Akeem SAFIRIYU Si-based architectures for High data rate A-RoF applications

His background
I have educational background in engineering, with a master’s degree in Photonics Integrated circuits, sensors and network and a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics Engineering. I also possess over two years industrial experience as an embedded system developer.


Key facts
I am enthusiastic towards new technology and always willing to learn new things. My fun activities involve playing and watching footballs, ping-pong and badminton. I also love to travel the world, learn about different cultures.


Summary of his thesis 
City of tomorrow depict a city with the connectivity of not only humans but also things such as vehicles, network sensors, machines etc leading to stringent requirements of huge bandwidth and increase data rate. Designing a communication system architecture to meet and adapt to these requirements is essential. Analog radio over fibre is a scheme with huge potential for achieving such connectivity with unique characteristics such as huge bandwidth, low delay and high data rate. Such system could be developed on silicon photonics platform taking advantage of its characteristics which includes mature technology, low cost, easy scalability and integrated (small) footprint devices. Hence, my thesis looks to explore the advantages of these two technologies by carrying out design, implementation and performance evaluation of a Silicon Photonics based Analog radio over fibre architecture for High data rate applications with major focus of 5G fronthaul.

What's next?
Photonics is a technology of the future with potential to contributing to all fields. I am ambitious towards designing and adapting photonics technology across several application. Hence, I look forward to working in photonics industry across Europe and practical implementing all the unique skills acquired during my PhD.