Are you fascinated by the idea of
high-speed space Internet, envisioned to be powered by more than 50000 low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites expected to be launched within 10 years? Join us on this research project in collaboration with multiple tech companies to develop and demonstrate the next generation of free-space optical (FSO) communication systems for satellite communications.
Job Description Satellite-based links are of key importance to provide ever-increasing data rates. Free-space optics is a technology that can help satisfy this demand thanks to the vast amounts of bandwidth available in the THz-regime. The Eindhoven University of Technology recognizes the crucial paradigm shift, from intensity-modulated to coherent transmission, necessary in next generation FSO communication systems to provide high throughputs. To address this challenge, we are excited to announce a postdoc position in the field of Fundamentals of FSO communications.
This position is part of a collaborative research project between leading technology companies (
TNO,
Aircision,
Hyperion Technologies,
ADVA Network Security,
Luxquanta, and
Cubiq Technologies) and two research groups at TU/e: the
Signal Processing Systems (SPS) and the
Electronic Systems (ES) group. The research in this project will be performed between these companies and research groups. You will coordinate a team that consists of 2 EngDs and 2 PhDs. The position is for one year with the possibility of a two year extension (3 years in total).
The successful candidate will work on channel modeling and capacity estimation for coherent FSO communications. More specifically, the main goal is to derive a family of so-called channel laws in analytical form, i.e., a statistical characterisation of the input-output channel relationship in different transmission scenarios. These channel laws fully define a channel from an information-theoretic point of view, and thus, will enable the analysis of the FSO transmission bounds and the study of the optimal communication schemes.