Timo Pfau

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Timo Pfau is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Timo Pfau has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 2 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Timo Pfau's work include Optical Network Technologies (27 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (17 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (16 papers). Timo Pfau is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (27 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (17 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (16 papers). Timo Pfau collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Israel. Timo Pfau's co-authors include R. Noé, Sebastian Hoffmann, Mario Porrmann, Noriaki Kaneda, F. Vacondio, Maurizio Magarini, Luca Barletta, G. Gavioli, A. Spalvieri and Marco Bertolini and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Optics Express and Journal of Lightwave Technology.

In The Last Decade

Timo Pfau

28 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Hardware-Efficient Coherent Digital Receiver Concept With Feedforward Carrier Recovery for $M$-QAM Constellations

2009 775 citations Timo Pfau, Sebastian Hoffmann et al. Journal of Lightwave Technology profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timo Pfau Germany	12	1.2k	323	45	41	37	29	1.2k
Eduardo Mateo United States	17	1.0k 0.9×	279 0.9×	39 0.9×	25 0.6×	80 2.2×	66	1.1k
M. Salsi United States	19	1.3k 1.1×	272 0.8×	34 0.8×	30 0.7×	17 0.5×	80	1.4k
A. Nespola Italy	21	1.3k 1.1×	219 0.7×	47 1.0×	19 0.5×	31 0.8×	140	1.3k
W. Idler Germany	22	2.0k 1.7×	372 1.2×	139 3.1×	27 0.7×	44 1.2×	125	2.0k
Irshaad Fatadin United Kingdom	14	981 0.8×	230 0.7×	24 0.5×	64 1.6×	26 0.7×	38	1.0k
Alberto Sierra United States	8	1.3k 1.1×	453 1.4×	20 0.4×	24 0.6×	25 0.7×	9	1.4k
Charles Laperle Canada	19	1.4k 1.2×	287 0.9×	31 0.7×	41 1.0×	66 1.8×	58	1.4k
Eric Sillekens United Kingdom	17	932 0.8×	181 0.6×	31 0.7×	18 0.4×	39 1.1×	72	958
Yoshiaki Kisaka Japan	16	926 0.8×	148 0.5×	37 0.8×	19 0.5×	17 0.5×	117	980
Martin Birk United States	17	905 0.8×	154 0.5×	83 1.8×	20 0.5×	19 0.5×	72	942

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kaneda, Noriaki, Timo Pfau, Huan Zhang, et al.. (2015). Field Demonstration of 100-Gb/s Real-Time Coherent Optical OFDM Detection. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 33(7). 1365–1372. 17 indexed citations

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Shahramian, Shahriar, Noriaki Kaneda, Y. Baeyens, et al.. (2015). Demonstration of 112-Gbit/s optical transmission using 56GBaud PAM-4 driver and clock-and-data recovery ICs. 30. 1–3. 27 indexed citations

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Kaneda, Noriaki, et al.. (2014). Frequency diversity MIMO detection in polarization multiplexed coherent optical transmission. 1051–1052. 3 indexed citations

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Pfau, Timo. (2014). Carrier Recovery Algorithms and Real-time DSP Implementation for Coherent Receivers. Optical Fiber Communication Conference. W4K.1–W4K.1. 11 indexed citations

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Hauske, Fabian N. & Timo Pfau. (2014). Chromatic Dispersion Estimation and Compensation: From Theory to Requirements and Most Efficient Implementation. ST4D.1–ST4D.1. 2 indexed citations

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Kaneda, Noriaki, et al.. (2014). Serial 103.125-Gb/s Transmission over 1 km SSMF for Low-Cost, Short-Reach Optical Interconnects. Th5A.5–Th5A.5. 34 indexed citations

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Magarini, Maurizio, Luca Barletta, A. Spalvieri, et al.. (2012). Pilot-Symbols-Aided Carrier-Phase Recovery for 100-G PM-QPSK Digital Coherent Receivers. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 24(9). 739–741. 76 indexed citations

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Pfau, Timo, Xiang Liu, & S. Chandrasekhar. (2011). Optimization of 16-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Constellations for Phase Noise Impaired Channels. Tu.3.A.6–Tu.3.A.6. 22 indexed citations

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Krongold, Brian, et al.. (2011). Comparison Between PS-QPSK and PDM-QPSK With Equal Rate and Bandwidth. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 24(3). 203–205. 21 indexed citations

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Pfau, Timo, et al.. (2009). Site-controlled InAs quantum dots grown on a 55 nm thick GaAs buffer layer. Applied Physics Letters. 95(24). 13 indexed citations

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Pfau, Timo & R. Noé. (2009). Algorithms for optical QAM detection. 77–78. 2 indexed citations

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Noé, R., et al.. (2009). Realization of digital coherent receivers. 21. 422–423. 1 indexed citations

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Pfau, Timo, et al.. (2009). Differential phase compensated constant modulus algorithm for phase noise tolerant coherent optical transmission. 95–96. 3 indexed citations

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Pfau, Timo, et al.. (2008). Coherent optical communication: Towards realtime systems at 40 Gbit/s and beyond. Optics Express. 16(2). 866–866. 53 indexed citations

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Pfau, Timo, et al.. (2008). Frequency and Phase Estimation for Coherent QPSK Transmission With Unlocked DFB Lasers. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 20(18). 1569–1571. 34 indexed citations

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Noé, R., Timo Pfau, Vijitha Herath, et al.. (2007). Real-time Digital Carrier & Data Recovery for a Synchronous Optical Quadrature Phase Shift Keying Transmission System. IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium digest. 1503–1506. 1 indexed citations

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Pfau, Timo, et al.. (2007). Coherent Digital Polarization Diversity Receiver for Real-Time Polarization-Multiplexed QPSK Transmission at 2.8 Gb/s. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 19(24). 1988–1990. 38 indexed citations

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Pfau, Timo, Sebastian Hoffmann, S. Bhandare, et al.. (2006). Real-time Synchronous QPSK Transmission with Standard DFB Lasers and Digital I&Q Receiver. CThC5–CThC5. 4 indexed citations

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Noé, R. & Timo Pfau. (2006). Synchronous Demodulation of Optical Phase Shift Keying in Coherent Systems with DFB Lasers. Frontiers in Optics. FMD3–FMD3. 1 indexed citations

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Pfau, Timo, et al.. (2006). 1.6 Gbit/s Real-Time Synchronous QPSK Transmission with Standard DFB Lasers. 23. 1–2. 6 indexed citations

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