L2M NSERC - Terahertz wired technology for future networks

全联接社会是通信系统面临的最大挑战之一，因此提高网络容量已成为本世纪的战略和关键问题之一。全球交换的数据量令人印象深刻（每分钟几千兆比特），而移动的数据主要来自智能手机。因此，迫切需要进一步推动未来通信系统的速度（增加带宽，降低延迟）。为了确保这样的性能，有线和无线基础设施必须支持和提供Tbit/s范围内的数据速率。为了满足公民对数据吞吐量日益增长的需求，现在需要新的技术和方法。太赫兹（THz）波段提供更高的带宽（几GHz），极低的延迟（纳秒）和速度（几十Gbit/s），与当前技术相比好几百倍。目前的提案涉及对我们新的两种（专利）THz有线技术的市场研究，这些技术能够引导、处理和复用THz信号。这两种新的太赫兹技术是偏振分割太赫兹复用器和时域太赫兹积分器。第一个实现了300 GHz至2 THz及以上范围内的多路复用和超快信号处理，而第二个允许在10 THz以上的THz中实现时域积分功能。此外，它们相对容易实现，高度灵活并且与当前的通信系统兼容。通过以低成本生产提高THz设备性能，我们的新技术为未来通信系统的THz商业开发打开了大门，为通过虚拟，增强或混合现实耳机访问3D互联网上的可访问和愉快的冲浪铺平了道路。因此，市场研究是有益的，将有助于加拿大高科技产业在国际舞台上的影响。

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.