A team from UCF\u2019s CREOL (Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers) and Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands has successfully demonstrated a means by which future optical networks could gain extra capacity and transmit large amounts of data over long distances.<\/p>\n
By exploiting a new method for multiplexing data, known as space-division multiplexing, the research led by UCF\u2019s Rodrigo Amezcua Correa and Chigo Okonkwo of the Electro-Optical Communications group in The Netherlands, has demonstrated a major increase in transmission capacity of optical fibers to avoid a capacity crunch.<\/p>\n
In their work published Monday in Nature Photonics<\/em>, entitled \u201cUltra-high-density spatial division multiplexing with a few-mode multicore fibre,\u201d the researchers discuss the key constituents of their successful experiment.<\/p>\n By employing compact waveguide multiplexers and energy-efficient digital signal processing algorithms, they demonstrated the viability of spatial multiplexing to reach a data rate of 5.1 terabytes on a single wavelength over a single fiber. Amezcua Correa said that by combining this approach with a system of using 50 wavelength carriers on a dense grid, a gross transmission of 255 terabytes over the fiber link is achieved.<\/p>\n Others from UCF on the team are research scientist Jose Enrique Antonio Lopez, graduate research assistant Cen Xia, and professors of optics Guifang Li and Axel Sch\u00fclzgen.<\/p>\n In addition to the universities, the work as reported in Nature Photonics<\/em> was also partially funded by the European Union Framework 7\u00a0MODEGAP project and the National Basic Research Programme of China. \u00a0<\/p>\n The team is now working on new fibers, fiber amplifiers and all-fiber multiplexers for optical-fiber transmission systems to benefit future networks, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A team from UCF\u2019s CREOL (Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers) and Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands has successfully demonstrated a means by which future optical networks could gain extra capacity and transmit large amounts of data over long distances. By exploiting a new method for multiplexing data, known as space-division multiplexing, the research led…","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":62490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[11367,1112,12842,12821],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-62489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology","tag-axel-schulzgen","tag-creol","tag-guifang-li","tag-rodrigo-amezcua-correa"],"yoast_head":"\n