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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Turkey
2026

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
47
Citations
7744
World Ranking
3263
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Turkey Leader Award

Overview

Yahya Baykal is affiliated with Çankaya University in Turkey and has a research focus spanning engineering and physics, particularly within electrical and electronic engineering as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics. Their scholarly output addresses a variety of topics in optical wireless communication technologies and adaptive optics.

The scientist's research interests are reflected in the main areas of study, including:

  • Engineering
  • Physics and Astronomy

Subfields in which Baykal has published include:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

The primary topics covered in Baykal's work involve:

  • Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
  • Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
  • Optical Coherence Tomography Applications
  • Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
  • Radio Wave Propagation Studies
  • Ocular and Laser Science Research

Frequent collaborators in Baykal's research include:

  • Muhsın Caner Gökçe
  • Yalçın Ata
  • Hamza Gerçekcioğlu
  • Çağlar Arpali
  • Serap Altay Arpali

The venues where Baykal has most often published are:

  • Journal of the Optical Society of America A
  • Journal of Modern Optics
  • Physica Scripta
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Selected recent papers authored by Yahya Baykal include:

  • Underwater turbulence, its effects on optical wireless communication and imaging: A review, 2022, Optics & Laser Technology
  • Adaptive optics correction of scintillation in underwater medium, 2020, Journal of Modern Optics

Other related works involving frequent collaborators, though not authored by Baykal, contribute to the same fields and include topics such as laser beam propagation through tissue and optical communication systems in underwater environments.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of reciprocity of cos-Gaussian and cosh- Gaussian laser beams in a turbulent atmosphere.

    Halil Tanyer Eyyuboğlu;Yahya Baykal

  • Propagation of laser array beams in a turbulent atmosphere

    Y. Cai;Y. Cai;Yuntian Chen;Yuntian Chen;H. T. Eyyuboglu;Y. Baykal

  • Average intensity and spreading of cosh-Gaussian laser beams in the turbulent atmosphere

    Halil T. Eyyuboğlu;Yahya Baykal

  • Scintillations of optical plane and spherical waves in underwater turbulence.

    Yalçın Ata;Yahya Baykal

  • M2-factor of coherent and partially coherent dark hollow beams propagating in turbulent atmosphere.

    Yangsheng Yuan;Yangjian Cai;Jun Qu;Halil T. Eyyuboğlu

  • Flat topped beams and their characteristics in turbulent media.

    Halil T. Eyyuboglu;Çaglar Arpali;Yahya Kemal Baykal

  • Scintillation index of flat-topped Gaussian beams

    Yahya Baykal;Halil T. Eyyuboğlu

  • Scintillations of partially coherent multiple Gaussian beams in turbulence.

    Yahya Baykal;Halil T Eyyuboğlu;Yangjian Cai

  • Active laser radar systems with stochastic electromagnetic beams in turbulent atmosphere.

    Yangjian Cai;Olga Korotkova;Halil T. Eyyuboglu;Yahya Baykal

  • Wave structure function and spatial coherence radius of plane and spherical waves propagating through oceanic turbulence

    Lu Lu;Xiaoling Ji;Yahya Baykal

  • Receiver-aperture averaging effects for the intensity fluctuation of a beam wave in the turbulent atmosphere

    S. J. Wang;Y. Baykal;M. A. Plonus

  • Average irradiance and polarization properties of a radially or azimuthally polarized beam in a turbulent atmosphere

    Yangjian Cai;Qiang Lin;Halil T. Eyyuboglu;Yahya Baykal

  • Formulation of correlations for general-type beams in atmospheric turbulence

    Yahya Baykal

  • Underwater turbulence, its effects on optical wireless communication and imaging: A review

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  • Scintillation index of elliptical Gaussian beam in turbulent atmosphere

    Yangjian Cai;Yuntian Chen;Halil T. Eyyuboglu;Yahya Baykal

  • Off-axis Gaussian Schell-model beam and partially coherent laser array beam in a turbulent atmosphere

    Yangjian Cai;Qiang Lin;Yahya Baykal;Halil T. Eyyuboğlu

  • Effect of eddy diffusivity ratio on underwater optical scintillation index.

    Mohammed Elamassie;Murat Uysal;Yahya Baykal;Mohamed Abdallah

  • Twist phase-induced reduction in scintillation of a partially coherent beam in turbulent atmosphere

    Fei Wang;Yangjian Cai;Halil T. Eyyuboğlu;Yahya Baykal

  • Correlation and structure functions of Hermite–sinusoidal-Gaussian laser beams in a turbulent atmosphere

    Yahya Baykal

  • Scintillations of laser array beams

    H.T. Eyyuboğlu;Y. Baykal;Y. Cai

  • Convergence of general beams into Gaussian intensity profiles after propagation in turbulent atmosphere

    Halil T. Eyyuboğlu;Yahya Baykal;Emre Sermutlu

  • Scintillation characteristics of cosh-Gaussian beams

    Halil T. Eyyuboglu;Yahya Baykal

Frequent Co-Authors

Murat Uysal
Murat Uysal New York University Abu Dhabi
Mohamed Abdallah
Mohamed Abdallah Hamad bin Khalifa University
Khalid A. Qaraqe
Khalid A. Qaraqe Hamad bin Khalifa University

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