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The Valencia Nanophotonics Technology Centre (NTC) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPVLC) was formally established in 1996, and since then has been actively working on several research topics in the area of optical networks in Broadband Access. Research activities consisted of theoretical modelling/simulation of novel broadband access technologies, techniques and networks as well as experimental work to validate them in the laboratory and also in field trials. In particular, several fibre optic solutions for wireless access technologies in both for fixed and mobile scenarios (WiFi, WLL, MBS) and wired access (FTTH, VDSL, CATV-HFC) networks have been investigated.
The Digital-RF & Optical Laboratory at NTC is equipped for optical device and system characterisation (time and frequency) and for performance evaluation testing in digital transmissions (2 Mbit/s - 40 Gbit/s, PRBS/BERT) and analogue transmission (up to 170 GHz including IF digital mod/demod 230 Mbit/s M-QAM). We have capabilities for the generation (up to 6 GHz) and detection (up to 60 GHz) of RF signals with arbitrary modulation formats (OFDM, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, 3G, up to 256 QAM, multi-carrier) using state-of the art vector signal generators and analysers.
Expertise in Hybrid fibre-radio systems and networks: optical feeding broadband wireless access base-stations, flexible system architectures that allow the simultaneous transmission of broadband signals at baseband and RF, which is highly suitable for Gb/s heterogeneous multiservice access networks. Now the NTC is participating in the FP6 projects IST-IPHOBAC (IP) and IST-ISIS (NoE). The NTC coordinated FP6-GANDALF project and IST-2000 25390 OBANET. In the area of High-speed DWDM optical networks: transmission, routing and switching issues, the NTC has been actively involved in Terabit/s photonic transmission system research as contributing partner in the IST-2000 28657 TOPRATE and next-generation all-optical label swapping (AOLS) in the project FP6 IST-2002 507509 LASAGNE project.
The NTC has a proven track of more than 20 publications/year in the radio-on-fibre for wireline and wireless access research field, with an aggregated of more than 130 publications in technical journals.
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