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Mode-Gap to Go Nuts at OFC/NFOEC

March 05, 2013 |
SOUTHAMPTON, U.K. -- MODE-GAP, the European collaborative R&D project funded under the European Commission’s 7th Framework Programme, which aims to provide Europe with a lead in the development of the next generation internet infrastructure, is to present its latest results with thirteen papers at this month’s OFC conference and exhibition (17-21 March). The project, which is investigating a possible solution to the capacity crunch by using multimode fibres to increase the transmission capacity, consists of key European organisations drawn from industry and academia. Key members will start by presenting two papers on the first day of the conference under the workshop ‘Is the Technology There for SDM?’. The papers titled; ‘Few-mode Fibres for Space Division Multiplexing’ and ‘MM Amplifier: What are the Design Challenges for Fibres Supporting Increasing Number of Guided Modes?’ will provide insight into the advances of the project so far.

Dr Ian Giles, Project Manager of MODE-GAP said: “The work of the MODE-GAP project is critical as the current rate of increased demand for bandwidth limits will potentially be reached within the next 10 years. We’re using Spatial Division Multiplexing to increase the capacity of a single mode fibre and the project has already made excellent progress. It has achieved the world leading result for multi-channel transmission, the first multimode amplifiers have been shown and utilised, and the first 2um Wavelength Division Multiplexing system and PBGF multimode transmission has been shown.”

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