Publications related to Laser communication in space

Privatized graph federated learning

Federated learning is a semi-distributed algorithm, where a server communicates with multiple dispersed clients to learn a global model. The federated architecture is not robust and is sensitive to communication and computational overloads due to its one-m ...

SPRINGER2023

Reduced material loss in thin-film lithium niobate waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Mikhail Churaev, Zihan Li, Guanhao Huang, Di Zhu

Thin-film lithium niobate has shown promise for scalable applications ranging from single-photon sources to high-bandwidth data communication systems. Realization of the next generation high-performance classical and quantum devices, however, requires much ...

AIP Publishing2022

All-optical switching in epsilon-near-zero asymmetric directional coupler

Jiaye Wu, Qian Li

We propose an all-optical switch based on an asymmetric directional coupler structure with epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) layer. The nonlinear optical properties the of ENZ layer are analyzed by hot-electron dynamics process, and the all-optical operating perform ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Modified Joint Channel-and-Data Estimation for One-Bit Massive MIMO

Saeed Saadatnejad, Mohammadhossein Bahari, Mahdi Amiri

Centralized and cloud computing-based network architectures are the promising tracks of future communication systems where a large scale compute power can be virtualized for various algorithms. These architectures rely on high-performance communication lin ...

IEEE2021

Resource Trade-Offs in Circuits and Systems: from Neurotechnology to Communications

Arda Uran

This thesis aims to explore and exploit trade-offs in integrated circuits and systems to overcome the fundamental bottlenecks faced by future data acquisition and communication systems. Specifically, we target the emerging implantable neurotechnology and t ...

EPFL2021

Drone-aided Localization in LoRa IoT Networks

Dario Floreano, Alexandru Rusu, Fabrizio Schiano, Giuseppe Cocco

Besides being part of the Internet of Things (IoT), drones can play a relevant role in it as enablers. The 3D mobility of UAVs can be exploited to improve node localization in IoT networks for, e.g., search and rescue or goods localization and tracking. On ...

IEEE2020

On the assessment of aspheric refractive microlenses

Jeremy Béguelin

Refractive microlenses and microlens arrays are key components for many applications such as optical data communication, laser and medical devices, or cameras. In particular, refractive micro-optics enables the miniaturization of high-tech systems but also ...

EPFL2020

Physical Layer Aspects of LoRa and Full-Duplex Wireless Transceivers

Orion Afisiadis

Wireless communications are currently faced with two main challenges. The first challenge stems from the enormous number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices that transmit very small amounts of data. The second challenge is the need for ever-increasing data ...

EPFL2020

A Linearly Convergent Algorithm for Decentralized Optimization: Sending Less Bits for Free!

Martin Jaggi, Anastasiia Koloskova

Decentralized optimization methods enable on-device training of machine learning models without a central coordinator. In many scenarios communication between devices is energy demanding and time consuming and forms the bottleneck of the entire system. We ...

MICROTOME PUBLISHING2020

SCAFFOLD Stochastic Controlled Averaging for Federated Learning

Sai Praneeth Reddy Karimireddy, Sebastian Urban Stich, Ananda Theertha Suresh

Federated Averaging (FEDAVG) has emerged as the algorithm of choice for federated learning due to its simplicity and low communication cost. However, in spite of recent research efforts, its performance is not fully understood. We obtain tight convergence ...

JMLR-JOURNAL MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH2020

Parallel-Correctness and Containment for Conjunctive Queries with Union and Negation

Bas Ketsman

Single-round multiway join algorithms first reshuffle data over many servers and then evaluate the query at hand in a parallel and communication-free way. A key question is whether a given distribution policy for the reshuffle is adequate for computing a g ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Adaptive Receiver Design for High Speed Optical Communication

Ilter Ozkaya

Conventional input/output (IO) links consume power, independent of changes in the bandwidth demand by the system they are deployed in. As the system is designed to satisfy the peak bandwidth demand, most of the time the IO links are idle but still consumin ...

EPFL2018

Wireless Communication and Security Issues for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet-of-Things

Andreas Peter Burg, Anupam Chattopadhyay

Wireless sensors and actuators connected by the Internet-of-Things (IoT) are central to the design of advanced cyber-physical systems (CPSs). In such complex, heterogeneous systems, communication links must meet stringent requirements on throughput, latenc ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2018

Labeled PSI from Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Malicious Security

Zhicong Huang

Private Set Intersection (PSI) allows two parties, the sender and the receiver, to compute the intersection of their private sets without revealing extra information to each other. We are interested in the unbalanced PSI setting, where (1) the receiver's s ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Beam shaping with tip-tilt varifocal mirror for indoor optical wireless communication

Matthias Imboden

MEMS mirrors are currently used in many applications to steer beams of light. An area of continued research is developing mirrors with varifocal capability that allows the beam to be shaped and focused. In this work, we study the varifocal capability of a ...

Optical Society of America2017

Versatile short-wave and mid-infrared sources based on wideband parametric conversion

Adrien Billat

The mid-infrared part of the optical spectrum is of high interest in a wide range of applications such as environmental gas monitoring, contaminant detection in the chemical, food or pharmaceutical industry, medical diagnosis, or defense and security. Rele ...

EPFL2017

Tunable insertion of multiple lines into a Kerr frequency comb using electro-optical modulators

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Yan Yan, Lin Zhang, Ahmad Fallahpour, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Cong Liu

We experimentally insert a flexible number of electro-optical (EO) comb lines into a Kerr frequency comb via EO modulation and demonstrate the use of combined Kerr and EO combs as light sources in coherent communications. The number of EO lines inserted in ...

Optical Society of America2017

Envirobot: A Bio-Inspired Environmental Monitoring Platform

Auke Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi

Autonomous marine vehicles are becoming essential tools in aquatic environmental monitoring systems, and can be used for instance for data acquisition, remote sensing, and mapping of the spatial extent of pollutant spills. In this work, we present an uncon ...

Ieee2016

Optimization of the Data Rate of an OOK CMOS Medical Transmitter Based on LC Oscillators

Catherine Dehollain, Kerim Türe, Gürkan Yilmaz, Franco Maloberti

This paper presents techniques for increasing communication data rates for OOK modulated signals in the case the carrier frequency is generated by a cross-coupled pair LC oscillator. The proposed circuitry completely turns off the transmitter during the tr ...

Ieee2016

Design of a Distributed Quantized Luenberger Filter for Bounded Noise

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Andrea Alessandretti, Francisco Fernandes Castro Rego

This paper addresses the problem of distributed state estimation for linear systems with process and measurement noise, in the case of limited communication data rate, where the data exchanged between agents is quantized. We propose a linear distributed Lu ...

Ieee2016