Adaptive and High-Spectral Efficiency Communications by Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation and Measurements

该项目将研究一种新的超高容量通信技术，该技术可以扩展到每秒超过太比特的容量，承受物理层损伤，并灵活支持多种数据流。该项目结合了新的、可扩展的光学任意波形生成技术以及微波通信、信号处理和编码技术。由此产生的万亿级系统有效地适应高和低数据流流量，并减轻物理层损害。该项目还将研究cmos兼容的硅基光学集成，并将追求电子和光子功能的未来集成，以在芯片级系统上实现更紧凑和灵活的功能。本研究的智力价值在于硬件和软件的理论和实验研究，以及研究具有弹性，灵活性和可扩展性的未来兆级通信系统的光子和电子解决方案。此外，该项目还将通过结合光学和电子学的最佳机会，显著提高信号处理能力。该项目的结果将为光电子通信技术、硬件软件协同设计、硅光子集成电路以及未来通信、计算和信息技术的未来前景提供新的见解。本研究的广泛影响如下：(1)改变医疗保健、数据中心网络和云计算的设计、实现和运行方式；(2)提供由CMOS代工厂制造的紧凑通信工具，为社会提供快速和广泛的利益；(3)带来新的通信理论和算法，横切光学、电子学和计算框架；(4)开发新的课程，传播最新的通信和光电子知识；(5)为代表性不足的学生和高中生提供参与最先进技术研究和教育的机会；(6)为实现智能万亿级通信系统创造新的机会。

The project will investigate a new ultra-high capacity communication technology that can scale beyond terabit per second capacity, withstand physical layer impairments, and flexibly support diverse data flows. The project combines new and scalable optical arbitrary waveform generation techniques together with microwave communications, signal processing, and coding techniques. The resulting terascale system effectively accommodates high and low data flow traffic and mitigates physical layer impairments. The project will also investigate CMOS-compatible silicon based optical integration, and will pursue future integration of electronic and photonic functions to realize more compact and agile functions on a chip scale system. The intellectual merit of this research is in the theoretical and experimental investigations of hardware and software, and in studying photonic and electronic solutions for future terascale communication systems with resiliency, flexibility, and scalability. Furthermore, the project will also pursue significant enhancement in signal processing capability by combining best opportunities in both optics and electronics. The results of this project will provide a new insight into optical-electronic communication technologies, hardware-software codesign, silicon photonic integrated circuits, and future prospects for resulting communication, computing, and information technology of the future.The broader impacts of this research are as follows: (1) transforming the way of design, implementation, and operation of healthcare, data center networking, and cloud computing, (2) making available compact communication tools fabricated by CMOS foundry to provide rapid and widespread benefits to the society, (3) bringing new communication theory and algorithm crosscutting optics, electronics, and computing framework, (4) developing new courses to disseminate the up-to-date knowledge on communications and optoelectronics, (5) introducing opportunity for underrepresented and high-school students to be involved in state-of-the-art technology research and education, and (6) stimulating new opportunities towards realizing intelligent terascale communication systems.