Research Fellow in Fibre Raman Technologies for Coherent Communication

£37,382 to £44,607 per annum

2 year Fixed Term Contract  

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow in Photonic Communication System Research, focused on technologies which may revolutionize the way in which optical networks are deployed worldwide.

Having undergone exponential growth in capacity since its commercial introduction in 1975, the optical fibre communication network is rapidly approaching a significant capacity crunch. This threatens to destroy business models relying on negligible cost for information transmission and the projects UNLOC (EPSRC) and GRIFFON (MC IAPP) are targeted at developing new technologies to release additional capacity from the installed optical fibre. This position will develop revolutionary technologies and network architectures to enable new cost-reduced approaches to high capacity ultra-long haul optical networks and unrepeatered point to point systems. The work will build on recent world-leading advances in all optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, nonlinear transmission, phase sensitive and insensitive amplifiers and coherent detection to generate novel solutions to the capacity crunch.

The successful applicant will join an established team within the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies, will carry out research in purpose-built photonics communications research facilities at Aston University, and will be involved in collaboration with industrial project partners operating to short timescales. Training opportunities will be provided to acquire appropriate, experimental and numerical research skills.

Applicants for this position should have a degree (minimum 2:1) in electronic engineering, applied physics or related subject; a PhD related to optical communications and/or equivalent experience in the photonics industry and would be free to travel throughout the European Economic Area.

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Closing date: Midnight GMT 1 June 2013