Dear Tan Sri/Datuk/ Dato’/ Datin/Professor/Dr./Mr./Mdm,
2. With our greatest pleasure, you are cordially invited to attend the 110th Professorial Inaugural Lecture Series that will be delivered by Professor Ir. Dr. Abu Sahmah bin Mohd Supa’at on the respective date and time as follows :-
Date : 10th November 2021 (Wednesday)
Time : 2.30 pm
Venue : https://www.facebook.com/engineering.utm.my/
Abtsract :
The modern impetus for telecommunications with carrier waves at optical frequencies began with the invention of lasers in the 1960s followed by commercial low-loss fibers in the 1970s. It focuses on guiding light into semiconductor nanostructures that revolutionize the concept for photonic devices, offering a practical pathway towards next-generation power-efficient optical networks. Demand for higher bandwidth and higher quality of service increased dramatically at end users. Optical access networks have evolved to achieve high capacity and good scalability in terms of link range and number of end-users. In this presentation, the prospects for photonic devices using polymeric materials that have unique properties and future optical access network challenges are highlighted. Among others, compatibility with CMOS fabrication technology, strong TO and EO coefficients, large refractive indices range compatible to glass, low cost, and has low driving power. On the other hand, for the next-generation network, PON offers favorable optical access networks for significantly enhancing the bandwidth. TWDM-PON was selected as the best candidate for the NG-PON2 solution because of its ability to support the NG-PON2 requirements, such as enhanced bandwidth capacity, and coexistence with previously existing generations without any change to the optical distribution network (ODN), for next-generation power-efficient optical networks. Looking further into the future, with breakthroughs in scientific progress and solving technical difficulties, a future likely attribute, the optical networks look set to become the standard, as we head towards the era of all-optical networks.
• At the device level, optical connections are already used within chassis, but will soon be as common between boards, and even on chips themselves.
• At the network level, optical connections will be used to connect to network devices, to people’s homes, and even connecting between people and things.
It is expected that in the future, optical communications and the related industries, it drives will continue to make greater and greater contributions to the progress of human civilization.
