Research Projects Highlights at the Center for Integrated Access Networks
Thrust 1: Optical Communication Systems and Networking will act as the "top-down" driver for the development and integration of components and devices that will enable integrated subsystems, co-optimized to cost-effectively provide high-data rate services to the "curb."
This thrust includes issues such as aggregation and access networks, cross-layer optimization, wavelength multicasting and ubiquitous monitoring. The projects in this thrust will enable and demonstrate numerous new network applications including ultra high-bandwidth data centers and immersive telepresence.
1.C1-1a OPTICALELECTRICAL HYBRID SWITCHING FOR DATACENTER COMMUNICATIONS
2.C1-1b THE FLASH IO NETWORK APPLIANCE
3.C1-2 PROGRAMMABLE ACCESS NETWORK INTERFACE VIA CROSS-LAYER COMMUNICATIONS
4..C1-3 CROSS-LAYER INTERACTIONS BETWEEN WIRELESS, IP, AND OPTICAL AGGREGATION NETWORKS
7.C1-5b OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING
8.C1-6 INTELLIGENT NETWORK CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
9.C1-7 ADVANCED ADAPTIVE CODED-MODULATION
Thrust 2: Subsystem Integration and Silicon Nanophotonics will explore signal conditioning, processing, reconfiguration, and control functions realized with various platforms including CMOS compatible nanostructures and silicon nanophotonics, and multifunctional integrated subsystems exploiting monolithic and heterogeneous integration.
1.C2-1a THERMO-OPTIC TUNABLE DEVICES
2.C2-1b HETEROGENEOUS SILICON PHOTONICS
3.C2-1c FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SILICON BASED PHOTONIC DEVICES
4.C2-1d HETEROGENEOUSLY INTEGRATED LONG WAVELENGTH VCSEL-BASED TRANSCEIVERS
5.C2-2a MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDE INTERCONNECTS
6.C2-2b SI PHOTONIC FABRICATION
7.C2-3 SI PHOTONIC FABRICATION
8.C2-4 FAST ELECTROMAGNETIC SOLVERS FOR MODELING COMPLEX PHOTONIC STRUCTURES
Thrust 3: Materials and Devices will act as the scientific and technological foundation by conducting research on new materials, device technologies, processing and integration methods for chip-scale integrated optoelectronics
1.C3-1a INTEGRATED TUNABLE HIGH-CONTRAST-GRATING (HCG) VCSEL
2.C3-1b HYBRID OPTICAL LIGHT SOURCES
3.C3-1c INTEGRATED LIGHT SOURCES AND SWITCHING
4.C3-1d ULTRA-WIDE RECONFIGURABLE MULTICASTING AND ENERGY EFFICIENT TRANSPORT
5.C3-2a SWITCHING AND MODULATOR COMPONENTS - LOW COST EO POLYMER MODULATORS AND SWITCHES
