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Organization profile
Introduction / mission
We have a vision of a globe-spanning ubiquitous optical network, a sustainable and reliable communication infrastructure for users and devices around the world.
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Our goal: virtually unlimited bandwidth without congestion, anytime, anywhere, for any service
Organisational profile
Our research vision requires ultra-broadband, ultra-long-reach transmission links, fully-transparent, ultra-fast nodes for routing signal streams, flexible, high-density optical interconnect solutions and high-capacity links – including wireless links – to the end user. It also necessitates functions for autonomously mapping users’ location and service requirements to the network’s resources. Sustainability is a leading theme in our research.
Optical communication, based on optical fiber and free-space optical beams, is the technology that can make this vision a reality. It is the technology underlying the explosion of bandwidth and bandwidth-related services that we now all take for granted and which enables us to connect users, homes, cities, countries and continents to form the physical layer for the World Wide Web.
Our research focuses on:
- High Capacity Optical Transmission to overcome the limitations imposed by attenuation, dispersion and nonlinearities in the optical fiber. We are pushing towards speeds of multiple Tb/s by exploring new algorithms for data coding, decoding and reconstruction while exploiting deep understanding of optical fibers.
- Low Latency Interconnect Networks to overcome the latency, capacity and energy bottlenecks in network nodes and network interconnects. We support the growing demand for data exchange between and within data centers by researching new high-density interconnect solutions and novel all-optical switching concepts and devices.
- Optical Access and Indoor Networks to deliver any broadband service to the end user or device, wire-bound or wireless, by means of converged network solutions. We are investigating optical routing techniques for delivering capacity-on-demand, optimizing user mobility and network performance and reducing energy consumption.
- Advanced Network Management and Control, with the goal to create an autonomous control intelligence to manage the network’s physical layer. This will give users access to services at the appropriate quality-of-experience level and improve the network’s dependability. Our main focus is on cognitive Internet of Things communications.
- Terahertz Photonic Systems to develop techniques for the generation, detection and processing of ultra-high frequency electro-magnetic waves in the sub-THz to THz domain (i.e. 100 GHz and beyond).
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Profiles
Nico H.G. Baken
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Electro-Optical Communications - Full Professor
Person: HGL : Professor
Juliana Barros Carvalho
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Terahertz Systems - University Researcher
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Terahertz Photonic Systems
Person: OWP : University Teacher / Researcher
Henrie P.A. van den Boom
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Electro-Optical Communications - Assistant Professor
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Optical Access and Indoor Networks
Person: UD : Assistant Professor
Projects
Wideband Optical Networks
Calabretta, N., Calabretta, N., Wang, Y. & Magalhães Gomes Kraemer, R.
1/01/19 → 31/12/22
Project: Research direct
5G-MOBIX
van Hout, J., Tafur Monroy, I., Kurtic - Brajic, M., Kurtic - Brajic, M., Calabretta, N., Johannsen, U., Okonkwo, C. M., Heemstra de Groot, S. M., Dubbelman, G., Patterson, D., Rommel, S., Cimoli, B., den Ouden, J., Sanders, R., Barros Carvalho, J. & Meyer, E.
1/11/18 → 31/10/21
Project: Research direct
Data center Optical Switch Network Application deployment and modelling
Calabretta, N., Exarchakos, G. & Calabretta, N.
1/09/18 → 31/08/21
Project: Research direct
Research Output
30% Reach Increase via Low-complexity Hybrid HD/SD FEC and Improved 4D Modulation
Liga, G., Chen, B., van der Heide, S., Sheikh, A., van den Hout, M., Okonkwo, C. M. & Alvarado, A., 19 May 2020, In : IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
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5G RAN architecture based on analog radio-over-fiber fronthaul over UDWDM-PON and phased array fed reflector antennas
Konstantinou, D., Bressner, T. A. H., Rommel, S., Johannsen, U., Johansson, M. N., Ivashina, M. V., Smolders, A. B. & Tafur Monroy, I., 1 Jan 2020, In : Optics Communications. 454, 10 p., 124464.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Open Access
Analysis and experimental demonstration of orthant-symmetric four-dimensional 7 bit/4D-sym modulation for optical fiber communication
Chen, B., Alvarado, A., Heide, S. V. D., Hout, M. V. D., Hafermann, H. & Okonkwo, C., 28 Mar 2020, In : arXiv. 2020, 13 p., 2003.12712.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic
Open Access
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Equipment
ECO Autonomic Networks
G. Exarchakos (Manager)
Electro-Optical CommunicationsFacility/equipment: Research lab
Eco Optical Packet Switching
R. Stabile (Manager)
Electro-Optical CommunicationsFacility/equipment: Research lab
ECO Packaging Lab
J.H.C. van Zantvoort (Manager)
Electro-Optical CommunicationsFacility/equipment: Research lab
Prizes
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference(ACP) 2018 Best Paper Award
Bin Chen (Recipient), Y. Lei (Recipient), Domaniç Lavery (Recipient), C.M. Okonkwo (Recipient) & Alex Alvarado (Recipient), 28 Nov 2018
Prize: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Beam-steered Reconfigurable Optical-Wireless System for Energy-efficient communication
A.M.J. Koonen (Recipient), 2011
Prize: ERC › Advanced › Scientific
Beam-steered Reconfigurable Optical-Wireless System for Energy-efficient communication – Proving the Concept
A.M.J. Koonen (Recipient), 2017
Prize: ERC › Proof of concept › Scientific
Activities
Emerging application of Terahertz Systems on Chip
Idelfonso Tafur Monroy (Speaker)25 Nov 2019 → 28 Nov 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
Towards Terahertz Systems on chip
Idelfonso Tafur Monroy (Speaker)15 Oct 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
Terahertz wireless Communications -6G and beyond autonomous vehicles
Idelfonso Tafur Monroy (Speaker)2 Oct 2019
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
Press / Media
Polymer-Based Fab Process For Reprogrammable Photonic Integrated Circuits
Oded Raz & Christian C.M. Sproncken
23/05/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
-Eindhoven University of Technology: Unique polymer-based fabrication process for low-cost, higher yield reprogrammable photonic integrated circuits
Oded Raz, B. Fitzgerald & Christian C.M. Sproncken
14/05/20
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Programmable PICs to propel photonics prototyping
30/04/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Research areas
Low latency interconnect networks
Rianne Sanders (Content manager)
Impact: Research Topic/Theme (at group level)
Network management and control
Rianne Sanders (Content manager)
Impact: Research Topic/Theme (at group level)
Student theses
Building a complex simulation platform for mode locking laser for radio- over-fiber in-home communication
Author: Huang, X., 30 Aug 2016Supervisor: Cao, Z. (Supervisor 1)
Student thesis: Master
Channel Coding Gains in High Throughput and Long Reach Optical Transmission Systems
Author: Sillekens, E. & Okonkwo, C., 25 Jul 2015Supervisor: Okonkwo, C. (Supervisor 1)
Student thesis: Master
Design and realization of indoor airships with two actuation units and energy performance analysis
Author: Xia, Y., 26 Nov 2018Supervisor: Exarchakos, G. (Supervisor 1) & Bembnowicz, P. (External person) (External coach)
Student thesis: Master
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