OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS

1. V WTON
Workshop on Trends in Optical
Communications and
Networking
18/05/2016
Alberto Paradisi, Ph.D
Vice President of Research & Development

2. OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS
• Today advanced communication Technologies
applications for the society
• Industries, Bussiness/banks, Transportation, Household
and Global knowledge;
• Optical communication research is fruit of combined
efforts in diverse disciplines:
• Physics, photonics, electronics, algorithms and
networks;

3. HIGH CAPACITY COMMUNICATIONS LIMITATIONS
• Fiber capacity crunch
• Today we have noticed 100 Tb/s single mode fiber hero
experiments;
• Theoretical limit are around 200 Tb/s (mainly due
nonlinear effects);
• CMOS ASICs limitations
• Processor frequency does not obey moore law since
year 2000 (Core i7 runs at 3.5GHz)
• CMOS process today is 14nm, and the limitation is about
0.5 nm (two atoms layer);

4. TOMORROW DEMAND NEEDS AND
TECHNOLOGIES
• Tomorrow advanced communication Technologies
applications for the society
• Medical diagnosis and treatment, traffic safety and
Internet of Things;
• New solutions have to meet not just capacity
demand, but all economical perspective
• More capacity, reduced cost/bit, increased energy
efficiency, smaller sizes;

5. HOT COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
• To attend the high capacity demand, several
Technologies are promissing for the future of
information technology
• Integrated photonics (InP, Silicon photonics);
• Integrated electronics (ASIC design);
• Advanced optical subsystems;
• Advanced Transmission/Reception;
• Agile optical networks;
• WTON main goal is to discuss such technologies R&D&I

6. TRANSFORMANDO
EM REALIDADE
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