Research Areas

The key research areas of the Optical Communications Group (GCO) involve Optical Fiber Technologies, Raman Spectroscopy and High-Speed Networking. GCO experience is related to optical wavelength domain transport and access networks, using WDM, TDM, SDM or FDM multiplexing, broadband fiber transmission, sources and receivers, all-optical amplification, optical heterodyne detection, wavelength monitoring and control, transparent WDM network architectures and management, optical linear and non-linear distortions, polarization/PMD compensation and network quality monitoring.