RESEARCH EQUIPMENT GRANT: Wavelength Tunable Wide Bandwidth Modulated Laser Source for All-Optical Networks and Optoelectronic Device Research

9412357布鲁门塔尔佐治亚理工学院微电子研究中心和电气与计算机工程学院将购买一种连续波长可调、超宽带调制、1.55微米中心波长激光系统，该系统将专门用于支持工程研究。该设备将用于几个研究项目，尤其包括：i)调查波分复用全光网络中的带宽限制；ii)佐治亚理工学院mIRC制造的基于波分复用的元件的特性，特别是波分复用器和解复用器以及谐振增强型腔光探测器；以及iii)用于高速、宽带光通信的元件的特性，包括全光和光通信网络中使用的光放大、光探测器、光子开关和过滤器。拟议的设备是佐治亚理工学院在波分复用光通信、全光网络和设备集成方面正在进行的努力的关键。光网络，特别是全光网络，有可能成为未来国家通信基础设施的基础。关键的研究问题包括设计和构建最先进的网络，这些网络具有很高的高级开发和开发可能性，以及制造高度集成、低成本、集成电路兼容的波分复用器件。拟议的设备将使研究人员能够研究在网络环境中组合多个光WDM设备的效果。它还将使调查人员能够量化限制这些网络的用户数和地理距离的影响，以量化限制这些网络可以运作的用户数和地理距离的影响。最后，将利用所提出的设备对用于全光网络的低成本、高性能器件进行关键表征。

9412357 Blumenthal The Microelectronics Research Center (MiRC) and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology will purchase a continuous wavelength tunable, ultra-wide bandwidth modulated, 1.55 micron center wavelength laser system which will be dedicated to support research in engineering. The equipment will be used for several research projects, including in particular: I) the investigation of bandwidth limitations in wavelength division multiplexed all-optical networks, II) characterization of wavelength division multiplexed based components fabricated in the Georgia Tech MiRC, in particular wavelength division multiplexers and demultiplexers and resonant enhanced cavity photodetectors, and III) characterization of components for high-speed, widebandwidth optical communications including optical amplifiers, photodetectors, photonic switches, and filters used in all-optical and optical communications networks. The proposed equipment is key to the ongoing effort at Georgia Tech in wavelength division multiplexed optical communications, all-optical networking, and device integration. Optical networks, in particular all-optical networks, have the potential to form the basis for the future national communications infrastructure. Critical research issues include designing and constructing state-of-the-art networks that have high probability for advanced development, and development, and fabrication of highly integrated, low cost, integrated circuit compatible wavelength division multiplexed devices. The proposed equipment will allow the researchers to study the effects of combining multiple optical WDM devices in a networking environment. It will also allow the investigators to quantify effects that limit the number of user and geographic distances over which these networks to quantify effects that limit the number of user and geographic distances over which these networks can operate. Finally, the critical characterization of low cost, high performa nce devices for all optical and optical networks will be performed with the proposed equipment.