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TELESAL 2ND Workshop. ISIS Network of Excellence on I nfra S tructures for broadband access in wireless/photonics and I ntegration of S trengths in Europe. http://www.ist-isis.org. Contract IST-FP6 No. 26592. Introduction. ISIS MISSIONS.
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TELESAL 2ND Workshop ISIS Network of Excellence on InfraStructures for broadband access in wireless/photonics and Integration of Strengths in Europe http://www.ist-isis.org Contract IST-FP6 No. 26592
Introduction • ISIS MISSIONS Provide BroadBand for All by the use of optical technologies for high speed and broadband wireless communications, through : • Stimulation of the restructuring of the Photonics-Wireless research community • Stimulation of new opportunities for Photonics-Wireless integration in a wide range of platforms • Implementation of a strong vertical link in Europe between Academic partners, SMEs and Industries allowing a more efficient technology transfer from the universities to the industrial applications. • Dissemination of the knowledge
Participant Acronym Type COUNTRY LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 1 CNRS, (IMEP + IEMN) FR Academic FR 2 INPG Academic DE 3 UNIDUI Academic UK Academic 4 UNIKENT UK Academic 5 UNI Leeds BE Academic 6 VUB 7 BUTE HU Academic 8 IT PT Academic Industry 9 THALES FR FR 10 ALCATEL-THALES III-V LAB Industry 11 KTH-KPRC Academic SE 12 AGILENT Technologies R&D Industry DE 13 SELEX Systemi Integrati IT Industry 14 UOttawa Others Canada 15 NTU Others Singapore Academic 16 TUe NL ES 17 UPVLC Academic 18 Chalmers Academic SE 19 U C L Academic UK
ISIS STRATEGIC GOALS • ISIS Philosophy : allow highly-flexible infrastructures on broadband architectures, technologies and characterisation • ISIS Strategy : from Integration to Platforms and Spreading
ISIS STRUCTURE • 5 Work packages • 3 Platforms dedicated to Broadband Access • Strong dissemination activities • 5 Workshops and 2 Summer-schools • 34 (permanent) + 21 (PhD) Exchanges of researchers • Number of partners: 16 academic + 4 industrial • Strong industrial involvement : - 4 industries participating - 2 industries + 2 SMEs associated in the executive committee
INTEGRATION AND PLATFORMS Creation of platforms for joint research : Creation of an infrastructure that will allow better interaction and collaboration between European specialists with complementary expertise. This will allow for easier evaluation/comparison/combination of different technologies. • JPB-AF, Platform on Broadband Architectures and Functions • JPB-TD, Platform on Broadband Optoelectronic technologies and low costs components • JPB-CT, Platform on Broadband Characterisation and Test
Two partners per platform (total of 6 partners for the 3 above platforms) dedicate part-time their own engineering staff to manage the integration work. • The 6 partners holding these part-time engineer positions are: • JPB-AF : UniKent, (CR4) and Tue (CR16) • JPB-TD : CNRS-IEMN (CR1) and UDE (CR3) • JPB-CT : UniLeeds (CR5) and UCL (CR19)
INTEGRATION AND SPREADING Four goals : • Exchanges of staff : Enhancement of knowledge and technology transfer between partners • Organisation of workshops and summer-schools : Promotion of Optoelectronics for Broadband applications in education so that Europe is better placed to take advantage of future opportunities and growth in this area. • Education through training courses • Publications in common, joint projects
LIST OF WORKPACKAGES • WP1 : Platforms for Broadband Architectures and Functions • WP2 : Platforms for Broadband Access Technologies • WP3 : Integration and spreading of excellence • WP4 : Review and assessment of results • WP5 : Management
WP4: Review and assessment of results WP3: Integration and spreading of excellence WP5: Management WP2 : WP1: Platforms for Broadband Architectures and Functions Platforms for Broadband Access Technologies Integrating activities (I) Joint Research Activities (R) Activities to spread excellence (S) Management (M) • INTEGRATION AND JPA
WP1: WP2 : Platforms for Broadband Access Technologies Platforms for Broadband Architectures and Functions T1.1 T1.2 T1.3 T1.4 T1.5 T2.1 T2.2 T2.3 T2.4 JPB-AF Broadband Architectures and Functions JPB-TD Broadband Optoelectronic technologies and low costs components JPB-CT Broadband Characterisation And Test JOINT PLATFORMS and WP’s
WP1 overview and objectives • Consists of integration and research activities: • Former mainly linked to setting up of a joint platform of testbeds • Latter to joint research activities using complementary knowledge/skills • Integration part: the joint platform (setting-up phase: first 18 months) • JPB-AF: Joint Platform on Broadband Optoelectronic Architectures and Functions Systems/subsytems and advanced techniques oriented • Joint research activities part: defined in 5 different tasks • T1.1: Digital-over-fibre and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) • T1.2: Radio over fibre (RoF) and fibre-fed remote antennas • T1.3: Innovative architectures for future communication systems • T1.4: All-optical signal processing • T1.5: Wireless systems and related air-interfaces
WP1 JPB-AF Platform: partner involvement • 13 partners involved • 12 academic: CNRS-IMEP, CNRS-IEMN, IMEP, UNIKENT, UNILEEDS, BUTE, IT-Av, KTH-KPRC, NTU, TUe, UPVLC, CHALMERS, UCL • 1 industrial: III-V Lab • Platform engineer activities (UNIKENT, TU/e) • Collection of data on equipment/testbeds available from platform partners • Managing data for consistent presentation on website for easy use by partners; update of data • Support to partners for platform use
WP1 JPB-AF Platform setting-up • Platform contact points Main cogs for platform functioning • Discuss technical requests and possibilities/availability • Schedule events; manage resources • Ensure durability of platforms • UWB-MB-OFDM over SMF testbed, CR1A (CNRS-IMEP), Y Le Guennec • Remote antennas broadband testbed, CR1A (CNRS-IMEP), Y Le Guennec • Low-cost MMF testbed, CR4 (UNIKENT), A Nkansah • 53 Gb/s BER test set, CR8 (IT-Av), R Nunes Nogueira • Hudiksvall field trial, CR11 (KTH), M Gidlund • Advice on systems, novel devices/concept, CR15 (NTU), S F Yoon • Digital/wireless over fibre testbed, CR16 (TU/e), A Ng’oma • Beamforming testbed, CR17 (UPVLC), V Polo, • Vector signal generation/analysis, CR17 (UPVLC), V Polo • 43 Gb/s BER test set-up, CR18 (CHALMERS), S Galt/P Andrekson • Millimetre-wave SMF WLAN testbed, CR19 (UCL), J Mitchell
WP1 JPB-AF platform activities • Hudiksvall field trial • Planning meetings held, including visits by partners to site (M1.1) and meeting with one external industrial (contact with second company also made) • Initial review of planned contributions taking place (M1.5) • Upgrades of testbeds • OFDM testbed – ADS software, PER estimation, high-speed sampling • WLAN over MMF testbed – multiple RAUs and APs • WLAN over SMF testbed – long-distance capable APs • Use of testbeds • Restricted to testing and use by partner holding testbed (although part of joint research); joint/cross-use expected to take place in years 2 and 3.
WP1 Research in tasks T1.1 and T1.5 • T1.1 and T1.5 are different in nature to other tasks • Supporting activities to other tasks • T1.1 Digital-over-fibre and fibre-to-the-home • Study of access network architectures, comparing wired and hybrid fibre-wireless access. Joint study, involves collaboration by its nature. • T1.5 Wireless systems and related air-interfaces • Joint study of targeted wireless systems • Monitoring ISIS demonstrators/testbeds with respect to wireless system requirements • Responsibilities jointly agreed, partitioned
WP1 T1.2 topics/actions and activities • T1.2 Radio over fibre (RoF) and fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) • 1.2.1 WLAN/WiMAX radio over fibre • CNRS-IMEP, CNRS-IEMN, UNIKENT, TU/e, UCL: physical layer (MMF, SMF), dual-wavelength systems, optical frequency multiplication approaches, protocol effects • 1.2.2 Modelling and demonstration of OFDM over fibre • NTU: simulation studies for OFDM, omni-directional antennas in urban areas… • 1.2.3 SMF mm-wave over fibre systems • UDE, UNIKENT, UNILEEDS, IT-Av, NTU, TU/e, UPVLC: EAT usage, modulation techniques, transmission effects, noise figure of travelling-wave links, wireless Ethernet • 1.2.4 Fire fed antennas and true time-delay beamforming • IT-Av, TAS, UPVLC: survey of optical true time-delay techniques, electronic transversal filter approaches, direction-of-arrival estimation • 1.2.5 Photonic vector generation/detection techniques • UPVLC: simulation and demonstration
WP1 T1.3 topics/actions and activities • T1.3 Innovative architectures for future communication systems • 1.3.1 Photonic technologies and network architectures for UWB over fibre • UDE, BUTE, TAS, III-V LAB, UPVLC: in-house/access and sensor network topologies and architectures proposed, demonstrated (prototyped); short-range mm-wave radar, airborne interconnects. • 1.3.2 WiMAX/mm-wave over MMF/POF, and radio over POF • CNRS-IEMN, UNIKENT, TU/e, UPVLC: mm-wave over MMF, POF; WiMAX/FWA
WP1 T1.4 topics/actions and activities • T1.4 All-optical signal processing • 1.4.1 All-optical filtering • IT-Av, TAS, uOttawa: review of optoelectronic architectures for implementation of RF (microwave/mm-wave) filters; approaches for optical filters with negative coefficients; FBGs for tunable delays and signal processing • 1.4.2 Optical frequency mixing • CNRS-IMEP, INPG, KTH, CHALMERS: optical subcarrier upconversion, WLAN signal optical frequency conversion, optical mixing in fibre using VCSELs, filtering of mixed signals, frequency multiplication • 1.4.3 Photonic ADC with optical sampling • TAS, KTH, SEL, UPVLC, CHALMERS: photonic sampling review, comparison with electronic implementations, WDM, spectral slicing with mode-locked lasers, pulsed laser sources; requirements for UWB, trade-offs between RBW and noise in WDM schemes
WP2 objectives • To set-up 2 joint platforms (Integration part) (setting-up phase: first 18 months) • JPB-TD: Joint Platform on Optoelectronic Technologies and Low Cost Components Component fabrication oriented • JPB-CT: Joint Platform on Broadband Characterization and Test Component characterization oriented • To launch joint research activities in 4 different domains (Research Part) • T2.1: Low cost components for broadband access • T2.2: Emerging technologies • T2.3: Integration and packaging technologies • T2.4: Broadband optoelectronic test and characterisation
WP2: Platform setting-up: partner involvement • JPB-TD (est. 63.9 man-months/18months) • 10 partners involved • 8 academic: CNRS-IEMN, UDE, UNIKENT, UNILEEDS, VUB, IT-Av, KTH-KPRC, CHALMERS • 1 industrial: SELEX • 1 other: NTU (Singapore) • JPB-CT (est. 24.8 man-months/18months) • 15 partners involved • 12 academic: CNRS-IMEP, CNRS-IEMN, UDE, UNIKENT, UNILEEDS, VUB, IT-Av, KTH-KPRC, TUe, UPVLC, CHALMERS, UCL • 3 industrial: TAS, III-V Lab, Agilent
WP2:example of platform activities within a research action • Dilute nitride photodetectors NTU Material growth JPB-TD UDE NTU Device processing T2.1 Device processing JPB-TD UDE CNRS-IEMN T2.3 Device packaging Device packaging JPB-CT CNRS-IEMN + NTU exch. UDE T2.4 Frequency response Impulse response
WP2: Research activities • T2.1: Low cost components for broadband access (est. 30 man-months/18 months) • Use of GaAs substrate for long wavelength (1.3 µm) transceivers • 2.1.1: InGaAs strained QW VCSEL's (CNRS-IMEP, CHALMERS) • 2.1.2: GaAsNSb photodetectors (CNRS-IEMN, UDE, NTU) • Extending potentialities of external modulation • 2.13: Polymer based Mach-Zehnder modulator (CNRS-IEMN, UNIKENT, SELEX) • 2.1.4: Fabry-Perot modulator detector (UCL) • Extending optically generated microwave carrier frequency/power • 2.1.5: Laser diodes based on quantum dot technology (CNRS-IEMN, UNILEEDS, III-V Lab) • 2.1.6: High output and high frequency detectors (UDE, III-V Lab, CHALMERS)
WP2: Research activities • T2.2: Emerging technologies (est. 17.6 man-months/18 months) • 2.2.1: Ultra-small and wearable multi-band antennas (UNIKENT) • 2.2.2: Acousto-optic Bragg diffraction as tool to increase coherence of laser beams (VUB) Specific notice to Task 2.2 - modifications in Task leader position - requirements of inputs from other tasks - longer term actions led to some time shifting in task activity definition/orientation. This is being currently overcome.
WP2: Research activities • T2.3: Integration and packaging technologies (est. 11.8 man-months/18 months) • 2.3.1: Millimetre-wave and THz integration (UDE, VUB) • MCM-D technologies based on BCB for millimetre-wave circuits • Antenna integration schemes • 2.3.2: Electrical and optical coupling for packaging of microwave photonics components (CNRS-IEMN, UDE, UNIKENT, VUB, TAS, III-VLab, SELEX) • Packaging aspects for modulators, switches and detectors • optical aspects for butt coupling: integration or multiple optical accesses • electrical aspects for multigigahertz packaging on semiconductor, LiNbO3, polymer material devices
WP2: Research activities • T2.4: Broadband optoelectronic test and characterisation (30.8 man-months/18 months) • 2.4.1: Low cost device characterization for access networks (CNRS-IMEP, CNRS-IEMN, UDE, CHALMERS) • mainly linked to action T2.1.1 (VCSEL) • 2.4.2: Characterization of dilute nitride detectors (CNRS-IEMN, UDE, NTU) • directly linked to action T2.1.2 • 2.4.3: Millimetre-wave frequency range measurement techniques (CNRS-IMEP, UDE, VUB, AGILENT) • mainly linked to T2.3.1 • 2.4.4: Photonic/lightwave measurements (AGILENT) • Linked to almost all activities of WP2 but also WP1
WP2:examples of joint research actions Low cost solutions for access networks (Actions 2.1.1 & 2.1.2) Emission:1.3µm strained InGaAs VCSEL's CHALMERS CNRS-IMEP Fabrication of devices Device characterization WP1 Tasks 1.2 & 1.3 Reception:1.3µm GaAsNSb photodiodes NTU CNRS-IEMN + UDE Fabrication of devices Device characterization
WP2:examples of joint research actions Polymer modulators (Action 2.1.3) JPB-CT JPB-TD CNRS-IEMN + SELEX CNRS-IEMN Material microwave characterization Fabrication of test structures CNRS-IEMN + UNIKENT + SELEX SELEX Modulator fabrication Modulator design JPB-CT SELEX + AGILENT WP1 Task 1.3 Modulator characterization
WP3 Integration and Spreading of Excellence
Outline • Integration Activities • Staff exchanges • Joint projects • Joint publications • Spreading of Excellence • Training courses • ISIS Events • Advanced Website
Objectives of WP3 • technology • skills Industrial Partners Academic Partners 1 • Exchangeof Staff (T3.4) 2 To promote « Optoelectronics for Broadband » in education so that Europe is better placed to take advantage of future opportunities and growth in this area • Training courses (T3.1) • Summer Schools (T3.2) • Workshops (T3.3) 3 Stimulate joint projects & joint publications
Staff Exchanges IntegrationActivities in WP3 Joint Publications Joint Projects
Activities forSpreading of excellencein WP3 Training Courses Advanced Website ISIS Events
Current systems developed into ISIS • WLAN with multiple remote antenna units and access points, and long fibre distances demonstrated – CR4, CR16, CR19 • Mm-wave over fiber systems, including using MMF for in-building applications demonstrated – CR1B, CR4, CR16 • Prototype in-house/sensor networks developed – CR3, CR17 • Optical sub-carrier upconversion demonstrated and enhancements being developed – CR1A/B, CR11, CR18 • Wavelength based ADCs being developed – CR13, CR11, CR18 • Wireless Ethernet and DOCSIS transmission demonstrated – CR17
Industrial partners involvement • CR9/TAS: - Short-range mm-wave sensor with CR3 - Low cost packaging InP PD with CR1B - IST/IPHOBAC project as end-user • CR10/AT III-V Lab: - High saturation power UTC PD with CR9 - Mode-Locked LD with CR1B - IST/IPHOBAC project, optical generation of mm-wave, with CR1B, CR19 • CR12/Agilent: - Test and characterisations of LD, PD, EOM up to 67 GHz, with CR2, CR3, CR18 - Round Robin test planned for next period with several partners • CR13/Selex: - LiNbO3 based modulators for radar technologies
New and possibly disruptive technologies in ISIS • Optical sources: - VCSELs at 1300 and 1550 nm - Self assembled semiconductor QDs material for 1- low cost DM QD lasers without optical isolator 2- Mode-locked QD lasers for optical generation of millimetre-wave sources • External modulators - Asymmetric Fabry-Perot modulator/detector - Reflective semiconductor optical amplifier • Photodetectors - Photodetectors based on GaAsNSb and GaInAsSb - Uni-Travelling-Carrier photodiodes - InP-based THz transmitter with antenna integrated
Conclusions WP4 • Assessment of platforms, Summers Schools/Workshop/outputs were made • Research components activities into ISIS answer current needs for efficient optical-wireless technologies convergence • Currently, some disruptive technologies are studied/developed into the consortium
Convergence: a challenge and an asset • wireless & optical • wireless & wireline • fix & mobile • digital & analogue