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  • 2018 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to digital signal processing for coherent optical communication systems

Overview

Kim B. Roberts is affiliated with Ciena in the United States. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields including biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, physics and astronomy, and medicine.

Their work has contributed to subfields such as biophysics, acoustics and ultrasonics, artificial intelligence, public health, environmental and occupational health, and psychiatry and mental health. The scientist's primary research topics include random lasers and scattering media, advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques, quantum information and cryptography, obesity, physical activity and diet, child nutrition and feeding issues, infant development and preterm care, and advanced optical sensing technologies.

Roberts has published research in several journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
  • ACS Photonics

Key publications by Roberts include:

  • A comparison between the measurement of quantum spatial correlations using qCMOS photon-number resolving and electron multiplying CCD camera technologies, 2024, Scientific Reports
  • Behavioural components and delivery features of early childhood obesity prevention interventions: intervention coding of studies in the TOPCHILD Collaboration systematic review, 2025, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • Optimising detector readout settings for the detection of spatial correlations between SPDC photon-pairs, 2025, Scientific Reports
  • Vanitas, 2020, ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
  • Resolution in Two-Photon Imaging: A Local Manifestation of Entanglement, 2025, ACS Photonics

Frequent coauthors of Roberts include:

  • Osian Wolley
  • Thomas Gregory
  • Miles J. Padgett
  • Ken K. Ong
  • David A. McCormick

Roberts received recognition as an IEEE Fellow in 2018 for contributions to digital signal processing for coherent optical communication systems.

Best Publications

  • Roadmap of optical communications

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

  • Real-time measurements of a 40 Gb/s coherent system

    Han Sun;Kuang-Tsan Wu;Kim Roberts

  • Performance of Dual-Polarization QPSK for Optical Transport Systems

    K. Roberts;M. O'Sullivan;Kuang-Tsan Wu;Han Sun

  • Electronic precompensation of optical nonlinearity

    K. Roberts;Chuandong Li;L. Strawczynski;M. O'Sullivan

  • Method and apparatus for monitoring performance of optical transmission systems

    Kim B. Roberts

  • Electrical domain compensation of optical dispersion [optical fibre communication applications]

    J. McNicol;M. O'Sullivan;K. Roberts;A. Comeau

  • Electrical Domain Compensation of Optical Dispersion

    J. McNicol;M. O’Sullivan;K. Roberts;A. Comeau

  • Beyond 100 Gb/s: capacity, flexibility, and network optimization [Invited]

    Kim Roberts;Qunbi Zhuge;Inder Monga;Sebastien Gareau

  • 100G and beyond with digital coherent signal processing

    Kim Roberts;Douglas Beckett;David Boertjes;Joseph Berthold

  • Optical add/drop multiplexer/demultiplexer

    David John Danagher;Alan G. Solheim;Maurice S. O'Sullivan;Richard A. Habel

  • Demonstration of an 8-dimensional modulation format with reduced inter-channel nonlinearities in a polarization multiplexed coherent system.

    A. D. Shiner;M. Reimer;A. Borowiec;S. Oveis Gharan

  • Forward error correction assisted receiver optimization

    Alan Glen Solheim;Kim Byron Roberts

  • Questions regarding the sequential neural generator theory of the somatosensory evoked potential raised by digital filtering

    Andrew Eisen;Kim Roberts;Morton Low;Maureen Hoirch

  • Reducing the complexity of perturbation based nonlinearity pre-compensation using symmetric EDC and pulse shaping

    Ying Gao;John C. Cartledge;Abdullah S. Karar;Scott S.-H. Yam

  • Flexible transceivers

    Kim Roberts;Charles Laperle

  • Fault location in optical communication systems

    David Anthony Fisher;Kim Byron Roberts

  • Digital control of laser diode power levels

    Richard A. Habel;Kim B. Roberts

  • Photonic crystal waveguide arrays

    Kim Byron Roberts

  • Optical transmission systems using optical amplifiers and wavelength division multiplexing

    Kim Byron Roberts;Maurice Stephen O'Sullivan;Gregory Dean May

  • Low conversion rate digital dispersion compensation

    Kim B. Roberts;Kuang Tsan Wu;Maurice O'Sullivan;Han Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Chandra Sekhar Bontu
Chandra Sekhar Bontu Ericsson (Sweden)
Qunbi Zhuge
Qunbi Zhuge Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Peter D. Lawrence
Peter D. Lawrence University of British Columbia
David V. Plant
David V. Plant McGill University
Mathieu Chagnon
Mathieu Chagnon McGill University
Francois Gagnon
Francois Gagnon École de Technologie Supérieure
Amir K. Khandani
Amir K. Khandani University of Waterloo
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)
Seb J. Savory
Seb J. Savory University of Cambridge
John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara

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