Postgraduate research opportunities Advanced Modulation and signal processing for high-density MIMO Optical wireless communication
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- Opens: Monday 8 January 2024
- Number of places: 1
- Duration: 3.5 years
Overview
The project will develop advanced spatial modulation techniques leveraging the 2D array of optical transmitters and receivers to enable scalable high-capacity MIMO optical wireless communication. The goal is to develop optical frontends to enable massive parallelism and effective spatial decoding algorithms to enable high spectral efficiency and efficient communication.Eligibility
To enter our PhD programme, candidates require an upper-second or first-class BSc Honours degree, or a Masters qualification of equal or higher standard, in Physics, Engineering or a related discipline. The candidate must have a strong background in physics, mathematics, and digital communication systems. If English is not your first language, you must have an IELTS score of at least 6.5 with no component below 5.5.
Project Details
Recently, individually addressable large array transmitters (e.g. array laser and LEDs) and receivers (e.g. SPAD, photodiode) are available for high-speed optical wireless communications. However, these devices are not effectively exploited for their massive parallelism capabilities, primarily due to reliance on traditional spatial multiplexing techniques like multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO). Large-scale MIMO systems encounter significant challenges with traditional approaches, as spatial interference becomes too large with increasing MIMO order which cannot be mitigated effectively at the receiver. The project aims to develop novel spatial modulation combined with frequency division multiplexing to capitalize on the time, frequency (wavelength), and spatial freedom offered by array devices for optical wireless communication. The project will optimize spatial modulation to enhance time-space-frequency utilization and develop corresponding decoding techniques to leverage the spatial dimension for achieving massive parallelism.
Institute of Photonics: The Institute of Photonics (IoP), part of the Department of Physics, is a centre of excellence in applications-oriented research at the University of Strathclyde. The Institute’s key objective is to bridge the gap between academic research and industrial applications and development in the area of photonics. The IoP is located in the £100M Technology and Innovation Centre on Strathclyde’s Glasgow city centre campus, at the heart of Glasgow’s Innovation District, where it is co-located with the UK’s first Fraunhofer Research Centre. Researchers at the IoP are active in a broad range of photonics fields under the areas of Photonic Devices, Advanced Lasers and Neurophotonics.
Strathclyde Physics is a member of SUPA, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance.
The University of Strathclyde has, in recent years, been the recipient of the following awards: The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education 2019, 2021 & 2023; Times Higher Education University of the Year 2012 & 2019; Daily Mail University of the Year 2024 Runner-Up; Daily Mail Scottish University of the Year 2024; Triple E European Entrepreneurial University of the Year 2023.
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