Leslie Rusch

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université Laval

Canada Research Chair on Communications Systems Enabling the Cloud (Tier 1)

NSERC/Huawei Industrial Research Chair in Fibre Optic Communications Systems (FOCUS Systems)

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)

Research Interests

• Digital signal processing for coherent detection in optical communications
• Communication systems based on silicon photonic components
• Spatial multiplexing based on orbital angular momentum modes in fiber
• Radio over fiber and OFDM modulation for passive optical networks
• Optimizing the wireless optical interface in emerging computer networks based on the cloud