A.M.J. (Ton) Koonen

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Ton Koonen is a full professor of Electro-Optical Communications and Chair of Broadband Communication Networks in the department Telecommunication Technology and Electromagnetics. His areas of specialization include computer systems, architectures and networks, telecommunications, broadband and optical fiber-to/in-the-home. Ton has initiated and led several European and national R&D projects in this area on dynamically reconfigurable hybrid fiber access networks, fiber-wireless, packet-switched access, and short-range multimode (polymer) optical fiber networks, and label-controlled optical packet routed networks.

His current research interests are optical fiber-supported in-building networks (including optical wireless communication techniques, radio-over-fiber techniques, and high-capacity plastic optical fiber (POF) techniques), optical access networks, and spatial division multiplexed systems. His group has, for example, developed a Wi-Fi network that transmits signals via infrared light, achieving a speed of 42.8 Gb/s, 100 times faster than current networks generally achieve. At this speed, an entire film could be transferred in one second.

Academic background

Ton Koonen received his MSc (with honors) in Electrical Engineering from TU/e in 1979.In that year, he joined Philips Telecommunicatie Industrie (Telecommunications Industry). From 1987 to 2000 he worked on high-speed transmission systems and optical fiber systems for hybrid access networks at Bell Laboratories within Lucent. He has also worked as a professor at the University of Twente, holding a chair on Photonic Networks.

Ton is chairman of the Electro-Optical Communication Systems (ECO) group, part of the COBRA institute and from September 2012 he was also vice-dean of the department Electrical Engineering. Ton is a Bell Labs Fellow, IEEE Fellow, OSA Fellow, ERC Advanced Investigator Grant Winner, Distinguished Guest Professor of Hunan University, Changsha, China, and has frequently acted as an auditor and reviewer on national and EC projects. Currently, he is involved in a number of access/in-home projects in the Freeband program, the IOP GenCom program, and the EC FP6 IST and FP7 ICT programs. He has authored and co-authored more than 250 conference and journal publications.

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Projects

3 Finished
4 Active

Smart-One: Optical networks for pervasive communication, i.e. Visible/Infrared Light Communication

Koonen, A. M. J. (. & Pham, N.

2/01/17 → 31/12/22

Project: Research direct

Zwaartekracht Networks ECO

Koonen, A. M. J. (. & Koonen, A. M. J. (.

31/03/14 → 30/06/24

Project: Research direct

Zwaartekracht ECO Research Centre for Integrated Nanophotonics

Koonen, A. M. J. (., van Zantvoort, J., Smit, M., Cao, Z., Zhang, X., Trinidad, A. M., van der Heide, S., Mamun, M. & Shi, B.

1/01/14 → 31/12/23

Project: Research direct

Graduate Programme COBRA Photonics - Positie ECO

Koonen, A. M. J. (., Okonkwo, C. & van Weerdenburg, J. J. A.

1/01/14 → 1/01/21

Project: Research direct

Beam-steered Reconfigurable Optical-Wireless System for Energy-efficient communication - Proving the Concept - BROWSE_PLUS

Koonen, A. M. J. (., Mekonnen, K. A. & Huijskens, F. M.

1/06/18 → 30/11/19

Project: Research direct

Research Output

Circumventing LoS blocking in beam-steered optical wireless systems with real-time tracking and handover

Mekonnen, K. A., Pham, N., Huijskens, F. M., Tangdiongga, E., Mefleh, A. & Koonen, A. M. J. T., 8 Mar 2020, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition (OFC2020). Optical Society of America (OSA), 3 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

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Multi-user localization and upstream signaling for indoor OWC System using a camera technology

Pham, N., Mekonnen, K. A., Tangdiongga, E., Mefleh, A. & Koonen, A. M. J. T., 8 Mar 2020, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings OFC2020. Optical Society of America (OSA), 3 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

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Optical generation/detection of broadband microwave orbital angular momentum modes

Huang, J., Cao, Z., Zhao, X., Zhang, X., Liu, Y., Xiang, Y., Gerini, G. & Koonen, A. M. J. T., 15 Mar 2020, In : Journal of Lightwave Technology. 38, 6, p. 1202-1209 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Optically controlled beam-steering wireless systems

Koonen, A. M. J. T., Mekonnen, K. A., Cao, Z., Huijskens, F. M., Pham, N. & Tangdiongga, E., 8 Mar 2020, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition (OFC2020). Optical Society of America (OSA), 3 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

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Ultrahigh-capacity optical-wireless communication using 2D gratings for steering and decoding of DPSK signals

Mekonnen, K. A., Tangdiongga, E. & Koonen, A. M. J. T., 8 Mar 2020, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition (OFC2020). Optical Society of America (OSA), 3 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

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