Eindhoven University of Technology

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TUE

The Netherlands

Address and references

Eindhoven University of Technology

Reference address:  Den Dolech 2, NL 5612 AZ   Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Reference person:  prof. Ton Koonen

Phone   +31 40 2474806   Fax   +31 40 2455197

E-mail:   a.m.j.koonen@tue.nl

Web Site: http://w3.ele.tue.nl/nl/tte/eco

General description, expertise and role in the project

The Eindhoven University of Technology is the National Centre of the Netherlands for Research on III/V semiconductors, opto-electronics and broadband photonic communication systems and networks. The COBRA Research Institute for Optical Communication Technology employs more than 100 scientists and technicians. The COBRA institute is the co-founder of the European Institute of Telecommunication Technologies (eiTT) together with the COM Research Center, Denmark, Duisburg University, Germany, and IMEC Research Center, Belgium; Politecnico di Torino has also joined eiTT. 

The Electro-Optical Communications group (ECO group, at Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering) has a long-standing experience with optical communication systems. The group is actively involved in research in access and in-building networks. The research field encompasses multimode silica and polymer optical fibre; the group holds transmission records in POF systems. Currently, various innovative optical signal multiplexing methods are being investigated, as well as techniques for radio-over-fibre short-haul links. The ECO group has also extensive activities in long-haul high-speed systems (a.o. 160 Gbit/s) and ultra-fast optical signal processing (by a.o. SOA-s). The group is also actively involved in research activities in access networks, including radio over fibre and in-home networking with polymer optical fibre.

The Electro-Optical Communications group is active since many years in national and EU IST research projects, including overall coordination of the FP5 project IST-STOLAS and leading its work package regarding laboratory trial and system demonstrator. In the access networks field, the group is a partner in the FP6 IP MUSE contributing on multimode fibre access network techniques, and on radio-over-fibre techniques for feeding fixed wireless access networks. It chairs the interests of the academic groups and research institutes in MUSE. In the FP6 NoE e-Photon/ONe, it chairs the joint project on Dynamic Optical Access Networks. It is also a partner in the thematic network NEFERTITI on microwave photonics and radio over fibre. It played a key role in the FP5 project FASHION on 160 Gbit/s OADM. The group is actively involved in exploring all-optical techniques of all-optical label switching in the FP6 IST-LASAGNE and IST-MUFINS projects.

The group participated in the following projects of FP4 and earlier: RACE-MUNDI, ACTS-TOBASCO, ACTS-BLISS, ACTS-Upgrade, ACTS-APEX, ESPRIT-LOCOM, IST-METEOR.

The total number of person-months dedicated to the POF-ALL project is 42.

Facilities

The Electro-Optical Communications group has state-of-the-art laboratories at Eindhoven University of Technology, with an extensive set of comprehensive measuring equipment. We have several bit-error-rate testers at a bit-rate of 10 Gbit/s as well as a bit-error-rate tester at 40 Gbit/s, several high resolution optical and electrical spectrum analyzers, and ultrafast optical sampling oscilloscopes with a bandwidth up to 700 GHz. We have several pico-second pulse sources, an optical pulse compressor, OTDM multiplexers and demultiplexers, a titanium sapphire laser including OPO, several autocorrelators, several semiconductor optical amplifiers, several electro-absorption modulators for 10 and 40 GHz, ultrafast electronic amplifiers, high-gain optical amplifiers, high-quality passive optical components, and large-bandwidth optical receivers. Also we have measuring equipment for characterizing fibre-wireless systems, such as a vector signal analyzer for comprehensive wireless signal formats. We share facilities with the opto-electronic device group in the area of optical characterization of devices and in the cleanroom. The ECO group also has unique facilities for the packaging and pigtailing of photonic chips.

Relevant publications

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Boom, H.P.A. van den, Tafur Monroy, I., & Khoe, G.D. (2001). Broadband data communication techniques in POF-based networks. In B.H. Verbeek & P. Demeester (Eds.), Proc. 27th European Conference on Optical Communications  (pp. 14-15) , Amsterdam

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Ng'Oma, A., Boom, H.P.A. van den, Tafur Monroy, I., Smulders, P.F.M., & Khoe, G.D. (2001). Carrying microwave signals in a GIPOF-based wireless LAN. In C. Bastiaansen & W. Daum (Eds.), Proc. 10th International Plastic Optical Fibres Conference 2001  (pp. 217-223), Amsterdam

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Boom, H.P.A. van den, Willems, F., Bergmans, J.W.M., & Khoe, G.D. (2002). Broadband multi-service in-house networks using mode group diversity multiplexing. In   (Ed.), proc.  POF 2002 conference  (pp. 87-90) Tokyo, Japan

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Boom, H.P.A. van den, Tafur Monroy, I., Wellen, J.S., Smets, R.C.J., & Khoe, G.D. (2002). Optical networking in the access and residential environment - technologies and challenges. In   (Ed.), proc. ECOC 02 conference  Copenhagen, Denmark

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Ng'Oma, A., Smulders, P.F.M., Boom, H.P.A. van den, Tafur Monroy, I., & Khoe, G.D. (2003). In-house networks using multimode polymer optical fiber for broadband wireless services. Photonic Network Communications 5 (2),  177-187.

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Boom, H.P.A. van den, & Khoe, G.D. (2003). Broadband access and in-house networks - extending the capabilities of multimode fibre networks. In   (Ed.), Proceedings ECOC 2003 conference  (pp. Mo3 1.5) Rimini, Italy

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Boom, H.P.A. van den, Ng'Oma, A., Tafur Monroy, I., & Khoe, G.D. (2003). Integrated-services in-building POF networks using novel signal multiplexing methods. In   (Ed.), proc. 12th Int. POF conference  (pp. 44-47) Seattle, Washington

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Ng'Oma, A., Boom, H.P.A. van den, Tafur Monroy, I., & Khoe, G.D. (2003). New techniques for extending the capabilities of multimode fibre networks. In H.R. van As & D.W. Faulkner (Eds.), proc. NOC 2003  (pp. 204-211) , Vienna

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Boom, H.P.A. van den, Tafur Monroy, I., & Khoe, G.D. (2004). High capacity multi-service in-house networks using mode group diversity multiplexing. In   (Ed.), proc. OFC 2004  (pp. FE-H)

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Boom, H.P.A. van den, Bakker, L.P., Zeng, J., Ng'Oma, A., & Khoe, G.D. (2004). Integration of services in short-range multimode Polymer Optical Fibre networks by exploiting the higher-order fibre passbands. In   (Ed.), proc. POF 04  Nürnberg, Germany.

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Ng'Oma, A., Garcia Larrode, M., Huijskens, F.M., Tafur Monroy, I., & Khoe, G.D. (2004). Novel cost-efficient techniques for microwave signal delivery in fibre-wireless networks. In   (Ed.), proc. ECOC 2004  (pp. 120-123) Stockholm, Sweden

·         Koonen, A.M.J. (2004). Novel signal multiplexing methods for integration of services in in-building broadband multimode fibre networks. In   (Ed.), proc. ISSLS 2004  Edinburgh, Scotland.

·         Koonen, A.M.J., Boom, H.P.A. van den, Ng'Oma, A., Bakker, L.P., Tafur Monroy, I., & Khoe, G.D. (2004). Recent developments in broadband service delivery techniques for short-range networks. In  D.W. Faulkner &  A.M. J. Koonen (Eds.), proc. NOC 2004  (pp. 86-93) TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands

CV partner reference person

Ton Koonen is since 2001 a full professor at the COBRA Institute at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. Prior to that, he spent more than 20 years at Bell Labs in Lucent Technologies as a technical manager of applied research. In 1999, he was awarded the Bell Labs Fellow title, the first one in Europe. Next to his industrial position, he has been a part-time professor at Twente University from 1991 to 2000. His main interests are currently in broadband fibre access networks. He has initiated and led several European and national R&D projects in this area, a.o. in dynamically reconfigurable hybrid fibre access networks for fibre-to-the-curb and fibre-to-the-building. He has led the European FP5 IST project STOLAS on optical packet labeling. He is involved in several access network projects in the European FP6 IST programme.