Researcher Profile

Field: New Sensor Technologies

Main Research: Photonics, 5G, Quantum Optics

Experience: Post-doctoral researcher for more than 6 years, project coordinator, ERC grantee in the fields of photonics, optical telecommunications, 5G and quantum-optics

• 2011-2012: Senior Researcher
  National Technical University of Athens, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / Greece
• 2013-: Scientist
  AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Center for Digital Safety & Security / Austria

• 2017-2020: Photonics21 Board-of-Stakeholder Member

• 2012: Photonics21 Student Innovation Award
• 2012: EURO-FOS Student Research Award
• 2011: ECOC’11 Best Student Paper Presentation Award – Finalist
• 2018: ERC Starting Grant on “Coherent Optics Everywhere: a New Dawn for Photonic Networks (COYOTE)”
• 2013: EU FP7 Marie Curie CIG Grant on “Coherent Broadband Networks Embedding Smart Photonics for Cost-Effective Quintuple-Play (WARP-5)”

• Entanglement Distribution in Optical Networks
  Author(s): A. Ciurana, V. Martin, J. Martinez, B. Schrenk, M. Peev, and A. Poppe
  Journal: J. Sel. Topics in Quantum Electron., 21 (2015) ; 6400212
• Passive ROADM Flexibility in Optical Access with Spectral and Spatial Reconfigurability
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, F. Laudenbach, R. Lieger, T. Lorünser, P. Bakopoulos, A. Poppe, M. Stierle, H. Avramopoulos, and H. Leopold
  Journal: J. Sel. Areas of Comm., 33 (2015) ; 2837
• Fully-Passive Resiliency Node for Optical Access [Invited]
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, R. Lieger, T. Lorünser, P. Bakopoulos, A. Poppe, M. Stierle, H. Avramopoulos, and H. Leopold
  Journal: J. Opt. Comm. and Netw., 7 (2015) ; B10
• Perspectives and Limitations of QKD Integration in Metropolitan Area Networks
  Author(s): S. Aleksic, F. Hipp, D. Winkler, A. Poppe, B. Schrenk, and G. Franzl
  Journal: Optics Expr., 12 (2015) ; 10359
• Energy Self-Sufficient Node With Integrated Lightpath Monitoring for Spectrum-Aware PON
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, M. Hofer, M. Hentschel, and T. Zemen
  Journal: Phot. Technol. Lett., 29 (2017) ; 318
• Analogue Receiver for Coherent Optical Analogue Radio-over-Fiber Transmission
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, M. Hofer, and T. Zemen
  Journal: Optics Lett., 42 (2017) ; 3165
• The EML as Analogue Radio-over-Fiber Transceiver – a Coherent Homodyne Approach
  Author(s): B. Schrenk
  Journal: J. Lightwave Technol., accepted for publication (2018)
• Injection-Locked Coherent Reception Through Externally Modulated Laser
  Author(s): B. Schrenk
  Journal: J. Sel. Topics in Quantum Electron., 24 (2018) ; 3900207
• Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution with Gaussian Modulation – The Theory of Practical Implementations
  Author(s): F. Laudenbach, C. Pacher, C.F. Fung, A. Poppe, M. Peev, B. Schrenk, M. Hentschel, P. Walther, and H. Hübel
  Journal: Adv. Quantum Tech., 1 (2018) ; 1800011
• Visible Light Multi-Gb/s Transmission Based on Resonant Cavity LED with Optical Energy Feed
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, M. Hofer, F. Laudenbach, H. Hübel, and T. Zemen
  Journal: J. Sel. Areas of Comm., 36 (2018) ; 175
• The EML as Analogue Radio-over-Fiber Transceiver – a Coherent Homodyne Approach
  Author(s): B. Schrenk
  Journal: IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., 37 (2) (2019) ; 2866
• A Coherent Homodyne TO-Can Transceiver as Simple as an EML [Top-Scored]
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, and F. Karinou
  Journal: IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., 37 (2) (2019) ; 555
• Simple Laser Transmitter Pair as Polarization-Independent Coherent Homodyne Detector
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, and F. Karinou
  Journal: OSA Opt. Expr., 27 (10) (2019) ; 13942
• Analogue Coherent TDMA Receiver with Fast Locking to Free-Running Optical Emitters [Top-Scored]
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, and F. Karinou
  Journal: IEEE/OSA J. Lightwave Technol., 38 (2) (2020) ; 379

• Polarization-Immune Coherent Homodyne Receiver Enabled by a Tandem of TO-can EMLs
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, and F. Karinou
  Conference Europ. Conf. Opt. Comm., Rome, Italy
• On the Transfer of Quantum-Optic Pair Sources Realized on SOI Photonics to Electronic Wafers
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, F. Laudenbach, P. Müllner, S. Jessenig, J. Kraft, M. Eggeling, D. Fowler, R. Hainberger, and H. Hübel
  Conference Group IV Photonics, Cancun, Mexico
• Chip-Scale Remote Radio Head Interface for Full-Duplex Coherent Optical Wireline-Wireless Network
  Author(s): B. Schrenk
  Conference Wireless Comm. Netw. Conf., Barcelona, Spain
• Exploring the Stokes Space by Non-Orthogonal Polarization Modulation for a Smooth Upgrade of Optical Link Capacity
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, and H. Hübel
  Conference Opt. Fiber Comm. Conf., San Diego, USA
• World’s First TO-can Coherent Transceiver
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, and F. Karinou
  Conference Opt. Fiber Comm. Conf., San Diego, USA
• Single-Laser Differential Phase Shift Transmitter for Small Form-Factor Quantum Key Distribution Optics
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, M. Hentschel, and H. Hübel
  Conference Opt. Fiber Comm. Conf., San Diego, USA
• 1 Gb/s All-LED Visible Light Communication System
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, and C. Pacher
  Conference Opt. Fiber Comm. Conf., San Diego, USA
• High-Order Polarization Overlay for Future Optical Access
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, F. Laudenbach, and H. Hübel
  Conference Opt. Fiber Comm. Conf., San Diego, USA
• Full-Duplex Coherent Radio-over-Fiber Transmission over 1:128 Split PON Using an EML as Bidirectional RRH Optics
  Author(s): B. Schrenk
  Conference Opt. Fiber Comm. Conf., San Diego, USA
• The EML as Coherent Optical Receiver
  Author(s): B. Schrenk
  Conference Europ. Conf. Opt. Comm., Gothenburg, Sweden
• Visible-Light Communication Link With Integrated Energy Feed for Nomadic Gb/s-Capable Burst-Mode Reception
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, and H. Hübel
  Conference Europ. Conf. Opt. Comm., Gothenburg, Sweden
• High-Rate Continuous-Variables Quantum Key Distribution with Pilot-Disciplined Local Oscillator
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, F. Laudenbach, F. Fung, C. Pacher, A. Poppe, R. Lieger, D. Hillerkuss, E. Querasser, G. Humer, M. Hentschel, M. Peev, and H. Hübel
  Conference Europ. Conf. Opt. Comm., Gothenburg, Sweden
• Multi-Wavelength Photon Pair Source Assisted by a Silicon-on-Insulator Micro-Ring Resonator
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, F. Laudenbach, P. Müllner, W. Boxleitner, D. Fowler, R. Hainberger, and H. Hübel
  Conference IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting '17, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Quad Channel Blocker Array Based on a Commodity Liquid Crystal Display
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, P. Bakopoulos, and H. Hübel
  Conference IEEE Summer Topicals Meeting '17, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Microring-Assisted All-Optical Sub-Channel Demultiplexing for Dense IM/DD Access with Low-Complexity Optical Network Unit
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, P. Müllner, D. Fowler, W. Boxleitner, and R. Hainberger
  Conference Int. Conf. Transp. Opt. Netw., Girona, Spain
• Semi-Passive Power/Wavelength Splitting Node with Integrated Spectrum Monitoring for Reconfigurable PON
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, M. Hofer, M. Hentschel, and T. Zemen
  Conference Opt. Fiber Comm. Conf., Los Angeles, USA
• Low-Cost Visible Light Communication System based on Off-the-Shelf LED for up to 4.3 Gb/s/? Transmission
  Author(s): B. Schrenk, M. Hofer, F. Laudenbach, H. Hübel, and T. Zemen
  Conference Opt. Fiber Comm. Conf., Los Angeles, USA
• Prospects of CV-QKD Systems Limited by Commercial Telecom Equipment
  Author(s): A. Poppe, F. Fung, M. Peev, D. Hillerkuss, F. Kaninou, L. Comandar, S. Mikroulis, H. Brunner, S. Bettelli, M. Kuschnerov, Q. Yi, D. Wang, B. Schrenk, F. Laudenbach, C. Pacher, and H. Hübel
  Conference Conf. Laser Electr. Opt., Munich, Germany
• Low-Cost Single-Laser Differential Phase Shift Transmitter Towards SFP-based QKD Tail-End Optics
  Author(s): M. Hentschel, B. Schrenk, R. Lieger, E. Querasser and H. Hübel
  Conference Int. Conf. Quantum Crypt., Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Pilot-Disciplined CV-QKD with True Local Oscillator
  Author(s): F. Laudenbach, B. Schrenk, C. Pacher, R. Lieger, E. Querasser, G. Humer, M. Hentschel, H. Hübel, F. Fung, A. Poppe, and M. Peev
  Conference Int. Conf. Quantum Crypt., Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Validation of a real-time geometry-based stochastic channel model for vehicular scenarios (invited)
  Author(s): M. Hofer, Z. Xu, D. Vlastaras, B. Schrenk, D. Löschenbrand, F. Tufvesson, and T. Zemen
  Conference IEEE Vehicular Tech. Conf., Porto, Portugal
• First Continuous Quadrature Modulation for Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution
  Author(s): F. Laudenbach, B. Schrenk, C. Pacher, P. Walther, and H. Hübel
  Conference Int. Conf. Quantum Comm. Meas. Comp., Baton Rouge, USA
• Compact Quantum-Optic Photon-Pair Engine 3D-Integrated on BiCMOS Electronics
  Author(s): F. Laudenbach, B. Schrenk, P. Müllner, S. Jessenig, J. Kraft, M. Eggeling, D. Fowler, R. Hainberger, and H. Hübel
  Conference Europ. Conf. Opt. Comm., Rome, Italy
• A Gigahertz Source for Entangled Telecom Photons
  Author(s): F. Laudenbach, S. Zeiger, B. Schrenk, C. Pacher, and H. Hübel
  Conference Int. Conf. Quantum Crypt., Shanghai, China
• CV-QKD Beyond Zeros and Ones: Non-Digitised Gaussian-State Modulation
  Author(s): F. Laudenbach, B. Schrenk, C. Pacher, P. Walther, and H. Hübel
  Conference Int. Conf. Quantum Crypt., Shanghai, China

• Project homepage PHELICITI
• Project homepage WARP-5
• Project homepage TRITON
• Project homepage COYOTE
• Publications AIT publications database
• CV as pdf