Publications
Publications under each Work Package
Journals
Conferences
Aboobackkar Sidhique, Shekhar Saxena, Pramod Mishra, Surya Karmakar, Arvind Mishra, and Shalabh Gupta, "Single-wavelength bidirectional 4-core MCF self-homodyne coherent link," Appl. Opt. 63, 810-815 (2024).
P. Mishra, S. Saxena, A. Kandwal, A. Maity, and A. Mishra, “Enhanced Data Integrity through Cross-Talk Reduction in Multi-Core Fiber”, 16th International Conference of Photonics 2024, paper id 147 (Accepted and presented in the conference).
Arvind Mishra, “Readiness of multi-core fiber connectivity solution for real-world Optical Networks”, 16th International Conference of Photonics 2024, (Invited).
A. Malviya, R. Balakrishna, S. Guru, K. Shubham, B. Janarthanan, S. Munige, and Anand K. Pandey, “Four Core Fiber for Data Center Applications”, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1225. Springer, (Photonics 2023).
P. Mishra, S. Saxena, S. Munige, A. Pandey and A. Mishra, "Successful 200G Transmission over 45 km of 4-Core single mode MCF," 2022 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), Mumbai, India, 2022, pp. 1-2.
A. Maity, A. Kandwal, A. Malviya, S. Munige, A. Pandey and A. Mishra, "125 μm Cladding 4-Core Fiber with Low Inter-core Crosstalk," paper 118, 2022 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics (WRAP), Mumbai, India, 2022, pp. 1-2. (Best Poster Award)
WP 4
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Conferences
S. A. Mir, S. Saxena, P. Mishra, A. Mishra, and D. Venkitesh, "Demonstration of Transmitter IQ imbalance Tolerant 1.24 Tb/s Transmission Over 13 km Multi-core Fiber," in Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2023 (FiO, LS), Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2023), paper FM1D.5.
S. A. Mir, J. N. Sarma, L. N. Theagarajan and D. Venkitesh, "Kronecker Product-based Modeling of Inter-Core Cross-talk & Polarization Mixing in 2-core Fiber and Low Complexity Mitigation," 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), Rome, Italy, 2024, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/IPC60965.2024.10799901.
S.A. Mir et al., "Random Matrix Generation to Model Desired Cross-talk and Polarisation Mixing with a Single Control Parameter for Multicore Fibers" (Accepted IPC 2024)
S.A. Mir et al., "IQ imbalance Tolerant Probabilistically Shaped Signals with Adaptive Constellation Referencing" (Accepted WRAP 2024)
S.A. Mir, et.al, "Bidirectional Transmission in Multi-Core Optical Fiber Using a Recirculating Loop for Long-Distance Emulation" ,Photonics 2024 (Submitted), IIT Kharagpur, India
J.N. Sarma et al., "Bidirectional simultaneous transmission over a single mode optical fiber" , Photonics 2024 (Submitted), IIT Kharagpur, India
Sameer Ahmad Mir, Chuang Xu, Qirui Fan, Lakshmi Narayanan Venkatasubramani, Liam Barry, Alan Pak Tao Lau, Deepa Venkitesh, “Symbol Rate Tolerance of Geometric Parameter Extraction-based Receiver IQ imbalance Correction” (CLEO 2023)
Sameer Ahmad Mir. Mrudula Krishna and Deepa Venkitesh, ""DSP-free nonlinearity and dispersion mitigation of probabilistic shaped 16QAM signals using semiconductor optical amplifiers"", in Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2024
WP 5
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Conferences
Sreeraj, S. J., B. Lakshman, Radhakrishna Ganti, David Koilpillai, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, and Deepa Venkitesh. "Experimental Demonstration of Multi-Channel Frequency Quadrupling for Analog Optical Fronthauling." IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 36, no. 8 (2024): 551-554.
Sreeraj, S. J., B. Lakshman, Radhakrishna Ganti, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, R. David Koilpillai, and Deepa Venkitesh. "Multi-Channel Optical Frequency Doubling for Analog Optical Fronthauling of mmWave 5G Signals." In 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), pp. 1-2. IEEE, 2024.
Sreeraj S J, Joydip Dutta, R. David Koilpillai, Deepa Venkitesh, "A Dither Free Automatic Bias Controller for Multichannel Optical Upconversion System", OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) 2024, Melbourne
Sreeraj, S. J., B. Lakshman, Radhakrishna Ganti, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, R. David Koilpillai, and Deepa Venkitesh. "Optical upconversion of OFDM signals for next generation fronthauling using frequency doubling and quadrupling." IEEE Access 12 (2024): 39300-39312.
WP 8
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Conferences
M. Srivastava and K. S. Kumar, “Analysis of Analog Radio-Over-Fiber Link for 5G NR Fronthauling in N258 Frequency Band”, presented at IEEE MAPCON, Hyderabad, India, 2024.
Krishna S Kumar and Manas Srivastava, “5G fronthaul with analog radio over fiber link”, accepted at TOP Conference, UK
WP 9
Journals
Conferences
Md Kamran Afroz, Deeksha Jachpure, and Amol Choudhary, “Linear and Flat Brillouin GHz Bandpass Filters for Communications Applications using Waveform Shaping and Distributed Pumping” (Submitted in IEEE/OPTICA Journal of Lightwave Technology in June 2025)
Md Kamran Afroz, Deeksha Jachpure, and Amol Choudhary, “Electrical waveform shaping for Flat band Tunable Brillouin Filters” in Proc. CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025, Munich, Germany, Jun. 2025, (Accepted; to be published)
Md Kamran Afroz, Deeksha Jachpure, and Amol Choudhary, “Linearity Enhancement of GHz Brillouin Filters” (Accepted in IEEE IPC 2025 conference)
WP 10
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Conferences
Dixit Kumar, Amol Choudhary, Vivek Venkataraman, “Genetic algorithm aided power efficient electro-optic frequency combs” (Journal Manuscript Under Preparation)
Dixit Kumar, Amol Choudhary, Vivek Venkataraman, “Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Power-Efficient Electro-Optic Frequency Combs” (Accepted in IEEE IPC 2025 conference)
WP 11
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Conferences
N. Gautam, S. V. Pendem, B. Lall, and A. Choudhary, “Transformer-based Nonlinear Equalization for DP-16QAM Coherent Optical Communication Systems”, IEEE Communications Letters, 28, 577-581, 2024.
Shruti, R. Dhawan, A. Choudhary, and A. Dixit, “Enhancing resource utilization in radio-over-fiber using hybrid modulation scheme,” 2025 (Submitted in Elsevier Optical Fiber Technology)
P. K. Pandey, R. Dhawan, B. S. Heera, and A. Choudhary, “Brillouin‐Based Optical Carrier Amplification for Kramers‐Kronig Receivers with DC Value Method” (Journal Manuscript Under Preparation)
N. Gautam, P. Agarwal, C. A. Kaylor, B. Lall, A. Choudhary and S. E. Ralph, "Experimental Demonstration of Machine Learning Transformer Based Equalization of Channel Nonlinearities," ECOC 2024; 50th European Conference on Optical Communication, Frankfurt, Germany, 2024, pp. 974-977
Shruti, R. Dhawan, B. S. Heera, A. Choudhary, and A. Dixit, “Simultaneous transmission of baseband and rf over fiber,” in Proc. CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025, Munich, Germany, Jun. 2025, (Accepted; to be published)
P. K. Pandey, R. Dhawan, B. S. Heera, and A. Choudhary, “Brillouin‐Based Carrier Amplification for Kramers‐Kronig Receivers” in Proc. CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025, Munich, Germany, Jun. 2025, (Accepted; to be published)
WP 12
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Conferences
Mrudula Krishna and Deepa Venkitesh, "Low Distortion Inline SOA Amplifier With Optimized Holding Beam for Single-Channel 16/64QAM Signals", in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 36, no. 13, pp. 845-848, 1 July1, 2024, doi: 10.1109/LPT.2024.3403036
Geethakrishnan P, Mrudula Krishna and Deepa Venkitesh, "Interferometer-free method for accurate characterization of an optical phase modulator" , Optik, 2025
Mrudula Krishna, G. P. Agrawal and Deepa Venkitesh, “Gain Stabilization and Performance Improvement Induced by a Holding Beam in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers: Modeling and Experiments” (submitted in IEEE JLT)
Boyang Hu, Mrudula Krishna, Deepa Venkitesh, Byrav Ramamurthy, "Implications of Deploying Optical Phase Conjugators (OPCs) to Reduce DSP Overhead in a Dynamic WDM Coherent Optical Network", 2024 International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modeling (ONDM), Madrid, Spain, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.23919/ONDM61578.2024.10582655.
Mrudula Krishna, G P Agrawal and Deepa Venkitesh, "Gain Compression in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers induced by a Holding Beam”, in 2024 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)
Geethakrishnan P, Mrudula Krishna and Deepa Venkitesh, "Design of single-pump fiber optical parametric amplifier for a uniform gain across C band", (Accepted PHOTONICS 2024)
Geethakrishnan P, Mrudula Krishna, Aneesh Shobhanan and Deepa Venkitesh, "Single-Pump Fiber Optic Parametric Amplifier in C-Band" , (Accepted NCC 2025)
Joydip Dutta, Geethakrishnan P, Jonaq Niveer Sarma and Deepa Venkitesh, “Adaptive Polarization Alignment for Polarization-Independent gain in OPAs Using SPGD” (submitted to IPC 2025)
D. Pavitra Varsha, Mandeep Singh, Deepa Venkitesh, “Enhanced Flatness in 25 GHz Electro-Optic Frequency Combs via Precision Bias Control” (submitted to IPC 2025)
Sameer Ahmad Mir, Jonaq Niveer Sarma, Chandan Singh Yadav, Rana Pratap, Lakshmi Narasimhan Theagarajan, Deepa Venkitesh, “Index modulation for spectral efficiency improvement” (CLEO 2025)
Pavitra Varsha D, Siva Subramaniam C N, Balaji Srinivasan and Deepa Venkitesh, “Short-Pulse Generation from Active Mode Locking with RF Frequency Comb” (CLEO 2024)
Boyang Hu, Mrudula Krishna, Deepa Venkitesh and Byrav Ramamurthy, ""Integrating Physical Layer Modeling in the Simulation of Dynamic WDM Optical Networks with Direct and Coherent Detection,"" in IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2023
Geethakrishnan P, Deepa Venkitesh, “Accurate characterization of optical phase modulators using an interferometer-free method” (IEEE WRAP 2023)
Mrudula Krishna and Deepa Venkitesh, “Optimization of holding beam for low-distortion amplification of 16-QAM signal using SOA” (Advanced Photonics Congress 2023)
WP 13
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Conferences
S. A. Mir, M. Krishna and D. Venkitesh, "Low-Distortion Amplification of Probabilistic Shaped Signals Using SOA," in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 36, no. 14, pp. 897-900, 15 July 15, 2024, doi: 10.1109/LPT.2024.3405953
S.A. Mir et al., "Joint carrier phase tracking and IQ imbalance tolerance with the dynamic adaption of reference constellation for probabilistic-shaped signals" (Under Review- Applied Optics)
Sameer Ahmad Mir, Lakshmi Narayanan Venkatasubramani, R. David Koilpillai, and Deepa Venkitesh, "Low-complexity algorithms for coherent optical systems with transceiver IQ imbalance" (Opt. Express 2023)
Sameer Ahmad Mir. Mrudula Krishna and Deepa Venkitesh, ""DSP-free nonlinearity and dispersion mitigation of probabilistic shaped 16QAM signals using semiconductor optical amplifiers"", in Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2024
Sameer Ahmad Mir, Chuang Xu, Qirui Fan, Lakshmi Narayanan Venkatasubramani, Liam Barry, Alan Pak Tao Lau, Deepa Venkitesh, “Symbol Rate Tolerance of Geometric Parameter Extraction-based Receiver IQ imbalance Correction” (CLEO 2023)
Sameer Ahmad Mir, Lakshmi Narayanan Venkatasubramani, Liam Barry, Deepa Venkitesh, “IQ imbalance Tolerant Probabilistically Shaped Signals with Adaptive Constellation Referencing” (IEEE WRAP 2023)
WP 5 and WP 13
Journals
Conferences
S. Khan, R. K. Jana, A. P. Singh, and A. Mitra, "Effect of Link Margin on Capacity Benefits in Multi-Core Optical Fiber Networks," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Guwahati, India, 2024
R. K. Jana, A. Yadav, P. Sowmendran, S. Krishna S, P. Palai, A. Srivastava and A. Mitra, "Experimental Investigation over 400 km C+L Band Optical Testbed for Quality of Transmission Estimation Using Machine Learning," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Guwahati, India, 2024
WP 14
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Conferences
Demonstration of “Interoperability of Multi-Vendor QKD Network using SDN”, accepted for NCC 2025 Demo.
Madhu Venkat, S. Kirubakaran, A. Paventhan, “Analysis of PNS attacks on Quantum Key Distribution Protocols”, submitted to IEEE WAMS 2025.
Deepika, Priyadharshini, Kirubakaran, Paventhan A, “ A Hybrid Protocol Method Using Noise-Based Switching for Quantum Key Distribution Systems, submitted to IEEE WAMS 2025.
Saran Prithive, Saranathan D, Kirubakaran S, A. Paventhan, Anil Prabhakar, “Investigation on FSO and Hybrid FSO/RF Communication Systems”, Photonics 2024.
Kirubakaran S, Priyadharshini, Aswani Ashok, Deepika, Paventhan A, “Investigation of Quantum Key Distribution Protocols Over a Side-Channel Attack” submitted to APAN 60, HongKong.
WP 15
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Conferences
A. Gupta, V. Chandra and A. Dixit, "Reliability Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant Full-Duplex Optical Wireless Communication Transceiver", in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 61298-61312, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3287335.
A. Gupta, and A. Dixit, “Mathematical analysis of busy tone in full-duplex optical MAC for hidden node mitigation”, in Computer Networks, vol. 255, pp. 110870, 2024.
R. Anwesh, A. Gupta, and A. Dixit, “Spectrally efficient multiplexing schemes in LiFi networks,” IEEE Trans. Of Wireless Communications, (to be submitted).
WP 17
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Conferences
A. Shukla, G. D. Verma, V. Bhatt, and A. Dixit, "Performance Analysis of FSO System in Turbulence Channel using Robust Laser Beam Engineering," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, pp 1-12, 2025. [Submitted]
G. D. Verma, A. Shukla, and A. Dixit, "A Telecom Operator Aspects For Deploying FSO Link Over Various States of India’’, pp. 1-10, 2024 [Drafted].
A. Ghosh, G. D. Verma, Sonali and A. Dixit, "Experimental Investigation of the Atmospheric Turbulence Effects on FSO Communication Systems," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Jaipur, India, 2023, pp. 420-424. doi: 10.1109/ANTS59832.2023.10469618.
V. Bhatt and A. Dixit, "Irradiance Distribution and Performance Analysis of Vector Vortex Beams in Atmospheric Turbulence," 2024 24th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Bari, Italy, 2024, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ICTON62926.2024.10647418.
S. Srivastava, G. D. Verma, A. Shukla, and A. Dixit, "Terrestrial FSO Optics System Design: A Way to Reduce Optical Power Spill at the Receiver," 2025 NCC, India Delhi, 2025, pp. 1-6. [Submitted]