USC Optical Communications Lab

The Optical Communications Laboratory is led by Professor Alan E. Willner, a recognized leader in the field of optical fiber communications. Biographical sketch and Full resume

OCLAB attracts students and visiting researchers from all over the world. We currently have members from the United States, China, Pakistan, Iran, Taiwan, and Turkey.

Louis C. Christen lcchrist@usc.edu	USA	Optical fiber communications Optical signal processing
Bo Zhang boz@usc.edu Website	China	Slow light in fibers Directly-modulated systems Fiber recirculating loop Optical signal processing
Irfan Fazal fazal@usc.edu Website	Pakistan	Optical signal processing Optical modulation formats
Lin Zhang linzhang@usc.edu	China	Micro-resonator device and system application Slow light in fibers Photonic crytal fiber
Vahid Reza Arbab varbab@usc.edu Website	Iran	Optical CDMA Fiber-optic communications Wireless communications
Scott Nuccio nuccio@usc.edu	USA	Optical coherent systems Nonlinear materials Quantum communications
Jeng-Yuan Yang jengyuay@usc.edu	Taiwan	Optical performance monitoring
Xiaoxia Wu xiaoxia@usc.edu	China	Optical fiber communications Optical modulation formats Optical signal processing
Omer Faruk Yilmaz oyilmaz@usc.edu	Turkey	Optical signal processing
Yang Yue yyue@usc.edu	China	Optical fiber communications Photonic crystal fiber
Bishara Shamee bishara.shamee@usc.edu	USA	Optical OFDM Optical fiber communications
Salman Khaleghi khaleghi@usc.edu	Iran	Optical CDMA Optical fiber communications

	Muping Song songmp@zju.edu.cn	China	Optical fiber communications RF communications
	Wei-Ren Peng pwr.eo92g@nctu.edu.tw	Taiwan	Optical OFDM Optical modulation formats

	Yannick Keith Lize ylize@itflabs.com	Canada	Nanophotonics Fiber devices PMD Nonlinear Optics Modulation formats Optical system monitoring
	Moo Jung Chu mjc@etri.re.kr	South Korea	Optical fiber communications

29 - Poorya Saghari	Iran	"Techniques for Increasing Number of Users in Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical Code Division Multiple Access Systems and Networks"
28 - Saurabh Kumar	India	10/2006, "Optical Signal Processing for High-Speed, Reconfigurable Fiber-Optic Network"
27 - Ting Luo	China	02/2006, "Management of Dispersion, Nonlinearity and Polarization-dependent Effects in High-Speed Reconfigurable WDM Fiber- Optic Communication Systems"
26 - Yan Wang	China	12/2005, "Monitoring and Utilization of Dispersive and Nonlinear Effects in High-Speed Reconfigurable WDM Optical Fiber Networks"
25 - Changyuan Yu	China	08/2005, "Dispersive and Nonlinear Effects in High-Speed Reconfigurable WDM Optical Fiber Communication Systems"
24 - John E. McGeehan	USA	05/2005, "Novel Techniques in All-Optical Networks"
23 -Paniz Ebrahimi	Iran	12/2004, "Novel techniques in Raman Amplification"
22 - Lianshan Yan CIPC Lab at Southwest Jiaotong University, China Website	China	12/2004, "Mitigation of degradations in Hi speed optical comm"
21 - Kashyap Merchant kashyapm@alumni.usc.edu	India	12/2004, "Analysis of an Optical Burst Switching Router with Tunable Multiwavelength Recirculating Buffers"
20-Reza Motaghian	Iran	04/2004, "Chromatic and Polarization Mode Dispersion Monitoring for Equalization in Optical Fiber Communication Systems"
19-Yong-Won Song	Korea	10/2003, "Mitigation of Signal Degradations in Reconfigurable Wavelength-Division- Multiplexed Fiber-Optic Communication Systems"
18-Deniz Gurkan	Turkey	05/2003, "Experimental Demonstrations of Optical Techniques To Implement Networking Functions In Dynamically Reconfigurable Wavelength-Division-Multiplexed Fiber-Optic Communication Networks".
17-Asaf Sahin	Turkey	04/2003, "Experimental Demonstration of Techniques to Improve System Performance in Non-Static Microwave Frequency Analog and Digital Signal Transmission over Fiber-Optic Communication Systems"
16-Zhongqi Pan	China	11/2002, "Overcoming Fiber Dispersive Effects in High-Speed Reconfigurable Multi- Wavelength Optical Systems and Networks"
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