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Daniel A. Nolan is a researcher affiliated with Corning in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields including engineering and computer science, with a primary focus on electrical and electronic engineering and artificial intelligence. Their subfields extend to atomic and molecular physics, optics, ceramics and composites, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas centered on optical and quantum technologies. These include optical network technologies, quantum information and cryptography, photonic and optical devices, quantum computing algorithms and architecture, neural networks and reservoir computing, quantum optics and atomic interactions, as well as glass properties and applications.

They collaborate frequently with several co-authors, including Dan T. Nguyen, Nicholas F. Borrelli, Wei C. Jiang, Kangmei Li, and Xin Gai, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Their research has appeared repeatedly in notable venues such as:

  • Optics Express
  • Frontiers in Physics
  • Optics
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF)

Selected recent papers authored by Daniel A. Nolan include:

  • Continuous-variable quantum key distribution over a 15 km multi-core fiber, 2022, New Journal of Physics
  • Adaptable transmitter for discrete and continuous variable quantum key distribution, 2021, Optics Express
  • Evolution of glass structure during femtosecond laser assisted crystallization of LaBGeO5 in glass, 2020, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
  • Special classes of optical vector vortex beams are Majorana-like photons, 2020, Optics Communications
  • Ultra-low-power four-wave mixing wavelength conversion in high-Q chalcogenide microring resonators, 2021, Optics Letters

Best Publications

  • Higher-order Poincaré sphere, stokes parameters, and the angular momentum of light

    Giovanni Milione;H. I. Sztul;D. A. Nolan;R. R. Alfano

  • Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Over a 404 km Optical Fiber.

    Hua-Lei Yin;Teng-Yun Chen;Zong-Wen Yu;Hui Liu

  • Secure Quantum Key Distribution over 421 km of Optical Fiber.

    Alberto Boaron;Gianluca Boso;Davide Rusca;Cédric Vulliez

  • Provably secure and practical quantum key distribution over 307 km of optical fibre

    Boris Korzh;Charles Ci Wen Lim;Raphael Houlmann;Nicolas Gisin

  • 4 × 20 Gbit/s mode division multiplexing over free space using vector modes and a q-plate mode (de)multiplexer

    Giovanni Milione;Martin P. J. Lavery;Hao Huang;Yongxiong Ren

  • Using the nonseparability of vector beams to encode information for optical communication

    Giovanni Milione;Thien An Nguyen;Jonathan Leach;Daniel A. Nolan

  • 4 X 20 Gbit/s mode division multiplexing over free space using vector modes and a q-plate mode (de)multiplexer

    Giovanni Milione;Martin P. J. Lavery;Hao Huang;Yongxiong Ren

  • Mode division multiplexing using an orbital angular momentum mode sorter and MIMO-DSP over a graded-index few-mode optical fibre

    Hao Huang;Giovanni Milione;Martin P. J. Lavery;Guodong Xie

  • Bend resistant multimode optical fiber

    Dana Craig Bookbinder;Ming-Jun Li;Daniel Aloysius Nolan

  • Higher Order Pancharatnam-Berry Phase and the Angular Momentum of Light

    Giovanni Milione;S. Evans;D. A. Nolan;R. R. Alfano

  • Large effective area fiber

    Scott Robertson Bickham;Dana Craig Bookbinder;Xin Chen;Ming-Jun Li

  • Self-organized instability in graded-index multimode fibres

    Logan G. Wright;Zhanwei Liu;Daniel A. Nolan;Ming-Jun Li

  • Ultra-Low Bending Loss Single-Mode Fiber for FTTH

    M.-J. Li;P. Tandon;D.C. Bookbinder;S.R. Bickham

  • Fiber spin-profile designs for producing fibers with low polarization mode dispersion.

    M. J. Li;D. A. Nolan

  • Observation of temporal vector soliton propagation and collision in birefringent fiber

    Darren Rand;Ivan Glesk;Camille Sophie Brès;Daniel A. Nolan

  • Tunable supercontinuum light vector vortex beam generator using a q-plate.

    Yisa S. Rumala;Giovanni Milione;Thien An Nguyen;Sebastião Pratavieira

  • Single-polarization fiber with a high extinction ratio

    Daniel A. Nolan;George E. Berkey;Ming-Jun Li;Xin Chen

  • Low-power high-efficiency wavelength conversion based on modulational instability in high-nonlinearity fiber.

    G. A. Nowak;Y.-H. Kao;T. J. Xia;M. N. Islam

  • Fibers with low polarization-mode dispersion

    D.A. Nolan;Xin Chen;Ming-Jun Li

  • Optical Transmission Fiber Design Evolution

    Ming-Jun Li;D.A. Nolan

  • Simple 2.5 GHz time-bin quantum key distribution

    Alberto Boaron;Boris Korzh;Raphael Houlmann;Gianluca Boso

  • Supercontinuum Generation in Silica Fibers by Amplified Nanosecond Laser Diode Pulses

    Chenan Xia;M. Kumar;Ming-Yuan Cheng;O.P. Kulkarni

  • Third order cascaded Raman wavelength shifting in chalcogenide fibers and determination of Raman gain coefficient

    Ojas P. Kulkarni;Chenan Xia;Dong Joon Lee;Malay Kumar

  • Low bend loss optical fiber with deep depressed ring

    Scott R. Bickham;Dana C. Bookbinder;Ming-Jun Li;Snigdharaj K. Mishra

  • High bandwidth single polarization fiber with elliptical central air hole

    Ming-Jun Li;Xin Chen;D.A. Nolan;G.E. Berkey

  • Nonlinear fibers for signal processing using optical Kerr effects

    Ming-Jun Li;Shenping Li;D.A. Nolan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ming-Jun Li
Ming-Jun Li Corning (United States)
Robert R. Alfano
Robert R. Alfano City College of New York
Himanshu Jain
Himanshu Jain Lehigh University
Frank W. Wise
Frank W. Wise Cornell University
Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Demetrios N. Christodoulides University of Southern California
Hugo Zbinden
Hugo Zbinden University of Geneva
Mohammed N. Islam
Mohammed N. Islam University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alan E. Willner
Alan E. Willner University of Southern California
Yongxiong Ren
Yongxiong Ren University of Southern California
Guodong Xie
Guodong Xie University of Southern California

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