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Abdella Battou (Fed)

Division Chief

Abdella Battou is Chief, Smart Connected Systems, in the Communication Technology Laboratory (CTL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He also leads the NIST Cloud Computing Program. Prior to joining CTL, he served as the Division Chief of the Advanced Network Technologies Division from 2012 to 2021 in NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory.

From 2009 to 2012, Abdella served as the Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) GigaPop founded by University of Maryland, George Washington University, Georgetown University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. From 2000 to 2009, he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development for Lambda OpticalSystems, where he was responsible for overseeing the company's system architectures, hardware design and software development teams. Additionally, he served as senior research scientist for the Naval Research Laboratory's high speed networking group, Center for Computational Sciences from 1992 to 2000.

News

Publications

Entanglement Distribution over a Polarization-Stabilized Aerial Fiber

Author(s)
Yicheng Shi, Anouar Rahmouni, Pranish Shrestha, Mheni Merzouki, Abdella Battou, Oliver Slattery, Thomas Gerrits, Mehdi Namazi, Mael Flament, Anne Margaret Lazenby, Gabriel Bello Portmann, Jing Su
Distributing quantum entanglement over telecommunication fiber is a fundamental task in metropolitan-scale quantum networks, enabling advanced applications such...

Entanglement Distribution over a Polarization-Stabilized Aerial Fiber

Author(s)
Yicheng Shi, Anouar Rahmouni, Pranish Shrestha, Mheni Merzouki, Abdella Battou, Oliver Slattery, Thomas Gerrits, Jing Su, Gabriel Portmann, Anne Lazenby, Mael Flament, Mehdi Namazi
We experimentally demonstrate the distribution of polarization-entangled photons between two laboratories connected by a 62-km, partially-aerial fiber. Using...

Long-term phase stabilization for metropolitan-scale dark quantum channels

Author(s)
Daehyun Ahn, Ivan Burenkov, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Mheni Merzouki, Paulina Kuo, Abdella Battou, Thomas Gerrits, Sergey Polyakov
We employ a frequency comb to demonstrate a multiband wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM)-based phase stabilization over a metropolitan-scale fiber link...
Created May 31, 2018, Updated December 8, 2022
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