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HEDoctoral network2022–2027

HOMTech · Optical fiber higher order mode technologies and their application within communication, sensing and bio imaging

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2022-10-01 → 2027-01-31
EU contribution
€2,807,107
Participants
15
Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN

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Results in brief

Optical fiber higher order mode technologies and their application within communication, sensing and bio imaging

The aim of HOMTech is to train a new generation of researchers within the topic of higher order mode (HOM) optical fibre technologies. The communication infrastructure of modern society relies on optical fibres, whose continued development is crucial to fulfil the ever-increasing bandwidth demands required to connect the world efficiently and sustainably by at the same time reducing energy consumption. Fibres supporting propagation of light in so-called higher order modes (HOMs), i.e., having unique transverse field distributions, have gained major research interest in recent years. HOMs fibres have already shown potential of superior performance compared to single mode fibre-based systems within certain existing applications and enabled new technologies with associated applications. Examples include demonstration of improved capacity carried by a single fibre – this is key to minimizing the number of fibres used in, for example, data centres and hereby reducing energy consumption. HOM fibres may also enable new and improved imaging capabilities, i.e., imaging modalities not possible with existing technology. In addition, demonstration of distributed fibre sensors that can sense multiple parameters as strain and temperature with unprecedented resolution. This enables efficient and reliable delivery of energy from remotely located offshore windfarms, so-called energy islands, hereby advancing the green energy transition of our society. There are however still many challenges before HOM fibres come into widespread use. To train the next generation of researchers to overcome these 10 Ph.D. projects has been defined within three work packages (WP). WP1 on communication, WP2 on mode properties, and WP 3 on sensing. HOMTech website: https://www.homtech.aphys.kth.se/

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Optical fibres supporting propagation of light in so-called higher order modes (HOMs) have gained major research interest in the last years. However, there are still quite a few obstacles to overcome before HOM fibres can be used for major commercial applications. In the HOMTech doctoral network, seven leading European universities, within the field of HOM fibres and their applications, join forces with one research institution and three European industrial partners and two world leading industrial research labs in the USA and Japan with the aim to significantly progress the field of HOM fibres and their applications. Five European countries are represented. Ten doctoral candidates (DC) will work in the network. Apart from the research and training at the host beneficiary, each DCs will also have two research secondments (both at least 3 months long) at another beneficiary or an associated partner. For DCs from academic partners, at least one of the secondments will be to an industrial partner. Five training schools in five different countries will be organized for the DCs through a joint effort between all beneficiaries.The research is organized in three work packages (WPs). WP1 on HOM applications within communication (both in optical fibres and in free space), WP2 on properties of HOMs, and WP3 on HOM applications within sensing. WP2 act both as support for WP1 and WP3, e.g., WP2 research essential non-linear properties of HOM fibres that is key in optical communication, but also applications of HOM for microscopy imaging. In WP1 both classical communication as well as quantum communication will be researched.It is the ambition that HOMTech will build a strong and lasting network not only between the DCs but also between the beneficiaries and associated partners. HOMTech aims at bringing European industry and academy in the forefront of HOM fibres and their application.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · Kongens LyngbyCoordinatorDenmark
  • ADTRAN GmbH · MünchenGermany
  • CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOGSKOLA AB · GoteborgSweden
  • FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN-NUERNBERG · ErlangenGermany
  • KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · StockholmSweden
  • LUNA INNOVATIONS GERMANY GMBH · KOLNGermany
  • MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · MUNCHENGermany
  • NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY · Koganei, TokyoJapan
  • Nokia Bell Labs · Murray HillUnited States
  • OFS FITEL DENMARK APS · BrondbyDenmark
  • RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB · BorasSweden
  • TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN · EindhovenNetherlands
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL'AQUILA · L AQUILAItaly
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · PadovaItaly
  • UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM · AmsterdamNetherlands

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