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Emerging Multimode Fiber Technologies for Communications and Beyond

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2024 | Viewed by 1409

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Competence Center for Biomedical Laser Systems, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
Interests: quantitative phase imaging; holography; wavefront shaping; computational and adaptive microscopy; fiber-based optical communication; Brillouin microscopy; optical traps; microrobots
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Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Interests: nonlinear optics; multimode fiber optics; machine learning; wavefront shaping; digital holography

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Multimode fibres (MMFs) are at the core of numerous areas of development and research. While for many years, MMF was predominantly employed as a power-efficient cable for short-distance speckled light transport, its complex transmission properties can now be overcome and exploited with modern technologies. This Special Issue looks at the latest trends in MMFs supporting multiple transverse modes and/or are equipped with multiple (multimodal) cores, known as multicore fibre MCFs. The range of applications for this material include, and are not limited to: communications, biomedical imaging, spectroscopy and complex lasers.

This Special Issue aims to gather original research and review articles in different stages of development, from new challenges and theories to approaches, applications, devices and systems and networks.

Potential topics include:

  • Space division multiplexing (SDM) networks;
  • Transmitters, receivers and equalizations for SDM;
  • Wavefront shaping techniques for MMF applications;
  • MMF endoscopes;
  • MMF amplifiers;
  • MMF lasers;
  • Characterization of MMFs;
  • Techniques overcoming nonlinear effects of light transmission in MMF;
  • Novel approaches driven by artificial intelligence;
  • Mode decomposition methods;
  • Quantum transmission through MMF;
  • Optical computing using MMF.

Dr. Nektarios Koukourakis
Dr. Stefan Rothe
Guest Editors

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Multimode Optical Interconnects on Silicon Interposer Enable Confidential Hardware-to-Hardware Communication
by Qian Zhang, Sujay Charania, Stefan Rothe, Nektarios Koukourakis, Niels Neumann, Dirk Plettemeier and Juergen W. Czarske
Sensors 2023, 23(13), 6076; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23136076 - 01 Jul 2023
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Abstract
Following Moore’s law, the density of integrated circuits is increasing in all dimensions, for instance, in 3D stacked chip networks. Amongst other electro-optic solutions, multimode optical interconnects on a silicon interposer promise to enable high throughput for modern hardware platforms in a restricted [...] Read more.
Following Moore’s law, the density of integrated circuits is increasing in all dimensions, for instance, in 3D stacked chip networks. Amongst other electro-optic solutions, multimode optical interconnects on a silicon interposer promise to enable high throughput for modern hardware platforms in a restricted space. Such integrated architectures require confidential communication between multiple chips as a key factor for high-performance infrastructures in the 5G era and beyond. Physical layer security is an approach providing information theoretic security among network participants, exploiting the uniqueness of the data channel. We experimentally project orthogonal and non-orthogonal symbols through 380 μm long multimode on-chip interconnects by wavefront shaping. These interconnects are investigated for their uniqueness by repeating these experiments across multiple channels and samples. We show that the detected speckle patterns resulting from modal crosstalk can be recognized by training a deep neural network, which is used to transform these patterns into a corresponding readable output. The results showcase the feasibility of applying physical layer security to multimode interconnects on silicon interposers for confidential optical 3D chip networks. Full article
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