Photonic Communications Technology

Strand leader: Dr Andy Phillips

The current activities of the Photonic Communications Technology research strand include:

• non-linear optical effects in SOAs for wavelength conversion and functional photonics

• BER evaluation of optical communication systems

• novel optical materials

• optical power budget / amplification in photonic integrated circuits (PICs)

• analysis of components in optical network / system contexts

The following links provide further details of our expertise in this area:

• Optical Communication System Performance

• Active and Functional Photonic Components

• New Photonic Materials

• Physics of Photonic - RF Interactions

Funded Research Projects:

• Compact OTDM / WDM optical receivers based on photonic crystal Integrated circuits (COPERNICUS), 2010-2012 - More information here

• Investigation of growth kinetics and incorporation of impurities in group III-nitrides and group III-dilute nitrides using mass spectroscopy, 2007-2010 - More information here

• Low-cost 1.3µm sources for fast access technologies (FAST ACCESS), 2004-2007 - More information here

• Optical sampling of signal intensity and chirp using four wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers, 2004-2007 - More information here