Photonic technologies for high-capacity optical communications

在这个新的千年，人们和智能设备不断通过无线射频链路和可重构网络进行交互。这些通信网络处理大量数据，这些数据必须从移动的用户收集，在高度互连的数据中心中处理，并在光纤通信管道上传输，而光纤通信管道已经承受了蓬勃发展的传统数据流量。为了实现信息时代，电信工程师几十年来一直在快速创新，提供了连续几代具有更高数据速率、容量和连接性的系统。用户通常没有意识到这场不可阻挡的革命给世界各地设计网络的科学家带来了巨大的技术挑战。

In this new millennium, people and intelligent devices are constantly interacting through untethered RF links and reconfigurable networks. These communication networks handle enormous amounts of data that must be harvested from mobile users, processed in highly interconnected data centers, and transmitted on optical fiber communication conduits already burdened with burgeoning traditional data traffic. To enable the information age, telecommunication engineers have been innovating at a rapid pace for many decades, delivering many successive generations of systems with increased data rates, capacity and connectivity. Users are usually unaware of the tremendous technological challenges that this unstoppable revolution poses to scientists designing networks around the world.