, W. L. Vos, and A. P. Mosk, “Speckle correlation resolution enhancement of wide-field fluorescence imaging”, Optica 2, 424-429 (2015).

    • Research highlight by Rachel Won, “Scattering lens power”, Nature Photonics 9, 418 (2015).

    • Interview at optics.org entitled “New fluorescence imaging method uses scattering medium as imaging lens” by Tim Hayes (Jun. 2015).
    
    

27. R. Kas, R. Kortlever, H. Yılmaz, M. Koper, and G. Mul, “Manipulating the hydrocarbon selectivity of copper nanoparticles in CO₂ electroreduction by process conditions”, ChemElectroChem 2, 354-358 (2015).

28. H. Yılmaz, W. L. Vos, and A. P. Mosk, “Optimal control of light propagation through multiple-scattering media in the presence of noise”, Biomedical Optics Express 4, 1759-1768 (2013).

Peer-reviewed proceedings

1. H. Yılmaz, M. S. Tamer, O. Gürlü, and A. Serpengüzel, “Tuning of optical resonances of a microsphere with liquid crystal”, Integrated Photonics: Materials, Devices, and Applications 8069 (2011).

2. G. Gilardi, H. Yılmaz, M. S. Murib, R. Asquini, A. d’Alessandro, A. Serpengüzel, and R. Beccherelli, “Tunable integrated optical filters based on sapphire microspheres and liquid crystals”, Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits II 7719 (2010).