Research Areas:
Photonic Devices for Optical Communication Networks
Experimental Investigations, Modeling & Simulation
VCSELs, Optical Amplifiers, and High Power Lasers
The optical communication research and development program is a two-tier effort with close collaborations both internally and externally. In the first layer, optical communication devices and photonics modules are investigated that include VCSELs transmitters, EDFAs, Raman fiber amplifiers, optical add/drop mux/de-muxes, fiber Bragg gratings as optical pulse synthesizers & filters, and compensators etc. Such devices are designed, fabricated and packaged in Optoelectronics Lab and the system level performance tests and characterization are done in the Optical Communication & Networks Lab.
In the second tier, the research and studies are conducted in the area of Optical Networks. This encompasses design of various optical network architectures & topologies (e.g. optical access/EPON), optical signal transport and network simulations. The work is also underway for setting up test beds using OC-48 and OC-192 with capabilities of characterization of various optical modules such as transceivers, amplifiers, filters, compensators, optical add-drop multiplexers etc. Finally, a full blown communication node (in optical communication infrastructure) will provide enabling technologies for testing the protocols, and high speed TDM and DWDM modules in the physical layer.
Optoelectronics Lab (Burson 168)
