UCL’s role in OTONES project Robert Killey, Polina Bayvel Optical Networks Group, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London. OTONES kick-off meeting, 10 June 2011, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

University College London UCL founded in 1826, oldest university in London Consistently ranked within the top 5 universities in the UK Charles Kao (Nobel Prize winner for pioneering work in optical fiber communications) was a PhD student in the Dept. Electronic Engineering

Academics: Polina Bayvel, Robert Killey, Seb Savory, Benn Thomsen Research Fellows: Yannis Benlachtar, Steve Desbruslais Doctoral students: 10 students working on: Fibre transmission systems Optical interconnects Optical burst and packet switching - hardware and network modeling Plasmonics Optical Networks Group at UCL

Future network architectures Recirculating fibre loop testbed Ultra-low crosstalk free-space grating wavelength router Optical Networks Group research

Optical fibre transmission research at UCL high order modulation format generation and detection coherent and direct-detection systems transmission impairments and impairment mitigation high speed DSP implementation of real-time DSP algorithms and systems

UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EU Framework funding Broadband Optical Networks for Europe ‘BONE’ Integrated Projects ‘NOBEL’ and ‘NOBEL2’ Network of Excellence ‘e-Photon/ONe’ Industrial funding and collaborations: Agilent, Alcatel-Lucent, Azea Networks, Bookham/Oclaro, BT, Ericsson, Huawei Technologies, Intel, JDSU, Nortel Networks, Siemens, Sierra Monolithics, T-Systems, Xtera Funding and collaborations

UCL’s role in OTONES UCL will contribute to the development of the signal processing algorithms for both downstream and upstream transmission, including polarisation demultiplexing, receiver synchronization, sub-carrier multiplexing/demultiplexing, frequency and phase reconstruction, ranging and delay estimation, frequency domain equalization and nonlinearity compensation, maximum ratio combining of the US signal and PMD/PDL compensation.

UCL’s role in OTONES The algorithms will be investigated using Matlab models of the transceivers and the fibre link. UCL will assist in translating the algorithms to the hardware development teams.

UCL’s role in OTONES UCL will contribute to the following workpackages WP1 Project management WP3 Signal processing algorithms WP6 Integration and testing WP7 Dissemination and exploitation

Collaborative research with Intel and CMU Intel-funded PhD studentship (Ramanan Thiruneelakandan) Three interns from UCL worked at Intel labs (Phil Watts, Robert Waegemans, Rachid Bouziane) Jointly published numerous papers in journals and at international conferences.

Collaborative research with Intel and CMU Intel-funded PhD studentship (Ramanan Thiruneelakandan) Three interns from UCL worked at Intel labs (Phil Watts, Robert Waegemans, Rachid Bouziane) Jointly published numerous papers in journals and at international conferences.