Editorial Selected Papers From OFC 2015

Peter J. Winzer

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 226-226 (2016)  View: PDF

High Reliability of Silica-Based 1 × 8 Optical Splitter Modules for Outside Plant

Atsushi Aratake

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 227-232 (2016)  View: PDF

Techno-Economic Comparison of Silicon Photonics and Multimode VCSELs

Daniel Mahgerefteh, Craig Thompson, Chris Cole, Gilles Denoyer, Thelinh Nguyen, Ilya Lyubomirsky, Chris Kocot, and Jim Tatum

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 233-242 (2016)  View: PDF

High-Speed Avalanche Photodiode and High-Sensitivity Receiver Optical Subassembly for 100-Gb/s Ethernet

Fumito Nakajima, Masahiro Nada, and Toshihide Yoshimatsu

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 243-248 (2016)  View: PDF

High Efficiency On-Chip Single-Photon Detection for Diamond Nanophotonic Circuits

Oliver Kahl, Simone Ferrari, Patrik Rath, Andreas Vetter, Christoph Nebel, and Wolfram H. P. Pernice

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 249-255 (2016)  View: PDF

Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) and Plasmonic-Organic Hybrid (POH) Integration

Christian Koos, Juerg Leuthold, Wolfgang Freude, Manfred Kohl, Larry Dalton, Wim Bogaerts, Anna Lena Giesecke, Matthias Lauermann, Argishti Melikyan, Sebastian Koeber, Stefan Wolf, Claudius Weimann, Sascha Muehlbrandt, Kira Koehnle, Joerg Pfeifle, Wladislaw Hartmann, Yasar Kutuvantavida, Sandeep Ummethala, Robert Palmer, Dietmar Korn, Luca Alloatti, Philipp Claudius Schindler, Delwin L. Elder, Thorsten Wahlbrink, and Jens Bolten

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 256-268 (2016)  View: PDF

High-Speed VCSELs With Strong Confinement of Optical Fields and Carriers

Erik Haglund, Petter Westbergh, Johan S. Gustavsson, Emanuel P. Haglund, and Anders Larsson

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 269-277 (2016)  View: PDF

Recent Advances in Avalanche Photodiodes

Joe C. Campbell

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 278-285 (2016)  View: PDF

Silicon Photonics R&D and Manufacturing on 300-mm Wafer Platform

Frédéric Boeuf, Sébastien Crémer, Enrico Temporiti, Massimo Ferè, Mark Shaw, Charles Baudot, Nathalie Vulliet, Thierry Pinguet, Attila Mekis, Gianlorenzo Masini, Herve Petiton, Patrick Le Maitre, Matteo Traldi, and Luca Maggi

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 286-295 (2016)  View: PDF

Flip-Chip Interconnection Technique for Beyond 100-Gb/s (4 × 25.8-Gb/s) EADFB Laser Array Transmitter

Shigeru Kanazawa, Takeshi Fujisawa, Kiyoto Takahata, Yuta Ueda, Hiroyuki Ishii, Ryuzo Iga, Wataru Kobayashi, and Hiroaki Sanjoh

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 296-302 (2016)  View: PDF

Intramodal Dispersion Properties of Step-Index Few-Mode Spun Fibers

Luca Palmieri and Andrea Galtarossa

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 303-313 (2016)  View: PDF

Transmission of Commercial Low Latency Interfaces Over Hollow-Core Fiber

Maxim Kuschnerov, Brian J. Mangan, Kerrie Gong, Vincent A. J. M. Sleiffer, Maximilian Herrmann, Jeffrey W. Nicholson, John Michael Fini, Linli Meng, Robert S. Windeler, Eric M. Monberg, Anthony DeSantolo, Kazunori Mukasa, Vitaly Mikhailov, Uwe Feiste, Wilson Zhang, and RangChen Yu

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 314-320 (2016)  View: PDF

Low-Loss and Low-Nonlinearity Pure-Silica-Core Fiber for C- and L-band Broadband Transmission

Yoshinori Yamamoto, Yuki Kawaguchi, and Masaaki Hirano

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 321-326 (2016)  View: PDF

All-Optical Signal Processing Based on Self-Induced Polarization Control in Optical Fibers

Massimiliano Guasoni, Pierre-Yves Bony, Marin Gilles, Antonio Picozzi, and Julien Fatome

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 327-341 (2016)  View: PDF

Advanced Coding Techniques for Long-Range Raman/BOTDA Distributed Strain and Temperature Measurements

Yonas Seifu Muanenda, Mohammad Taki, Tiziano Nannipieri, Alessandro Signorini, Claudio J. Oton, Farhan Zaidi, Iacopo Toccafondo, and Fabrizio Di Pasquale

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 342-350 (2016)  View: PDF

MPO Type 8-Multicore Fiber Connector With Physical Contact Connection

Kengo Watanabe, Tsunetoshi Saito, Kohei Kawasaki, Mitsuhiro Iwaya, Takayuki Ando, Katsuki Suematsu, and Masato Shiino

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 351-357 (2016)  View: PDF

Cost-Effective Optical Sub-Assembly Using Lens-Integrated Surface-Emitting Laser

Takanori Suzuki, Koichiro Adachi, Aki Takei, Kohichi R. Tamura, Akira Nakanishi, Kazuhiko Naoe, Tsukuru Ohtoshi, Kouji Nakahara, Shigehsa Tanaka, and Kazuhisa Uomi

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 358-364 (2016)  View: PDF

Highly Scalable Digital Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Tae Joon Seok, Niels Quack, Sangyoon Han, Richard S. Muller, and Ming C. Wu

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 365-371 (2016)  View: PDF

Silicon Photonic Polarization-Multiplexing Nanotaper for Chip-to-Fiber Coupling

Sean P. Anderson and Mark Webster

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 372-378 (2016)  View: PDF

Fine Resolution Photonic Spectral Processor Using a Waveguide Grating Router With Permanent Phase Trimming

Noam Goldshtein, David Sinefeld, Ori Golani, Roy Rudnick, Leonid Pascar, Roy Zektzer, and Dan M. Marom

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 379-385 (2016)  View: PDF

Vertically Stacked Multilayer Photonics on Bulk Silicon Toward Three-Dimensional Integration

Shiyang Zhu and Guo-Qiang Lo

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 386-392 (2016)  View: PDF

108 Gbit/s Plasmonic Mach–Zehnder Modulator with > 70-GHz Electrical Bandwidth

W. Heni, C. Haffner, B. Baeuerle, Y. Fedoryshyn, A. Josten, D. Hillerkuss, J. Niegemann, A. Melikyan, M. Kohl, D. L. Elder, L. R. Dalton, C. Hafner, and J. Leuthold

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 393-400 (2016)  View: PDF

Low Switching Voltage Mach–Zehnder Modulator Monolithically Integrated With DFB Laser for Data Transmission up to 107.4 Gb/s

Sophie Lange, Marko Gruner, Christian Meuer, Ronald Kaiser, Michael Hamacher, Karl-Otto Velthaus, and Martin Schell

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 401-406 (2016)  View: PDF

Tunable 100 Gbaud Transmitter Based on Hybrid Polymer-to-Polymer Integration for Flexible Optical Interconnects

P. Groumas, Z. Zhang, V. Katopodis, A. Konczykowska, J. Y. Dupuy, A. Beretta, A. Dede, J. H. Choi, P. Harati, F. Jorge, V. Nodjiadjim, M. Riet, R. Dinu, G. Cangini, E. Miller, A. Vannucci, N. Keil, H. G. Bach, N. Grote, M. Spyropoulou, H. Avramopoulos, and Ch. Kouloumentas

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 407-418 (2016)  View: PDF

56 Gb/s Germanium Waveguide Electro-Absorption Modulator

Srinivasan Ashwyn Srinivasan, Marianna Pantouvaki, Shashank Gupta, Hong Tao Chen, Peter Verheyen, Guy Lepage, Gunther Roelkens, Krishna Saraswat, Dries Van Thourhout, Philippe Absil, and Joris Van Campenhout

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 419-424 (2016)  View: PDF

Low-Differential-Mode-Group-Delay 9-LP-Mode Fiber

Pierre Sillard, Denis Molin, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Koen De Jongh, Frank Achten, Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, and Chigo M. Okonkwo

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 425-430 (2016)  View: PDF

Optimized WDM Transmission Impairment Mitigation by Multiple Phase Conjugations

Karen Solis-Trapala, Mark Pelusi, Hung Nguyen Tan, Takashi Inoue, and Shu Namiki

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 431-440 (2016)  View: PDF

Time and Modulation Frequency Dependence of Crosstalk in Homogeneous Multi-Core Fibers

Ruben S. Luís, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Adolfo V. T. Cartaxo, Werner Klaus, José M. D. Mendinueta, Yoshinari Awaji, Naoya Wada, Tetsuya Nakanishi, Tetsuya Hayashi, and Takashi Sasaki

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 441-447 (2016)  View: PDF

Programmable Fiber-Optics Pulse Repetition-Rate Multiplier

Reza Maram, Luis Romero Cortés, and José Azaña

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 448-455 (2016)  View: PDF

A Five-Mode Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier for Mode-Division Multiplexing Transmission

Philippe Genevaux, Christian Simonneau, Guillaume Le Cocq, Yves Quiquempois, Laurent Bigot, Aurelien Boutin, and Gabriel Charlet

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 456-462 (2016)  View: PDF

Directional Phase-Matched Interaction in the Saturated Parametric Mixer

Ana Pejkic, Ron R. Nissim, Evgeny Myslivets, Andreas O. J. Wiberg, Nikola Alic, and Stojan Radic

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 463-469 (2016)  View: PDF

Photonic Implementation of Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity and Learning Algorithms of Biological Neural Systems

Ryan Toole, Alexander N. Tait, Thomas Ferreira de Lima, Mitchell A. Nahmias, Bhavin J. Shastri, Paul R. Prucnal, and Mable P. Fok

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 470-476 (2016)  View: PDF

400 Gb/s Real-Time Trials on Commercial Systems for Next Generation Networks

B. Lavigne, O. Bertran-Pardo, C. Bresson, M. Lefrancois, E. Balmefrezol, M. Le Monnier, L. Raddatz, and L. Suberini

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 477-483 (2016)  View: PDF

Operational Issues Facing Commercial Raman Amplifier System: Safety Measures and System Designs

Toshiya Matsuda and Akira Naka

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 484-490 (2016)  View: PDF

Solutions for 80 km DWDM Systems

Annika Dochhan, Helmut Griesser, Nicklas Eiselt, Michael H. Eiselt, and Jörg-Peter Elbers

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 491-499 (2016)  View: PDF

Photonics for Radars Operating on Multiple Coherent Bands

Paolo Ghelfi, Francesco Laghezza, Filippo Scotti, Daniel Onori, and Antonella Bogoni

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 500-507 (2016)  View: PDF

Photonic Integrated Circuits for Radio-Frequency Signal Generation

Guillermo Carpintero, Robinson C. Guzmán, Carlos Gordón, Gaël Kervella, Mourad Chitoui, and Frederic Van Dijk

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 508-515 (2016)  View: PDF

Linearization of Direct Detection Optical Channels Using Self-Coherent Subsystems

Di Che, Qian Hu, and William Shieh

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 516-524 (2016)  View: PDF

Optical Performance Monitoring: A Review of Current and Future Technologies

Zhenhua Dong, Faisal Nadeem Khan, Qi Sui, Kangping Zhong, Chao Lu, and Alan Pak Tao Lau

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 525-543 (2016)  View: PDF

Fiber Nonlinearity Compensation: Commercial Applications and Complexity Analysis

Danish Rafique

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 544-553 (2016)  View: PDF

Merit of Raman Pumping in Uniform and Uncompensated Links Supporting NyWDM Transmission

Vittorio Curri and Andrea Carena

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 554-565 (2016)  View: PDF

Stochastic Digital Backpropagation With Residual Memory Compensation

Naga V. Irukulapati, Domenico Marsella, Pontus Johannisson, Erik Agrell, Marco Secondini, and Henk Wymeersch

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 566-572 (2016)  View: PDF

Iteration-Aware LDPC Code Design for Low-Power Optical Communications

Toshiaki Koike-Akino, David S. Millar, Keisuke Kojima, Kieran Parsons, Yoshikuni Miyata, Kenya Sugihara, and Wataru Matsumoto

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 573-581 (2016)  View: PDF

Dense Space-Division Multiplexed Transmission Systems Using Multi-Core and Multi-Mode Fiber

Takayuki Mizuno, Hidehiko Takara, Akihide Sano, and Yutaka Miyamoto

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 582-592 (2016)  View: PDF

Pulse Collision Picture of Inter-Channel Nonlinear Interference in Fiber-Optic Communications

Ronen Dar, Meir Feder, Antonio Mecozzi, and Mark Shtaif

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 593-607 (2016)  View: PDF

Large-Scale Optical-Switch Prototypes Utilizing Cyclic Arrayed-Waveguide Gratings for Datacenters

Koh Ueda, Yojiro Mori, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ken-Ichi Sato, and Toshio Watanabe

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 608-617 (2016)  View: PDF

Distributed Aggregation of Spectrally Efficient Single- and Dual-Polarization Super-Channels by Optical Frequency Conversion in Fiber

Robert Elschner, Thomas Richter, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Tomoyuki Kato, Takahito Tanimura, Shigeki Watanabe, and Colja Schubert

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 618-625 (2016)  View: PDF

All-Optical Ultra-High-Speed OFDM to Nyquist-WDM Conversion Based on Complete Optical Fourier Transformation

Pengyu Guan, Kasper Meldgaard Røge, Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, Michael Galili, Hao Hu, Mads Lillieholm, Toshio Morioka, and Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 626-632 (2016)  View: PDF

Wavelength Translation of Dual-Polarization Phase-Modulated Nyquist OTDM at Terabit/s

Hung Nguyen Tan, Takashi Inoue, Takayuki Kurosu, and Shu Namiki

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 633-642 (2016)  View: PDF

A Novel Phase-Locking-Free Phase Sensitive Amplifier-Based Regenerator

Niels-Kristian Kjøller, Kasper Meldgaard Røge, Pengyu Guan, Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, Michael Galili, and Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 643-652 (2016)  View: PDF

Coordinated Multipoint Transmissions in Millimeter-Wave Radio-Over-Fiber Systems

Lin Cheng, Malik Mohammad Usman Gul, Feng Lu, Ming Zhu, Jing Wang, Mu Xu, Xiaoli Ma, and Gee-Kung Chang

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 653-660 (2016)  View: PDF

Long-Distance Wireless mm-Wave Signal Delivery at W-Band

Xinying Li, Jiangnan Xiao, and Jianjun Yu

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 661-668 (2016)  View: PDF

Polarization-Independent Rectangular Microwave Photonic Filter Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

Lilin Yi, Wei Wei, Yves Jaouën, Mengyue Shi, Bing Han, Michel Morvan, and Weisheng Hu

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 669-675 (2016)  View: PDF

On the Suitability of Multicore Fiber for LTE–Advanced MIMO Optical Fronthaul Systems

Maria Morant, Andrés Macho, and Roberto Llorente

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 676-682 (2016)  View: PDF

Laser-Phase-Fluctuation-Insensitive Optical Coherent Transmission of 16-Quadrature-Amplitude-Modulation Radio-Over-Fiber Signal

Toshiaki Kuri, Takahide Sakamoto, and Tetsuya Kawanishi

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 683-690 (2016)  View: PDF

Full-Duplex Transmission of LTE-A Carrier Aggregation Signal Over a Bidirectional Seamless Fiber-Millimeter-Wave System

Pham Tien Dat, Atsushi Kanno, Naokatsu Yamamoto, and Tetsuya Kawanishi

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 691-700 (2016)  View: PDF

All-Optical Full-Band RF Receiver Based on an Integrated Ultra-High-Q Bandpass Filter

Hongchen Yu, Minghua Chen, Qiang Guo, Marcel Hoekman, Hongwei Chen, Arne Leinse, Rene G. Heideman, Richard Mateman, Sigang Yang, and Shizhong Xie

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 701-706 (2016)  View: PDF

Replacing the Soft-Decision FEC Limit Paradigm in the Design of Optical Communication Systems^*

Alex Alvarado, Erik Agrell, Domaniç Lavery, Robert Maher, and Polina Bayvel

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 707-721 (2016)  View: PDF

Corrections to “Replacing the Soft-Decision FEC Limit Paradigm in the Design of Optical Communication Systems”

Alex Alvarado, Erik Agrell, Domaniç Lavery, Robert Maher, and Polina Bayvel

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 722-722 (2016)  View: PDF

Beyond 100-Gb/s Transmission Over 80-km SMF Using Direct-Detection SSB-DMT at C-Band

Liang Zhang, Tianjian Zuo, Yuan Mao, Qiang Zhang, Enbo Zhou, Gordon Ning Liu, and Xiaogeng Xu

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 723-729 (2016)  View: PDF

Silicon IQ Modulator for Next-Generation Metro Network

Chi Yan Wong, Sen Zhang, Yuanyuan Fang, Lei Liu, Tao Wang, Qiang Zhang, Shupeng Deng, Gordon Ning Liu, and Xiaogeng Xu

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 730-736 (2016)  View: PDF

Optical Spectrally Sliced Transmitter for High Fidelity and Bandwidth Scalable Waveform Generation

Binbin Guan, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Roland Ryf, Sai Chen, Haoshuo Chen, Gregory Raybon, Chongjin Xie, Ryan P. Scott, and S. J. Ben Yoo

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 737-744 (2016)  View: PDF

Blind Phase Noise Estimation for CO-OFDM Transmissions

Son Thai Le, Paul A. Haigh, Andrew D. Ellis, and Sergei K. Turitsyn

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 745-753 (2016)  View: PDF

Polarization Demultiplexing for Stokes Vector Direct Detection

Di Che and William Shieh

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 754-760 (2016)  View: PDF

51.1-Tbit/s MCF Transmission Over 2520 km Using Cladding-Pumped Seven-Core EDFAs

Koki Takeshima, Takehiro Tsuritani, Yukihiro Tsuchida, Koichi Maeda, Tsunetoshi Saito, Kengo Watanabe, Toru Sasa, Katsunori Imamura, Ryuichi Sugizaki, Koji Igarashi, Itsuro Morita, and Masatoshi Suzuki

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 761-767 (2016)  View: PDF

Single-Channel 1.92 Tbit/s, 64 QAM Coherent Nyquist Orthogonal TDM Transmission With a Spectral Efficiency of 10.6 Bit/s/Hz

David Odeke Otuya, Keisuke Kasai, Toshihiko Hirooka, and Masataka Nakazawa

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 768-775 (2016)  View: PDF

Demystification of the Self-Seeded WDM Access

Anaëlle Maho, Gaël Simon, Sophie Barbet, François Lelarge, Fabienne Saliou, Philippe Chanclou, Paola Parolari, Lucia Marazzi, Marco Brunero, Mario Martinelli, Simon Arega Grebewold, Juerg Leuthold, and Romain Brenot

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 776-782 (2016)  View: PDF

Technologies for Cost-Effective udWDM-PONs

Josep Prat, Iván N. Cano, Marco Presi, Ioannis Tomkos, Dimitrios Klonidis, Gemma Vall-llosera, Romain Brenot, Robert Pous, George Papastergiou, Albert Rafel, and Ernesto Ciaramella

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 783-791 (2016)  View: PDF

Software-Defined Transceivers in Dynamic Access Networks

David Hillerkuss and Juerg Leuthold

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 792-797 (2016)  View: PDF

Overview of the FABULOUS EU Project: Final System Performance Assessment With Discrete Components

Silvio Abrate, Stefano Straullu, Antonino Nespola, Paolo Savio, Joana Chang, Valter Ferrero, Benoit Charbonnier, and Roberto Gaudino

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 798-804 (2016)  View: PDF

Field Demonstration of up to 3 Tb/s Real-Time Superchannel Transport Over 359 km Using a Fully Managed Flexible Grid Infrastructure With Net Spectral Efficiency of 5.97 b/s/Hz

Yu Rong Zhou, Kevin Smith, Roger Payne, Andrew Lord, Jonathan Hopewell, John Weatherhead, Jingxin Chen, Jiankang Yao, Wei Liu, Chen Zhao, Yong Xiong, Zhimin Xiao, and Peiyuan Du

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 805-811 (2016)  View: PDF

Tunable WDM-PON System With Centralized Wavelength Control

Stephan Pachnicke, Jiannan Zhu, Mirko Lawin, Michael H. Eiselt, Stephen Mayne, Benoit Quemeneur, Daniel Sayles, Hendrik Schwuchow, Adrian Wonfor, Philipp Marx, Markus Fellhofer, Philipp Neuber, Marco Dietrich, Mike J. Wale, Richard V. Penty, Ian H. White, and Joerg-Peter Elbers

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 812-818 (2016)  View: PDF

An Asymmetric High Serial Rate TDM-PON With Single Carrier 25 Gb/s Upstream and 50 Gb/s Downstream

Xin Yin, Joris Van Kerrebrouck, Jochem Verbist, Bart Moeneclaey, Xing-Zhi Qiu, Johan Bauwelinck, Delphine Lanteri, Fabrice Blache, Mohand Achouche, and Piet Demeester

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 819-825 (2016)  View: PDF

Coherent Nyquist UDWDM-PON With Digital Signal Processing in Real Time

Ricardo M. Ferreira, Jacklyn D. Reis, Sandro M. Rossi, Sofia B. Amado, Fernando P. Guiomar, Ali Shahpari, Juliano R. F. Oliveira, Armando Nolasco Pinto, and António L. Teixeira

J. Lightwave Technol. 34(2), 826-833 (2016)  View: PDF