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Nicolas K. Fontaine

Nicolas K. Fontaine

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
57
Citations
11367
World Ranking
1992
National Ranking
780

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - OSA Fellows Nicolas K. Fontaine Nokia Bell Lab., USA For groundbreaking contributions to spatial-multiplexing components and systems, ultra-high-speed receivers using digital optical bandwidth interleaving, and wavelength-selective switches.

Overview

Nicolas K. Fontaine is affiliated with Nokia in the United States and has a research focus rooted in engineering and physics. Their academic contributions span fields such as electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, and general health professions.

The scientist's work centers on topics including optical network technologies, photonic and optical devices, advanced photonic communication systems, advanced fiber laser technologies, semiconductor lasers and optical devices, advanced fiber optic sensors, and applications of optical coherence tomography.

Nicolas K. Fontaine has authored numerous publications in several key venues. The frequent publication venues include the Journal of Lightwave Technology, arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IET conference proceedings, and the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.

Recent papers of note include:

  • Peta-bit-per-second optical communications system using a standard cladding diameter 15-mode fiber (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields (2023, Journal of Optics)
  • Dual Polarization Full-Field Signal Waveform Reconstruction Using Intensity Only Measurements for Coherent Communications (2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology)
  • Randomly-Coupled Multi-Core Fiber Technology (2022, Proceedings of the IEEE)
  • Devices and Fibers for Ultrawideband Optical Communications (2022, Proceedings of the IEEE)

The researcher has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including Roland Ryf, Haoshuo Chen, Mikael Mazur, David T. Neilson, and Lauren Dallachiesa.

Throughout their career, Nicolas K. Fontaine has received recognition such as the OSA Fellows award in 2018 for contributions to spatial-multiplexing components and systems, ultra-high-speed receivers using digital optical bandwidth interleaving, and wavelength-selective switches.

Best Publications

  • Laguerre-Gaussian mode sorter.

    Nicolas K. Fontaine;Roland Ryf;Haoshuo Chen;David T. Neilson

  • Mode-selective photonic lanterns for space-division multiplexing

    Sergio G. Leon-Saval;Nicolas K. Fontaine;Joel R. Salazar-Gil;Burcu Ercan

  • Demonstration of free space coherent optical communication using integrated silicon photonic orbital angular momentum devices

    Tiehui Su;Ryan P. Scott;Stevan S. Djordjevic;Nicolas K. Fontaine

  • Survey of Photonic Switching Architectures and Technologies In Support Of Spatially and Spectrally Flexible Optical Networking {[}Invited]

    Dan M. Marom;Paul D. Colbourne;Antonio D’Errico;Nicolas K. Fontaine

  • 30×30 MIMO transmission over 15 spatial modes

    Nicolas K. Fontaine;Roland Ryf;Haoshuo Chen;Amado Velazquez Benitez

  • Geometric requirements for photonic lanterns in space division multiplexing.

    Nicolas K. Fontaine;Roland Ryf;Joss Bland-Hawthorn;Sergio G. Leon-Saval

  • Real-time full-field arbitrary optical waveform measurement

    Nicolas K. Fontaine;Ryan P. Scott;Linjie Zhou;Francisco M. Soares

  • 32-bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency WDM transmission over 177-km few-mode fiber

    R. Ryf;S. Randel;N. K. Fontaine;M. Montoliu

  • Free-space coherent optical communication with orbital angular, momentum multiplexing/demultiplexing using a hybrid 3D photonic integrated circuit

    Binbin Guan;Ryan P. Scott;Chuan Qin;Nicolas K. Fontaine

  • All-fiber mode-group-selective photonic lantern using graded-index multimode fibers.

    Bin Huang;Nicolas K. Fontaine;Roland Ryf;Binbin Guan

  • Peta-bit-per-second optical communications system using a standard cladding diameter 15-mode fiber.

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

  • First 100-nm Continuous-Band WDM Transmission System with 115Tb/s Transport over 100km Using Novel Ultra-Wideband Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

    J. Renaudier;A. Carbo Meseguer;A. Ghazisaeidi;P. Tran

  • Beyond the display: phase-only liquid crystal on Silicon devices and their applications in photonics [Invited].

    Grigory Lazarev;Po-Ju Chen;Johannes Strauss;Nicolas Fontaine

  • Breakthroughs in Photonics 2012: Space-Division Multiplexing in Multimode and Multicore Fibers for High-Capacity Optical Communication

    R.-J Essiambre;R. Ryf;N. K. Fontaine;S. Randel

  • A machine learning approach for reliable prediction of amino acid interactions and its application in the directed evolution of enantioselective enzymes.

    Frédéric Cadet;Nicolas Fontaine;Guangyue Li;Joaquin Sanchis

  • Tb/s Coherent Optical OFDM Systems Enabled by Optical Frequency Combs

    Xingwen Yi;Nicolas K Fontaine;Ryan P Scott;S Yoo

  • Mode-multiplexed transmission over conventional graded-index multimode fibers

    R Ryf;Nicolas Keith Fontaine;Hongyu Chen;Binbin Guan

  • Integrated cladding-pumped multicore few-mode erbium-doped fibre amplifier for space-division-multiplexed communications

    H. Chen;C. Jin;C. Jin;B. Huang;B. Huang;N. K. Fontaine

  • 32 Phase X 32 amplitude optical arbitrary waveform generation.

    N. K. Fontaine;R. P. Scott;J. Cao;A. Karalar

  • Bandwidth scalable, coherent transmitter based on the parallel synthesis of multiple spectral slices using optical arbitrary waveform generation

    David J Geisler;Nicolas K Fontaine;Ryan P Scott;Tingting He

  • Space-division multiplexing and all-optical MIMO demultiplexing using a photonic integrated circuit

    Nicolas K. Fontaine;Christopher R. Doerr;Miquel A. Mestre;Roland R. Ryf

  • Mode-group-selective photonic lantern using graded-index multimode fibers

    Bin Huang;Nicolas K. Fontaine;Roland Ryf;Binbin Guan

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Ryf
Roland Ryf Nokia (United States)
S. J. B. Yoo
S. J. B. Yoo University of California, Davis
Ryan P. Scott
Ryan P. Scott Keysight Technologies (United States)
Rene-Jean Essiambre
Rene-Jean Essiambre Nokia (United States)
Guifang Li
Guifang Li University of Central Florida
Sebastian Randel
Sebastian Randel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar
Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar Nokia (United States)
Peter J. Winzer
Peter J. Winzer Nokia (United States)
Pierre Sillard
Pierre Sillard Prysmian Group (Germany)
Younes Messaddeq
Younes Messaddeq Université Laval

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