Current projects

AIRBORNE
AIRBORNE-DE-LIGHT
Co-funded by Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) (Funding number: 01ME18003F)
Duration: July 2018 - June 2021
CoMoDe
Coded Modulation, Optimized Decoding and Equalization for Fiber-Optic Channels
Co-funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: July 2016 – June 2019

ELIoT
Enhance Lighting for the Internet of Things
Co-funded by EU Horizon 2020 (Grant 825651)
Duration: January 2019 - December 2021

ERIKA
Co-funded by Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) (Funding number: 01ME18003F)
Duration: January 2019 - December 2021

MAVO KoNet
Convergent Networks "KoNet"
Funded by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Duration: March 2018 - December 2020

MELINDA
Compressed Sensing supported LiDAR with coherent detection at eye-safe wavelengths for autonomous driving
Supported by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Duration: March 2020 – March 2023
METRO-HAUL
METRO-HAUL (METRO High bandwidth, 5G Application-aware optical network, with edge storage, compUte and low Latency)
Co-funded by EU Horizon 2020 5G-PPP
Duration: June 2017 – May 202
NanoPhot
Collaborative research centre 787
Co-funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: January 2016 - December 2019
ONUBLA
Assessment of access availability of space-ground optical links.
Co-funded by European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: July 2017 - July 2018

OptiCON
Optimized capacity in optical networks
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: June 2019 - May 2022
OPTIMUM
OPTIMUM - Optical signal processing in multimode fibers
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: March 2018 - February 2020

OTB-5G+
Open Testbed Berlin – 5G and Beyond
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (Funding number: KIS6INI004)
Duration: September 2019 - August 2022

Q.Link.X
Quantum-Link-Extension
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: August 2018 - July 2021

QuNET-alpha
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (funding number: 16KIS1082K)
Duration: October 2019 - December 2020

QuPAD
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: March 2019 - February 2021
SENDATE
Secure Networking for a Data Center Cloud in Europe
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: June 2016 - May 2019
SESAM
SEcure Software-defined 5G Access network for flexible Manufacturing
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: May 2017 - April 2020
SPEED
Silicon Photonics Enabling Exascale Data Networks
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: November 2015 - October 2018
SuperDAC
Digital-to-analog converters (DACs)
Funded by Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Duration: April 2015 - December 2018
TERRANOVA
Wireless Terahertz System Architectures for Networks Beyond 5G
Co-funded by EU Horizon 2020
Duration: July 2017 - March 2020
VALIMOS
Validation of turbulence mitigation techniques for high-data-rate optical links
Co-funded by European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: April 2014 - December 2019

VISION
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Multi Initial Training Network (ITN) on Visible light based Interoperability and Networking
Co-funded by the European Union (EU)
Duration: September 2019 - September 2021
VLC Classroom
With the help of Fraunhofer HHI, a classroom with VLC technology was openes in Stuttgart. VLC technology (also called LiFi) is a possible alternative to conventional WLAN technology.
Co-funded by the city of Stuttgart
Duration: January 2017 - March 2019

WON
WON – Wideband Optical Networks
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement 814276
Duration: January 2019 - December 2022