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Lawrence R. Chen

Lawrence R. Chen

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
38
Citations
4800
World Ranking
4982
National Ranking
226

Overview

Lawrence R. Chen is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has made contributions primarily in the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Their research encompasses several subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work spans various topics related to photonics and optical communication technologies. Their main research interests include:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Graph theory and CDMA systems

Lawrence R. Chen has published research across multiple reputable venues, most frequently appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Optics Express
  • Proceedings of the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA)
  • Optics Letters

Selected recent scientific publications include:

  • "Integrated Discretely Tunable Optical Delay Line Based on Step-Chirped Subwavelength Grating Waveguide Bragg Gratings," 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "Resource Allocation of Hybrid VLC/RF Systems With Light Energy Harvesting," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
  • "On-chip optical true time delay lines based on subwavelength grating waveguides," 2021, Optics Letters
  • "Multiuser Massive MIMO-OFDM for Visible Light Communication Systems," 2023, IEEE Access
  • "Optimal Power Allocation for MIMO Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Systems Using Channel State Information at the Transmitter," 2020, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Lawrence R. Chen frequently collaborates with a set of co-authors. Among the most common collaborators are:

  • Mostafa Khalil
  • David V. Plant
  • Hao Sun
  • S. Alireza Nezamalhosseini
  • Yuxuan Xie

Best Publications

  • Design and performance of 2-D codes for wavelength-time optical CDMA

    R.M.H. Yim;L.R. Chen;J. Bajcsy

  • Ultrashort pulse reflection from fiber gratings: a numerical investigation

    L.R. Chen;S.D. Benjamin;P.W.E. Smith;J.E. Sipe

  • Subwavelength grating filtering devices.

    Junjia Wang;Ivan Glesk;Lawrence R. Chen

  • Reconfigurable All-Optical Multilogic Gate ( xor , and , and or ) Based on Cross-Phase Modulation in a Highly Nonlinear Fiber

    Jifang Qiu;Kai Sun;Martin Rochette;Lawrence R Chen

  • Synthesis of temporal optical waveforms by fiber Bragg gratings: a new approach based on space-to-frequency-to-time mapping

    José Azaña;Lawrence R. Chen

  • Subwavelength grating enabled on-chip ultra-compact optical true time delay line.

    Junjia Wang;Reza Ashrafi;Rhys Adams;Ivan Glesk

  • Flexible fiber Bragg grating encoder/decoder for hybrid wavelength-time optical CDMA

    L.R. Chen

  • Experimental demonstration of real-time Fourier transformation using linearly chirped fibre Bragg gratings

    J. Azana;L.R. Chen;M.A. Muriel;P.W.E. Smith

  • Generation of customized ultrahigh repetition rate pulse sequences using superimposed fiber Bragg gratings

    J. Azana;R. Slavik;P. Kockaert;L.R. Chen

  • Actively mode-locked tunable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser

    D. Pudo;L.R. Chen;D. Giannone;Lin Zhang

  • A new family of 2-D wavelength-time codes for optical CDMA with differential detection

    R.M.H. Yim;J. Bajcsy;L.R. Chen

  • Tunable multiwavelength fiber ring lasers using a programmable high-birefringence fiber loop mirror

    L.R. Chen

  • Single-Bandpass Microwave Photonic Filter With Tuning and Reconfiguration Capabilities

    J. Mora;L.R. Chen;J. Capmany

  • Silicon photonic contradirectional couplers using subwavelength grating waveguides.

    Behnam Naghdi;Lawrence R Chen

  • Dual wavelength modelocked fiber laser

    G.E. Town;L. Chen;P.W.E. Smith

  • Silicon Photonics for Microwave Photonics Applications

    Lawrence R. Chen

  • Demonstration of incoherent wavelength-encoding/time-spreading optical CDMA using chirped moire gratings

    L.R. Chen;P.W.E. Smith

  • Theoretical and experimental investigation of direct detection optical OFDM transmission using beat interference cancellation receiver.

    S. Alireza Nezamalhosseini;Lawrence R. Chen;Qunbi Zhuge;Mahdi Malekiha

  • Generation of a 100-GHz optical pulse train by pulse repetition-rate multiplication using superimposed fiber Bragg gratings

    J. Azana;P. Kockaert;R. Slavik;L.R. Chen

  • Fiber Bragg grating period reconstruction using time-frequency signal analysis and application to distributed sensing

    J. Azana;M.A. Muriel;L.R. Chen;P.W.E. Smith

  • Ultrashort pulse propagation in multiple-grating fiber structures.

    Lawrence R. Chen;Seldon D. Benjamin;Peter W. E. Smith;John E. Sipe

  • Recent Trends and Advances of Silicon-Based Integrated Microwave Photonics

    Reza Maram;Saket Kaushal;José Azaña;Lawrence R Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Rochette
Martin Rochette McGill University
José Azaña
José Azaña Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Sophie LaRochelle
Sophie LaRochelle Université Laval
David V. Plant
David V. Plant McGill University
José Capmany
José Capmany Universitat Politècnica de València
Ivan Glesk
Ivan Glesk University of Strathclyde
Radan Slavik
Radan Slavik University of Southampton
Qunbi Zhuge
Qunbi Zhuge Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Reuven Gordon
Reuven Gordon University of Victoria
Yue Wang
Yue Wang Jilin University

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