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William Shieh

William Shieh

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
58
Citations
14278
World Ranking
1844
National Ranking
317

William Shieh publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William Shieh sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 440 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

William Shieh D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William Shieh sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
  • 2011 - OSA Fellows For seminal contributions to the theory and applications of coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing in optical communications.

Overview

William Shieh is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has made contributions primarily in the field of engineering. Their work is concentrated in several subfields, including electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, artificial intelligence, instrumentation, and biophysics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

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

William Shieh has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Optics Letters
  • Optics Express
  • IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2022

Recent papers authored or coauthored by William Shieh include:

  • "Carrier-assisted differential detection", 2020, Light Science & Applications
  • "Spectral Efficiency Comparison Between Analog and Digital RoF for Mobile Fronthaul Transmission Link", 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "Feedforward and Recurrent Neural Network-Based Transfer Learning for Nonlinear Equalization in Short-Reach Optical Links", 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • "Cascade recurrent neural network-assisted nonlinear equalization for a 100 Gb/s PAM4 short-reach direct detection system", 2020, Optics Letters
  • "Theoretical Analysis of Phase Noise Induced by Laser Linewidth and Mismatch Length in Self-Homodyne Coherent Systems", 2020, Journal of Lightwave Technology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with William Shieh include:

  • Honglin Ji
  • Zhaopeng Xu
  • Yikai Su
  • Jingchi Li
  • Weiqi Lu

William Shieh has received recognition by way of awards such as:

  • IEEE Fellow in 2013 for contributions to coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
  • OSA Fellow in 2011 for seminal contributions to the theory and applications of coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing in optical communications

Best Publications

  • Coherent optical OFDM: theory and design.

    W. Shieh;H. C. Bao;Y. Tang

  • OFDM for Optical Communications

    William Shieh;Ivan B Djordjevic

  • Coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing

    W. Shieh;C. Athaudage

  • Coherent optical OFDM: has its time come? [Invited]

    William Shieh;Xingwen Yi;Yiran Ma;Qi Yang

  • Phase Estimation for Coherent Optical OFDM

    Xingwen Yi;W. Shieh;Yan Tang

  • 107 Gb/s coherent optical OFDM transmission over 1000-km SSMF fiber using orthogonal band multiplexing

    W Shieh;Q Yang;Y Ma

  • 1-Tb/s single-channel coherent optical OFDM transmission over 600-km SSMF fiber with subwavelength bandwidth access.

    Yiran Ma;Qi Yang;Yan Tang;Simin Chen

  • Phase Noise Effects on High Spectral Efficiency Coherent Optical OFDM Transmission

    Xingwen Yi;William Shieh;Yiran Ma

  • Transmission experiment of multi-gigabit coherent optical OFDM systems over 1000 km SSMF fibre

    W. Shieh;X. Yi;Y. Tang

  • Equalization-enhanced phase noise for coherent-detection systems using electronic digital signal processing

    William Shieh;Keang-Po Ho

  • Optimal spectral and power parameters for all-optical wavelength shifting: single stage, fanout, and cascadability

    A.E. Willner;W. Shieh

  • Closed-form expressions for nonlinear transmission performance of densely spaced coherent optical OFDM systems.

    Xi Chen;William Shieh

  • OFDM for Flexible High-Speed Optical Networks

    W Shieh

  • Theoretical and experimental study on PMD-supported transmission using polarization diversity in coherent optical OFDM systems.

    W Shieh;X Yi;Y Ma;Y Tang

  • Reception of mode and polarization multiplexed 107-Gb/s CO-OFDM signal over a two-mode fiber

    An Li;Abdullah Al Amin;Xi Chen;William Shieh

  • Dual-LP 11 mode 4x4 MIMO-OFDM transmission over a two-mode fiber

    Abdullah Al Amin;An Li;Simin Chen;Xi Chen

  • 1-Tb/s Single-Channel Coherent Optical OFDM Transmission With Orthogonal-Band Multiplexing and Subwavelength Bandwidth Access

    Yiran Ma;Qi Yang;Yan Tang;Simin Chen

  • Transmission simulation of coherent optical OFDM signals in WDM systems.

    Hongchun Bao;William Shieh

  • DFT-Spread OFDM for Fiber Nonlinearity Mitigation

    Yan Tang;William Shieh;Brian S Krongold

  • End-to-End Energy Modeling and Analysis of Long-Haul Coherent Transmission Systems

    Bipin Sankar Gopalakrishna Pillai;Behnam Sedighi;Kyle Guan;N. Prasanth Anthapadmanabhan

  • 1-Tb/s per channel coherent optical OFDM transmission with subwavelength bandwidth access

    Yiran Ma;Qi Yang;Yan Tang;Simin Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Qi Yang
Qi Yang Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Ivan B. Djordjevic
Ivan B. Djordjevic University of Arizona
Alan E. Willner
Alan E. Willner University of Southern California
Rodney S. Tucker
Rodney S. Tucker University of Melbourne
Xiang Liu
Xiang Liu Nanjing Tech University
Lute Maleki
Lute Maleki OEwaves, Inc.
Keang-Po Ho
Keang-Po Ho Apple (United States)
Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar
Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar Nokia (United States)
Efstratios Skafidas
Efstratios Skafidas University of Melbourne
Fred Buchali
Fred Buchali Nokia (United States)

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