Postdoctoral Researcher in Photonic Systems for Next-Generation Optical Access Networks

This role is aimed at a researcher with experience in optical communications, passive optical networks, and experimental physical-layer investigation. The successful candidate will contribute to research on high-speed optical access transmission, with a focus on burst-mode behaviour, transmitter and receiver performance, optical impairments, fibre reach, and validation under realistic network conditions. The work will involve experimental studies on emerging high-capacity access systems, including optical margin, sensitivity, dynamic range, coexistence, and dispersion- and reflection-related penalties, aligned with future 50G and 100G optical access networks. The role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of optical access architectures and photonic system performance, and is well suited to candidates interested in how device- and subsystem-level behaviour shapes end-to-end network performance.