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The OptCom Group, in collaboration with Southampton University, the Links Foundation and CISCO Photonics, has been awarded a prestigious Post-Deadline paper presentation at ECOC 2019 (PD.1.5). The paper reports on a breakthrough and record-setting transmission experiment on the revolutionary “hollow-core” fiber that Optoelectronics Research Center of Southampton has recently fabricated. This fiber holds the promise for increasing the capacity vs. standard fiber by a factor of up to ten, or more. The paper will be presented by Pierluigi Poggiolini on Thursday, Sept. 26^th.

On Wednesday Sept. 25th, Pierluigi Poggiolini presented a paper (W.1.D.3) at ECOC 2019 in Dublin on a real-time fiber non-linearity model  which can evaluate the transmissive performance of an entire optical network in a fraction of a second, with very high accuracy, enabling physical-layer-aware management and control of the network. The paper was co-authored by researchers from the OptCom Group and from CISCO Systems. Click below or on "read more" to download the presentation.

OptCom presented on Tuesday Sept. 25th a talk at ECOC 2018 regarding on fiber non-linearity modeling at transmission rates going from 8 GBaud up to 512 GBaud, also using Gaussian-shaped constellations, and MI/GMI as performance parameter. This topic is of great significance for the study, design and management of ultra-high-speed internet-backbone optical networks.

The pdf of the slides can be found under the tab "TALKS" above, or by clicking below on "READ MORE".

An article regarding the Specializing Master Program promoted and directed by Prof. Curri of OptCom has been published by Wired.it. The full article is available here.

For the Academic Year 2018/19, OptCom will propose a post-graduate II level specializing master in Photonics for Data Networks and Metrology, in collaboration with INRiM.  The Master Program will train Photonic Engineers with a vertical multidisciplinary skill, starting from physical-layer knoweledge on data and time/frequency transmission up to skills on photonic networking.