Publications related to Signal transmission

Electrical Model of a Wireless mW-Power and Mbps-Data Transfer System Over a Single Pair of Coils

Alexandre Schmid, David Palomeque Mangut

This paper proposes a system to transfer both mW-power and Mbps-data over an inductive link using a single pair of coils. The system is able to handle a wide range of loads by implementing a load adapter block that divides the operation into two phases: a ...

IEEE2022

High sensitivity, incoherent differential imaging

Chiara Bonati

Microscopic visualisation of optically transparent samples has been a topic of interest for several decades. Features such as density or chemical composition can influence the optical phase of transmitted light, and phase contrast can reveal these structur ...

EPFL2022

A 16-Channel Wireless Neural Recording System-on-Chip with CHT Feature Extraction Processor in 65nm CMOS

Volkan Cevher, Stéphanie Lacour, Catherine Dehollain, Cosimo Aprile, Alix Esther Anne Trouillet, Yusuf Leblebici, Kerim Türe, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Arda Uran

Wireless implantable neural recording chips enable multichannel data acquisition with high spatiotemporal resolution in situ. Recently, the use of machine learning approaches on neural data for diagnosis and prosthesis control have renewed the interest in ...

2021

Plug-and-play TOF-PET Module Readout Based on TDC-on-FPGA and Gigabit Optical Fiber Network

Edoardo Charbon, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner technology requires the use of a large number of PET detector modules that work in a parallel and synchronous manner. Moreover, system modularity is a desirable feature, that enables technology reutilization for d ...

IEEE2019

Multi-directional emission and detection of spin waves propagating in yttrium iron garnet with wavelengths down to about 100 nm

Dirk Grundler

We performed broadband spin-wave spectroscopy on 200 nm thick yttrium iron garnet containing arrays of partially embedded magnetic nanodisks. Using integrated coplanar waveguides (CPWs), we studied the excitation and transmission of spin waves depending on ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2018

Effects of erbium-doped fiber amplifier induced pump noise on soliton Kerr frequency combs for 64-quadrature amplitude modulation transmission

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Fatemeh Alishahi, Lin Zhang, Ahmad Fallahpour, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei

We experimentally investigate the effects of erbium-doped fiber amplifier induced pump noise on soliton Kerr frequency combs for 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) transmission. We find that the optical carrier-to-noise ratios (OCNRs) of the comb lin ...

2018

Analysis, Optimization, and Modeling of Analog Multi-Tone Serial Data Transceivers

Yusuf Leblebici, Gain Kim, Kiarash Gharibdoust

This paper presents a versatile and fast time-domain architectural modeling framework for high-speed serial data transceivers (TRX) that can employ various analog modulation schemes. We highlight a modeling of TRXs employing an analog multi-tone signaling, ...

2017

>25 Gbps direct modulation and data transmission with 1310 nm waveband wafer fused VCSELs

Elyahou Kapon, Alexandru Mereuta, Vladimir Iakovlev, Alexei Sirbu, Andrei Caliman

25 Gb/s transmission over 10 km of standard single mode fiber is demonstrated for 1300 nm wafer fused InP/GaAs VCSELs with increased strain in quantum wells and higher output coupling from the cavity. ...

Ieee2016

Remotely powered PPM demodulator by inductive coupling for rodent applications

Catherine Dehollain, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Kerim Türe, Franco Maloberti

A low-power pulse position modulation (PPM) demodulator has been developed for remotely powered batteryless implantable devices. The required power for the implantable device is provided by the magnetic coupling with the external array of powering of coils ...

Springer Verlag2016

Re-proving Channel Polarization Theorems : An Extremality and Robustness Analysis

Mine Alsan

The general subject considered in this thesis is a recently discovered coding technique, polar coding, which is used to construct a class of error correction codes with unique properties. In his ground-breaking work, Arikan proved that this class of codes, ...

EPFL2015

Prioritized Random MAC Optimization via Graph-based Analysis

Pascal Frossard, Laura Toni

Motivated by the analogy between successive interference cancellation and iterative belief-propagation on erasure channels, irregular repetition slotted ALOHA (IRSA) strategies have received a lot of attention in the design of medium access control protoco ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Wireless Monitoring in Intensive Care Units by a 3D-Printed System with Embedded Electronics

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Irene Taurino, Danilo Demarchi, Stefano Riario, Flavia Basilotta

The design, realization, and preliminary test of a portable wireless system for measuring key metabolites (e.g., glucose, lactate, calcium, potassium, etc..) in intensive cure monitoring is presented. The system is composed by a 3D-Printed case, which incl ...

2015

A Low-Power PPM Demodulator for Remotely Powered Batteryless Implantable Devices

Catherine Dehollain, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Franco Maloberti

A low-power PPM demodulator has been developed for remotely powered batteryless implantable devices. The required power is harvested by the magnetic coupling with external powering coils placed under the living space of the animal. The remote powering is t ...

Ieee2014

Single frequency wireless power transfer and full-duplex communication system for intracranial epilepsy monitoring

Catherine Dehollain, Gürkan Yilmaz

Current clinical neural recording methods which employ wired connections to the external world can be improved by eliminating the wires thanks to integrated circuit and microsystems technology. This study presents design and implementation of such a system ...

Elsevier2014

Coherent terabit communications with microresonator Kerr frequency combs

Tobias Kippenberg, Victor Brasch, Tobias Herr, Jingshi Li

Optical frequency combs have the potential to revolutionize terabit communications(1). The generation of Kerr combs in nonlinear microresonators(2) is particularly promising(3), enabling line spacings of tens of gigahertz. However, such combs may exhibit s ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Hang With Your Buddies to Resist Intersection Attacks

Bryan Alexander Ford

Some anonymity schemes, such as DC-nets and MIX cascades, can guarantee anonymity even against traffic analysis – provided messages are independent and unlinkable. Users in practice often desire pseudonymity – sending messages intentionally linkable to eac ...

2013

Wireless Data and Power Transmission Aiming Intracranial Epilepsy Monitoring

Catherine Dehollain, Oguz Atasoy, Gürkan Yilmaz

This study presents a wireless power and data transmission system to overcome the problems in intracranial epilepsy monitoring associated with transcutaneous wires. Firstly, a wireless power transfer link based on inductive coupling is implemented and a po ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Network Coding Meets Multimedia: A Review

Pascal Frossard, Enrico Magli

While every network node only relays messages in a traditional communication system, the recent network coding (NC) paradigm proposes to implement simple in-network processing with packet combinations in the nodes. NC extends the concept of "encoding" a me ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Model-Based Design for Wireless Body Sensor Network Nodes

David Atienza Alonso, Francisco Javier Rincon Vallejos, Ivan Beretta, Nadia Khaled

Wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) are a rising technology that allows constant and unobtrusive monitoring of the vital signals of a patient. The configuration of a WBSN node proves to be critical in order to maximize its lifetime, while meeting the pre ...

IEEE Press2012

The Vibrating Body Transistor

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Daniel Grogg

This paper presents a hybrid resonator architecture called the vibrating body field-effect transistor (VB-FET), which combines a silicon microelectromechanical (MEM) resonator and a FET in a single device. The active device provides improved motion sensing ...

2011