Technology Development for Future High Capacity Optical Networks

Speaker:Prof.Chao Lv (PolyU)

Time and Date: 10:00- , Oct. 28, 2014

Place: Room B415, Computing Centre Building, Handan Campus

 

 

Abstract

The ever increasing internet traffic has created the need for increasing the transmission capacity of optical communication systems. The use of advanced modulation formats and coherent detection as well as high speed signal processing techniques have significantly changed the design of optical communication systems. Significant increase in data transmission rate per fibre has been realized. However, further increase in data transmission capacity has been limited by amplifier bandwidth and fibre nonlinearity. In the presentation, technology development to increase data transmission rate for future optical networks will be reviewed. Some of the key challenges and future perspectives will be highlighted.

 

 

Biography

Prof. Chao Lu obtained his BEng in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University, China in 1985, and his MSc and PhD from University of Manchester in 1987 and 1990 respectively. From 1991 to 2006, he was with School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. From June 2002 to December 2005, he was seconded to the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore, as Program Director and Department Manager leading a research group in the area of optical communication and fibre devices. Since April 2006, he has been with the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Professor. Over the years, he has published more than 200 papers in major international journals. His research interests are in the area of optical communication systems and networks, fibre devices for optical communication and sensor systems. In addition to academic research work, he has had many industrial collaborative research projects and has a number of awarded patents. He is an associate editor of Optics Express and Chinese Optics Letters.