Foreword to the Special Issue on the 43rd European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2017)

P. ANDREKSON, L. K. OXENLØWE, L. SPIEKMAN, M. GALILI, R. BRENOT, M. KARLSSON, S. BIGO, S. DAHLFORT, H. LIMBERGER, and B. THOMSEN

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1207-1212 (2018)  View: PDF

Lotus-Shaped Negative Curvature Hollow Core Fiber With 10.5 dB/km at 1550 nm Wavelength

Mubassira Banu Syed Nawazuddin, Natalie V. Wheeler, John R. Hayes, Seyed Reza Sandoghchi, Thomas D. Bradley, Gregory T. Jasion, Radan Slavík, David J. Richardson, and Francesco Poletti

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1213-1219 (2018)  View: PDF

Cladding Pumped Randomly Coupled 12-Core Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier With Low Mode-Dependent Gain

Masaki Wada, Taiji Sakamoto, Takashi Yamamoto, Shinichi Aozasa, Saki Nozoe, Yuto Sagae, Kyozo Tsujikawa, and Kazuhide Nakajima

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1220-1225 (2018)  View: PDF

Six-Mode Seven-Core Fiber for Repeated Dense Space-Division Multiplexing Transmission

Taiji Sakamoto, Kunimasa Saitoh, Shota Saitoh, Kohki Shibahara, Masaki Wada, Yoshiteru Abe, Azusa Urushibara, Katsuhiro Takenaga, Takayuki Mizuno, Takashi Matsui, Kazuhiko Aikawa, Yutaka Miyamoto, and Kazuhide Nakajima

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1226-1232 (2018)  View: PDF

Gain-Clamped 4-LP-Mode Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier With Low Temporal Gain Variation

Masaki Wada, Shinichi Aozasa, Taiji Sakamoto, Takayoshi Mori, Takashi Yamamoto, and Kazuhide Nakajima

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1233-1238 (2018)  View: PDF

Brillouin Distributed Optical Fiber Sensor Based on a Closed-Loop Configuration

Zhisheng Yang, Marcelo A. Soto, Desmond M. Chow, Pabitro Ray, and Luc Thévenaz

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1239-1248 (2018)  View: PDF

Transfer Print Integration of Waveguide-Coupled Germanium Photodiodes Onto Passive Silicon Photonic ICs

Nan Ye, Grigorij Muliuk, Jing Zhang, Amin Abbasi, Antonio Jose Trindade, Chris Bower, Dries Van Thourhout, and Gunther Roelkens

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1249-1254 (2018)  View: PDF

Directly Reflectivity Modulated Laser

Po Dong, Anaelle Maho, Romain Brenot, Young-Kai Chen, and Argishti Melikyan

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1255-1261 (2018)  View: PDF

Low-Crosstalk Simultaneous 16-Channel × 25 Gb/s Operation of High-Density Silicon Photonics Optical Transceiver

Tsuyoshi Aoki, Shigeaki Sekiguchi, Takasi Simoyama, Shinsuke Tanaka, Motoyuki Nishizawa, Nobuaki Hatori, Yohei Sobu, Akio Sugama, Tomoyuki Akiyama, Akinori Hayakawa, Hidenobu Muranaka, Toshihiko Mori, Yanfei Chen, Seok-Hwan Jeong, Yu Tanaka, and Ken Morito

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1262-1267 (2018)  View: PDF

Monolithic InP Stokes Vector Receiver With Multiple-Quantum-Well Photodetectors

Takahiro Suganuma, Samir Ghosh, Mohiyuddin Kazi, Ryoma Kobayashi, Yoshiaki Nakano, and Takuo Tanemura

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1268-1274 (2018)  View: PDF

Ultralow-Power (1.59 mW/Gbps), 56-Gbps PAM4 Operation of Si Photonic Transmitter Integrating Segmented PIN Mach–Zehnder Modulator and 28-nm CMOS Driver

Shinsuke Tanaka, Takasi Simoyama, Tsuyoshi Aoki, Toshihiko Mori, Shigeaki Sekiguchi, Seok-Hwan Jeong, Tatsuya Usuki, Yu Tanaka, and Ken Morito

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1275-1280 (2018)  View: PDF

DAC-Less and DSP-Free 112 Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter Using Two Parallel Electroabsorption Modulators

Jochem Verbist, Joris Lambrecht, Michiel Verplaetse, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Ashwyn Srinivasan, Peter De Heyn, Timothy De Keulenaer, Xin Yin, Guy Torfs, Joris Van Campenhout, Gunther Roelkens, and Johan Bauwelinck

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(5), 1281-1286 (2018)  View: PDF