Digital Signal Processing for Fiber Optic Communication Networks

Anotation

Providing broadband Internet access to all is a key element of the European growth strategy. By 2020, all

Europeans should have access to a high speed Internet connection (30 Mbps or above) and 50% or more of all

European households should have an Internet connection operating at above 100 Mbps. To achieve these

goals, communication systems with a much lower cost per transmitted bit and with a much lower consumption

of energy per transmitted bit must be laid down. This huge amount of Internet traffic is going to circulate

mostly through already deployed fiber optic communication networks. Nevertheless, the transmission capacity

of these networks has to be upgraded through the implementation of transmission systems with a much higher

spectral efficiency, and with a much higher degree of flexibility. Resembling the past evolution of radio

communications (but now with thousand times higher bitrates and distances), digital signal processing (DSP)

will be a critical enabling technology for the next generation of fiber optic communication systems. This

Action aims to promote a multidisciplinary cooperation among the European R&D community, joining efforts

from the academia and industry in the areas of optical physics, optical communications, DSP engineering and

electronic/hardware implementation, in order to develop innovative solutions and to achieve new decisive

breakthroughs on DSP technology for broadband optical communication systems and networks.

Keywords

Digital Signal Processing for Broadband Fiber Optic Transmission Systems and Networks; Coherent Access,

Metro and Core Optical Networks; Spectral Efficiency in Optical Communication Systems and Networks;

Energy-Aware Optical Communication Systems and Networks; Flexible Optical Communication Systems and Networks