A Third of a Century
For a third of a century, Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT) has been publishing breakthrough research across all aspects of guided-wave optical science, technology, engineering, and applications, including theoretical, numerical, and experimental results from laboratory setups to field trials. The papers below, which were published over the course of JLT's history, reflect on the progress and impact that lightwave technologies have had on society.
| Author | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| P. J. Winzer, C. Chang-Hasnain, , A. E. Willner, R. C. Alferness, R. W. Tkach, T. G. Giallorenzi | Third of a Century of Lightwave Technology January 1983–April 2016 (Editorial) | 2016 |
| Fibers and Fiber-Based Devices | ||
| S. C. Rashleigh | Origins and Control of Polarization Effects in Single-Mode Fibers | 1983 |
| J. Noda, K. Okamoto, Y. Sasaki, | Polarization-Maintaining Fibers and Their Applications | 1986 |
| D. B. Mortimore | Fiber Loop Reflectors | 1988 |
| E. Desurvire, J. R. Simpson | J. R. Simpson, Amplification of Spontaneous Emission in Erbium-Doped Single-Mode Fibers | 1989 |
| C. R. Giles, E. Desurvire | Modeling Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers | 1991 |
| W. J. Miniscalco | Erbium-Doped Glasses for Fiber Amplifiers at 1500 nm | 1991 |
| G. J. Foschini, C. D. Poole | Statistical Theory of Polarization Dispersion in Single Mode Fibers | 1991 |
| A. M. Vengsarkar, P. J. Lemaire, J. B. Judkins, V. Bhatia, T. Erdogan, J. E. Sipe | Long-Period Fiber Gratings as Band-Rejection Filters | 1996 |
| P. K. A. Wai, C. R. Menyuk | Polarization Mode Dispersion, Decorrelation, and Diffusion in Optical Fibers with Randomly Varying Birefringence | 1996 |
| A. D. Kersey, M. A. Davis, H. J. Patrick, M. LeBlanc, K. Koo, C. Askins, M. Putnam, E. J. Friebele | Fiber Grating Sensors | 1997 |
| T. Erdogan, | Fiber Grating Spectra | 1997 |
| K. O. Hill, G. Meltz | Fiber Bragg Grating Technology Fundamentals and Overview | 1997 |
| H. J. Patrick, A. D. Kersey, F. Bucholtz, | Analysis of the Response of Long Period Fiber Gratings to External Index of Refraction | 1998 |
| T. M. Monro, D. J. Richardson | Holey Optical Fibers: An Efficient Modal Model | 1999 |
| X. Shu, L. Zhang, I. Bennion | Sensitivity Characteristics of Long-Period Fiber Gratings | 2002 |
| P. S. J. Russell, | Photonic-Crystal Fibers | 2006 |
| Lasers and Opto-Electronic Devices | ||
| R. W. Tkach, A. R. Chraplyvy | Regimes of Feedback Effects in 1.5-µm Distributed Feedback Lasers | 1986 |
| C. H. Henry | Phase Noise in Semiconductor Lasers | 1986 |
| J. E. Bowers, C. Burrus | Ultrawide-Band Long-Wavelength Pin Photodetectors | 1987 |
| R. V. Ramaswamy, R. Srivastava | Ion-Exchanged Glass Waveguides: A Review | 1988 |
| F. Koyama, K. Iga | Frequency Chirping in External Modulators | 1988 |
| C. Dragone | Efficient N*N Star Couplers Using Fourier Optics | 1989 |
| L. B. Soldano, E. C. M. Pennings, | Optical Multi-Mode Interference Devices Based on Self-Imaging: Principles and Applications | 1995 |
| B. E. Little, S. T. Chu, H. A. Haus, J. Foresi, J.-P. Laine | Microring Resonator Channel Dropping Filters | 1997 |
| P. Rabiei, W. H. Steier, C. Zhang, L. R. Dalton | Polymer Micro-Ring Filters and Modulators | 2002 |
| W. Bogaerts, R. Baets, P. Dumon, V. Wiaux, S. Beckx, D. Taillaert, B. Luyssaert, J. Van Campenhout, P. Bienstman, D. Van Thourhout | Nanophotonic Waveguides in Silicon-on-Insulator Fabricated with CMOS Technology | 2005 |
| M. Lipson | Guiding, Modulating, and Emitting Light on Silicon-Challenges and Opportunities | 2005 |
| A. Boltasseva, T. Nikolajsen, K. Leosson, K. Kjaer, M. S. Larsen, S. I. Bozhevolnyi | Integrated Optical Components Utilizing Long-Range Surface Plasmon Polaritons | 2005 |
| B. Jalali, S. Fathpour | Silicon Photonics | 2006 |
| Analog and Digital Subsystems | ||
| F. Derr | Coherent Optical QPSK Intradyne System: Concept and Digital Receiver Realization | 1992 |
| T. Durhuus, B. Mikkelsen, C. Joergensen, S. L. Danielsen, K. E. Stubkjaer | Optical Wavelength Conversion by Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers | 1996 |
| S. J. B. Yoo | Wavelength Conversion Technologies for WDM Network Applications | 1996 |
| G. I. Papadimitriou, C. Papazoglou, A. S. Pomportsis, | Optical Switching: Switch Fabrics, Techniques, and Architectures | 2003 |
| D. C. Kilper, R. Bach, D. J. Blumenthal, D. Einstein, T. Landolsi, L. Ostar, M. Preiss, A. E. Willner | Optical Performance Monitoring | 2004 |
| A. H. Gnauck, P. J. Winzer | Optical Phase-Shift-Keyed Transmission | 2005 |
| R. S. Tucker, P. C. Ku, C. J. Chang-Hasnain, | Slow-Light Optical Buffers: Capabilities and Fundamental Limitations | 2005 |
| P. J. Winzer, R. J. Essiambre | Advanced Modulation Formats for High-Capacity Optical Transport Networks | 2006 |
| D. S. Ly-Gagnon, S. Tsukamoto, K. Katoh, K. Kikuchi, | Coherent Detection of Optical Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying Signals with Carrier Phase Estimation | 2006 |
| J. Armstrong | OFDM for Optical Communications | 2009 |
| T. Pfau, S. Hoffmann, R. Noé, | Hardware-Efficient Coherent Digital Receiver Concept With Feedforward Carrier Recovery for M-QAM Constellations | 2009 |
| Lightwave Systems | ||
| N. A. Olsson | Lightwave Systems with Optical Amplifiers | 1989 |
| A. R. Chraplyvy | Limitations on Lightwave Communications Imposed by Optical-Fiber Nonlinearities | 1990 |
| P. Humblet, M. Azizoglu, | On the Bit Error rate of Lightwave Systems with Optical Amplifiers | 1991 |
| D. Marcuse, A. R. Chraplyvy, R. W. Tkach | Effect of Fiber Nonlinearity on Long-Distance Transmission | 1991 |
| R. W. Tkach, A. R. Chraplyvy, F. Forghieri, A. H. Gnauck, R. M. Derosier | Four-Photon Mixing and High-Speed WDM Systems | 1995 |
| N. S. Bergano, C. R. Davidson | Circulating Loop Transmission Experiments for the Study of Long-Haul Transmission Systems Using Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers | 1995 |
| E. Ip, J. M. Kahn | Compensation of Dispersion and Nonlinear Impairments Using Digital Backpropagation | 2008 |
| C. R. S. Fludger, T. Duthel, D. Van Den Borne, C. Schulien, E. D. Schmidt, T. Wuth, J. Geyer, E. De Man, G. D. Khoe, H. de Waardt, | Coherent Equalization and POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK for Robust 100-GE Transmission | 2008 |
| S. L. Jansen, I. Morita, T. C. W. Schenk, N. Takeda, H. Tanaka, | Coherent Optical 25.8-Gb/s OFDM Transmission Over 4160-km SSMF | 2008 |
| K. Roberts, M. O'Sullivan, K. T. Wu, H Sun, A. Awadalla, D. J. Krause, C. Laperle | Performance of Dual-Polarization QPSK for Optical Transport Systems | 2009 |
| R. J. Essiambre, G. Kramer, P. J. Winzer, G. J. Foschini, B. Goebel | Capacity Limits of Optical Fiber Networks | 2010 |
| P. J. Winzer, A. H. Gnauck, C. R. Doerr, M. Magarini, L. L. Buhl, | Spectrally Efficient Long-Haul Optical Networking Using 112-Gb/s Polarization-Multiplexed 16-QAM | 2010 |
| G. Bosco, V. Curri, A. Carena, P. Poggiolini, F. Forghieri | On the Performance of Nyquist-WDM Terabit Superchannels Based on PM-BPSK, PM-QPSK, PM-8QAM or PM-16QAM Subcarriers | 2011 |
| R. Ryf, S. Randel, A. H. Gnauck, C. Bolle, A. Sierra, S. Mumtaz, M. Esmaeelpour, E. C. Burrows, R. J. Essiambre, P. J. Winzer, D. W. Peckham, Alan. H. McCurdy, R. Lingle, | Mode-Division Multiplexing Over 96 km of Few-Mode Fiber Using Coherent 6 x 6 MIMO Processing | 2012 |
| A. Carena, V. Curri, G. Bosco, P. Poggiolini, F. Forghieri, | Modeling of the Impact of Nonlinear Propagation Effects in Uncompensated Optical Coherent Transmission Links | 2012 |
| J. Sakaguchi, B. J. Puttnam, W. Klaus, Y. Awaji, N. Wada, A. Kanno, T. Kawanishi, K. Imamura, H. Inaba, K. Mukasa, R. Sugizaki, T. Kobayashi, M. Watanabe, | 305 Tb/s Space Division Multiplexed Transmission Using Homogeneous 19-Core Fiber | 2013 |
| E. Ip, M. J. Li, K. Bennett, Y. K. Huang, | 146λ × 6 × 19-Gbaud Wavelength-and Mode-Division Multiplexed Transmission Over 10 × 50-km Spans of Few-Mode Fiber with a Gain-Equalized Few-Mode EDFA | 2014 |
| Optical Networks | ||
| S. B. Alexander, R. S. Bondurant, D. Byrne, V. W. S. Chan, S. G. Finn, R. Gallager, B. S. Glance, H. A. Haus, P. Humblet, R. Jain, I. P. Kaminow, M. Karol, R. S. Kennedy, A. Kirby, Han Q. Le, A. A. M. Saleh, B. A. Schofield, J. H. Shapiro, N. K. Shankaranarayanan, R. E. Thomas, R. C. Williamson, R. W. Wilson, | A Precompetitive Consortium on Wide-Band All-Optical Networks | 1983 |
| R. E. Wagner, R. C. Alferness, A. A. M. Saleh, M. S. Goodman | MONET: Multiwavelength Optical Networking | 1996 |
| D. K. Hunter, M. C. Chia, I. Andonovic, | Buffering in Optical Packet Switches | 1998 |
| M. Duser, P. Bayvel, | Analysis of a Dynamically Wavelength-Routed Optical burst Switched Network Architecture | 2002 |
| S. Ramamurthy, L. Sahasrabuddhe, B. Mukherjee, | Survivable WDM Mesh Networks | 2003 |
| J. Baliga, R. Ayre, K. Hinton, W. V. Sorin, R. S. Tucker | Energy Consumption in Optical IP Networks | 2009 |
| K. Christodoulopoulos, I. Tomkos, E. A. Varvarigos | Elastic Bandwidth Allocation in Flexible OFDM-Based Optical Networks | 2011 |
| Access and Interconnect Systems | ||
| T. E. Darcie | Subcarrier Multiplexing for Multiple-Access Lightwave Networks | 1987 |
| J. Salehi, A. M. Weiner, J. P. Heritage | Coherent Ultrashort Light Pulse Code-Division Multiple Access Communication Systems | 1990 |
| C. H. Lee, W. V. Sorin, B. Y. Kim, | Fiber to the Home Using a PON Infrastructure | 2006 |
| J. Vucic, C. Kottke, S. Nerreter, K. D. Langer, J. W. Walewski | 513 Mbit/s Visible Light Communications Link Based on DMT-Modulation of a White LED | 2010 |
| N. Cvijetic | OFDM for Next-Generation Optical Access Networks | 2012 |
| M. A. Taubenblatt | Optical Interconnects for High-Performance Computing | 2012 |
| Y. Luo, X. Zhou, F. Effenberger, X. Yan, G. Peng, Y. Qian, Y. Ma | Time- and Wavelength-Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Network (TWDM-PON) for Next-Generation PON Stage 2 (NG-PON2) | 2013 |
| A Pizzinat, P Chanclou, F. Saliou, T. Diallo | Things you Should Know About Fronthaul | 2015 |
| X. Liu | Efficient Mobile Fronthaul Via DSP-Based Channel Aggregation | 2016 |
| H. Haas, L. Yin, Y. Wang, C. Chen, | What is LiFi? | 2016 |
| Microwave Photonics | ||
| A. J. Seeds, K. J. Williams | Microwave Photonics | 2006 |
| J. Capmany, B. Ortega, D. Pastor | A Tutorial on Microwave Photonic Filters | 2006 |
| J. Yao, | Microwave Photonics | 2009 |