L2M NSERC - Terahertz wired technology for future networks

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A fully connected society is one of the biggest challenges for communication systems, so improving network capacity has become one of this century's strategic and critical issues. The amount of data exchanged worldwide is impressive (a few petabits per minute), and mobile data mainly comes from smartphones. Therefore, there is an urgent need to push future communication systems' speed (increased bandwidth, lower latency) even further. To ensure such performance, wired and wireless infrastructures must support and deliver data rates in the Tbit/s range. To meet this increasing demand for data throughput by citizens, new technologies and techniques are now required. The terahertz (THz) band offers higher bandwidth (a few GHz), extremely low latencies (nanoseconds), and speediness (a few tens of Gbit/s), hundreds of times better compared to current technologies. This current proposal deals with a market study of our new two (patented) THz wired technologies capable of guiding, processing, and multiplexing THz signals. The two new THz technologies are polarization-division THz multiplexer and time-domain THz integrator. The first one enables multiplexing and ultrafast signal processing in the range of 300 GHz to 2 THz and above, while the second allows time-domain integration functionalities in the THz well above 10 THz. In addition, they are relatively easy to realize, highly flexible and compatible with current communication systems. By improving THz device performances, at a low-cost production, our new technology opens the door to THz commercial developments for future communication systems, paving the way toward accessible and pleasant surfing on the 3D internet, accessible through virtual, augmented, or mixed-reality headsets. Hence, a market study is beneficial and will contribute to the impact of the Canadian high-technology industry on the international scene.