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D-Index
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6312
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Alex Alvarado publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alex Alvarado sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 293 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Alex Alvarado D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alex Alvarado sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alex Alvarado is affiliated with Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Engineering, with significant contributions in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and related subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their work covers numerous topics, notably in optical and photonic communication technologies. Main topics include:

  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques
  • PAPR reduction in OFDM
  • Advanced Optical Network Technologies

Alex Alvarado frequently publishes in various venues, with a notable presence in the following:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Entropy
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2022

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Alvarado are:

  • Roadmap on optical communications, 2024, Journal of Optics
  • Geometrically-Shaped Multi-Dimensional Modulation Formats in Coherent Optical Transmission Systems, 2022, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Revisiting Efficient Multi-Step Nonlinearity Compensation With Machine Learning: An Experimental Demonstration, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Radar Sensing with OTFS: Embracing ISI and ICI to Surpass the Ambiguity Barrier, 2021, Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology)
  • Analysis and Experimental Demonstration of Orthant-Symmetric Four-Dimensional 7 bit/4D-Sym Modulation for Optical Fiber Communication, 2021, Journal of Lightwave Technology

Their research collaborations include frequent coauthors:

  • Gabriele Liga
  • Yunus Can Gültekin
  • Chigo Okonkwo
  • F.M.J. Willems
  • Bin Chen

Best Publications

  • Replacing the Soft-Decision FEC Limit Paradigm in the Design of Optical Communication Systems*

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  • Replacing the Soft-Decision FEC Limit Paradigm in the Design of Optical Communication Systems

    Alex Alvarado;Erik Agrell;Domanic Lavery;Robert Maher

  • Achievable Information Rates for Fiber Optics: Applications and Computations

    Alex Alvarado;Tobias Fehenberger;Bin Chen;Frans M. J. Willems

  • On Probabilistic Shaping of Quadrature Amplitude Modulation for the Nonlinear Fiber Channel

    Tobias Fehenberger;Alex Alvarado;Georg Bocherer;Norbert Hanik

  • Spectrally shaped DP-16QAM super-channel transmission with multi-channel digital back-propagation.

    Robert Maher;Tianhua Xu;Lidia Galdino;Masaki Sato

  • On the performance of multichannel digital backpropagation in high-capacity long-haul optical transmission.

    Gabriele Liga;Tianhua Xu;Alex Alvarado;Robert I. Killey

  • On Probabilistic Shaping of Quadrature Amplitude Modulation for the Nonlinear Fiber Channel

    Tobias Fehenberger;Alex Alvarado;Georg Böcherer;Norbert Hanik

  • Capacity of a nonlinear optical channel with finite memory

    E Erik Agrell;A Alex Alvarado;Giuseppe Durisi;Magnus Karlsson

  • Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation: Fundamentals, Analysis and Design

    Leszek Szczecinski;Alex Alvarado

  • Design of a 1 Tb/s Superchannel Coherent Receiver

    David S. Millar;Robert Maher;Domanic Lavery;Toshiaki Koike-Akino

  • Maximizing the optical network capacity

    Polina Bayvel;Robert Maher;Tianhua Xu;Gabriele Liga

  • LDPC coded modulation with probabilistic shaping for optical fiber systems

    Tobias Fehenberger;Georg Bocherer;Alex Alvarado;Norbert Hanik

  • Sensitivity Gains by Mismatched Probabilistic Shaping for Optical Communication Systems

    Tobias Fehenberger;Domanic Lavery;Robert Maher;Alex Alvarado

  • Four-Dimensional Coded Modulation with Bit-Wise Decoders for Future Optical Communications

    Alex Alvarado;Erik Agrell

  • Increasing the information rates of optical communications via coded modulation: a study of transceiver performance.

    Robert Maher;Alex Alvarado;Domaniç Lavery;Polina Bayvel

  • Roadmap on Optical Communications

    Erik Agrell;Magnus Karlsson;Andy Chraplyvy;David Richardson

  • On achievable rates for long-haul fiber-optic communications.

    Tobias Fehenberger;Alex Alvarado;Polina Bayvel;Norbert Hanik

  • Achievable information rates estimates in optically amplified transmission systems using nonlinearity compensation and probabilistic shaping

    Daniel Semrau;Tianhua Xu;Nikita A. Shevchenko;Milen Paskov

  • Distribution of L-values in gray-mapped M 2 -QAM: closed-form approximations and applications

    A. Alvarado;L. Szczecinski;R. Feick;L. Ahumada

  • Design of APSK Constellations for Coherent Optical Channels with Nonlinear Phase Noise

    C. Hager;Alexandre Graell i Amat;A. Alvarado;E. Agrell

  • High-SNR Asymptotics of Mutual Information for Discrete Constellations With Applications to BICM

    Alex Alvarado;Fredrik Brannstrom;Erik Agrell;Tobias Koch

  • Information Rates of Next-Generation Long-Haul Optical Fiber Systems Using Coded Modulation

    Gabriele Liga;Alex Alvarado;Erik Agrell;Polina Bayvel

  • Performance Prediction of Nonbinary Forward Error Correction in Optical Transmission Experiments

    Laurent Schmalen;Alex Alvarado;Rafael Rios-Muller

  • Geometrically-Shaped Multi-Dimensional Modulation Formats in Coherent Optical Transmission Systems

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  • Modulation format dependence of digital nonlinearity compensation performance in optical fibre communication systems.

    Tianhua Xu;Nikita A. Shevchenko;Domaniç Lavery;Daniel Semrau

  • Optimal Alphabets and Binary Labelings for BICM at Low SNR

    E. Agrell;A. Alvarado

  • Four-Dimensional Coded Modulation with Bit-wise Decoders for Future Optical Communications

    Alex Alvarado;Erik Agrell

  • On Achievable Rates for Long-Haul Fiber-Optic Communications

    Tobias Fehenberger;Alex Alvarado;Polina Bayvel;Norbert Hanik

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Agrell
Erik Agrell Chalmers University of Technology
Polina Bayvel
Polina Bayvel University College London
Domanic Lavery
Domanic Lavery Infinera (UK)
Frans M. J. Willems
Frans M. J. Willems Eindhoven University of Technology
Seb J. Savory
Seb J. Savory University of Cambridge
Robert I. Killey
Robert I. Killey University College London
Magnus Karlsson
Magnus Karlsson Lund University
Benn C. Thomsen
Benn C. Thomsen Microsoft (United States)
Henry D. Pfister
Henry D. Pfister Duke University
Laurent Schmalen
Laurent Schmalen Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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