Output details
13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Southampton
Wide-bandwidth low-loss 19-cell hollow core photonic band gap fiber and its potential for low latency data transmission
Significance of output:
Selected in the face of fierce international competition as a highly prestigious post-deadline paper at the world’s leading optical communications conference (OFC2012, http://www.ofcnfoec.org) this paper reported for the first time a 30% reduction on the time taken to transmit data through a length of optical fibre, generating huge interest in time-sensitive communication systems (e.g. for financial trading and data communications). Our group is leading the field through EU-FP7 project MODEGAP (2010-2014, EUR7.6M, http://modegap.eu/). It enabled record-high-capacity transmission experiments in collaboration with NokiaSiemensNetworks (73.7Tb/s, http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-20-26-B428&origin=search) and opened up collaborations with top metrology (NPL) and particle physics research labs (CERN, http://ph-dep-ese.web.cern.ch/ph-dep-ese/structure/group.html, francois.vasey@cern.ch).
