• Optical communications
  
• Nonlinear fiber optics
  
• Electronic dispersion compensation
  

Publications:

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• N. Alic, G.C. Papen, R.E. Saperstein, L.B. Milstein, and Y. Fainman, "Signal Statistics and Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation in Intensity Modulated Fiber Optic Links Containing a Single Optical Pre-amplifier," Opt. Express 13, 4568-4579 (2005),
  
  
• N. Alic and Y. Fainman, "Data-dependent phase coding for suppression of ghost pulses in optical fibers." IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol.16, no.4, pp.1212-14 (2004).
  
  

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• N. Alic, G.C. Papen, R.E. Saperstein, L.B. Milstein and Y. Fainman, "Signal Statistics and MLSE in Optically Preamplified Links," in Proc. IEEE Summer Topicals 2005, Paper QTuK3, San Diego, CA (2005).
  
  
• N. Alic, G.C. Papen, J.E. Ford, R.E. Saperstein, R. Rokitski, and Y. Fainman, "Sequence Estimation with Run-Length Coding for VCSEL-Based Multimode Fiber Links," in Proc. CLEO 2005, Paper CWG7, Baltimore, MD (2005).
  
  
• N. Alic, G.C. Papen and Y. Fainman, "Theoretical Performance Analysis of Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation in Intensity Modulated Short-Haul Fiber Optic Links," in Proc. LEOS Annual Meeting 2004, paper ThB3, Puerto Rico (2004).
  
  
• N. Alic, G.C. Papen, L.B. Milstein, P.H. Siegel and Y. Fainman, "Performance Bounds Of Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation In Intensity Modulated Fiber Optic Links," TIWDC 2004, Pisa, Italy. Published in Optical Communication Theory and Techniques, (Enrico Forestieri Ed.), Springer 2005, pp. 197 – 203.
  
  
• N. Alic, G.C. Papen and Y. Fainman, "Performance of Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation with Different Modulation Formats," IEEE Workshop on Advanced Modulated Formats, San Francisco, CA (2004).
  
  
• N. Alic and Y. Fainman "Data-Dependent Phase Coding for Mitigation of Intrachannel Four-Wave Mixing", in Proc. IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting 2002, Glasgow, Scotland (2002).
  
  
• N. Alic and Y. Fainman "Fast Split Step Fourier (FSSF) Method in Optical Fibers", in Proc. OSA Annual Meeting 2001, Long Beach, CA (2001)