Monolithically Integrated Opto-Electronic Frequency Synthesizer in Silicon Photonics

Low jitter signal sources are in widespread use for object detection, navigation systems, and ultra-high speed data communication systems. The jitter of the signal sources is dominated by the reference signal source which is a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) or a quartz oscillator. While these reference oscillators are standard for communication ...

Duration: 06/2017 - 05/2021

Funded by: DFG

Contact: Meysam Bahmanian

SPEED - Silicon Photonics Enabling Exascale Data Networks

With the growing demand for centralized data storage and processing large data centers have become an integral part of the strategy of large content and service providers such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc. Currently mega-data-centers in the size of large storehouses are built and evolve more and more to crosspoints of the global IT ...

Duration: 10/2015 - 09/2018

Funded by: BMBF

Contact: apl. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Müller, Sergiy Gudyriev, M.Sc., M.Sc. Mohammed Iftekhar

EffektiV: Virtual Stresstests for Robots

Manufacturing plants of the future, the so-called cyber-physical Production Systems (CPPS), are highly complex, intelligent systems, which consist of a large number of heterogeneous components: software, microelectronics, power electronics, sensors, actuators. In this context, motion control systems, which form the core of those systems, coordinate ...

Duration: 06/2014 - 05/2017

Funded by: BMBF

Contact: apl. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Müller

Transregional Collaborative Research Center TRR 142 - Tailored Nonlinear Photonics: From Fundamental Concepts to Functional Structures

The central goal of this CRC is the exploration, development, and engineering of future nonlinear photonics, which uses state-of-the-art technological capabilities for the exploration of new physics and devices based on tailored strong nonlinearities and genuine quantum effects. Our research harnesses tailored solid-state systems and bridges the ...

Duration: 04/2014 - 12/2025

Funded by: DFG

SPP 1655 - Real100g - 100 Gigabit per second wireless communication

Currently, mobile phone networks (LTE-A) and conventional wireless local area networks (WLAN) provide data rates of up to 1 Gigabit per second. However, demanding services like high definition video streaming require even higher data rates. In the REAL100G.COM project, the System and Circuit Technology research group aims to reach wireless data ...

Duration: 06/2013 - 05/2020

Funded by: DFG

SPP 1655: Wireless Ultra-High Speed Communication for Mobile Internet Access: "Wireless 100 Gb/s and beyond"

Wireless communication is becoming more and more a key technology for many economic areas. While during the last 20 years mainly the communication industry itself profited from the stable growth increasingly also areas like e.g. embedded systems, industrial automation, automotive communication, medical technologies, environmental monitoring and ...

Duration: 01/2013 - 12/2020

Funded by: DFG

On-Wafer-Messplatz für Breitband- und Höchstfrequenzschaltungen

Die Fachgruppe befasst sich in Lehre und Forschung mit dem Entwurf von integrierten Höchstfrequenz- und Breitbandschaltungen im Frequenzbereich bis über 100 GHz und mit seriellen Datenraten bis über 100 Gbit/s. Für den Höchstfrequenz- und Breitband-IC-Messplatz sollen ein manueller Wafer-Prober, ein Vektor-Netzwerkanalysator bis 110 GHz, ein ...

Duration: 01/2013 - 12/2013

Funded by: DFG

Miniaturized Radar Sensor for autonomous aircrafts - Development of a 122GHz Radar Module

In cooperation with partners from industry and universities our group develops a highly integrated 122GHz radar module for use in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications. Based on a 122 GHz Radar IC as shown in Fig. 1 an extremely miniaturized sensor module will be developed.Electromagnetic waves in the frequency range above 100 GHz penetrate ...

Duration: 01/2013 - 12/2018

Funded by: EU

Contact: Stephan Kruse

Teleworkbench - Teleoperated Platform for Multi-Robot Experiments

MotivationRobots are becoming more commonplace in our daily life. They are now capable of performing different tasks, from simple housekeeping jobs to autonomous driving on the road. Robot development is a highly complex and interdisciplinary process involving algorithm development and hardware design. Moreover, test and validation are required to ...

Duration: 04/2011 - 07/2011

Contact: Hanyi Li

Miniaturized robot BeBot

MotivationMobile robots are getting more attractive, especially the small and resource-efficient ones, as they do not need special laboratory infrastructures. Another requirement for such platforms is the reasonable price and ease for programming. Additionally, they should provide enough computation power for supporting the implementation and the ...

Duration: 01/2006 - 12/2014