Photonic Systems Group

RESEARCH SCIENTISTS

NIKOLA ALIC

Nikola Alic received the B.S. degree in optoelectronics from the Belgrade School of Electrical Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia in 1998. After graduation, he served as a Junior Scientist at the "Vinca" Institute of Nuclear Sciences in Belgrade, Serbia, where he worked on solitonic pulse compression in nonlinear fiber arrays. He received the MS and PhD degrees in Photonics from the University of California San Diego, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2001 and 2006, respectively, for his pioneering work on the role of electronic equalization in optical communications. Dr Alic is currently a research scientist at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technologies (CALIT2) in charge of the UCSD Photonics Systems Laboratory and Testbed. His research interests include equalization and coding theory in optical communications; high-speed transmission, detection theory, fiber optic parametric amplifiers and all-optical signal processing. Dr Alic has been a co-author of more than 50 peer reviewed journal publications and has served on Technical Program Committees of OFC, FiO, PhotSoc, as well as IEEE Topical Meetings.