1. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 1 WP13: Joint and virtual laboratories Update on project advancement Milan plenary meeting, 10 th /11 th February 2005 Ed Burr, Alwyn Seeds (UCL) eburr@ee.ucl.ac.uk a.seeds@ee.ucl.ac.uk

2. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 2 Overview of presentation WP13 objectives and partners. The steering committee Catalogue of available equipment and facilities Joint Experiment work Summarise Joint Experiments planned to date. Invite status updates. Invite information of additional Joint Experiments. Updates etc. can continue at end of session/by email if time is limited. Summary of milestones/deliverables Ongoing work

3. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 3 Overview of WP13 WP13 objectives –Creation of links among the existing laboratories –Creating catalogue/checklist of equipment and facilities. –Definition of a common experiments plan among different laboratories. WP13 partners –1:PoliTO (3.00), 2:TUW (0.75), 5:FhG/HHI (0.50), 7:T-NOVA (0.72), 10:UniDu (1.00), 15:UPC (0.50), 16:UPNA (5.00), 20:GET (0.20), 28:FUB (1.15), 30:SSSUP (3.00), 34:IT (0.50), 35:ACREO (0.50), 37:UCAM-DENG (2.00), 38:ORC-CC2 (1.00), 39:UCL (4.70), 40:UESSEX (3.00)

4. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 4 Steering Committee A steering committee for WP13 activities has been established. Chairman: –Alwyn Seeds, University College London, UK (a.seeds@ee.ucl.ac.uk) Members: –Slavisa Aleksic, Technical University of Vienna, Austria (slavisa.aleksic@tuwien.ac.at) –Javier Aracil, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain (javier.aracil@uam.es/javier.aracil@unavarra.es) –Valter Ferrero, Polytechnic of Torino, Italy (valter.ferrero@polito.it) –Ronald Freund, FhG-Heinrich Hertz Institut, Germany (freund@hhi.de) –Antonio Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal (teixeira@ua.pt)

5. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 5 Catalogue of equipment / facilities Objectives. –Allow partners to become familiar with facilities available for use within the NoE. –To provide impetus for Joint Experiments, or other collaborative activities. Methodology. –Inputs requested from partners with a declared interest in WP13. –Data collated. –Set of Web pages, browsable by equipment type or by partner, created and published (D13.1). Ongoing. –Web pages will be maintained as required by the involved partners. Recent addition: –QoS testbed at FUB.

6. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 6 Joint experiment achievements Joint Experiment Plan –Initial version (D13.2) circulated on 14 th Jan. –Timeplan for Joint Experiments (M13.3) also circulated on 14 th Jan. –Deadline (to allow circulation well in advance of review meeting) resulted in omission of some Joint Experiment work. –Revised Joint Experiment Plan (with additional experiments) circulated 4 th Feb. Ongoing work –Execution of Joint Experiments. –Further revisions of Joint Experiment plan if/when more Joint Experiments arise.

7. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 7 JE #1: Optical access solutions using coarse wavelength-division-multiplexed feeder Partners: –Technical University Eindhoven (TU/e) –University of Essex (UESSEX) –Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (FhG/HHI). Overview –Optical fibre transmission can be used to implement feeder systems in the first-mile network. –CWDM enables greater of flexibility, and better utilisation of the fibre medium –Principle objectives are: To establish a laboratory based CWDM system To explore capacity-on-demand provisioning using different transmission services To explore feeder system interfacing in reconfigurable access networks. Status –To commence around May 2005. Dependent on transmission system development in MUSE project.

8. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 8 JE #2: Time resolved measurements of semiconductor optical amplifiers Partners –University College London (UCL-Photonics) –Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT) –Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Overview –UPC and IT have interests in using SOAs for optical signal processing applications including wavelength conversion and 3R regeneration. –UPC is interested in using SOAs as modulators/photodetectors in the access network. –Knowledge of device recovery important for these applications. –Time resolved measurements of device recovery made at UCL. Status –Measurements completed, January 2005.

9. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 9 JE #3: Investigation of optical fibre transmission impairments Partners –University College London-Optical Networks Group (UCL-ONG) –Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (FhG/HHI). Overview –Future long distance, high data rate, systems will require the use of modulation formats more complex than on-off-keying. –Investigate the impact of optical fibre non-linearity when novel modulation formats are used. –Simulation and numerical modelling. Context –e-Photon/One WP5 and WP10 Status?

10. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 10 JE #4: WDM optical network based on optical packet switching Partners: –Politecnico di Torino (POLITO) –University College London-Optical Networks Group (UCL-ONG) Overview –Focus: experimental implementation of a prototype WDM optical packet switching network –Main target: implementation of an experimental demonstrator, capable of transporting the traffic generated by sources with a "packets directly over optics" approach. –Design of key subsystems for packet and burst-switched networks. Fast tunable lasers Burst mode receivers Status –Work expected to commence in February/March 2005.

11. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 11 JE #5: Subsystems for optical packet switched networks Partners –Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, National Technical University of Athens (ICCS/NTUA –Photonic Networks Lab, University of Essex (UESSEX). Overview –Comparison of switching fabrics, focusing on power penalty, cross talk and switching times. Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) gates. Wavelength converter + arrayed waveguide grating (AWG). –Investigations of wavelength converters and 2R regeneration, focusing on dynamic range and degree of transparency –Goals: Experimental investigation the above issues. Theoretical verification of the results. Provide conclusions regarding the feasibility of the investigated architectures. Context –e-Photon/One WP4 and WP7

12. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 12 JE #6: Phase characterisation of a pulse source for advanced modulation formats Partners: –Acreo AB –University of Southampton Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) Overview –New modulation formats today make use of phase modulation, to encode data or to increase tolerance to transmission impairments. –Hence important to characterise phase, as well as intensity, of the signal. –Acreo is working on implementation of APRZ. –ORC has extensive experience of phase characterisation of different signal using the linear FROG technique. –Goal: phase characterisation of Acreo sources Context –e-Photon/One WP4 Status –Experiments planned for Feb/March 2005.

13. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 13 Resource usage Projected resource usage (person months) shown below: –Based on data available at the current time.. –Assumption: costs will be broadly in line with person months. Large burden on UCL- additional resources required. ActivityResource usage (person months) FhG/ HHI ORCACREOTU/eUEssexUPCITPOLITOUCLICCS/ NTUA Optical access solutions using CWDM feeder 0.5002200000 Time resolved measurements of SOAs00000TBC 00.50 Investigation of optical fibre transmission impairments TBC000000040 WDM optical network based on OPS0000000260 Subsystems for Optical Packet Switched Networks 0000>00000 Phase characterisation of pulse source for advanced modulation formats 00.5 0000000 TOTAL>0.50.5 2>2>0 210.5>0

14. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 14 Costs Proposal Sending partner pays travel and subsistence costs for staff visiting by transfer of own funds to WP13 Receiving partner pays costs of supporting joint experiments (e.g. lab. consumables, researcher time spent preparing for and carrying out measurements). –In some cases receiving partners are faced with heavy requests for facilities. –Completion of the Joint Experiments may require additional funding to be allocated to some receiving partners.

15. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 15 Milestones/deliverables Deliverables –D13.1 Description of available lab structures... Completed. Description circulated to e-Photon/ONe partners and published on the web. –D13.2 Definition of experiments plan. Completed. Circulated to e-Photon/ONe partners and published on the web. –D13.3 Report on integrated lab activities Due 31/01/06. Milestones –M13.1 Determination of task force and chairman. Completed. Circulated to e-Photon/ONe partners. –M13.2 Definition of approaches towards the exploitation of the existing lab infrastructures. Completed. Circulated to e-Photon/ONe partners and published on the web. –M13.3 Time plan completed. Completed. Circulated to e-Photon/ONe partners.

16. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 16 Ongoing activities Carry out further joint experiments! Collect descriptions of any new joint experiments and joint experiment plan. Update lab description if/when required. Gather feedback regarding joint experiment as work is done. –Adjust procedures for joint experiments if needed. –Prepare for final report. –Can publish summaries of experiments in an interim format, or publish drafts of final report, if useful.

17. e-Photon/ONe plenary. 11/02/05. WP13 presentation. Slide 17 Summary Steering committee established. Web pages are available. –Can be updated to reflect new equipment, etc. Joint experiment plan circulated. –Can be updated as new experiments arise. All milestones and deliverables completed (except final report). Execution of Joint Experiments is getting under way.