Airguide at the European Conference on Optical Communication

The EPSRC-funded Airguide Photonics programme, hosted at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), will be presenting some of its early findings and discussing key issues with long-haul transmission during the five-day European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2018), taking place from 23-27 September, in Rome, Italy.

Best Student Paper

Natsupa Taengnoi, a PhD student on the Airguide Photonics programme, has been nominated for Best Student Paper. Natsupa’s paper, ‘Amplified O-band WDM Transmission using a Bi-doped Fibre Amplifier’, demonstrates WDM transmission on both a coarse and dense spacing over 100km and 120km of SMF-28e, respectively, using in-line amplification with a Bismuth-doped fibre amplifier.

The amplifier exhibits 7THz (42nm) of gain bandwidth, which is almost double that of conventional erbium-doped fibre amplifiers. No discernible degradation in signal quality was observed for any of the WDM channels.

Natsupa is one of eight finalists who will deliver a second presentation for the jury at the conference, in addition to the scheduled presentation in the conference Programme. The jury will consist of the Conference General Chairs and the Technical Programme Committee Co-Chairs.

The winner receives 2,000€, and two runners-up will receive 1,000€. The jury will announce their decisions during the closing ceremony of ECOC2018 on Thursday, 27 September.

Long-haul optical transmission workshop: 23 September, 09:00-12:30

On the first day of the Conference, Professor Periklis Petropoulos, programme manager for Airguide Photonics, will co-chair the workshop: ‘Will long-haul optical transmission occupy just the Erbium bands in 2025?’. The workshop will review some of the technologies that offer the potential for opening further the bandwidth of optical communication systems, and will discuss whether the time has come for the community to consider a new telecommunications window for fibre optics in the current developing environment. Find out more.

Invited paper

Professor Graham Reed, also from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre, will present his paper: "Co-design of electronics and photonics components for Silicon Photonics transmitters". The paper will present recent results from the Silicon Photonics for Future Systems Programme Grant.

Related Links

• European Conference on Optical Communication
• Airguide Photonics

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