麻豆原创

Photonics research in the Department of Electrical Engineering covers a wide range of science and technology applications, including specialised optical fibre designs and fabrications using silica and polymer materials, fibre lasers, fibre sensors and their applications in gas sensing and structural and condition monitoring, long-haul optical fibre communications and short-distance links for data centres and big data applications, laser nano-/micro-fabrication technologies, lab on a chip and flexible optoelectronic devices. The Photonics Research Centre hosted by the Department houses many state-of-the-art facilities, which include:

• Fibre drawing towers for the fabrication of specialised silica/plastic optical fibres;
• High-speed optical fibre transmission equipment (supports Tbps over 1,000s of kilometres) for research in high-performance optical fibre communication systems;
• Maskless exposure platforms for the fabrication of micro-structures and devices; and
• Several laser-based platforms for making gratings and other micro-structures in fibres and waveguides.

The Department is also involved in many industrial R&D projects:

• Designed and built the world鈥檚 first city-wide optical fibre sensing networks to monitor the operating condition of trains on all urban lines in Hong Kong, and
• Developed 100 Gb/s and 1Tb/s optical fibre transmission systems with Huawei Co. Ltd, NEC and Coming.