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I am a PhD student in Communication Sciences Institute, Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California. I’m working in the general field of Optical Fiber Communications and Network. My research interest focuses on Optical Signal Processing and Generation/ Multiplexing of Advanced Modulation Format Signals .

Contact Info:

Address: 3740 McClintock Ave. EEB 527, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565

Email: zbakhtia@usc.edu

Education:

•  University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA

PhD. in Electrical Engineering( Optical Communication System) (2008-Present)

• Sharif University of Technology

M.S. in Electrical Engineering  (Microwave & Optical Engineering)

•  Shiraz University

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (communications)

 Research Interests:

·       Optical generation of higher order quadrature/ amplitude modulation (QAM) signal.

·       All-optical signal processing based on nonlinearities.

·       Advanced modulation formats for coherent optical communications.

·       Optical data communication networks.

·       Digital Signal Processing.

Publications:

·       Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "Experimental Optical Tunable Phase-Coherent Multiplexing of Four 20-Gbaud OOK Signals into a Single 80-Gbit/s 16-QAM  and Star 16-QAM Signal,” " submitted to CLEO 2012.

·  Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "Optical sub-QPSK symbol information extraction from 16-QAM signal using optical phase erasure," accepted to OFC2012.

·  Antonella Bogoni, Xiaoxia Wu, Scott R. Nuccio, Jian Wang, Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "Photonic 640 Gb/s Reconfigurable OTDM Add-Drop Multiplexer Based on Pump Depletion in a single PPLN Waveguide," accepted to the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics.

·  Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "Demonstration of 10-40-Gbaud Baud-Rate-Tunable Optical Generation of 16-QAM from a QPSK Signal Using a Variable DGD Element," Invited Paper, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), paper CThY5, Baltimore, MD, May 2011 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2011).

·  S.  R. Nuccio, Z. Bakhtiari, et al, "Wavelength-Conversion of 160-Gbit/s PDM 16-QAM Using a Single Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguide," accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 2011 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2011).

·  Jian Wang, Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "Phase-Transparent Optical Data Exchange of 40-Gbit/s Differential Phase-Shift Keying Signals," Optics Letters, vol. 35, pp. 2979-2981, 2010.

·  Jian Wang, Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "Phase-Transparent Optical Data Exchange of 40-Gbit/s DPSK Signals Using Four-Wave-Mixing in a Highly Nonlinear Fiber," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OMT6, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2010 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2010).

·  Jian Wang, Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "Experimental Demonstration of Data Traffic Grooming of a Single 10-Gbit/s TDM Tributary Channel between Two 160-Gbit/s WDM Channels," IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), paper OWF1, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2010 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2010).

·  Antonella Bogoni, Xiaoxia Wu, Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "640 Gbit/s Photonic Logic Gates," Optics Letters, vol. 35, pp. 3955-3957, 2010.

·  Antonella Bogoni, Xiaoxia Wu, Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "640 Gb/s All-Optical Logic Functions in a PPLN Waveguide," European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), paper Mo.1.A.5, Torino, Italy, Sept. 2010.

·  Antonella Bogoni, Xiaoxia Wu, Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "640 Gb/s All-Optical Add/Drop Multiplexing Based on Pump Depletion in a PPLN Waveguide," OSA Topical Meeting on Photonics in Switching, paper PTuB6, Monterey, CA, July (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2010).

·  Jian Wang, Omer Yilmaz, Scott Nuccio, Xiaoxia Wu, Zahra Bakhtiari, et al, "Data Traffic Grooming/Exchange of a Single 10-Gbit/s TDM Tributary Channel between Two Pol-Muxed 80-Gbit/s DPSK Channels," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), paper CFJ5, San Jose, CA, May 2010 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2010).

·  O.F. Yilmaz, S.R. Nuccio, Z. Bakhtiari , et al, "Wavelength Conversion and 9-fold Multicasting of a 21.4 Gbit/s DPSK Data Channel using Supercontinuum Generation," OSA Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Optics (NLO), Post-Deadline paper PDPA3, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2009 (Optical Society of America,Wash.,D.C.,2009).