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DR SARAH DODS



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Organization: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1990
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2000

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Expanding the boundaries of long distance, high capacity data transmission in optical fibres Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A Framework for Evaluating the System Penalty From Polarization-Mode Dispersion Using Different Performance Monitoring Techniques


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 1790-1797
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  • Optical impairment outage computation
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 14
    Page numbers: 10529-10534
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Novel Outage Probability Based RWA Algorithm


    Year: 2008
    Event name: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2008
    Conference Publication: OFCNFOEC 2008: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
    Page numbers: 1-3 (PAPER JThA87)
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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Publications in 2007

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Asynchronous sampling for optical performance monitoring
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
    Author(s):
  • Bit Rate Identification using Delay-tap Asynchronous Waveform Sampling
    Year: 2007
    Event name: COIN-ACOFT 2007
    Conference Publication: International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN) with the 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT)
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
    Author(s):
  • Comparison of methods for monitoring PMD-induced penalty
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • Enabling ASON routing via novel signal quality metrics
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • Monitoring of Multiple Modulation Formats using Asynchronous Delay-tap Sampling
    Year: 2007
    Event name: COIN-ACOFT 2007
    Conference Publication: International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN) with the 32nd Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT)
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Multi-impairment monitoring for photonic networks
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ECOC07: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Conference Publication: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: VDE Verlag GMBH(Berlin)
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  • Outage and capacity based path selection in optical networks
    Year: 2007
    Event name: ECOC07: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Conference Publication: 33rd European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: VDE Verlag GMBH(Berlin)
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  • Quantifying the dependence of degree of polarization on polarization mode dispersion and the optical spectrum
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007: The Future of Optical Communications is Here
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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  • Robust, low cost, in-band optical signal to noise monitoring using polarization diversity
    Year: 2007
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2007
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Experimental Comparison of PMD-Induced System Penalty Models


    Year: 2006
    Journal: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1149-1151
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  • Frequency-correlation analysis of PMD emulators with symmetric polarization scrambling
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 3897-3906
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Automatically switched optical network path selection using eye closure penalty
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Conference Publication: ATNAC Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2006
    Page numbers: 1-5
    Publisher: The University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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  • Experimental comparison of feedback signals for monitoring polarization mode dispersion
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT % AOS
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology and Meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 82-84
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Low-cost in-band optical signal-to-noise ratio monitoring using an optical interferometer
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 2006 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference
    Conference Publication: 2006 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 970-971
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Monitoring of chromatic dispersion for 10Gbit/s RZ modulation using asynchronous sampling
    Year: 2006
    Event name: ACOFT & AOS
    Conference Publication: Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology and meeting of the Australian Optical Society - ACOFT & AOS
    Page numbers: 85-87
    Publisher: Australian Optical Society(Melbourne)
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  • Optical performance monitoring technique using delay tap asynchronous waveform sampling
    Year: 2006
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC: Linking the Science and Business of Optical Communications
    Conference Publication: OFC/NFOEC 2006: Linking the Science and Business of Optical Communications
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Omnipress(Madison)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Broad-band concatenated-section PMD emulator design for low interchannel correlation
    Year: 2005
    Journal: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1019-1021
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Comparison of system penalties from first and multiorder polarization mode dispersion.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 8
    Page numbers: 1650-1652
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Optical performance monitoring with tunable narrowband optical filtering.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Optics Express
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 22
    Page numbers: 8927-8932
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • Robustness of polarization mode dispersion compensation in the presence of polarization dependant loss.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 573-575
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A novel broadband asynchronous histogram technique for optical performance monitoring
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • All-order PMD penalty prediction using SOP string lengths
    Year: 2005
    Event name: LEOS 2005
    Conference Publication: 2005 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 702-703
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Comparison and implications of PMD-induced system penalty models
    Year: 2005
    Event name: BGPP/ACOFT 2005
    Conference Publication: Bragg Gratings, Poling & Photosensitivity/ 30th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (BGPP/ACOFT) 2005 Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Tour Hosts(Sydney)
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  • Design and optimization of polarization mode dispersion emulators for low background autocorrelation
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
    Author(s):
  • Experimental comparison of system penalties due to 1st order and multi-order polarization mode dispersion
    Year: 2005
    Event name: OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the OFC/NFOEC 2005
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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  • In-band optical signal-to-noise monitoring technique using polarization diversity
    Year: 2005
    Event name: LEOS 2005
    Conference Publication: 2005 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings
    Page numbers: 700-701
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Modelling PMD-induced system penalties
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 31st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
    Conference Publication: 31st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Proceedings
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 339-340
    Publisher: IEE - Institution of Electrical Engineers(London)
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  • Optical monitoring issues in highly transparent optical networks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Tencon 2005
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from IEEE Tencon '05 Conference
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Optical performance monitoring in automatically switchable optical networks
    Year: 2005
    Event name: International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
    Conference Publication: 2005 International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks
    Page numbers: 1-4 (paper no.562)
    Publisher: Mahanakorn University of Technology(Bangkok)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Dispersion map optimisation and dispersion slope mismatch effects for 40 channel x 10 Gbit/s transmission over 3000 km using standard SMF and EDFA amplification
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Optics Communications
    Volume: 242
    Page numbers: 525-532
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Optical performance monitoring combining optical signal processing and histogram techniques
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ACOFT/AOS '04
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ACOFT/AOS '04
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: ACOFT/AOS 2004(Canberra)
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  • Polarisation mode dispersion emulator design for low background autocorrelation
    Year: 2004
    Event name: ACOFT/AOS '04
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of ACOFT/AOS '04
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: ACOFT/AOS 2004(Canberra)
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  • Spectrally resolved performance monitoring using narrowband filters for optical networks
    Year: 2004
    Event name: OECC/COIN 2004
    Conference Publication: Technical digest: OECC/COIN 2004: 9th optoelectronics & communications conference. 3rd international conference on optical internet.
    Page numbers: 652-653
    Publisher: IEICE Institue of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers(Tokyo)
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Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Advanced modulation formats for high capacity DWDM transmission
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Conference on the optical internet/Australian conference on optical fibre technology 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the conference on the optical internet/Australian conference on optical fibre technology 2003
    Page numbers: 714-717
    Publisher: EA Books(Sydney)
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  • Optimization of generation and detection of WDM signals with advanced modulation formats.
    Year: 2003
    Event name: OECC 2003 - 8th optoelectronics and communications conference.
    Conference Publication: Proceedings from the 8th optoelectronics and communication conference (OECC, 2003)
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: Chinese Optical Society(Shanghai)
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  • Power level optimization of 40 Gbit/s DWDM systems with hybrid Raman/EDFA amplification
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Conference on the optical internet/Australian conference on optical fibre technology 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the conference on the optical internet/Australian conference on optical fibre technology 2003
    Page numbers: 309-312
    Publisher: EA Books(Sydney)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Analysis of incoherent homodyne crosstalk in optical networks
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Optical Communications
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 178-181
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Dispersion map optimisation in WDM transmission systems
    Year: 2002
    Event name: LEOS 2002 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society
    Conference Publication: 2002 IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings : The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society
    Page numbers: 203 - 204
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Launch power management for DWDM transmission systems using two stage lumped amplification
    Year: 2002
    Event name: First International Conference on Optical Communication and Networks (ICOCN 2002)
    Conference Publication: Optical Communications and Networks : Proceedings of the First International Conference on ICOCN 2002
    Page numbers: 234 - 237
    Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co
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  • New formulae for calculating power penalties from interferometric crosstalk
    Year: 2002
    Event name: LEOS 2002 : 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
    Conference Publication: 2002 IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings : The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
    Page numbers: 183-184
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Simplified method for calculating power penalties due to interferometric crosstalk from single or multiple interferers
    Year: 2002
    Event name: ACOFT 2002 27th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 27th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology
    Page numbers: 4 - 6
    Publisher: Institution of Engineers Australia(Canberra)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A comparison of the homodyne crosstalk characteristics of optical add-drop multiplexers
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Lightwave Technology
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 12
    Page numbers: 1829-1838
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Homodyne crosstalk performance of reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers
    Year: 2001
    Event name: OFC 2001 : Otpcial Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit
    Conference Publication: OFC 2001 : Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit Technical Digest Series : Changing Light at Speed
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: OSA - Optical Society of America(Washington DC)
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