Hello everybody, It is a great pleasure to share that recently our work has received much appreciation. We set a new world record on the single-channel data rate of the standard optical fiber. In this blog, I share our work in brief. Our work is about mitigating the distortions and thus, increasing the transmission capacity of fiber-optic communication systems. These systems carry 99% of today’s internet traffic and are under pressure due to an exponential rise in bandwidth-hungry services such as video conferencing, HD video streaming and online gaming. In order to increase the data-carrying capacity of networks while keeping a lower cost, researchers and industries around the world are working hard to achieve higher capacity per fiber. The innovation is usually applied at transmitters and receivers where information bits are encoded into higher modulation format symbols (i.e. multiple amplitudes and phase levels of light), and then, those symbols are transmitted at rates ...
2019 is coming to an end and I have completed one year in the FONTE project. I would like to take this opportunity to write my first blog which is about my experience so far. Two years ago, I did not imagine that I would be going out of India in the near future. I have interest in the field of fiber-optic technology. I feel fortunate to get accepted for the EID position in the project FONTE. It is a great opportunity to work with some of the experts in the field of fiber-optic communication from industry as well as academia. I traveled to my university TU Delft in the month of December. This was my first visit to a foreign country. I had mixed feeling of fear of new place and excitation. In the beginning, I missed my home and friends as well as the Sun. The people in TU Delft were welcoming and supportive. Here in the picture below, I am with some of my colleagues. Happy faces after winning the pub-quiz competition in department. I started working on really i...