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Optical fibers for High Flux
The FLUX Equipex project, working with the CEMPI Labex (European centre for Mathematics and its Interactions), has demonstrated new information transmission methods using optics and terahertz communications, paving the way for essential, strategic information superhighways with petabit/s bandwidths over fibre or 160 Gbit/s over terahertz Wi-Fi. Using the new concepts and technologies developed in these communications, the project has also focused on applications in security, medical treatment, lasers and sensors.
FLUX has made it possible to develop and energise the FiberTech centre at global level and intensify links with the micro- and nanotechnology centre, providing Lille with a foundation of scientific and technical expertise that is unique in France, based on over a hundred academic collaborations, industrial chairs and three shared laboratories, including one with Prysmian, the world leader in optical cable production.
Action: EQUIPEX
Start and end dates of the project: 01/10/2012 to 31/12/2019
PIA grant: € 2,000,000
Contact:
Project’s website: : http://flux.univ-lille1.fr/index.php/fr
Coordinating institution: CNRS Hauts de France
Project region: Hauts de France
Main publication:
- T Nagatsuma, G Ducournau, CC Renaud, “Advances in terahertz communications accelerated by photonics”, Nature Photonics 10, 371–379 (2016) (cited 350 times on Web of Science and 530 times on Google Scholar)
Partners:
- Prysmian (Draka Comteq France).
- Université de Lille.
- Eolite Systems.
The prospects for the Equipex project include additive synthesis using glass, opening up new ground for research, innovation and industrial production in the field of photonics from UV to THz (beyond 5 G) and the design of a whole new generation of components.