Nokia Bell Labs Internship
Internship at Nokia Bell Labs USA
Title: High Capacity Fiber-Optic Transmission Systems
Introduction and Short description:
Company: Bell Laboratories (Nokia) www.bell-labs.com - President Marcus Weldon
Bell Labs has helped weave the technological fabric of modern society. Since its founding in 1925, technology from Bell Labs has shaped the ways people live, work and play. Over the past 80 years, the Bell Labs R&D community has made seminal scientific discoveries (9 Nobel Prizes), created powerful new technologies, and built the world's most advanced and reliable networks (Timeline):
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· The Transistor (1947) · Shannon’s Information Theory (1948) · Laser (1958) · Communications Satellites (1962) · The CCD (1969) |
· Unix Operating System and C Language (1969-1972) · Digital Signal Processor (DSP) (1979) · Optical WDM systems and networks (1990) · First 100G Ethernet transmission (2005) · Fiber-optic capacity limit (2010) |
Area: IP and Optical Networks - Led by Tod Sizer
The IP and Optical Network research lab designs the future of optical communications to meet future demands of applications that have not yet been invented. We push the state-of-the-art in optical and electrical communications in physics, materials science, math, software and optics to create new networks that adapt to changing conditions and go far beyond today’s limitations.
Department: Optical Transmission Subsystems – Director Peter Winzer
We have the most advanced laboratories in the field of fiber-optic communications.
Project:
In year 2010 the theoretical capacity limit of a single-mode fiber was found. The forecasted demand of data traffic will exhaust the capacity of the installed fiber plant by 2020. New fiber-optic designs are required in order to guarantee an efficient and sustainable increase in terms of cost and energy consumption for the following 30 years. Spatial division multiplexing in its two flavors, multi-mode and multi-core fibers, has become the new research paradigm. The scope of the project is to investigate on advanced transmission and detection techniques to exploit the capacity of the new optical fiber.
- Bell Labs – Future Impossible (Youtube Channel) – The Shannon Limit - The Story of Light
- P. J. Winzer, D. T. Neilson and a. A. R. Chraplyvy, "Fiber-optic transmission and networking: the previous 20 and the next 20 years," Optics Express, vol. 26, no. 18, pp. 24190-24-239, 2018.
- René-Jean Essiambre, Gerhard Kramer, Peter J. Winzer, Gerard J. Foschini, Bernhard Goebel, "Capacity Limits of Optical Fiber Networks", IEEE-OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 662-701, February 2010.
Contact Persons: Peter Winzer - (peter.winzer@nokia-bell-labs.com)
Joan M. Gené (joan.gene@upc.edu)
Location: 791 Holmdel Rd., Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA
maps.google.com à 40°23'25.8"N - 74°11'12.7"W
70 Km from Manhattan (New York City) www.nycgo.com
Public Transport www.njtransit.com
Newark Int. Airport www.panynj.gov/airports/newark-liberty.html
Starting date: Flexible
Duration of the stay: 6-12 months (12 months preferable)
Skills required from the candidates:
- Required: excellent academic records, good English knowledge fiber-optic communications, digital communications, signal processing
- Appreciated: technical programming (e.g. Matlab, Python, VHDL, etc), lab experience.
Number of positions (Bachelor or Master Students): 1 M.Sc. Thesis Student
Rewards: ~ 2,100 $/month (gross salary)
Application: https://telecos.upc.edu/en/international
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