Prof. Stephan Pachnicke of Kiel University, Germany

Next generation intra-data center links will be operating at 3.2 Tb/s. Intensity modulation and direct detection together with pulse amplitude modulation is regarded as the most cost-efficient and practical solution. Challenges for digital signal processing enabling rates of 200 Gb/s/λ and beyond are reviewed. Furthermore, FWM nonlinearities impose significant penalties in O-band WDM transmission even at intra-data center reaches. Promising nonlinearity mitigation techniques will be presented.

Biography:

Stephan Pachnicke (M’09–SM’12) received the MSc degree in Information Engineering from City University, London, UK, in 2001, the Dr.-Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, in 2005, and the Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. degree in Business Administration from Fern-Universität, Hagen, Germany, in 2005. From 2011 to 2015, he was with ADVA Optical Networking SE in the Advanced Technology Group (CTO Office). Since 2016, he has been a Full Professor and heading the Chair of Communications, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany. He is author or co-author of more than 240 scientific publications, author of a book on Fiber-Optic Transmission Networks (Springer, 2011), and holds several patents. Prof. Pachnicke is currently serving on the technical program committees of the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), the Signal Processing in Optical Communications Conference (SPPCom) and the International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC). He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Address:Kiel, Germany