Our goal: virtually unlimited bandwidth without congestion, anytime, anywhere, for any service
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.
NXP SCHOLARSHIP ON ‘MILLIMETER WAVE WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY’
It is with pleasure that we announce a fifth generation of NXP scholarships, with 5 available scholarships for first year master’s students available for 2024.
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'Alternative hardware for artificial intelligence'
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LIGHT: THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT FOR FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
The exponential increase in data traffic is becoming unsustainable. At the present pace, information technologies will soon be responsible for more than 10% of global electricity consumption. Photonics – the technology that uses light to carry information – can come to the rescue, by providing low-energy, high-speed data transmission throughout the internet and within data centers. Additionally, photonics can enable novel applications of light in sensing and computing, with large potential impact on healthcare, agro-food and smart mobility. However, these promises can only be realized if increasingly complex photonic chips can be produced at a low cost. TU/e performs fundamental and applied research aimed at making this dream come true.
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Our most recent peer reviewed publications
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40.5 Tb/s, 312.9 km, unrepeatered transmission using erbium-doped tellurite fiber amplifiers
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Transmission of 138.9 Tb/s over 12 345 km of 125μm cladding diameter 4-core fiber using signals spanning S, C, and L-band
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Characterisation of optical fibre tapers exploiting off-axis digital holography
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C + L-band seeded comb regeneration for MCF networks
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22.9 Pb/s data-rate by extreme space-wavelength multiplexing
(2024)
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P.O. Box 513Department of Electrical Engineering5600 MB EindhovenNetherlands -
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P.O. Box 513Department of Electrical Engineering5600 MB EindhovenNetherlands -
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