1. http://www.e-photon-one.org WP-VD-H Home Networks and Other Short-Reach Networks Final WP-VD-H Home Networks and Other Short-Reach Networks Final Review Meeting Brussels, 22 April 2008 Speaker: Josep Prat Institution: UPC

2. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 2 WP-VD-H: ”Home Networks and Other Short-Reach Networks” Scope Creation of a Virtual Department that will integrate and promote the research activity in the broad area of design and analysis of home and short-reach networks. Leader Dieter Jäger (UDE) Roberto Gaudino (PoliTo) Advisory Board José Capmany (UPVLC), Robert Gaudino (PoliTo), Stéphane Gosselin (FT), Dieter Jäger (UDE), Ton Koonen (TU/e), Adam Wolisz (TUB) Partners involved in joint activities FT, FUB, GET, ISCOM, PoliTo, TU/e, UC3M, UCL, UDE, UEssex, UoA, UPVLC,

3. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 3 Technical Scope The topics that have been addressed in this VD are:  Broadband transmission over Multi Mode Fiber (MMF)  Radio over Fiber (RoF) techniques  Components for short reach optical communications  Monitoring and sensor applications

4. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 4 Joint Activities: Meetings & Projects … Meetings held within VD-H:  Barcelona, Febr. 2007 (VD-H workshop at plenary meeting)  Turin, Sept. 2007 (VD-H workshop)  Berlin, ECOC, Sept. 2007 (partner meeting)  Brest, Summer School, July 2007 (partner meeting)  Rome, ICTON, July 2007 (partner meeting)  Turin, Jan. 2008 (VD-H workshop at plenary meeting) Projects following VD-H activities:  BONE  POF-ALL  IPHOBAC  BluePOF  ALPHA  OMEGA

5. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 5 …Joint Activities: Publications… Joint Papers:  Lallana, Vàzquez, Montero, Heggarty, Vinouze “Dual 3x1 multiplexer for POF networks”, Proc. Int. Conf. POF, Turin (Italy), Sept. 2007, published  Gaudino, Cardenas, Guignard, Meyer, Möllers, Bellec, Charbonnier, Evanno, Pizzinat, Jäger, “Perspective in Next Generation Home Networks: Towards Optical Solutions?”, submitted to IEEE Comm. Mag., Jan. 2008  Montero, Vázquez, Möllers, Arrúe, Jäger, “Self-referencing intensity based polymer optical fiber coupler sensor for liquid detection”, in preparation, to be submitted to PTL/JLT  UC3M, UPVLC, TUE, UDE, UoA, “Full development of an analytic model for the evaluation of the linear frequency response of a multimode fiber link”, planned Deliverables: D.VD-H.1, D.VD-H.2, D.VD-H.3, D.VD-H.4 (completed)

6. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 6 …Joint Activities: Cooperations… International cooperation with: OpTech-Net, OITDA, OIDA, EPIC, … ICOIA: Presentation of Future Trends and Roadmaps of Home Networks (Munich, June 2007) EU platform: Photonics21 – VD-H Contributions to Working Group 1 Exchange of students: (7) UoA – PoliTo | UDE - UC3M | UDE – UPVLC | UC3M – UPVLC | TU/e – UDE | UDE – UCL | UC3M - GET

7. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 7 … Joint Activities: Mobilities … Most Joint Activities have been carried out in the form of mobility actions, for example:  UDE - UPVLC  Study of propagation through multimode fibres (digital and radio over fibre transmission)  UC3M - UDE  Monitoring using POF in-building sensing applications and networking  UDE - UCL  Joint characterization of photodiodes for RoF applications  PoliTo – UoA  Electronic dispersion compensation for multimode and plastic optical fibers  PoliTo - FT-UDE  Brainstorming of next-generation architectures for in-building networks

8. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 8 …Joint Activities: Summary of Mobilities DescriptionType of activityPartners involvedOther comments Design of a MUX and VOA to be used in GI-POF CWDM networks in different transmission applications joint research and mobility action, 12 months, for a joint paper Universidad Carlos III de Madrid GET-ENST Organization of seminars on LC+POF devices and applications in different institutions involved in the activity. Students exchange in related topics Contributions to Summer School 2007 in Brest Analysing in-home sensing applications which will be benefited by using POF joint research and mobility action, 12 months, for a joint paper Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Universitaet Duisburg-Essen Analysis of high-speed Photodiodes for mm-wave applications Joint research and mobility action University of Duisburg-Essen University College London "Brainstorming" on future architectures for in-house networks Joint research for a joint paper Polito (Roberto Gaudino) France Telecom (Benoit Charbonnier) Contributions to Summer School 2007 in Brest Research on electronic dispersion compensation for multimode and plastic optical fibers, experimental demonstration on FPGA joint research and mobility action, 12 months, for a joint paper 1 - Polito (Roberto Gaudino) 38- University of Atherns UoA Contributions to Summer School 2007 in Brest Full development of an analytic model for the evaluation of the linear frequency response of a multimode fiber link Joint research and mobility action, 12 months, for a joint paper Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) Universitat Politécnica Valencia (UPVLC) Technical University of Eindhoven (TUE) University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) University of Athens (UoA) Organization of a workshop on MMF propagation co- located with any EPHOTON/ONE + event or summer/winter school.

9. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 9 Analysis and brainstorming on next-generation architectures for in-building networks (POLITO-FT-UDE) : Details on Specific Achievements…  Gathering of operator´s opinions (FT, Telecom Italia)  Writing of a joint paper  “ Perspective in Next Generation Home Networks: Towards Optical Solutions?”, submitted to IEEE Comm. Mag., January 2008

10. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 10 …Details on Specific Achievements… New models for propagation through multimode fibres (UDE-UPVLC) Analytical, system-oriented models compared to experimental measurements Fig. 1 Measurement 5km MMFFig. 2 Simulation 5km MMF, 3 rd order disp.- DFB: W=10MHz

11. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 11 Radio over Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) (UDE) Development and characterization of specific components …Details on Specific Achievements…

12. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 12 Fiber sensors for the home environment (UC3M) Development and characterization of optical sensors for in-house applications …Details on Specific Achievements Fig. 3 Temperature Dependent PD Response

13. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 13 Main Achievements N° of meetings and workhops: 6 meetings organized in the framework of VD-H Participation in more than 12 other meetings N° of joint papers: 4 N° of public deliverables: 4 N° of joint project proposals: 4 Shared infrastructures: none N° of mobility actions: 5

14. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 14 Planned/Actual Comparison… Research directions related to home networks (plan of 2006 :  = addressed and completed as planned) Low cost and low power devices and components  Multifunctional devices (such as EATs)  High speed and high efficiency LEDs (planned, new project) Devices for multimode applications  Silicon photonic components (e. g. photodiode, modulator) (preliminary) Microwave/Millimeter wave photonic components  (new projects) Packaging and motherboard techniques (Si, LTCC, SOI)  Remote (optical) powering  Reliable POF cables (influence of temperature, mechanical stress) (partly) Interface to residential gateway (FTTx) ─ Radio-over-fiber and UWB techniques (using MM and POF)  Low cost integrated base stations (planned, concepts available) User requirements on “Intelligent homes”/”ambient intelligence” 

15. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 15 … Planned/Actual Comparison Opportunities to internationally cooperate on home networks: Development of polymer optical fibers (POFs) with low attenuation ─ Efficient sources and receivers for POFs at given wavelengths (new project) Multifunctional components/modules and their integration  CMOS compatible Si optoelectronics incl. SOI techniques (preliminary) Hybrid integration and packaging for mass production ─ Strategies in optical signal processing and computing ─ Optic and optoelectronic design (optoelectronic CAD) (partly) Network simulation ─ Applications: Entertainment, communication, automation, security, … /market trends  International cooperation using strategic networks (PTAP program of OIDA including OITDA, EPIC and ICOIA) 

16. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 16 Final Comments… The area covered by VD-H is relatively new and, as such, researches around it is still quite heterogeneous After a relatively slow start, we managed to gather around VD-H a critical mass of researchers working on short reach optical network, transmission and components

17. Final Review Meeting – Brussels, 22 April 2008 17 …Final Comments During the period of this e-Photon/ONe+, Home and Short-Reach Network have gathered increased interest in all fields of communication technology Some operator research centers, such as FT, are envisioning “optical backbones” inside our apartments: – Plastic Optical Fibre to provide a point to point architecture suitable for already constructed houses where the installation of a new cable can be performed by the user itself – Silica Fibre infrastructure for new houses where the optical cables will be installed in ducts running in the walls at construction time.