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Pierre Sillard is affiliated with Prysmian Group (Germany) and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields including atomic and molecular physics, optics, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, and acoustics and ultrasonics.

Their main research areas center around optical technologies, with specific attention to the following topics:

  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Advanced Optical Network Technologies

Sillard has a substantial publication record in respected venues. The most frequent venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • IET conference proceedings.
  • Optics Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications

The scientist's recent papers demonstrate contributions to multi-mode fiber technologies, optical communications, and fiber laser systems. Selected publications are:

  • Peta-bit-per-second optical communications system using a standard cladding diameter 15-mode fiber, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Few-Mode Fiber Technology, Deployments, and Systems, 2022, Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Transmission of 273.6 Tb/s Over 1001 km of 15-Mode Multi-Mode Fiber Using C-Band Only 16-QAM Signals, 2023, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Mode-Dependent Loss and Gain Estimation in SDM Transmission Based on MMSE Equalizers, 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Mode-selective few-mode Brillouin fiber lasers based on intramodal and intermodal SBS, 2020, Optics Letters

Sillard collaborates frequently with several researchers, fostering partnerships within the optical and photonic fields. Regular co-authors include:

  • Marianne Bigot-Astruc
  • Roland Ryf
  • Nicolas K. Fontaine
  • Mikael Mazur
  • Georg Rademacher

Best Publications

  • Few-Mode Fibers for Mode-Division-Multiplexed Systems

    Pierre Sillard;Marianne Bigot-Astruc;Denis Molin

  • High-Bandwidth Multimode Optical Fiber Having Reduced Bending Losses

    Denis Molin;Marianne Bigot-Astruc;Pierre Sillard;Koen De Jongh

  • Single mode optical fiber

    Louis-Anne de Montmorillon;Denis Molin;Pieter Matthijsse;Frans Gooijer

  • Mode-Division Multiplexing of 2 $\, imes\,$ 100 Gb/s Channels Using an LCOS-Based Spatial Modulator

    M. Salsi;C. Koebele;D. Sperti;P. Tran

  • Two mode transmission at 2x100Gb/s, over 40km-long prototype few-mode fiber, using LCOS-based programmable mode multiplexer and demultiplexer

    Clemens Koebele;Massimiliano Salsi;Donato Sperti;Patrice Tran

  • Few-mode fiber for uncoupled mode-division multiplexing transmissions

    Pierre Sillard;Marianne Bigot-Astruc;David Boivin;Helene Maerten

  • Six mode selective fiber optic spatial multiplexer.

    A M Velazquez-Benitez;J C Alvarado;G Lopez-Galmiche;J E Antonio-Lopez

  • 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

  • Low-Differential-Mode-Group-Delay 9-LP-Mode Fiber

    Pierre Sillard;Denis Molin;Marianne Bigot-Astruc;Koen De Jongh

  • Chromatic dispersion compensating fiber

    Marianne Bigot-Astruc;Louis-Anne de Montmorillon;Denis Molin;Pierre Sillard

  • High-Spectral-Efficiency Mode-Multiplexed Transmission Over Graded-Index Multimode Fiber

    Roland Ryf;Nicolas K. Fontaine;Steffen Wittek;Karthik Choutagunta

  • Modeling and characterization of a few-mode EDFA supporting four mode groups for mode division multiplexing.

    Guillaume Le Cocq;Laurent Bigot;Antoine Le Rouge;Marianne Bigot-Astruc

  • Low-differential-mode-group-delay 9-LP-mode fiber

    P. Sillard;D. Molin;M. Bigot-Astruc;K. de Jongh

  • Transmission at 2×100Gb/s, over Two Modes of 40km-long Prototype Few-Mode Fiber, using LCOS-based Mode Multiplexer and Demultiplexer

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  • 50 μm Multimode Fibers for Mode Division Multiplexing

    Pierre Sillard;Denis Molin;Marianne Bigot-Astruc;Adrian Amezcua-Correa

  • Scaling photonic lanterns for space-division multiplexing

    Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez;J. Enrique Antonio-López;Juan C. Alvarado-Zacarías;Nicolas K. Fontaine

  • 10-Mode mode-multiplexed transmission over 125-km single-span multimode fiber

    R. Ryf;H. Chen;N. K. Fontaine;A. M. Velazquez-Benitez

  • 40km transmission of five mode division multiplexed data streams at 100Gb/s with low MIMO-DSP complexity

    Clemens Koebele;Massimiliano Salsi;Laurent Milord;Roland Ryf

  • Optical fibre for compensating the chromatic dispersion of a positive chromatic dispersion optical fibre

    Pierre Sillard;Louis-Anne de Montmorillon;Ludovic Fleury;Pascale Nouchi

  • Transmission at 2×100Gb/s, over two modes of 40km-long prototype few-mode fiber, using LCOS-based mode multiplexer and demultiplexer

    Massimiliano Salsi;Clemens Koebele;Donato Sperti;Patrice Tran

  • Ikke-nul dispersionsskiftet optisk fiber med et stort effektivt areal

    Molin Denis;Sillard Pierre

  • Few-Mode Fiber Technology, Deployments, and Systems

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  • Multiterabit Transmission Over OM2 Multimode Fiber With Wavelength and Mode Group Multiplexing and Direct Detection

    Kaoutar Benyahya;Christian Simonneau;Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi;Nicolas Barre

  • Transmission media for an SDM-based optical communication system

    Kazuhide Nakajima;Pierre Sillard;David Richardson;Ming-Jun Li

  • Few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier with photonic lantern for pump spatial mode control

    G. Lopez-Galmiche;Z. Sanjabi Eznaveh;J. E. Antonio-Lopez;A. M. Velazquez Benitez

Frequent Co-Authors

Guifang Li
Guifang Li University of Central Florida
Roland Ryf
Roland Ryf Nokia (United States)
Nicolas K. Fontaine
Nicolas K. Fontaine Nokia (United States)
Axel Schülzgen
Axel Schülzgen University of Central Florida
Julien Fatome
Julien Fatome University of Burgundy
Gabriel Charlet
Gabriel Charlet Huawei Technologies (France)
Yoshinari Awaji
Yoshinari Awaji National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Zuyuan He
Zuyuan He Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Frank Effenberger
Frank Effenberger Huawei Technologies (China)
Luca Palmieri
Luca Palmieri University of Padua

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