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Parametric Optical Processes and Systems (POPS)
Program Manager: Dr. Henryk Temkin
Parametric Optical Processes and Systems (POPS) aims to demonstrate all optical processing based on Four Wave Mixing (FWM) in optical fibers and silicon waveguides to achieve data rates of 100 Gb/s - 1Tb/s. This will require development of components such as wavelength-shifting wideband amplifiers, tunable optical delays, and parametric sampling. These components will be used to demonstrate higher level sub-systems such as serializers, de-serializers, and wavelength grooming at data rates of 100 Gb/s - 1Tb/s. All demonstrations of functionality are expected to be supported by quantitative bit error rate measurements.
POPS components and subsystems will enable optical communications at data rates 10 times higher than currently possible. POPS technology will allow all optical manipulation of high rate data streams with a precision and flexibility not currently possible.
Technology development for the POPS program will be conducted in three phases, each having definite and measurable milestones, the most critical of which will be referred to as Go/No-Go (GNG) metrics.