
Maria Inês Carvalho
Maria Inês Carvalho graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto in 1990 and received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University, USA, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. She joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Porto in 1996 as an assistant professor, where she is presently an associate professor. In 2009 she joined INESC TEC as a researcher. Her main research area has been the propagation of light in nonlinear media. Her work includes both the theoretical modeling of these phenomena and their numerical simulation and has addressed, among others, soliton beams in photorefractive media, incoherent solitons and microstructured optical fibers. She is a member of the Optical Society of America.
Projects
iBROW
iBROW aims at developing a novel, low-cost, energy-efficient and compact ultra-broadband short-range wireless communication transceiver, capable of addressing future network usage requirements. This will be pursued using Resonant Tunnelling Diode (RTD) devices which are the fastest pure solid-state electronic devices operating at room temperature, with reported working frequencies exceeding 1 THz. By developing a unified technology that can be integrated into both ends of the wireless link, namely consumer portable devices and fibre-optic supported base-stations, the project aims at increasing the RTD output power, optical detection efficiency and energy efficiency at target frequencies, enabling high-speed short-range wireless communications.

MATinMOL
Publications
Quartic solitons of a mode-locked laser distributed model
Malheiro, D;Facao, M;Carvalho, MI;
2023
OPTICS LETTERS
Characterization of time-dependence for dissipative solitons stabilized by nonlinear gradient terms: Periodic and quasiperiodic vs chaotic behavior
Descalzi, O;Facao, M;Cartes, C;Carvalho, MI;Brand, HR;
2023
CHAOS
Optical spatial shock waves in photorefractive media
Grandpierre, AG;Christodoulides, DN;Carvalho, MI;Segev, M;
2001
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
A numerical simulator for VITRUV
LeBouquin, JB;Herwats, E;Carvalho, MI;Garcia, P;Berger, JP;Absil, O;
2008
POWER OF OPTICAL/IR INTERFEROMETRY: RECENT SCIENTIFIC RESULTS AND 2ND GENERATION INSTRUMENTATION
Supervised theses
Effects of an indoor environmental quality intervention program on well-being, comfort, health and productivity among office workers
Fátima Sofia Felgueiras
D - 2023
UP-FEUP