for integrated Transmitter and receiver in Optical communication
HECTO is an FP6-IST project partly funded by the European Commission with 2.36 million euro out of a total project budget of 3.87 million euro. It was started in 2006-11-01 and will end in 2009-10-31. The focus of this project is on the development of photonic components, transmitters and receivers, for high-performance and high-speed but cost-efficient communication systems.
The main objectives of the project are summarized as follows:
- To develop transmitters and receivers suitable for optical systems based on serial 100GbE signals requiring about 110Gbit/s.
- To determine specifications for all interfaces of the photonic components taking into account emerging relevant standards, and to determine application areas for the components and their impact on the specifications.
- To test the transmitters and the receivers in laboratory tests and field trials.
- To disseminate the results of the project, e.g. through the involvement of end users in the field trials.
- To exploit the results of the project, including plans for commercial exploitation by the SME component vendors of the consortium.
Project website: www.hecto.eu
Partners:
Acreo AB (Acreo), Sweden
DTU Fotonik (DTU), Denmark
Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (FhG/HHI), Germany
Fraunhofer Institut für Angewandte Festkörperphysik (FhG/IAF), Germany
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG (Nokia Siemens), Germany
Syntune AB (Syntune), Sweden
U2T Photonics AG (U2T), Germany
University of Peloponnese (UoP), Greece