(PT-22) PhD Opportunity - Photonic Communications Job in Cork City, Ireland

Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork is one of Europe's leading research centres, specialising in ICT hardware research, with ca 420 staff, students and academic & industrial visiting researchers. Tyndall undertakes internationally-leading research into information and communications technology.

Tyndall uses its facilities and expertise to support industry and academia nationally and provides large numbers of highly qualified graduate students, key to the development of Ireland’s national economy. Tyndall has over 200 industry partnerships and customers worldwide. Several start up companies in Ireland have been based on technology originating at Tyndall. The Institute’s researchers include 125 PhD and 10 Masters students, and 38 nationalities are represented within the institute at all levels, with its research published in 200 peer reviewed publications last year.

(PT-22) PhD Opportunity - Photonic Communications Job Description

The Photonics Centre at the Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork invites applicants who will join established teams within the Photonic Centre, will carry out research in purpose-built photonic and microelectronic systems research facilities at Tyndall National Institute and will be involved in collaboration with other groups in Tyndall and elsewhere. Training opportunities will be provided to acquire additional experimental, circuit design and numerical research skills as appropriate.

This project aims to address these issues by developing novel types of enabling components and subsystems for future broadband fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) networks that will be highly energy efficient and simple to operate. The main focus of the project will be on scaling the capacity and reach of the transmission technologies for these network architectures, specifically addressing technologies for 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s. The approach will be incorporated in the ongoing research activity of the group on dynamic wavelength assignment for efficient bandwidth management in this class of networks. The  using tuneable components for dynamic wavelength allocation and will be capable of supporting dispersed customers (>100km range) with fluctuating bandwidth demands varying in scale from future residential (1Gb/s sustained up to 40Gb/s peak rate) to large business (>100Gb/s sustained or higher).
 
The PhD will focus on the development of novel high speed transmission technologies for burst-mode FTTH and metro networks. 
 
The PhD student will research spectrally efficient advanced data modulation formats as well as electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) and forward error correction (FEC) and digital coherent detection and digital signal processing (DPS) for dynamic impairment compensation. The goal will be to develop variants of these technologies that are specifically optimised for high dynamic range, burst mode burst mode operation in point-to-multipoint FTTH networks. The research will involve system design and modelling/simulation combined with experimental implementation and test using advanced photonic systems test-beds.
 

(PT-22) PhD Opportunity - Photonic Communications Job Requirements

The research will be carried out within the Photonic Systems Group (PSG) at the Tyndall National Institute (http://www.tyndall.ie/research/photonics-systems-group/index.html). The PSG facilities include a world-class photonic systems research laboratory incorporating a comprehensive range of test and measurement equipment and optical system test-beds, and also advanced industry standard modelling and design tools. You will have the chance to collaborate with a team with a broad range of competencies and skills ranging from photonic devices modelling to micro-electronic circuit design to full photonic systems modelling and experimental characterisation.
 
Applicants must have obtained a first class honours (or equivalent) Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or Physics from an approved University.
 
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At this time, Tyndall National Institute does not require the assistance of recruitment agencies.
 
Tyndall National Institute is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
 

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