Massive Space Division Multiplexing for Optical Fibre Communication Systems

项目描述：该计划的目的是改变光通信，使其超越当前单模技术的限制，实现可持续的每比特能耗-可以说是该领域最大的挑战。其愿景是在新型收发器中引入突破性的空间调制，该收发器能够将先进的多模/核心光纤与数百个空间路径连接起来，并实现所有数据路径的可扩展性，以降低每比特的成本和能耗。这些新型收发器将能够在新的信息理论和非线性科学方法的指导下，通过新的空间调制格式和编码，利用线性和非线性状态下的多维信道特性。EPSRC与项目相关的研究领域：ICT网络和分布式系统、光通信、光设备和子系统、数字信号处理

Project Description: The aim of the programme is to transform optical communications to go beyond current single-mode technology limits with sustainable energy-consumption per bit - arguably the greatest challenge in the field. The vision is to introduce ground-breaking spatial modulation in novel transceivers capable of interfacing advanced multi-mode/core fibres with hundreds of spatial pathways and enabling scalability of all data pathways to reduce the cost and energy-consumption per bit. These new transceivers will be capable of exploiting the multidimensional channel properties in the linear and nonlinear regimes through new spatial modulation formats and coding guided by new information theory and nonlinear science methods.EPSRC research areas relevant to the project:ICT networks and distributed systemsOptical communicationsOptical devices and subsystemsDigital signal processing