Tb/s Signal Constellation Analyzer

将购买仪器，用于表征以每载波/波长每秒300吉比特至1太比特的巨大数据速率通信的无线和光纤集成电路。该设备覆盖75-320 GHz频段，在加拿大是独一无二的，由一组宽带二次谐波下变频器和信号源组成，这将首次允许精确表征通信发射机的输出信号星座，其运行速度比当今最先进的LTE智能手机和平板电脑快1000倍以上。它将使申请人，他的研究生，其他教授在电子和光子学组在多伦多大学，以及他们的加拿大和国际学术和工业合作伙伴，进行基础和应用研究的架构，理论极限，设计，制造，用于新一代宽带移动的和最后一英里链路的探索性高效无线和光纤发射机的特性，前所未有的带宽。这些电路和片上系统将彻底改变电信中心和移动的云中的通信链路。所要求的基础设施将用于培训下一代科学家、工程师和企业家，并将作为新产品创意和未来初创公司的孵化器。在未来5-10年内，这一基础设施所带来的革命性研究将有助于遏制数据中心和基站功耗的急剧增长，改变我们的工作方式，相互通信，提供医疗保健和社区服务，度过我们的休闲时间，最终改变我们的生活方式。 它将维持和加强加拿大在无线和光纤通信领域的领导地位。

Instrumentation will be purchased for the characterization of wireless and fiberoptic integrated circuits communicating at enormous data rates of 300 gigabit to 1 terabit per second per carrier/wavelength. The equipment, covering the 75-320 GHz frequency bands, will be unique in Canada and consists of a set of broadband second harmonic downconverters and signal sources which will permit, for the first time, the precise characterization of the output signal constellation of communication transmitters operating more than 1000 times faster than those in today's most adavanced LTE smartphones and tablet computers. It will enable the applicant, his graduate students, other professors in the Electronics and Photonics Groups at U of T, as well as their Canadian and international academic and industrial partners, to conduct fundamental and applied research on the architecture, theoretical limits, design, fabrication, and characterization of exploratory high efficiency wireless and fiberoptic transmitters for a new generation of broadband mobile and last mile links with unprecedented bandwidths. These circuits and systems-on-chip will revolutionize communication links in datacenters and in the mobile cloud. The requested infrastructure will be used for the training of the next generation of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, and will act as an incubator for novel product ideas and future start-up companies. During the next 5-10 years, the revolutionary research enabled by this infrastructure will help to curb the severe increase in power consumption in data centres and base stations, transform the way in which we work, communicate with each other, deliver health care and community services, spend our leisure time, ultimately, the way we live. It will sustain and reinforce Canada's leadership in wireless and fiberoptic communications.