Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	GR/M30562/01
Title:	JREI LINK TESTBED FOR LOW COST, ULTRA HIGH SPEED OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS
Principal Investigator:	White, Professor I
Other Investigators:	Penty, Professor R
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Project Partners:	Hewlett Packard
Department:	Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Organisation:	University of Bristol
Scheme:	JREI
Starts:	01 June 1999	Ends:	31 May 2001	Value (£):	35,661
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Optical Communications Optical Devices & Subsystems
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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This application requests that the purchase of specific equipment be funded , which when combined with certain existing resources at the University of Bristol, will allow the creation of a central laboratory for the future development of ultrahigh speed low cost optical data interconnects, operating over short lengths of multimode or monomode optical fibre. The development of these forms of interconnect are needed for future internet, multimedia and related computer systems.The laboratory is intended to become a central resource both for industry and other universities to use and also to provide a test-bed for future interdisciplinary research at Bristol University..The need for the laboratory has become apparent within the past year, following collaborative research between Bristol University and Hewlett Packard which led to the adoption by the Gigagbit Ethernet Standard of the offset launch invention. The applicants believe that this work has clearly established Bristol University as the leading academic group in this area world-wide. However, with the interconnect standard groups now turning their attention from data rates of 1 Gb/s to 10 Gb/s, new facilities are now required to allow this important work to continue and grow.The funding of such a laboratory would have strategic importance, being directed to the topics of computing and communications, highlighted as key by Foresight. The placing of the laboratory has been chosen, (i) so that it can benefit from existing substantial research investment at Bristol, (ii) so that it can receive the maximum use, being placed in a department rated at grade 5 in the last research assessment exercise which has excellent on-going collaborations with a range of companies (who are supportive of the facility) and (iii) so that it can also enhance four separate areas of interdisciplinary research at Bristol.
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