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Menno van den Hout received both his BSc and MSc degrees (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in 2017 and 2019 respectively. He graduated with the Electro-Optical Communications (ECO) group at TU/e with a MSc thesis about "High-Baud Rate and High-Cardinality Coherent Optical Transmission Systems Enabled by Digital Signal Processing" under the supervision of Dr. Chigo Okonkwo. Since 2020 he is a PhD candidate at the ECO group at TU/e focussing on wideband spectral/spatial agile optical transmission systems.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
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NGF - Operational & Use-Cases
Patterson, D. (Project communication officer), Okonkwo, C. M. (Project Manager), Rommel, S. (Project member), Frazão, J. (Project member), van Duijn, T. (Project member), van den Hout, M. (Project member), Moonen, Q. H. B. (Project member) & Bradley, T. (Project member)
1/09/21 → 31/12/28
Project: Third tier
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SmartTWO: Maverick Telecom Technologies as Building Blocks for Value Driven Future Societies'RVO kenmerk TKI1912P06
Okonkwo, C. M. (Project Manager), van den Hout, M. (Project member) & Hakkens-Jansen, J. (Project member)
2/10/19 → 31/12/25
Project: Third tier
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Testbed Setup with ECI
Okonkwo, C. M. (Project Manager), Calabretta, N. (Project member), Chen, B. (Project member), van den Hout, M. (Project member) & van Weerdenburg, J. J. A. (Project member)
1/01/17 → 31/12/21
Project: Research direct
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273.6 Tb/s Transmission Over 1001 km of 15-Mode Fiber Using 16-QAM C-Band Signals
van den Hout, M., Di Sciullo, G., Rademacher, G., Luís, R. S., Puttnam, B. J., Fontaine, N. K., Ryf, R., Chen, H., Mazur, M., Neilson, D. T., Sillard, P., Achten, F., Sakaguchi, J., Antonelli, C., Okonkwo, C. & Furukawa, H., 19 May 2023, 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2023 - Proceedings: Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 1-3 3 p. Th4B.5Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Randomly Coupled 19-Core Multi-Core Fiber with Standard Cladding Diameter
Rademacher, G., van den Hout, M., Luís, R. S., Puttnam, B. J., Di Sciullo, G., Hayashi, T., Inoue, A., Nagashima, T., Gross, S., Ross-Adams, A., Withford, M. J., Sakaguchi, J., Antonelli, C., Okonkwo, C. & Furukawa, H., 2023, 2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2023 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 1-3 3 p. Th4A.4Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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11,700 km transmission at 4.8 bit/4D-sym via four-dimensional geometrically-shaped polarization-ring-switching modulation
van der Heide, S., Chen, B., van den Hout, M., Liga, G., Koonen, T., Hafermann, H., Alvarado, A. & Okonkwo, C., 1 Jul 2019, OECC/PSC 2019 - 24th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference/International Conference Photonics in Switching and Computing 2019. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 3 p. 8817687Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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3.74 Exabit/s·km Transatlantic-Class C+L-Band SDM Transmission over 8,610 km in a 19-Core Randomly-Coupled Multicore Fiber
Kalla, B. (Corresponding author), Luis, R. S., Hout, M. V. D., Gaiani, S., Orsuti, D., Goto, Y., Rademacher, G., Puttnam, B. J., Inoue, A., Nagashima, T., Hayashi, T., Gatto, A., Parolari, P., Boffi, P., Bradley, T., Okonkwo, C. & Furukawa, H., 15 Aug 2026, In: Journal of Lightwave Technology. 44, 16, p. 7047-7056 10 p., 11576570.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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CDC Network Element for Petabit-Per-Second Randomly-Coupled MCF Networks
Kalla, B. (Corresponding author), Luís, R. S., Gaiani, S., Orsuti, D., Colares, R. A., Blown, P., van den Hout, M., Mello, D. A., Boffi, P., Bradley, T., Okonkwo, C. & Furukawa, H., 27 May 2026, 2026 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, OFC 2026 : Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 3 p. 11525125Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Prizes
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Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition Finalist
van Vliet, V. (Recipient), van den Hout, M. (Recipient), Gümüş, K. (Recipient), Tangdiongga, E. (Recipient) & Okonkwo, C. M. (Recipient), 2025
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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Optica Student Paper Award (2022 Optica Advanced Photonics Congres)
van Vliet, V. (Recipient), van der Heide, S. (Recipient), van den Hout, M. (Recipient) & Okonkwo, C. M. (Recipient), 28 Jul 2022
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2019) Best Paper Award
van der Heide, S. (Recipient), Chen, B. (Recipient), van den Hout, M. (Recipient), Liga, G. (Recipient), Koonen, T. (Recipient), Hafermann, H. (Recipient), Alvarado, A. (Recipient) & Okonkwo, C. (Recipient), Jul 2019
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Courses
Press/Media
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Invisible beams of light above Eindhoven provide super-fast wireless data transfer
van Vliet, V., van den Hout, M., Gümüş, K., Tangdiongga, E. & Okonkwo, C.
10/04/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
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Groeifonds, Snoeifonds, Doeifonds. Maar hoe kweek je dan kampioenen à la ASML?
van den Hout, M. & Okonkwo, C. M.
30/03/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Enabling optical fiber communication with transmission capacity of 22.9 petabits per second, twice the previous world record
van den Hout, M. & Okonkwo, C. M.
5/10/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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The world’s fastest industry standard optical fibre
Okonkwo, C. M. & van den Hout, M.
1/06/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Scientists Establish a Fresh Velocity Milestone for Conventional Optical Cable
Okonkwo, C. M. & van den Hout, M.
1/06/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment