Coherent Optical Systems Internship at Taaraconnect · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

At Taara, as a Coherent Optical Systems Intern, you will work on receiver synchronization for next-generation wireless optical communication (WOC) links. This is a larger-scope opportunity (6 to 12+ months) spanning both lab and simulation work, and could form the basis of a longer-term collaboration or thesis project.
What such a receiver can achieve is bounded by real lasers, modulators, and analog electronics. You will evaluate components against system requirements, assemble the benchtop experiments that test them, and work toward stable closed-loop operation. In parallel you will extend the simulation that predicts this behavior, using each to check the other.
There is real room to shape the direction: survey what is available, design the experiments that separate real limits from prototype artifacts, and follow the evidence to the strongest design.
How you will make 10X Impact:
Component Evaluation: Screen commercially available lasers, modulators, and front-end electronics against system requirements, and measure the characteristics vendors do not publish (tuning response, wavelength stability and drift, linewidth, bandwidth, range, noise).
Synchronization & Control Loop Design: Design and analyze the feedback loops that track carrier phase and frequency, and validate them against control theory using transient, frequency-domain, and stability analysis.
Physical-Layer Simulation: Extend our end-to-end model of the link and its tracking loops, and reconcile it against measurement.
What you should have:
Currently pursuing a Master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Optics, Communications, or a related field.
Working knowledge of Analog / RF Electronics, and a feel for how hardware limits (delay, bandwidth, noise, saturation) shape the loop and the signal processing around it. Strong foundation in Digital Communications / Signal Processing (modulation, detection, BER, spectral analysis).
Hands-on lab experience, including work with lasers and modulators, and comfort with high-speed scopes, spectrum analyzers, and power meters.
Strong familiarity with Control theory on hardware measuring an open-loop response, closing a feedback loop, and diagnosing why one oscillates, drifts, or loses lock.

Coherent Optical Systems Internship

Responsibilities

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Company

Taaraconnect

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