Photonics has revolutionized the world of telecommunications the past decades. Since the invention of the laser, photonic technology and optical fiber communications have enabled the design and development of ultra-high capacity broadband networks and ultimately shaped the Internet as it is today. Optical fiber cables made the interconnection of countries, cities and more recently individual homes a reality. Lightweight and smaller than a human hair, optical fibers were and will remain the ultimate enabling technology for delivering exciting new applications of voice, video and data. Research on photonics in telecommunications is more active than ever with researchers now focusing on the development of new, faster, greener and cheaper photonic components and systems for the design and deployment of next generation Terabit capacity core and Gigabit-speed access networks.

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