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William Shieh, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Electrical
and Electronic Engineering
Room 5.6, EEE Building
The University of
Melbourne
Victoria 3010 Australia
Tel: 61 3 8344 6800
Email: shiehw@unimelb.edu.au
Research Interests Curriculum Vitae Selected Publications About My Students Professional Activities
Research
Interests
My research involves balanced theoretical and
experimental exploration outlined as follows:
(1) Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) techniques for both optical and wireless applications (Click here to access our optical
OFDM papers)
(2) Coherent optical communications, and
optical signal processing and equalization
(3) All-Optical packet switching,
wavelength conversion and novel optical network architecture
(4) Polarization effects in optical fiber
including PMD and PDL in linear and nonlinear systems
(5) RF photonics involving RF signal
generation, characterization, transmission and processing
Currently I am looking for
postgraduate students who would like to develop technical skills
in above mentioned research directions.
My Curriculum Vitae
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Education:
University of Southern California -Ph.D. –Physics (thesis in EE) - 1996
University of Southern California -M.S. –EE-Communications
- 1994
University of Science and Tech. of China - B.S. -
Physics - 1989
Experience:
Senior Lecturer, the
• Research in the
general area of optical communications
• Teaching and lab
supervision
Technical Section Lead, Submarine Amplifier Design Group, Dorsal Networks/Corvis Corporation (2000-2003)
• High reliability
submarine amplifier for next generation high capacity and ultra long haul
transmission system;
• Transmission design
for high-capacity and ultra-long reach submarine transmission systems and
networks.
Member of Technical Staff,
•
Polarization-mode-dispersion (PMD) compensation in 10 Gb/s WDM systems.
•
Polarization-division-multiplexing (PDM) high-capacity system.
•
40 Gb/s Engineering rules for Wavestar
systems.
• Specification and
procurements of various passive components for Wavestar
400 G, such as optical Mux/Demux,
Filter, switch, and gain equalizer.
Member of Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Labs, Time and Frequency Systems
Group (1996 - 1998)
• Fiber optic antenna RF
remoting for NASA deep space network
• Ultra-low phase noise
RF source generation and characterization
• Photonic signal
processing using optical modulators and optical amplifiers
Selected Publications:
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1.
2.
W. Shieh and C. Athaudage,
‘System Performance of Coherent Optical Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing’ OSA Topical Meeting, Coherent Optical Technologies and
Applications, paper CWC5, Whistler,
3.
W. Shieh, R. Hui, and X. Yi,
“Degree-of-Polarization and Eye-closure Penalty associated with Optical Signals
with Orthogonal Polarizations,” IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett.,
accepted for publication, 2006.
4.
W. Shieh, “System Penalty due to
Polarization-Mode-Dispersion in the Presence of Fast Polarization Scrambling,”
IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 42, issue: 1, Jan. 05, 2006.
5.
W. Shieh, X. Yi, and A. V. Tran, “A
label swapping technique using synchronous phase modulation without wavelength
conversion,” Optics Communications, accepted for publication, 2006.
6.
W. Chen, R. S. Tucker, X. Yi, W. Shieh,
and J. S. Evans, “Optical signal-to-noise ratio monitoring using uncorrelated
beat noise, ” IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett., Vol. 17, pp. 2484 – 2486, Nov. 2005.
7.
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10.
11.
W. Shieh and H. Kogelnik, “Dynamic Eigenstates of Polarization,” IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett, vol.
13, pp. 40-42, 2001.
12.
W. Shieh, “Accelerated
Outage Probability Testing for PMD Induced Impairment,” IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett, , vol. 12, pp. 1364-1366, 2000.
13.
D. Engin, W.
Shieh and K. Kim, “Second-Order PMD Measurement Using Polarization Dependent
Base band Amplitude Modulation Method,” IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett, vol. 12, pp.
1671-1673, 2000.
14.
W. Shieh, et.
al., “Dynamic Polarization Mode Dispersion Compensation in WDM Systems,” Proc.
European Conference on Optical Communcations’2000, vol. 2, pp. 41-43,
15.
W. Shieh, “On the Second-Order
Approximation of PMD,”
IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett, vol. 12, pp.290-292, 2000.
16.
W. Shieh, “
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18.
A. Willner and W. Shieh, “Optimal
Spectral and Power Parameters for All-Optical Wavelength Shifting: Single
Stage, Fanout, and Cascadability,
” Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol.
13, pp. 771-854, 1995
About My Students (back-to-top)
·
November, 2007: Congratulations to Xingwen Yi, the second PhD
student I supervised for obtaining his Ph.D. degree.
Dr. Yi is currently a research scientist at the
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July, 2007: Congratulations to Vivian
Wei Chen, the first PhD student I co-supervised for obtaining her Ph.D. degree.
Dr.
Chen is currently an assistant professor at the Eindhoven University of
Technology, Netherlands.
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September, 2005: Congratulations to
Xingwen Yi and Vivian Chen for receiving internship in Alcatel Research Labs,
Professional Activities (back-to-top)
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Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Communications
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Technical program committee member,
European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2007.
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Technical program committee member, IEEE
LEOS Annual Meeting, 2006, 2007
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Technical program committee member, Asia-Pacific Optical Communications (APOC),
2007
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Technical program committee member,
Optical Fibre Communications Conference (OFC), 2002-2004
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Technical program chair, Wireless and
Optical Communications Conference (WOCC), 2001
OFDM Papers and Books (back-to-top)
1.
W.
Shieh and
2.
Y.
Ma, Q. Yang, Y. Tang, S. Chen, and
3.
Q.
Yang, S. Chen, Y. Ma, and W. Shieh, “Real-time reception of multi-gigabit
coherent optical OFDM signals,” Opt. Express 17, 7985-7992 (2009). PDF
4.
Z.
Tong, Q. Yang, Y. Ma, and W. Shieh, “21.4 Gb/s Coherent Optical OFDM
Transmission over 200 km Multi-mode Fiber,” Optoelectronics and Communications
Conference (OECC), 2008, postdeadline paper PDP 5. PDF
5.
X.
Yi, W. Shieh, and Y. Ma, “Phase Noise Effects on High Spectral Efficiency
Coherent Optical OFDM Transmission,” J. of Lightwave Technology, vol. 26, pp.
1309 – 1316, 2008. PDF1
6.
W.
Shieh, Q. Yang, and Y. Ma, "107 Gb/s coherent optical OFDM transmission
over 1000-km SSMF fiber using orthogonal band multiplexing," Opt. Express
16, 6378-6386 (2008) PDF
7.
W.
Shieh, X. Yi, Y. Ma, and Q. Yang, "Coherent optical OFDM: has its time
come? [Invited]," J. Opt. Netw. 7, 234-255 (2008) PDF1
8.
9.
10.
W.
Shieh, X. Yi and Y. Tang, “Transmission experiment of multi-gigabit coherent
optical OFDM systems over 1000km SSMF fibre,” IEE Electron. Lett.,
vol. 43, pp. 183-185, Feb., 2007. PDF
11.
12.
X. Yi, W. Shieh,
and Y. Tang, “Phase Estimation for Coherent Optical OFDM,” IEEE, IEEE Photonics
Technology Letters, vol. 19, pp. 919 - 921, 2007. PDF
13.
Y. Tang, W.
Shieh, X. Yi, and R. Evans “Optimal design for RF-to-optical up-converter in
coherent optical OFDM systems,” Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, pp. 483
– 485, 2007. PDF
14.
W. Shieh,
“PMD-supported coherent optical OFDM systems,” IEEE Photonics Technology
Letters, vol. 19, pp. 134-136, 2007. PDF
15.
W.Shieh, R. S. Tucker,
W. Chen, and X.Yi, and G. Pendock, “Optical
performance monitoring in coherent optical OFDM systems,” Optics Express, vol.
15, pp. 350-356, 2007. PDF1 or PDF2
16.
H. Bao and
17.
18.
W. Shieh, X. Yi
and Y. Tang, ‘Experimental Demonstration of Transmission of Coherent Optical
OFDM Systems,’ Optical
Fiber Communications Conference (OFC), paper OMP2, March, 2007,
19.
Y.Tang, X. Yi and W. Shieh, and R. Evans,
‘Optimum Design for Coherent Optical OFDM Transmitter,’ Optical Fiber
Communications Conference (OFC), JThA47, March, 2007,
20.
W. Shieh and C. Athaudage, ‘System Performance of Coherent Optical
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing’ OSA Topical Meeting, Coherent
Optical Technologies and Applications, paper CWC5, Whistler,