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Overview

Robert I. Killey is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses on engineering, particularly within electrical and electronic engineering, with additional work in atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, computer networks and communications, and instrumentation.

Their primary topics of work include:

  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Optical Network Technologies
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Ultra-Wideband Communications Technology

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optics Express
  • IET conference proceedings.
  • IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert I. Killey include:

  • Optical Fibre Capacity Optimisation via Continuous Bandwidth Amplification and Geometric Shaping, 2020, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
  • Modeling and mitigation of fiber nonlinearity in wideband optical signal transmission [Invited], 2020, Journal of Optical Communications and Networking
  • High-Cardinality Geometrical Constellation Shaping for the Nonlinear Fibre Channel, 2022, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • 2048-QAM transmission at 15 GBd over 100 km using geometric constellation shaping, 2021, Optics Express
  • A Closed-Form Expression for the Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-Channel Stimulated Raman Scattering Extended for Arbitrary Loss and Fibre Length, 2023, Journal of Lightwave Technology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Polina Bayvel
  • Eric Sillekens
  • Henrique Buglia
  • Lídia Galdino
  • Mindaugas Jarmolovičius

Best Publications

  • Electronic compensation of chromatic dispersion using a digital coherent receiver.

    Seb J. Savory;Giancarlo Gavioli;Robert I. Killey;Polina Bayvel

  • SSBI Mitigation and the Kramers–Kronig Scheme in Single-Sideband Direct-Detection Transmission With Receiver-Based Electronic Dispersion Compensation

    Zhe Li;M. Sezer Erkilinc;Kai Shi;Eric Sillekens

  • Electronic dispersion compensation by signal predistortion using digital Processing and a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator

    R.I. Killey;P.M. Watts;V. Mikhailov;M. Glick

  • A Closed-Form Approximation of the Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-Channel Stimulated Raman Scattering

    Daniel Semrau;Robert I. Killey;Polina Bayvel

  • Reduction of intrachannel nonlinear distortion in 40-Gb/s-based WDM transmission over standard fiber

    R.I. Killey;H.J. Thiele;V. Mikhailov;P. Bayvel

  • Spectrally shaped DP-16QAM super-channel transmission with multi-channel digital back-propagation.

    Robert Maher;Tianhua Xu;Lidia Galdino;Masaki Sato

  • Mitigation of Fiber Nonlinearity Using a Digital Coherent Receiver

    D S Millar;S Makovejs;C Behrens;S Hellerbrand

  • On the performance of multichannel digital backpropagation in high-capacity long-haul optical transmission.

    Gabriele Liga;Tianhua Xu;Alex Alvarado;Robert I. Killey

  • The Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-Channel Stimulated Raman Scattering

    Daniel Semrau;Robert I. Killey;Polina Bayvel

  • Maximizing the optical network capacity

    Polina Bayvel;Robert Maher;Tianhua Xu;Gabriele Liga

  • The Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-channel Stimulated Raman Scattering

    Daniel Semrau;Polina Bayvel

  • A Modulation Format Correction Formula for the Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-Channel Stimulated Raman Scattering

    Daniel Semrau;Eric Sillekens;Robert I. Killey;Polina Bayvel

  • Optical Fibre Capacity Optimisation via Continuous Bandwidth Amplification and Geometric Shaping

    Lidia Galdino;Adrian Edwards;Wenting Yi;Eric Sillekens

  • Digital Equalisation of 40Gbit/s per Wavelength Transmission over 2480km of Standard Fibre without Optical Dispersion Compensation

    S. J. Savory;A. D. Stewart;S. Wood;G. Gavioli

  • Generation of optical OFDM signals using 21.4 GS/s real time digital signal processing.

    Yannis Benlachtar;Philip M Watts;Rachid Bouziane;Peter Milder

  • Investigation of bandwidth loading in optical fibre transmission using amplified spontaneous emission noise.

    Daniel J. Elson;Gabriel Saavedra;Kai Shi;Daniel Semrau

  • Performance of single-mode fiber links using electronic feed-forward and decision feedback equalizers

    P.M. Watts;V. Mikhailov;S. Savory;P. Bayvel

  • Spectrally Efficient WDM Nyquist Pulse-Shaped 16-QAM Subcarrier Modulation Transmission With Direct Detection

    M. Sezer Erkilinc;Zhe Li;Stephan Pachnicke;Helmut Griesser

  • Comparison of Low Complexity Coherent Receivers for UDWDM-PONs ( $\lambda$ -to-the-User)

    M. Sezer Erkilinc;Domanic Lavery;Kai Shi;Benn C. Thomsen

  • Achievable information rates estimates in optically amplified transmission systems using nonlinearity compensation and probabilistic shaping

    Daniel Semrau;Tianhua Xu;Nikita A. Shevchenko;Milen Paskov

  • Comparison of the nonlinear transmission performance of quasi-Nyquist WDM and reduced guard interval OFDM

    Sean Kilmurray;Tobias Fehenberger;Polina Bayvel;Robert I Killey

Frequent Co-Authors

Polina Bayvel
Polina Bayvel University College London
Domanic Lavery
Domanic Lavery Infinera (UK)
Seb J. Savory
Seb J. Savory University of Cambridge
Alex Alvarado
Alex Alvarado Eindhoven University of Technology
Pierluigi Poggiolini
Pierluigi Poggiolini Polytechnic University of Turin
Gabriella Bosco
Gabriella Bosco Polytechnic University of Turin
Wolfgang Freude
Wolfgang Freude Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Juerg Leuthold
Juerg Leuthold ETH Zurich
Andrew D. Ellis
Andrew D. Ellis Aston University
Christopher R. Doerr
Christopher R. Doerr Doerr Consulting LLC

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