Journal articles

1.      M. Boroditsky, K. Cornick, C. Antonelli, M. Brodsky, S. D. Dods, N. J. Frigo, and P. Magill, "Comparison of system penalties from first and multi-order polarization-mode dispersion," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, accepted for publication, 2005.

2.      L. Palmer, S. D. Dods, and P. M. Farrell, "Broad-band concatenated-section PMD emulator design for low interchannel correlation," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 17,  pp 1019-1021, 2005.

3.      S. D. Dods and T. B. Anderson, “Calculation of bit-error rates and power penalties due to incoherent crosstalk in optical networks using Taylor Series expansions,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 23, pp 1828-1837, 2005.

4.      W. Shieh and S. D. Dods, "Robustness of polarization-mode-dispersion compensation in the presence of polarization dependent loss," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 17,  pp 573 - 575, 2005.

  1. B.-H. Choi, M. Attygalle, Y. J. Wen and S. D. Dods, “Dispersion map optimization and dispersion slope mismatch issue on 40 channel x 10 Gbit/s transmission over 3000 km using standard SMF and EDFA amplification,” Optics Communications, vol. 242, pp. 525-532, 2004.
  2. S. D. Dods and R. S. Tucker, "Analysis of incoherent homodyne crosstalk in optical networks," J. Opt. Comm., vol. 23, pp 161-200, 2002.
  3. K. Song and S. D. Dods, "Cross-modulation of pump signals in distributed Raman Amplifiers, theory and experiment," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 13, pp. 1173-1175, 2001.
  4. S. D. Dods and R. S. Tucker, "A comparison of the homodyne crosstalk characteristics of optical add-drop multiplexers," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 19, pp 1829-1838, 2001.
  5. M. L. von Bibra, A. Roberts, and S. D. Dods, "Ion beam energy attenuation for fabrication of buried, variable-depth, optical waveguides," Nuclear Instruments and methods in Physics research - Section B, vol. 168, pp 47-52, 2000.
  6. S. D. Dods, J. P. R. Lacey, and R. S. Tucker, "Performance of WDM ring and bus networks in the presence of homodyne crosstalk," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 17, pp. 388-396, 1999.
  7. S. D. Dods, J. P. R. Lacey, and R. S. Tucker, "Correction to 'Homodyne crosstalk in WDM ring and bus networks'," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 10, pp. 303, 1998.
  8. S. D. Dods, J. P. R. Lacey, and R. S. Tucker, "Homodyne crosstalk in WDM ring and bus networks," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 9, pp. 1285-1287, 1997.
  9. W. D. Zhong, S. Dods, J. P. R. Lacey, and R. S. Tucker, "Reconfigurable multichannel add-drop multiplexer with improved performance," Electron. Lett., vol. 32, pp. 1477-1478, 1996.

Conference papers (if you’d like copies, please email)

1.      K. E. Cornick, S. Finch, P. M. Farrell, S. D. Dods, and M. Boroditsky, "Modelling PMD-Induced System Penalties," accepted for publication at 31st European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC), Glasgow, Scotland, 2005.L. Palmer, Y. K. Lizé, S. D. Dods, R. Kashyap, and P. M. Farrell, "Improved selection of paddle phase retardations in single polarisation controller PMD emulators," Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) 2005, Sydney, Australia, 2005.

2.      K. E. Cornick, S. D. Dods, P. M. Farrell, C. Antonelli, N. J. Frigo, M. Brodsky, P. Magill, and M. Boroditsky, "Comparison and implications of PMD-Induced system penalty models," Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) 2005, Sydney, Australia, 2005.

3.      L. Palmer, S. D. Dods, and P. M. Farrell, “Design and optimization of polarization mode dispersion emulators for low background autocorrelation," Optical Fiber Communications / National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) 2005, paper OThT3, Anaheim, USA, 2005.

4.      S. D. Dods, P. M. Farrell, K. Hinton, and D. F. Hewitt, “A novel broadband asynchronous histogram technique for optical performance monitoring,” Optical Fiber Communications / National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) 2005, paper OThH2, Anaheim, USA, 2005.

5.      K. Cornick, M. Boroditsky, N. J. Frigo, M. Brodsky, S. D. Dods, and P. Magill, “Experimental comparison of system penalties due to 1st order and multi-order polarization mode dispersion,” Optical Fiber Communications / National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) 2005, paper OFF6, Anaheim, USA, 2005.

6.      S. D. Dods, P. M. Farrell, D. F. Hewitt and K. Hinton, “Spectrally resolved performance monitoring using narrowband filters for optical networks”, COIN '04, Yokohama, Japan, 2004.

7.      S. D. Dods, P. Farrell, D. Hewitt and K. Hinton, “Optical performance monitoring combining optical signal processing and histogram techniques”, ACOFT '04, Canberra, Australia, 2004.

8.      L. Palmer, S. D. Dods and P. M. Farrell, “Polarisation mode dispersion emulator design for low background autocorrelation”, ACOFT '04, Canberra, Australia, 2004.

9.      L. Palmer and S. D. Dods, “Design optimisation of concatenated-section PMD emulators,” ACOLS '03, Melbourne, Australia, 2003.

10.  Y. J. Wen and S. D. Dods, “Optimization of generation and detection of WDM signals with advanced modulation formats,” OECC '03, pp 560-561, Shanghai, China, 2003.

11.  Y. J. Wen, S. D. Dods and R. S. Tucker, “Power level optimization of 40 Gbit/s DWDM systems with hybrid Raman/EDFA amplification,” COIN/ACOFT 2003, paper TuB3-5, Melbourne, Australia, 2003.

12.  Y. J. Wen, H. C. Bao, S. D. Dods, R. S. Tucker and A. Nirmalathas, "Advanced Modulation Formats for High Capacity DWDM Transmission," COIN/ACOFT 2003, paper WeB4-1, Melbourne, Australia, 2003 (invited).

13.  B.-H. Choi, M. Attygalle, S. D. Dods, and Y. J. Wen, "Dispersion Map Optimization for 40 Channel x 10 Gb/s Transmission Over 3000 km Using Standard SMF and EDFA Amplification," COIN/ACOFT 2003, Melbourne, Australia, 2003.

14.  Y. J. Wen and S. D. Dods, "Launch power management for two stage lumped amplified DWDM transmission," First International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, paper TuI2, 2002.

15.  Y. J. Wen and S. D. Dods, "Dispersion map optimisation in WDM transmission systems," IEEE/LEOS Annual meeting, paper TuI2, 2002.

16.  T. Anderson and S. D. Dods, "New formulae for calculating power penalties from interferometric crosstalk," IEEE/LEOS Annual meeting, paper TuF2, 2002 (invited).

17.  S. D. Dods and T. Anderson, "Simplified method for calculating power penalties due to interferometric crosstalk from single or multiple interferers," Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT '02), paper 210-163, pp 4-6, 2002.

18.  S. D. Dods and A. J. Lowery, "Impact of incoherent crosstalk from narrow linewidth sources on forward error correction at high bit rates", Optical Networking Workshop, Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 2001.

19.  S. D. Dods and A. J. Lowery, "Temporal Statistics of Crosstalk-Induced Errors in WDM Optical Networks", NFOEC 2001, Session C5, pp 876-879, 2001

20.  S. D. Dods and R. S. Tucker, "Homodyne crosstalk performance of reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers," OFC 2001, paper TuW4, 2001.

21.  R. S. Tucker, S. Dods, R. D. T. Lauder, and W. Zhong, "Optical/Photonic components for WDM and optical networking in MAN, LAN, and access environments," Workshop on Optical Networking: Applications and Services (at Globecom '98), IEEE, Sydney, Australia, 1998.

22.  S. D. Dods, J. P. R. Lacey, and R. S. Tucker, "Performance degradation of WDM ring and bus networks due to homodyne crosstalk," Workshop on WDM Technologies for Broadband Networks, Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 1997.

23.  M. L. von Bibra, A. Roberts, and S. D. Dods, "Depth-modulated buried channel waveguides by direct-write focussed ion beam irradiation," The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO '97), paper FB4, Chiba, Japan, 1997.

24.  S. D. Dods, J. P. R. Lacey, and R. S. Tucker, "The effect of homodyne crosstalk on the performance of WDM ring and bus networks," The Third Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC '97), paper TuA, Sydney, Australia, 1997.

25.  S. D. Dods, J. P. R. Lacey, and R. S. Tucker, "Combined effects of coherent and incoherent crosstalk in WDM ring and bus networks," 21st Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT '96), Gold Coast, Australia, 1996.

Thesis

  1. S. D. Dods, "Homodyne crosstalk in wavelength-division multiplexed ring and bus networks", University of Melbourne, 2000 (warning, this is a big download – about 4.5M)

Invited Lectures (if you’d like copies, please email)

1.      S. D. Dods, “Communications Engineering”, presented at the Postgraduate certificate in science education workshop number 4, November 2001.

2.      S. D. Dods and A Stevenson, “The wonders of photonics”, presented at Interact 2002, Melbourne, September 2002.

3.      S. D. Dods, “Talking with light:  photonics for communications,” presented at the Physics in Context Teachers inservice, October 2003.

4.      S. D. Dods and A. Stevenson, “Fibre-optic communications”, presented at the Singapore-Australia Photonics School, November 2003.