Luis Vallejo, a PhD student from Instituto de Telecomunicaciones y Aplicaciones Multimedia, Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), made his second stay in Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic) from January until March 2021, under the supervision of Stanislav Zvanovec. During his STSM he worked on experimental implementation of full-duplex microwave photonics-based mmW signal generation and distribution in C-RAN, and experimental optimization of capacity in…
The last PhD and ECI meeting of the EUIMWP COST Action is planned to take place on September 21st, 2021. It will have to be virtual, unfortunately, since due to the COVID situation organising an in-person meeting would be too risky. Similarly to what has been done in the past meetings, participants are invited to very briefly present the topic of their research and then…
Dear EUIMWP participants, On behalf of the MC of the EUIMWP (CA 16220) COST Action, we are pleased to announce the Training School entitled “PICs for Quantum”, to be held online on the 8th of September 2021, 15:00h (CEST). Organized by LIGENTEC (Lausanne, Switzerland) within the framework of the EUIMWP Cost Action (European Network for High Performance Integrated Microwave Photonics), this 2-hour webinar will give…
Mehmet Alp Ilgaz, a PhD student from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), received an ITC Conference Grant from this Action for participating in the 2nd International Conference on Photonics Research (Interphotonics 2019), held at the Mirage Park Resort Hotel in Antalya (Turkey) between November 4th to 9th, 2019. He had an invited talk about “Current state of the development of the opto-electronic oscillator “. He described his…
During the 8th International Workshop on Fiber Optics in Access Networks (FOAN), a successful special session on Integrated Microwave Photonics in Access Networks was organised by EuIMWP. A two-day event took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 2–3 September 2019. It involved contributions by 14 speakers, from 10 countries, who presented solutions for the convergence of radio and optical access networks in a physical layer.…
Dávid Kóbor: “I have spent 6 weeks in the laboratory of Stavros Iezekiel in Nicosia to investigate the recent developments in the field of opto-electronic oscillators. We have investigated multiple different concepts and architectures, such as class AB photonic links, and self-adaptive microwave photonic bandpass filters. I had the chance to work with a lot of talented professionals and learn from them.”
Ágoston Schranz, a PhD student from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary), received an ITC Conference Grant from this Action for participating in the 7th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology (PHOTOPTICS 2019), held at the Vienna House Diplomat in Prague (Czech Republic) between 25 and 27 February, 2019. He presented his short paper “Quantum Bit Error Rate Analysis of the…
During two consecutive days, the members of the 6 Working Groups got together in Prague, where the WG leaders presented their progress. The participants had also the chance to have a break-out session, where they were divided into smaller groups, discussing in parallel.
The MC met in Prague for 4th time, with 22 countries represented. The MC members were informed about the progress of the Action, in terms of budget expenditure during the last Grant Period (GP2), activities planned during GP3, scientific development, etc.
The 5G mobile network deployment goal is to provide 1-10 Gb/s wireless signal for the end user. For that purpose, polarization multiplexing (POL-MUX) can be utilized to double the bandwidth efficiency. At these bit rates, the polarization mode dispersion (PMD) becomes very problematic as a bit rate limiting factor. It influences the polarization cross talk and polarization extinction ratio (PER). We propose the application of…