Guest Editorial on the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC)

Charles H. Joyner, Mehran Esfandiari, Biswanath Mukherjee, Dominic A. Schupke, and Vishnu Shulka

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 381-383 (2012)  View: PDF

OFDM for Next-Generation Optical Access Networks

Neda Cvijetic

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 384-398 (2012)  View: PDF

Transmitter Predistortion for Simultaneous Improvements in Bit Rate, Sensitivity, Jitter, and Power Efficiency in 20 Gb/s CMOS-Driven VCSEL Links

Alexander V. Rylyakov, Clint L. Schow, Benjamin G. Lee, Fuad E. Doany, Christian W. Baks, and Jeffrey A. Kash

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 399-405 (2012)  View: PDF

Demonstration of Record Sensitivities in Optically Preamplified Receivers by Combining PDM-QPSK and M-Ary Pulse-Position Modulation

Xiang Liu, Thomas H. Wood, Robert W. Tkach, and S. Chandrasekhar

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 406-413 (2012)  View: PDF

An Open-Source Path Computation Element (PCE) Emulator: Design, Implementation, and Performance

Mohit Chamania, Marek Drogon, and Admela Jukan

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 414-426 (2012)  View: PDF

A Tutorial on Nonlinear Photonic Applications of Carbon Nanotube and Graphene

Shinji Yamashita

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 427-447 (2012)  View: PDF

Optical Interconnects for High-Performance Computing

Marc A. Taubenblatt

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 448-457 (2012)  View: PDF

Generation of Coherent and Frequency-Locked Multi-Carriers Using Cascaded Phase Modulators for 10 Tb/s Optical Transmission System

Jianjun Yu, Ze Dong, Junwen Zhang, Xin Xiao, Hung-Chang Chien, and Nan Chi

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 458-465 (2012)  View: PDF

InP-Based Comb Generator for Optical OFDM

Nicolas Dupuis, Christopher R. Doerr, Liming Zhang, Long Chen, Nick J. Sauer, Po Dong, Lawrence L. Buhl, and Dongwahn Ahn

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 466-472 (2012)  View: PDF

Monolithic Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch in Silicon Photonics

Christopher R. Doerr, Lawrence L. Buhl, Long Chen, and Nicolas Dupuis

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 473-478 (2012)  View: PDF

A Symmetric-Rate, Extended-Reach 40 Gb/s CWDM-TDMA PON With Downstream and Upstream SOA-Raman Amplification

K. C. Reichmann, P. P. Iannone, C. Brinton, J. Nakagawa, T. Cusick, M. Kimber, C. Doerr, L. L. Buhl, M. Cappuzzo, E. Y. Chen, L. Gomez, J. Johnson, A. M. Kanan, J. Lentz, Y. F. Chang, B. Pálsdóttir, T. Tokle, and L. Spiekman

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 479-485 (2012)  View: PDF

High-Capacity Space-Division-Multiplexed DWDM Transmissions Using Multicore Fiber

Benyuan Zhu, John M. Fini, Man F. Yan, Xiang Liu, S. Chandrasekhar, Thierry F. Taunay, Michael Fishteyn, Eric M. Monberg, and Frank V. Dimarcello

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 486-492 (2012)  View: PDF

Terabit Optical Access Networks Based on WDM-OFDMA-PON

Neda Cvijetic, Milorad Cvijetic, Ming-Fang Huang, Ezra Ip, Yue-Kai Huang, and Ting Wang

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 493-503 (2012)  View: PDF

Transmission of Single-Channel 16-QAM Data Signals at Terabaud Symbol Rates

Thomas Richter, Evarist Palushani, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Reinhold Ludwig, Lutz Molle, Markus Nölle, and Colja Schubert

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 504-511 (2012)  View: PDF

Field-Trial of an All-Optical PSK Regenerator/Multicaster in a 40 Gbit/s, 38 Channel DWDM Transmission Experiment

Radan Slavík, Adonis Bogris, Joseph Kakande, Francesca Parmigiani, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Richard Phelan, Josef Vojtěch, Periklis Petropoulos, Dimitris Syvridis, and David J. Richardson

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 512-520 (2012)  View: PDF

Mode-Division Multiplexing Over 96 km of Few-Mode Fiber Using Coherent 6 × 6 MIMO Processing

Roland Ryf, Sebastian Randel, Alan H. Gnauck, Cristian Bolle, Alberto Sierra, Sami Mumtaz, Mina Esmaeelpour, Ellsworth C. Burrows, René-Jean Essiambre, Peter J. Winzer, David W. Peckham, Alan H. McCurdy, and Robert Lingle

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 521-531 (2012)  View: PDF

Generation and Transmission of 21.4-Gbaud PDM 64-QAM Using a Novel High-Power DAC Driving a Single I/Q Modulator

Alan H. Gnauck, Peter J. Winzer, Agnieszka Konczykowska, Filipe Jorge, Jean-Yves Dupuy, Muriel Riet, Gabriel Charlet, B. Zhu, and David W. Peckham

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 532-536 (2012)  View: PDF

New Technologies and Directions for the Optical Control Plane

Lyndon Y. Ong, Evelyne Roch, Stephen Shew, and Alexander Smith

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 537-546 (2012)  View: PDF

Transmission of Mixed 224-Gb/s and 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK at 50-GHz Channel Spacing Over 1200-km Dispersion-Managed LEAF® Spans and Three ROADMs

Chongjin Xie, Gregory Raybon, and Peter J. Winzer

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 547-552 (2012)  View: PDF

PDM-Nyquist-32QAM for 450-Gb/s Per-Channel WDM Transmission on the 50 GHz ITU-T Grid

Xiang Zhou, Lynn E. Nelson, Peter Magill, Rejoy Isaac, Benyuan Zhu, David W. Peckham, Peter I. Borel, and Kenneth Carlson

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 553-559 (2012)  View: PDF

Terabit/s-Class Optical PCB Links Incorporating 360-Gb/s Bidirectional 850 nm Parallel Optical Transceivers

Fuad E. Doany, Clint L. Schow, Benjamin G. Lee, Russell A. Budd, Christian W. Baks, Cornelia K. Tsang, John U. Knickerbocker, Roger Dangel, Benson Chan, How Lin, Chase Carver, Jianzhuang Huang, Jessie Berry, David Bajkowski, Frank Libsch, and Jeffrey A. Kash

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 560-571 (2012)  View: PDF

Wavelength Conversion and All-Optical Regeneration: Achievements and Open Issues

Ernesto Ciaramella

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 572-582 (2012)  View: PDF

Characterization of Crosstalk in Ultra-Low-Crosstalk Multi-Core Fiber

Tetsuya Hayashi, Toshiki Taru, Osamu Shimakawa, Takashi Sasaki, and Eisuke Sasaoka

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 583-589 (2012)  View: PDF

Low Cost, Injection Molded 120 Gbps Optical Backplane

Paul Rosenberg, Sagi Mathai, Wayne V. Sorin, Moray McLaren, Joseph Straznicky, Georgios Panotopoulos, David Warren, Terry Morris, and Michael R. T. Tan

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 590-596 (2012)  View: PDF

Next-Generation Broadband Access Networks and Technologies

Elaine Wong

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 597-608 (2012)  View: PDF

Mixed Line-Rate Transmission (112-Gb/s, 450-Gb/s, and 1.15-Tb/s) Over 3560 km of Field-Installed Fiber With Filterless Coherent Receiver

Yue-Kai Huang, Ezra Ip, Tiejun J. Xia, Glenn A. Wellbrock, Ming-Fang Huang, Yoshiaki Aono, Tsutomu Tajima, and Milorad Cvijetic

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 609-617 (2012)  View: PDF

Mode-Division Multiplexing of 2 × 100 Gb/s Channels Using an LCOS-Based Spatial Modulator

Massimiliano Salsi, Clemens Koebele, Donato Sperti, Patrice Tran, Haik Mardoyan, Patrick Brindel, Sébastien Bigo, Aurélien Boutin, Frédéric Verluise, Pierre Sillard, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Lionel Provost, and Gabriel Charlet

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 618-623 (2012)  View: PDF

45.8 and 125 Gb/s CP-QPSK/CP-BPSK Field Trial Over Installed Submarine Cable

Vincent A. J. M. Sleiffer, Vladimir Veljanovski, Dirk van den Borne, Joe Capasso, Hayri Kuluslu, Jose Seixas, Volker Schramm, Alexander Tschersich, Rogerio Nogueira, Natasa B. Pavlovic, Kristofer Ivarson, Stefan Spaelter, and Huug de Waardt

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 624-633 (2012)  View: PDF

Reception of Dual-Spatial-Mode CO-OFDM Signal Over a Two-Mode Fiber

An Li, Abdullah Al Amin, Xi Chen, Simin Chen, Guanjun Gao, and William Shieh

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 634-640 (2012)  View: PDF

Ultralow Power 80 Gb/s Arrayed CMOS Silicon Photonic Transceivers for WDM Optical Links

Xuezhe Zheng, Frankie Y. Liu, Jon Lexau, Dinesh Patil, Guoliang Li, Ying Luo, Hiren D. Thacker, Ivan Shubin, Jin Yao, Kannan Raj, Ron Ho, John E. Cunningham, and Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 641-650 (2012)  View: PDF

20 Tbit/s Transmission Over 6860 km With Sub-Nyquist Channel Spacing

Jin-Xing Cai, Carl R. Davidson, Alan Lucero, Hongbin Zhang, Dmitri G. Foursa, Oleg V. Sinkin, William W. Patterson, Alexei N. Pilipetskii, Georg Mohs, and Neal S. Bergano

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 651-657 (2012)  View: PDF

Space Division Multiplexed Transmission of 109-Tb/s Data Signals Using Homogeneous Seven-Core Fiber

Jun Sakaguchi, Yoshinari Awaji, Naoya Wada, Atsushi Kanno, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Tetsuya Hayashi, Toshiki Taru, Tetsuya Kobayashi, and Masayuki Watanabe

J. Lightwave Technol. 30(4), 658-665 (2012)  View: PDF