SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME THEME [ICT ] [Photonics]

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1 SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME THEME [ICT ] [Photonics] SPIRIT Software-defined energy-efficient Photonic transceivers IntRoducing Intelligence and dynamicity in Terabit superchannels for flexible optical networks Grant Agreement no D1.1 Factsheet and Project Presentation Lead beneficiary for this deliverable: ICCS/NTUA Contact Person: Prof. Hercules Avramopoulos Address: Iroon Polytechniou Zografou, Greece Phone: Fax: hav@mail.ntua.gr Date due of deliverable: 31/12/2013 Actual submission date: 31/12/2013 Deliverable Authors: M. Spyropoulou, S. Dris, D. Apostolopoulos, H. Avramopoulos Participants: ICCS/NTUA Workpackage: WP 1 Security: Public (PU) Nature: R Version: 1.0 Total number of pages: 20 SPIRIT D1.1: Factsheet and Project Presentation Page 1

2 Abstract: This deliverable report contains the project fact sheet as well as a short project presentation, which will both be used for dissemination purposes. Keyword list: Project factsheet, short presentation, dissemination. SPIRIT D1.1: Factsheet and Project Presentation Page 2

3 Executive Summary This deliverable reports on the generation of the SPIRIT project fact sheet as well as a short project presentation. The reported documents are essential instruments for the dissemination of the project particularly at this early stage. The project short presentation has been provided to the European Commission services and will be made available for download from the official page of SPIRIT on CORDIS. Both the fact sheet and the short presentation will be made publicly available on the SPIRIT website SPIRIT D1.1: Factsheet and Project Presentation Page 3

4 Table of contents 1. SPIRIT Fact Sheet SPIRIT short presentation Annex I Annex II...8 SPIRIT D1.1: Factsheet and Project Presentation Page 4

5 1. SPIRIT Fact Sheet The SPIRIT fact sheet aims to provide a concise overview of the project motivation, objectives and technological approach, as well as to summarize the main project facts such as contact details, duration, and EC financial support. It can be considered as the project ID, packing all relevant project information in just two pages. The SPIRIT fact sheet consists of the following sections: 1. Header (first page), where the project logo (Figure 1) and full title are displayed. European Commission support is clearly indicated through an embedded EC flag. 2. Main body. This includes the following subsections: The Challenge Vision Project Objectives Photonic Integration System Exploitation 3. At-a-glance section, summarizing project facts such as contact details, partners, duration and EC financial contribution. 4. Footer (last page only) including the logos of the European Commission and the Seventh Framework Programme. The SPIRIT fact sheet is presented in detail in Annex I of this report and will become publicly available at: Figure 1: SPIRIT project logo. SPIRIT D1.1: Factsheet and Project Presentation Page 5

6 2. SPIRIT short presentation The SPIRIT short presentation goes one step further from the fact sheet, providing more details on the project context, objectives, technical approach and potential exploitation, in a visually attractive format. The SPIRIT short presentation consists of the following sections: 1. Front page, featuring the project logo, full title and website address. An EC flag and FP7 logo are also included to indicate EC financial support. 2. Consortium, presenting the project partners drivers, describing the project context and main challenges addressed. 4. SPIRIT vision, stating the project strategic aims. 5. SPIRIT Objectives, summarizing the main project objectives. 6. SPIRIT building blocks, showcasing the components that will be developed during the project. 7. Partner Roles, mapping the consortium members to their respective contribution in the technological development. 8. Focus on fast product commercialization, providing the envisioned path to market exploitation of SPIRIT technology. 9. SPIRIT Industrial exploitation, indicating industrial partners exploitation areas with respect to specific technologies. 10. Contact, comprising main contact details for the SPIRIT project. The SPIRIT short presentation is presented in detail in Annex II of this report and will be made publicly available at: SPIRIT D1.1: Factsheet and Project Presentation Page 6

7 3. Annex I SPIRIT project factsheet

8 EUROPEAN COMMISSION Information and Communication Technologies Software-defined energy-efficient Photonic transceivers IntRoducing Inteligence and dynamicity in Terabit superchannels for flexible optical networks At a Glance: ICT SPIRIT Project website: Project coordinator: Prof. H. Avramopoulos Project partners: ICCS/NTUA Fraunhofer-HHI IMEC AMO Gmbh Linkra S.R.L. Ericsson Telecommunicazioni Helenic Telecommunication Organization S.A. OTE AE The Challenge The advent of cloud applications and the proliferation of mobile devices have imposed a dramatic increase of the IP traffic. The emerging ZetaByte Era forces operators to seek a cost-efficient way of upgrading their network in order to accommodate the vast amount of data without compromising QoS and wasting bandwidth resources. Technology paradigms shift towards coherent modulation formats for upgrading channel capacity, yet at the cost of power-hungry DSP residing outside the transceiver line cards and bulky component configurations. What is more, current implementations rely on fixed-grid network elements ignoring efficient spectrum management that can benefit from high-order QAM modulation. Vision SPIRIT aims to build a fully programmable transceiver in a single package for Terabit optical transport networks capable of superchannel grooming on a gridless basis and SDN functionality on board. The new transceiver technology platform targets power and cost savings up to 50%. Duration: Dec 2013 Nov 2016 EC financial contribution: 2,870,000 The SPIRIT programmable transceiver concept

9 Project Objectives SPIRIT aims to fulfill the existing telecommunication gap with a near-to-market transceiver product merging the benefits of high performance and mature photonic and electronic technologies into a single platform. In order to achieve its mission, SPIRIT has defined the following ambitious objectives: Fabrication of high-speed, low-voltage drive, InP modulators with segmented electrodes Fabrication of low-power CMOS Periodically Amplified Travelling-wave Hybrid (PATH) modulator logic and driver arrays Fabrication of an optical MUX/DEMUX based on tunable Si micro-ring filter arrays for superchannel grooming on a gridless basis Development of fully-programmable, highspeed, low-power, integrated photonic and electronic flexible transceivers Fixed-grid and gridless 400G, 1T and flexible (super)channel data transport with advanced DSP and monitoring built-in functions enabled by software control Photonic Integration SPIRIT leverages the power of photonic integration as the key enabling technology to deliver its objectives. It blends high performance InP technology and 40nm CMOS electronics onto a common SOI integration platform and a fully packaged design. SPIRIT will particularly focus on: Photonic-electronic co-design Optical and electrical interfaces Thermal management System Exploitation The SPIRIT transceiver will support near future 400G implementation and forthcoming 1T traffic demands providing the necessary flexibility in modulation format by dynamic adjustment of single and multi-carrier QAM up to 16 bits/s/hz spectral efficiency and multi-level modulation with 5-bit resolution driving electronics. Variable baud rates up to 32 GBaud will generate throughputs up to 512Gb/s on a single wavelength and 1Tb/s on two wavelengths on a single device. Traffic shaping of coherent superchannels will be performed in less than 10GHz steps by properly adjusting the passband width of the tunable Si micro-ring array MUX/DEMUX. Finally, the SPIRIT transceiver will introduce intelligence to the transport layer via the on-board DSP algorithms and physical layer performance monitoring tools featuring a software-defined technology platform. In a nutshell, SPIRIT will deliver reliable optical components with a strong focus on rapid commercialization and key system specs: Ultra-low power stemming from the revolutionary InP PATH modulator design. The total power consumption of the SPIRIT transceiver is estimated 14.4W. Cost-efficiency due to the maturity of the InP, CMOS and SOI technologies. 40nm CMOS processing offers 50% cost reduction compared to competing silicon technologies. Scalability enabled by the 5-bit arbitrary waveform generation offering the highest resolution to date at this baud rate. The integrated SPIRIT flexible transceiver

10 4. Annex II SPIRIT project short presentation

11 Software-defined energy-efficient Photonic transceivers IntRoducing Intelligence and dynamicity in Terabit superchannels for flexible optical networks Project Presentation Call Identifier: FP7-ICT Challenge 3: Objective ICT Contract No: Project Start: 1/12/2013 Duration: 36 months Budget: 2,870,000

12 Consortium INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS / NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS - ICCS/NTUA (GR) FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. - Fraunhofer-HHI (DE) INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM VZW IMEC (BE) GESELLSCHAFT FUR ANGEWANDTE MIKRO UND OPTOELEKTRONIK MIT BESCHRANKTERHAFTUNG AMO GMBH - AMO GMBH (DE) Linkra S.R.L. TEO (IT) ERICSSON TELECOMUNICAZIONI TEI (IT) HELLENIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS ORGANIZATION S.A. - OTE AE (ORGANISMOS TILEPIKOINONION TIS ELLADOS OTE AE) OTE (GR)

13 2020 drivers Mobile, data center and cloud applications Annual global IP traffic will surpass the zettabyte threshold (1.4 zettabytes) by the end of 2017 [Cisco, Sandvinne] Metro traffic will surpass long-haul traffic in 2014, and will account for 58 percent of total IP traffic by 2017 Surging demand is pushing current static networks to their limits

14 SPIRIT vision Scale transceiver capacity to 1Tb/s Single and multi-carrier QAM (up to 16bits/s/Hz spectral efficiency) Variable Baud rate (up to 32 Gbaud) Introduce flexibility in data transmission Shape traffic spectrum based on application requirements Gridless operation for Tb/s Superchannels Terabit superchannel Add intelligence in the optical transport SDN platform development Performance monitoring Leverage cost/performance benefits power & cost savings by at least 50% Software Defined Flexible Transceiver

15 SPIRIT Objectives SPIRIT will blend the best of photonics and electronics technologies on a common integration platform to build high performance, low cost and power efficient flexible, programmable transceivers Fabrication of high-speed, low-voltage drive (V π 1V), InP MZM modulators with segmented electrodes Fabrication of low-power CMOS PATH modulator logic circuit and binary driver arrays based on cost-efficient 40nm CMOS processing Fabrication of an optical MUX/DEMUX based on tunable Si micro-ring filter arrays for superchannel grooming on a gridless basis (<10GHz step) over the C-band Development and fabrication of packaged and fiber-pigtailed fully-programmable, highspeed, low-power, integrated flexible transceivers on SOI Evaluation of fixed-grid and gridless 400G, 1T and flexible (super)channel data transport with advanced DSP and monitoring built-in functions enabled by software control

16 SPIRIT building blocks InP high performance QUAD MZM arrays for PolMux Segmented-electrode dual-polarization IQ-MZMs 40nm CMOS drivers for low power (5-bit 32 Gbaud) Total max throughput of 1 Tb/s with DP-256-QAM modulation (512 Gb/s per wavelength) Coherent Rx arrays 90 hybrids, use of commercially available balanced PD arrays hybrids FPGA for DSP and control Flexible and dynamic operation Performance monitoring functions and Quality of Service at the optical layer Programmable, flexible MUX/DEMUX Si-ring arrays for spectrum slicing Software-controlled selective filtering using external FPGA Variable and up to 50 GHz bandwidth per sub-λ <10 GHz sub-λ granularity Integration Platform & Packaging Integration of passive and active components (including arrays) on a single platform. Packaging

17 Partner Roles

18 Focus on fast product commercialization

19 SPIRIT Industrial exploitation

20 Contact Project coordinator: Hercules Avramopoulos Professor, ICCS/NTUA tel: SPIRIT website: