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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
56
Citations
12581
World Ranking
2064
National Ranking
107

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Optics
  • Telecommunications
  • Quantum mechanics

Andrew D. Ellis mainly focuses on Optics, Electronic engineering, Optical amplifier, Optical communication and Gigabit. His research in Optics intersects with topics in Multiplexing, Transmission, Bit error rate and Modulation. His Electronic engineering study incorporates themes from Optical performance monitoring, Optical Carrier transmission rates, Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing and Synchronization.

His Optical amplifier research includes elements of Semiconductor, Nonlinear optics, Optical switch, Demultiplexer and Rotation. His Optical communication research incorporates elements of Phase noise, Time-division multiplexing, Mode-locking and Communications system. His studies in Gigabit integrate themes in fields like Interferometry, Grating, Wavelength conversion and Dispersion compensation.

His most cited work include:

  • Nonlinear Optics for High-Speed Digital Information Processing. (467 citations)
  • All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems (453 citations)
  • Approaching the Non-Linear Shannon Limit (356 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Optics, Electronic engineering, Wavelength-division multiplexing, Optical communication and Transmission are his primary areas of study. His Optics study often links to related topics such as Amplifier. His Electronic engineering research incorporates themes from Optical performance monitoring, Nonlinear system, Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing and Modulation.

The Nonlinear system study combines topics in areas such as Compensation and Signal processing. His Wavelength-division multiplexing study combines topics in areas such as Communication channel, Spectral efficiency and Optical filter. His Optical communication research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Bandwidth and Electrical engineering.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Optics (49.91%)
  • Electronic engineering (42.41%)
  • Wavelength-division multiplexing (20.11%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2021)?

  • Electronic engineering (42.41%)
  • Optics (49.91%)
  • Nonlinear system (14.44%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Andrew D. Ellis mostly deals with Electronic engineering, Optics, Nonlinear system, Multiplexing and Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing. The various areas that Andrew D. Ellis examines in his Electronic engineering study include Phase-shift keying, Transmission, Optical performance monitoring, Wavelength-division multiplexing and Optical fiber. His study connects Transmission system and Optics.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Optoelectronics, Compensation, Topology and Signal processing in addition to Nonlinear system. Andrew D. Ellis interconnects Phase noise, Drop and Quadrature amplitude modulation in the investigation of issues within Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing. His work carried out in the field of Optical communication brings together such families of science as Bandwidth and Electrical engineering.

Between 2013 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Performance limits in optical communications due to fiber nonlinearity (69 citations)
  • 4 Tb/s Transmission Reach Enhancement Using 10 × 400 Gb/s Super-Channels and Polarization Insensitive Dual Band Optical Phase Conjugation (60 citations)
  • Exceeding the nonlinear-shannon limit using raman laser based amplification and optical phase conjugation (60 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Telecommunications
  • Optics
  • Quantum mechanics

His primary scientific interests are in Optics, Electronic engineering, Nonlinear system, Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing and Phase conjugation. Many of his studies on Optics apply to Transmission system as well. His Electronic engineering research includes themes of Optical performance monitoring, Wavelength-division multiplexing and Subcarrier, Subcarrier multiplexing.

Andrew D. Ellis combines subjects such as Optical fiber and Optical cross-connect with his study of Optical performance monitoring. His Nonlinear system study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Compensation, Transmission, Bandwidth and Signal, Signal processing. In Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, Andrew D. Ellis works on issues like Phase noise, which are connected to Noise temperature.

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear Optics for High-Speed Digital Information Processing.

    D. Cotter;R.J. Manning;K.J. Blow;A.D. Ellis

  • All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems

    Radan Slavík;Francesca Parmigiani;Joseph Kakande;Carl Lundström

  • Approaching the Non-Linear Shannon Limit

    A.D. Ellis;Jian Zhao;D. Cotter

  • 73.7 Tb/s (96 x 3 x 256-Gb/s) mode-division-multiplexed DP-16QAM transmission with inline MM-EDFA

    V.A.J.M. Sleiffer;Y. Jung;V. Veljanovski;R.G.H. van Uden

  • Spectral density enhancement using coherent WDM

    A.D. Ellis;F.C.G. Gunning

  • Semiconductor laser amplifiers for ultrafast all-optical signal processing

    R. J. Manning;A. D. Ellis;A. J. Poustie;K. J. Blow

  • Error free 100 Gbit/s wavelength conversion using grating assisted cross-gain modulation in 2 mm long semiconductor amplifier

    A.D. Ellis;A.E. Kelly;D. Nesset;D. Pitcher

  • Rectangular pulse generation based on pulse reshaping using a superstructured fiber Bragg grating

    P. Petropoulos;M. Ibsen;A.D. Ellis;D.J. Richardson

  • Performance limits in optical communications due to fiber nonlinearity

    A. D. Ellis;M. E. McCarthy;M. A. Z. Al Khateeb;M. Sorokina

  • Compensation of intra-channel nonlinear fibre impairments using simplified digital back-propagation algorithm

    Danish Rafique;Marco Mussolin;Marco Forzati;Jonas Mårtensson

  • Operating characteristics of a semiconducting polymer laser pumped by a microchip laser

    G. A. Turnbull;P. Andrew;William L. Barnes;I. D. W. Samuel

  • Optical time division multiplexing: systems and networks

    D.M. Spirit;A.D. Ellis;P.E. Barnsley

  • Demonstration of amplified data transmission at 2 µm in a low-loss wide bandwidth hollow core photonic bandgap fiber

    M N Petrovich;F Poletti;J P Wooler;A M Heidt

  • All optical clock recovery at bit rates up to 40 Gbit/s

    A.D. Ellis;K. Smith;D.M. Patrick

  • Stabilising er fibre soliton laser with pulse phase locking

    X. Shan;D. Cleland;A. Ellis

  • Multi-wavelength source using low drive-voltage amplitude modulators for optical communications.

    Tadhg Healy;Fatima C. Garcia Gunning;Andrew D. Ellis;Jeff D. Bull

  • Impact of signal-ASE four-wave mixing on the effectiveness of digital back-propagation in 112 Gb/s PM-QPSK systems.

    Danish Rafique;Andrew D. Ellis

  • Exceeding the nonlinear-shannon limit using raman laser based amplification and optical phase conjugation

    Ian D. Phillips;Mingming Tan;Marc F. C. Stephens;Mary E. McCarthy

  • 80 Gbit/s all-optical regenerative wavelength conversion using semiconductor optical amplifier based interferometer

    A.E. Kelly;I.D. Phillips;R.J. Manning;A.D. Ellis

  • Communication networks beyond the capacity crunch

    Andrew Ellis;N. Mac Suibhne;David Saad;D.N. Payne

Frequent Co-Authors

Nick Doran
Nick Doran Aston University
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Liam P. Barry
Liam P. Barry Dublin City University
Sergei K. Turitsyn
Sergei K. Turitsyn Aston University
Ioannis Tomkos
Ioannis Tomkos University of Patras
Periklis Petropoulos
Periklis Petropoulos University of Southampton
Robert J. Manning
Robert J. Manning Tyndall National Institute
Juerg Leuthold
Juerg Leuthold ETH Zurich
Francesca Parmigiani
Francesca Parmigiani Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
Anthony E. Kelly
Anthony E. Kelly University of Glasgow

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