UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA (UPVLC)
Short description of the participating partner organization
Role of UPVLC in IPHOBAC: UPVLC participates in WP1, WP2, WP5, WP6 and WP7. Its main contributions are regarding the novel photonic vector modulator and demodulator (PVM/PVdM) architectures proposed in WP3 T5.3. First, several architectures will be simulated and assessment towards their possible implementation in a system-of-a-chip will be provided. Secondly, PVM/PVdM architectures will be set up in the laboratory employing advanced photonic components and subsystems developed in IPHOBAC and the approach will be validated achieving the wireless transmission of 10 Gbit/s data rate signals.
The Nanophotonics Technology Center (NTC) at Valencia is the center of photonic systems and technology in Spain. The NTC has been recently created as the hub for scientific research, and R&D in advanced optical technologies and photonic systems for telecom and computing, with a clear aim to technology transfer. The NTC is composed by scientists and engineers from several academic research groups in Spain and skilled scientists and technicians coming from the Agere Systems factory in Madrid providing professional fabrication services. The NTC is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology and the Valencian Regional Council.
The NTC facility includes a 500 sqm clean room (class 10-100) for 6- inches Si wafer processing. Available processes are: lithography (e-beam direct writer, coater, developer, aligner and I-line stepper), dielectric and poly-Si deposition, thickness measurement, sputtering, etch and chemical cleans, ICP-RIE, RTA and full FMA lab. Advanced 5-axis stations for optical characterization and performance test allow end-fire measurements of simultaneous all-parameter transmission and reflection measurements with high dynamic range (>60 dB) and wide band (1260-1635 nm). NTC optical transmission laboratory is equipped with 44 Gbit/s PRBS/BER tester, 50 GHz Eye diagram tester, optical correlators, optical ps-pulsed sources, among others. In the electrical domain, our laboratories are equipped with signal generators (up to 50 GHz) and detection (up to 75 GHz) of RF signals with arbitrary modulation formats.
The main areas of expertise are: (i) Hybrid fiber-radio systems and networks. ii) High-speed DWDM optical networks, (iii) Biophotonics, and iv) photonic crystals, in which the NTC has been actively involved in EU R&D programs coordinating projects FP5 OBANET, FP6 GANDALF, LASAGNE, SABIO and PHOLOGIC and participating in FP5 TOPRATE, and NoEs such as ACE, ISIS, E-Photon/1 or EPIXNET. The NTC has a proven track of more than 30 peer-reviewed publications/year in these research fields, with more than 250 publications.
Primary Contact Person
Prof. Dr. Javier Marti
UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA
Centro de Tecnología Nanofotónica, Edificio IDI-5 (8G), Camino de Vera S/N
46022 Valencia
ES
Phone: +34 963879784
Fax: +34 963877827
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Short description of the participants (in alphabetical order)
Javier Martí received the Ingeniero de Telecomunicación degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain, in 1991, and the PhD degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, in 1994. During 1989-1990, he was an Assistant Lecturer at the UPC. Since 1991 to 2000, he obtained the positions of Lecturer and Associate Professor at the Telecommunication Engineering Faculty, where he is currently Full-Professor. Recently he has been appointed Director of the Valencia Nanophotonics Technology Center. He has authored 7 patents and over 150 papers in refereed international technical journals and leading international conferences in the fields of fiber-radio systems and technologies, access networks, ultra-high bit rate wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network, advanced optical processing techniques, fiber gratings and planar photonic crystals. He has led many national and international research projects and was the co-ordinator of the FP5 IST-OBANET project. Nowadays, he is the coordinator of FP6 IST STREP projects GANDALF, LASAGNE and PHOLOGIC. Prof. Martí is or has been a member of the Technical Program Committee of several conferences as ECOC, Microwave Photonics, LEOS, and several other international workshops. He is also the recipient of several academic and industrial awards in Spain.
Valentín Polo received the Ingeniero de Telecomunicación and the PhD degrees from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, in 1997 and 2004, respectively. He is a member of the VNTC participating in R&D activities in the fields of microwave and mm-wave photonics including photonic-microwave filters, dispersion compensation and broadband wireline and wireless access systems and technologies. He has been actively involved in National and European projects related with the above research lines, mainly in broadband wireline/wireless access networks and optically beamformed antenna technologies (project IST-2000 25390 OBANET http://ist-obanet.upv.es). Currently, he is technical manager of project IST-1-507781 GANDALF http://ist-gandalf.org). He has co-authored over 80 papers in international journals and conferences. He acts as reviewer for several IEE/IEEE journals and conferences.
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