Hugo de Waardt
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RESEARCH PROFILE
Hugo de Waardt is an Associate Professor and track leader of high-capacity trunk transmission within the ECO group at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His key areas of expertise include telecommunication engineering, optical communication, optical amplifiers, opto-electronic transmitters and receivers and high capacity fibre-optic transmission. Hugo’s research interest has always been in trying to reach the highest possible transmission capacity: at first using high speed direct laser modulation in combination with optical pre-amplified detection. Later on, he researched wavelength division multiplexing technologies and optical time domain multiplexing, eventually by exploring few mode transmission in combination with coherent detection.
The successful marriage between semiconductor optoelectronic devices and low-loss optical fibres has pushed the transmission capacity of a single core fibre from the Megabit level up to the Terabit domain and thereby becoming the main enabler of the Internet.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Hugo de Waardt received his MSc (1980) and PhD (1995) from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. In 1981, he started his professional carrier in the Physics Department at PTT Research in Leidschendam, The Netherlands, where he worked on the performance issues of opto-electronic devices. In 1989 he moved to the Transmission Department and became involved in WDM high-bit-rate optical transmission. Hugo coordinated the participation of TU/e in ACTS Upgrade, ACTS BLISS, ACTS APEX and IST FASHION. He served as project leader of the national research initiative Freeband Broadband Photonics (2004-2008) and as task manager Broadband Communication in the SmartMix MEMPHIS program (2006-2012).
In recent years he was involved in the FP7 ICT projects MODE-GAP and IDEALIST. Since 2012, he has coordinated the post-doctoral engineering programme in ICT at the faculty of Electrical Engineering at TU/e. In 2016 he was appointed as Director Graduate Program at the selfsame faculty. His interests are in high capacity optical transmission and networking, integrated optics and semiconductor optical amplifiers/modulators. He has (co)authored over 450 conference and journal papers.
Recent Publications
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Sjoerd van der Heide,John van Weerdenburg,Marianne Biqot-Astruc,Adrian Amezcua-Correa,Jose Antonio-Lopez,Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias,Huug de Waardt,Ton Koonen,Pierre Sillard,Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa
Single carrier 1 Tbit/s mode-multiplexed transmission over graded-index 50μm core multi-mode fiber employing Kramers-Kronig receivers
(2018) -
Talha Rahman,Bernhard Spinnler,Stefano Calabrò,Erik De Man,Antonio Napoli,Bernd Sommerkorn-Krombholz,A.M.J. Koonen,C.M. Okonkwo,Huug de Waardt
Flexible data-rate and reach transmission employing hybrid modulation and scrambled coherent superposition
(2018) -
Ginni Khanna,Talha Rahman,Erik De Man,Emilio Riccardi,Annachiara Pagano,Anna Chiado Piat,Stefano Calabro,Bernhard Spinnler,Danish Rafique,Uwe Feiste
Single-carrier 400G 64QAM and 128QAM DWDM field trial transmission over metro legacy links
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (2017) -
W. Miao,H. De Waardt,R. van der Linden,N. Calabretta
Assessment of scalable and fast 1310-nm optical switch for high-capacity data center networks
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (2017) -
J.H.C. van Zantvoort,P.I. Kuindersma,K.A. Mekonnen,H. de Waardt
Mechanical devices for aligning optical fibers using elastic metal-deformation techniques
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology (2016)
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