CISE Research Instrumentation for Studies in Microwave Telecommunication Networks

该奖项是对获得一台高性能频谱分析仪的奖励。该分析仪将用于加州大学圣迭戈分校涉及光波组件和系统研究的跨学科项目，尤其包括(A)太比特分组交换光子通信网络的大规模并行体系结构，(B)高频射频光链路(C)高频光电采样和保持电路的研究(C)高性能光子器件的平面、单片和阵列集成。这些研究项目基于光电子器件和网络结构之间的协同作用，将导致更高性能的光纤通信网络。随着动画可视化等新应用的出现以及超级计算机输出产生的通过网络传输大量数据的必要性，对网络和通信的需求变得越来越大，因此需要极大地增加发送和接收信息的能力。一种特别吸引人的传输介质是光，它具有传输数据的巨大容量。高性能频谱分析仪的获取支持的研究是实现网络以超过万亿比特/秒的速率发送和接收信息所必需的领域。它既包括电/光组合电路的研究，也包括对通过网络路由信息分组的协议的研究。

This award is for the acquisition of a high performance spectrum analyzer. The analyzer will be used for interdisciplinary projects at UCSD involving lightwave components and system research, including in particular (a) massively parallel architectures for terabit packet switched photonic communication networks, (b) high frequency RF optical links (c) study of high frequency optoelectronic sample and hold circuits (c) planar, monolithic, and array integration of high performance photonic devices. These research projects, based on a synergy between optoelectronic device and network architectures, will lead to higher performance fiber optic communication networks. As the demands on networks and communications become ever greater with the advent of new applications such as animated visualizations and the necessity for the transfer of large amounts of data over networks arising from supercomputer outputs, it is becoming necessary to vastly increase the capacity to transmit and receive information. A particularly attractive transmission media is light which has an enormous capacity for transmitting data. The research supported by the acquisition of the high performance spectrum analyzer is in areas necessary for the realization of networks transmitting and receiving information at rates more than 1,000 billion bits/second. It includes both combined electrical/optical circuit research and research on protocols for routing packets of information through the network.