José M. Estarán has been nominated finalist for the 2014 Corning outstanding student paper award.
The paper reports on the first experimental validation of the unprecedented benefits offered by a novel multidimensional modulation format which was developed in the Metro Access & Short Range Communications group at DTU Fotonik, Coherent MultiCAP. The findings prove the potential of Coherent MultiCAP to address the capacity crunch in optical metropolitan networks.
"José M. Estarán’s placement as finalist in the Corning competition makes all of us at DTU Fotonik very proud. This is the second time a PhD student from my group competes for this prestigious award. We wish José good luck during the competition which will take place at San Francisco, March 9-13, at the OFC 2014 conference."
Professor Idelfonso Tafur Monroy
The results of the investigation, partly financed by The VILLUM FOUNDATION's Young Investigator Programme, were obtained in the framework of an industrial collaboration project between the Metro Access group and Huawei Technologies Co., in an effort that involved months of planning, research excellence and three internships at Huawei’s headquarters, Shenzhen, China.
The highly flexible, reconfigurable and efficient Coherent MultiCAP approach was employed to transmit 336 Gbps over hundreds of kilometres employing only standard 25-GHz electro-optic components. The transmission capacity demonstrated, along with the proved upgradability and unmatched dimensionality of Coherent MultiCAP, comprise the main achievements of the awarded investigation. This makes it a very relevant candidate for present and future coherent transmission links in metropolitan optical networks beyond 100 Gbps.
Jose states: I feel extremely happy about this place in the finals for the Outstanding Student Paper Competition 2014. The commitment, time and hard work that has been put into this project only compares to the high prospects and potential of the results obtained. This paper deserves a victory. I am looking forward to representing DTU Fotonik and many personal hopes in the competition on March 9 at the OFC 2014 conference.
José Estarán is first author on the paper which is entitled ‘First Experimental Demonstration of Coherent CAP for 300-Gb/s Metropolitan Optical Networks’.