Polina Bayvel

Polina Bayvel
Born Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel
Fields
Thesis Stimulated Brillouin scattering in single mode optical fibre ring resonators (1990)
Notable awards
Children Two
Website
www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/staff/academic/pbayvel

Polina Leopoldovna Bayvel FRS,[2] FREng is Professor of Optical Communications & Networks in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London. She has made major contributions to the investigation and design of high-bandwidth multiwavelength optical networking.[2][3][4]

Education

Bayvel was educated at University College London where she was awarded a BSc(Eng) Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1986 followed by a PhD in 1990.[5]

Research

Bayvel's research has focused on maximising the speed and capacity of fiber-optic communications, and the fundamental studies of capacity-limiting optical nonlinearities and their mitigation.[2][6][7][8]

She was one of the first to show the feasibility of using the wavelength domain for routing in optical networks over a range of distance- and time-scales. She has established the applicability of these new optical network architecture concepts, which have been widely implemented in commercial systems and networks. These systems and networks underpin the Internet, and the digital communications infrastructure - and are essential for its growth.[2] Her research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[9]

Awards and honours

Bayvel was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2002 and was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonic Society Engineering Achievement Award in 2013. In 2014 she delivered the Clifford Paterson Lecture[10] and in 2015 was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Colin Campbell Mitchell Award.[2] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.[2]

Personal life

She has two children with Anatoly Zayats, who is a Professor of Physics at King's College London.[11]

References

  1. Polina Bayvel's publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Professor Polina Bayvel FREng FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2016-04-29. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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  3. Polina Bayvel on Twitter
  4. "Prof Polina Bayvel". London: ucl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-04-30.
  5. Bayvel, Polina Leopoldovna (1990). Stimulated Brillouin scattering in single mode optical fibre ring resonators (PhD thesis). University College London. OCLC 940321697.
  6. Duser, M.; Bayvel, P. (2002). "Analysis of a dynamically wavelength-routed optical burst switched network architecture". Journal of Lightwave Technology. 20 (4): 574–585. doi:10.1109/50.996576.
  7. Savory, Seb J.; Gavioli, Giancarlo; Killey, Robert I.; Bayvel, Polina (2007). "Electronic compensation of chromatic dispersion using a digital coherent receiver". Optics Express. 15 (5): 2120. doi:10.1364/OE.15.002120.
  8. Baroni, S.; Bayvel, P. (1997). "Wavelength requirements in arbitrarily connected wavelength-routed optical networks". Journal of Lightwave Technology. 15 (2): 242–251. doi:10.1109/50.554330.
  9. "Professor Polina Bayvel". Swindon: epsrc.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2016-04-30.
  10. Communicating with Light: Clifford Paterson Lecture by Professor Polina Bayvel FREng on YouTube
  11. "Parent-Carer Scientist: Polina Bayvel". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2016-04-30.
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