BEACON

"Scalable & Low-Power Microwave Photonics for Flexible, Terabit Telecom Payloads & High-speed Coherent Inter-satellite Links"

Coordinatore	CONSTELEX TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS LTD    more  Organization address address: Ikoniou 17 city: Athens postcode: 13675 contact info Titolo: Dr Nome: Leontios Cognome: Stampoulidis
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Greece [EL]
Totale costo	2˙634˙665 €
EC contributo	1˙999˙727 €
Programma	FP7-SPACE Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space
Code Call	FP7-SPACE-2013-1
Funding Scheme	CP-FP
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-10-02   -   2017-02-01

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	CONSTELEX TECHNOLOGY ENABLERS LTD  Organization address address: Ikoniou 17 city: Athens postcode: 13675 contact info Titolo: Dr Nome: Leontios Cognome: Stampoulidis	EL (Athens)	coordinator	384˙350.00
2	IHP GMBH - INNOVATIONS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROELECTRONICS/LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER INNOVATIVE MIKROELEKTRONIK  Organization address address: IM TECHNOLOGIEPARK 25 city: FRANKFURT (ODER) postcode: 15236 contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Uwe Cognome: George	DE (FRANKFURT (ODER))	participant	501˙125.00
3	U2T PHOTONICS UK LTD  Organization address address: THOMAS WRIGHT WAY NETPARK INCUBATOR 5 city: LONDON postcode: EC4A 3TW contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Steve Cognome: Clements	UK (LONDON)	participant	362˙344.00
4	INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICACOES  Organization address address: AVENIDA DE ROVISCO PAIS 1 city: LISBOA postcode: 1049-001 contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Pedro Cognome: Silva	PT (LISBOA)	participant	331˙793.00
5	INPHOTECH SP ZOO  Organization address address: Slominskiego str. 17/31 city: WARSZAWA postcode: 02-863 contact info Titolo: Dr Nome: Marek Cognome: Napierala	PL (WARSZAWA)	participant	266˙800.00
6	ASTRIUM LIMITED  Organization address address: Gunnels Wood Road city: STEVENAGE postcode: SG1 2AS contact info Titolo: Ms Nome: Patricia Cognome: White	UK (STEVENAGE)	participant	153˙315.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Telecom satellites are growing like giants employing multiple beams to provide high speed connectivity and broad coverage. Under exploding capacity requirements, vendors admit that a technology and payload architecture switch is mandatory. The new technology has to deliver practical, low-power and scalable components with high performance under harsh environment conditions. BEACON aims to provide this technology and disrupt the transition to multibeam Tb/s satellites. Addressing cost, performance and volume, BEACON invests on the right mix of 3 photonic technologies used in terrestrial telecommunications, i.e. GaAs, Si and doped fibres and combines them to deliver a compact optical beam-forming technology delivering the massive amount of bandwidth. BEACON develops ultra-linear GaAs Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZM) exhibiting >75dB spurious free dynamic range, 15dB higher than conventional MZMs. MZMs will exhibit: up to 35GHz frequency operation matching Ka-band frequency plans and 1/2 the size of mainstream LiNbO3 MZMs. 6’’ GaAs wafers enable high volume production. BEACON integrates and co-packages 4xMZM arrays with new packaging method. BEACON develops the first scalable multi-core rad-hard erbium doped optical fibre amplifier (EDFA). The EDFA employs new rad-hard doped microstructured fibre and enabling: >50% electrical power consumption reduction than using conventional EDFAs and small form factor packaging. BEACON integrates an innovative photonic beamformer (BFN) using CMOS compatible silicon photonic fabrication together with Ge diodes. The BFN chip consumes <7.5-times less chip area than low-index contrast BFNs. It allows 4 orders of magnitude faster beamsteering. BEACON integrates the system with BFN control and antenna array to demonstrate that the technology can scale to Tb/s capacities with considerable savings in size/power against current kW consuming systems. Component space assessment will guide the technology towards fully space qualified systems.'