Demonstration of Cladding-Pumped Six-Core Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

Haoshuo Chen, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Roland Ryf, Cang Jin, Bin Huang, Kuanping Shang, René-Jean Essiambre, Lixian Wang, Tetsuya Hayashi, Takuji Nagashima, Takashi Sasaki, Younès Messaddeq, and Sophie LaRochelle

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1654-1660 (2016)  View: PDF

Orbital-Angular-Momentum Polarization Mode Dispersion in Optical Fibers

Lixian Wang, Pravin Vaity, Stéphane Chatigny, Younès Messaddeq, Leslie Ann Rusch, and Sophie LaRochelle

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1661-1671 (2016)  View: PDF

50 μm Multimode Fibers for Mode Division Multiplexing

Pierre Sillard, Denis Molin, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Adrian Amezcua-Correa, Koen de Jongh, and Frank Achten

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1672-1677 (2016)  View: PDF

Low Power InP-Based Monolithic DFB-Laser IQ Modulator With SiGe Differential Driver for 32-GBd QPSK Modulation

Sophie Lange, Norman Wolf, Marko Gruner, Lei Yan, Ronald Kaiser, Karl-Otto Velthaus, Jung Han Choi, and Martin Schell

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1678-1682 (2016)  View: PDF

High Speed Direct Modulation of a Heterogeneously Integrated InP/SOI DFB Laser

Amin Abbasi, Christos Spatharakis, Giannis Kanakis, Nuno Sequeira André, Hadrien Louchet, Andrew Katumba, Jochem Verbist, Hercules Avramopoulos, Peter Bienstman, Xin Yin, Johan Bauwelinck, Gunther Roelkens, and Geert Morthier

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1683-1687 (2016)  View: PDF

A Hybrid Barium Titanate–Silicon Photonics Platform for Ultraefficient Electro-Optic Tuning

Stefan Abel, Thilo Stöferle, Chiara Marchiori, Daniele Caimi, Lukas Czornomaz, Michael Stuckelberger, Marilyne Sousa, Bert J. Offrein, and Jean Fompeyrine

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1688-1693 (2016)  View: PDF

Engineered Transfer Function InP Mach–Zehnder Modulator for Bandwidth Enhancement and Nyquist Shaping

Alessandro Aimone, Gerrit Fiol, Marko Gruner, and Martin Schell

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1694-1698 (2016)  View: PDF

Athermal Operation of a Waveguide Optical Isolator Based on Canceling Phase Deviations in a Mach–Zehnder Interferometer

Kotoko Furuya, Takaya Nemoto, Keita Kato, Yuya Shoji, and Tetsuya Mizumoto

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1699-1705 (2016)  View: PDF

40 Gb/s WDM Transmission Over 1.15-km HC-PBGF Using an InP-Based Mach-Zehnder Modulator at 2 μm

Muhammad Usman Sadiq, Hongyu Zhang, James O'Callaghan, Brendan Roycroft, Niamh Kavanagh, Kevin Thomas, Agnieszka Gocalinska, Yong Chen, Tom Bradley, John R. Hayes, Zhihong Li, Shaif-Ul Alam, Francesco Poletti, Marco N. Petrovich, David J. Richardson, Emanuele Pelucchi, Peter O'Brien, Frank H. Peters, Fatima Gunning, and Brian Corbett

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1706-1711 (2016)  View: PDF

Compact and Low-Loss ZrO₂-SiO₂ PLC-Based 8 × 8 Multicast Switch for CDC-ROADM Application

Masanori Takahashi, Shintaro Yamasaki, Yasuyoshi Uchida, and Junichi Hasegawa

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1712-1716 (2016)  View: PDF

4 Tb/s Transmission Reach Enhancement Using 10 × 400 Gb/s Super-Channels and Polarization Insensitive Dual Band Optical Phase Conjugation

Andrew D. Ellis, Mingming Tan, Md Asif Iqbal, Mohammad Ahmad Zaki Al-Khateeb, Vladimir Gordienko, Gabriel Saavedra Mondaca, Simon Fabbri, Marc F. C. Stephens, Mary E. McCarthy, Andreas Perentos, Ian David Phillips, Domaniç Lavery, Gabriele Liga, Robert Maher, Paul Harper, Nick Doran, Sergei K. Turitsyn, Stylianos Sygletos, and Polina Bayvel

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1717-1723 (2016)  View: PDF

Polybinary Shaping for Highly-Spectral-Efficient Super-Nyquist WDM QAM Signals

Koji Igarashi, Takehiro Tsuritani, and Itsuro Morita

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1724-1731 (2016)  View: PDF

Nyquist-Filtering (De)Multiplexer Using a Ring Resonator Assisted Interferometer Circuit

Leimeng Zhuang, Chen Zhu, Yiwei Xie, Maurizio Burla, Chris G. H. Roeloffzen, Marcel Hoekman, Bill Corcoran, and Arthur J. Lowery

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1732-1738 (2016)  View: PDF

Nonlinear Digital Pre-distortion of Transmitter Components

Pablo Wilke Berenguer, Markus Nölle, Lutz Molle, Talha Raman, Antonio Napoli, Colja Schubert, and Johannes Karl Fischer

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1739-1745 (2016)  View: PDF

Subband Pairwise Coding for Robust Nyquist-WDM Superchannel Transmission

Chen Zhu, Binhuang Song, Leimeng Zhuang, Bill Corcoran, and Arthur James Lowery

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1746-1753 (2016)  View: PDF

A Sparsity Managed Adaptive MIMO Equalization for Few-Mode Fiber Transmission With Various Differential Mode Delays

Doohwan Lee, Kohki Shibahara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Takayuki Mizuno, Hidehiko Takara, Akihide Sano, Hiroto Kawakami, Tadao Nakagawa, and Yutaka Miyamoto

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1754-1761 (2016)  View: PDF

FPGA Prototyping of Single-Polarization 112-Gb/s Transceiver for Optical Multilevel Signaling With Intensity and Delay Detection

Nobuhiko Kikuchi, Takashi Yano, and Riu Hirai

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1762-1769 (2016)  View: PDF

Frequency-Domain Volterra-Based Equalization Structures for Efficient Mitigation of Intrachannel Kerr Nonlinearities

Ali Bakhshali, Wai-Yip Chan, John C. Cartledge, Maurice O’Sullivan, Charles Laperle, Andrzej Borowiec, and Kim Roberts

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1770-1777 (2016)  View: PDF

Nonlinear Inverse Synthesis for Optical Links With Distributed Raman Amplification

Son Thai Le, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky, Paweł Rosa, Juan Diego Ania-Castañón, and Sergei K. Turitsyn

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1778-1786 (2016)  View: PDF

Impact of Bandwidth Efficiency in Nonlinear Tolerance of Multicarrier Modulations

Alexis Carbo Meseguer, Jeremie Renaudier, Rafael Rios-Müller, Patrice Tran, and Gabriel Charlet

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1787-1792 (2016)  View: PDF

Low Complexity Advanced DBP Algorithms for Ultra-Long-Haul 400 G Transmission Systems

Sofia B. Amado, Fernando P. Guiomar, Nelson J. Muga, Ricardo M. Ferreira, Jacklyn D. Reis, Sandro M. Rossi, Andrea Chiuchiarelli, Juliano R. F. Oliveira, António L. Teixeira, and Armando N. Pinto

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1793-1799 (2016)  View: PDF

Frequency-Comb Regeneration for Self-Homodyne Superchannels

Abel Lorences-Riesgo, Tobias A. Eriksson, Attila Fülöp, Peter A. Andrekson, and Magnus Karlsson

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1800-1806 (2016)  View: PDF

Monolithic Integrated Slot-Blocker for High Datarate Coherent Optical Slot Switched Networks

Guilhem de Valicourt, Yvan Pointurier, Miquel Angel Mestre, Sebastien Bigo, Jean-Marc Fedeli, Karen Ribaud, Laurent Bramerie, E. Borgne, Jean-Claude Simon, Laurent Vivien, D. Marris-Morini, Alexandre Shen, I. Ghorbel, Guang Hua Duan, S. Chandrasekhar, Chia-Ming Chang, S. Randel, and Young-Kai Chen

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1807-1814 (2016)  View: PDF

WDM Orthogonal Subcarrier Multiplexing

Fernando A. Gutiérrez, Eamonn P. Martin, Philip Perry, Andrew D. Ellis, Prince M. Anandarajah, and Liam P. Barry

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1815-1823 (2016)  View: PDF

Multipass Performance of a Chip-Enhanced WSS for Nyquist-WDM Sub-Band Switching

Bill Corcoran, Chen Zhu, Jochen Schröder, Leimeng Zhuang, Benjamin Foo, Maurizio Burla, Willem P. Beeker, Arne Leinse, Chris G. H. Roeloffzen, and Arthur J. Lowery

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1824-1830 (2016)  View: PDF

Frequency Chirp Supported Complex Modulation of Directly Modulated Lasers

Di Che, Feng Yuan, Qian Hu, and William Shieh

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1831-1836 (2016)  View: PDF

Experimental Demonstration of Multidimensional Switching Nodes for All-Optical Data Center Networks

Valerija Kamchevska, Ashenafi Kiros Medhin, Francesco Da Ros, Feihong Ye, Rameez Asif, Anna Manolova Fagertun, Sarah Ruepp, Michael Berger, Lars Dittmann, Toshio Morioka, Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, and Michael Galili

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1837-1843 (2016)  View: PDF

Low-Power Optical Packet Switching for 100-Gb/s Burst Optical Packets With a Label Processor and 8 × 8 Optical Switch

Toru Segawa, Salah Ibrahim, Tatsushi Nakahara, Yusuke Muranaka, and Ryo Takahashi

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1844-1850 (2016)  View: PDF

Novel Coherent Optical OFDM-Based Transponder for Optical Slot Switched Networks

Miquel A. Mestre, José M. Estarán, Philippe Jennevé, Haik Mardoyan, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Darko Zibar, and Sébastien Bigo

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1851-1858 (2016)  View: PDF

Power-Efficient 100 Gb/s Transmission Over Transoceanic System

H. Zhang, A. Turukhin, O. V. Sinkin, W. Patterson, H. G. Batshon, Y. Sun, C. R. Davidson, M. Mazurczyk, G. Mohs, D. Foursa, and A. Pilipetskii

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1859-1863 (2016)  View: PDF

Transmission Over 1050-km Few-Mode Fiber Based on Bidirectional Distributed Raman Amplification

Mina Esmaeelpour, Roland Ryf, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Haoshuo Chen, Alan H. Gnauck, René-Jean Essiambre, Jean Toulouse, Yi Sun, and Robert Lingle

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1864-1871 (2016)  View: PDF

Analytical and Experimental Results on System Maximum Reach Increase Through Symbol Rate Optimization

Pierluigi Poggiolini, Antonino Nespola, Yanchao Jiang, Gabriella Bosco, Andrea Carena, Luca Bertignono, Syed Muhammad Bilal, Silvio Abrate, and Fabrizio Forghieri

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1872-1885 (2016)  View: PDF

Submarine Transmission Systems Using Digital Nonlinear Compensation and Adaptive Rate Forward Error Correction

Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi, Ivan Fernandez de Jauregui Ruiz, Laurent Schmalen, Patrice Tran, Christian Simonneau, Elie Awwad, Bogdan Uscumlic, Patrick Brindel, and Gabriel Charlet

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1886-1895 (2016)  View: PDF

Multicarrier Digital Backpropagation for 400G Optical Superchannels

Fernando Pedro Guiomar, Sofia Batalha Amado, Ricardo M. Ferreira, Jacklyn Dias Reis, Sandro M. Rossi, Andrea Chiuchiarelli, Juliano Rodrigues Fernandes de Oliveira, António L. Teixeira, and Armando Nolasco Pinto

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1896-1907 (2016)  View: PDF

Crosstalk Reduction With Bidirectional Signal Assignment on Square Lattice Structure 16-Core Fiber Over WDM Transmission for Gradual Upgrade of SMF-Based Lines

Manabu Arikawa, Toshiharu Ito, Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory, and Kiyoshi Fukuchi

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1908-1915 (2016)  View: PDF

Demonstration of Virtualizeable and Software-Defined Optical Transceiver

Yanni Ou, Shuangyi Yan, Ali Hammad, Bingli Guo, Shuping Peng, Reza Nejabati, and Dimitra Simeonidou

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1916-1924 (2016)  View: PDF

All-Optical Programmable Disaggregated Data Centre Network Realized by FPGA-Based Switch and Interface Card

Yan Yan, George M. Saridis, Yi Shu, Bijan Rahimzadeh Rofoee, Shuangyi Yan, Murat Arslan, Thomas Bradley, Natalie V. Wheeler, Nicholas Heng-Loong Wong, Francesco Poletti, Marco N. Petrovich, David J. Richardson, Simon Poole, George Zervas, and Dimitra Simeonidou

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1925-1932 (2016)  View: PDF

Dynamic Virtual Network Reconfiguration Over SDN Orchestrated Multitechnology Optical Transport Domains

Alejandro Aguado, Matthew Davis, Shuping Peng, Maria Victoria Álvarez, Víctor López, Thomas Szyrkowiec, Achim Autenrieth, Ricard Vilalta, Arturo Mayoral, Raül Muñoz, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martínez, Noboru Yoshikane, Takehiro Tsuritani, Reza Nejabati, and Dimitra Simeonidou

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1933-1938 (2016)  View: PDF

Monitoring Plane Architecture and OAM Handler

Nicola Sambo, Filippo Cugini, Andrea Sgambelluri, and Piero Castoldi

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1939-1945 (2016)  View: PDF

Transport Mechanisms for Mobility Support in Optical Slot Switching-Based Next-Generation Mobile Backhaul Networks

Nihel Benzaoui, Yvan Pointurier, Bogdan Ušćumlić, Thomas Bonald, Qing Wei, and Sébastien Bigo

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1946-1955 (2016)  View: PDF

Software-Defined Defragmentation in Space-Division Multiplexing With Quasi-Hitless Fast Core Switching

Gianluca Meloni, Francesco Fresi, Muhammad Imran, Francesco Paolucci, Filippo Cugini, Antonio D’Errico, Luca Giorgi, Takashi Sasaki, Piero Castoldi, and Luca Pot

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1956-1962 (2016)  View: PDF

Optimal BBU Placement for 5G C-RAN Deployment Over WDM Aggregation Networks

Francesco Musumeci, Camilla Bellanzon, Nicola Carapellese, Massimo Tornatore, Achille Pattavina, and Stéphane Gosselin

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1963-1970 (2016)  View: PDF

Cognitive Methodology for Optical Amplifier Gain Adjustment in Dynamic DWDM Networks

Uiara Moura, Miquel Garrich, Heitor Carvalho, Matheus Svolenski, Alexandre Andrade, Amílcar C. Cesar, Juliano Oliveira, and Evandro Conforti

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1971-1979 (2016)  View: PDF

Scalable Monitoring and Optimization Techniques for Megascale Data Centers

Markos P. Anastasopoulos, Anna Tzanakaki, and Dimitra Simeonidou

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1980-1989 (2016)  View: PDF

First Demonstration of Six-Mode PON Achieving a Record Gain of 4 dB in Upstream Transmission Loss Budget

He Wen, Cen Xia, Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez, Naresh Chand, Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Bin Huang, Huiyuan Liu, Hongjun Zheng, Pierre Sillard, Xiang Liu, Frank Effenberger, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, and Guifang Li

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1990-1996 (2016)  View: PDF

Bidirectional EDFAs That Support E2-Class Power Budget of TWDM-PON Without Using Gain-Clamped Light Source

Masamichi Fujiwara, Ryo Koma, Ken-Ichi Suzuki, and Akihiro Otaka

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 1997-2004 (2016)  View: PDF

Demonstration of Symmetrical 25 Gb/s TDM-PON With Multilevel Interleaving of Users

Vincent Houtsma, Doutje van Veen, and Hungkei Chow

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 2005-2010 (2016)  View: PDF

Photonic Frequency Double-Mixing Conversion Over the 120-GHz Band Using InP- and Graphene-Based Transistors

Kenta Sugawara, Tetsuya Kawasaki, Gen Tamamushi, Hussin Mastura, Adrian Dobroiu, Tomohiro Yoshida, Tetsuya Suemitsu, Hirokazu Fukidome, Maki Suemitsu, Victor Ryzhii, Katsumi Iwatsuki, Shigeru Kuwano, Jun-Ichi Kani, Jun Terada, and Taiichi Otsuji

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 2011-2019 (2016)  View: PDF

Demonstration of Upstream WDM+FDMA Reflective PON and Real-Time Implementation on an FPGA Platform

Stefano Straullu, Paolo Savio, Antonino Nespola, Valter Ferrero, Roberto Gaudino, and Silvio Abrate

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 2020-2026 (2016)  View: PDF

Polarization-Independent Coherent Real-Time Analog Receiver for PON Access Systems

Massimo Artiglia, Marco Presi, Fabio Bottoni, Mario Rannello, and Ernesto Ciaramella

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 2027-2033 (2016)  View: PDF

Polarization-Insensitive Single-Balanced Photodiode Coherent Receiver for Long-Reach WDM-PONs

M. Sezer Erkılınç, Domaniç Lavery, Kai Shi, Benn C. Thomsen, Polina Bayvel, Robert I. Killey, and Seb J. Savory

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 2034-2041 (2016)  View: PDF

Monolithically Integrated Dual-Output DEML for Full Duplex DPSK-ASK and DPSK-SSB ONU in Ultra-Dense Channel Spaced Access Network

Guang Yong Chu, Iván N. Cano, Victor Polo, Christophe Kazmierski, Romain Brenot, and Josep Prat

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 2042-2048 (2016)  View: PDF

Wireless Visible Light Communications Employing Feed-Forward Pre-Equalization and PAM-4 Modulation

X. Li, N. Bamiedakis, X. Guo, J. J. D. McKendry, E. Xie, R. Ferreira, E. Gu, M. D. Dawson, R. V. Penty, and I. H. White

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 2049-2055 (2016)  View: PDF

Reflective Crosstalk Cancellation in Self-Seeded WDM PON for Mobile Fronthaul/Backhaul

Ning Cheng, Lei Zhou, Xiang Liu, and Frank J. Effenberger

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 2056-2063 (2016)  View: PDF

Photon Ranging for Upstream ONU Activation Signaling in TWDM-PON

Luca Bertignono, Valter Ferrero, Maurizio Valvo, and Roberto Gaudino

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(8), 2064-2071 (2016)  View: PDF