Virtual Feature Issue

Ultra-wideband Optical Communications (UWOC)

Qunbi Zhuge (Lead Editor), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Xi Chen, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
David Plant, McGill University, Canada
William Shieh, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Feature issue introduction: ultra-wideband optical communications

Qunbi Zhuge, Xi Chen, David V. Plant, and William Shieh

Opt. Express 30(8), 13591-13593 (2022) View: HTML | PDF

Sub-terahertz bandwidth capactively-loaded thin-film lithium niobate electro-optic modulators based on an undercut structure

Xuecheng Liu, Bing Xiong, Changzheng Sun, Jian Wang, Zhibiao Hao, Lai Wang, Yanjun Han, Hongtao Li, and Yi Luo

Opt. Express 29(25), 41798-41807 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

All-silicon multi-band TM-pass polarizer on a 220 nm SOI enabled by multiplexing grating regimes

Jinsong Zhang, Luhua Xu, Deng Mao, Yannick D’Mello, Weijia Li, Stephane Lessard, and David V. Plant

Opt. Express 30(1), 326-335 (2022) View: HTML | PDF

Advances in integrated ultra-wideband electro-optic modulators [Invited]

Mengyue Xu and Xinlun Cai

Opt. Express 30(5), 7253-7274 (2022) View: HTML | PDF

Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics

Pump-efficient flattop O+E-bands bismuth-doped fiber amplifier with 116 nm –3 dB gain bandwidth

Yan Ososkov, Aleksandr Khegai, Sergei Firstov, Konstantin Riumkin, Sergey Alyshev, Alexander Kharakhordin, Alexey Lobanov, Alexey Guryanov, and Mikhail Melkumov

Opt. Express 29(26), 44138-44145 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

InAs/InP quantum dot mode-locked laser with an aggregate 12.544 Tbit/s transmission capacity

Guocheng Liu, Philip J. Poole, Zhenguo Lu, Jiaren Liu, Youxin Mao, Martin Vachon, and Pedro Barrios

Opt. Express 30(3), 3205-3214 (2022) View: HTML | PDF

Optical Communications and Interconnects

Narrow- or wide-band channel for a high baud rate fiber communication system: a judgment based on a temporal and spectral evolution PMD model

Nan Cui, Xiaoguang Zhang, Qi Zhang, and Xulun Zhang

Opt. Express 29(23), 38497-38511 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Joint estimation of dynamic polarization and carrier phase with pilot-based adaptive equalizer in PDM-64 QAM transmission system

Jiaqian Yang, Eric Sillekens, Wenting Yi, Polina Bayvel, and Robert I. Killey

Opt. Express 29(26), 43136-43147 (2021) View: HTML | PDF

Field trial of 24-Tb/s (60 × 400Gb/s) DWDM transmission over a 1910-km G.654.E fiber link with 6-THz-bandwidth C-band EDFAs

Anxu Zhang, Junjie Li, Lipeng Feng, Kai Lv, Fei Yan, Yusen Yang, Haiqiang Wang, Qifang Yang, Lingquan Wang, Xiaolei Zhang, Shibao Ding, Min Liao, Yi Yu, and Liangchuan Li

Opt. Express 29(26), 43811-43818 (2021) View: HTML | PDF