Our goal: virtually unlimited bandwidth without congestion, anytime, anywhere, for any service
Our research vision requires ultra-broadband, ultra-long-reach transmission links, fully-transparent, ultra-fast nodes for routing signal streams, flexible, high-density optical interconnect solutions and high-capacity links – including wireless links – to the end user. It also necessitates functions for autonomously mapping users’ location and service requirements to the network’s resources. Sustainability is a leading theme in our research.
Optical communication, based on optical fiber and free-space optical beams, is the technology that can make this vision a reality. It is the technology underlying the explosion of bandwidth and bandwidth-related services that we now all take for granted and which enables us to connect users, homes, cities, countries and continents to form the physical layer for the World Wide Web.
'Alternative hardware for artificial intelligence'
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LIGHT: THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT FOR FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
The exponential increase in data traffic is becoming unsustainable. At the present pace, information technologies will soon be responsible for more than 10% of global electricity consumption. Photonics – the technology that uses light to carry information – can come to the rescue, by providing low-energy, high-speed data transmission throughout the internet and within data centers. Additionally, photonics can enable novel applications of light in sensing and computing, with large potential impact on healthcare, agro-food and smart mobility. However, these promises can only be realized if increasingly complex photonic chips can be produced at a low cost. TU/e performs fundamental and applied research aimed at making this dream come true.
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Our most recent peer reviewed publications
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Continuous movement quantification in preterm infants using fiber mat
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (2024) -
Low-crosstalk 1×40 100 GHz spacing Cascaded Planar Echelle Gratings for Mux/Demux on 3-μm Silicon platform
Journal of Lightwave Technology (2024) -
Transmission of 273.6 Tb/s Over 1001 km of 15-Mode Multi-Mode Fiber Using C-Band Only 16-QAM Signals
Journal of Lightwave Technology (2024) -
Digital Signal Processing for MDG Estimation in Long-Haul SDM Transmission
Journal of Lightwave Technology (2024) -
Quantum-resistant Transport Layer Security
Computer Communications (2024)
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P.O. Box 513Department of Electrical Engineering5600 MB EindhovenNetherlands -
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P.O. Box 513Department of Electrical Engineering5600 MB EindhovenNetherlands -
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