Communications Systems Enabling the Cloud

2019/2020年，当工业、教育和政府服务部门被迫将大部分劳动力转移到远程操作时，全球信息网络已经准备好满足需求。历史上很少有其他时刻能如此充分地说明，普遍的互联互通是繁荣和生活质量增长的关键。对光学和移动通信系统的研究确保我们继续提高这些网络的可靠性、可持续性和容量，以应对下一个不可预见的挑战。他们也是蹦床更大的技术能力和更多样化的应用；它们是社会进步的通道。加拿大云通信系统研究主席（CRC-CSEC）专注于我们如何将数据移动到数据处理中心以及在数据处理中心内部。短距离系统（在移动连接的网络边缘，以及在处理发生的数据中心）的设计必须与长距离系统非常不同，长距离系统聚集信号进行批量传输。我们深入了解基本设备（基于光纤和集成光子芯片），并将其与特定链路的特殊和特殊要求结合起来。这不是应用的特殊性，而是在芯片/光纤设计时插入的特殊性，这将推动我们在最先进的状态中取得更大的进步。我们回到最初的设计过程，以取代通用规格（带宽，消光比等）的目标，优化设备在目标系统中的行为。加拿大研究主席将推进该领域的研究，同样重要的是，创建一批训练有素的人员，将这些概念和范式转化为工业。她的教学和研究生指导获得了许多奖项，她创建了一个充满活力、多元文化和多样化的高质量研究团队。作为产品研发的大量投资者，电信行业对精通最新研究并熟练使用世界一流实验室设施的研究人员有着永不满足的需求。主席的学员将与这些公司合作，将研究成果转化为改善加拿大人的生活质量。

When industry, education and government services were forced to relocate significant portions of their work force to remote operation in 2019/2020, the global information network was ready to meet demand. Few other points in history have so well illustrated how universal connectivity is key to the growth of prosperity and quality of life. Research into optical and mobile communications systems ensures we continue to improve the reliability, sustainability, and capacity of these networks to meet the next unforeseen challenge. They are also the trampoline for ever greater technical capabilities and more diverse applications; they are the conduits to societal advances. The Canada Research Chair in Communications Systems Enabling the Cloud (CRC-CSEC) focuses on how we move data to and within data processing centers. Short reach systems (at the network edge where mobiles connect, and at the data center where processing occurs) must be engineered very differently from long reach systems aggregating signals for bulk transfers. We take insights into fundamental devices (fiber-based and integrated photonic chips) and marry them with an appreciation for the particular and idiosyncratic requirements of specific links. It is not the specificity of the application, but rather the insertion of specificity at the time of chip/fiber design that will propel us to greater advances in the state of the art. We return to the initial design process to replace the targeting of generic specifications (bandwidth, extinction ratio, etc.), with an optimization of the behavior of the device in the target system. The Canada Research Chair will advance research in the field, and equally importantly, create a cohort of highly trained personnel transferring these concepts and paradigms to industry. Recognized with numerous awards for her teaching and graduate supervision, the chair creates a dynamic, multi-cultural and diverse research team of the highest quality. As heavy investors in product research and development, the telecommunications industry has an insatiable demand for researchers versed in the latest research and adept with world-class laboratory facilities. Trainees from the chair will joint these companies and convert research results into quality of life improvements for Canadians.