Transforming networks - building an intelligent optical infrastructure (TRANSNET)
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Abstract
Optical networks underpin the global digital communications infrastructure, and their development has simultaneously stimulated the growth in demand for data, and responded to this demand by unlocking the capacity of fibre-optic channels. The work within the UNLOC programme grant proved successful in understanding the fundamental limits in point-to-point nonlinear fibre channel capacity. However, the next-generation digital infrastructure needs more than raw capacity - it requires channel and flexible resource and capacity provision in combination with low latency, simplified and modular network architectures with maximum data throughput, and network resilience combined with overall network security. How to build such an intelligent and flexible network is a major problem of global importance.
To cope with increasingly dynamic variations of delay-sensitive demands within the network and to enable the Internet of Skills, current optical networks overprovision capacity, resulting in both over- engineering and unutilised capacity. A key challenge is, therefore, to understand how to intelligently utilise the finite optical network resources to dynamically maximise performance, while also increasing robustness to future unknown requirements. The aim of TRANSNET is to address this challenge by creating an adaptive intelligent optical network that is able to dynamically provide capacity where and when it is needed - the backbone of the next-generation digital infrastructure.
Our vision and ambition is to introduce intelligence into all levels of optical communication, cloud and data centre infrastructure and to develop optical transceivers that are optimally able to dynamically respond to varying application requirements of capacity, reach and delay. We envisage that machine learning (ML) will become ubiquitous in future optical networks, at all levels of design and operation, from digital coding, equalisation and impairment mitigation, through to monitoring, fault prediction and identification, and signal restoration, traffic pattern prediction and resource planning. TRANSNET will focus on the application of machine techniques to develop a new family of optical transceiver technologies, tailored to the needs of a new generation of self-x (x = configuring, monitoring, planning, learning, repairing and optimising) network architectures, capable of taking account of physical channel properties and high-level applications while optimising the use of resources. We will apply ML techniques to bring together the physical layer and the network; the nonlinearity of the fibres brings about a particularly complex challenge in the network context as it creates an interdependence between the signal quality of all transmitted wavelength channels. When optimising over tens of possible modulation formats, for hundreds of independent channels, over thousands of kilometres, a brute force optimisation becomes unfeasible. Particular challenges are the heterogeneity of large scale networks and the computational complexity of optimising network topology and resource allocation, as well as dynamical and data-driven management, monitoring and control of future networks, which requires a new way of thinking and tailored methodology.
We propose to reduce the complexity of network design to allow self-learned network intelligence and adaptation through a combination of machine learning and probabilistic techniques. This will lead to the creation of computationally efficient approaches to deal with the complexity of the emerging nonlinear systems with memory and noise, for networks that operate dynamically on different time- and length-scales. This is a fundamentally new approach to optical network design and optimisation, requiring a cross-disciplinary approach to advance machine learning and heuristic algorithm design based on the understanding of nonlinear physics, signal processing and optical networking.
To cope with increasingly dynamic variations of delay-sensitive demands within the network and to enable the Internet of Skills, current optical networks overprovision capacity, resulting in both over- engineering and unutilised capacity. A key challenge is, therefore, to understand how to intelligently utilise the finite optical network resources to dynamically maximise performance, while also increasing robustness to future unknown requirements. The aim of TRANSNET is to address this challenge by creating an adaptive intelligent optical network that is able to dynamically provide capacity where and when it is needed - the backbone of the next-generation digital infrastructure.
Our vision and ambition is to introduce intelligence into all levels of optical communication, cloud and data centre infrastructure and to develop optical transceivers that are optimally able to dynamically respond to varying application requirements of capacity, reach and delay. We envisage that machine learning (ML) will become ubiquitous in future optical networks, at all levels of design and operation, from digital coding, equalisation and impairment mitigation, through to monitoring, fault prediction and identification, and signal restoration, traffic pattern prediction and resource planning. TRANSNET will focus on the application of machine techniques to develop a new family of optical transceiver technologies, tailored to the needs of a new generation of self-x (x = configuring, monitoring, planning, learning, repairing and optimising) network architectures, capable of taking account of physical channel properties and high-level applications while optimising the use of resources. We will apply ML techniques to bring together the physical layer and the network; the nonlinearity of the fibres brings about a particularly complex challenge in the network context as it creates an interdependence between the signal quality of all transmitted wavelength channels. When optimising over tens of possible modulation formats, for hundreds of independent channels, over thousands of kilometres, a brute force optimisation becomes unfeasible. Particular challenges are the heterogeneity of large scale networks and the computational complexity of optimising network topology and resource allocation, as well as dynamical and data-driven management, monitoring and control of future networks, which requires a new way of thinking and tailored methodology.
We propose to reduce the complexity of network design to allow self-learned network intelligence and adaptation through a combination of machine learning and probabilistic techniques. This will lead to the creation of computationally efficient approaches to deal with the complexity of the emerging nonlinear systems with memory and noise, for networks that operate dynamically on different time- and length-scales. This is a fundamentally new approach to optical network design and optimisation, requiring a cross-disciplinary approach to advance machine learning and heuristic algorithm design based on the understanding of nonlinear physics, signal processing and optical networking.
Planned Impact
TRANSNET is focused on one of our society's greatest technical challenges and economic drivers with impact on public, business and government activities. The question of how to ensure the availability of ubiquitous, high-capacity, low-delay, resilient and secure digital infrastructure, likely to transform and improve people's lives, forms the subject of our proposal. Every sector of the population and Government/private agencies is likely to be affected (well reflected in the participating team of project partners). TRANSNET's programme, though the approach of cross-disciplinarity and co-creation, will allow new digital application markets to become a reality with new approaches to build adaptive intelligent optical network that is able to dynamically provide capacity, where and when it is needed. TRANSNET will have numerous means of creating impact, from the people involved, the knowledge created, to the impact on the economy and broader society.
A. People: TRANSNET will impact the UK and international science and engineering ICT communities by training a new generation of researchers that are able to operate at the interface between optical fibre communication and machine learning, hence creating a pipeline of highly skilled people.
B. (i) Knowledge: TRANSNET will impact through knowledge creation with a focus on dissemination, advocacy and the public understanding of science. Dissemination - in addition to high-quality publication in leading international peer-review journals and conferences, a substantial effort will be dedicated to organise technical workshops including with industrial partners within and outside the programme. Major impact of the work will be through technology demonstrations over the National Dark Fibre Infrastructure (NDFIS) to give carriers the confidence to move towards an intelligent optical network infrastructure. (ii) Advocacy: The Investigators are all known as effective and strong advocates of optical communications and will effectively use their substantial and diverse set of links to industry, opinion formers and the general public to enhance the impact of the project. (iii) Public understanding of science: TRANSNET will seek to use the creation of an intelligent optical network as a means of improving the public understanding of science. This will include public lectures (e.g. at the Royal Society), but also and perhaps more critically through outreach, through science festivals including the Big Bang Fair (targeting UK Young Scientists and Engineers) and the Cambridge Science Festival (targeting the general public).
C. Economy: TRANSNET will impact the economy through improvement in productivity, wealth creation and inward investment as industry seeks to utilise the outcomes of TRANSNET. Specifically, there are a number of beneficiaries beyond the project partners including: (i) Telecommunications/data service providers: TRANSNET will impact both traditional carriers and cloud services/internet service providers in planning, operating and evolving their networks. TRANSNET will have a major impact on reducing the management and operating costs of networks by providing a mechanism for automated service provisioning across all the layers of the network. (ii) Equipment and optical fibre manufacturers and vendors are facing the overall challenge of providing the necessary capacity to satisfy the growing data demands in the most cost-effective way and flexible way. The results of the research will inform industry's R&D directions.
D. Society: The digital infrastructure facilitated through TRANSNET, offers improved quality of life - from facilitating family friendly flexible working through to remote health monitoring of elderly. TRANSNET will inform and contribute to standards bodies and Government policy on infrastructure capability, security and broadband delivery - enabling informed policy formulation as networks evolve from being manually provisioned to autonomous entities.
A. People: TRANSNET will impact the UK and international science and engineering ICT communities by training a new generation of researchers that are able to operate at the interface between optical fibre communication and machine learning, hence creating a pipeline of highly skilled people.
B. (i) Knowledge: TRANSNET will impact through knowledge creation with a focus on dissemination, advocacy and the public understanding of science. Dissemination - in addition to high-quality publication in leading international peer-review journals and conferences, a substantial effort will be dedicated to organise technical workshops including with industrial partners within and outside the programme. Major impact of the work will be through technology demonstrations over the National Dark Fibre Infrastructure (NDFIS) to give carriers the confidence to move towards an intelligent optical network infrastructure. (ii) Advocacy: The Investigators are all known as effective and strong advocates of optical communications and will effectively use their substantial and diverse set of links to industry, opinion formers and the general public to enhance the impact of the project. (iii) Public understanding of science: TRANSNET will seek to use the creation of an intelligent optical network as a means of improving the public understanding of science. This will include public lectures (e.g. at the Royal Society), but also and perhaps more critically through outreach, through science festivals including the Big Bang Fair (targeting UK Young Scientists and Engineers) and the Cambridge Science Festival (targeting the general public).
C. Economy: TRANSNET will impact the economy through improvement in productivity, wealth creation and inward investment as industry seeks to utilise the outcomes of TRANSNET. Specifically, there are a number of beneficiaries beyond the project partners including: (i) Telecommunications/data service providers: TRANSNET will impact both traditional carriers and cloud services/internet service providers in planning, operating and evolving their networks. TRANSNET will have a major impact on reducing the management and operating costs of networks by providing a mechanism for automated service provisioning across all the layers of the network. (ii) Equipment and optical fibre manufacturers and vendors are facing the overall challenge of providing the necessary capacity to satisfy the growing data demands in the most cost-effective way and flexible way. The results of the research will inform industry's R&D directions.
D. Society: The digital infrastructure facilitated through TRANSNET, offers improved quality of life - from facilitating family friendly flexible working through to remote health monitoring of elderly. TRANSNET will inform and contribute to standards bodies and Government policy on infrastructure capability, security and broadband delivery - enabling informed policy formulation as networks evolve from being manually provisioned to autonomous entities.
Organisations
- University College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Alcatel-Lucent (Collaboration)
- Keio University (Collaboration)
- Microsoft Research (Collaboration)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Collaboration)
- SUMITOMO CORPORATION (Collaboration)
- Novosibirsk National Research State University (NSU) (Collaboration)
- Corning Inc. (Collaboration)
- Eblana Photonics Ltd (Collaboration)
- II-VI Incorporated (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Collaboration)
- HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- Mitsubishi Electric (Collaboration)
- National University of Kharkiv (Collaboration)
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of Bern (Collaboration)
- Polatis (Collaboration)
- Fraunhofer Society (Collaboration)
- National Technical University of Ukraine Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Collaboration)
- Huawei Technologies (Collaboration)
- KDDI Foundation (Collaboration)
- Xtera Communications (Collaboration)
- KDDI (Collaboration)
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (Collaboration)
- Clemson University (Collaboration)
- Polatis (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Corning (United States) (Project Partner)
- ADVA Optical Networking (Germany) (Project Partner)
- KDDI R&D Laboratories (Japan) (Project Partner)
- Oclaro (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Microsoft Research (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Eblana Photonics (Ireland) (Project Partner)
- Deutsche Telekom (Germany) (Project Partner)
- Petras Internet of Things Hub (Project Partner)
- University of Bristol (Project Partner)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Ericsson Telecommunication SpA (Project Partner)
- Dithen Ltd (Project Partner)
- BT Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Sumitomo Electric Industries (Japan) (Project Partner)
- Mitsubishi Electric (United States) (Project Partner)
- Naudit NPCN SL (Project Partner)
- Alcatel Submarine Networks (Project Partner)
- University of Oxford (Project Partner)
- University of Southampton (Project Partner)
- University of Leeds (Project Partner)
- Government of the United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Verizon (United States) (Project Partner)
- National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Project Partner)
- Xtera Communications Limited (Project Partner)
- Huawei Technologies (China) (Project Partner)
- Arden Photonics (Project Partner)
Publications
Clark K
(2020)
Low Thermal Sensitivity Hollow Core Fiber for Optically-Switched Data Centers
in Journal of Lightwave Technology
Clark K
(2020)
Synchronous subnanosecond clock and data recovery for optically switched data centres using clock phase caching
in Nature Electronics
D. Lavery And M.S. Erkilinç
(2019)
Coherent Optics for Access Networks
De Moura U
(2021)
Multi-Band Programmable Gain Raman Amplifier
in Journal of Lightwave Technology
Deakin C
(2020)
Noise and distortion analysis of dual frequency comb photonic RF channelizers
in Optics Express
Deakin C
(2021)
Phase noise of electro-optic dual frequency combs.
in Optics letters
| Title | How research on optical networks is helping the planet | Lecture |
| Description | Public lightning lecture organised by UCL Engineering where Dr Alejandra Beghelli discusses why optical fibre is a greener choice than copper to build our fast-speed communication networks and explores what researchers within the Optical Networks Group (ONG) at University College London (UCL) are doing to make our communication networks more sustainable. 20minute lecture followed by a Q&A. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Youtube channel has more than 1000 subscribers and is open to all public on the channel. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqFJHWAKLBA |
| Title | INWED 2021 | Professor Polina Bayvel, UCL Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
| Description | Video prepared to promote International Women in Engineering Day by UCL Engineering, interviewing Professor Polina Bayvel on her experiences as a woman in STEM. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Video shared on UCL Engineering channel which has more than 1000 subscribers and on their Twitter account which has more than 10000 followers to encourage gender equity in STEM. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4taiYgVZPqo |
| Title | International Day of Light 2021 | UCL Engineering |
| Description | Brief youtube video published on the UCL Engineering channel to celebrate UNESCO International Day of Light. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Reaching potential research students and providing a brief education on how light is being used at UCL to change the world. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmEK154d-vc |
| Title | UCL and Corning partnership |
| Description | Video commissioned by UCL EEE showcasing the longstanding relationship between the Optical Networks Group at UCL and Corning Inc., featuring interviews with Professor Polina Bayvel from UCL and Sergejs Makovejs from Corning. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Video prepared by the Department of Electronic and Electronic Engineering at UCL to strengthen relationships and partnerships with industry. Not yet shared on any public channels. |
| URL | https://filmbright.wistia.com/medias/z3ph9zd8dm |
| Title | Video contributions to 2021 Ofcom Technology Futures Report |
| Description | Contributed a video for the 2021 Ofcom Report on Technology Futures - spotlight on the technologies shaping communications for the future, with other leading technologists/experts on what the next game-changing technologies could be. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Video featured in Ofcom's annual report on an international platform which will impact sectors with emerging technologies. |
| URL | https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/emerging-technologies/video-contrib... |
| Description | Numerous new findings on large network throughput and data centre architectures, critical for our digital infrastructure. Especially critical since the formation of the new Equipment Diversification Committee since the research work carried out under this programme can inform it. Very important new results relating to all tresearch themes: - 5 orders of magnitude speed up in traning intelligent topology design using graph neural networks and a definition of a parameter for straightforward calculation of network throughput - Record net data rate of 2.29 Tb/s was received after 75 km transmission using a single 211-GHz optical receiver - a world record result - Licensed reinforcement learning technology to Polatis (Huber&Suhner) |
| Exploitation Route | For the design of next-generation optical networks and next-generation equipment. Findings used by regulators eg OFCOM, government, policymakers and industry. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Retail,Security and Diplomacy,Transport |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/transnet-programme/ |
| Description | This award is approximately half way through and it has stimulated a new activity in Microsoft and with a number of other partners as well as discussion at Government level about network economics and provision of broadband services. In addition, many collaborations have been set up that are new - for example with National Institute for Information & Communications Technologies (Japan), KDDI (Japan), Huawei, Nokia-ASN (Alcatel Submarine Networks) (France) and numerous others who are interested to collaborate in this program and have provided additional funding or sent researchers to work on the TRANSNET testbed. Numerous publications and new awards are a direct outcome of this research, transforming the research agenda internationally and highlighting the urgent need for adaptive, flexible, intelligent and secure networks. The importance of achieving this has been amply demonstrated durign the past 2 years and the COVID19 pandemic. The research is continuing with leading industrial groups to achieve the research goals. Major outputs have included the developments of new quantum internet area, the development of intelligent communication line plant - and the emergence of digital twins as a necessity for intelligent monitoring of network state, rather than just intelligent transceivers. Growth of the understanding where AI can aid network design, development and operation and just how much training is needed for useful impacts. One of the most powerful outputs has been that of PhD graduates and early career researchers trained within the programmes - which are contributing greatly to the design of the next-generation networks. Research informed the contribution to the discussion which led to the emergence of Future Communications Systems Platform Hubs and the Telecoms Diversification TaskForce https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/telecoms-diversification-taskforce-findings-and-report/telecoms-diversification-taskforce-findings-and-report as well as the OFCOM Future Technologies Report: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and-statements/category-2/emerging-technologies |
| First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Electronics,Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Consultancy for UK defence solution centre |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | PLG Report: Future Horizons for Photonics Research 2030 and Beyond |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://photonicsuk.org/future-horizons-for-photonics-research-2030-and-beyond |
| Description | UKRI Early Career Researcher Forum (Anastasiia Vasylchenkova) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/news/ukri-to-pilot-early-career-researcher-forum/ |
| Description | WHITE PAPER on Co-creating the UK's longer-term telecommunications research vision |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | The white paper proposes with a number of recommendations. (1) to create a UK Long Term Telecommunications Research Strategy Forum to advise the Government on the long-term research priorities, opportunities and risks for the telecommunication domain; (2) to create a National Centre for Translational Telecommunications Research; (3) to create a funding framework that incentivizes collaboration-for-impact excellence alongside competition-for-excellence, and finally; (4) to develop recommended frameworks and approaches to help lower the barriers to collaboration between academic institutions and industrial exploitation of academic research. Putting these into practice will improve the digital communications infrastructure and the continued R&D to sustain its development! |
| Description | (REAL-NET) - REAL-time monitoring and mitigation of nonlinear effects in optical NETworks |
| Amount | € 1,657,759 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 813144 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | Advanced Optical Frequency Comb Technologies and Applications |
| Amount | £1,722,851 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W002868/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 03/2027 |
| Description | Advanced Optical Frequency Comb Technologies and Applications |
| Amount | £1,722,850 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W002868/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 09/2026 |
| Description | Advanced Signal Generation And Detection System For Next-generation Ultra-wideband Communication Networks |
| Amount | £989,900 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V007734/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 01/2024 |
| Description | Alcatel Submarine Networks now Nokia - EP/R035342/1 |
| Amount | £43,410 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alcatel-Lucent |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | France |
| Start | 06/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | All-Raman optical amplification for next Generation ultra-wideband Optical Networks (ARGON) |
| Amount | £978,033 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/V000969/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 08/2023 |
| Description | Beyond Exabit Optical Communications: from new devices, via new dimensions to new systems (Filipe M. Ferreira) |
| Amount | £1,224,497 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/T041218/1 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Borysiewicz Interdisciplinary Fellowship |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | Compressed Sensing For Medical Applications |
| Amount | £79,753 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W015412/1 |
| Organisation | Aston University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Compressed sensing for medical applications |
| Amount | £79,752 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W015412/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Containment, Avalanches and Optimisation in Spreading-processes (CAOS) |
| Amount | € 224,933 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 835913 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 08/2019 |
| End | 07/2021 |
| Description | DYNAMOS (DYNAmic and reconfigurable data centre networks with Modular Optical Subsystems) |
| Amount | £777,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 07/2026 |
| Description | Development of a pre-commercialisation frequency comb prototype for cloud data centre networks and metro telecom systems |
| Amount | £87,321 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | D2U 2020-22 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Donation |
| Amount | £20,800 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R035342/1 |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 06/2018 |
| End | 06/2019 |
| Description | Extremely Wideband Optical Fibre Communication Systems |
| Amount | £738,958 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W015714/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2022 |
| End | 01/2025 |
| Description | Impact Acceleration Award |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | InnovateUK grant: The Quantum Data Centre of the Future |
| Amount | £845,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Lab2Lab Funding Program |
| Amount | € 1,840 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 2021_02 |
| Organisation | Technical University of Dresden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Description | Machine Learning in Optical Networks (MENTOR) |
| Amount | € 1,625,503 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 956713 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | Microsoft Reseach - EP/R035342/1 |
| Amount | £10,983 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| End | 06/2019 |
| Description | Microsoft Research Cambridge Gift Scheme |
| Amount | £90,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 04/2018 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Microsoft research award |
| Amount | £13,800 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Department | Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Microsoft studentship |
| Amount | £71,650 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Department | Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| End | 10/2019 |
| Description | Microsoft studentship - Allesandro Ottino |
| Amount | £73,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R035342/1 |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| End | 06/2022 |
| Description | Microsoft studentship-Hubert Dziecol |
| Amount | £48,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R513143/1 (50%) and EPSRC DTC award EP/R513143/1 |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Global |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories-EP/R035342/1 |
| Amount | $100,000 (USD) |
| Funding ID | EP/R035342/1 |
| Organisation | Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 04/2016 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Modelling of ultra-wide band transmission (AV) |
| Amount | £72,042 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ECF-2020-150 |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Neuronal networks from Cortical human iPSCs for Machine Learning Processing (NEU-ChiP) |
| Amount | € 3,461,780 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 964877 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Neuronal networks from Cortical human iPSCs for Machine Learning Processing- NEU-ChiP |
| Amount | € 3,460,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 964877 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 08/2024 |
| Description | Novel tunable dissipative optical frequency combs: from visible to mid-infrared (Auro M. Perego) |
| Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | Optically-switched Data Centre Networks Using Thermal-insensitive Hollow-Core Fibre |
| Amount | £24,491 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | OptoCloud: Ultra-fast optically interconnected heterogeneous Data Centers |
| Amount | £1,120,128 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T026081/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | Photonic-assisted Real-time Oscilloscope |
| Amount | £74,839 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | PIF/R1/180001 |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| End | 04/2022 |
| Description | Photonically-synthesized Digital-to-Analogue Conversion |
| Amount | £368,844 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/R041792/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2018 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowship - Highly Integrated Coherent optical fibre Communications |
| Amount | £225,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 08/2026 |
| Description | Superchannel Transponders for the Big Data Era |
| Amount | £202,093 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X019241/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 04/2024 |
| Description | The quantum data centre of the future |
| Amount | £8,918,816 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 10004793 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| Description | Ultra-low latency clock-synchronised transceivers for future 6G radio access networks |
| Amount | £625,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 07/2027 |
| Description | the British Council Women in STEM Scholarships programme for 2023-24 |
| Amount | £180,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | WISF22-002 |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Title | Associated research code for a research paper |
| Description | The associated research code in Github for the paper entitled 'A Closed-Form Approximation of the Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-Channel Stimulated Raman Scattering in Journal of Lightwave Technology'. DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2019.2895237 |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | A number of research colleagues from various institutions have accessed the code for reuse in their own research |
| URL | https://github.com/dsemrau/ISRSGNmodel |
| Title | Deep Reinforcement Learning method for control parameter optimisation |
| Description | PhD student Zacharaya Shabka has developed a Deep Reinforcement Learning method as a result of a collaboration with HUBER+SUHNER Polatis. The tool will be used to improve control-process optimisation, providing performance and manufacturing benefits. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | UCL Business (UCLB), the commercialization company for University College London (UCL), has entered into a commercial licensing agreement with Polatis for the use of the DRL technology, developed directly as a result of Zacharaya's PhD project. UCLB has also filed a patent application for the method developed by Zacharaya to generate optimized control parameters in a production scalable manner. |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/electronic-electrical-engineering/news/2022/nov/leading-uk-photonics-company-l... |
| Title | High-speed digital transmitter and receiver and extension to wideband operation |
| Description | We have introduced new pilot-based digital signal processing algorithms to enable increased modulation order optical fibre communication and detection and we have demonstrated its efficiency through a range of experiments. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This has been used to demonstrate a number of optical communications records - record transmission capacity for trans-Atlantic transmission using state-of-the art wideband hybrid Raman amplifiers in collaboration with Xtera (UK-based industrial company specialising in submarine systems) - reported in OFC2019 conference and published in Journal of Lightwave Technology. Featured in MadeinUCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/stories/ucl-researchers-set-record-fastest-ever-data-rate - a 12-months visitor (September 2018 - August 2019) from the leading Japanese company KDDI used this facility to demonstrate highest order modulation format transmission (1024QAM) - results reported at ECOC2019 - System used for experiments in collaboration with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL, USA) and National Institute of Communications. - |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/stories/ucl-researchers-set-record-fastest-ever-data-rate |
| Title | TrafPy |
| Description | It is an open access framework that is compatible with any simulation, emulation or experimentation environment. It can be used for standardized benchmarking and for investigating the properties and limitations of network systems. It provides a way to benchmark systems against those developed by other research teams - a crucial element for understanding whether progress is being made. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The PhD student, Christopher Parsonson, who developed this tool was featured in a news feature on Elsevier Connect: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/advancing-data-center-networking-through-open-access Recent paper with improvements on the framework was also accepted for presentation at OFC Conference taking place 05-09 March 2023. |
| URL | https://github.com/cwfparsonson/trafpy |
| Title | Alpha Model |
| Description | Trained MPNN model to infer throughput values from a optical network topology with nodes beteween 10 - 15. This model has been trained with the Alpha training dataset also available in this data repository, where the throughput labels are calculated using ILP solutions to the maximal routing and wavelength assignment problem. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/model/Alpha_Model/21689105/1 |
| Title | Alpha Test Datset |
| Description | This set of data houses the 6000 graphs used for testing the beta model that has been trained on the beta dataset. It houses topologies generated via SNR-BA [1] with nodes scattered uniformly randomly with a minimum radius of 100km between them over a grid the size of north america. The throughput labels are calculated via maximising the routing and wavelength assignment with zero blocking using an integer linear programming formulation and implementing the physical layer impairments using the gaussian noise model. [1] R. Matzner, D. Semrau, R. Luo, G. Zervas, and P. Bayvel, 'Making intelligent topology design choices: understanding structural and physical property performance implications in optical networks [Invited]', J. Opt. Commun. Netw., JOCN, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. D53-D67, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1364/JOCN.423490. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Alpha_Test_Datset/21689078/1 |
| Title | Alpha Training Dataset |
| Description | Training dataset for nodes between 10-15 nodes with throughput labels. The graphs are generated by the SNR-BA [1] model with nodes scattered uniformly over a grid the size of north america with mimum distances between nodes set to 100km. The throughput labels are generated by maximising the routing and wavelength assignment by a integer linear programming formulation at zero blocking and calculating the physical layer impairements via the gaussian noise model. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Alpha_Training_Dataset/21689072/1 |
| Title | BA Test Datset |
| Description | This dataset consists of 25-45 node graphs generated via BA [1] with uniformly randomly scattered nodes over a grid the size of north america with a minimim of 100km between nodes. This is a test dataset to test how the model reacts to different structures of graphs. [1] A.-L. Barabasi and R. Albert, 'Emergence of scaling in random networks', Science, vol. 286, no. 5439, pp. 509-512, Oct. 1999, doi: 10.1126/science.286.5439.509. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/BA_Test_Datset/21689075/1 |
| Title | Beta Model |
| Description | Trained MPNN model to infer throughput values from a optical network topology with nodes beteween 25 - 45. This model has been trained with the Beta training dataset also available in this data repository. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/model/Beta_Model/21689111/1 |
| Title | Beta Skewed Traffic Test Dataset - gamma=0.2 |
| Description | This set of data houses a test set of 1000 graphs with locally skewed traffic at a rate of gamma=0.2. The throughput labels are calculated with the same methodology as the other beta sets just subjected to different traffic conditions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Beta_Skewed_Traffic_Test_Dataset_-_gamma_0_2/21689093/1 |
| Title | Beta Skewed Traffic Test Dataset - gamma=0.4 |
| Description | This set of data houses a test set of 1000 graphs with locally skewed traffic at a rate of gamma=0.4. The throughput labels are calculated with the same methodology as the other beta sets just subjected to different traffic conditions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Beta_Skewed_Traffic_Test_Dataset_-_gamma_0_4/21689096/1 |
| Title | Beta Skewed Traffic Test Dataset - gamma=0.6 |
| Description | This set of data houses a test set of 1000 graphs with locally skewed traffic at a rate of gamma=0.6. The throughput labels are calculated with the same methodology as the other beta sets just subjected to different traffic conditions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Major impact across the TRANSNET programme within the TRANSNET Virtual Lab - enabling a wide range of network topologies for network design, training, analysis and quantifiable comparisons. This has enriched the area of network design and is expected to be widely used by partners and well beyond the programme. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Beta_Skewed_Traffic_Test_Dataset_-_gamma_0_6/21689084/1 |
| Title | Beta Skewed Traffic Test Dataset - gamma=0.8 |
| Description | This set of data houses a test set of 1000 graphs with locally skewed traffic at a rate of gamma=0.8. The throughput labels are calculated with the same methodology as the other beta sets just subjected to different traffic conditions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Beta_Skewed_Traffic_Test_Dataset_-_gamma_0_8/21689081/1 |
| Title | Beta Skewed Traffic Test Dataset - gamma=1.0 |
| Description | This set of data houses a test set of 1000 graphs with locally skewed traffic at a rate of gamma=1.0. The throughput labels are calculated with the same methodology as the other beta sets just subjected to different traffic conditions. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Beta_Skewed_Traffic_Test_Dataset_-_gamma_1_0/21689099/1 |
| Title | Beta Test Dataset |
| Description | This set of data houses the 5000 graphs used for testing the beta model that has been trained on the beta dataset. It houses topologies generated via SNR-BA [1] with nodes scattered uniformly randomly with a minimum radius of 100km between them over a grid the size of north america. The throughput labels are calculated via maximising the routing and wavelength assignment with zero blocking using first-fit k-shortest-paths and implementing the physical layer impairments using the gaussian noise model. [1] R. Matzner, D. Semrau, R. Luo, G. Zervas, and P. Bayvel, 'Making intelligent topology design choices: understanding structural and physical property performance implications in optical networks [Invited]', J. Opt. Commun. Netw., JOCN, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. D53-D67, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1364/JOCN.423490. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Beta_Test_Dataset/21689090/1 |
| Title | Beta Training Dataset |
| Description | This training dataset included optical network topologies that are generated via SNR-BA method [1] with nodes scattered uniformly randomly over a grid the size of the north american continent. Here there is a minimum radius that is adhered to (100km) between the nodes. The nodes are between scales of 25-45 nodes. The routings of the network are computed under uniform bandwidth conditions with the first-fit k-shortest-path (FF-kSP) algorithm and sequential loading (SL) until the maximum state of the network is found at zero blocking. The Gaussian noise (GN) model is used to calculate the signal-to-noise ratio of paths and the total throughput of the network. This throughput is given as a training label. [1] R. Matzner, D. Semrau, R. Luo, G. Zervas, and P. Bayvel, 'Making intelligent topology design choices: understanding structural and physical property performance implications in optical networks [Invited]', J. Opt. Commun. Netw., JOCN, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. D53-D67, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1364/JOCN.423490. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Beta_Training_Dataset/21695687/1 |
| Title | Clock Synchronized Transmission of 51.2 GBd Optical Packets for Optically Switched Data Center Interconnects |
| Description | This data was used to plot the figures in the final accepted version of "Clock Synchronized Transmission of 51.2 GBdOptical Packets for Optically Switched Data Center Interconnects" hosted on UCL Discovery. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Clock_Synchronized_Transmission_of_51_2_GBd_Optical_Packets_f... |
| Title | Clock Synchronized Transmission of 51.2 GBd Optical Packets for Optically Switched Data Center Interconnects |
| Description | This data was used to plot the figures in the final accepted version of "Clock Synchronized Transmission of 51.2 GBdOptical Packets for Optically Switched Data Center Interconnects" hosted on UCL Discovery. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Clock_Synchronized_Transmission_of_51_2_GBd_Optical_Packets_f... |
| Title | Communications with Guaranteed Low Latency and Bandwidth using Frequency Referenced Multiplexing |
| Description | This is the dataset for Communications with Guaranteed Low Latency and Bandwidth using Frequency Referenced Multiplexing |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Communications_with_Guaranteed_Low_Latency_and_Bandwidth_usin... |
| Title | Communications with Guaranteed Low Latency and Bandwidth using Frequency Referenced Multiplexing |
| Description | This is the dataset for Communications with Guaranteed Low Latency and Bandwidth using Frequency Referenced Multiplexing |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Communications_with_Guaranteed_Low_Latency_and_Bandwidth_usin... |
| Title | Coupled Transceivers-Fiber Nonlinearity Compensation Based on Machine Learning for Probabilistic Shaping System |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://researchdata.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/460 |
| Title | Data accompanying Optics Letters "Maximization or leveling: characterization of the trade-offs for the transmission throughput in ultrawideband optical transmission" |
| Description | The data set contains raw data and ready-to-plot data for the paper in Optics Letters entitled "Maximization or leveling: characterization of the trade-offs for the transmission throughput in ultrawideband optical transmission" by Anastasiia Vasylchenkova, Eric Sillekens, Robert I. Killey, Polina Bayvel from Optical Networks Group, UCL, UK (https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.470105). The data is accompanied by two scripts: · long-script.m is using raw data of mutual information, and optimised launch power coefficients to perform additional processing to the dependency of mutual information (MI) and its gain achievable by the launch power pre-emphasis. · short-script.m is using ready-to-plot data to reproduce the figures from the paper. There are 4 files containing figures data: o Fig1OL.mat: contains values of excess kurtosis \Phi (as variable \PhiM) as a function of two constellation shaping adjustment parameters \nu_1 (as variable \nu1ARR) and \nu_2 (as variable \nu2ARR). See eq. 4 from the manuscript for notations. This data is displayed in figure 1. o panes.mat: contains values of MI achieved by the unconstrained launch power pre-emphasis (as variable MIuncon) and under different constraints (as variable MIcon...). All MI values are given as a function of shaping adjustment parameters \nu_1 (as variable \nu1ARR) and \nu_2 (as variable \nu2ARR). This data is displayed in figure 3. o inset.mat: contains values of MI for various link lengths (as variable distances) achieved by the unconstrained launch power pre-emphasis (as variable MIunconmax) and under different constraints (as variable MIconmax...). It is also accompanied by the MI achieved by the constellation shaping only (as variable MIshapingmax). This data is displayed in figure 4. o powers.mat: contains the optimal launch power as a function of the channel frequency (as variable fs) for the unconstrained launch power pre-emphasis (as variable power_uncon) and under different constraints (as variable power...). It is also accompanied by the optimal uniform launch power values (as variable powerun). The values are provided for the 18 spans setup. This data is not displayed in the final version of the manuscript but was requested by the reviewer, therefore we are including it in this dataset. Both scripts are runnable from MATLAB with no additional installation needed. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_accompanying_Optics_Letters_Maximization_or_leveling_cha... |
| Title | Data accompanying Optics Letters "Maximization or leveling: characterization of the trade-offs for the transmission throughput in ultrawideband optical transmission" |
| Description | The data set contains raw data and ready-to-plot data for the paper in Optics Letters entitled "Maximization or leveling: characterization of the trade-offs for the transmission throughput in ultrawideband optical transmission" by Anastasiia Vasylchenkova, Eric Sillekens, Robert I. Killey, Polina Bayvel from Optical Networks Group, UCL, UK (https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.470105). The data is accompanied by two scripts: · long-script.m is using raw data of mutual information, and optimised launch power coefficients to perform additional processing to the dependency of mutual information (MI) and its gain achievable by the launch power pre-emphasis. · short-script.m is using ready-to-plot data to reproduce the figures from the paper. There are 4 files containing figures data: o Fig1OL.mat: contains values of excess kurtosis \Phi (as variable \PhiM) as a function of two constellation shaping adjustment parameters \nu_1 (as variable \nu1ARR) and \nu_2 (as variable \nu2ARR). See eq. 4 from the manuscript for notations. This data is displayed in figure 1. o panes.mat: contains values of MI achieved by the unconstrained launch power pre-emphasis (as variable MIuncon) and under different constraints (as variable MIcon...). All MI values are given as a function of shaping adjustment parameters \nu_1 (as variable \nu1ARR) and \nu_2 (as variable \nu2ARR). This data is displayed in figure 3. o inset.mat: contains values of MI for various link lengths (as variable distances) achieved by the unconstrained launch power pre-emphasis (as variable MIunconmax) and under different constraints (as variable MIconmax...). It is also accompanied by the MI achieved by the constellation shaping only (as variable MIshapingmax). This data is displayed in figure 4. o powers.mat: contains the optimal launch power as a function of the channel frequency (as variable fs) for the unconstrained launch power pre-emphasis (as variable power_uncon) and under different constraints (as variable power...). It is also accompanied by the optimal uniform launch power values (as variable powerun). The values are provided for the 18 spans setup. This data is not displayed in the final version of the manuscript but was requested by the reviewer, therefore we are including it in this dataset. Both scripts are runnable from MATLAB with no additional installation needed. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_accompanying_Optics_Letters_Maximization_or_leveling_cha... |
| Title | Data accompanying Optics Letters "Maximization or leveling: characterization of the trade-offs for the transmission throughput in ultrawideband optical transmission" |
| Description | The data set contains raw data and ready-to-plot data for the paper in Optics Letters entitled "Maximization or leveling: characterization of the trade-offs for the transmission throughput in ultrawideband optical transmission" by Anastasiia Vasylchenkova, Eric Sillekens, Robert I. Killey, Polina Bayvel from Optical Networks Group, UCL, UK (https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.470105). The data is accompanied by two scripts: · long-script.m is using raw data of mutual information, and optimised launch power coefficients to perform additional processing to the dependency of mutual information (MI) and its gain achievable by the launch power pre-emphasis. · short-script.m is using ready-to-plot data to reproduce the figures from the paper. There are 4 files containing figures data: o Fig1OL.mat: contains values of excess kurtosis \Phi (as variable \PhiM) as a function of two constellation shaping adjustment parameters \nu_1 (as variable \nu1ARR) and \nu_2 (as variable \nu2ARR). See eq. 4 from the manuscript for notations. This data is displayed in figure 1. o panes.mat: contains values of MI achieved by the unconstrained launch power pre-emphasis (as variable MIuncon) and under different constraints (as variable MIcon...). All MI values are given as a function of shaping adjustment parameters \nu_1 (as variable \nu1ARR) and \nu_2 (as variable \nu2ARR). This data is displayed in figure 3. o inset.mat: contains values of MI for various link lengths (as variable distances) achieved by the unconstrained launch power pre-emphasis (as variable MIunconmax) and under different constraints (as variable MIconmax...). It is also accompanied by the MI achieved by the constellation shaping only (as variable MIshapingmax). This data is displayed in figure 4. o powers.mat: contains the optimal launch power as a function of the channel frequency (as variable fs) for the unconstrained launch power pre-emphasis (as variable power_uncon) and under different constraints (as variable power...). It is also accompanied by the optimal uniform launch power values (as variable powerun). The values are provided for the 18 spans setup. This data is not displayed in the final version of the manuscript but was requested by the reviewer, therefore we are including it in this dataset. Both scripts are runnable from MATLAB with no additional installation needed. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_accompanying_Optics_Letters_Maximization_or_leveling_cha... |
| Title | Data for "All-fibre heterogenously-integrated frequency comb generation using silicon core fibre" |
| Description | Experimental data used in published version of [Sohanpal, R., Ren, H., Shen, L. et al. All-fibre heterogeneously-integrated frequency comb generation using silicon core fibre. Nat Commun 13, 3992 (2022)]. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_for_All-fibre_heterogenously-integrated_frequency_comb_g... |
| Title | Data for "All-fibre heterogenously-integrated frequency comb generation using silicon core fibre" |
| Description | Experimental data used in published version of [Sohanpal, R., Ren, H., Shen, L. et al. All-fibre heterogeneously-integrated frequency comb generation using silicon core fibre. Nat Commun 13, 3992 (2022)]. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_for_All-fibre_heterogenously-integrated_frequency_comb_g... |
| Title | Data for publication (doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2020.3046076) |
| Description | Data for the publication Digital Back Propagation via Sub-band Processing in Spatial Multiplexing Systems in JLT (doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2020.3046076) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | n/a |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_underpinning_article_Digital_Back_Propagation_via_Sub-ba... |
| Title | Data for publication (doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2020.3007622) |
| Description | Data for publication (doi.org/10.1109/TCOMM.2020.3007622) |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Knowledge exchange |
| URL | https://github.com/abusaadah/WeSNet_2019 |
| Title | Data for publication (doi.org/10.1109/jlt.2020.3004645) |
| Description | Data for publication (doi.org/10.1109/jlt.2020.3004645) |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Knowledge exchange |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/An_Artificial_Intelligence_Approach_to_Optimal_Control_of_Sub... |
| Title | Data supporting "Gaussian Processes based Optimized Launch Power for Nonlinear Optical Fiber Transmission Links" |
| Description | Repository of raw data files and Matlab scripts required to reproduce results presented in "Gaussian Processes based Optimized Launch Power for Nonlinear Optical Fiber Transmission Links" %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Each dataset contains the received constellation signal to noise ratio as a function of the launch optical power into each span. Experiment: 10 spans, 100km of SSMF with launch VOA and post span EDFA. Signal 31.7 GBd PM-QPSK private signal modulated by Ciena WaveLogic3 and received by a 25 GHz ICR , 100GSa DSO, and private DSP. The data file in Matlab format 7.3, contains a single structure with: Results.Description - some notes Results.LP - launch powers into each span, and receiver [dBm] Results.mleSNR - constellation SNR [dB] Results.base_LP - prior knowledge or start point or sweep centre of optimum [dBm] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SingleChannelRandom_170919_R1_Public.mat Analyze with either GP_optimise_hypopt.m, GQ_optimise.m or PT_optimise.m There are three Matlab scripts to find the optimum launch power based on: GP - a Gaussian Process, GQ - a generalised Quadratic and PT - a physical transmission model. They have options for number of samples, GP_optimise_hypopt has options to optimise hyper-parameters and to include hyper-prior training. Used to produce figures 2,3,5 and 6 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SingleChannelScan_200820_R4_Public.mat Analyze with PowerSweepCalc.m Used to produce figures 4 SingleChannelScan_290720_R2_Public.mat used to check PT result %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% SingleChannelBayesian_140720_R1_Public.m SingleChannelBayesian_140720_R2_Public.m SingleChannelBayesian_140720_R3_Public.m SingleChannelBayesian_140720_R5_Public.m SingleChannelBayesian_140720_R6_Public.m 5 repeat runs Analyze with PlotBayesianResults.m Used to produce figures 7 and 8 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% EmulatedSingleChannelBayesian_140720_Public.m BayesOpt.m MeasureSNR.m provide an emulation of the Bayesian aquisition based optimisation. The experimental measurement of SNR is replaced by an emulation based on the PT model and provided by the MeasureSNR.m function. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% This work was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through programme grant TRANSNET EP/R035342/1 and Ciena. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/312803 |
| Title | Data supporting the paper "Modeling performance of the clock phase caching approach to clock and data recovery" |
| Description | This data was used to plot the figures in the final accepted version of "Modeling performance of the clock phase caching approach to clock and data recovery" hosted on UCL Discovery. The full published version of this paper may be found in the Journal of Lightwave Technology at 10.1109/jlt.2021.3130955. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Modeling_The_Performance_of_the_Clock_Phase_Caching_Approach_... |
| Title | Data supporting the paper "Modeling performance of the clock phase caching approach to clock and data recovery" |
| Description | This data was used to plot the figures in the final accepted version of "Modeling performance of the clock phase caching approach to clock and data recovery" hosted on UCL Discovery. The full published version of this paper may be found in the Journal of Lightwave Technology at 10.1109/jlt.2021.3130955. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Modeling_The_Performance_of_the_Clock_Phase_Caching_Approach_... |
| Title | Data to reproduce the figures from the paper "A Closed-Form Expression for the Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-Channel Stimulated Raman Scattering Extended for Arbitrary Loss and Fibre Length" |
| Description | This data provides the data points of Figures 1-5 from the paper "A Closed-Form Expression for the Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-Channel Stimulated Raman Scattering Extended for Arbitrary Loss and Fibre Length", submitted to the Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT). Each figure is in separate folders. For each figure, you will find the corresponding TXT file used to plot the data of the figures in the paper. The TXT files are made of columns, where each column represents one of the curves in the graphs. The titles of each column are self-explanatory so you can easily related the column with the graphs in the paper. Please, read the file "read me" if you find it in the relevant figure folder. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_to_reproduce_the_figures_from_the_paper_A_Closed-Form_Ex... |
| Title | Data to reproduce the figures from the paper "A Closed-Form Expression for the Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-Channel Stimulated Raman Scattering Extended for Arbitrary Loss and Fibre Length" |
| Description | This data provides the data points of Figures 1-5 from the paper "A Closed-Form Expression for the Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-Channel Stimulated Raman Scattering Extended for Arbitrary Loss and Fibre Length", submitted to the Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT). Each figure is in separate folders. For each figure, you will find the corresponding TXT file used to plot the data of the figures in the paper. The TXT files are made of columns, where each column represents one of the curves in the graphs. The titles of each column are self-explanatory so you can easily related the column with the graphs in the paper. Please, read the file "read me" if you find it in the relevant figure folder. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_to_reproduce_the_figures_from_the_paper_A_Closed-Form_Ex... |
| Title | Data to reproduce the figures from the paper "On the impact of launch power optimisation and transceiver noise on the performance of ultra-wideband transmission systems" |
| Description | This data provides the data points of Figures 3-11 from the the paper "On the impact of launch power optimisation and transceiver noise on the performance of ultra-wideband transmission systems", submitted in the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN).Each figure are in separate folders. For each figure you will find the corresponding TXT file used to plot the data of the figures in the paper. The TXT files is made of columns, where each column represent one of the curves in the graphs. The titles of each columns are self explanatory so you can easily related the columns with the graphs in the paper.Please, read the file "read me" if you find it in the relevant figure folder. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_to_reproduce_the_figures_from_the_paper_On_the_impact_of... |
| Title | Data to reproduce the figures from the paper "On the impact of launch power optimisation and transceiver noise on the performance of ultra-wideband transmission systems" |
| Description | This data provides the data points of Figures 3-11 from the the paper "On the impact of launch power optimisation and transceiver noise on the performance of ultra-wideband transmission systems", submitted in the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN).Each figure are in separate folders. For each figure you will find the corresponding TXT file used to plot the data of the figures in the paper. The TXT files is made of columns, where each column represent one of the curves in the graphs. The titles of each columns are self explanatory so you can easily related the columns with the graphs in the paper.Please, read the file "read me" if you find it in the relevant figure folder. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Data_to_reproduce_the_figures_from_the_paper_On_the_impact_of... |
| Title | Data underpinning article "Communication System Based on Periodic Nonlinear Fourier Transform with Exact Inverse Transformation" |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Data underpinning article "Communication System Using Periodic Nonlinear Fourier Transform Based on Riemann-Hilbert Problem" |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Data underpinning article "Linear and nonlinear impairments of few-mode fibers with partial coupling between groups of quasi-degenerate modes" |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Data underpinning article "Signal modulation and processing in nonlinear fibre channels by employing the Riemann-Hilbert problem" |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Data underpinning article: "Artificial Neural Network-Based Equaliser in the Nonlinear Fourier Domain for Fibre-Optic Communication Applications" |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | ER Test Dataset |
| Description | This dataset consists of 25-45 node graphs generated via ER [1] with uniformly randomly scattered nodes over a grid the size of north america with a minimim of 100km between nodes. This is a test dataset to test how the model reacts to different structures of graphs. [1] P. Erdos and A. Renyi, 'On the Evolution of Random Graphs', in Publication of the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1960, pp. 17-61. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/ER_Test_Dataset/21689087/1 |
| Title | Gamma Model |
| Description | Trained MPNN model to infer throughput values from a optical network topology with nodes beteween 55 - 100. This model has been trained with the Gamma training dataset also available in this data repository. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/model/Gamma_Model/21689108/1 |
| Title | Gamma Test Dataset |
| Description | This set of data houses the 5000 graphs used for testing the gamma model that has been trained on the gamma dataset. It houses topologies generated via SNR-BA [1] with nodes scattered uniformly randomly with a minimum radius of 100km between them over a grid the size of north america. The throughput labels are calculated via maximising the routing and wavelength assignment with zero blocking using first-fit k-shortest-paths and implementing the physical layer impairments using the gaussian noise model. [1] R. Matzner, D. Semrau, R. Luo, G. Zervas, and P. Bayvel, 'Making intelligent topology design choices: understanding structural and physical property performance implications in optical networks [Invited]', J. Opt. Commun. Netw., JOCN, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. D53-D67, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1364/JOCN.423490. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Gamma_Test_Dataset/21695996/1 |
| Title | Gamma Training Dataset |
| Description | This training dataset included optical network topologies that are generated via SNR-BA method [1] with nodes scattered uniformly randomly over a grid the size of the north american continent. Here there is a minimum radius that is adhered to (100km) between the nodes. The nodes are between scales of 55-100 nodes. The routings of the network are computed under uniform bandwidth conditions with the first-fit k-shortest-path (FF-kSP) algorithm and sequential loading (SL) until the maximum state of the network is found at zero blocking. The Gaussian noise (GN) model is used to calculate the signal-to-noise ratio of paths and the total throughput of the network. This throughput is given as a training label. [1] R. Matzner, D. Semrau, R. Luo, G. Zervas, and P. Bayvel, 'Making intelligent topology design choices: understanding structural and physical property performance implications in optical networks [Invited]', J. Opt. Commun. Netw., JOCN, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. D53-D67, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1364/JOCN.423490. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not aware of any impact. |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Gamma_Training_Dataset/21696008/1 |
| Title | Geometrically Optimised Constellations for 12dB, 16dB and 20dB SNR AWGN channel |
| Description | Geometrically Shaped Constellations for an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. For 12 dB, 16 dB and 20 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) a 64, 256 and 1024 point constellation respectively are numerically optimised to maximise generalised mutual informatio (GMI) for the given SNRs.These constellations are the result of a numerical optmisation method similar to [https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2018.8535358]. Every text file has the cooridinates for the inphase and quadrature components of each point in the first and the second column respectively. The bit mapping for each point is natural mapping for the line number, i.e., 000 001 010 011 100 etc. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Knowledge exchange |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/Geometrically_Optimised_Constellations_for_12dB_16dB_and_20dB_SNR_AWG... |
| Title | High-cardinality Geometrically Shaped Constellation for the AWGN channel and optical fibre channel |
| Description | Optimised constellation for the paper High-Cardinality Geometrical Constellation Shaping for the Nonlinear Fibre Channel. Each file is a constellation optimised for the SNR in dB mentioned in the filename, containing the coordinates of the constellation points as comma-separated values. Each column represents a dimension and each row is a separate constellation point. The bit labels for the generalised mutual information (GMI) are implied and follow natural mapping, the first row is 0,..,0,0 the second 0,...0,1 the third 0,..,1,0 the fourth 0,...,1,1 etc and the last 1,...,1,1. The file named gmi.txt is the GMI for the resulting constellations. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/High-cardinality_Geometrically_Shaped_Constellation_for_the_A... |
| Title | High-cardinality Geometrically Shaped Constellation for the AWGN channel and optical fibre channel |
| Description | Optimised constellation for the paper High-Cardinality Geometrical Constellation Shaping for the Nonlinear Fibre Channel. Each file is a constellation optimised for the SNR in dB mentioned in the filename, containing the coordinates of the constellation points as comma-separated values. Each column represents a dimension and each row is a separate constellation point. The bit labels for the generalised mutual information (GMI) are implied and follow natural mapping, the first row is 0,..,0,0 the second 0,...0,1 the third 0,..,1,0 the fourth 0,...,1,1 etc and the last 1,...,1,1. The file named gmi.txt is the GMI for the resulting constellations. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/High-cardinality_Geometrically_Shaped_Constellation_for_the_A... |
| Title | Impact of Dispersion Fluctuations in a Dual-core Fibre Optical Parametric Amplifier |
| Description | |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://researchdata.aston.ac.uk/id/eprint/505 |
| Title | Low-latency Wavelength-switched Clock-synchronized Data Centre Interconnects enabled by Hollow Core Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fiber |
| Description | The uploaded file is the dataset for our manuscirpt named: "Low-latency Wavelength-switched Clock-synchronized Data Centre Interconnects enabled by Hollow Core Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fiber", which is submitted and under review. The data is generated through rigorous optical data transmission and optical component characterization experiment. The experimental set-up was built and tested in 2022. MATLAB is used to further process the captured data. The data uploaded is used to plot figures in the submitted manusciprt. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Low-latency_Wavelength-switched_Clock-synchronized_Data_Centr... |
| Title | Low-latency Wavelength-switched Clock-synchronized Data Centre Interconnects enabled by Hollow Core Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fiber |
| Description | The uploaded file is the dataset for our manuscirpt named: "Low-latency Wavelength-switched Clock-synchronized Data Centre Interconnects enabled by Hollow Core Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Fiber", which is submitted and under review. The data is generated through rigorous optical data transmission and optical component characterization experiment. The experimental set-up was built and tested in 2022. MATLAB is used to further process the captured data. The data uploaded is used to plot figures in the submitted manusciprt. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Low-latency_Wavelength-switched_Clock-synchronized_Data_Centr... |
| Title | Modeling The Performance of the Clock Phase Caching Approach to Clock and Data Recovery |
| Description | Optical switching could enable data center networks to keep pace with the rapid growth of intra-data center traffic, however, sub-nanosecond clock and data recovery time is crucial to enabling optically-switched data center networks to transport small packet dominated data center traffic with over 90% efficiency. The paper to which this dataset belongs reviews the clock-synchronized approach to clock and data recovery, which enables sub-nanosecond switching time in optically switched networks. The paper then introduce an analytical model to mathematically explore the operation of clock phase caching, and uses this model to explore the impact of factors such as fiber temperature, clock jitter and symbol rate on the BER and clock and data recovery locking time performance of the clock phase caching approach, as well as their impact on scalability. Using commercial data center parameters matching those used in our previous experimental research, our paper shows that our analytical model provides estimates that closely match our previous experimental results, validating its use for making predictions of the performance of clock phase cached systems. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Modeling_The_Performance_of_the_Clock_Phase_Caching_Approach_... |
| Title | Plot Data of the paper "An Extended Version of the ISRS GN model in Closed-Form Accounting for Short Span Lengths and Low Losses" |
| Description | This data provides the data points of Figures 1-3 from the paper "An Extended Version of the ISRS GN model in Closed-Form Accounting for Short Span Lengths and Low Losses", submitted in the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC). Each figure are in separate folders. For each figure you will find the corresponding TXT file used to plot the data of the figures in the paper. The TXT files is made of columns, where each column represent one of the curves in the graphs. The titles of each columns are self explanatory so you can easily related the columns with the graphs in the paper. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Plot_Data_of_the_paper_An_Extended_Version_of_the_ISRS_GN_mod... |
| Title | Plot Data of the paper "An Extended Version of the ISRS GN model in Closed-Form Accounting for Short Span Lengths and Low Losses" |
| Description | This data provides the data points of Figures 1-3 from the paper "An Extended Version of the ISRS GN model in Closed-Form Accounting for Short Span Lengths and Low Losses", submitted in the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC). Each figure are in separate folders. For each figure you will find the corresponding TXT file used to plot the data of the figures in the paper. The TXT files is made of columns, where each column represent one of the curves in the graphs. The titles of each columns are self explanatory so you can easily related the columns with the graphs in the paper. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Plot_Data_of_the_paper_An_Extended_Version_of_the_ISRS_GN_mod... |
| Title | Plot Data of the paper "Challenges in Extending Optical Fibre Transmission Bandwidth Beyond C+L Band and How to Get There" |
| Description | This data provides the data points of Figures 1, 2 and 3 from the the paper "Challenges in Extending Optical Fibre Transmission Bandwidth Beyond C+L Band and How to Get There", submitted in the 25th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling 2021 (ONDM2021).Figure1.txt have 2 columns. The first column have the throughput data achieved by some works in the reference. The second column have the distance data, corresponding to the corresponding throughput achieved.Figure2.txt have 4 columns. The first 3 have the launch power data for the cases considered in the paper. The last column has the corresponding wavelength. The file has 660 lines representing 660 WDM channels.Figure3.txt have 8 columns. The first 7 have the SNR data for the cases considered in the paper. The last column has the corresponding wavelength. The file has 660 lines representing 660 WDM channels. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Plot_Data_of_the_paper_Challenges_in_Extending_Optical_Fibre_... |
| Title | Plot Data of the paper "Challenges in Extending Optical Fibre Transmission Bandwidth Beyond C+L Band and How to Get There" |
| Description | This data provides the data points of Figures 1, 2 and 3 from the the paper "Challenges in Extending Optical Fibre Transmission Bandwidth Beyond C+L Band and How to Get There", submitted in the 25th International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling 2021 (ONDM2021).Figure1.txt have 2 columns. The first column have the throughput data achieved by some works in the reference. The second column have the distance data, corresponding to the corresponding throughput achieved.Figure2.txt have 4 columns. The first 3 have the launch power data for the cases considered in the paper. The last column has the corresponding wavelength. The file has 660 lines representing 660 WDM channels.Figure3.txt have 8 columns. The first 7 have the SNR data for the cases considered in the paper. The last column has the corresponding wavelength. The file has 660 lines representing 660 WDM channels. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://rdr.ucl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Plot_Data_of_the_paper_Challenges_in_Extending_Optical_Fibre_... |
| Title | Research data supporting "Nonlinear Phase Shift Pre-compensation for Improved Power Budget in a 200 Gbps Simplified Coherent PON" |
| Description | Excel file containing four sheets and each of them associated to one Figure in the paper: (1) Fig. 2(a) is the power budget at bit error rate (BER) = 1e-2 as a function of launch power for 50 km reach; (2) Fig. 2(b) is BER versus received optical power (ROP) curves for BtB and 50 km reach with different launch powers, with and without nonlinear pre-compensation (NLPC); (3) Fig. 3(a) is the BER versus ROP curves for back-to-back (BtB) and 25 km reach with different launch powers without NLPC and with NLPC having parameters optimized for 50 km reach and 11 dBm launch power, (4) Fig. 3(b) is the power budget at BER=10-2 versus reach summarizing the cases presented before. The data contained in those sheets was obtained after performing an experimental campaign, in which different physical parameters (reach, launch power, received power) were varied, the resulting signal was digitized and stored using a real-time oscilloscope, and finally the digital signal was processed using a set of algorithms described in the referred paper. The metric BER was the output of the digital post-processing for each set of physical parameters, which is then used to evaluate the sensitivity and power budget for all the analysed conditions, corresponding to a BER target of 1e-2. The information is then organized and reported in the tables contained in the Excel sheets. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/342333 |
| Description | ACTPHAST4R: Collaboration with Fraunhofer HHI on PIC based coherent transmitter development |
| Organisation | Fraunhofer Society |
| Department | Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We design the photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and will test the performance of the PIC. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fraunhofer HHI offered us MPW and packaging service for the development of InP based coherent super-channel transmitter for high-resolution signal generation and detection. |
| Impact | The device is still being manufactured. Further report will be updated. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Academic collaboration with Novosibirsk State University |
| Organisation | Novosibirsk National Research State University (NSU) |
| Country | Russian Federation |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Conducted joint research with Dr. O. Sidelnikov, Dr. A. Redyuk and Prof. Fedoruk from Novosibirsk State University, Russia on machine learning techniques for the channel equalisation. Coordinate by Prof Sergei Turitsyn (Aston University) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Numerical modelling and development of the original machine learning algorithms with low complexity. |
| Impact | So far, two papers in JLT. doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2021.3051609 doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2020.2971768 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Alcatel-Lucent Bell Consultancy |
| Organisation | Alcatel-Lucent |
| Department | System Optimization Department |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input and training; access to research lab. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge exchange. |
| Impact | Ongoing collaboration work |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaboration with LLNL |
| Organisation | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Transmission testing of Nd E-band optical amplifier. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of E-band optical amplifier. |
| Impact | TBC |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Comb tone extraction through optical injection locking of microring lasers |
| Organisation | Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We brought the technology of stable optical injection locking and its application in the selection and amplification of individual tones in frequency comb. Through collaboration experiment at HPE site we achieved >20Gb/s data transmission using quantum dot microring lasers. This collaboration has led to two conference papers, two journal submission, and one joint patent application. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner, HPE, are the world leading manufacturer of microring lasers, optical interconnect systems and high performance computing systems. This collaboration provided the PI access to the state-of-the-art quantum dot comb lasers and microring lasers, opening new application of injection locking technologies. HPE has made direct contribution to the project by donating research components, and in-kind contribution through visit the PI and contributing to joint research. |
| Impact | D. Liang et al., "Optical injection-locked high-speed heterogeneous quantum-dot microring lasers", ECOC, 2019. D. Liang et al., "Heterogeneous Multi-wavelength Optical Injection Locked System-on-chip: a Proposal & Proof-of-concept Experiment," Asia Communications and Photonics Conference, M4D.4, 2019. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Corning |
| Organisation | Corning Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Insights on optical fibre properties for high capacity systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of state-of-the art optical fibre for experiments. |
| Impact | Joint experiments, joint publications. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Eblana Photonics collaboration |
| Organisation | Eblana Photonics Ltd |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Knowledge and research exchange |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided components for a research project |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Electronic pre-equalisation of directly modulated lasers |
| Organisation | Eblana Photonics Ltd |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The PI and his team design and optimise pre-emphasis equalisers that improve the signal-to-noise ratio of bandwidth limited directly modulated lasers. We also contribute to this collaboration our digital signal processing expertise, based on which we demonstrated improved performance for 64Gb/s and 128Gb/s direct modulation and direct detection transceivers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The collaborator provided this collaboration with their research devices (directly modulated discrete mode lasers). Currently the collaborator also incorporated the new designs in their device manufacturing for next stage collaboration. |
| Impact | One joint paper publication. Z. Zhou et al., "Impact of Analog and Digital Pre-emphasis on the Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Bandwidth-limited Optical Transceivers", IEEE Photonics J., DOI:10.1109/JPHOT.2020.2966617, 2020 |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | FPGA implementation of NFT, Dmitry Karaman & Dmitry Salnikov |
| Organisation | National Technical University of Ukraine Kiev Polytechnic Institute |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We provided the testbed and the communication system to evaluate and implement the machine learning solutions. All numerical implementations and optimisation of the system is done by researchers at Aston University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | designing FPGA implementation of nonlinear Fourier-based optical signal processing |
| Impact | Ongoing opportunity for collaborations this collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving computer science, communication engineering, and Programming |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Gain-switching of injection locked high-speed directly modulated for comb generation |
| Organisation | II-VI Incorporated |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | In 2019, the PI builds a new collaboration with II-VI, which is one of the biggest optical device manufacturers in the world and is leading the research on optical transceivers especially directly modulated lasers. The PI visited their headquarters at Sunnyvale California (locate at the centre of silicon valley) and gave a talk on his research (optical injection locking and application). After that, the PI visited their principle laser scientist Matsui-san at Fremont California and spent a week there doing a joint experiment. The PI brought injection locking technology to the partner which helps demonstrate a gain-switching of directly modulated at a record high repetition rate, generating significant impact in laser science and optical communication fields. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This new collaboration gives PI and the PhotoDAC project access to new laser technologies and received a donation of state-of-art laser device (worth more than £10k) for future work. This new collaboration has also led to an internship programme that allows UCL PhD students to take an internship at II-VI laser labs. |
| Impact | Joint publications in journal and top conference: Z. Liu et al., "50-GHz Repetition Gain Switching Using A Cavity-enhanced DFB Laser Assisted By Optical Injection Locking," J. Lightw. Technol., DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2020.2973198, 2020 Z. Liu et al., "50-GHz Gain Switching and Period Doubling Using an Optical Injection Locked Cavity-enhanced DFB Laser," OFC, T3C.1, 2020 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Hollow core fibre assisted ultra-low latency data interconnection |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Department | Optoelectronics Research Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration investigates the use of hollow-core fibre in data centre interconnects in conjunction with analog signal processing technologies developed within this award. UCL researchers use the hollow core fibre in the data centre system prototype with the frequency comb developed within this award, achieving a record low latency, optically switched system. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORC contributed hollow core fibre technologies, including 5km of HCF spliced to standard single mode fibre. |
| Impact | This collaboration has led to three publications, including one top-scored paper and an invited journal publication, in leading international conferences and top journals in the field of optical communications. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Huawei collaboration |
| Organisation | Huawei Technologies |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Knowledge and research exchange |
| Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge and research exchange |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Huawei consultancy - high capacity optical transmission systems for core and metro networks |
| Organisation | Huawei Technologies |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input, training, access to research lab |
| Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge exchange, access to data |
| Impact | Ongoing opportunity for collaborations. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Huber+Suhner Polatis |
| Organisation | Polatis |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Designed multi-core fibre switch in 2019-2020. Designed and demonstrated Data Center network using optical switches during the same period. Polatis is a project partner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided optical switches and some parameters of the switch constraints. |
| Impact | Numerous papers in top conferences and journals. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | KDDI |
| Organisation | KDDI |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Performed joint experiments to apply ultra-wideband transmission demonstrations using a variety of amplification techniques. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Major contribution of state-of-the art equipments for experiments |
| Impact | Publications in top conferences and journals |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | KDDI Research collaboration |
| Organisation | KDDI Foundation |
| Department | KDDI Research & Development Laboratories |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Knowledge and research exchange. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided components for research experiments. Also the exchange of visiting researcher Yuta Wakayama, who contributed to a number of papers and conferences. The one year exchange came to an end in summer 2019. |
| Impact | Conference papers, already referenced in RF. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Microsoft Collaboration on Distributed Deep Learning |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Department | Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Work on developing optical switched interconnects and analytical models to design and operate AI-based computing systems. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Information on the Cloud provider requirements and processor profiler. |
| Impact | Not yet outputs. We are working on a potential patent and research paper. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Microsoft Research PhD studentships - 5 fully funded studentships and part funding of 1 studentship plus additional consumables/equipment support |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Department | Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Proposed several new research areas covering 5 PhD studentships to be supervised by PI and co-Is on the grant as well as contribution to the Microsoft Research Alliance on Optics for the Cloud - visits to research laboratories around the world, presentations and joint work, contributing to the next-generation of Microsoft products for data centres and inter-data centre communications. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Funding of 5 PhD studentship with Microsoft Research, including industry supervision. Also participated in the recruitment of the students, contribution through dedicated electronics prototypes, specialist hardware and design resources and consumables cost of the projects. Coordination of the Research Alliance on Optics for the Cloud and provision of travel and consumables costs for the students/academic leads. |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Microsoft collaboration |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Department | Microsoft Research Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | John Nuqui, PhD student, recruited at our Cambridge site. He has made significant contributions to our research agenda. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Microsoft have provided the TRANSNET team with excellent expertise, in knowledge exchange particularly. |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Microsoft collaboration - Zhixin Liu |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Knowledge exchange |
| Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge exchange and equipment |
| Impact | Pending |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Microsoft collaboration - Zhixin Liu |
| Organisation | Microsoft Research |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Knowledge exchange |
| Collaborator Contribution | Training assistance |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) collaboration |
| Organisation | Mitsubishi Electric |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | AccAccess to data, equipment and lab plus knowledge exchange |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise, access to data and equipment |
| Impact | Paper collaborations |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Multipoint-to-point data aggregation using a single receiver and frequency-multiplexed intensity-modulated ONUs |
| Organisation | Huawei Technologies |
| Department | Huawei Enterprise, Düsseldorf |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Using the comb and signal processing technology we developed within the award, demonstrate the first clock synchronised frequency division multiplexing passive optical networks (PON). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Assisted digital signal processing development, provide equipment and financial support. |
| Impact | One conference paper in Optical Fibre Communication Conference (OFC) and one journal submission to top international peer-reviewed journal (currently under review). |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | NICT - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology |
| Organisation | NICT National Institute of Information and Communications Technology |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Performed joint experiments to apply ultra-wideband transmission demonstrations using a variety of amplification techniques. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of equipments and proposed contribution in experiments |
| Impact | Publications in top journals |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Parametric frequency comb generation using silicon core fiber |
| Organisation | Clemson University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We lead the experimental research and develop the first silicon core fibre based frequency comb spanning over 30 nm in telecom C band. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORC: Tapering and splicing silicon core fibre; Clemson University: Fabrication of silicon core fibre; Norweigian University: Design original silicon core fibre Huazhong University of Science and Technology: testing silicon core fibre in free space environment University of Bern: simulation and numerical analysis |
| Impact | One top-scored conference paper in Optical Fibre Communication Conference entitled "Parametric frequency comb generation using silicon core fiber" |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Parametric frequency comb generation using silicon core fiber |
| Organisation | Huazhong University of Science and Technology |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We lead the experimental research and develop the first silicon core fibre based frequency comb spanning over 30 nm in telecom C band. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORC: Tapering and splicing silicon core fibre; Clemson University: Fabrication of silicon core fibre; Norweigian University: Design original silicon core fibre Huazhong University of Science and Technology: testing silicon core fibre in free space environment University of Bern: simulation and numerical analysis |
| Impact | One top-scored conference paper in Optical Fibre Communication Conference entitled "Parametric frequency comb generation using silicon core fiber" |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Parametric frequency comb generation using silicon core fiber |
| Organisation | Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) |
| Department | Department of Physics |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We lead the experimental research and develop the first silicon core fibre based frequency comb spanning over 30 nm in telecom C band. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORC: Tapering and splicing silicon core fibre; Clemson University: Fabrication of silicon core fibre; Norweigian University: Design original silicon core fibre Huazhong University of Science and Technology: testing silicon core fibre in free space environment University of Bern: simulation and numerical analysis |
| Impact | One top-scored conference paper in Optical Fibre Communication Conference entitled "Parametric frequency comb generation using silicon core fiber" |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Parametric frequency comb generation using silicon core fiber |
| Organisation | University of Bern |
| Department | Institute of Applied Physics |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We lead the experimental research and develop the first silicon core fibre based frequency comb spanning over 30 nm in telecom C band. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORC: Tapering and splicing silicon core fibre; Clemson University: Fabrication of silicon core fibre; Norweigian University: Design original silicon core fibre Huazhong University of Science and Technology: testing silicon core fibre in free space environment University of Bern: simulation and numerical analysis |
| Impact | One top-scored conference paper in Optical Fibre Communication Conference entitled "Parametric frequency comb generation using silicon core fiber" |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Parametric frequency comb generation using silicon core fiber |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Department | Optoelectronics Research Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We lead the experimental research and develop the first silicon core fibre based frequency comb spanning over 30 nm in telecom C band. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ORC: Tapering and splicing silicon core fibre; Clemson University: Fabrication of silicon core fibre; Norweigian University: Design original silicon core fibre Huazhong University of Science and Technology: testing silicon core fibre in free space environment University of Bern: simulation and numerical analysis |
| Impact | One top-scored conference paper in Optical Fibre Communication Conference entitled "Parametric frequency comb generation using silicon core fiber" |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Polatis PhD CASE award |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | PhD student studying with the TRANSNET team, contributing towards advancing research in the field of optical comms. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have had great expert input into areas of our research. |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research Exchange - Dr Yuta Wakayama, KDDI |
| Organisation | KDDI Foundation |
| Department | KDDI Research & Development Laboratories |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The TRANSNET team have provided their research expertise to Dr Yuta Wakayama and facilitated access to world-class laboratory facilities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | KDDI provided their Engineer to the Programme for a period of one year, allowing active knowledge exchange between researchers across the partner academic institutions. Dr Yuya specialises in multi-core optical fibres, an important research area for our team. |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Research Exchange, Prof. Dmitry Shepelsky |
| Organisation | National University of Kharkiv |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We provided the testbed and the communication system to evaluate and implement the mathematical tools. All numerical implementations and optimisation of system is done by researchers at Aston University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Prof. Shepelsky devises new mathematical solutions for calculating the parameters of a nonlinear Fourier transform-based communication system. This includes calculating the parameters of a Riemann-Hilber problem to be used in the system, designing a system based on the so-called b-modulation, and constructing periodic solutions to the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. |
| Impact | - several publications (10.1109/ICSEE.2018.8721181, 10.1109/ECOC.2018.8535278,10.1109/ECOC.2018.8535439,10.1109/JLT.2020.2979322) - a generic numerical framework (in Mathematica software) to perform NFT computations and signal reconstruction - it's multidisciplinary research involving electrical engineering, photonic, and mathematics (algebraic-geometry, analysis) |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Research Exchange, Vladialsv Kolbasin |
| Organisation | National Technical University of Ukraine Kiev Polytechnic Institute |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We provided the testbed and the communication system to evaluate and implement the machine learning solutions. All numerical implementations and optimisation of system is done by researchers at Aston University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Vladialsv Kolbasin delivered several lectures on the neural networks applications for the time series analysis and also collaborates with regard to the nonlinear signal processing methods applied to optical communications |
| Impact | Ongoing opportunity for collaborations this collaboration is multi-disciplinary involving computer science, communication engineering |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Research Exchange: Prof Tsuda, Keio University |
| Organisation | Keio University |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Conducted joint research with Professor Tsuda from Keio University, Japan using technologies across the newly defined T-Band. The TRANSNET team at UCL provided access to the necessary research facilities, including our world class laboratory, to conduct the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The expertise of Prof Tsuda has been unparalleled. The experimental work has explored routing and networking systems able to support 1000 wavelengths and accommodate 10s of thousands of end points, of which Prof Tsuda has excellent knowledge. One particular application of this approach is in future all optical Data Centres. |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Sumitomo Electric collaboration |
| Organisation | Sumitomo Corporation |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research visit/placement of Xun Mu to SEI in Japanresearch visit/placement of PhD student Xun Mu to SEI in Japan |
| Collaborator Contribution | MCF donation, fibre design and characterisation, research visit/placement of Xun Mu to SEI in Japan |
| Impact | MCF donation, fibre design and characterisation, research visit/placement of Xun Mu to SEI in Japan |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Sumitomo Electric on Multi-Core Fibre networks |
| Organisation | Sumitomo Corporation |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | We extensively characterized a multi-core fibre and modelled its behaviour. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They provided 4 spools of multi-core fibre. |
| Impact | Published joint paper. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Xtera |
| Organisation | Xtera Communications |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaborated on a number of papers |
| Collaborator Contribution | £25,000 plus a wideband tunable laser with approximated value of £40,000, to further research into ultra-wideband transmission systems |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Title | Injection locked multi-wavelength optical source |
| Description | The patent disclosure describes various examples of optical systems (e.g., optical transceivers) that include an optical transmitter having an injection locked multi-wavelength optical source. According to embodiments as described herein, the injection locked multi-wavelength optical source includes a first optical source configured to emit light having different wavelengths, a waveguide, and an optical coupler configured to couple the emitted light from the first optical source to the waveguide. The injection locked multi-wavelength optical source further includes an array of two or more second optical sources coupled to the waveguide. Each of the two or more second optical sources are configured to be injection locked to a different respective wavelength of the emitted light transmitted via the waveguide from the first optical source. In some implementations, the first optical source is a master comb laser and the two or more second optical sources are slave ring lasers of the injection locked multi-wavelength optical source. |
| IP Reference | USA or PCT App. No. 16/582907 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | |
| Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
| Impact | Patent sold to Hewlett-Packard Enterprise as an IP for their super computing product. |
| Title | OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD |
| Description | Frequency combs have found applications in numerous fields, for example, metrology, spectroscopy, microwave electronics, sensing, medical imaging, instrumentation, wireless and optical communications. For example, in the field of optical communications, significant cost and energy savings can be made by replacing a bank of N lasers (for example N=64, but N can be several hundred) with a single frequency comb. The coherent nature of the comb lines (phase of comb tones are correlated) as well as the equal frequency spacing of the comb tones, offers the prospect of ultra-high spectral efficiency (thus high capacity, fast networks), and the generation of electronic radio-frequency carriers with high purity, for linking optical systems to wireless systems. In many applications, the comb source needs to have sufficiently high optical power, low noise, and flat spectrum (i.e. similar power for all the tones) to enable these benefits to be achieved. There is a problem with generating a frequency comb with these properties, such as a large number of tones, each with adequate and similar optical power, over a relatively wide band of frequencies. It can also be a problem to generate a comb that is tunable in wavelength, bandwidth, and tone spacing. The present invention has been devised in view of the above problems. |
| IP Reference | 2212004.2 |
| Protection | Patent / Patent application |
| Year Protection Granted | |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | No commercial impact yet. However, as a new tool it has potential impact in metrology, spectroscopy, sensing and microwave applications, |
| Title | SIGNAL PROCESSOR APPARATUS |
| Description | The invention discloses an optical assisted signal processing apparatus that allows for significantly increased bandwidth and solution of analogue to digital conversion. |
| IP Reference | PCT/GB2021/050452 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Currently we are negotiating with industry company for the further development of the patent. |
| Title | GITHUB code associated with a journal paper (10.1109/JLT.2019.2895237) |
| Description | Associated code to introduce the results of the product associated with the journal paper, 'A Closed-Form Approximation of the Gaussian Noise Model in the Presence of Inter-Channel Stimulated Raman Scattering in Journal of Lightwave Technology (10.1109/JLT.2019.2895237). |
| Type Of Technology | Physical Model/Kit |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | A number of users accessing and reusing the code and requesting further information |
| URL | http://github.com/dsemrau/ISRSGNmodel |
| Title | Transnet Virtual Lab |
| Description | The Transnet Virtual Lab (TVL) is primarily a means of a hosting and sharing both experimental and simulation data. The purpose of this repository is to allow a standard set of data (for example, waveforms measured in the laboratory) to be reused at a later date, enabling comparisons between different signal processing algorithms, network architectures, machine learning techniques and more. The data sets uploaded to the TVL are well-documented, and will also include any code required to analyse the data sets. Fundamentally, this tool offers two key advantages to researchers. 1) It will save time, as it will reduce the frequency with which time-consuming experimental and simulation work will not need to be reproduced. 2) It permits a standard 'control' scenario for many common transmission systems. There are three phases to the development of the TVL. 1) Development of the platform, and release to all parties in the Transnet program. 2) Population of the TVL with standard waveforms. 3) Release of well-documented sections of the TVL to external users. We are currently in phase (2). |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | This is a relatively recent development. However, team members are already sharing codes in a safe, virtual environment. |
| Description | A Quarter-Century of Optical Network Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET PI Polina Bayvel featured in the presitgious Optics and Photonics News. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Advanced Photonics Congress NETWORKS 2022 (workshop) - Anastasiia Vasylchenkova |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Anastasiia Vasylchenkova participated in a workshop titled , "Analytical modelling of system impairments in ultrawideband transmission context" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Advanced Photonics Congress NETWORKS 2022 (workshop) - Lidia Galdino |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Lidia Galdino participated in a workshop entitled, "SDM and Multi-Band Networks: Competing or Complementary Approaches?" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Article in Fibre Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | News article in Fibre Systems on world record for internet speed research (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) which also featured in an opinion piece later in the year on the key developments of 2020 (see August in the link below). Fibre Systems is a trusted information source for the optical communications industry, aimed at component and subsystem vendors; network equipment manufacturers; planners, installers, and systems integrators; as well as operators and end users of fibre-optic networks worldwide. It's magazine is circulated four times a year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.fibre-systems.com/analysis-opinion/key-developments-2020 |
| Description | Article in GTWN publication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Lidia Galdino invited to contribute to The Mobile Century: Life and Work in the Digital Era - the flagship publication of the Global Telecom Women's Network, a not-for-profit worldwide association of senior women in the digital tech and digital media sector. The association continuously highlights the work of women in engineering and technology to inspire and mentor the younger generation of women in the industry. In her article, Lidia shares her personal journey from a young girl in Brazil to engineering researcher in London, describing the team's record breaking data transmission speed (widely covered in the media) and what this means for the future of digital communication systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://themobilecentury.com/high-speed-networks-will-shape-the-future-of-the-digital-economy/ |
| Description | Article in The Evening Standard (London) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Coverage of internet speed world record (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) and interview with Dr Lidia Galdino for the Evening Standard, a local free daily newspaper (print and online) published Monday-Friday in London, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/london-scientists-build-ultra-broadband-a4524801.html |
| Description | Article in The Independent |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Coverage of the team's record breaking data transmission rate (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) in The Independent's Indy/Life Tech section. The Independent has an average monthly digital reach of over 19M adults. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Article in The Sun |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Dr Lidia Galdino chatted to The Sun's Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter about breaking the world record for the fastest data transmission speed (research paper: doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). The Sun is one of the UK's most wide reaching newspaper (both print and online). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/12462020/internet-world-record-speed-netflix/ |
| Description | Article on News Atlas website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News piece in the Technology section of the News Atlas website, reporting on the new world record for internet speed set by the TRANSNET team (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). New Atlas launched in 2002 and since then has produced more than 50,000 articles covering advances in technology, science, transportation, architecture, design, and many other disciplines. It has a readership of approximately four million unique visitors a month, and more than 280,000 people receive their email newsletter each day. Their primary audience the USA, Canada and Europe, but serve content daily to readers in 40 other countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://newatlas.com/telecommunications/internet-speed-record178-terabits-per-second/ |
| Description | Article on Science Alert website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Journalistic piece on the team's fastest internet speed research (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) for Science Alert, which publishes timely, trusted science news to enlighten and entertain millions of readers each month. Science Alert is an independently run online news source, and their journalists shed light on important scientific issues of our time, as well as new discoveries, mysteries, and wonders from around the globe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-just-set-a-new-record-for-the-fastest-internet-speed-ever-r... |
| Description | Article on www.techexplorist.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Coverage of the team's record breaking internet speed (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) on www.techexplorist.com, an online new outlet publishing the latest research and discoveries in science, health, the environment, technology, and more from leading universities, scientific journals, and research organisations. Its content highlights the scientific discoveries, technology, and groundbreaking research that shape society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.techexplorist.com/ucl-engineers-achieved-record-internet-speed-178-terabits-per-second/3... |
| Description | BBC Radio 4 The Life Scientific |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Polina Bayvel, TRANSNET PI, was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili for his popular BBC Radio 4 Show, The Life Scientific. Audience reach of over 1million listeners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.us19.list-manage.com%2Ftra... |
| Description | CLEO 2022 - Zichuan Zhou |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Provided a talk titled, "SM3J Short Reach and Analog Transmission" at CLEO 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Cambridge Zero Climate Festival - talk (SN) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sam Nallaperuma delivered the talk 'Towards Zero Carbon transport and communication systems' at the Cambridge Zero Climate Festival 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://climatechangefestival.zero.cam.ac.uk/events/towards-zero-carbon-transport-and-communication-... |
| Description | Career Guidance Seminar for Ruhunu University, Sri Lanka |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sam Nallaperuma was invited to give a career talk: PG Study and Research in the UK - the process and some tips |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | DTU WORKSHOP ON FUTURE TRENDS IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION - Anastasiia Vasylchenkova |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Anastasiia Vasylchenkova participated in a workshop titled, "Analytical models for quality of information estimation in the ultrawideband transmission" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dynamic Days Asia Pacific (DDAP12) Daejeon Korea - David Saad |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | David Saad delivered a talk titled, " Pandemics, Marketing and Opinion Formation - The Power of Spreading Processes" at the Dynamic Days Asia Pacific (DDAP12) Daejeon Korea (2022). Abstract: The modern world comprises interlinked networks of contacts between individuals, computing devices and social groups, where infectious diseases, information and opinions propagate through their edges in a probabilistic or deterministic manner via interactions between individual constituents. The spread of information, opinions and marketing material can be modelled and analysed in a similar manner to that of epidemic spreading among humans or animals. To contain and mitigate the spread of infectious diseases one would like to model the spread accurately, implement effective prevention and mitigation policies and deploy vaccines in a way that minimises the spread. This is a difficult problem and becomes even harder in the presence of infectious but asymptomatic individual states. In the world of marketing and opinion setting, winners are those who maximise the impact by deploying resource to the most influential available nodes at the right time, occasionally in competition (or collaboration) with adversarial (supportive) spreading processes. These can represent opinion formation by political parties (competitive) or diseases that increase the susceptibility to mutual infections (collaborative). I will explain the modelling of epidemic spreading processes and present the probabilistic analytical framework for impact maximisation/minimisation we have developed, addressing the questions of vaccine (budget) deployment and spreading maximisation in single and competitive/collaborative processes. I will also present the analysis for epidemic spreading processes with infectious but asymptomatic states and the effectiveness of containment and mitigation steps in this case. A. Y. Lokhov and D. Saad, Proc. of the National Academy of Sci., 114 E8138 (2017). H. Sun, D. Saad and A. Y. Lokhov, Phys. Rev. X, 11, 011048 (2021). B. Li and D. Saad, Phys. Rev. E 103, 052303 (2021). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHeLyJX7tCs |
| Description | ECOC Workshop - Seb Savory |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seb Savory gave a talk titled, "Towards zero margin networking: what is possible and what is desirable?" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ecoc2022.org/programme/workshops/10-programme-description/61-workshop-adaptive-everythin... |
| Description | EPSRC connected nation pioneer competition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | PhD student Kari Clark participated in the 2018 EPSRC Connected Nation Pioneer Award and won the 'overall winner' out of all the competitors in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Exhibition: Cleo Europe 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An exhibition booth manned by our Aston University Research Fellow; discussing and generating interest to over a 500+ audience about the TRANSNET aims. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Exhibition: Made at UCL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET UCL PhD student, Kari Clark, hosted an exhibition at the UCL led It's All Academic Festival, showcasing the work to almost 500 attendees about the work of TRANSNET, showcasing equipment and carrying out experiments as well as discussing the predecessor grant UNLOC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Faces of Optica campaign (LG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET investigator Lidia Galdino featured in Optica's 'Faces of Optica' portrait collection and online campaign (part of OSA's rebrand to Optica). https://www.optica.org//history/faces_of_optica/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Feature article for IT Pro |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Long-form feature article for IT Pro, a technology news and reviews hub for IT professionals. The focus of the piece is on the innovative research begin carries out by the TRANSNET team on the future of data centres. The article is led by Georgios Zervas but several members of the team and their specific projects are mentioned in the article, along with TRANSNET partners Microsoft. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.itpro.co.uk/server-storage/data-centres/357557/why-the-future-needs-optical-data-centres |
| Description | Feature article in The Engineer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Feature article on new data centre technology for the In Depth section of The Engineer, UK-based technology and innovation magazine (print and online) and hub for engineers in aerospace, automotive, chemical, electronics, robotics, energy, environment and more. Led by TRANSNET Co-I Georgios Zervas - he discusses some innovative research projects taking place at UCL, including superfast optical switching, custom processors and clock synchronisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.theengineer.co.uk/data-centres-innovations-technology/ |
| Description | Feature in IEEE Spectrum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Feature article in IEEE Spectrum (online and print) reporting on the team's record breaking data transmission rate (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) and identifying the challenges of commercial application. Dr Lidia Galdino is quoted in the piece several times. IEEE Spectrum is the flagship magazine and website of the IEEE, the world's largest professional organization devoted to engineering and the applied sciences. Their charter is to keep over 400,000 members informed about major trends and developments in technology, engineering, and science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/single-optical-fibers-100-million-zoom |
| Description | Huawei's Vision Forum Europe meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Modeling 'Nonlinearity in Ultra-wideband Optical Fibre Transmission Systems', attended by Huawei Technologies engineers and managers, and other workshop participants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | INSTITUTION VISIT: Xtera talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Institution vist at the UCL site, Leigh Frame CEO of Xtera and partner on the programme. Discussing and debating the latest advancements in this field. Healthy discussion and debate with the academics and students of TRANSNET. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Initiate new collaboration with Verizon Ltd. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Initiate a new collaboration discussion with Verizon |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Innovation Spotlight article for IEEE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Innovation Spotlight article for IEEE Xplore - features articles on cutting-edge topics handpicked from the IEEE Xplore digital library of approximately 5 million technical documents. This article is on the team's record breaking data transmission speed, reported in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) and widely covered in the press and media during 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://innovate.ieee.org/innovation-spotlight/broadband-transmission/ |
| Description | Institute visit: Photonic Institute, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I, Zhixin Liu, visited the Photonic Institute, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore to discuss the aims and research of the TRANSNET Programme to forward the aims of the research. Meeting with 30+ members of their team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Interview for national news |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Georgios Zervas interviewed by the Guardian on the importance of sustainable and resilient data centres |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/07/chaos-after-heat-crashes-computers-at-leading-lo... |
| Description | Interview with Elsevier |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Christopher Parsonson interviewed by Elsevier on TrafPY |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.elsevier.com/connect/advancing-data-center-networking-through-open-access |
| Description | Introduction to Machine Learning Joint Mini Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | discussion on the results of the application of machine learning in optical communication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited talk at OFC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seb Savory invited to OFC 2023 to deliver a talk on digital twins in optical networks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited talk at OFC - Faruk Saifuddin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Md Faruk Saifuddin invited to deliver a talk titled "Is Optical Access in Good Shape for the Future? at OFC 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited talk at STW2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at STW2021, a Huawei-organized conference. I delivered a talk on published work on sub-nanosecond optical switching for data centers and high performance computing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited talk at TOP Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to present the OptoCloud Fellowship program. Over 100 people from UK and abroad attended that span across telecom/datacom industries as well as academic and research institutions. There was lots of interest on my work and numerous meetings were arranged for collaboration and potential exploitation paths of the work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://topconference.com/ |
| Description | Invited talk for TOUCAN Programme final workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET PI Polina Bayvel gave a talk as part of the final workshop for the EPSRC TOUCAN Programme Grant - a five-year £6 million project to carry out breakthrough research on network convergence; led by Dimitra Simeonidou (Director, Smart Internet Lab/Co-director, Bristol Digital Futures Institute at the University of Bristol) and bringing together internationally-renowned academics from across the UK as well as a consortium of external partners. The workshop aimed to inform and inspire participants and Polina delivered the talk 'Maximising capacity through intelligence - next generation optical networks for the cloud' which detailed the aims, research themes and progress made in the TRANSNET Programme to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.toucan-network.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Invited talk in Advanced Photonics Congress 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | about 40 international colleagues attend the PI's invited talk in the OSA advanced photonics congress, where the PI reported the latest resulted published by his group, sparking scientific discussion for future research direction and commercialisation opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited talk in IEEE Summer Topicals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | more than 30 professionals attended this online international conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited talk in IEEE photonics conference (PIC2021) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 30 professionals and postgraduate students attended the talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Invited talk in the Frontier in Optics conference (FiO/LS 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | About 30 professionals attended the on-line session in one of the major conferences, where I delivered the invited talk to introduce the new findings in this project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting: Fibre optic communications systems and sub-systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I attended the International electrotechnical committee, with over 100 attendees - here David represented the UK. , GEL86C WG1 "Fibre optic communications systems and sub-systems". . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting: OSA/Google Subsea meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I Lidia Galdino, attended an OSA Meeting at OSA Google Subsea meeting, to discuss the research being undertaken by the TRANSNET team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting: TRANSNET at Finisar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I Zhixin Liu, met with industry partners to discuss possible collaborations. Received extremely well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting: Visit to fibre device group at National Laboratory of Optoelectronics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I Zhixin Liu attended a meeting/dialogue at National Laboratory of Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China, to convey the message of TRANSNET work |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Mirror special report - online and print |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Director Polina Bayvel features in the Mirror special investigation: REBOOT: Britain's Broken Broadband. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://reboot.mirror.co.uk/ |
| Description | New article - New Electronics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | News article on clock phase caching paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-0423-y) for New Electronics, a print and online magazine for the electronics industry and a central hub for design engineers. It publishes a blend of technology features, news and new product information to keep designers and managers up to date with the fastest moving industry in the world. Quotes from TRANSNET members, Zhixin Liu and Kari Clark, and TRANSNET partners from Microsoft Research, are included in the piece. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-news/enabling-all-optical-data-centre-networks/228188/ |
| Description | News article for www.photonics.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | News article on clock phase caching paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-0423-y) on www.photonics.com, part of Photonics Media. Photonics Media publishes print and digital b-2-b magazines, buyers' guides, websites and e-newsletters for individuals working with light-based technologies in the photonics industry. Photonics Media has built a large global audience comprising academics and researchers, manufacturers and end-users. Photonics.com reports on what's timely and of interest to the photonics community: news, technology advances, research, company changes and profiles, new products, feature articles and major industry events. The site has 3 million page views annually. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Computer_Clock_Synchronization_Technique_Allows/a65937 |
| Description | News item for Capacity Media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News item on www.capacitymedia.com reporting on the world record internet speed research (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). Capacity Media is an essential source of news and events in today's telecommunications wholesale carrier and service provider marketplace and focuses on the critical business issues that carriers face in the rapidly changing telecoms market. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.capacitymedia.com/articles/3826180/ucl-sets-internet-speed-record-of-178tbps |
| Description | News item for EE News Europe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | News item for www.eenewseurope.com on the fastest data transmission rate ever recorded (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). EE News Europe is a fully digital publication developed to serve the European B2B electronics industry bringing news, analysis, product and design information to the global electronics engineering market and community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/researchers-double-speed-internet |
| Description | News item for Electronics Weekly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | News item for ElectronicsWeekly.com on TRANSNET'S fastest data transmission rate world record (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). ElectronicsWeekly.com is the UK's leading website for electronics professionals, it's the online arm of Electronics Weekly, the leading source of information in the UK electronics industry for more than 55 years. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/ucl-breaks-data-transmission-speed-record-2020-08/ |
| Description | News item for Optical Connections (web) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | News item on the Optical Connections website on the the team's new world record internet speed (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). Optical Connections provides the fibre optic community with the latest industry news via their our website, monthly newsletter and quarterly magazine, covering market influencing technology advancements, commercial prospects, product developments and unique insight from our editorial team. Optical Connections is an essential source of information across the industry. With links to the ECOC Exhibition, the Optical Connections magazine is the only publication to be included in both visitor and exhibitor bags during the show each September, reaching over 5,500 attendees, as well as being distributed at a range of events throughout the year including FTTH Council Europe, OFC, ANGACom, Laser World of Photonics and CIOE. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://opticalconnectionsnews.com/2020/08/ucl-engineers-set-new-world-record-internet-speed/ |
| Description | News item for eurekaalert.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News article on clock phase caching paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-0423-y) for EurekaAlert! - a nonprofit news platform operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as a resource for journalists and the public, hosting news releases produced by universities, journal publishers, medical centers, government agencies, corporations, and other organisations engaged in all disciplines of scientific research. Quotes from TRANSNET members, Zhixin Liu and Kari Clark, and TRANSNET partners from Microsoft Research are included in the piece. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/ucl-ntm061920.php |
| Description | News item for insideBIGDATA.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News article on neural networks research (doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.168301) for insideBIGDATA.com, an online news outlet that distills news, strategies, products and services in the world of Big Data for data scientists as well as IT and business professionals. Their focus is big data, data science, AI, machine learning, and deep learning. TRANSNET Co-I David Saad is quoted on the piece. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://insidebigdata.com/2020/10/16/whats-under-the-hood-of-neural-networks/ |
| Description | News item in The New Indian Express (under World News) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News article on the new world record for internet speed (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) for The New Indian Express online. The New Indian Express is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Chennai-based Express Publications (print and online). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2020/aug/24/scientists-set-new-world-record-for-internet-spee... |
| Description | News item on Interesting Engineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News item on Interesting Engineering website on fastest internet speed record. Interesting Engineering is a cutting edge, leading online community designed for readers interested in engineering, technology and science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://interestingengineering.com/engineers-break-internet-speed-record-at-178-terabits |
| Description | News item on Tech Xplore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News items on Tech Xplore about the the team's record breaking data transmission speed (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). Tech Xplore is part of Science X, a leading web-based science, research and technology news service which covers a full range of topics. Since 2004, Science X's readership has grown to include 5M scientists, researchers, and engineers every month. The site publishes approximately 200 quality articles every day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://techxplore.com/news/2020-08-world-internet.html |
| Description | News item on www.techxplore.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News article on clock phase caching paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-0423-y) for Tech Xplore, part of Science X, a web-based science, research and technology news service with a readership that includes 5 million scientists, researchers, and engineers every month. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://techxplore.com/news/2020-06-technique-enable-all-optical-data-center-networks.html |
| Description | News item on www.uswitch.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News item on the team's world record internet speed (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) for U Switch, an online and telephone comparison and switching service based in the UK that helps users compare prices on a range of products and services. It also has a news section. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/news/2020/08/Ultra-broadband-the-worlds-fastest-internet-speeds-ev... |
| Description | News item, Cambridge Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News item on Cambridge Network website on record breaking internet speed (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). Cambridge Network is a membership organisation based in the vibrant high technology cluster of Cambridge, UK. It brings people together - from business and academia - to meet and share ideas, encouraging collaboration, networking and partnership for shared success. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/engineers-set-new-world-record-internet-speed |
| Description | News items for ETTelecom |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Online news article on the team's fastest internet speed record (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) for The Economic Times Telecom. This is no.1 telecom new-aggregator portal in India and endeavors to deliver news, information, data, tools and services to professionals in the telecom industry to help them make smart decisions about telecom. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/worlds-fastest-internet-speed-achieved-can-downloa... |
| Description | News piece for SciTechDaily |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News article on clock phase caching paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-0423-y) for www.scitechdaily.com, an online news and analysis portal covering science and technology. Quotes from TRANSNET members, Zhixin Liu and Kari Clark, and TRANSNET partners from Microsoft Research, are included in the piece. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://scitechdaily.com/subnanosecond-optical-switching-may-enable-high-performance-all-optical-dat... |
| Description | News piece on www.technologynetworks.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | News article on clock phase caching paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-0423-y) for Technology Networks, an online scientific news publication with over 14 million user visits per year. Quotes from TRANSNET members, Zhixin Liu and Kari Clark, and TRANSNET partners from Microsoft Research, are included in the piece. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.technologynetworks.com/informatics/about-us |
| Description | News story (FOX 5 NY) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News story on the FOX 5 NY website reporting on the team's internet speed world record achievement (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). FOX 5 NY is part of the Fox News Media, an American mass media company headquartered in New York City that shares news stories to large audiences around the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.fox5ny.com/news/scientists-achieve-fastest-ever-internet-speed-that-could-download-entir... |
| Description | Noise and bandwidth-to beat and expand (ONG25) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Part of the UCL Optical Networks Group 25 year celebration event entitled 'Optical Networks-the next 25 years'. Event was supported by the TRANSNET programme and had a number of speakers from within the team deliver presentations about or related to TRANSNET. Lidia Galdino's talk was received extremely well by the 100+ attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Nonlinear Photonics International Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sergey Turitsyn was part of the organising committee for the Nonlinear Photonics International Summer School (online) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://education.nsu.ru/nonlinear_photonics/2020/en/ |
| Description | Novel Photonics Technologies, seminar for Huawei Europe |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | George delivered the seminar 'Photonic switching technologies for Data Centers' to an audience from Huawei Europe |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | OFC 2020: Linear and Nonlinear Characteristics of Few-mode Fibers with Partial Coupling between Groups of Quasi-degenerate Modes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by UCL research fellow, Filipe Ferreira, at the prestigious OFC 2020 conference held in San Diego. Audience of up to 500 reported excellent feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | OFC 2022 - Zichuan Zhou |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provided a talk at OFC 2022 titled, "Optical Access Networks for Mobile, Industry and More" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | OFC Tutorial : optical injection locking and its application in optical transceivers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | OFC invited tutorial on optical injection locking, with more than 100 professionals attending the presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Open Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | We provided a case study detailing UNLOC and TRANSNET research aims and outputs, for use at UCL's departmental open day that attracts students from across the country. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Open discussion: Meeting about the future of coherent access, OFC 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-investigator engaged in an open discussion at the leading communications conference OFC. Here, he engaged in a dialogue with PICadvanced about the future of coherent access. The meeting notes of this will feed into a White Paper on the topic of access networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Optical communications in the 2040s: future photonic technology advances for exabit/s networks (ONG25) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Part of the UCL Optical Networks Group 25 year celebration event entitled 'Optical Networks-the next 25 years'. Event was supported by the TRANSNET programme and had a number of speakers from within the team deliver presentations about or related to TRANSNET. Robert Killey's talk was received extremely well by the 100+ attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Organising Committee (NFT-Workshop) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Deputy Director Sergei Turitsyn and Co-I Wladek Forysiak were part of the organising committee for the Nonlinear Fourier Transform Workshop, held at TU Delft in the Netherlands |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://nft-workshop.astonphotonics.uk/nft-workshop-organisers/ |
| Description | Panel member: on IET along with Internet pioneer Bob Kahn and John Crowcroft |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Director sat on an expert panel discussing Celebrating Research Frontiers in Networking, alongside IET along with Internet pioneer Bob Kahn and John Crowcroft. Engaging discussion and Q&A by those in attendance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Podcast: How low-carbon can CrowdScience go |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The UCL TRANSNET group featured briefly on the BBC Crowd Science podcast that investigated 'How low-carbon can CrowdScience go', where they were asked their opinions on the weight of information. Reached an estimated audience of 300,000. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz1v5 |
| Description | Polina Bayvel profiled in the Jewish Chronicle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET PI Polina Bayvel is profiled in the Jewish Chronicle, the UK's no.1 Jewish newspaper (online and print). Polina is featured in the Jewniversity column and talks optical communications research alongside her professional and personal story. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thejc.com/culture/features/scientist-who-wires-the-world-1.510433 |
| Description | Poster presentation on multi-core fiber design using artificial intelligence and machine learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The presentation covered our work on AI/ML methods and the design of novel multi-core fibres that can increase the bandwidth density and capacity of optical fiber interconnects in cloud data center networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://topconference.com/ |
| Description | Poster presentation on optical networks for distributed machine learning systems. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation of work related to optical networking and collective operations for parallel and distributed computing including machine learning systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://topconference.com/ |
| Description | Presentation: Harnessing Optics for Low Latency Data Centre Networking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I, Zhixin Liu, presented at SIGCOMM 2019, Beijing, to forward the aims of the TRANSNET programme. Presentation extremely well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: 'How fast can the internet get?' at New Scientist Live 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | New Scientist Live is an award-winning, mind-blowing festival of ideas and discoveries for everyone curious about science and why it matters. Lidia Galdino presented to a 100+ audience on her groundbreaking research detailing Lidia what limits internet speeds and, how her team have demonstrated the world record internet speed of 120,000,000 Megabits per second |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://live.newscientist.com/speakers/lidia-galdino |
| Description | Presentation: 0.596 Pb/s S, C, L-Band Transmission in a 125 µm Diameter 4-core Fiber Using a Single Wideband Comb Source |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ben Puttnam, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan, in collaboration with the Optical Networks Group (ONG), University College London, UK, presented at the prestigious OFC 2020 conference held in San Diego. Audience of up to 500 reported excellent feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: 50-GHz Gain Switching and Period Doubling Using an Optical Injection Locked Cavity-enhanced DFB Laser |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by UCL Co-I Zhixin Liu, at the prestigious OFC 2020 conference held in San Diego. Audience of up to 500 reported excellent feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: 74.38 Tb/s Transmission Over 6300 km Single Mode Fiber with Hybrid EDFA/Raman Amplifiers, OFC 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Our researcher Maria Ionescu, presented the joint paper entitled 74.38 Tb/s Transmission Over 6300 km Single Mode Fiber with Hybrid EDFA/Raman Amplifiers to a 100+ audience. This paper was a collab with industrial partners Xtera. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: 800G/? transponder based on joint subband processing and subcarrier multiplexing (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tingting Zhang, Aston University, UK presented a poster at the prestigious 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Tintin's poster presentation was attended by 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: 91 nm C+L Hybrid Distributed Raman/Erbium-Doped Fibre Amplifier for High Capacity Subsea Transmission, ECOC 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Researcher Maria Ionescu presented to a 100+ audience her research entitled 91 nm C+L Hybrid Distributed Raman/Erbium-Doped Fibre Amplifier for High Capacity Subsea Transmission, at the leading optical communication conference, ECOC 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: A Comparison of Impairment Abstractions by Multiple Users of an Installed Fiber Infrastructure, OFC 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET co-investigator David Ives presented his research paper entitled A Comparison of Impairment Abstractions by Multiple Users of an Installed Fiber Infrastructure to a 100+ audience at OFC 2019, a leading optical communications conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: A Low-Loss Split-Carrier Transceiver Architecture for Intra-Datacentre Communications, ECOC 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PhD student Thomas Gerard presented his research entitled A Low-Loss Split-Carrier Transceiver Architecture for Intra-Datacentre Communications to a 100+ audience at the leading optical communication conference, ECOC 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: A Transition Metric in Polar Co-ordinates for MLSE of a Complex Modulated DML |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Aston University team member, at the prestigious OFC 2020 conference held in San Diego. Audience of up to 500 reported excellent feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: AIPT Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I spoke at the AIPT conference to a 100+ audience, discussing the TRANSNET Programme and fielding quesitons. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Amplifier Considerations in ROADM-free Space-Switched Nonlinear Optical Links |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Robert Vincent, University of Cambridge, UK presented a TRANSNET poster at the prestigious Optical Fibre Conference 2020, held in San Diego. to over 150 people. Poster feedback extremely positive. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Artificial Neural Network-Based Compensation for Transceiver Nonlinearity in Probabilistic Shaping Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tu Nguyen, Aston University, UK presented a TRANSNET poster to over 100 members of the prestigious Optical Fibre Conference (OFC2020). Received extremely well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Artificial Neural Network-Based Equaliser in the Nonlinear Fourier Domain for Fibre-Optic Communication Applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET team, Morteza Kamalian Kopae, Anastasiia Vasylchenkova, Oleksandr Kotlyar, Maryna Pankratova, Jaroslaw Prilepsky, Sergei Turitsyn, presented to over 100 members at CLEO-EUROPE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Bismuth-Doped Fiber Amplifier Operating in the Spectrally Adjacent to EDFA Range of 1425-1500 nm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vladislav Dvoyrin, Aston University/Novosibirsk State University presented at the prestigious Optical Fibre Conference (OFC2020) in San Diego, to an audience over 500. Received extremely well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Breaking the Transmission Barriers in Ultra-broadband High-capacity Optical Fiber Transmission Systems at LAOP 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Latin America Optics & Photonics Conference is the major international conference sponsored by The Optical Society in Latin America with the explicit objective to promote Latin American excellence in optics and photonics research and support the regional community. Dr Lidia Galdino delievered a presentation to a 500+ audience on 'Breaking the Transmission Barriers in Ultra-broadband High-capacity Optical Fiber Transmission Systems'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: Candidate Technologies for Ultra-wideband Nonlinear Optical Fibre Transmission System |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lidia Galdino, University College London, UK, presented at the prestigious OFC 2020 conference held in San Diego. Audience of up to 500 reported excellent feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Concept and Experimental Demonstration of Optical IM/DD End-to-End System Optimization using a Generative Model |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Boris Karanov presented a poster at the prestigious OFC 2020 conference held in San Diego. Audience of up to 150 reported excellent feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Demonstrating Optically Interconnected Remote Serial and Parallel Memory in Disaggregated Data Centers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by UCL research fellow, Vaibhawa Mishra, at the prestigious OFC 2020 conference held in San Diego. Audience of up to 500 reported excellent feedback. This paper was a top scored paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Diversity: champion the change you want to see (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by TRANSNET Co-I Lidia Galdino, at the prestigious conference, The 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Lidia woekshop was attended by 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Experimental Demonstration of Geometrically-Shaped Constellations Tailored to the Nonlinear Fibre Channel, ECOC 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Researcher Eric Sillekens presented his research to a 100+ audience at the leading communications conference, ECOC 2018. His research was entitled Experimental Demonstration of Geometrically-Shaped Constellations Tailored to the Nonlinear Fibre Channel and received extremely well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: Experimental Investigation of Static and Dynamic Crosstalk in Trench-Assisted Multi-Core Fiber, OFC 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The research paper entitled Experimental Investigation of Static and Dynamic Crosstalk in Trench-Assisted Multi-Core Fiber, by Hui Yuan, was presented to a 100+ audience at the leading optical communication conference, OFC 19. Hui et al were also awarded best paper for this research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Experimental Realisation of Single-carrier Alamouti-coded QPSK Using Frequency-Diverse Dual-Polarisation RF Pilot Tones, ECOC 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PhD student Sezer Erkilinç presented his research entitled Nonlinearity Mitigation in the Presence of Intercore-Crosstalk to a 100+ audience at the leading optical communication conference, ECOC 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: Experimental demonstration of a dispersion tolerant end-to-end deep learning-based IM-DD transmission system, ECOC 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Researcher Boris Karanov presented to a 100+ audience her research entitled Experimental demonstration of a dispersion tolerant end-to-end deep learning-based IM-DD transmission system, at the leading optical communication conference, ECOC 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: Extreme Values in Optical Fiber Communication Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seb Savory, University of Cambridge, UK presented at at the prestigious OFC 2020 conference held in San Diego. Audience of up to 500 reported excellent feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Multi Core Fibre Transmission Links based on Silicon Photonic Transceivers, OFC 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This research paper is a unique one, the lead author being a 2nd year undergraduate student, Alessandro Ottino. His research was presented by TRANSNET co-investigator Domanic Lavery to a 100+ audience at the leading optical communication conference, OFC 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Increasing achievable information rates with pilot-based DSP in standard intradyne detection Systems (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Yuta Wakayama, University College London, UK / KDDI Corporation, Japan, was TRANSNET's visiting researcher and presented at the prestigious 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Yuta's presentation was attended by 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Low Latency Clock Recovery for Optically-switched Data Centres |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I Zhixin Liu, presented at Beijing Insitute of Technology (BIT) to a 100 + audience on the aims and reseach of the programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Machine learning for performance improvement of periodic NFT-based communication system (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oleksandr Kotlyar, Aston University, UK, presented a poster at the prestigious conference, The 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Lidia woekshop was attended by 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Modulation Format Dependent, Closed-Form Formula for Estimating Nonlinear Interference in S+C+L Band Systems (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by UCL researcher Daniel Semrau Presentation at the prestigious conference, The 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Daniel's presentation was attended by 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Multieigenvalue communication paired with b-modulation (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Anastasiia Vasylchenkova, Aston University, UK, presented at the prestigious 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Anastasiia's presentation was attended by 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Multisymbol Periodic Nonlinear Fourier Transform Communication (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Morteza Kamalian Kopae, Aston University, UK, presented a poster at the prestigious 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Morteza's poster was presented to 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Nonlinear communication technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 members present to hear Sergei Turitsyn elaborate on TRANSNET research and discuss communication technologies further |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Nonlinear communication technologies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 100 attendees present to hear Sergei Turitsyn present his views on communication technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Nonlinear world of commercial photonic systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sergei Turitysn, Aston University, presented at Tampere University Workshop on "Progress in Nonlinear Photonics", to over 100 attendees. Presentation received extremely well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Nonlinearity Mitigation in the Presence of Intercore-Crosstalk, ECOC 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PhD student Daniel Elson presented his research entitled Nonlinearity Mitigation in the Presence of Intercore-Crosstalk to a 100+ audience at the leading optical communication conference, ECOC 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: Optical wave turbulence in fibre lasers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I Sergei Turitsyn presented to a 100+ audience at the prestigious Int conf: Universal features of hydrodynamical, optical and wave turbulence, to a 100+ audience. Presentation received extremely well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Overview and Comparison o fNonlinear Interference Modelling Approaches in Ultra-Wideband Optical Transmission Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UCL Research Fellow Daniel Semrau presented to over 100 persons at the prestigious 21st International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON). Positive feedback received post the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: PULSE: Scalable sub-µs WDM-TDM Circuit Switched Data Center Network (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joshua Benjamin, University College London, UK presented at the prestigious 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Joshua's presentation was attended by 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Raman effects in ultra-wideband systems (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented by UCL TRANSNET researcher Daniel Semrau at the prestigious conference, The 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Presentation attended by 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Rate-Adaptive Coded Modulation with Geometrically-shaped Constellations at ACP 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) is the largest conference in the Asia-Pacific region on optical communication, photonics and relevant technologies. Domanic Lavery delivered a presentation to a 500+ audience on Rate-Adaptive Coded Modulation with Geometrically-shaped Constellations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: Scaling PULSE Data Center Network Architecture and Scheduling Optical Circuits in Sub-microseconds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by UCL researcher Joshua Benjamin, at the prestigious OFC 2020 conference held in San Diego. Audience of up to 500 reported excellent feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation: Stem for Britain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | PhD student Kari Clark selected from over hundreds of applicants to enter the final round of the STEM for Britain competition and attend parliament to showcase his research on Data Centers to a panel, including the local MP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Sub-Nanosecond Clock and Data Recovery in an Optically Switched Data Centre Network, ECOC 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PhD student Kari Clark presented this post deadline paper, in collab with our industry partner Microsoft, entitled Sub-Nanosecond Clock and Data Recovery in an Optically Switched Data Centre Network. This was at the leading optical communications conference ECOC to an audience of over 100 delegates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: Sub-microsecond Optical Circuit Switched Data Center Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Georgios Zervas, UCL, presented at 24th OptoElectronics and Comms Conference / International conference on photonics in switching and computing 2019 (OECC/PSC) to over a 100 plus audience. Received extremely well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: The role of women in STEM at BICOP 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IEEE BICOP 2018 reported on the latest advances in optics and photonics across diverse fields, including: Communications; Laser; Photonic Integrated Circuits; Sensors; Medicine; Manufacturing; and Quantum Photonics. Dr Lidia Galdino presented to a 100+ audience in her capacity as IEEE Associate Vice President of the IEE 'Women in Photonics' initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: Ultra-high capacity and long-haul transmission (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lidia Galdino, TRANSNET Co-I, presented at the prestigious conference, The 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Lidia's presentation was attended by almost 500 attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Unsupervised and supervised machine learning for performance improvement of NFT optical transmission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The TRANSNET team at Aston University, led by Sergei Turitsyn presented their research entitled Unsupervised and supervised machine learning for performance improvement of NFT optical transmission to a 100+ audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation: Using low thermal sensitivity hollow core fibre for optically-switched data centre applications (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET researcher Kari Clark presented this top scored paper at the prestigious European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Lidia woekshop was attended by 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation: Why can't I sing with Australians on the telephone? & other questions about engineering the Internet |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I, Dr Domanic Lavery, presented at the UCL Lunchhour Lecture to over 50 attendees, discussing the power of the internet and tieing this in with TRANSNET research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | RAEng Case Study: Lidia Galdino |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Profile on TRANSNET co-i and RAEng Fellow Dr Lidia Galdino for web and social campaign |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-prizes/grants/support-for-research/case-studies/research-fellows/dr-... |
| Description | Radio Interview (BBC Digital Planet) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Dr Lidia Galdino on achieving the highest data transmission rate ever recorded (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591) for BBC Digital Planet, a radio programme broadcast weekly on the BBC World Service, covering technology stories and news from around the world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz98d |
| Description | Researcher App Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Anastasiia Vasylchenkova and Morteza Kamalian-Kopae held a seminar entitled 'Nonlinear Fourier Transform in optical communication: can the fibre nonlinearity be a friend?' hosted by the Researcher App |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | STEM for Britain 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | PhD Student Kari Clark, whose research is partially supported by PhotoDAC, won the 'Bronze Medal' in the STEM for Britain 2018 event. Kari gave poster presentations to MPs at the parliament and explain the research to policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | STEMM Smart Nanomaterials 2021 Conference - Anastasiia Vasylchenkova |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Anastasiia Vasylchenkova delivered a talk titled, "Analytical models for quality of transmission applied for ultrawideband system analysis and design" at the STEMM Smart Nanomaterials 2021 Conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Self-suppression of signal-signal beating interference using a split-carrier transmitter (ECOC 19) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thomas Gerard, University College London, UK presented at the prestigious 45th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), Dublin in Sept 2019. Thomas' presentation was attended by 100+ attendees with excellent feedback received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Speaker at ECOC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Pedro J. Freire presented the paper 'Experimental Verification of Complex-Valued Artificial Neural Network for Nonlinear Equalization in Coherent Optical Communication Systems' at the European Conference of Optical Communication. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ecoco2020.org/ |
| Description | Story on www.scitechdaily.com |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Article for SciTechDaily on the team's record breaking data transmission speed (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). SciTechDaily is science news site that provides intelligent, informed science and technology coverage and analysis on a daily basis, linking to the most thought-provoking, well researched online items in the world of science and technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009,2020 |
| URL | https://scitechdaily.com/new-internet-speed-world-record-178-terabits-a-second/ |
| Description | TOP Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Wladek co-chaired the TOP conference with leading figures from UK telecommunications, optics, and photonics industry, and took the lead in organisation of the entire 2-day technical programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://topconference.com/ |
| Description | TOPS - Telecommunications, Optics & Photonics Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics (TOP) Conference, took place in London from 14-15 February in London and attendees were able to find out about the latest trends in photonic integration; silicon photonics using InP, GaAs and polymer solutions; packaging solutions; hybrid integration; lasers, modulators and receivers; filters and switches and connectors. Held in Bishopsgate, London, close to Liverpool St station, the conference allowed delegates and speakers valuable in-person networking opportunities as well as time to view the poster sessions. Along with the comprehensive programme, the conference featured two workshops: UK capabilities in photonics (& new allied technologies): current status, demands and drivers, future prospects, and opportunities for growth - which reviewed the current status of UK capabilities in photonics considering present societal demands and business drivers, and examined future prospects for photonic technologies and new opportunities for short, medium, and long-term growth. UKRI Hubs & Programme Grants: recent progress in optical communications, photonic technologies, quantum communications and quantum computing - this workshop brought together world-leading researchers to exchange the latest results, ideas and to explore new opportunities for cross-fertilisation and co-working across these research fields. Over 10 research posters as well as a presentation on the TRANSNET Programme Grant. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://topconference.com/ |
| Description | Talk How much faster will the internet get-will better optical networks help? (ONG25) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Part of the UCL Optical Networks Group 25 year celebration event entitled 'Optical Networks-the next 25 years'. Event was supported by the TRANSNET programme and had a number of speakers from within the team deliver presentations about or related to TRANSNET. Domanic Lavery's talk on the internet was received extremely well by attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Tour: Minister of State for Universities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A lab tour led by our TRANSNET team, for the former Science Minister, Chris Skidmore. Discussed the research currently being undertaken, including a discussion on TRANSNET aims and a tour of the premises. Received extremely well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Tour: Optical Networks Group (ONG) laboratory tour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | UCL TRANSNET team participated in the UCL led It's All Academic Festival, an open event attended by over 500 people, from school students to tourists. The ONG/TRANSNET team showcased the research lab, leading groups of 15 people on interactive tours. Event was very well received. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Tutorial: Coherent ONU Designs for 50 GBS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tutorial to 100 plus people attendees at the prestigious Optical Fibre Conference, by Zhixin Liu, on Coherent ONU Designs for 50 GBS. Received extremely well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UCL Press Release |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press Release and official News piece from UCL on TRANSNET's record breaking internet speed work (doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2020.3007591). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/aug/ucl-engineers-set-new-world-record-internet-speed |
| Description | UCL Press Release |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | UCL press release on a TRANSNET Programme research paper published in the journal Scientific Report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/iccs/news/2021/may/iccs-researchers-contribute-newly-published-research-demons... |
| Description | UCL Press Release |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Original press release for publication of clock phase caching paper (doi.org/10.1038/s41928-020-0423-y) from UCL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/jun/new-technique-may-enable-all-optical-data-centre-networks |
| Description | Virtual lab tour (ECOC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UCL team delivered a virtual lab tour as part of a special event at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Virtual lab tour (IPC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UCL team delivered a virtual lab tour as part of a special event at the IEEE Photonics Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Visit at institution: EPSRC ICT team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | UNLOC and TRANSNET teams based at UCL had a visit from the EPSRC ICT teams to explore the lab facilities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit at institution: Infinera |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Robert Maher, an industry employee, visited the UCL UNLOC and TRANSNET teams to deliver a presentation to approximately 30 members of the team on 'the challenges of building next generation coherent transceivers'. The talk was received extremely well and led to an excellent question and answer session on the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WAVE 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | WAVE 2022 was a one-day conference held at the BT Tower, sponsored by the Sub-Optic Foundation to attract young people to the field of subsea communications - and with prominent members of the sub-sea community - it was an important Advocacy event: https://wave.subopticfoundation.org/ TRANSNET team played a major role in the organisation of the event, and Professor Polina Bayvel was one of the prominent figures at the event. In addition to being one of the key speakers at the Round Table discussion on the range of opportunities available in Subsea, she also presented her thoughts on defining moments in the breakthrough of optical networks; followed by an engaging debate on the topic with Gary Waterworth, Network Investment EMEA at META and Maja Summers, Senior Submarine Commercial Manager at Vodafone. TRANSNET was also officially recognised as a partner of the event for supporting the organisers with planning of the event. The event was livestreamed to schools around the world, and was attended by both established and up-and-coming figures in the field of subsea communications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://transnet.org.uk/news-and-events/546-transnet-goes-to-the-bt-tower |
| Description | WON 1st Year Technical Workshop for ECRs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Lidia Galdino presented the talk 'State of the art in digital coherent transmission' at the 1st Year Technical Workshop for early-stage researchers organised by the ETN WON and EID REAL-NET Consortia. The workshop was held at Aston University. . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://won.astonphotonics.uk/1st-year-workshop/ |
| Description | WON Special Event at ECOC 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Special event dedicated to Wideband Optical Networking at ECOC 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ecoc2021.org/programme/special-events |
| Description | Workshop "Current and future trends for optical communication systems" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 2-day workshop on 'Current and future trends for optical communication systems' Topics: 1. Practical Implementation and Network Applications of Non -Fourier Transform 2. ML Methods for Ultra-Wide Band Systems 3. ML and AI Applied to MB Optical Communication 7-8 April 2022, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and online Event website: https://dtu-workshop.astonphotonics.uk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://dtu-workshop.astonphotonics.uk |
| Description | Workshop: Introduction to Neural Networks for classification problems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Run by Research Fellow Oleksandyr Kotlyar at Aston University, a comprehensive workshop attended by approx 30 PhD students, with a focus on machine learning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: Agenda optics for the cloud |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop organised by TRANSNET Partner, Microsoft. All PhD students delivered a talk on their respective PhD topics, engaging the partner in a question and answer session. In attendance were: Lidia Galdino, UCL Polina Bayvel, UCL Seb Savory, Cambridge Georgios Zervas, UCL Dom Lavery, UCL Kari Clark, UCL, PhD student Thomas Gerard, UCL, PhD student David Ives, Researcher COI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: Become a PostDoc |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A workshop organised collaboratively with OSA/SPIE Student Chapter for Aston University, overseen by our Aston based Research Fellows. Excellent attendance and feedback on pursuing a career in this field and this topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: CableLabs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Domanic Lavery attended a small workshop with the prestigious organisation CableLabs, Colorado. They are responsible for setting the cable Internet standards used by more than 500 million subscribers. His networking led to potential opportunities for further collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: Disaggregation of Optical Layer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organised by TRANSNET Co-I Georgios Zervas at UCL, in collab with AIST; almost 50 attendees from UCL and AIST attended with discussions centred on collaborative activities and how TRANSNET research can be used to forward AIST's aim. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: Fibre optic devices |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshops attended by our Researcher Co-I David Ives: 2 workshops: a) Fibre optic systems and active devices and b) Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components These provide the UK position to the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission). It is a chance to transfer some of our expertise to industry. Although if industry is 20 years behind leading edge research then IEC standards are 5 to 10 years behind that. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: Machine learning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A workshop organised by an Aston University research fellow, discussing the significance of TRANSNET research with the key concept of machine learning in mind. Positive feedback from the attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: Novel Concepts in Photonics Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sergei Turitsyn, from Aston University, delivered a presentation in Israel to over 100 attendees on some of the key concepts in the Photonics field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: Optical Experiments and Testing: With or without FEC?, OFC 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Our Deputy Director Seb Savory and Co-investigator Dom Lavery led on this workshop hosted at the leading optical communications conference, OFC 2019. They presented to an audience of 50+ and social media interactions hinted at the workshop's popularity. Their talk was entitled 'Abusing Forward Error Correction in Optical Communications Experiments'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: Optical Injection Locking: From Principles to Applications, OFC 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET co-investigator delivered a presentation entitled Optical Injection Locking: From Principles to Applications at OFC 2019; his workshop was part of a series of workshops dedicated to optical communications, and he presented to an audience of 50+. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop: State of the art of ultra wideband modulators |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TRANSNET Co-I attended the 1st year Wideband Optical Networks project workshop, Aston University, where she presented information about TRANSNET research to over 50+ practitioners from this field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Workshop: Will Advanced Direct-detection Systems Ever Be the Solution of Choice for Metro and Access Applications?, OFC 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Our Co-investigator Domanic Lavery participated in a workshop at the leading optical communications conference OFC. Here, he delivered a talk entitled ' Reduced complexity coherent transceivers for optical access' to over 100 delegates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | delivering a talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Y-Z Xu, H-F Po, C-H Yeung, and D. Saad delivered a talk titled Scalable Multi-wavelength Internet Routing", at the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste Italy, 8-10 September 2021 (2001) . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | invited talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | B. Li, A. Mozeika and D. Saad delivered a talk titled "Space of Functions Computed by Deep-layered Machines" in the Joint KIT/TUe Workshop on Neuromorphic High-Speed Communications (NeuCos), Karlsruhe Germany, 9 December 2021 (2021) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |