Guest Editorial OFC 2018 Special Issue

R. Doverspike, M. Birk, X. Liu, W. Shieh, D. J. Richardson, and D. M. Kuchta

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 3-5 (2019)  View: PDF

Silicon Photonic Switch Fabrics: Technology and Architecture

Benjamin G. Lee and Nicolas Dupuis

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 6-20 (2019)  View: PDF

All-Optical Signal Processing Techniques for Flexible Networks

Alan E. Willner, Ahmad Fallahpour, Fatemeh Alishahi, Yinwen Cao, Amirhossein Mohajerin-Ariaei, Ahmed Almaiman, Peicheng Liao, Kaiheng Zou, Ari N. Willner, and Moshe Tur

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 21-35 (2019)  View: PDF

Advanced Modulation Techniques for Flexible Optical Transceivers: The Rate/Reach Tradeoff

Gabriella Bosco

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 36-49 (2019)  View: PDF

Enabling Technologies for Fiber Nonlinearity Mitigation in High Capacity Transmission Systems

Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, and Tadashi Ikeuchi

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 50-60 (2019)  View: PDF

Modeling Cost Versus Flexibility in Optical Transport Networks

António Eira, João Pedro, and João J. Pires

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 61-74 (2019)  View: PDF

Open-Source Network Optimization Software in the Open SDN/NFV Transport Ecosystem

Miquel Garrich, Francisco-Javier Moreno-Muro, María-Victoria Bueno Delgado, and Pablo Pavón Mariño

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 75-88 (2019)  View: PDF

SiGe-Driven Hybrid-Integrated Silicon Photonic Link Using Optical-Domain Equalization

Benjamin G. Lee, Nicolas Dupuis, Jason Orcutt, Herschel Ainspan, Jonathan E. Proesel, Javier Ayala, Karen Nummy, Christian W. Baks, Douglas M. Gill, Mounir Meghelli, and William M. J. Green

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 89-94 (2019)  View: PDF

Effect of Polarization Dependent Loss on the Quality of Transmitted Polarization Entanglement

Brian T. Kirby, Daniel E. Jones, and Michael Brodsky

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 95-102 (2019)  View: PDF

Coherent ePIC Receiver for 64 GBaud QPSK in 0.25 μm Photonic BiCMOS Technology

Sergiy Gudyriev, Christian Kress, Heiner Zwickel, Juned N. Kemal, Stefan Lischke, Lars Zimmermann, Christian Koos, and J. Christoph Scheytt

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 103-109 (2019)  View: PDF

A 128 Gb/s PAM4 Silicon Microring Modulator With Integrated Thermo-Optic Resonance Tuning

Jie Sun, Ranjeet Kumar, Meer Sakib, Jeffrey B. Driscoll, Hasitha Jayatilleka, and Haisheng Rong

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 110-115 (2019)  View: PDF

Low-Insertion-Loss and Power-Efficient 32 × 32 Silicon Photonics Switch With Extremely High-Δ Silica PLC Connector

Keijiro Suzuki, Ryotaro Konoike, Junichi Hasegawa, Satoshi Suda, Hiroyuki Matsuura, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Shu Namiki, and Hitoshi Kawashima

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 116-122 (2019)  View: PDF

SOA-Integrated Silicon Photonics Switch and Its Lossless Multistage Transmission of High-Capacity WDM Signals

Ryotaro Konoike, Keijiro Suzuki, Takashi Inoue, Takeshi Matsumoto, Teruo Kurahashi, Ayahito Uetake, Kazumasa Takabayashi, Suguru Akiyama, Shigeaki Sekiguchi, Shu Namiki, Hitoshi Kawashima, and Kazuhiro Ikeda

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 123-130 (2019)  View: PDF

High-Capacity Multi-Stage Operation of Polarization-Diversity Silicon Photonics 8 × 8 Optical Switch

Takayuki Kurosu, Takashi Inoue, Keijiro Suzuki, Satoshi Suda, and Shu Namiki

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 131-137 (2019)  View: PDF

DMD-Unmanaged Long-Haul SDM Transmission Over 2500-km 12-Core × 3-Mode MC-FMF and 6300-km 3-Mode FMF Employing Intermodal Interference Canceling Technique

Kohki Shibahara, Takayuki Mizuno, Doohwan Lee, Yutaka Miyamoto, Hirotaka Ono, Kazuhide Nakajima, Yoshimichi Amma, Katsuhiro Takenaga, and Kunimasa Saitoh

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 138-147 (2019)  View: PDF

41.5-Tb/s Transmission Over 549 km of Field Deployed Fiber Using Throughput Optimized Probabilistic-Shaped 144QAM

Ezra Ip, Yue-Kai Huang, Shaoliang Zhang, Tiejun J. Xia, Daniel L. Peterson, Glenn Wellbrock, Giovanni Milione, Ting Wang, Yoshiaki Aono, and Tsutomu Tajima

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 148-155 (2019)  View: PDF

400-Gb/s Single-Photodiode Polarization-Agnostic Kramers–Kronig Reception of Distributedly Aggregated Superchannel

Isaac Sackey, Robert Elschner, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Robert Emmerich, Tomoyuki Kato, Takahito Tanimura, Shigeki Watanabe, Takeshi Hoshida, and Colja Schubert

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 156-162 (2019)  View: PDF

Advanced Digital Signal Processing for Reach Extension and Performance Enhancement of 112 Gbps and Beyond Direct Detected DML-Based Transmission

Weiyu Wang, Huanlu Li, Pengchao Zhao, Zhike Zhang, Dajun Zang, Cuicui Wang, Liang Li, Lin Ma, Yu Liu, Ninghua Zhu, and Yuchun Lu

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 163-169 (2019)  View: PDF

DSP-Free and Real-Time NRZ Transmission of 50 Gb/s Over 15-km SSMF and 64 Gb/s Back-to-Back With a 1.3-μm VCSEL

Laurens Breyne, Michiel Verplaetse, Christian Neumeyr, Timothy De Keulenaer, Wouter Soenen, Xin Yin, Peter Ossieur, Guy Torfs, and Johan Bauwelinck

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 170-177 (2019)  View: PDF

140/180/204-Gbaud OOK Transceiver for Inter- and Intra-Data Center Connectivity

José Manuel Estarán, Haik Mardoyan, Filipe Jorge, Oskars Ozolins, Aleksejs Udalcovs, Agnieszka Konczykowska, Muriel Riet, Bernadette Duval, Virginie Nodjiadjim, Jean-Yves Dupuy, Xiaodan Pang, Urban Westergren, Jiajia Chen, Sergei Popov, and Sébastien Bigo

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 178-187 (2019)  View: PDF

FPGA Investigation on Error-Flare Performance of a Concatenated Staircase and Hamming FEC Code for 400G Inter-Data Center Interconnect

Yi Cai, Weiming Wang, Weifeng Qian, Jia Xing, Kai Tao, Junjie Yin, Shihua Zhang, Ming Lei, Erkun Sun, Hung-Chang Chien, Qun Liao, Ke Yang, and Huan Chen

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 188-195 (2019)  View: PDF

1-Tb/s Millimeter-Wave Signal Wireless Delivery at D-Band

Xinying Li, Jianjun Yu, Li Zhao, Kaihui Wang, Can Wang, Mingming Zhao, Wen Zhou, and Jiangnan Xiao

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 196-204 (2019)  View: PDF

High-Speed and Uninterrupted Communication for High-Speed Trains by Ultrafast WDM Fiber–Wireless Backhaul System

Pham Tien Dat, Atsushi Kanno, Keizo Inagaki, François Rottenberg, Naokatsu Yamamoto, and Tetsuya Kawanishi

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 205-217 (2019)  View: PDF

Hierarchical Learning for Cognitive End-to-End Service Provisioning in Multi-Domain Autonomous Optical Networks

Gengchen Liu, Kaiqi Zhang, Xiaoliang Chen, Hongbo Lu, Jiannan Guo, Jie Yin, Roberto Proietti, Zuqing Zhu, and S. J. Ben Yoo

J. Lightwave Technol. 37(1), 218-225 (2019)  View: PDF