JOURNAL PAPERS
[1] C. Ozcan, M. Mojahedi, J.S. Aitchison, " Short, broadband, and polarization-insensitive adiabatic Y-junction optical power splitters", Optics Letters, Vol. 48, Issue 18, Pages 4901-4904, September 2023.
[2] C. Ozcan, J.S. Aitchison, M. Mojahedi, "Optimization of bulk sensitivity for strip, slot, and subwavelength grating-based waveguides for dual-polarization operation", Optics Express, Vol. 31, Issue 3, Pages 3579-3594, January 2023.
[3] C. Ozcan, D. Turkay, S. Yerci, “Optical and Electrical Design Guidelines of ZnO Nanorod Based CdTe Solar Cells”, Optics Express, Vol. 27, Issue 8, Pages A339-A351, April 2019.
[4] G. Kartopu, D. Turkay, C. Ozcan, W. Hadibrata, P. Aurang, S. Yerci, H.E. Unalan, V. Barrioz, Y. Qu, L. Bowen, A.K. Gürlek, P. Maiello, R. Turan, S.J.C. Irvine “Photovoltaic Performance of CdS/CdTe Junctions on ZnO Nanorod Arrays”, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol. 176, Pages 100-108, March 2018.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
[1] [Invited] C. Ozcan, M. Mojahedi, J.S. Aitchison, “Waveguide Taper Profile Optimization for Compact On-Chip Adiabatic Devices”, Photonics North 2023 Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2023.
[2] C. Ozcan, M. Mojahedi, J.S. Aitchison, “Compact and Broadband Inverse Taper-based Light Couplers with Optimized Profiles”, Photonics North 2023 Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2023.
[3] C. Ozcan, J.S. Aitchison, M. Mojahedi, “Compact Adiabatic Power Splitters with Polynomial Taper Profile Optimization”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, USA, May 2023.
[4] C. Ozcan, J.S. Aitchison, M. Mojahedi, “Improving Minimum Feature Sizes of Subwavelength Grating Slot Waveguide Optical Sensors”, IEEE Photonics Conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 2022.
[5] R.K. Sinha, M. Mojahedi, C. Ozcan, “Highly-efficient apodized grating coupler in visible spectrum for backward coupling”, IEEE Photonics Conference, Vancouver, Canada, November 2022.
[6] C. Ozcan, M. Mojahedi, J.S. Aitchison, “Optimization of Adiabatically Tapered Y-Branches for Dual Polarization Operation”, IEEE Photonics Conference, (Online), October 2021.
[7] C. Ozcan, J.S. Aitchison, M. Mojahedi, “Adiabatic Waveguide Taper Profile Optimization on Al2O3/Si Platform for Polarization Insensitive Fiber-to-Chip Light Coupling”, The European Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics (CLEO Europe), (Online), June 2021.
[8] C. Ozcan, M. Mojahedi, J.S. Aitchison, “Broadband Polarization Beam Splitter based on Tilted Subwavelength Gratings on the Si3N4/Si Augmented Low Index Guiding Platform”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), (Online), May 2021.
[9] C. Ozcan, J.S. Aitchison, M. Mojahedi, “Polarization Insensitive Fiber-to-Chip Light Coupling to Aluminum Oxide/Silicon Augmented Low Index Waveguides”, IEEE Photonics Conference, (Online), November 2020.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
1. SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship, 2023.
2. Donald R. Studney Electromagnetics Graduate Award by Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 2023.
3. Graduate Scholarship by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2017-2018.
4. MITACS Globalink Research Internship, Summer 2015.
5. Double major scholarship by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2014-2016.