ComLab

Digital Communications Laboratory

Department of Communications

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Campinas - Unicamp

Welcome to ComLab. We are part of the Department of Communications of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Campinas (Unicamp). ComLab is dedicated to cutting-edge research in the fields of communications and networking, with a focus on communication systems, signal processing, machine learning, and optical transmission and networking. We have a history of collaborations with industrial partners. Our well-equipped instrumentation laboratory with high-speed oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and FPGA boards enables hardware development, testing, and validation.


NEWS:

Our new book is now available!

Digital Coherent Optical Systems


News:

    • January 2023 - Prof. Darli Mello will be a TPC Co-Chair of the Optical Communications and Networks Track at the IEEE IPC 2023, in Orlando, USA.

    • January 2023 - Prof. Darli Mello will be the General Co-Chair of APC SPPCOM 2023 in Busan, Korea.

    • January 2023 - Prof. Darli Mello joined the TPC of ECOC 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland.

    • January 2023 - Comlab is presenting 5 papers at OFC, two of them are invited!

    • May 2022 - Comlab -Idea! Electronic Systems collaboration on satellite communications is featured on Unicamp's news. Check out the report here.

    • May 2022 - Comlab will integrate the SMARTNESS engineering center supported by Ericsson and Fapesp!

    • May 2022 - Comlab will integrate the CPTEn engineering center supported by CPFL and Fapesp!

    • May 2022 - Prof. Darli Mello was invited to give a talk on OFC 2023 in San Diego, USA!

    • May 2022 - Prof. Darli Mello will present an invited talk on SDM transmission at the IEEE Summer Topicals 2022 in Los Cabos, Mexico

    • November 2021 - Prof. Darli Mello will be a TPC co-chair of SPPCOM 2022 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

    • October 2021 -Comlab member Ruby Ospina presents an invited talk at the SDM workshop at the ACP 2021 in Shanghai, China!

    • March 2021 - Comlab has two contributions at OFC 2021 in partnership with Padtec S/A and TU-Eindhoven.

    • October 2020 - Comlab has three papers accepted at ECOC 2020!

    • February 2020 - Padtec parterns with Comlab and Intrig to develop novel Machine Learning techniques for optical network operation.

    • December, 2019 - Comlab has three papers accepted at OFC 2020!

    • January, 2019 - Prof. Darli Mello joins Stanford University as Visting Scholar, in Prof. Joseph Kahn's group. The one-year project is sponsored by Fapesp.

    • December, 2018- Paper on phase recovery for optical systems with probabilistic shaping by Fabio Barbosa and Darli Mello is accepted for publication at OFC'2019.

    • Abril 2018: Prof. Darli Mello invited to co-chair the TPC of Optical Communications and Optical Signal Processing of LAOP 2018 in Lima, Peru.

    • Abril 2018: Professor Darli Mello called for invited contribution at the OSA Signal Processing in Photonic Communications Conference (SPPCOM 2018) in Zurich, Switzerland. The list of invited contributions can be found here

    • February, 2018: Paper "Impact of Carrier Frequency Jitter on the Performance of Coherent Optical Systems with High-Order Modulation Formats", by R. Bravo, J. D. Reis, D. A. A. Mello, was chosen as one of the best papers os the SPS symposium, and invited for extended version submission at the JCIS journal .

    • September, 2017 - School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Campinas ranked first in Brazil (in portuguese).

    • March 14, 2017 - Scientists calculate the capacity limits of submarine optical fibers (in portuguese).

    • January 21, 2015 - Research team that includes Brazilians breaks record at Supercomputing Conference.