Towards 2020 – Photonics driving economic growth in Europe

2. Photonics Research and Innovation Challenges
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2016/2017 2018/2019 2020
Value creation through early
field tests.
Development of highly integrated
sub-system solutions
for next generation optical access
architectures focusing on:
n Low-cost SFP+ tunable
transceivers
n N×10G Tx/Rx DWDM
arrays at low cost
n High-speed optical-toelectrical
and electrical-tooptical
interfaces with low
power consumption at low
cost jointly integrated with
high-speed equalisation
(e.g. DSP, equaliser) units
n Silicon/InP hybrid integrated
circuits; 3D integrated
devices; Introduction of
polymer materials towards
cost effectiveness and low
power consumption
n Visible light communication
and navigation, integrated
solutions for lighting and
communication
System design, integration
and verification for selected
high-impact applications:
n Demonstration of flexible
Pbps core/metro networks
using elastic bandwidth
allocation and resource
virtualisation
n Demonstration of
OpenFlow controlled
networking for datacentre
hosted cloud applications
connected to Pbps optical
transport systems
Building up user groups
and competence networks
to demonstrate, evaluate
and promote the selected
high-impact applications.
Deployment in European
NRENs. Transfer to volume
production.
Dedicated prototyping of
devices and sub-systems.