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Functional Photonic Crystal Devices for Metropolitan Optical Networks

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Optical, opto-electronic, photonic functional components

Optical networks continue their growth in the metropolitan core and access segments. The FUNFOX project addresses the use of photonic crystals (PhC) to miniaturise and improve semiconductor optoelectronic devices needed in these networks. It focuses on InP-based devices exploiting advances made in the FP5/IST PhC-related projects PCIC and PICCO. It gathers for a three year duration 380 personmonths through nine partners, including 7 academic laboratories, a large industrialist and a SME, with a total cost above 3.3 Meuros.Three device-oriented workpackages address (i) active functions, (ii) passive functions and (iii) the active-passive integration. They cover the most relevant device aspects for metro networks.Active functions to be demonstrated during the project are highly linear optical amplification and wavelength conversion. Passive functions exploit novel schemes permitted by photonic crystals, either for spectral selection, notably in relation with monitoring and multiplexing, or for polarisation management (i.e. polarisation diversity). Integration of wavelength selective functions with single-mode lasers will result in wavelength-stabilised laser sources. Integrated devices performance will be assessed through a system testbed in the fourth main workpackage. The objectives take into account the emerged knowledge of losses in two-dimensional photonic crystal structures. It exploits both the 'membrane' and the 'conventional heterostructure' approaches of the former FP5/IST projects, and in particular their combination by bringing their advantages into a single device.All these devices, with improved performance and high degree of integration, thus potentially low-cost, will contribute to future large scale deployment of metropolitan core and access networks for new services of 'infotainment'.Compared with previous projects, and with most of the photonic crystal activity worldwide, FUNFOX aims at providing photonic crystal solutions for the real world.

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FP6-2003-IST-2
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CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
Contributo UE
€ 227 000,00
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Centre Scientifique, Batiment 503
91403 Orsay
Francia

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