Enabling optoelectronic technologies for optical access applications

我们信息化社会未来的经济发展和社会福祉至关重要地取决于泛在、宽带和安全网络的可用性。光纤传输是实现这类网络的理想技术，以突破新应用的带宽和可访问性限制。新兴的光纤到户(FTTP)光纤接入市场不仅带来了难得的机遇，也带来了重大挑战。光传输技术在接入应用中广泛应用的主要障碍是光电子器件和子系统的相对较高的成本。提出的研究通过创新的设计满足了对低成本和高性能的光接入技术的需求。这项研究汇聚了一批具有多样化和互补性专业知识的优秀研究人员，他们有一个明确的重点：进行前沿研究，以实现更便宜、更智能、更好的光接入网络光电子器件和子系统。这项研究将考虑到器件物理和系统性能之间的相互作用，以及性能和成本之间的平衡，开发关键光电子器件和子系统的新概念和新设计。该项目将利用与加拿大支持组织和国际合作者在设备制造和系统应用方面的密切合作。如果拟议的研究成功，将产生新的科学知识和颠覆性技术，具有强大的应用和商业化潜力。这些技术可以为拥有先进设计和制造能力的加拿大公司提供显著的竞争优势，与全球光纤接入市场上传统的低成本和劳动密集型公司竞争。

Future economical development and social well-being of our information-based society depend critically onavailability of ubiquitous, broadband, and secure networks. Fiber-optic transmission is the ideal technology torealize such networks to push the bandwidth and accessibility limits for new applications. The emergingfiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) optical access market presents not only an exceptional opportunity but alsosignificant challenges. The major barrier to widespread deployment of optical transmission technologies inaccess applications is the relative high cost of the optoelectronic devices and subsystems. The proposedresearch addresses the need for low-cost and high-performance optical access technologies through innovativedesigns. The research brings together a group of excellent researchers with diversified and complementary expertisewith one clear focus: to conduct leading-edge research towards realizing cheaper, smarter, and betteroptoelectronic devices and subsystems for optical access networks. The research will be on the development ofnew concepts and designs for key optoelectronic devices and subsystems with consideration for interplaysbetween device physics and system performance and balance between performance and cost. The project willleverage on close collaboration with Canadian supporting organizations and international collaborators fordevice fabrication and system applications.The proposed research, if successful, will generate new scientific knowledge and disruptive technology withthe strong potential for applications and commercialization. The technologies can offer significant competitiveadvantages to the Canadian companies with advanced engineering and manufacturing capabilities to competewith the traditional low-cost and labor-intensive players in the global optical access market.