P. D. Townsend

11.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
388 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

P. D. Townsend is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, P. D. Townsend has authored 388 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 249 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 139 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 86 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in P. D. Townsend's work include Optical Network Technologies (114 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (99 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (82 papers). P. D. Townsend is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (114 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (99 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (82 papers). P. D. Townsend collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany. P. D. Townsend's co-authors include Giuseppe Talli, Richard H. Friend, D.E. Hole, Donal D. C. Bradley, P. J. Chandler, А. Л. Степанов, P. R. Tapster, Gerald S. Buller, J. Sutton and J. Olivares and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

P. D. Townsend

377 papers receiving 8.3k citations

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Controlled production of aligned-nanotube bundles

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Micro-transfer printed high-speed InP-based electro-absorption modulator on silicon-on-insulator 2024 ·Applied Physics Letters ·(unknown), Samir Ghosh, (unknown), Kevin Thomas, James O’Callaghan, Fatih Bilge Atar, Brendan Roycroft, (unknown), Cleitus Antony, P. D. Townsend, E. Pelucchi, Brian Corbett	5
2	Reassessment of defect formation and structures of luminescence sites 2023 ·Journal of Luminescence ·Y. Wang, P. D. Townsend	2
3	Channel Estimation for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Orthogonal Chirp-Division Multiplexing Systems 2023 ·IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications ·Xing Ouyang, Octavia A. Dobre, Yong Liang Guan, P. D. Townsend	7
4	Low temperature photo-luminescence properties of Bi3+ doped Ca3Ga4O9 phosphor 2023 ·Journal of Luminescence ·(unknown), Lihong Yin, Y. Wang, Lei Pan, (unknown), P. D. Townsend	3
5	SOA-Based Power Equalisation for 100 Gb/s Passive Optical Network 2023 ·(unknown), (unknown), Cleitus Antony, P. D. Townsend	0
6	Adaptive neural network equalisation using skip connections for future 100 Gbit/s/λ passive optical networks 2023 ·IET conference proceedings. ·Sandra Murphy, F. Jamali, P. D. Townsend, Cleitus Antony	2
7	Iterative Block Decision Feedback Equalization for IM/DD-OCDM System to Mitigate CD-Induced Fading 2019 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·Xing Ouyang, Giuseppe Talli, P. D. Townsend	2
8	SOA-Based Metro-Access Coherent Transmission Systems 2019 ·Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics ·Giuseppe Talli, Cleitus Antony, (unknown), P. D. Townsend	1
9	25Gb/s PAM4 adaptive receiver equalisation requirements for burst-mode transmission systems 2016 ·European Conference on Optical Communication ·(unknown), Cleitus Antony, Giuseppe Talli, P. D. Townsend	7
10	Energy-efficient colourless photonic technologies for next-generation DWDM metro and access networks 2012 ·Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·(unknown), Alan Naughton, Peter Ossieur, P. D. Townsend, David W. Smith, A. Borghesani, D.G. Moodie, Graeme Maxwell, Johan Bauwelinck, (unknown), (unknown), Xin Yin, (unknown), Michael Eiselt, Klaus Grobe, Nick Parsons, (unknown), E. Kehayas	2
11	Optimisation of SOA-REAMs for Hybrid DWDM-TDMA PON Applications 2011 ·Optics Express ·Alan Naughton, Cleitus Antony, Peter Ossieur, (unknown), Giuseppe Talli, P. D. Townsend	8
12	Upstream burst-mode operation of a 100km reach, 16 × 512 split hybrid DWDM-TDM PON using tuneable external cavity lasers at the ONU-side 2009 ·European Conference on Optical Communication ·Cleitus Antony, Peter Ossieur, Giuseppe Talli, P. D. Townsend, (unknown), A. Poustie, R. Wyatt, (unknown), I.F. Lealman, G. Maxwell, D. C. Rogers, (unknown)	7
13	Long reach PONs 2008 ·P. D. Townsend, Giuseppe Talli, (unknown), Cleitus Antony	11
14	Luminescence detection of phase transitions in crystals and nanoparticle inclusions 2008 ·Revista Mexicana de Física ·P. D. Townsend, Binsheng Yang, (unknown)	4
15	Luminescence detection of phase transitions, local environment and nanoparticle inclusions 2008 ·Contemporary Physics ·P. D. Townsend, Binsheng Yang, Y. Wang	35
16	Integrated metro and access network: PIEMAN (invited paper). 2007 ·Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Giuseppe Talli, Chee‐Onn Chow, P. D. Townsend, R.P. Davey, (unknown), Xing-Zhi Qiu, Peter Ossieur, (unknown), D. G. Smith, (unknown), A. Poustie, S. Randel, Harald Rohde	8
17	Feasibility Demonstration of 100km Reach DWDM SuperPON with Upstream Bit Rates of 2.5Gb/s and 10Gb/s 2005 ·Optical Fiber Communication Conference ·Giuseppe Talli, P. D. Townsend	30
18	Spectrally Resolved Luminescence of Undoped and Dy3+ Doped Na2SO4 2002 ·Radiation Protection Dosimetry ·Aled Rowlands, A. K. Tyagi, T. Karalı, P. D. Townsend	6
19	Secure communications on passive optical networks using quantum cryptography 1996 ·European Conference on Optical Communication ·P. D. Townsend	1
20	Electronic properties of conjugated polymers 1985 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences ·Richard H. Friend, David Bott, Donal D. C. Bradley, C. K. Chai, W. James Feast, Peter J.S. Foot, (unknown), (unknown), C. M. Pereira, P. D. Townsend	26

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