Recent publications

May 2025

Monolithic InP Ring Resonator based Laser with 40 kHz Linewidth and 40 nm Tuning Range

Hendrik Boerma, Patrick Runge, Martin Schell, Arbnor Berisha, Daniel Haubenreißer

A narrow linewidth tunable laser based on ring resonators is presented. It uses low loss passive waveguides implemented in a monolithic InP photonic integrated circuit. The laser can be tuned over a wavelength range from 1559 nm to 1602 nm. The...


April 2025

3DGS.zip: A survey on 3D Gaussian Splatting Compression Methods

Milena Teresa Bagdasarian, Mario Goldenbaum, Peter Eisert, Anna Hilsmann, Wieland Morgenstern, Florian Tim Barthel, Paul Knoll, Yi-Hsin Li

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a powerful technique for real-time radiance field rendering but is limited by its high storage and memory requirements. This survey provides the first comprehensive analysis of existing compression and compaction...


April 2025

Intraoperative measurements in stapedotomy using 3D stereo imaging for optimal prosthesis length selection

Eric Wisotzky, Peter Eisert, Anna Hilsmann, Sebastian Schraven, Robert Mlynski, Felix Lausch, Linus Kienle, Sahra von Bonn-Ytrehus

This study introduces a novel approach for precise, radiation-free intraoperative measurements using 3D stereoscopic imaging integrated into a digital surgical microscope for stapedotomy. By optimizing the calibration of stereoscopic zoom-focus...


April 2025

Kernel-Based Signal Processing for Simultaneous Transmit-Receive Systems

Mohammad Hossein Attar, Slawomir Stanczak, Ramez Askar

We address digital self-interference cancellation (SIC) in simultaneous transmit-receive systems using data-driven approaches. We propose kernel-based learning methods -- adaptive projected subgradient method (APSM) and support vector regression...


April 2025

Record length of 2000km weakly-coupled 7-core MCF produced from a single large-scale MCF preform

Sarah Cwalina, Kai Habel, Tobias Tiess, Michael Lorenz, Jong-Won Lee, Maximilian Schmitt, Jimmy E. Beavers, Nicolaj L. Andersen, Andreas C. Samson, Frederik N. Andersen, Qiulin Ma, Martin Böttcher, Kay  Schuster

We present the design and fabrication of more than 2000 km of a 7-core multi-core fiber (MCF) drawn from a single large-scale MCF preform. The fiber was fabricated without any online fiber breaks and exhibits axially excellent geometrical...


April 2025

Designing Citizen Science tools towards increased awareness and participatory policy making for air quality: The Case of COMPAIR

Pavel Kogut, Oliver Schreer, Sylvain Renault, Lieven Raes, Burcu Celikkol, Susie Ruston McAleer, Gert Vervaet, Christos Alexopoulos

The EU-funded project COMPAIR designed advanced monitoring and simulation tools that aggregate data from multiple sources to provide a well-rounded view of air pollution and related challenges e.g. traffic, waste management, energy use. Built-in...


April 2025

Artificial Neural Network With Photonic Reservoir for Multiclass Modulation Format Identification

Guillermo von Hünefeld, Colja Schubert, Ronald Freund, Johannes K. Fischer, Pooyan Safari, Rijil Thomas, Enes Seker, Stephan Suckow, Max Lemme, David Stahl, Peter Bienstman, Mahdi Kaveh, Mahtab Aghaeipour Kolyani, Joseph Hopfmüller

We successfully achieved MFI using a neuromorphic PIC with a photonic reservoir and digital readout, both in a laboratory environment and with commercial network equipment.


April 2025

Resolution and Speed Trade-offs in FMCW LiDAR with MEMS Mirror Scanning and Advanced Signal Processing

Sarah Cwalina, Volker Jungnickel, Patrick Runge, Norman Laske, Avinash Nittur Ramesh, Maria A. Gonzalez-Huici

We address system trade-offs, e.g. between resolution and speed of a coherent scanning LiDAR. We analyze the performance of our real-time FMCW LiDAR prototype with a high-quantumefficiency coherent receiver, two-dimensional...


April 2025

Joint power control, beamforming, and sleep-mode selection for energy-efficient cell-free networks using surrogate machine learning models

Ricky Ooi, Slawomir Stanczak, Renato L. G. Cavalcante, Lorenzo Miretti, Rouaa Diab

In cell-free networks, system throughput is enhanced by allowing more than one access point (AP) to serve each user, which may lead to high energy consumption. To circumvent this, this paper presents a surrogate optimization technique using...


April 2025

Global or local modeling for XGBoost in geospatial studies upon simulated data and German COVID-19 infection forecasting

Ximeng Cheng, Jackie Ma

This research compares the local- and global modeling ways of XGBoost in the geospatial studies. Two experiments based on simulation data and German COVID-19 infection data were conducted to compare the two modeling ways from multiple aspects....


April 2025

SPNeRF: Open Vocabulary 3D Neural Scene Segmentation with Superpoints

Weiwen Hu, Oliver Schreer, Peter Eisert, Ingo Feldmann, Marcus Zepp, Niccolo Parodi

We introduce SPNerf, a NeRF based zero-shot 3D segmentation approach that leverages geometric priors. We integrate geometric primitives derived from 3D scene into NeRF training to produce primitive-wise CLIP features, avoiding the ambiguity of...


April 2025

3D photonic integrated interposer enabling connectivity between multicore fibers and photonic integrated circuits

Madeleine Weigel, Norbert Keil, Martin Schell, Moritz Kleinert, Crispin Zawadzki, David de Felipe Mesquida, Martin Kresse, Tianwen Qian, Jakob Reck, Klara Mihov, Philipp Winklhofer, Lea Flach

A novel 3D photonic integrated interposer is developed for coupling the different layers of Multi-core-fiber (MCF) cores with arrays of conventional 2D electro-absorption modulated lasers (EMLs) and photodetectors (PDs). The 3D photonic...


April 2025

Next Generation XR Systems-Large Language Models Meet Augmented and Virtual Reality

Muhamamd Zeshan Afzal, Peter Eisert, Anna Hilsmann, SK Aziz Ali, Didier Stricker, Daniel Perez-Marcos, Marco Bianchi, Sonia Crottaz-Herbette, Roberto De Ioris, Eleni Mangina, Mirco Sanguineti, Ander Salaberria, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Aitor García-Pablos, Montse Cuadros

Extended Reality (XR) is evolving rapidly, offering new paradigms for humancomputer interaction. This position paper argues that integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with XR systems represents a fundamental shift toward more intelligent,...


March 2025

Analysis of Interaction Mechanisms and Intercomparison of Raytracing Tools for Optimizing THz Simulations

Enes Aksoy, Leszek Raschkowski, Alper Schultze, Mikel Celaya-Echarri, Leyre Azpilicueta, Abdolvakil Fazli

This paper compares different raytracing tools in the sub-THz area, to analyze the weight of several different effects, e.g. reflections, diffractions, scattering or atmospheric attenuation, during raytracing simulations for high frequencies. For...


March 2025

High-quality deepfakes have a heart!

Clemens Peter Seibold, Peter Eisert, Anna Hilsmann, Eric Wisotzky, Benjamin Kossack, Arian Beckmann

Recent deepfakes preserve subtle heart rate signals, challenging the assumption that rPPG-based detection remains effective. Our study demonstrates that modern deepfake generation techniques encapsulate the heart rate dynamics of source videos,...


March 2025

RIS-Assisted 6G Networks: Challenges and Tradeoffs in Control Standardization

Ehsan Tohidi, Slawomir Stanczak, Stefan Schmid, Admela Jukan, Max Franke, André Drummond

Despite extensive theoretical progress in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), practical models and network-level studies remain limited. This paper bridges the gap, exploring RIS-assisted links, proposing a control plane approach, and...


March 2025

Diamond-on-chip magnetic field camera for mobile imaging

Julian M. Bopp, Norbert Keil, Hauke Conradi, Felipe Perona, Jonas Wollenberg, Thomas Filsgen, Armin Liero, Heike Christopher

In this work, we introduce concepts for spatially resolved magnetic field sensing and two-dimensional gradiometry with an integrated magnetic field camera. The camera utilizes infrared absorption optically detected magnetic resonance (IRA ODMR)...


March 2025

3D-Printed Dual-Polarized Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna with Wideband High Isolation for Full-Duplex Applications

Mehmet Ahad Yurtoglu, Ramez Askar

This paper presents a dual-polarized magneto-electric dipole antenna with orthogonal Gamma and inverted-Gamma probes, fabricated via 3D metal printing. It offers a 3-4 GHz impedance bandwidth, with excellent cross-polarization isolation (>50...


March 2025

Link Tomography: A Tool for Monitoring Optical Network and Designing Digital Twins

Matheus Ribeiro Sena, Robert Emmerich, Mohammad Behnam Shariati, Ralf-Peter Braun, Marc Geitz, Johannes K. Fischer, Ronald Freund

Researchers from Deutsche Telekom AG and Fraunhofer HHI explores the Link Tomography, a receiver-based DSP approach for monitoring optical networks and detecting anomalies. Delving into concepts and building methodologies, it addresses challenges...


March 2025

Data Governance Framework for Telemetry Sharing

Angela Mitrovska, Johannes Fischer, Mohammad Behnam Shariati, Pooyan Safari

We propose a novel solution using the Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC) Connector to enable regulated and policy-driven telemetry data sharing in telco ecosystems. We present its architecture, several compatible use-cases, and results validating...


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