Guest Editorial OFC 2016 Special Issue

K. Tse, X. Liu, M. Birk, D. Richardson, K.-I. Sato, and C. Doerr

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 343-345 (2017)  View: PDF

Attojoule Optoelectronics for Low-Energy Information Processing and Communications

David A. B. Miller

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 346-396 (2017)  View: PDF

55 GHz Bandwidth Distributed Reflector Laser

Yasuhiro Matsui, Richard Schatz, Thang Pham, William A. Ling, Glen Carey, Henry M. Daghighian, David Adams, Tsurugi Sudo, and Charles Roxlo

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 397-403 (2017)  View: PDF

DAC-Free Ultralow-Power Dual-Polarization 64-QAM Transmission at 32 GBd With Hybrid InP IQ SEMZM and BiCMOS Drivers Module

Iria García López, Alessandro Aimone, Saleem Alreesh, Pedro Rito, Tino Brast, Volker Höhns, Gerrit Fiol, Marko Gruner, Johannes Karl Fischer, Jörg Honecker, Andreas Gerhard Steffan, Dietmar Kissinger, Ahmet Cagri Ulusoy, and Martin Schell

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 404-410 (2017)  View: PDF

All-Electronic 100-GHz Bandwidth Digital-to-Analog Converter Generating PAM Signals up to 190 GBaud

Xi Chen, S. Chandrasekhar, Sebastian Randel, Greg Raybon, Andrew Adamiecki, Peter Pupalaikis, and Peter J. Winzer

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 411-417 (2017)  View: PDF

214-Gb/s 4-PAM Operation of Flip-Chip Interconnection EADFB Laser Module

Shigeru Kanazawa, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Yasuhiko Nakanishi, Yuta Ueda, Wataru Kobayashi, Yoshifumi Muramoto, Hiroyuki Ishii, and Hiroaki Sanjoh

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 418-422 (2017)  View: PDF

Effective 100 Gb/s IM/DD 850-nm Multi- and Single-Mode VCSEL Transmission Through OM4 MMF

Rafael Puerta, Mikel Agustin, Łukasz Chorchos, Jerzy Toński, Jörg R. Kropp, Nikolay Ledentsov, Vitaly A. Shchukin, Nikolay N. Ledentsov, Ronny Henker, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy, Juan José Vegas Olmos, and Jarosław P. Turkiewicz

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 423-429 (2017)  View: PDF

Optical Orbital Angular Momentum Amplifier Based on an Air-Hole Erbium-Doped Fiber

Yongmin Jung, Qiongyue Kang, Raghuraman Sidharthan, Daryl Ho, Seongwoo Yoo, Patrick Gregg, Siddharth Ramachandran, Shaif-Ul Alam, and David J. Richardson

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 430-436 (2017)  View: PDF

Antiresonant Hollow Core Fiber With an Octave Spanning Bandwidth for Short Haul Data Communications

John R. Hayes, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Thomas D. Bradley, Zhixin Liu, Radan Slavík, Marcelo Alonso Gouveia, Natalie V. Wheeler, Gregory Jasion, Yong Chen, Eric Numkam Fokoua, Marco N. Petrovich, David J. Richardson, and Francesco Poletti

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 437-442 (2017)  View: PDF

Low-Loss and Low-DMD 6-Mode 19-Core Fiber With Cladding Diameter of Less Than 250 μm

Taiji Sakamoto, Takashi Matsui, Kunimasa Saitoh, Shota Saitoh, Katsuhiro Takenaga, Takayuki Mizuno, Yoshiteru Abe, Kohki Shibahara, Yuki Tobita, Shoichiro Matsuo, Kazuhiko Aikawa, Shinichi Aozasa, Kazuhide Nakajima, and Yutaka Miyamoto

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 443-449 (2017)  View: PDF

Record-Low Spatial Mode Dispersion and Ultra-Low Loss Coupled Multi-Core Fiber for Ultra-Long-Haul Transmission

Tetsuya Hayashi, Yoshiaki Tamura, Takemi Hasegawa, and Toshiki Taru

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 450-457 (2017)  View: PDF

Recent Advances in the Modeling of the Impact of Nonlinear Fiber Propagation Effects on Uncompensated Coherent Transmission Systems

P. Poggiolini and Y. Jiang

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 458-480 (2017)  View: PDF

Capacity-Approaching Transmission Over 6375 km Using Hybrid Quasi-Single-Mode Fiber Spans

Shaoliang Zhang, Fatih Yaman, Yue-Kai Huang, John D. Downie, Ding Zou, William A. Wood, Aramais Zakharian, Rostislav Khrapko, Snigdharaj Mishra, Vladimir Nazarov, Jason Hurley, and Ivan B. Djordjevic

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 481-487 (2017)  View: PDF

Long-Haul Dense Space-Division Multiplexed Transmission Over Low-Crosstalk Heterogeneous 32-Core Transmission Line Using a Partial Recirculating Loop System

Takayuki Mizuno, Kohki Shibahara, Feihong Ye, Yusuke Sasaki, Yoshimichi Amma, Katsuhiro Takenaga, Yongmin Jung, Klaus Pulverer, Hirotaka Ono, Yoshiteru Abe, Makoto Yamada, Kunimasa Saitoh, Shoichiro Matsuo, Kazuhiko Aikawa, Marc Bohn, David J. Richardson, Yutaka Miyamoto, and Toshio Morioka

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 488-498 (2017)  View: PDF

Field Trial Demonstration of Real-Time Optical Superchannel Transport up to 5.6 Tb/s Over 359 km and 2 Tb/s Over a Live 727 km Flexible Grid Optical Link Using 64 GBaud Software Configurable Transponders

Yu Rong Zhou, Kevin Smith, Simon West, Mark Johnston, John Weatherhead, Paul Weir, John Hammond, Andrew Lord, Jingxin Chen, Weiwei Pan, Cunwen Cao, Ruizhe Yang, Nian Zhou, and Shipeng Wu

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 499-505 (2017)  View: PDF

Demonstration of Adaptive SDN Orchestration: A Real-Time Congestion-Aware Services Provisioning Over OFDM-Based 400G OPS and Flexi-WDM OCS

J. M. Fàbrega, M. Svaluto Moreolo, A. Mayoral, R. Vilalta, R. Casellas, R. Martínez, R. Muñoz, Y. Yoshida, K. Kitayama, Y. Kai, M. Nishihara, R. Okabe, T. Tanaka, T. Takahara, J. C. Rasmussen, N. Yoshikane, X. Cao, T. Tsuritani, I. Morita, K. Habel, R. Freund, V. López, A. Aguado, S. Yan, D. Simeonidou, T. Szyrkowiec, A. Autenrieth, M. Shiraiwa, Y. Awaji, and N. Wada

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 506-512 (2017)  View: PDF

Designing, Operating, and Reoptimizing Elastic Optical Networks

Luis Velasco, Alba P. Vela, Fernando Morales, and Marc Ruiz

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 513-526 (2017)  View: PDF

Solutions for Future Mobile Fronthaul and Access-Network Convergence

Jun-ichi Kani, Jun Terada, Ken-Ichi Suzuki, and Akihiro Otaka

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 527-534 (2017)  View: PDF

Multidimensional Convergence in Future 5G Networks

Marco Ruffini

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 535-549 (2017)  View: PDF

SDN Enabled Dynamically Reconfigurable High Capacity Optical Access Architecture for Converged Services

Giuseppe Talli, Frank Slyne, Stefano Porto, Daniel Carey, Nicola Brandonisio, Alan Naughton, Peter Ossieur, Seamas McGettrick, Christian Blümm, Marco Ruffini, David Payne, Rene Bonk, Thomas Pfeiffer, Nick Parsons, and Paul Townsend

J. Lightwave Technol. 35(3), 550-560 (2017)  View: PDF