Applications and ResearchAnja Karliczek, German Federal Minister of Education and Research has just announced in Berlin that QuNET, a major initiative for a quantum network impervious to eavesdropping, will receive a total of €165 million in funding. In QuNET the city’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI is collaborating with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision […]
Applications and ResearchGermany’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute has announced its participation in the innovative EU-Horizon 2020 research project TERIPHIC. This project, which formally kicked off in Berlin in late January, is taking place against a background of efforts to develop optical interfaces with Terabit capacity for datacom applications. The Institute notes that a practical path to the […]
Applications and ResearchResearch project “CiViQ” is part of the latest European Quantum Flagship Initiative. Its aim is to develop quantum cryptography that can be easily integrated into existing telecommunication networks. In this way, users can establish connections that in principle do not allow for an undetectable interception. The consortium consists of 21 partners from nine countries covering […]
Applications and ResearchThe German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is supporting the country’s quantum R&D revolution by investing €14.8 million in a new collaborative project called Quanten-Link-Erweiterung (“Q.Link.X”) set to run over the next three years. “The objectives are optical cable networks that are physically tap-proof,” says Q.Link.X project consortium representative Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede […]
Applications and ResearchWith a final presentation at Telekom Slovenije in Ljubljana, the EU-funded 5G CHARISMA project was successfully completed in spring 2018. Fraunhofer HHI was involved in the two and a half year research project with its department Photonic Networks and Systems. The aim of the project was to develop a hierarchical and para-virtualized 5G access network […]
Technologies and ProductsIn recent years, Fraunhofer HHI has developed an optical wireless communication technology, also known as Li-Fi. Now, industry partner Sangikyo, a Japan-based telecommunications system company, has launched the first Li-Fi product – the LED Backhaul. This is an LED-based optical link that is initially introduced as a 4K/8K Video Relay, which can achieve data rates […]
Applications and Research“Record-breaking” superchannel in a single-photodiode 110-GHz Kramers-Kronig receiver. Berlin’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI has developed a distributed superchannel aggregation scheme to demonstrate ultra-wideband single-photodiode reception based on inherently polarization-aligned Kramers-Kronig carrier generation at the receiver. For optimized conditions, a record net capacity of 400 Gb/s was achieved using a distributedly aggregated superchannel of 3×33 […]
News and BusinessAt its latest meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the ITU-T Study Group 13 created a new ITU Focus Group on Machine Learning for Future Networks including 5G. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Slawomir Stanczak, Head of Wireless Communications and Networks Department at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI, has been elected as the Chairman of the Focus Group, which will […]
Applications and Research(pictured, left) In the TERRANOVA project, Fraunhofer IAF is focusing on the integration of wireless modules at the chip level. The image shows a functional prototype of a 300 GHz multichannel wireless system for further integration as a system-on-chip. The scientists demonstrated their research in the project TERRANOVA at the Productronica trade fair in Munich […]
Applications and ResearchPictured, left: Low cost, small form-factor E/O baseband interfaces and RF frontends are one of the most critical challenges of THz wireless links for Beyond 5G networks. The fusion with fibre optic infrastructure is the most promising path to a commercial solution offering up to a 100x higher data rates than 5G will do. Networked […]
Applications and ResearchAfter one of the biggest equipment upgrades in the history of broadcasting in Germany, regular operation of DVB-T2 HD started on schedule this year. ZDF, the largest public broadcaster in Germany, selected the R&S AVHE100 encoding and multiplexing solution from Rohde & Schwarz with HEVC technology from the Fraunhofer HHI for its headend implementation. The […]