Past projects
ONUBLA
Co-funded by European Space Agency (ESA)
Partner: DLR Airbus-DS, LOA (Laboratoire d'optique atmosphérique, Université Lille)
Duration: July 2017 - July 2018
Dr.-Ing. Nicolas Perlot
VALIMOS
Validation of turbulence mitigation techniques for high-data-rate optical links
Co-funded by European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: April 2014 - December 2019
Dr.-Ing. Nicolas Perlot
Q.Link.X
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: August 2018 - July 2021
Dr.-Ing. Nicolas Perlot
QuPAD
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: March 2019 - February 2021
Dr.-Ing. Nicolas Perlot
NanoPhot
Co-funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
Partner: Humboldt University Berlin
Duration: January 2016 - December 2019
Dr.-Ing. Nicolas Perlot
CoMoDe
Co-funded by German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: July 2016 – June 2019
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fischer
METRO-HAUL
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Metro-Haul
www.linkedin.com/groups/13543287
Co-funded by EU Horizon 2020 5G-PPP
Duration: June 2017 – May 2020
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fischer
OPTIMUM
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: March 2018 - February 2020
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fischer
Secure Networking for a Data Center Cloud in Europe
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
https://www.celticplus.eu/project-sendate-secure-dci/
Duration: June 2016 - May 2019
Silicon Photonics Enabling Exascale Data Networks
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: November 2015 - October 2018
The 5G Integrated fronthaul/backhaul
Co-funded by EU
Duration: July 2015 – January 2018
Dr. rer. nat. Volker Jungnickel
Dr.-Ing. Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos
4D Modulation Formats
Co-funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: March 2012 – March 2017
Dr. rer. nat. Colja Schubert
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fischer
CHARISMA
Converged Heterogeneous Advanced 5G Cloud-RAN Architecture for Intelligent and Secure Media Access
Dr. rer. nat. Volker Jungnickel
Dr.-Ing. Kai Habel
High-Speed Digital Signal Processing for Terabit Speed in Optical Access Networks (DSP4ACCESS)
Co-funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: June 2014 – May 2017
Dr. rer. nat. Volker Jungnickel
Dr.-Ing. Christoph Kottke
EARNI (Energy-Aware Network Infrastructure EARNI)
Funding Organization: EU EIT
Duration: January 2015 - December 2015
Topic: The EARNI project tackles energy awareness of communication networks in two successive steps. The first is development of solutions to sustained energy savings in core elements of the communication infrastructure by network function virtualization. Second is derivation of business models for (virtualization-based) co-location concepts at communication infrastructure sites in conjunction with various energy sources.
Dr. rer. nat. Volker Jungnickel
Fiber-Optic Parametric Amplifier (FOPA)
Funding Organization: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: September 2011 - August 2014
Topic: Fiber-optic parametric amplifier for signal regeneration in transmission systems with higher-order modulation formats
Dr. rer. nat. Colja Schubert
Semiconductor-Nanophotonics: Materials, Models, Components (Collaborative Research Centre 787)
www.sfb787.tu-berlin.de/
Funding Organization: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Duration: January 2008 - December 2015
Topic: Integration of quantum optical components into complex quantum networks and the transfer of quantum information in a classical fiber-based transmission network environment. (sub-project C2)
Dr. rer. nat. Colja Schubert
intelligent Converged network consolidating Radio and optical access aRound USer equipment (iCIRRUS)
Co-funded by EU Horizon 2020
Duration: January 2015 – January 2018
Dr. rer. nat. Volker Jungnickel
Dr.-Ing. Kai Habel
Industry-Driven Elastic and Adaptive Lambda Infrastructure for Service and Transport Networks (IDEALIST)
Funding Organization: EU
Duration: November 2012 - October 2015
Topic: The key objective behind IDEALIST: To research in detail a cost and power efficient transport network architecture able to carry a wide range of signal bandwidths, each of which will be varying in real time in direction and magnitude, and some of which will be extremely large and possibly exceeding 1Tb/s.
Dr. rer. nat. Colja Schubert
Dipl.-Ing. Markus Nölle
MultiReg
Funding Organization: Fraunhofer Society and Max-Planck-Society
Duration: January 2010 - December 2012
Topic: Development of an all-optical regenerator for QAM modulation formats.
Dr. rer. nat. Colja Schubert
Pan-European Photonics Task Force: Integrating Europe's Expertise on Photonic Subsystems (EURO-FOS)
Funding Organization: European Commission
Duration: May 2008 - April 2012
Topic: WDM/OFDM and OTDM transmission systems; ultrafast wavelength converters; study of dynamic properties of quantum-dot SOA's
Dr. rer. nat. Colja Schubert
Secure networks through efficient Tbps transport technologies (SASER-Siegfried)
Funding Organization: BMBF
Duration: August 2012 - July 2015
Topic: Development of a reliable and flexible transmission technology to transport 400+ Gbit/s. Different approaches are investigated analytically, numerically and through realisation of first laboratory prototypes.
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fischer
SOftware-Defined Access using Low-Energy Subsystems (SODALES)
Funding Organization: EU - Seventh Framework Programme
Duration: November 2012 - November 2015
Topic: The project aims to develop a novel wireless access interconnection service that offers transparent transport services for fixed and mobile services. This will be achieved by developing an Active Remote Node (ARN) that will offer switching and multiplexing features together with radio, wavelength conversion and legacy systems compatibly.
Dr. rer. nat. Volker Jungnickel
STRAUSS - Scalable and Efficient Orchestration of Ethernet Services Using Software-Defined and Flexible Optical Networks
www.ict-strauss.eu/en/
Funding Organization: EU - Seventh Framework Programme
Duration: June 2013 - May 2016
Topic: The STRAUSS project addresses the call key targets by proposing and defining a highly efficient (notably in terms of cost and energy) and global (by considering an end-to-end approach in a multi-domain setting) optical infrastructure for Ethernet transport.
Dipl.-Inf. Michael Schlosser
Dr.-Ing. Ronald Freund
Subsystems for Quantum Repeaters
Funding Organization: sub-contract in the framework of BMBF-funding
Duration: July 2011 - Oktober 2013
Topic: Support in the design of sub-components and in transmission experiments using single-photon light sources. Investigation of protocols for quantum-key distribution in real transmission systems.
Dr.-Ing. Robert Elschner
Technologies for flexible optical transmission capacity in elastic ROADM networks (SASER-ADVAntage-Net)
Funding Organization: BMBF
Duration: August 2012 - July 2015
Topic: Dynamic allocation of transmission capacity by adaptive electro-optical interfaces in the network, which achieve an optimum mix of data rate, optical bandwidth allocation and reach under software control.
Dr. rer. nat. Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst
100GET-AL
Funding Organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Celtic-Eureka)
Duration: October 2007 December 2010
Topic: Architectures, concepts, technologies and prototype implementations for a flexible, efficient, reliable and service-independent core transport network to fulfil the requirements of the Future Internet.
Dipl.-Inf. Michael Schlosser
100GET-ER
Funding Organiization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Celtic-Eureka)
Duration: October 2007 - December 2010
Topic: Innovative and cost-effective solutions on network, system, and component level for newly emerging 100GbE networks
Dr.-Ing. Ronald Freund
100GET-METRO
Funding Organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Celtic-Eureka)
Duration: October 2007 - December 2010
Topic: 100 Gb/s transport technology for metro network applications
Dr.-Ing. Ronald Freund
Next Generation Access using SCM
Funding Organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: July 2010 - June 2013
Topic: The joint project NGOA (Next Generation Optical Access) aims to investigate future optical access networks based on coherent detection. This technology will be applied in commercial products for access networks.
Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fischer
Architectures, Technologies and Open Networks for Optical Access Networks Funding (ATOB)
Funding Organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: July 2010 - June 2013
Topic: The project aims to investigate the requirements for access networks of the generation after the next. Components and systems will be evaluated. The main focus will be on orthogonal frequency- division multiplexing (OFDM).
Dipl.-Ing. Kai Habel
Berlin Access
Funding Organization: Zukunftsfond Berlin, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Duration: July 2005 - August 2008
Topic: Novel technologies, e. g. simulation tools, system test environments as well as polymer motherboard based optical transceivers, for optical access networks.
Dr.-Ing. Ronald Freund
Building the Future Optical Network in Europe (BONE)
Funding Organization: European Commission
Duration: January 2008 - February 2011
Topic: Building the future Optical Network in Europe
Dipl.-Ing. Klaus-Dieter Langer
Converged Heterogeneous Metro/Access Infrastructure (BMBF-Projekt CONDOR)
Funding Organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: April 2010 - March 2013
Topic: Investigation of network architectures, technologies and management processes for the cost effective implementation and the reliable operation of the optical infrastructure of future heterogeneous open-access network in the metro and access area
Dipl.-Inf. Michael Schlosser
Cooperation Proposal "Optical Burst Switching"
gepris.dfg.de/gepris/OCTOPUS/;jsessionid=ABA50649960BF8B22165633C521B97F3?module=gepris&task=showDetail&context=projekt&id=5455469
Funding Organization: German Research Foundation
Duration: December 2005 - August 2010
Topic: All-optical wavelength converters for phase and amplitude modulated data signals in system experiments.
Dr. rer. nat. Colja Schubert
Efficient Integrated Backbone Funding (EIBONE)
Funding Organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: September 2005 - August 2008
Topic: Robust DQPSK Transmission Technology
Dr.-Ing. Ronald Freund
Fiber Integrated Termination (FIT)
www.pianoplus.eu/fit.html
Funding Organization: EU - BMBF
Duration: October 2011 - September 2013
Topic: The project Fiber Integrated Termination (FIT) will focus on the following objectives and results:
- GPON + AON configurable optical line/ network termination
- Optical powered fiber monitoring
- Open Interfaces and new service protocols permitting service providers to offer new business models by allowing the access network to enter the home
- Development of scalable POF Interfaces
Dr. Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos
FTTX Plan
www.fttx-plan.de/
Funding Organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: April 2009 - July 2011
Topic: Tools and methods for planning future FTTx networks by combining photonics modeling and design expertise with network planning and optimization know-how
Dipl.-Inf. Michael Schlosser
High-Speed Electro-Optical Components for Integrated Transmitter and Receiver in Optical Communication Funding (HECTO)
Funding Organization: European Commission
Duration: November 2006 - February 2010
Topic: 100 Gbit/s Receiver Characterization
Dr. rer. nat. Colja Schubert
MAskless lithoGraphy for IC Manufacturing (MAGIC)
Funding Organication: European Commission
Duration: January 2008 - December 2010
Topic: In the CMOS manufacturing environment, the mask-based optical lithography technique is up to now driving solution to deal with all industry concerns.
Dr.-Ing. Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos
Next Generation Optical Networks for Broadband European Leadership (Nobel2)
Funding Organization: European Commission (FP6)
Duration: March 2006 - February 2008
Topic: 40 Gbit/s DQPSK transmission and measurement of constellation diagrams.
Dipl.-Inf. Michael Schlosser
OMEGA
Funding Organization: European Commission
Duration: January 2008 - March 2011
Topic: Communication technologies for an ultra-broadband home network (hOME Gigabit Access)
Dipl.-Ing. Klaus-Dieter Langer
Optical Networks: Towards Bandwidth Manageability and Cost Efficiency - ePhoton/ONe+
Funding Organization: European Commission
Duration: February 2004 - February 2008
Topic: Integrating and focusing the rich know-how available in Europe on optical communication and networks
Dr.-Ing. Ronald Freund
Optical Regeneration of Multi-level Modulation Formats (TEO)
www.optischetechnologien.de/index.php?id=590
Funding Organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Duration: January 2009 - June 2010
Topic: Demonstration of a new Tb/s receiver concept based on coherent parallel optical sampling with subsequent electrical distortion equalization.
Dr. rer. nat. Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst
Opical Reliable Feeder Link Assessment (ORELIA)
Funding Organization: European Space Agency (ESA)
Duration: December 2008 - December 2009
Topic: Study of high bitrate optical free space communication links between ground station and geostationary satellite
Dr.-Ing. Carl-Michael Weinert
OOFDM for Cost Effective Access Networks (OCEAN)
www.pianoplus.eu/ocean.html
Funding Organization: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (nationally funded)
Duration: August 2011 - July 2014
Topic: The partners in the OCEAN project will develop the OOFDM technology for applications in future optical access networks. A demonstration of a WDM PONs capable of supporting 32 wavelengths at 100GHz frequency spacing, >20Gb/s over >60km per wavelength channel is planned.
Dipl.-Ing. Kai Habel
Optical WIreless networks for flexible car manufacturing CELLS (OWICELLS)
Co-funded by Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Duration: December 2014 - April 2018
Dr. rer. nat. Volker Jungnickel
Dr.-Ing. Dominic Schulz
VLC MAINAU
The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI is providing the necessary Visible Light Communication (VLC) technology.
Dr. rer. nat. Volker Jungnickel
Dr.-Ing. Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos