ASTRON
Adaptive Software Defined Terabit Transceiver nfor Flexible Optical Networks
| Coordinatore | OPTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES A.B.E.T.E.
Organization address
address: Thessalonikis 79-81 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Greece [EL] |
| Totale costo | 4˙558˙124 € |
| EC contributo | 3˙199˙970 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2011-8 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-10-01 - 2015-09-30 |
Partecipanti
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| 1 |
OPTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES A.B.E.T.E.
Organization address
address: Thessalonikis 79-81 contact info |
EL (Moschato) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
AIFOTEC AG
Organization address
address: HOLZMARKT 5 contact info |
DE (JENA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
ALBIS OPTOELECTRONICS AG
Organization address
address: MOOSSTRASSE 2A contact info |
CH (RUSCHLIKON) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
ERICSSON TELECOMUNICAZIONI
Organization address
address: VIA ANAGNINA 203 contact info |
IT (Roma) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
FINISAR ISRAEL LTD
Organization address
address: GOLDA MEIR 3 contact info |
IL (NES ZIONA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V
Organization address
address: Hansastrasse 27C contact info |
DE (MUNCHEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Organization address
address: 4-2-1 NUKUI-KITAMACHI contact info |
JP (KOGANEI, TOKYO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
OPTOSCRIBE LIMITED
Organization address
address: ALBA INNOVATION CENTRE SUITE 0/14 contact info |
UK (LIVINGSTON) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION LABORATORY IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Organization address
address: Adrianiou 2 & Papada contact info |
EL (Athens) | participant | 0.00 |
| 10 |
TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Organization address
address: TECHNION CITY - SENATE BUILDING contact info |
IL (HAIFA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 11 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE
Organization address
address: VIA OSTIENSE 161 contact info |
IT (ROMA) | participant | 0.00 |
| 12 |
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Organization address
address: Gower Street 1 contact info |
UK (LONDON) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
ASTRON aims at the development of high-capacity, energy-efficient and bit-rate flexible optical transceivers capable of supporting rates from 10Gb/s to beyond 1Tb/s. The ASTRON concept is based on developing multi-functional and agile devices so as to achieve Terabit capacities on a single photonic integrated chip. ASTRON's transceiver can realize different techniques of flexible super-channel generation (OFDM/Nyquist WDM) and does so without requiring any IDFT/DFT processing in the electronic domain, thus achieving ultra-high capacity with significant improvements on the energy efficiency per transmitted bit. To implement optically the IDFT/DFT functions, a special design arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) based planar lightwave device will be developed.nASTRON relies on the combination of InP monolithic elements and Silica planar lightwave circuits for achieving cost-effectiveness, high yield, low power consumption and device scaling far in advance of the level commercially available today. The transmitter module that implements the optical super-channels employs a planar optical multi-channel Silica motherboard carrying four hybridly integrated InP-based twin-IQ Mach-Zehnder Modulators in combination with a novel 8x8 AWG-based waveguide structures on board. The receiver is a fully integrated, multi-channel optical coherent receiver module consisting of a similar 8x8 AWG-based waveguide structure with DFT functionality, eight 90° hybrids and high speed balanced photo-detector arrays of 32 active elements per polarisation, hybridly integrated onto a Silica motherboard. Additionally, ASTRON will develop advanced digital signal processing algorithms for impairment mitigation and a novel software-defined signal processing module that renders the transceiver flexible in terms of format, bit rate and spectrum utilization. Each component within this project is not just aimed for a one time demonstration but is fabricated keeping one eye on commercialisation.