Transmission of 4-D modulation formats at 28-Gbaud. - Henning Bülow; Talha Rahman; Fred Buchali; Wilfried Idler; Wolfgang Kuebart (OFC/NFOEC, 2013)

Mitigation of filtering cascade penalties using spectral shaping in optical nodes. - Talha Rahman; Antonio Napoli; Danish Rafique; Erik De Man; Marc Bohn; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (ECOC, 2014)

FEC overhead optimization for long-haul transmission of PM-16QAM based 400Gb/s super-channel. - Talha Rahman; Danish Rafique; Antonio Napoli; E. de Man; Maxim Kuschnerov; Bernhard Spinnler; Marc Bohn; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (ECOC, 2014)

Long-haul terabit transmission (2272km) employing digitally pre-distorted quad-carrier PM-16QAM super-channel. - Talha Rahman; Danish Rafique; Antonio Napoli; Erik De Man; Maxim Kuschnerov; Bernhard Spinnler; Marc Bohn; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (ECOC, 2014)

On the next generation bandwidth variable transponders for future flexible optical systems. - Antonio Napoli; Markus Nölle; Danish Rafique; Johannes Karl Fischer; Bernhard Spinnler; Talha Rahman; Mahdi M. Mezghanni; Marc Bohn (EuCNC, 2014)

FEC overhead and fiber nonlinearity mitigation: Performance and power consumption tradeoffs. - Danish Rafique; Talha Rahman; Antonio Napoli; Stefano Calabrò; Bernhard Spinnler (OFC, 2014)

Dynamics of intra super-channel fiber nonlinearity compensation in flex-grid optical networks. - Danish Rafique; Talha Rahman; Antonio Napoli; Bernhard Spinnler (OFC, 2014)

Nonlinear digital pre-distortion of transmitter components. - Pablo Wilke Berenguer; Talha Rahman; Antonio Napoli; Markus Nolle; Colja Schubert; Johannes Karl Fischer (ECOC, 2015)

First demonstration of multi-vendor and multi-domain EON with S-BVT and control interoperability over Pan-European testbed. - Óscar González de Dios; Ramon Casellas; Francesco Paolucci; Antonio Napoli; Lluis Gifre; S. Annoni; Sergio Belotti; Uwe Feiste; Danish Rafique; Marc Bohn; Sébastien Bigo; Arnaud Dupas; et al. (ECOC, 2015)

32 × 1Tb/s C-band transmission over 1000km employing three subcarriers PM-64QAM for regional applications. - Talha Rahman; Danish Rafique; Bernhard Spinnler; Antonio Napoli; Huug de Waardt (ECOC, 2015)

IDEALIST data plane solutions for elastic optical networks. - Patricia Layec; Annachiara Dupas; Markus Nölle; Johannes Karl Fischer; Colja Schubert; Josep M. Fabrega; Michela Svaluto Moreolo; Nicola Sambo; Gianluca Meloni; Francesco Fresi; Antonio Napoli; Danish Rafique; et al. (EuCNC, 2015)

Sliceable bandwidth variable transponder: The IDEALIST vision. - Emilio Riccardi; Annachiara Pagano; Emilio Hugues-Salas; Georgios Zervas; Dimitra Simeonidou; Marc Bohn; Antonio Napoli; Danish Rafique; Antonio D'Errico; Nicola Sambo; Piero Castoldi; Talha Rahman; et al. (EuCNC, 2015)

Long-haul WDM transmission of 1 Tb/s superchannel. - Talha Rahman; Adriana Lobato; Danish Rafique; Antonio Napoli; Marc Bohn; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Antonius M. J. Koonen; Huug de Waardt (ICTON, 2015)

Elastic Black Link for future vendor independent optical networks. - Matthias Gunkel; Arnold Mattheus; Antonio Napoli; Gianluca Meloni; Francesco Fresi; Talha Rahman (OFC, 2015)

Novel DAC digital pre-emphasis algorithm for next-generation flexible optical transponders. - Antonio Napoli; Mahdi M. Mezghanni; Danish Rafique; Vincent A. J. M. Sleiffer; Talha Rahman; Bernhard Spinnler; Stefano Calabrò; Marc Bohn (OFC, 2015)

Next generation optical nodes: The vision of the European research project IDEALIST. - Emilio Hugues-Salas; Georgios Zervas; Dimitra Simeonidou; Evangelos A. Kosmatos; Theofanis Orphanoudakis; Alexandros A. Stavdas; Marc Bohn; Antonio Napoli; Talha Rahman; Filippo Cugini; Nicola Sambo; Silvano Frigerio; et al. (IEEE Commun. Mag., 2015)

Next generation elastic optical networks: The vision of the European research project IDEALIST. - Antonio Napoli; Marc Bohn; Danish Rafique; Alexandros A. Stavdas; Nicola Sambo; Luca Potì; Markus Nölle; Johannes Karl Fischer; Emilio Riccardi; Annachiara Pagano; Andrea Di Giglio; Michela Svaluto Moreolo; et al. (IEEE Commun. Mag., 2015)

Vendor-Interoperable Elastic Optical Interfaces: Standards, Experiments, and Challenges [Invited]. - Matthias Gunkel; Arnold Mattheus; Felix Wissel; Antonio Napoli; João Pedro 001; Nelson Costa; Talha Rahman; Gianluca Meloni; Francesco Fresi; Filippo Cugini; Nicola Sambo; Marc Bohn (JOCN, 2015)

Broadband Radio Interfaces Design for "€4G and Beyond" Cellular €Systems in smart urban Environments. - Talha Rahman (2015)

Multi-flex field trial over 762km of G.652 SSMF using programmable modulation formats up to 64QAM. - Danish Rafique; Talha Rahman; Bernhard Spinnler; Erwan Pincemin; Stefano Calabrò; Erik De Man; Uwe Feiste; Juraj Slovak; Antonio Napoli; Claude Le Bouëtté; Jérémie Jauffrit; Sylvain Bordais; et al. (OFC, 2016)

38.4Tb/s transmission of single-carrier serial line-rate 400Gb/s PM-64QAM over 328km for metro and data center interconnect applications. - Talha Rahman; Danish Rafique; Bernhard Spinnler; Marc Bohn; Antonio Napoli; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (OFC, 2016)

Digital subcarrier multiplexed hybrid QAM for data-rate flexibility and ROADM filtering tolerance. - Talha Rahman; Danish Rafique; Bernhard Spinnler; Antonio Napoli; Marc Bohn; Antonius M. J. Koonen; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (OFC, 2016)

On the Filter Narrowing Issues in Elastic Optical Networks. - Josep M. Fàbrega; Michela Svaluto Moreolo; L. Martín; Anna Chiado Piat; Emilio Riccardi; Diego Roccato; Nicola Sambo; Filippo Cugini; Luca Potì; Shuangyi Yan; Emilio Hugues-Salas; Dimitra Simeonidou; et al. (JOCN, 2016)

Flexible Data-rate and Reach Transmission Employing Hybrid Modulation and Scrambled Coherent Superposition. - Talha Rahman; Bernhard Spinnler; Stefano Calabrò; Erik De Man; Antonio Napoli; Bernd Sommerkorn-Krombholz; Antonius M. J. Koonen; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Huug de Waardt (ECOC, 2017)

108 Tb/s Transmission Over 120 km of 7-Core Multicore Fiber with Integrated Cladding Pumped Multicore Amplifiers. - Talha Rahman; Bernhard Spinnler; Stefano Calabrò; Erik De Man; Klaus Pulverer; Bernd Sommerkorn-Krombholz; Carlos Castro; Takayuki Mizuno; Yutaka Miyamoto; Katsuhiro Takenaga; Saurabh Jain; Yongmin Jung; et al. (ECOC, 2018)

1.6Tb/s Transmission Feasibility Employing IM/DD for Datacentre Networks. - Talha Rahman; Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stefano Calabrò; Jinlong Wei; Changsong Xie; Maxim Kuschnerov (ECOC, 2020)

Improvement of Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding Performance for Bandwidth-Limited IM/DD Systems. - Tom Wettlin; Stefano Calabrò; Talha Rahman; Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Jinlong Wei; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stephan Pachnicke (ECOC, 2020)

Baud-Rate Timing Phase Detector for Systems with Severe Bandwidth Limitations. - Nebojsa Stojanovic; Talha Rahman; Stefano Calabrò; Jinlong Wei; Changsong Xie (OFC, 2020)

Comparison of PAM Formats for 200 Gb/s Short Reach Transmission Systems. - Tom Wettlin; Talha Rahman; Jinlong Wei; Stefano Calabrò; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stephan Pachnicke (OFC, 2020)

Experimental Comparison of Cap and Cup Probabilistically Shaped PAM for O-Band IM/DD Transmission System. - Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Georg Böcherer; Talha Rahman; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Patrick Schulte; Stefano Calabrò; Jinlong Wei; Christian Blümm; Tom Wettlin; Changsong Xie; Maxim Kuschnerov; Stephan Pachnicke (ECOC, 2021)

402 Gb/s PAM-8 IM/DD O-Band EML Transmission. - Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Jinlong Wei; Fabio Pittalà; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stefano Calabrò; Talha Rahman; Georg Böcherer; Tom Wettlin; Changsong Xie; Maxim Kuschnerov; Stephan Pachnicke (ECOC, 2021)

Blind Adaptation of Partial Response Equalizers for 200Gb/s per Lane IM/DD Systems. - Talha Rahman; Stefano Calabrò; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Jinlong Wei; Maxim Kuschnerov; Changsong Xie (ECOC, 2021)

Comparison of Direct-Detection Approaches for High-Speed Datacenter Campus Networks. - Tom Wettlin; Stefano Calabrò; Talha Rahman; Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Jinlong Wei; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stephan Pachnicke (ECOC, 2021)

PAM-6 Coded Modulation for IM/DD Channels with a Peak-Power Constraint. - Tobias Prinz; Thomas Wiegart; Daniel Plabst; Stefano Calabrò; Georg Böcherer; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Talha Rahman (ISTC, 2021)

Experimental Comparison of Uniform and Probabilistically Shaped PAM-8 for IMDD System at Transmission Rates Beyond 200 Gbit/s. - Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Talha Rahman; Georg Böcherer; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Tom Wettlin; Stefano Calabrò; Jinlong Wei; Changsong Xie; Stephan Pachnicke (OFC, 2021)

Feasibility of Transmitting 270 Gbit/s with PAM-8 in O-band CWDM4 with IM/DD System. - Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Talha Rahman; Nebojsa Stojnavic; Tom Wettlin; Stefano Calabrò; Jinlong Wei; Changsong Xie; Stephan Pachnicke (OFC, 2021)

800Gb/s-FR4 specification and interoperability analysis. - Yu Tian; Youxi Lin; Jianyu Zheng; Jin Tang; Qinhui Huang; Huixiao Ma; Talha Rahman; Maxim Kuschnerov; Raymond Leung; Lewei Zhang (OFC, 2021)

Low-Complexity Nonlinearity Compensation for Short-Reach IM/DD Systems using PAM. - Tom Wettlin; Talha Rahman; Stefano Calabrò; Jinlong Wei; Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stephan Pachnicke (OFC, 2021)

Achievable Rates for Short-Reach Fiber-Optic Channels with Direct Detection. - Daniel Plabst; Tobias Prinz; Thomas Wiegart; Talha Rahman; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stefano Calabrò; Norbert Hanik; Gerhard Kramer (CoRR, 2021)

Partial Response O-band EML Transmission Beyond 300-GBd with a 128/256 GSa/s DAC. - Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Talha Rahman; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Fabio Pittalà; Stefano Calabrò; Georg Böcherer; Tom Wettlin; Jinlong Wei; Changsong Xie; Maxim Kuschnerov; Stephan Pachnicke (OFC, 2022)

Investigation of Weighted DFE for High-Rate Short-Reach Transmission. - Tom Wettlin; Talha Rahman; Stefano Calabrò; Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Jinlong Wei; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stephan Pachnicke (OECC/PSC, 2022)

Experiments on Bipolar Transmission with Direct Detection. - Thomas Wiegart; Daniel Plabst; Tobias Prinz; Talha Rahman; Maximilian Schädler; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stefano Calabrò; Norbert Hanik; Gerhard Kramer (CoRR, 2022)

Comparison of PAM-6 Modulations for Short-Reach Fiber-Optic Links with Intensity Modulation and Direct Detection. - Tobias Prinz; Thomas Wiegart; Daniel Plabst; Talha Rahman; Md. Sabbir-Bin Hossain; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stefano Calabrò; Norbert Hanik; Gerhard Kramer (CoRR, 2022)

DFE and BCJR Performance with SD FEC in 112 GBd PAM4 IMDD Systems. - Nebojsa Stojanovic; Youxi Lin; Talha Rahman; Stefano Calabrò (OFC, 2023)

Analysis of Four-Wave Mixing Penalties in 800G-LR4 Optical Links. - Talha Rahman; Youxi Lin; Tom Wettlin; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stefano Calabrò; Maxim Kuschnerov (ICTON, 2024)

Optical Multipath Interference Reduction Using Adaptive DC-Removal in High-Speed IM/DD Systems. - Silas Oettinghaus; Annika Dochhan; Tom Wettlin; Talha Rahman; Stefano Calabrò; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stephan Pachnicke (OFC, 2024)

Improving FFE Performance by an Error Decorrelation Algorithm. - Nebojsa Stojanovic; Stefano Calabrò; Youxi Lin; Tom Wettlin; Talha Rahman; Maxim Kuschnerov (OFC, 2024)

Investigation of Concatenated KP4 FEC with Single-Parity-Check Codes for Short-Reach IM/DD Systems. - Tom Wettlin; Stefano Calabrò; Nebojsa Stojanovic; Youxi Lin; Talha Rahman (OFC, 2024)