Communications Systems Enabling the Cloud

2019/2020年，当工业、教育和政府服务部门被迫将大部分劳动力转移到远程运营时，全球信息网络已经准备好满足需求。历史上很少有其他几个点能如此好地说明普遍连接是如何促进繁荣和生活质量增长的关键。对光纤和移动通信系统的研究确保我们继续提高这些网络的可靠性、可持续性和容量，以应对下一个不可预见的挑战。它们也是更强大的技术能力和更多样化的应用的蹦床；它们是社会进步的通道。加拿大通信系统支持云研究主席(CRC-CSEC)专注于我们如何将数据移动到数据处理中心和数据处理中心内。短距离系统(在手机连接的网络边缘和进行处理的数据中心)的设计必须与聚合信号以进行批量传输的长距离系统截然不同。我们深入了解基本设备(基于光纤的和集成的光子芯片)，并将它们与特定链路的特殊和特殊要求结合在一起。不是应用的特殊性，而是在芯片/纤维设计时插入的特殊性将推动我们在最先进的水平上取得更大的进步。我们返回到最初的设计过程，用优化目标系统中设备的行为来取代通用规范(带宽、消光比等)的目标。加拿大研究教席将推动该领域的研究，同样重要的是，创建一支训练有素的人员队伍，将这些概念和范例转移到工业中。她的教学和研究生指导工作获得了许多奖项，她创建了一支充满活力、多元文化和最高质量的多元化研究团队。作为产品研发的大投资者，电信业对精通最新研究和熟练使用世界级实验室设施的研究人员有着永无止境的需求。来自主席的实习生将联合这些公司，并将研究成果转化为加拿大人的生活质量改善。

When industry, education and government services were forced to relocate significant portions of their work force to remote operation in 2019/2020, the global information network was ready to meet demand. Few other points in history have so well illustrated how universal connectivity is key to the growth of prosperity and quality of life. Research into optical and mobile communications systems ensures we continue to improve the reliability, sustainability, and capacity of these networks to meet the next unforeseen challenge. They are also the trampoline for ever greater technical capabilities and more diverse applications; they are the conduits to societal advances. The Canada Research Chair in Communications Systems Enabling the Cloud (CRC-CSEC) focuses on how we move data to and within data processing centers. Short reach systems (at the network edge where mobiles connect, and at the data center where processing occurs) must be engineered very differently from long reach systems aggregating signals for bulk transfers. We take insights into fundamental devices (fiber-based and integrated photonic chips) and marry them with an appreciation for the particular and idiosyncratic requirements of specific links. It is not the specificity of the application, but rather the insertion of specificity at the time of chip/fiber design that will propel us to greater advances in the state of the art. We return to the initial design process to replace the targeting of generic specifications (bandwidth, extinction ratio, etc.), with an optimization of the behavior of the device in the target system. The Canada Research Chair will advance research in the field, and equally importantly, create a cohort of highly trained personnel transferring these concepts and paradigms to industry. Recognized with numerous awards for her teaching and graduate supervision, the chair creates a dynamic, multi-cultural and diverse research team of the highest quality. As heavy investors in product research and development, the telecommunications industry has an insatiable demand for researchers versed in the latest research and adept with world-class laboratory facilities. Trainees from the chair will joint these companies and convert research results into quality of life improvements for Canadians.