Guest Editorial OFC 2017 Special Issue

G. Bosco, J.-P. Elbers, A. Lord, S. Namiki, L. Schares, and P. Winzer

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 3-5 (2018)  View: PDF

Waveguide Filters and Related Technologies:Issues and Solutions for Practical Use in Transmission Systems

Yasuo Kokubun

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 6-18 (2018)  View: PDF

OTN Interface Standards for Rates Beyond 100 Gb/s

Steven S. Gorshe

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 19-26 (2018)  View: PDF

Digital Linearization of Direct-Detection Transceivers for Spectrally Efficient 100 Gb/s/λ WDM Metro Networking

Zhe Li, M. Sezer Erkılınç, Kai Shi, Eric Sillekens, Lidia Galdino, Tianhua Xu, Benn C. Thomsen, Polina Bayvel, and Robert I. Killey

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 27-36 (2018)  View: PDF

Ultrawideband Wavelength-Tunable Hybrid External-Cavity Lasers

Agnes Verdier, Guilhem de Valicourt, Romain Brenot, Helene Debregeas, Po Dong, Mark Earnshaw, Helene Carrère, and Young-Kai Chen

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 37-43 (2018)  View: PDF

The First 0.14-dB/km Loss Optical Fiber and its Impact on Submarine Transmission

Yoshiaki Tamura, Hirotaka Sakuma, Keisei Morita, Masato Suzuki, Yoshinori Yamamoto, Kensaku Shimada, Yuya Honma, Kazuyuki Sohma, Takashi Fujii, and Takemi Hasegawa

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 44-49 (2018)  View: PDF

Delivery of 54-Gb/s 8QAM W-Band Signal and 32-Gb/s 16QAM K-Band Signal Over 20-km SMF-28 and 2500-m Wireless Distance

Xinying Li, Jianjun Yu, Kaihui Wang, Yuming Xu, Long Chen, Li Zhao, and Wen Zhou

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 50-56 (2018)  View: PDF

Ultrahigh Throughput Indoor Infrared Wireless Communication System Enabled by a Cascaded Aperture Optical Receiver Fabricated on InP Membrane

Zizheng Cao, Yuqing Jiao, Longfei Shen, Xinran Zhao, Ripalta Stabile, Jos van der Tol, and Ton Koonen

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 57-67 (2018)  View: PDF

Approaching the Capacity of Colored-SNR Optical Channels by Multicarrier Entropy Loading

Di Che and William Shieh

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 68-78 (2018)  View: PDF

Kramers–Kronig Receivers for 100-km Datacenter Interconnects

Xi Chen, Cristian Antonelli, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar, Gregory Raybon, Antonio Mecozzi, Mark Shtaif, and Peter Winzer

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 79-89 (2018)  View: PDF

Real-Time 100 Gb/s NRZ and EDB Transmission With a GeSi Electroabsorption Modulator for Short-Reach Optical Interconnects

J. Verbist, M. Verplaetse, S. A. Srinivasan, J. Van Kerrebrouck, P. De Heyn, P. Absil, T. De Keulenaer, R. Pierco, A. Vyncke, G. Torfs, X. Yin, G. Roelkens, J. Van Campenhout, and J. Bauwelinck

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 90-96 (2018)  View: PDF

100 GBd Intensity Modulation and Direct Detection With an InP-Based Monolithic DFB Laser Mach–Zehnder Modulator

Sophie Lange, Stefan Wolf, Joachim Lutz, Lars Altenhain, Rolf Schmid, Ronald Kaiser, Martin Schell, Christian Koos, and Sebastian Randel

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 97-102 (2018)  View: PDF

Trans-Atlantic Field Trial Using High Spectral Efficiency Probabilistically Shaped 64-QAM and Single-Carrier Real-Time 250-Gb/s 16-QAM

Junho Cho, Xi Chen, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar, Gregory Raybon, Ronen Dar, Laurent Schmalen, Ells Burrows, Andrew Adamiecki, Steve Corteselli, Yan Pan, Diego Correa, Brad McKay, Szilard Zsigmond, Peter J. Winzer, and Steve Grubb

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 103-113 (2018)  View: PDF

70.46 Tb/s Over 7,600 km and 71.65 Tb/s Over 6,970 km Transmission in C+L Band Using Coded Modulation With Hybrid Constellation Shaping and Nonlinearity Compensation

Jin-Xing Cai, Hussam G. Batshon, Matthew Vincent Mazurczyk, Oleg V. Sinkin, Ding Wang, Milen Paskov, William W. Patterson, Carl R. Davidson, Patrick C. Corbett, Gregory M. Wolter, Timothy E. Hammon, Maxim A. Bolshtyansky, Dmitri G. Foursa, and Alexei N. Pilipetskii

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 114-121 (2018)  View: PDF

Bi-Directional 25G/50G TDM-PON With Extended Power Budget Using 25G APD and Coherent Detection

Vincent Houtsma and Doutje van Veen

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 122-127 (2018)  View: PDF

TWDM-PON Burst Mode Lasers With Reduced Thermal Frequency Shift

Hélène Debrégeas, Robert Borkowski, Rene Bonk, Romain Brenot, Jean-Guy Provost, Sophie Barbet, and Thomas Pfeiffer

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 128-134 (2018)  View: PDF

An Architecture to Support Autonomic Slice Networking

Luis Velasco, Lluis Gifre, Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Francesco Paolucci, Alba P. Vela, Andrea Sgambelluri, Marc Ruiz, and Filippo Cugini

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 135-141 (2018)  View: PDF

tSDX: Enabling Impairment-Aware All-Optical Inter-Domain Exchange

Yao Li, Weiyang Mo, Shengxiang Zhu, Yiwen Shen, Jiakai Yu, Payman Samadi, Keren Bergman, and Daniel C. Kilper

J. Lightwave Technol. 36(1), 142-154 (2018)  View: PDF