Space-division multiplexing in optical fiber communications
With data-centric network traffic growing exponentially between about 30% and 60% per year, fiber-optic transport networks are rapidly approaching their fundamental Shannon capacity limits. By 2020, leading-edge network operators will require capacities that are physically impossible to implement using conventional optical transmission technologies. We will explore key technology scaling disparities that are driving the looming capacity crunch in global core networks and discuss their impact on our communications society. We will then point to spatially parallel transmission solutions (Space-Division Multiplexing, SDM) as the only long-term viable solution to overcome the capacity scalability bottleneck. We will explore the implications of ultimately unavoidable spatial crosstalk, and examine how multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) digital signal processing well established in wireless communications, can help to scale optical core networks. A look at information theoretic security in SDM-based fiber-optic transmission systems will round off our discussions.
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- Date: 18 Oct 2016
- Time: 05:30 PM to 07:00 PM
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- 1745 W. Nursery Road
- Linthicum, Maryland
- United States 21090
- Building: National Electronics Museum
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Steven D'Ambrosio, Secretary, Baltimore COMSOC, steven.dambrosio@jhuapl.edu
- Starts 09 September 2016 12:00 AM
- Ends 18 October 2016 06:00 PM
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Dr. Peter Winzer of Bell Labs
Space-division multiplexing in optical fiber communications
Biography:
Dr. Peter J. Winzer received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria, in 1998. Supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), he investigated photon-starved space-borne Doppler lidar and laser communications using high-sensitivity digital modulation and detection. At Bell Labs since 2000, he has focused on various aspects of high-bandwidth fiber-optic communication systems, including Raman amplification, advanced optical modulation formats, multiplexing schemes, and receiver concepts, digital signal processing and coding, as well as on robust network architectures for dynamic data services. He contributed to several high-speed and high-capacity optical transmission records with interface rates from 10 Gb/s to 1 Tb/s, including the first 100G and the first 400G electronically multiplexed optical transmission systems and the first field trial of live 100G video traffic over an existing carrier network. Since 2008 he has been investigating and globally promoting spatial multiplexing as a promising option to scale optical transport systems beyond the capacity limits of single-mode fiber. He currently heads the Optical Transmission Systems and Networks Research Department at Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ. He has widely published and patented and is actively involved in technical and organizational tasks with the IEEE Photonics Society and the Optical Society of America (OSA), currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology and as Program Chair of the 2015 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC). Dr. Winzer is a Bell Labs Fellow and a Fellow of the IEEE and the OSA, and a 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher.
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Dr. Peter Winzer of Bell Labs
Space-division multiplexing in optical fiber communications
Biography:
Address:United States
Dr. Peter Winzer of Bell Labs
Space-division multiplexing in optical fiber communications
Biography:
Address:United States
Agenda
5:30 Social 6:00 Presentation