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47
Citations
9958
World Ranking
3188
National Ranking
50

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to coding and modulation in optical communications

Overview

Erik Agrell is affiliated with Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, where their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a particular emphasis on electrical and electronic engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including atomic and molecular physics and optics, computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Agrell's publications frequently appear in notable venues, with multiple contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications, and the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.

Their main areas of research interest include:

  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Error Correcting Code Techniques
  • Advanced Optical Network Technologies

Recent significant publications authored or co-authored by Agrell include:

  • "Roadmap on optical communications," 2024, Journal of Optics
  • "On the Best Lattice Quantizers," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Other recent works where they contributed include highly cited papers such as "Regular perturbation on the group-velocity dispersion parameter for nonlinear fibre-optical communications," published in 2020 in Nature Communications, and "Analytical Modeling of Nonlinear Fiber Propagation for Four Dimensional Symmetric Constellations," published in 2021 in the Journal of Lightwave Technology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Agrell include:

  • Magnus Karlsson
  • B. Allen
  • Daniel Pook-Kolb
  • Alex Alvarado
  • Shen Li

In 2018, Erik Agrell was recognized as an IEEE Fellow for contributions to coding and modulation in optical communications.

Best Publications

  • Closest point search in lattices

    E. Agrell;T. Eriksson;A. Vardy;K. Zeger

  • Roadmap of optical communications

    Erik Agrell;Magnus Karlsson;A R Chraplyvy;David J Richardson

  • Power-Efficient Modulation Formats in Coherent Transmission Systems

    E. Agrell;M. Karlsson

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

    Alex Alvarado;Erik Agrell;Domanic Lavery;Robert Maher

  • Which is the most power-efficient modulation format in optical links?

    Magnus Karlsson;Erik Agrell

  • Upper bounds for constant-weight codes

    E. Agrell;A. Vardy;K. Zeger

  • On the optimality of the binary reflected Gray code

    E. Agrell;J. Lassing;E.G. Strom;T. Ottosson

  • 4-PAM for high-speed short-range optical communications

    K. Szczerba;P. Westbergh;J. Karout;J. S. Gustavsson

  • Modeling of Nonlinear Signal Distortion in Fiber-Optic Networks

    Pontus Johannisson;Erik Agrell

  • Computation of the exact bit-error rate of coherent M-ary PSK with Gray code bit mapping

    J. Lassing;E.G. Strom;E. Agrell;T. Ottosson

  • Hierarchical Distribution Matching for Probabilistically Shaped Coded Modulation

    Tsuyoshi Yoshida;Magnus Karlsson;Erik Agrell

  • Capacity of a nonlinear optical channel with finite memory

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

  • The Hadamard transform-a tool for index assignment

    P. Knagenhjelm;E. Agrell

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

    Alex Alvarado;Erik Agrell

  • Nonlinear Impairment-Aware Static Resource Allocation in Elastic Optical Networks

    Juzi Zhao;Henk Wymeersch;Erik Agrell

  • Information-Theoretic Tools for Optical Communications Engineers

    Erik Agrell;Marco Secondini

  • Rate-Adaptive Coded Modulation for Fiber-Optic Communications

    Lotfollah Beygi;Erik Agrell;Joseph M. Kahn;Magnus Karlsson

  • High Capacity Transmission Systems Using Homogeneous Multi-Core Fibers

    Benjamin J. Puttnam;Ruben S. Luis;Erik Agrell;Georg Rademacher

  • High Capacity Transmission With Few-Mode Fibers

    Georg Rademacher;Ruben S. Luis;Benjamin J. Puttnam;Tobias A. Eriksson

  • Faster Recursions in Sphere Decoding

    A Ghasemmehdi;E Agrell

  • Optimizing Constellations for Single-Subcarrier Intensity-Modulated Optical Systems

    Johnny Karout;Erik Agrell;Krzysztof Szczerba;Magnus Karlsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Alvarado
Alex Alvarado Eindhoven University of Technology
Henk Wymeersch
Henk Wymeersch Chalmers University of Technology
Peter A. Andrekson
Peter A. Andrekson Chalmers University of Technology
Yoshinari Awaji
Yoshinari Awaji National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Naoya Wada
Naoya Wada National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Erik G. Ström
Erik G. Ström Chalmers University of Technology
Giuseppe Durisi
Giuseppe Durisi Chalmers University of Technology
Polina Bayvel
Polina Bayvel University College London
Domanic Lavery
Domanic Lavery Infinera (UK)
Lena Wosinska
Lena Wosinska Chalmers University of Technology

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