Application of Nonlinear Integrable Systems to Optical Data Processing, Transmission and Detection.

目前的申请是为一名研究助理提供三年的支持，在所谓的可积非线性系统的显著特性的基础上，对光信号处理和检测的全新非线性技术进行理论研究，我们计划在光纤波导中实际实施。当前的光通信系统采用二进制调制和与二进制调制相匹配的传输/编码方案。随着光纤系统迅速接近二进制调制和直接检测的极限，替代的光数据编码、处理、传输和检测技术将在更有效地利用光纤信息容量方面发挥越来越大的作用。该项目将利用光子学研究小组正在进行的现有实验和理论研究。虽然基本的新方法将被解决，实际工程设计的考虑将是拟议研究的重要组成部分。我们认为，拟议的多学科研究计划基于来自不同科学领域的方法的协同作用，在冒险和研究质量之间取得了适当的平衡，为未来一代通信网络、系统和设备的发展做出了重要贡献，这些系统和设备超越了当前系统的极限，并以数量级增加了信息数据速率。

The present application is for the three-year support of one research associate to undertake theoretical research on fundamentally new nonlinear technologies in optical signal processing and detection based on remarkable properties of the so-called integrable nonlinear systems that we plan to practically implement in optical fibre waveguides. Current optical communication systems use binary modulation and transmission/coding schemes matched to binary modulation. As optical fibre systems rapidly approach the limits of binary modulation and direct detection, alternative optical data coding, processing, transmission and detection techniques will play increasing roles in a more efficient use of a fibre's information capacity. The project will take advantage of the existing experimental and theoretical research being performed in the Photonics Research Group. Though the fundamentally new approaches will be addressed, the practical engineering design considerations will be an important part of the proposed research. We believe that the proposed multidisciplinary research programme based on a synergy of methods from very different fields of science, has a right balance between an adventure and the research quality to make an important contribution into development of future generation of communication networks, systems and devices operating beyond the limits of current systems and increasing information data-rates by orders of magnitude.