MODE-GAP
Multi-mode capacity enhancement with PBG fibreMulti-mode capacity enhancement with PBG fibre
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
Organization address
address: Highfield contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 11˙618˙848 € |
| EC contributo | 8˙330˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2009-5 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2010 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2010-10-01 - 2015-03-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
Organization address
address: Highfield contact info |
UK (SOUTHAMPTON) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
ASTON UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: ASTON TRIANGLE contact info |
UK (BIRMINGHAM) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
CORIANT R&D GMBH
Organization address
address: ST MARTIN STRASSE 76 contact info |
DE (MUNCHEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
EBLANA PHOTONICS LIMITED
Organization address
address: UNIT 32, TRINITY COLLEGE ENTERPRISE CENTRE , PEARSE STREET contact info |
IE (DUBLIN 2) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
OFS FITEL DENMARK APS
Organization address
address: PRIORPARKEN 680 contact info |
DK (BRONDBY) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
PHOENIX PHOTONICS LIMITED
Organization address
address: CANTERBURY ROAD SARRE BUSINESS CENTRE contact info |
UK (SARRE BIRCHINGTON) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
REGIE ECOLE SUPERIEURE DE PHYSIQUE ET DE CHIMIE INDUSTRIELLE
Organization address
address: RUE VAUQUELIN 10 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN
Organization address
address: DEN DOLECH 2 contact info |
NL (EINDHOVEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK
Organization address
address: WESTERN ROAD contact info |
IE (CORK) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
The Mode-Gap project targets the 100 fold enhancement of the overall capacity of broadband core networks, and seeks to provide Europe with a lead in the development of the next generation internet infrastructure that will soon be desperately needed if we are to keep pace with societies ever increasing data-transmission requirements. It is now recognized that research results are within a factor of 2 of fundamental capacity limits, bounded by fibre nonlinearity and the Shannon Limit and radical approaches now need to be investigated if we are to avert grid-lock on the internet. Mode-Gap will develop multi-mode photonic band gap long haul transmission fibres, and associated enabling technologies. These fibres offer the potential of order of magnitude capacity increases through the use of multiple-input-multiple-output operation of the multi-mode fibre capacity and further order of magnitude capacity increases through the ultra low loss and ultra-low nonlinearity offered by multi-mode photonic bandgap fibre.
Specifically MODE-GAP will:•tDevelop ultra-low loss («0.1 dB/km) multi-mode (>10 modes) photonic band gap transmission fibre (MM-PBGF).•tDevelop novel rare earth doped optical amplifiers for the new transmission windows necessary for the achievement of ultra-long links.•tDevelop sources and detector arrays operating within the 1.8 to 2.1 um region•tDevelop MIMO arrangements for coupling source arrays to multi-mode fibre and multi-mode fibre to detector arrays•tDevelop MIMO and dispersion compensation signal processing algorithms applicable to both conventional solid core (glass and POF) fibres and MM-PBGF.
MODE-GAP is therefore fully aligned with the objectives of ICT-2009.3.7 and directly addresses several of its target outcomes by developing 'photonics technologies, components and (sub) systems driven by key applications/social needs' and using them to fulfil the EU vision of 'future-proof networks and systems enabling unlimited bandwidth' enabling'more optical processing and very high spectral-density transmission and the reductionof power consumption at the system and component level' with the ultimate goal ofenabling 'increasing information throughput'. If successful, the MODE-GAP technologywill have a significant impact in enabling 'future proof networks and systems' of'increasing information throughput'. Without such a breakthrough the internet of thefuture will be severely compromised. The fundamental research needed to avoid this needs tobe undertaken now.