Converged optical-wireless access systems and technologies

Speaker:	Professor Idelfonso Tafur Monroy
		Department of Photonics Engineering
		Technical University of Denmark

Title:		"Converged optical-wireless access systems
		 and technologies"

Date:		Monday, 20 July, 2009

Time:		11:00am - 12 noon

Venue:		Room 2302 (via lifts 17/18), HKUST

Abstract:

In this talk I would like to summarize emerging trends in converged
optical-wireless communication systems and outline the role that
photonic technologies are playing in making the vision of a wireline-
wireless converged signal transport network a reality. I also will
briefly describe the work performed a DTU Fotonik in this area.


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Biography:

Idelfonso Tafur Monroy is currently head of the metro-access and short
range communication systems group of the Department of Photonics
Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.

He graduated from the Bonch-Bruevitch Institute of Communications, St.
Petersburg, Russia, in 1992, where he received a M.Sc. degree in
multichannel telecommunications. In 1996 he received a Technology
Licenciate degree in telecommunications theory from the Royal Institute
of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. The same year he joined the Electrical
Engineering Department of the Eindhoven University of Technology, The
Netherlands, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in 1999 and worked as an
assistant professor until 2006.

He is currently involved in several European research projects. His
research interests are in hybrid optical-wireless systems, coherent
detection technologies and digital signal processing receivers, optical
switching, nanophotonic technologies and systems for integrated metro
and access networks, short range communications, and communication
theory.