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Instituto Superior Técnico

Short description

Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is the faculty of engineering of the Lisbon Technical University and it is the largest portuguese engineering faculty. The Optical Communications Group (OCG) of IST was formally created in 1992, and since then has been actively working on several research topics in the area of optical fibre telecommunication systems, ranging from components and subsystems up to systems and networks.

Research activities have consisted of theoretical modelling, analysis and simulation as well as experimental demonstration in the laboratory and in field trials. In particular, advanced modulation formats for very high speed fibre telecommunication systems, linear and nonlinear fibre impairments in single channel systems and in wavelength division multiplexed systems and networks, and 2- and 3-R optical regeneration have been investigated in the last years. These activities, many times developed in collaboration with international partners, such as universities, industries, telecommunication operators and research institutes, allowed to bring forth many M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, building a significant experience in optical fibre telecommunication systems. The most part of this collaboration was realized in the context of the projects RACE 1051 and 2011 TRAVEL, ACTS 049 SPEED, and, more recently, in the NoE e-Photon ONe and in the EUREKA CELTIC project OPTRONET – Optimized Transponders for Robust Optical Networks –.

The OCG has an aggregate of more than 30 publications in top peer-reviewed technical journals in the last four years.

The Laboratory of the OCG is equipped with more than 10 personal computers Pentium IV with speed of 3 GHz or more, more than 1 GB of RAM and 40 GB of HD. The OCG research personnel resources are currently composed by 1 Associate Professor, 3 Assistant Professors/Lecturers, and 7 PhD students.

Website

www.ist.utl.pt

Primary contact person

Adolfo Cartaxo
Dep. Electrical and Computer
Engineering Instituto Superior Técnico
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Av. Rovisco Pais
1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel +351 21 8418476
Fax +351 21 8417164

Participants

• Adolfo Cartaxo received the degree of “Licenciatura” in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Ph. D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1985, and 1992, respectively, from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). He is currently Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of IST. He joined the Optical Communications Group (OCG) of IST as a researcher in 1992, and he is now the leader of the OCG conducting research on optical fibre telecommunication systems and networks. He was / is leader of the IST participation in several national and international (of the European Union programs on R&D) projects in the optical communications area. He has acted often as a technical auditor and evaluator of R&D projects for various organizations. He has served as a reviewer for several top publications in the area of optical communications and networks. He is a senior member of the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society. He has authored more than 50 refereed publications in technical journals, and more than 75 international conference papers. He is co-author of two patents. His current research areas of interest include fiber optic communication systems and networks.
• Tiago Alves

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