High-Throughput Optical Transmission Experiments with Space-Division Multiplexing
Hosted By: Optical Communications Technical Group
06 October 2022 7:00 - 8:00
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC -05:00)Space-division multiplexing (SDM) is research field covering new optical fibers and related technologies supporting transmission of individual data signals over multiple spatial paths of a common optical fiber channel. The aim of SDM fiber systems is to not only to multiply the information carrying capacity of optical fibers but also to reduce energy consumption and improve efficiency through integration, shared hardware, and joint digital-signal processing.
In this webinar hosted by the Optical Communications Technical Group, Ben Puttnam will give an overview of SDM fibers, including enlarged core enabling transmission of multiple modes and multiple cores for single or multiple modes sharing a common cladding and the realted components needed to use them. Dr. Puttnam will describe a series of transmission experiments demonstrating the potential of this technology for Petabit-per-second transmission and discuss the current state of the art and future challenges.
What You Will Learn:
• The latest technologies and achievements in space-division multiplexing
• Techniques for performing large-scale high-data-rate transmission experiments with 1000s of WDM/SDM channels
Who Should Attend:
• Graduate students and researchers in the field of optical communications
• Anyone with an interest in the development of optical fiber technologies
About the Presenter: Ben Puttnam from the National Institute Of Information and Communications Technology
Ben Puttnam received the M.Phys. degree in physics from the University of Manchester, U.K., in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree from University College London, U.K., in 2008. In between, he worked as a switch design engineer at T-Mobile, U.K. After research visits to the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan, supported by JSPS and the Photonics group at Chalmers University, Sweden, supported by the Ericsson research foundation, he re-joined NICT in 2010. He is currently a Senior Researcher with the Photonic Network Laboratory with research interests including SDM and multi-band transmission systems and aspects of optical signal processing.
