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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
65
Citations
16713
World Ranking
1211
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to ultra-high-speed fiber-optic communication systems.
  • 2004 - OSA Fellows For contributions to high-speed optical communications, in particular those related to applications of nonlinearities, parametric amplifiers and polarization-mode dispersion.

Overview

Peter A. Andrekson is affiliated with Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Their research spans several main fields with a focus on Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Within these domains, their work is concentrated in subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, with additional contributions in Aerospace Engineering, Materials Chemistry, and Oncology.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics in photonics and optical communication. The main topics of their work include:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Peter A. Andrekson are:

  • "Phase-coherent lightwave communications with frequency combs," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source," 2022, Nature Photonics
  • "Overcoming the quantum limit of optical amplification in monolithic waveguides," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Fiber-based phase-sensitive optical amplifiers and their applications," 2020, Advances in Optics and Photonics
  • "High Spectral Efficiency Coherent Superchannel Transmission With Soliton Microcombs," 2021, Journal of Lightwave Technology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Magnus Karlsson
  • Jochen Schröder
  • Víctor Torres-Company
  • Zhichao Ye
  • Ping Zhao

The primary publication venues where their work appears frequently are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Optics Express
  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Peter A. Andrekson has been recognized with several awards, including becoming an IEEE Fellow in 2006 for contributions to ultra-high-speed fiber-optic communication systems and an OSA Fellow in 2004 for work related to high-speed optical communications, particularly with nonlinearities, parametric amplifiers, and polarization-mode dispersion.

Best Publications

  • Fiber-based optical parametric amplifiers and their applications

    J. Hansryd;P.A. Andrekson;M. Westlund;Jie Li

  • All-optical phase and amplitude regenerator for next-generation telecommunications systems

    Radan Slavík;Francesca Parmigiani;Joseph Kakande;Carl Lundström

  • Towards ultrasensitive optical links enabled by low-noise phase-sensitive amplifiers

    Zhi Tong;Carl Peter Lundström;Peter Andrekson;Colin McKinstrie

  • Broad-band continuous-wave-pumped fiber optical parametric amplifier with 49-dB gain and wavelength-conversion efficiency

    J. Hansryd;P.A. Andrekson

  • Increase of the SBS threshold in a short highly nonlinear fiber by applying a temperature distribution

    J. Hansryd;F. Dross;M. Westlund;P.A. Andrekson

  • A comparison between different PMD compensation techniques

    H. Sunnerud;Chongjin Xie;M. Karlsson;R. Samuelsson

  • Long-term measurement of PMD and polarization drift in installed fibers

    O. Karlsson;J. Brentel;P.A. Andrekson

  • Fiber-optical parametric amplifier with 70-dB gain

    T. Torounidis;P.A. Andrekson;B.-E. Olsson

  • A comparison between NRZ and RZ data formats with respect to PMD-induced system degradation

    H. Sunnerud;M. Karlsson;P.A. Andrekson

  • 70 Gbps 4-PAM and 56 Gbps 8-PAM Using an 850 nm VCSEL

    Krzysztof Szczerba;Petter Westbergh;Magnus Karlsson;Peter A. Andrekson

  • High-order coherent communications using mode-locked dark-pulse Kerr combs from microresonators

    Attila Fülöp;Mikael Mazur;Abel Lorences-Riesgo;Pei-Hsun Wang

  • High-order coherent communications using mode-locked dark-pulse Kerr combs from microresonators.

    Attila Fülöp;Mikael Mazur;Abel Lorences-Riesgo;Óskar B. Helgason

  • 300 Gbit/s eye-diagram measurement by optical sampling using fiber based parametric amplification

    Jie Li;J. Hansryd;P.O. Hedekvist;P.A. Andrekson

  • 16 Gbit/s all-optical demultiplexing using four-wave mixing

    P.A. Andrekson;N.A. Olsson;J.R. Simpson;T. Tanbun-Ek

  • Polarization-mode dispersion in high-speed fiber-optic transmission systems

    H. Sunnerud;M. Karlsson;Chongjin Xie;P.A. Andrekson

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

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

  • Approaching Nyquist Limit in WDM Systems by Low-Complexity Receiver-Side Duobinary Shaping

    Jianqiang Li;E. Tipsuwannakul;T. Eriksson;M. Karlsson

  • Fiber optical parametric amplifiers in optical communication systems

    Michel E. Marhic;Peter A. Andrekson;Periklis Petropoulos;Stojan Radic

  • Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source

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  • High-performance optical-fiber-nonlinearity-based optical waveform monitoring

    M. Westlund;P.A. Andrekson;H. Sunnerud;J. Hansryd

  • Tunable superlattice p-i-n photodetectors: characteristics, theory, and application

    A. Larsson;P.A. Andrekson;S.T. Eng;A. Yariv

  • Fiber-optic 40-GHz mm-wave link with 2.5-Gb/s data transmission

    A. Wiberg;P. Perez-Millan;M.V. Andres;P.A. Andrekson

  • Laser Frequency Combs for Coherent Optical Communications

    Victor Torres-Company;Jochen Schroder;Attila Fulop;Mikael Mazur

Frequent Co-Authors

Erik Agrell
Erik Agrell Chalmers University of Technology
Petter Westbergh
Petter Westbergh Chalmers University of Technology
R. A. Logan
R. A. Logan Nokia (United States)
Johan S. Gustavsson
Johan S. Gustavsson Chalmers University of Technology
N.A. Olsson
N.A. Olsson Nokia (United States)
Bill Corcoran
Bill Corcoran Monash University
Adonis Bogris
Adonis Bogris University of West Attica
Stojan Radic
Stojan Radic University of California, San Diego
Henk Wymeersch
Henk Wymeersch Chalmers University of Technology
David J. Richardson
David J. Richardson Microsoft (United States)

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