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Nicolas K. Fontaine
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave
Davis CA 95616
Office: 2227 Kemper Hall
Phone: 530-754-2218

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Research Interests

My research interests cover many aspects of laser science, photonic integrated circuits, and optical measurements. Some of the areas that I have studied most include, optical waveform characterization, fiber optic telecommunications, RF and microwave electronics, and even mechanical engineering (as it impacts optical experiments).

I am actively involved in the Modelocked Laser, Dispersion Compensation, slowlight, Optical CDMA projects.

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Education

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering
University of California, Davis

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering and Optical Engineering
University of California, Davis

Publications and Presentations

Listed in reverse chronological order below are journal articles and conference presentations on which I am an author or co-author. This material is presented to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by authors or by other copyright holders. All persons copying this information are expected to adhere to the terms and constraints invoked by each author's copyright. In most cases, these works may not be reposted without the explicit permission of the copyright holder.

Journal Publications



1. David J. Geisler, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Tingting He, Ryan P. Scott, Loukas Paraschis, Jonathan P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Modulation-Format Agile, Reconfigurable Tb/s Transmitter Based on Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation" in Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 18, pp. 15911-15925, August, 2009.


2. Nicolas K. Fontaine, Ryan P. Scott, Jonathan P. Heritage, and S. J. Ben Yoo, "Near quantum-limited, single-shot coherent arbitrary optical waveform measurements" in Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 15, pp. 12332-12344, July, 2009.


3. Linjie Zhou, Ken Kashiwagi, Katsunari Okamoto, R. P. Scott, N. K. Fontaine, Dan Ding, Venkatesh Akella, S. J. B. Yoo, "Towards athermal optically-interconnected computing system using slotted silicon microring resonators and RF-photonic comb generation" in Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, Vol. 95, No. 4, pp. 1101-1109, June, 2009.


4. David J. Geisler, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Ryan P. Scott, Katsunari Okamoto, Jonathan P. Heritage, and S. J. Ben Yoo, "360 Gb/s Optical Transmitter with Arbitrary Modulation Format and Dispersion Precompensation" in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 489-491, April, 2009.


5. J. H. Baek, F. M. Soares, W. Jiang, N. K. Fontaine, R. G. Broeke, J. Cao, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, and S. J. B. Yoo, "10 GHz and 20 GHz Channel Spacing High-Resolution AWGs on InP" in IEEE Photonic Technology Letters, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 298-300, March, 2009.


6. Nicolas K. Fontaine, Jie Yang, Zhong Pan, Sai Chu, Wei Chen, B. E. Little and S. J. B. Yoo, "Continuously Tunable Optical Buffering at 40 Gb/s for Optical Packet Switching Networks" in IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technologies, Vol. 26, No. 23, page 3776, December, 2008.


7. Linjie Zhou, K. Kashiwagi, K. Okamoto, R. P. Scott, N. K. Fontaine, D. Ding, V. Akella, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Towards Athermal Optically-Interconnected Computing System using Slotted Silicon Microring Resonators and RF-Photonic Comb Generation" in Applied Physics A, No. 10.1007/s00339-009-5121-6, October, 2008.


8. N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, C. Yang, D. J. Geisler, J. P. Heritage, K. Okamoto, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Compact 10 GHz Loopback Arrayed-Waveguide Grating for High-Fidelity Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation" in Optics Letters, Vol. 33, No. 15, pp. 1714-1716, August, 2008.


9. J. Yang, N. K. Fontaine, Z. Pan, A. O. Karalar, S. S. Djordjevic, C. Yang, W. Chen, S. Chu, B. E. Little, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Continuously Tunable, Wavelength-Selective Buffering in Optical Packet Switching Networks" in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 20, No. 12, pp. 1030-1032, June, 2008.


10. R. P. Scott, N. K. Fontaine, C. Yang, D. J. Geisler, K. Okamoto, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Rapid Updating of Optical Arbitrary Waveforms via Time-domain Multiplexing" in Optics Letters, Vol. 33, No. 10, pp. 1068-1070, May, 2008.


11. S. J. Ben Yoo, J. P. Heritage, V. J. Hernandez, R. P. Scott, W. Cong, N. K. Fontaine, R. G. Broeke, J. Cao, S.-W. Seo, J.-H. Baek, F. M. Soares, Y. Du, C. Yang, W. Jiang, K. Aihara, Z. Ding, B. H. Kolner, Anh-Vu Pham, Shu Lin, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, K. Y. Liou, S. N. Chu, R. A. Hamm, B. Patel, W. S. Hobson, J. R. Lothian, S. Vatanapradit, L. A. Gruezke, W. T. Tsang, M. Shearn, and A. Scherer, "Spectral Phase Encoded Time Spread Optical Code Division Multiple Access Technology for Next Generation Communication Networks" in Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 6, No. 10, pp. 1210-1227, October, 2007.


12. R. P. Scott, N. K. Fontaine, J. Cao, K. Okamoto, B. H. Kolner, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "High-fidelity line-by-line optical waveform generation and complete characterization using FROG" in Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 16, pp. 9977-9988, August, 2007.


13. C. Yang, N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, V. J. Hernandez, W. Cong, D. L. Harris, K. Okamoto, B. H. Kolner, Z. Ding, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. Ben Yoo, "Two-User 150-km Field Fiber Security Enhanced SPECTS O-CDMA Transmission" in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 852-854, June, 2007.


14. N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, J. Cao, A. Karalar, K. Okamoto, J. P. Heritage, B. H. Kolner, and S. J. B. Yoo, "32 phase × 32 amplitude optical arbitrary waveform generation" in Optics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 7, pp. 865-867, April, 2007.


15. V. J. Hernandez, W. Cong, J. Hu, C. Yang, N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, B. H. Kolner, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "A 320-Gb/s capacity (32-user × 10 Gb/s) SPECTS O-CDMA network testbed with enhanced spectral efficiency through forward error correction" in IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 79-86, January, 2007.


16. R. P. Scott, V. J. Hernandez, N. K. Fontaine, F. M. Soares, R. Broeke, K. Perry, G. Nowak, C. Yang, W. Cong, K. Okamoto, B. H. Kolner, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "80.8-km BOSSNET SPECTS O-CDMA Field Trial using Sub-picosecond Pulses and a Fully Integrated, Compact AWG-Based Encoder/Decoder" in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 1455-1462, September/October, 2007.


17. C. Yang, N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, V. J. Hernandez, W. Cong, K. Okamoto, D. L. Harris, B. H. Kolner, Z. Ding, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Security Enhanced SPECTS O-CDMA Demonstration Across 150 km Field Fiber" in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 852-854, 2007.


18. J. Cao, R. G. Broeke, N. Fontaine, C. Ji, Y. Du, N. Chubun, K. Aihara, Anh-Vu Pham, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Demonstration of spectral phase O-CDMA encoding and decoding in monolithically Integrated Arrayed-Waveguide-Grating-Based Encoder" in IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., December, 2006.


19. Wei Cong, Chunxin Yang, Ryan P. Scott, Vincent J. Hernandez, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Brain H. Kolner, Jonathan P. Heritage, and S. J. Ben Yoo, "Demonstration of 160- and 320-Gb/s SPECTS O-CDMA network testbeds" in IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., August, 2006.


20. R.P. Scott, W. Cong, C. Yang, V. J. Hernandez, N. K. Fontaine, J. P. Heritage, B.H. Kolner, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Error-free, 12-user, 10-Gb/s/user O-CDMA network testbed without FEC" in IEEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 41, No. 25, pp. 1392-1394, December, 2005.


Conference Presentations



1. N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, C. Yang, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Near Quantum-Limited Single-Shot Full-Field Measurements of Arbitrarily Shaped Optical Waveforms" in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2009), Paper CThDD7, June, 2009.


2. David J. Geisler, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Ryan P. Scott, Tingting He, Katsu Okamoto, Jonathan P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "3 b/s/Hz 1.2 Tb/s Packet Generation using Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation Based Optical Transmitter" in Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC), Paper JThA29, 2009.


3. Linjie Zhou, Stevan S. Djordjevic, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Zhi Ding, Katsunari Okamoto, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Silicon Microring Resonator-Based Reconfigurable Optical Lattice Filter for On-Chip Optical Signal Processing" in IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), Paper WN5, 2009.


4. Tingting He, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Ryan P. Scott, David J. Geisler, J. P. Heritage, K. Okamoto, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Modulation-Format Transparent Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation Based Optical-Label Switching Transmitter with All-Optical Label Extraction Using FBG" in IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), 2009.


5. W. Jiang, N. K. Fontaine, F. M. Soares, J. H. Baek, K. Okamoto, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss and S. J. B. Yoo, "Dynamic Phase-Error Compensation for High-Resolution InP Arrayed-Waveguide Grating Using Electro-optic Effect" in Technical Digest of LEOS 2008, Paper MF2, November, 2008.


6. N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, S. J. B. Yoo and T. Sakamoto, "Characterization of Dual-Electrode Mach-Zehnder Modulator Based Optical Frequency Comb Generator in Two Regimes" in IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting, (IEEE LEOS 2008), pp. 186-187, Paper ThQ3, November, 2008.


7. D. J. Geisler, N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, J. P. Heritage, K. Okamoto, and S. J. B. Yoo, "360 Gb/s Data Modulation with Dispersion Precompensation Using Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation" in The 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS 2008), pp. 822-823, Paper ThQ3, November, 2008.


8. N. K. Fontaine, Jie Yang, Wei Jiang, D. J. Geisler, K. Okamoto, Ray Huang, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Active Arrayed-Waveguide Grating with Amplitude and Phase Control for Arbitrary Filter Generation and High-Order Dispersion Compensation" accepted for publication in Technical Digest of European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC'08), Brussels, Belgium. (2008), Paper Mo.4.C.3, September, 2008.


9. Stevan S. Djordjevic, Nicolas Fontaine, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Ultra-broadband, high-gain, polarization-independent optical parametric amplification in type-II quasi-phase-matched AlGaAs waveguides" in Technical Digest of IEEE/OSA Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics, Paper CFK1, May, 2008.


10. N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, C. Yang, D. J. Geisler, K. Okamoto, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Integrated, ultrahigh-fidelity 17 x 40 GHz OAWG" in Proc. of CLEO 2008, Paper CTuA5, May, 2008.


11. N. K. Fontaine, D. J. Geisler, R. P. Scott, C. Yang, F. M. Soares, A. Karalar, J. Yang, K. Okamoto, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "High-Resolution, Loop-Back AWG for Compact, High-Fidelity, Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation" in Technical Digest of IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Paper OTuC7, February, 2008.


12. N. K. Fontaine, J. H. Baek, C. Ji, R. G. Broeke, X. Zhou, S. W. Seo, F. M. Soares, M. Shearn, A. Scherer, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, K. Y. Liu, W. T. Tsang, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Monolithically Integratable Colliding Pulse Modelocked Laser Source for O-CDMA Photonic Chip Development" in Technical Digest of IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Paper JWA47, February, 2008.


13. J. Yang, A. O. Karalar, S. S. Djordjevic, N. K. Fontaine, C. Yang, W. Chen, S. Chu, B. E. Little, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Variable Slowlight Buffers in All-Optical Packet Switching Routers" in Technical Digest of IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Paper OTuF2, February, 2008.


14. W. Jiang, F. M. Soares, S. W. Seo, J. H. Baek, N. K. Fontaine, R. G. Broeke, J. Cao, J. Yan, K. Okamoto, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, A. Pham, and S. J. B. Yoo, "A Monolithic InP-based Photonic Integrated Circuit for Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation" in Technical Digest of IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Paper JThA39, February, 2008.


15. F. M. Soares, W. Jiang, N. K. Fontaine, S. W. Seo, J. H. Baek, R. G. Broeke, J. Cao, K. Okamoto, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, and S. J. B. Yoo, "InP-Based Arrayed-Waveguide Grating with a Channel Spacing of 10 GHz" in Technical Digest of IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference, Paper JThA23, February, 2008.


16. N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, J. P. Heritage, B. H. Kolner, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Sinusoidal phase modulation as a gate for FROG" in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2007), Paper CFF5, May, 2007.


17. N. K. Fontaine, C. Yang, R. P. Scott, V. J. Hernandez, K. Okamoto, D. L. Harris, J. P. Heritage, B. H. Kolner, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Security-Enhanced SPECTS O-CDMA Demonstration Across 150 km Field Fiber" in Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2007), Paper JWA79, March, 2007.


18. V. J. Hernandez, R. P. Scott, N. K. Fontaine, F. M. Soares, R. Broeke, K. Perry, G. Nowak, C. Yang, K. Okamoto, B. H. Kolner, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "SPECTS O-CDMA 80.8-km BOSSNET Field Trial using a Compact, Fully Integrated, AWG-Based Encoder/Decoder" in Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2007), Paper OMO7, March, 2007.


19. R. P. Scott, N. K. Fontaine, J. P. Heritage, B. H. Kolner, and S. J. B. Yoo, "3.5-THz Wide, 175 Mode Optical Comb Source" in Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2007), Paper OWJ3, March, 2007.


20. F. M. Soares, N. K. Fontaine, J. Wei, S. W. Seo, J. H. Baek, R. G. Broeke, J. Cao, K. Okamoto and S. J. B. Yoo, "Compact InP-Based 16-Channel O-CDMA Encoder/Decoder" in LEOS (2007), 2007.


21. Nicolas K. Fontaine, Jiang Wei, Francisco M. Soares, Ronald G. Broeke, Sang-Woo Seo, Jong-Hwa Baek, Jing Cao, K. Okamoto, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Determination of 20 GHz InP AWG Phase Errors by Measurement of AWG Pulse Train" in LEOS (2007), 2007.


22. N. K. Fontaine, C. Yang, R. P. Scott, V. J. Hernandez, F. M. Soares, R. G. Broeke, K. Perry, G. Nowak, W. Cong, K. Okamoto, B. H. Kolner, Z. Ding, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "SPECTS O-CDMA Field Trials Using Subpicosecond Pulses and Integrated Encoders/decoders Across 80.8-km and 150-km Links" in Technical Digest of IEEE/OSA Photonics in Switching 2007, Paper TuP13, 2007.


23. S. W. Seo, F. M. Soares, J. H. Baek, W. Jiang, N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, C. Yang, D. J. Geisler, J. Yan, R. G. Broeke, J. Cao, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, A. H. Pham, and S. J. Ben Yoo, " Monolithically Integrated InP Photonic Micro Systems on a Chip for O-CDMA and OAWG Applications" in Technical Digest of IEEE/OSA Photonics in Switching 2007, Paper TuP14, 2007.


24. C. Ji, R. G. Broeke, N. K. Fontaine, W. Cong, J. Cao, N. Chubun, S. J. B. Yoo, K.Y. Liou, J. R. Lothian, S.N.G. Chu, B. Patel, W.S. Hobson, D.V. Tishinin, and W. T. Tsang, " Optical Clock Recovery Operation of a Colliding-Pulse Mode-Locked Laser Diode with Integrated Active-Passive Waveguides" in Technical Digest of LEOS'06, October, 2006.


25. N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, J. Cao, K. Okamoto, J. P. Heritage, B. H. Kolner, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Complete characterization of precise line-by-line optical arbitrary waveform generation with XFROG" in Technical Digest of ECOC'06, September, 2006.


26. Nicolas K. Fontaine, Ryan P. Scott, Wei Cong, Chunxin Yang, Brian H. Kolner, Jonathan P. Heritage, and S. J. Ben. Yoo, "In Situ Compensation of 2-D SLM Phase Nonuniformity within Pulse Shapers" in technical proceedings of CLEO'06, May, 2006.


27. Nicolas K. Fontaine, Chen Ji, Ronald G. Broeke, S. W. Seo, S. J. Ben Yoo, K.Y. Liou, J. R. Lothian, S. Vatanapradit, S.N.G. Chu, B. Patel, W.S. Hobson, and W. T. Tsang, "XFROG Characterization of a 10 GHz Colliding-Pulse Mode-Locked Laser" in technical proceedings of CLEO'06, May, 2006.


28. V. J. Hernandez, W. Cong, R. P. Scott, C. Yang, N. K. Fontaine, B. H. Kolner, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "320-Gb/s capacity (32 users x 10 Gb/s) SPECTS O-CDMA local area network testbed" in technical proceedings of OFC'06, March, 2006.


29. Wei Cong, Chunxin Yang, R. P. Scott, V. J. Hernandez, N. K. Fontaine, J. P. Heritage, B. H. Kolner and S. J. B. Yoo, " A Sixteen-User Time-slotted SPECTS O-CDMA Network Testbed" in Technical Digest of IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), March, 2006.


30. J. Cao, R.G.Broeke, N. Fontaine, W. Cong, C. Ji, Y.Du, N.Chubun, K.Aihara, Anh-Vu Pham and S. J. B. Yoo, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, and P. L. Stephan, "Error-free spectral encoding and decoding operation of InP O-CDMA encoder" in Technical Digest of IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), Paper OWL2, March, 2006.


31. N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, W. Cong, B. H. Kolner, J. P. Heritage and S. J. Ben Yoo, " Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Dispersion-Decreasing Fiber Studied with Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating" in Technical Digest IEEE/OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, May, 2005.


32. R. G. Broeke, J. Cao, N. K. Fontaine, C. Ji, N. Chubun, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, B. H. Kolner, J. P. Heritage, and S. J. B. Yoo, "Phase Characterization of an InP based Optical-CDMA Encoder Using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG)" in Technical Digest IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, 2005.


33. Wei Cong, R. P. Scott, Chunxin Yang, V. J. Hernandez, N. K. Fontaine, J. P. Heritage, B. H. Kolner, and S. J. B. Yoo, " An Error-Free 100 Gb/s Time-Slotted SPECTS O-CDMA Network Testbed" in Technical Digest of European Conference on Optical Communication, 2005.


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