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Bernard J. Maxum, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor of Optical Communications
Electrical Engineering Department

Education & Registrations
Ph.D. EE, Univ. of California, Berkeley
MS EE, Univ. of So. California, Los Angeles
BS EE, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

Professional Engineering (PE) Registrations
  • Electrical Branch (Calif. E10021)
  • Mechanical Branch (Calif. M20968)

    Areas of Expertise
  • Fiber Optic Systems
  • Communications
  • Electromagnetics
  • Communication Antennas
  • Aerospace Sensor Systems

    e-mail    : maxumbj@hal.lamar.edu
     


    •        Dr. Bernard J. Maxum


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    Table of Contents

    Undergraduate
    - Electrical Analysis
    - Electromagnetics I
    - Senior Design Projects
    - Fiber Optic
      Communications

    Graduate
    - Fiber Optic
      Communications
    - Nonlinear Fiber Optics
    - Nonlinear Optical
      Simulation Systems

    Recent Graduates

    -         Doctoral Thesis:  Mou, Huiping, “Use of Raman Amplification in Advanced Fiber Optic Communication Systems”, May 2001.

    -      Doctoral Thesis:  Wang, Yuqing, “Cell-Loss Ratio Evaluation of ATM Call Admission Control Using Fast Convergent Neural Network”, May 2001.

    -         Doctoral Thesis:  Yeh, Chung-How, “Multipath Fading on RakeReceiver Performance Used in Wireless Communications”, May, 2001 (with Dr.Drazenovic).

    -         Masters Thesis:  Zhou, Yinchun,  “A Study of Internet-Based Remote Virtual Instrumentation”, May 2001 (with Dr.Porter).

    -         Masters Thesis:  Escobar, David   “Industrial Study of MPLS Technology”, December 2001. Photo

    -       Masters Thesis:  Xu, Tao,  “Improved Transmission Performance by Hybrid Optical Amplification in DWDM Systems", Spring 2002.

    -          Senior Projects:  Bieljeski, Bonnette, Coatney, Habibovic, McFarland, Ovcina, Sanders, and Vukovic,  “Design of a Fiber Optic Laboratory”.

    Research Projects Underway

    • Research in Conjunction with the next Generation Communications Systems, Principal Investigator $259K.  Current graduate student research:

      -         Doctoral candidate thesis topic: Chen, Chongyang,  Ultra-long haul fiber transmission improvements from Raman and erbium-doped fiber amplification techniques. Photo

      -         Doctoral candidate thesis topic:  Santitissadeekorn, Naratip, (nickname "Golf")  Dispersion flattening by optimization of fiber index profile. Photo

      -         Masters candidate thesis topic:  Ronnie George,  Bandwidth sensitivity study of the solition effect.

      -         Masters candidate thesis topic:  Sameer Sabarwal,  Dispersion compensation using diffraction grating fiber.

       

    • Research Enhancement Grant (funded by the School of Graduate Studies and Research, Lamar University), "On the Establishment of a Photonics Laboratory". Team members:

      - Graduate Students: Ronnie George, Shabbir Bagasrawala, and Prashant Srinivasan

      - Undergraduate Students: Wade Salazar, Emir Suljkanovic, Sampie Brown

    Latest Publication

  • Referred journal publication: Tao Xu and Bernard J. Maxum, "Improved Transmission Performance by Hybrid Optical Amplification in DWDM Systems",Optical Engineering, vol.42, no.3, pp882-885 (March 2003)

    Books

  • Maxum, B. J.,The Mathematics of Fields, (accepted for publication by SPIE Press)
     
  • Maxum, B. J.,Web-Enhanced Electromagnetics, (in progress)
     
  • Maxum, B. J.,Waveguides and Lightguides, (in early development)

     

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