Kim Roberts

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Kim Roberts is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Kim Roberts has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 18 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 4 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Kim Roberts's work include Optical Network Technologies (67 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (38 papers) and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (35 papers). Kim Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (67 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (38 papers) and Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices (35 papers). Kim Roberts collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Kim Roberts's co-authors include Charles Laperle, Kuang-Tsan Wu, Han Sun, Maurice O’Sullivan, John C. Cartledge, L. Strawczynski, David Krause, A. Borowiec, Ahmed Awadalla and Abdullah S. Karar and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Optics Express and IEEE Communications Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Kim Roberts

78 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kim Roberts	1.9k	434	95	74	72	81	2.1k
Abdulhamid Zahedi	558 0.3×	313 0.7×	103 1.1×	145 2.0×	112 1.6×	37	731
Kailash Gopalakrishnan	938 0.5×	145 0.3×	464 4.9×	58 0.8×	79 1.1×	29	1.5k
Nanjian Wu	1.5k 0.8×	233 0.5×	150 1.6×	329 4.4×	80 1.1×	252	1.8k
Hao Cai	724 0.4×	270 0.6×	150 1.6×	104 1.4×	10 0.1×	100	1.0k
Yu-Der Chih	2.2k 1.2×	217 0.5×	304 3.2×	103 1.4×	32 0.4×	80	2.4k
Aydin Babakhani	1.7k 0.9×	162 0.4×	65 0.7×	369 5.0×	31 0.4×	132	1.9k
Jawar Singh	1.6k 0.8×	83 0.2×	95 1.0×	313 4.2×	27 0.4×	124	1.7k
Weisheng Zhao	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 2.3×	219 2.3×	122 1.6×	12 0.2×	134	2.2k
Kazuo Kyuma	1.3k 0.7×	624 1.4×	265 2.8×	103 1.4×	37 0.5×	141	1.6k
Rajiv Joshi	1.2k 0.6×	68 0.2×	125 1.3×	71 1.0×	35 0.5×	130	1.4k

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Roberts, Kim, et al.. (2025). Optimising detector readout settings for the detection of spatial correlations between SPDC photon-pairs. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 1101–1101.

Roberts, Kim, et al.. (2024). A comparison between the measurement of quantum spatial correlations using qCMOS photon-number resolving and electron multiplying CCD camera technologies. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 14687–14687. 2 indexed citations

Roberts, Kim. (2018). Flexible optical transceivers. 18. 3–3. 4 indexed citations

Cartledge, John C., Michael E. Reimer, D. Charlton, et al.. (2016). Compensation of Polarization Dependent Loss by Optimizing the Transmitted State-of-Polarization for 140 Gbit/s DP-QPSK. SpM3E.4–SpM3E.4. 1 indexed citations

Cartledge, John C., Ying Gao, Maurice O’Sullivan, et al.. (2016). High Resolution Characterization of the Spectral Broadening Due to Fiber Nonlinearities. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 28(21). 2375–2378. 4 indexed citations

Cartledge, John C., et al.. (2015). Simplified perturbation-based approach for predicting the tolerance to intra-channel nonlinear effects. 1–3. 1 indexed citations

Chan, Wai-Yip, John C. Cartledge, Maurice O’Sullivan, et al.. (2015). Frequency-Domain Volterra-Based Equalization Structures for Efficient Mitigation of Intrachannel Kerr Nonlinearities. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 34(8). 1770–1777. 39 indexed citations

Roberts, Kim, et al.. (2014). High Capacity Transport—100G and Beyond. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 33(3). 563–578. 48 indexed citations

Laperle, Charles, Kim Roberts, Mathieu Chagnon, et al.. (2012). A family of Nyquist pulses for coherent optical communications. Optics Express. 20(8). 8397–8397. 34 indexed citations

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Karar, Abdullah S., et al.. (2011). Electronic dispersion pre-compensation for 10709-Gb/s using a look-up table and a directly modulated laser. Optics Express. 19(26). B81–B81. 10 indexed citations

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Cartledge, John C., et al.. (2011). Pulse shaping for 112 Gbit/s polarization multiplexed 16-QAM signals using a 21 GSa/s DAC. Optics Express. 19(26). B628–B628. 17 indexed citations

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Karar, Abdullah S., et al.. (2011). Electronic Pre-Compensation for a 10.7-Gb/s System Employing a Directly Modulated Laser. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 29(13). 2069–2076. 21 indexed citations

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Jiang, Ying, Xuefeng Tang, John C. Cartledge, & Kim Roberts. (2009). Pre-compensation for the effects of cascaded optical filtering on 10 Gsymbol/s DPSK and DQPSK signals. European Conference on Optical Communication. 1–2. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Han, Kuang-Tsan Wu, & Kim Roberts. (2008). Real-time measurements of a 40 Gb/s coherent system. Optics Express. 16(2). 873–873. 303 indexed citations

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Krause, David, et al.. (2006). Measurement of passive optical components using a carrier and single sideband. 3 pp.–3 pp.. 6 indexed citations

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McNicol, John, et al.. (2005). Electrical Domain Compensation of Optical Dispersion. Optical Fiber Communication Conference. 78 indexed citations

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Roberts, Kim, et al.. (2005). Electronic precompensation of optical nonlinearity. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 18(2). 403–405. 109 indexed citations

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Roberts, Kim, et al.. (2002). LeCroy MQT300-charge to time converter. 1996 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium. Conference Record. 1. 436–438. 3 indexed citations

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Roberts, Kim, Peter Lawrence, Andrew Eisen, & Maureen Hoirch. (1987). Enhancement and Dynamic Time Warping of Somatosensory Evoked Potential Components Applied to Patients with Multiple Sclerosis. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. BME-34(6). 397–405. 13 indexed citations

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Eisen, Andrew, Kim Roberts, & Peter Lawrence. (1986). Morphological measurement of the SEP using a dynamic time warping algorithm. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology/Evoked Potentials Section. 65(2). 136–141. 4 indexed citations

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