Charles Laperle

Charles Laperle received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Sherbrooke University, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, in 1991, the M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canasa, in 2003. From 1997 to 2000, he was with Wireless Development Group, Nortel, Canada, as an RF Hardware Designer for TDMA wireless base stations. From 2001 to 2010, he was with the Optical Research and Development Group, Nortel, as an electro-optic hardware designer. Since 2010, he has been with Ciena Corporation, Ottawa, ON, as a Research Scientist Engineer. His research focuses on the development of WaveLogic coherent transceivers for next-generation optical communication systems. He was a Technical Committee Member of OFC/NFOEC from 2010 to 2012.