Massive Space Division Multiplexing for Optical Fibre Communication Systems

项目简介：该计划的目标是改变光通信，使其超越当前单模技术的限制，实现每比特可持续的能源消耗--这可以说是该领域最大的挑战。其愿景是在新型收发机中引入突破性的空间调制，能够将先进的多模/核心光纤与数百条空间路径接口，并使所有数据路径能够扩展，以降低每比特的成本和能量消耗。这些新的收发信机将能够在新的信息论和非线性科学方法的指导下，通过新的空间调制格式和编码来利用线性和非线性区域中的多维信道特性。与该项目相关的EPSRC研究领域：ICT网络和分布式系统光通信光学设备和子系统数字信号处理

Project Description: The aim of the programme is to transform optical communications to go beyond current single-mode technology limits with sustainable energy-consumption per bit - arguably the greatest challenge in the field. The vision is to introduce ground-breaking spatial modulation in novel transceivers capable of interfacing advanced multi-mode/core fibres with hundreds of spatial pathways and enabling scalability of all data pathways to reduce the cost and energy-consumption per bit. These new transceivers will be capable of exploiting the multidimensional channel properties in the linear and nonlinear regimes through new spatial modulation formats and coding guided by new information theory and nonlinear science methods.EPSRC research areas relevant to the project:ICT networks and distributed systemsOptical communicationsOptical devices and subsystemsDigital signal processing