11月19日下午加拿大女王大学Scott Yam教授学术报告

--第五届研究生学术论坛电子信息与科学分论坛专家报告（六）

题 目：High speed data transmission over multimode fiber

报告人：Scott Yam博士，

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Queen’s University

日 期：2008-11-19 下午三点-四点半

地 点：新主楼第三会议室

单 位：第五届研究生学术论坛电子信息与科学分论坛

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Abstract

With the proliferation of triple-play (i.e., voice, data, and streaming video) into the customer premises, fiber to the X (FTTX) is becoming not only a reality but necessity and so are the enabling technologies that allow low cost access to high optical bandwidth. Aside from its bigger core dimension (compared with its single mode counterpart) which makes alignment and installation easier, multimode fiber (MMF) are also designed to work with other lower cost optical transceivers. Moreover, large quantities of it have

been installed in the late 1980s in office buildings, with its potential bandwidth waiting to be utilized. Different standardization groups have come up with different strategies to capture this potentially substantial market (e.g. IEEE 802.3ae, IEEE 802.3aq). The challenge here is to allow high data rate applications (10 Gb/s or above) over short reaches (500 m) to satisfy the current needs of local area networks. By accurately understanding the fundamental propagation physics on a device level behind this class of multimode waveguide and applying clever engineering (pre/ post compensation in the optical or electrical domain), we have set new records in this field and has attracted attention from both industry and academia. We are currently the only group in Canada that focuses on high-speed data transmission in MMF and one of the handful university research centers internationally to have a strong position in this emerging market.

Biography

Dr. Scott Yam is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University, Canada. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada (1998), and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University (2000, 2004) in the USA. From 2000 to 2003, he worked as a Sprint Fellow at the Sprint Advanced Technology Laboratories (ATL) in Burlingame, California. He is a member of

the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the IEEE Laser and Electro optics Society, the IEEE Communications Society, and the Optical Society of America (OSA). Dr. Yam has over 50 technical journal and conference publications, as well as 2 patents and 1 pending patent application. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Kingston Section, and has served as reviewer for Journal of Light wave Technologies (JLT),

Photonics Technologies Letters (PTL), Optics Letters, Electronics Letters, Journal of Optics A (JOPA), and Optics Communications, and is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award and the Student Paper Award, both from the IEEE LEOS Japan Chapter.