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38
Citations
6576
World Ranking
7984
National Ranking
2197

Overview

Benn C. Thomsen is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within Engineering and Computer Science, with a strong focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The subfields of their work include Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Materials Chemistry, Computer Networks and Communications, and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design.

The main topics of Thomsen's research encompass several areas related to optics and advanced data storage. These include Optical Network Technologies, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Photonic and Optical Devices, Phase-change materials and chalcogenides, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, Quantum optics and atomic interactions, and Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics.

Their recent scholarly publications demonstrate a consistent engagement with advancing knowledge in these fields. Notable papers include:

  • "Synchronous subnanosecond clock and data recovery for optically switched data centres using clock phase caching" (2020) published in Nature Electronics
  • "AI-optimised tuneable sources for bandwidth-scalable, sub-nanosecond wavelength switching" (2021) published in Optics Express
  • "Can holographic optical storage displace Hard Disk Drives?" (2024) published in Communications Engineering
  • "Project Silica: Towards Sustainable Cloud Archival Storage in Glass" (2024) published in ACM Transactions on Storage
  • "Holographic Storage for the Cloud: advances and challenges" (2024) published in ACM Transactions on Storage

Thomsen frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Greg O'Shea, Jannes Gladrow, Antony Rowstron, Daniel Cletheroe, and Thomas Gerard. These coauthors appear repeatedly in Thomsen's published work, indicating an ongoing partnership in scientific investigations.

Their work is published regularly in notable venues such as ACM Transactions on Storage, Nature Electronics, Optics Express, Communications Engineering, and arXiv (Cornell University), reflecting a diverse portfolio in both applied and theoretical aspects of storage and optical technologies.

Best Publications

  • Self-similar propagation and amplification of parabolic pulses in optical fibers.

    Martin E Fermann;Vladimir Kruglov;B C Thomsen;J M Dudley

  • SSBI Mitigation and the Kramers–Kronig Scheme in Single-Sideband Direct-Detection Transmission With Receiver-Based Electronic Dispersion Compensation

    Zhe Li;M. Sezer Erkilinc;Kai Shi;Eric Sillekens

  • Degenerate Mode-Group Division Multiplexing

    J. Carpenter;B. C. Thomsen;T. D. Wilkinson

  • Beyond 100-Gb/s Indoor Wide Field-of-View Optical Wireless Communications

    Ariel Gomez;Kai Shi;Crisanto Quintana;Masaki Sato

  • High average power, high repetition rate, picosecond pulsed fiber master oscillator power amplifier source seeded by a gain-switched laser diode at 1060 nm

    P. Dupriez;A. Piper;A. Malinowski;J.K. Sahu

  • Sirius: A Flat Datacenter Network with Nanosecond Optical Switching

    Hitesh Ballani;Paolo Costa;Raphael Behrendt;Daniel Cletheroe

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

    Robert Maher;Tianhua Xu;Lidia Galdino;Masaki Sato

  • Digital Coherent Receivers for Long-Reach Optical Access Networks

    D. Lavery;R. Maher;D. S. Millar;B. C. Thomsen

  • Noise suppression of incoherent light using a gain-saturated SOA: implications for spectrum-sliced WDM systems

    A.D. McCoy;P. Horak;B.C. Thomsen;M. Ibsen

  • Ultrahigh speed all-optical demultiplexing based on two-photon absorption in a laser diode

    Benn C. Thomsen;Liam P. Barry;John M. Dudley;John D. Harvey

  • Design of a 1 Tb/s Superchannel Coherent Receiver

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

  • Commercial Semiconductor Devices for Two Photon Absorption Autocorrelation of Ultrashort Light Pulses

    D.T. Reid;W. Sibbett;J.M. Dudley;L.P. Barry

  • Real time dynamic strain monitoring of optical links using the backreflection of live PSK data.

    H F Martins;K Shi;B C Thomsen;S Martin-Lopez

  • Complete characterization of ultrashort pulse sources at 1550 nm

    J.M. Dudley;L.P. Barry;J.D. Harvey;M.D. Thomson

  • A 50 Gb/s Transparent Indoor Optical Wireless Communications Link With an Integrated Localization and Tracking System

    Ariel Gomez;Kai Shi;Crisanto Quintana;Grahame Faulkner

  • Nonlinearity-Free Coherent Transmission in Hollow-Core Antiresonant Fiber

    Zhixin Liu;Boris Karanov;Lidia Galdino;John R. Hayes

  • Mode Coupling Effects in Ring-Core Fibers for Space-Division Multiplexing Systems

    Xianqing Jin;Ariel Gomez;Kai Shi;Benn C. Thomsen

  • Investigation of bandwidth loading in optical fibre transmission using amplified spontaneous emission noise.

    Daniel J. Elson;Gabriel Saavedra;Kai Shi;Daniel Semrau

  • Spectrally Efficient WDM Nyquist Pulse-Shaped 16-QAM Subcarrier Modulation Transmission With Direct Detection

    M. Sezer Erkilinc;Zhe Li;Stephan Pachnicke;Helmut Griesser

  • Comparison of Low Complexity Coherent Receivers for UDWDM-PONs ( $\lambda$ -to-the-User)

    M. Sezer Erkilinc;Domanic Lavery;Kai Shi;Benn C. Thomsen

  • Widely Tunable Burst Mode Digital Coherent Receiver With Fast Reconfiguration Time for 112 Gb/s DP-QPSK WDM Networks

    R. Maher;D. S. Millar;S. J. Savory;B. C. Thomsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Polina Bayvel
Polina Bayvel University College London
Seb J. Savory
Seb J. Savory University of Cambridge
Robert I. Killey
Robert I. Killey University College London
Domanic Lavery
Domanic Lavery Infinera (UK)
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Paolo Costa
Paolo Costa Microsoft (United States)
Hitesh Ballani
Hitesh Ballani Microsoft (United States)
John M. Dudley
John M. Dudley University of Franche-Comté
Liam P. Barry
Liam P. Barry Dublin City University
Hugh E. Williams
Hugh E. Williams RMIT University

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