Research Fellow in photonics/optical networking

Novel optical access and metro networks are essential to support fast growing capacity
requirement, driven by future applications and services for 6G and beyond. Networks are also
evolving to support a large variety of signals across larger access and metro network areas.
For these novel scenarios, flexibility becomes an essential feature, driven by the development
of flexible components and open networks. However, the adaptability and reconfigurability of
the networks brings with it a suit of new challenges such as the requirement for intelligent
performance monitoring methods, quality of transmission estimation and new physical layer
modelling techniques.
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One Post Doctoral researcher position is available for work in the area of intelligent AI-driven
physical layer optical communications networks. The work will involve the development of
novel monitoring techniques (using both fibre sensing and coherent transceiver-based
channel probing) and AI models of optical components and networks. The work will also
include the experimental validation of the developed methods in the access and metro
environment.
The applicants should have a solid theoretical and experimental background on physical layer
optical networks and machine learning and be willing to engage in testbed-oriented research.
The work will be carried out in the new OpenIreland research infrastructure, a large-scale
testbed for experimentation in optical, wireless and cloud technologies.
The position will be based in the CONNECT research centre at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
and will be funded under the European Horizon project ECO-eNET and other national,
European, and industry projects. The researcher will have the opportunity to build their
research portfolio within a range of projects within CONNECT. The researcher will also be part
of the School of Engineering in TCD.