Guifang Li received his Ph.D. degree from The University of Wisconsin at Madison and is FPCE Professor of Optics, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Physics at UCF. His research interests include optical communications and networking, RF photonics and all-optical signal processing. He was the director of the NSF IGERT program in Optical Communications and Networking at UCF. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award. Dr. Li is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and SPIE. Dr. Li currently serve as a Deputy Editor for Optics Express (OSA) and an Associate Editor for Photonics Technology Letters (IEEE).

Title: “Optical Communication Beyond the Fundamental Capacity Limit of Single-Mode Fibers”

Abstract:

Transmission capacity of single-mode fibers will be exhausted in the near future due to exponential growth of the internet traffic. This talk will mainly describe 1) what is the fundamental capacity limit of single-mode fibers and 2) how optical and electronic techniques can provide orders of magnitude capacity expansion beyond the fundamental capacity limit of single-mode fibers.