Dr. Chigo Okonkwo

Biography

Chigo Okonkwo is a Full Professor leading the high capacity optical transmission laboratory of the Electro-Optical Communications Group at the Institute of Photonics Integration, Eindhoven University of Technology. He specializes in maximizing the capacity of currently deployed single-mode fibre systems using advanced-coded modulation schemes with Probabilistic/Geometrically shaped signals, and low complexity digital signal processing. In addition, he is developing future-proof transmission systems based on Space Division Multiplexing, focusing on the creation of new optical components necessary to scale the capacity of optical transmission systems to Petabit/s. His research also involves exploiting spatial channels with multi-mode and multi-core fibre technologies. Chigo has published critical works in journals like Nature Photonics, JLT, and Optics Express and holds a provisional patent. He graduated in 2002 with a Master's degree in Telecommunications and Information Systems from the University of Essex, UK, and completed his PhD in Optical Signal Processing at the same institution before joining COBRA at TU/e as a Post-doctoral researcher in 2010. Since then, he has contributed to several EU ICT projects and led research on ultra-high-capacity space division multiplexed transmission systems. Currently, he serves as a Technical Program Committee member for the European Conference on Optical Communications and has organized several workshops. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and has authored over 200 publications in conferences and journals.

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