Guest Editorial: OFC/NFOEC 2013 Special Issue

Charles H. Joyner, Seb J. Savory, Clint L. Schow, Dominic Schupke, Vishnu Shukla, and Kathy Badge

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 525-527 (2014)  View: PDF

PCE: What is It, How Does It Work and What are Its Limitations?

Raül Muñoz, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martínez, and Ricard Vilalta

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 528-543 (2014)  View: PDF

Optical Interconnect Networks for Data Communications

Casimer DeCusatis

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 544-552 (2014)  View: PDF

Real-time Digital Signal Processing for Optical OFDM-Based Future Optical Access Networks

Roger Giddings

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 553-570 (2014)  View: PDF

Energy Efficiency of Load-Adaptively Operated Telecommunication Networks

Christoph Lange, Dirk Kosiankowski, Andreas Betker, Holger Simon, Nico Bayer, Dirk von Hugo, Heiko Lehmann, and Andreas Gladisch

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 571-590 (2014)  View: PDF

Photonic Home Area Networks

A. M. J. Koonen and E. Tangdiongga

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 591-604 (2014)  View: PDF

Chiral Fibers: Microformed Optical Waveguides for Polarization Control, Sensing, Coupling, Amplification, and Switching

Victor I. Kopp, Jongchul Park, Mitchell Wlodawski, Jonathan Singer, Dan Neugroschl, and Azriel Z. Genack

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 605-613 (2014)  View: PDF

Linear Propagation Effects in Mode-Division Multiplexing Systems

Keang-Po Ho and Joseph M. Kahn

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 614-628 (2014)  View: PDF

Advances in High-Speed DACs, ADCs, and DSP for Optical Coherent Transceivers

Charles Laperle and Maurice O’Sullivan

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 629-643 (2014)  View: PDF

Fast Synchronization 3R Burst-Mode Receivers for Passive Optical Networks

Xing-Zhi Qiu, Xin Yin, Jochen Verbrugghe, Bart Moeneclaey, Arno Vyncke, Christophe Van Praet, Guy Torfs, Johan Bauwelinck, and Jan Vandewege

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 644-659 (2014)  View: PDF

All-Optical Signal Processing

Alan E. Willner, Salman Khaleghi, Mohammad Reza Chitgarha, and Omer Faruk Yilmaz

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 660-680 (2014)  View: PDF

Algorithmic Aspects in Planning Fixed and Flexible Optical Networks With Emphasis on Linear Optimization and Heuristic Techniques

Emmanouel A. Varvarigos and Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 681-693 (2014)  View: PDF

The GN-Model of Fiber Non-Linear Propagation and its Applications

P. Poggiolini, G. Bosco, A. Carena, V. Curri, Y. Jiang, and F. Forghieri

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 694-721 (2014)  View: PDF

Demonstration of Direct Detected Optical OFDM Signals via Block-Wise Phase Switching

Xi Chen, An Li, Qian Hu, Jiayuan He, Di Che, Yifei Wang, and William Shieh

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 722-728 (2014)  View: PDF

Terabit+ (192 × 10 Gb/s) Nyquist Shaped UDWDM Coherent PON With Upstream and Downstream Over a 12.8 nm Band

Jacklyn D. Reis, Ali Shahpari, Ricardo Ferreira, Somayeh Ziaie, Darlene M. Neves, Mário Lima, and António L. Teixeira

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 729-735 (2014)  View: PDF

Compact All-InP Laser-Vector-Modulator for Generation and Transmission of 100-Gb/s PDM-QPSK and 200-Gb/s PDM-16-QAM

S. Chandrasekhar, Xiang. Liu, Peter. J. Winzer, J. E. Simsarian, and R. A. Griffin

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 736-742 (2014)  View: PDF

Monolithic Silicon Integration of Scaled Photonic Switch Fabrics, CMOS Logic, and Device Driver Circuits

Benjamin G. Lee, Alexander V. Rylyakov, William M. J. Green, Solomon Assefa, Christian W. Baks, Renato Rimolo-Donadio, Daniel M. Kuchta, Marwan H. Khater, Tymon Barwicz, Carol Reinholm, Edward Kiewra, Steven M. Shank, Clint L. Schow, and Yurii A. Vlasov

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 743-751 (2014)  View: PDF

All-Optical OFDM With Cyclic Prefix Insertion Using Flexible Wavelength Selective Switch Optical Processing

Jochen Schröder, Liang Bangyuan Du, Joel Carpenter, Benjamin J. Eggleton, and Arthur J. Lowery

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 752-759 (2014)  View: PDF

Monolithic GaAs Electro-Optic IQ Modulator Demonstrated at 150 Gbit/s With 64QAM

P. C. Schindler, D. Korn, C. Stamatiadis, M. F. O’Keefe, L. Stampoulidis, R. Schmogrow, P. Zakynthinos, R. Palmer, N. Cameron, Y. Zhou, R. G. Walker, E. Kehayas, S. Ben-Ezra, I. Tomkos, L. Zimmermann, K. Petermann, W. Freude, C. Koos, and J. Leuthold

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 760-765 (2014)  View: PDF

Fiber-Nonlinearity-Tolerant Superchannel Transmission via Nonlinear Noise Squeezing and Generalized Phase-Conjugated Twin Waves

Xiang Liu, S. Chandrasekhar, P. J. Winzer, R. W. Tkach, and A. R. Chraplyvy

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 766-775 (2014)  View: PDF

Terabit/s Nyquist Superchannels in High Capacity Fiber Field Trials Using DP-16QAM and DP-8QAM Modulation Formats

Ming-Fang Huang, Akihiro Tanaka, Ezra Ip, Yue-Kai Huang, Dayou Qian, Yequn Zhang, Shaoliang Zhang, Philip N. Ji, Ivan B. Djordjevic, Ting Wang, Yoshiaki Aono, Shuji Murakami, Tsutomu Tajima, Tiejun J. Xia, and Glenn A. Wellbrock

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 776-782 (2014)  View: PDF

Spatial Superchannel Routing in a Two-Span ROADM System for Space Division Multiplexing

L. E. Nelson, M. D. Feuer, K. Abedin, X. Zhou, T. F. Taunay, J. M. Fini, B. Zhu, R. Isaac, R. Harel, G. Cohen, and D. M. Marom

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 783-789 (2014)  View: PDF

146λ × 6 × 19-Gbaud Wavelength-and Mode-Division Multiplexed Transmission Over 10 × 50-km Spans of Few-Mode Fiber With a Gain-Equalized Few-Mode EDFA

Ezra Ip, Ming-Jun Li, Kevin Bennett, Yue-Kai Huang, Akihiro Tanaka, Andrey Korolev, Konstantin Koreshkov, William Wood, Eduardo Mateo, Junqiang Hu, and Yutaka Yano

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 790-797 (2014)  View: PDF

Multiband Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation for High Capacity Optical Data Links

Miguel Iglesias Olmedo, Tianjian Zuo, Jesper Bevensee Jensen, Qiwen Zhong, Xiaogeng Xu, Sergei Popov, and Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 798-804 (2014)  View: PDF

Highly Reliable and Large-Capacity Packet Transport Networks: Technologies, Perspectives, and Standardization

Makoto Murakami and Yoshinori Koike

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 805-816 (2014)  View: PDF

Low-Loss Silicon Nitride AWG Demultiplexer Heterogeneously Integrated With Hybrid III–V/Silicon Photodetectors

Molly Piels, Jared F. Bauters, Michael L. Davenport, Martijn J. R. Heck, and John E. Bowers

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 817-823 (2014)  View: PDF

High Symbol Rate Coherent Optical Transmission Systems: 80 and 107 Gbaud

Gregory Raybon, Andrew Adamiecki, Peter J. Winzer, Sebastian Randel, Luis Salamanca, A. Konczykowska, Filip Jorge, Jean-Yves Dupuy, Larry L. Buhl, Sethumadhavan Chandrashekhar, Chongin Xie, Steve Draving, Marty Grove, Kenneth Rush, and Ruediger Urbanke

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 824-831 (2014)  View: PDF

200 Gb/s and Dual Wavelength 400 Gb/s Transmission over Transpacific Distance at 6.0 b/s/Hz Spectral Efficiency

J.-X. Cai, H. Zhang, H. G. Batshon, M. Mazurczyk, O. V. Sinkin, D. G. Foursa, A. N. Pilipetskii, G. Mohs, and Neal S. Bergano

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 832-839 (2014)  View: PDF

Spectrally Equalized Frequency Comb Generation in Multistage Parametric Mixer With Nonlinear Pulse Shaping

Vahid Ataie, Evgeny Myslivets, Bill P.-P. Kuo, Nikola Alic, and Stojan Radic

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 840-846 (2014)  View: PDF

Optically Reconfigurable 1 $\times$ 4 Remote Node Switch for Access Networks

Martijn Tassaert, Gunther Roelkens, Harm J. S. Dorren, and Oded Raz

J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), 847-853 (2014)  View: PDF