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CFP14OFC-POD 978-1-4799-5731-6

2014 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC 2014)

San Francisco, California, USA 9-13 March 2014

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

IMPLEMENTATION OF 64QAM AT 42.66 GBAUD USING 1.5 SAMPLES PER SYMBOL DAC AND DEMONSTRATION OF UP TO 300 KM FIBER TRANSMISSION ......................................................................................................... 1

Buchali, F. ; Klekamp, A. ; Schmalen, L. ; Drenski, T.

HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL 64QAM SIGNAL GENERATION USING INP-BASED SEMICONDUCTOR IQ MODULATOR ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Kikuchi, N. ; Hirai, R. ; Wakayama, Y.

GENERATION OF A DIGITALLY SHAPED 55-GBD 64-QAM SINGLE-CARRIER SIGNAL USING NOVEL HIGH-SPEED DACS ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7

Randel, S. ; Corteselli, S. ; Winzer, P.J. ; Adamiecki, A. ; Gnauck, A. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Bielik, A. ; Altenhain, L. ; Ellermeyer, T. ; Dumler, U. ; Langenhagen, H. ; Schmid, R.

PARALLEL AND PIPELINED DECISION-DIRECTED PHASE RECOVERY FOR 64-QAM IN THE PRESENCE OF SINUSOIDAL TONES ....................................................................................................................................................... 10

Ng, W.C. ; Nguyen, A.T. ; Ayotte, S. ; Park, C.S. ; Rusch, L.A.

MULTICARRIER OFFSET-QAM MODULATIONS FOR COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13

Fickers, J. ; Ghazisaeidi, A. ; Salsi, M. ; Horlin, F. ; Emplit, P. ; Charlet, G.

EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE OF 4D OPTIMIZED CONSTELLATION ALTERNATIVES FOR PM-8QAM AND PM-16QAM ................................................................................................................................................................................ 16

Buelow, H. ; Xiaofeng Lu ; Schmalen, L. ; Klekamp, A. ; Buchali, F.

TRAINING-AIDED PDM 64-QAM TRANSMISSION WITH ENHANCED FIBER NONLINEARITY TOLERANCE ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19

Zhu, C. ; Du, L.B. ; Tran, A.V. ; Lowery, A.J. ; Skafidas, E.

MULTI-STAGE CPE ALGORITHMS FOR 64-QAM CONSTELLATIONS ......................................................................................... 22Bilal, S.M. ; Fludger, C.R.S. ; Bosco, G.

NETWORK PLANNING STRATEGIES FOR NEXT-GENERATION FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS ................................. 25Pastorelli, R. ; Bosco, G. ; Nespola, A. ; Piciaccia, S. ; Forghieri, F.

PRE-DEPLOYMENT OF REGENERATORS IN DWDM NETWORKS AND THE IMPACT OF MISMATCHES BETWEEN PLANNING AND OPERATION .............................................................................................................................................. 28

Pedro, J.

SIMULATIONS OF TRAFFIC GROWTH IN A ROADM NETWORK WITH A GROWING TOPOLOGY................................... 31Feuer, M.D. ; Woodward, S.L. ; Inwoong Kim ; Palacharla, P. ; Xi Wang ; Qiong Zhang ; Bihon, D.

OPTICAL SUPER-CHANNELS IN LONG-HAUL NETWORK ARCHITECTURES.......................................................................... 34Clarke, S. ; Asselin, S. ; Vakili, A.

NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION.................................................................................................................................................................. 37Aihua Guo

ACHIEVABLE RATES FOR FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CODED MODULATION WITH A BIT-WISE RECEIVER ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40

Alvarado, A. ; Agrell, E.

RATE-ADAPTIVE CODING FOR DIRECT-DETECTION OF DISCRETE MULTI-TONES ........................................................... 43Chen Chen ; Zamani, M. ; Zhuhong Zhang ; Chuandong Li

TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE OF CODED MODULATION FORMATS IN A WIDE RANGE OF SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES ......................................................................................................................................................................... 46

Cai, J.-X. ; Batshon, H.G. ; Zhang, H. ; Mazurczyk, M. ; Sinkin, O.V. ; Foursa, D.G. ; Pilipetskii, A.N.

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODULATION FORMATS FOR LONG-HAUL TRANSMISSION............................................................ 49Johannisson, P. ; Sjodin, M. ; Eriksson, T.A. ; Karlsson, M.

ULTRA HIGH-SPEED FIBER WIRELESS TRANSPORT ...................................................................................................................... 52Kawanishi, T.

5-BIT/S/HZ 50-GBPS W-BAND OPTICAL/WIRELESS SYSTEM EMPLOYING SINGLE-SIDEBAND SINGLE-CARRIER MODULATION ............................................................................................................................................................................ 55

Chun-Hung Ho ; Yu-Hsuan Cheng ; Hou-Tzu Huang ; Chun-Ting Lin ; Chia-Chien Wei ; Sien Chi

SEAMLESS W-BAND RADIO-TO-OPTICAL SIGNAL CONVERSION WITH DIRECT IQ DOWN-CONVERTER................................................................................................................................................................................................... 58

Kanno, A. ; Dat, P.T. ; Kuri, T. ; Hosako, I. ; Kawanishi, T. ; Yoshida, Y. ; Kitayama, K.-I.

ROBUST 71–76 GHZ RADIO-OVER-FIBER WIRELESS LINK WITH HIGH-DYNAMIC RANGE PHOTONIC ASSISTED TRANSMITTER AND LASER PHASE-NOISE INSENSITIVE SBD RECEIVER ........................................................... 61

Stohr, A. ; Cojucari, O. ; van Dijk, F. ; Carpintero, G. ; Tekin, T. ; Formont, S. ; Flammia, I. ; Rymanov, V. ; Khani, B. ; Chuenchom, R.

DEMONSTRATION OF 24-GB/S CARRIER-LESS AMPLITUDE AND PHASE MODULATION (CAP) 64QAM RADIO-OVER-FIBER SYSTEM OVER 40-GHZ MM-WAVE FIBER-WIRELESS TRANSMISSION ............................................ 64

Junwen Zhang ; Yu Jianjun ; Fan Li ; Xinying Li ; Jiangnan Xiao ; Gee-Kung Chang

150-KM 103-GHZ DIRECT-DETECTION OFDM-ROF SYSTEM EMPLOYING PILOT-AIDED PHASE NOISE SUPPRESSION................................................................................................................................................................................................. 67

Hou-Tzu Huang ; Wan-Ling Liang ; Chia-Chien Wei ; Chun-Ting Lin ; Sien Chi

FULL-DUPLEX BIDIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION OF 10-GB/S MILLIMETER-WAVE QPSK SIGNAL IN E-BAND OPTICAL WIRELESS LINK ........................................................................................................................................................ 70

Yuan Fang ; Yu Jianjun ; Junwen Zhang ; Jiangnan Xiao

400GBE DEMONSTRATION UTILIZING 100GBE OPTICAL SUB-ASSEMBLIES AND CYCLIC ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS ............................................................................................................................................................................ 73

Doi, Y. ; Ohyama, T. ; Yoshimatsu, T. ; Soma, S. ; Oguma, M.

100 GB/S UNCOOLED DWDM USING ORTHOGONAL CODING FOR LOW-COST DATACOMMUNICATION LINKS .............................................................................................................................................................. 76

von Lindeiner, J.B. ; Ingham, J.D. ; Wonfor, A. ; Zhu, J. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.

O-BAND 400 GBIT/S CLIENT SIDE OPTICAL TRANSMISSION LINK ............................................................................................. 79Tianjian Zuo ; Tatarczak, A. ; Olmedo, M.I. ; Estaran, J. ; Jensen, J.B. ; Qiwen Zhong ; Xiaogeng Xu ; Monroy, I.T.

TOWARDS 100 GBPS OVER 100M MMF USING A 850NM VCSEL .................................................................................................... 82Iglesias Olmedo, M. ; Tatarczak, A. ; Tianjian Zuo ; Estaran, J. ; Xiaogeng Xu ; Monroy, I.T.

REAL-TIME DEMONSTRATION OF 100GBPS CLASS DUAL-CARRIER DDO-16QAM-DMT TRANSMISSION WITH DIRECTLY MODULATED LASER ................................................................................................................ 85

Xiao, X. ; Li, F. ; Yu, J. ; Xia, Y. ; Chen, Y.

A LOW-COST 100GE OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER MODULE FOR 2KM SMF INTERCONNECT WITH PAM4 MODULATION................................................................................................................................................................................................ 88

Jiangwei Man ; Wei Chen ; Xiaolu Song ; Li Zeng

ULTRALOW LOSS FIBER ADVANCES .................................................................................................................................................... 91Hirano, M.

LARGE AEFF PURE-SILICA-CORE FIBER WITH LOW SIMILAR SPLICE LOSS FOR TERRESTRIAL TRANSMISSION LINES ................................................................................................................................................................................ 94

Yamamoto, Y. ; Kawaguchi, Y. ; Hirano, M.

LOW-LOSS LOW-LATENCY TRANSMISSION OVER SINGLE-MODE HOLLOW CORE FIBER AT 10 AND 120 GB/S ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 97

Mikhailov, V. ; Fini, J.M. ; Linli Meng ; Mangan, B.J. ; Nicholson, J.W. ; Windeler, R.S. ; Monberg, E. ; DiMarcello, F. ; Westbrook, P.S.

UNDERSTANDING WAVELENGTH SCALING IN 19-CELL CORE HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS .......................................................................................................................................................................................100

Chen, Y. ; Wheeler, N.V. ; Baddela, N.K. ; Hayes, J.R. ; Sandoghchi, S.R. ; Fokoua, E.N. ; Li, M. ; Poletti, F. ; Petrovich, M.N. ; Richardson, D.J.

ACCURATE LOSS AND SURFACE MODE MODELING IN FABRICATED HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS .......................................................................................................................................................................................103

Fokoua, E.N. ; Sandoghchi, S.R. ; Yong Chen ; Wheeler, N.V. ; Baddela, N.K. ; Hayes, J.R. ; Petrovich, M.N. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Poletti, F.

FIRST INVESTIGATION OF LONGITUDINAL DEFECTS IN HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS ............................................................................................................................................................................................................106

Sandoghchi, S.R. ; Zhang, T. ; Wooler, J.P. ; Baddela, N.K. ; Wheeler, N.V. ; Chen, Y. ; Jasion, G.T. ; Gray, D.R. ; Fokoua, E.N. ; Hayes, J.R. ; Petrovich, M.N. ; Poletti, F. ; Richardson, D.J.

A HIGH-POWER AND HIGH-LINEARITY 50 GHZ WAVEGUIDE PHOTODIODE MODULE ...................................................109Rouvalis, E. ; Muller, P. ; Fedderwitz, S. ; Trommer, D. ; Stephan, J. ; Steffan, A.G. ; Unterborsch, G.

HIGH-SPEED INGAAS PHOTODETECTORS WITH LOW DARK CURRENT SELECTIVELY GROWN ON SOI SUBSTRATE ..........................................................................................................................................................................................112

Yu Geng ; Shaoqi Feng ; Poon, A.W. ; Kei May Lau

80GHZ BALANCED PHOTODETECTOR CHIP FOR NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL NETWORKS......................................115Runge, P. ; Gan Zhou ; Seeger, A. ; Janiak, K. ; Stephan, J. ; Rouvalis, E. ; Trommer, D.

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF SILICON-BASED PARALLEL-FED TRAVELLING-WAVE PHOTODETECTOR ARRAY (TWPDA) ...................................................................................................................................................118

Xianshu Luo ; Junfeng Song ; Qing Fang ; Xiaoguang Tu ; Lianxi Jia ; Tsung-Yang Liow ; Mingbin Yu ; Guo-Qiang Lo

ULTRA-SMALL BUTT-JOINT GE PHOTODETECTOR FEATURING SELF-ALIGNED IN-SITU DOPING AND CMP-FREE NOVEL CVD PROCESS...............................................................................................................................................121

Miura, M. ; Fujikata, J. ; Noguchi, M. ; Arakawa, Y.

WAVEGUIDE GE/SI AVALANCHE PHOTODETECTOR WITH A UNIQUE LOW-HEIGHT-PROFILE DEVICE STRUCTURE.................................................................................................................................................................................124

Tsung-Yang Liow ; Ning Duan ; Lim, A.E.-J. ; Xiaoguang Tu ; Mingbin Yu ; Guo-Qiang Lo

OPTICAL NETWORK REQUIREMENTS FOR CLOUD DOUGLAS FREIMUTH ..........................................................................127Freimuth, D.

CLOUD SERVICE EMBEDDING IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED FLEXIBLE GRID OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS...................................................................................................................................................................................................148

Patel, A.N. ; Ye Zilong ; Ji, P.N.

SURVIVABILITY IN VIRTUALIZED NETWORKS ..............................................................................................................................151Schupke, D. ; Barla, B. ; Hoffmann, M.

DISASTER-AWARE DYNAMIC CONTENT PLACEMENT IN OPTICAL CLOUD NETWORKS ...............................................154Ferdousi, S. ; Dikbiyik, F. ; Habib, M.F. ; Tornatore, M. ; Mukherjee, B.

DISCRETE MULTI-TONE FOR 100 GB/S OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS ..................................................................................157Takahara, T. ; Tanaka, T. ; Nishihara, M. ; Kai, Y. ; Lei Li ; Zhenning Tao ; Rasmussen, J.C.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF 100-GBPS OPTICAL DMT TRANSMISSION COMBINED WITH MOBILE DATA SIGNAL .............................................................................................................................................................................160

Nishihara, M. ; Tanaka, T. ; Takahara, T. ; Lei Li ; Zhenning Tao ; Rasmussen, J.C.

30KM DOWNSTREAM TRANSMISSION USING 4×25GB/S 4-PAM MODULATION WITH COMMERCIAL 10GBPS TOSA AND ROSA FOR 100GB/S-PON ......................................................................................................................................163

Hongguang Zhang ; Shengmeng Fu ; Jiangwei Man ; Wei Chen ; Xiaolu Song ; Li Zeng

80 KM IM-DD TRANSMISSION FOR 100 GB/S PER LANE ENABLED BY DMT AND NONLINEARITY MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................................................................................166

Weizhen Yan ; Lei Li ; Bo Liu ; Hao Chen ; Zhenning Tao ; Tanaka, T. ; Takahara, T. ; Rasmussen, J.C. ; Drenski, T.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF 448-GBPS+ DMT TRANSMISSION OVER 30-KM SMF..........................................169Tanaka, T. ; Nishihara, M. ; Takahara, T. ; Weizhen Yan ; Lei Li ; Zhenning Tao ; Matsuda, M. ; Takabayashi, K. ; Rasmussen, J.C.

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF CLADDING PUMPED FEW-MODED EDFA FOR MODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXED TRANSMISSION ............................................................................................................................................................172

Lim, E.-L. ; Jung, Y. ; Kang, Q. ; May-Smith, T.C. ; Wong, N.H.-L. ; Standish, R. ; Poletti, F. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Alam, S. ; Richardson, D.J.

CLADDING-PUMPED ER/YB-DOPED MULTI-ELEMENT FIBER AMPLIFIER FOR C+L BAND OPERATIONS................................................................................................................................................................................................175

Jain, S. ; May-Smith, T.C. ; Sahu, J.K.

A 204.8 TBPS THROUGHPUT 64×64 OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECT PROTOTYPE THAT ALLOWS C/D/C ADD/DROP .....................................................................................................................................................................................................178

Takaha, K. ; Mori, Y. ; Hasegawa, H. ; Sato, K.-I. ; Watanabe, T.

MONOLITHIC 50×50 MEMS SILICON PHOTONIC SWITCHES WITH MICROSECOND RESPONSE TIME .......................181Sangyoon Han ; Tae Joon Seok ; Quack, N. ; Byung-wook Yoo ; Wu, M.C.

HIGH-SPEED AND COMPACT NON-BLOCKING 8×8 INALGAAS/INALAS MACH-ZEHNDER-TYPE OPTICAL SWITCH FABRIC ......................................................................................................................................................................184

Kouketsu, H. ; Kawasaki, S. ; Koyama, N. ; Takei, A. ; Taniguchi, T. ; Matsushima, Y. ; Utaka, K.

CHIP-LEVEL 10-GBIT/S OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS USING 1 × 2 POLYMER VERTICAL SPLITTER ON SILICON SUBSTRATE ................................................................................................................................................................................187

Chin-Ta Chen ; Po-Kuan Shen ; Teng-Zhang Zhu ; Chia-Chi Chang ; Shu-Shuan Lin ; Mao-Yuan Zeng ; Chien-Yu Chiu ; Hsu-Liang Hsiao ; Hsiao-Chin Lan ; Yun-Chih Lee ; Yo-Shen Lin ; Wu, M.-L.

WHAT DEVICES DO DATA CENTERS NEED? .....................................................................................................................................190Lam, C.F. ; Hong Liu ; Urata, R.

ON-CHIP OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS INTEGRATED WITH LASER AND PHOTODETECTOR USING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SILICON WAVEGUIDES ..............................................................................................................................193

Po-Kuan Shen ; Chin-Ta Chen ; Chia-Hao Chang ; Chien-Yu Chiu ; Chia-Chi Chang ; Hsiao-Chin Lan ; Yun-Chih Lee ; Mount-Learn Wu

ELECTRONIC TWO-DIMENSIONAL BEAM STEERING FOR INTEGRATED OPTICAL PHASED ARRAYS ......................196Abiri, B. ; Aflatouni, F. ; Rekhi, A. ; Hajimiri, A.

ENERGY EFFICIENT FEC FOR OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS ........................................................................................199Schmalen, L.

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PERMUTATION MODULATION AIMING AT BOTH HIGH SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY AND HIGH POWER EFFICIENCY .................................................................................................................................202

Ishimura, S. ; Kikuchi, K.

CYCLE SLIP-MITIGATING TURBO DEMODULATION IN LDPC-CODED COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................................................................205

Koike-Akino, T. ; Kojima, K. ; Millar, D.S. ; Parsons, K. ; Miyata, Y. ; Matsumoto, W. ; Sugihara, T. ; Mizuochi, T.

COMPARISON OF QUATERNARY BLOCK-CODING AND SPHERE-CUTTING FOR HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MODULATION..............................................................................................................................................................................................208

Millar, D.S. ; Koike-Akino, T. ; Arik, S.O. ; Kojima, K. ; Parsons, K.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF 24-DIMENSIONAL EXTENDED GOLAY CODED MODULATION WITH LDPC ...................................................................................................................................................................................................211

Millar, D.S. ; Koike-Akino, T. ; Maher, R. ; Lavery, D. ; Paskov, M. ; Kojima, K. ; Parsons, K. ; Thomsen, B.C. ; Savory, S.J. ; Bayvel, P.

STAIRCASE RATE-ADAPTIVE LDPC-CODED MODULATION FOR HIGH-SPEED INTELLIGENT OPTICAL TRANSMISSION ........................................................................................................................................................................214

Yequn Zhang ; Djordjevic, I.B.

A SIMPLE AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE METHOD FOR COMBINING SOFT-DECISION FEC WITH DIFFERENTIAL ENCODING IN 100 GBPS DUAL-POLARIZATION QPSK SYSTEM .................................................................217

Karaki, J. ; Le Bidan, R. ; Pincemin, E.

MINIMIZING RESOURCE PROTECTION IN IP OVER WDM NETWORKS: MULTI-LAYER SHARED BACKUP ROUTER .......................................................................................................................................................................................220

Mayoral, A. ; Lopez, V. ; Gerstel, O. ; Palkopoulou, E. ; Gonzalez de Dios, O. ; Fernandez-Palacios, J.P.

OPTIMIZATION OF LIGHT-PATH CONFIGURATION ORDER IN IP OVER WDM NETWORKS USING FAST TRAFFIC MATRIX ESTIMATION ................................................................................................................................................223

Kamamura, S. ; Shimazaki, D. ; Mori, H. ; Sasayama, K. ; Koizumi, Y. ; Arakawa, S. ; Murata, M.

METRO TRANSPORT NETWORK ARCHITECTURES FOR THE FUTURE..................................................................................226Qingyun Liu

LEVERAGE G.808.3 SHARED MESH PROTECTION AND BEST EFFORT GMPLS PROTECTION IN MULTI-LAYER NETWORKS ....................................................................................................................................................................229

Dai, E. ; Wei Dai

OPERATIONAL EXPENDITURES SAVINGS IN IP/MPLS OVER DWDM NETWORKS BY MULTI-LAYER RESTORATION.............................................................................................................................................................................................232

de la Cruz, B. ; Gonzalez de Dios, O. ; Lopez, V. ; Fernandez-Palacios, J.P.

EXCEEDING THE NONLINEAR-SHANNON LIMIT USING RAMAN LASER BASED AMPLIFICATION AND OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION ................................................................................................................................................235

Phillips, I.D. ; Tan, M. ; Stephens, M.F.C. ; McCarthy, M.E. ; Giacoumidis, E. ; Sygletos, S. ; Rosa, P. ; Fabbri, S. ; Le, S.T. ; Kanesan, T. ; Turitsyn, S.K. ; Doran, N.J. ; Harper, P. ; Ellis, A.D.

FIBER NONLINEARITY COMPENSATION OF AN 8-CHANNEL WDM PDM-QPSK SIGNAL USING MULTIPLE PHASE CONJUGATIONS .....................................................................................................................................................238

Hu, H. ; Jopson, R.M. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Dinu, M. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Liu, X. ; Xie, C. ; Montoliu, M. ; Randel, S. ; McKinstrie, C.J.

WDM TRANSMISSION OF 3×1.12-TB/S PDM-16QAM SUPERCHANNELS WITH 6.5-B/S/HZ IN A 162.5-GHZ FLEXIBLE-GRID USING ONLY OPTICAL SPECTRAL SHAPING ..................................................................................................241

Carvalho, L.H.H. ; Floridia, C. ; Franciscangelis, C. ; Parahyba, V.E. ; Silva, E.P. ; Gonzalez, N.G. ; Oliveira, J.C.R.F.

ADAPTIVE DIGITAL BACK-PROPAGATION FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ...............................................244Chien-Yu Lin ; Napoli, A. ; Spinnler, B. ; Sleiffer, V. ; Rafique, D. ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Bohn, M. ; Schmauss, B.

256 GB/S PM-16-QAM QUASI-SINGLE-MODE TRANSMISSION OVER 2600 KM USING FEW-MODE FIBER WITH MULTI-PATH INTERFERENCE COMPENSATION ................................................................................................................247

Qi Sui ; HongYu Zhang ; Downie, J.D. ; Wood, W.A. ; Hurley, J. ; Mishra, S. ; Lau, A.P.T. ; Chao Lu ; Hwa-Yaw Tam ; Wai, P.K.A.

SPECTRALLY-EFFICIENT DUAL PHASE-CONJUGATE TWIN WAVES WITH ORTHOGONALLY MULTIPLEXED QUADRATURE PULSE-SHAPED SIGNALS ............................................................................................................250

Yoshida, T. ; Sugihara, T. ; Ishida, K. ; Mizuochi, T.

84-GBPS 64-QAM 2 × 2 MIMO ROF SYSTEM AT 60 GHZ EMPLOYING SINGLE-SIDEBAND SINGLE-CARRIER MODULATION ..........................................................................................................................................................................253

Chun-Ting Lin ; Chun-Hung Ho ; Hou-Tzu Huang ; Yu-Hsuan Cheng

LTE-ADVANCED CARRIER AGGREGATION SUPPORTING FULLY STANDARD 3GPP MIMO BY OPTICAL POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING ......................................................................................................................................256

Morant, M. ; Llorente, R. ; Prat, J.

CENTRALIZED OPTICAL PRE-CODING FOR MULTI-CELL MIMO IN MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIO-OVER-FIBER SYSTEM ...............................................................................................................................................................................259

Lin Cheng ; Cheng Liu ; Ming Zhu ; Jing Wang ; Gee-Kung Chang

DIGITAL MULTI-CHANNEL POST-LINEARIZATION FOR UPLINK IN MULTI-BAND RADIO-OVER-FIBER SYSTEMS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................262

Yinqing Pei ; Jianqiang Li ; Kun Xu ; Yitang Dai ; Yuefeng Ji ; Jintong Lin

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON MULTI-DIMENSIONAL DIGITAL PREDISTORTION FOR MULTI-BAND DIRECTLY-MODULATED RADIO-OVER-FIBER SYSTEMS ................................................................................265

Hao Chen ; Jianqiang Li ; Kun Xu ; Yitang Dai ; Feifei Yin ; Jintong Lin

ULTRA-HIGH-SPEED FIBER-WIRELESS-FIBER LINK FOR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM........................268Xinying Li ; Yu Jianjun ; Zizheng Cao ; Fan Li ; Junwen Zhang ; Gee-Kung Chang ; Tangdiongga, E.

ANTENNA POLARIZATION DIVERSITY FOR 146GB/S POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING QPSK WIRELESS SIGNAL DELIVERY AT W-BAND ......................................................................................................................................271

Xinying Li ; Jianjun Yu ; Junwen Zhang ; Fan Li ; Jiangnan Xiao

ERROR-FREE AND LASER-PHASE-NOISE-INSENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENT TRANSMISSION OF UPLINK RADIO-OVER-FIBER SIGNAL .................................................................................................................................................274

Kuri, T. ; Sakamoto, T. ; Guo-Wei Lu ; Kawanishi, T.

SILICON PHOTONICS FOR EXASCALE SYSTEMS [OFC 2014 TUTORIAL] ................................................................................277Bergman, K. ; Rumley, S. ; Ophir, N. ; Nikolova, D. ; Hendry, R. ; Qi Li ; Padmara, K. ; Ke Wen ; Lee Zhu

FAST DYNAMIC WAVELENGTH AND PATH SCHEDULING IN A MONOLITHIC 8×8 SWITCH ...........................................311Cheng, Q. ; Stabile, R. ; Rohit, A. ; Wonfor, A. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H. ; Williams, K.A.

OPTOPUS: OPTICAL BACKPLANE FOR DATA CENTER SWITCHES ..........................................................................................314Tan, M. ; Rosenberg, P. ; Panotopoulos, G. ; McLaren, M. ; Sorin, W. ; Mathai, S. ; Kiyama, L. ; Straznicky, J. ; Warren, D.

GAIN EFFECT ON THE SCALABILITY OF SOA-BASED OPTICAL SPACE SWITCHES ..........................................................317Liao, P. ; Zhang, C. ; Lu, X. ; Shafiei, M.M. ; Cerutti, I. ; Andriolli, N. ; Liboiron-Ladouceur, O.

HYBRID PHOTONIC ETHERNET SWITCH FOR DATACENTERS .................................................................................................320Huixiao Ma ; Xiaoling Yang ; Mehrvar, Hamid ; Yan Wang ; Shuaibing Li ; Graves, Alan ; Dawei Wang ; Fu, H.Y. ; Dongyu Geng ; Goodwill, Dominic ; Bernier, Eric

MMF FOR HIGH DATA RATE AND SHORT LENGTH APPLICATIONS .......................................................................................323Ming-Jun Li

LOW-DMGD 6-LP-MODE FIBER..............................................................................................................................................................326Sillard, P. ; Molin, D. ; Bigot-Astruc, M. ; Maerten, H. ; Van Ras, D. ; Achten, F.

SIX-LP-MODE TRANSMISSION FIBER WITH DMD OF LESS THAN 70 PS/KM OVER C+L BAND .......................................329Mori, T. ; Sakamoto, T. ; Wada, M. ; Yamamoto, T. ; Yamamoto, F.

FIBERS SUPPORTING OAM AND THEIR APPLICATIONS ..............................................................................................................332Ramachandran, S.

EFFECT OF RANDOM LINEAR MODE COUPLING ON INTERMODAL FOUR-WAVE MIXING IN FEW-MODE FIBERS ..............................................................................................................................................................................................333

Yuzhe Xiao ; Mumtaz, S. ; Essiambre, R.-J. ; Agrawal, G.P.

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF MODE CONVERSION RATIO AT SPLICE POINT FOR TWO-MODE FIBERS AND ITS SIMULATED EFFECT ON MIMO TRANSMISSION ...........................................................................................336

Maruyama, R. ; Kuwaki, N. ; Matsuo, S. ; Sato, K. ; Ohashi, M.

HIGH DENSITY OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING....................................................339Doany, F.E.

RELIABILITY OF VCSELS FOR >25GB/S ..............................................................................................................................................342Guenter, J. ; Hawkins, B. ; Hawthorne, R. ; Landry, G.

UP TO 64-QAM MODULATION OF A SILICON-RING-RESONATOR-MODULATOR ................................................................345Beninca De Farias, G. ; Menezo, S. ; Dubray, O. ; Marris-Morini, D. ; Vivien, L. ; Myko, A. ; Blampey, B.

HIGH-SPEED SILICON-ORGANIC HYBRID (SOH) MODULATORS WITH 230 PM/V ELECTRO-OPTIC COEFFICIENT USING ADVANCED MATERIALS ............................................................................................................................... 348

Palmer, R. ; Koeber, S. ; Woessner, M. ; Elder, D.L. ; Heni, W. ; Korn, D. ; Yu, H. ; Lauermann, M. ; Bogaerts, W. ; Dalton, L.R. ; Freude, W. ; Leuthold, J. ; Koos, C.

EXPLORING THE LIMITS OF HIGH-SPEED RECEIVERS FOR MULTIMODE VCSEL-BASED OPTICAL LINKS ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................351

Dupuis, N. ; Kuchta, D.M. ; Doany, F.E. ; Rylyakov, A. ; Proesel, J. ; Baks, C.W. ; Schow, C.L. ; Luong, S. ; Xie, C. ; Wang, L. ; Huang, S. ; Jackson, K. ; Li, N.Y.

SURVIVABLE VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE MAPPING OVER TRANSPORT SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS (T-SDN) ...................................................................................................................................................................................354

Zilong Ye ; Patel, A.N. ; Ji, P.N. ; Chunming Qiao

HETEROGENEOUS BANDWIDTH PROVISIONING FOR VIRTUAL MACHINE MIGRATION OVER SDN-ENABLED OPTICAL NETWORKS...........................................................................................................................................................357

Mandal, U. ; Habib, M.F. ; Shuqiang Zhang ; Chowdhury, P. ; Tornatore, M. ; Mukherjee, B.

EFFECTIVE VIRTUAL OPTICAL NETWORK EMBEDDING BASED ON TOPOLOGY AGGREGATION IN MULTI-DOMAIN OPTICAL NETWORKS ..............................................................................................................................................360

Sangjin Hong ; Jue, J.P. ; Qiong Zhang ; Xi Wang ; She, C. ; Cankaya, H.C. ; Sekiya, M.

DYNAMIC MULTI-DOMAIN VIRTUAL OPTICAL NETWORKS DEPLOYMENT WITH HETEROGENEOUS CONTROL DOMAINS .................................................................................................................................................................................363

Vilalta, R. ; Munoz, R. ; Casellas, R. ; Martinez, R. ; Peng, S. ; Channegowda, M. ; Vlachogiannis, T. ; Nejabati, R. ; Simeonidou, D. ; Cao, X. ; Tsuritani, T. ; Morita, I.

TOWARDS SOFTWARE DEFINED AUTONOMIC TERABIT OPTICAL NETWORKS ................................................................366Oliveira, J. ; Oliveira, J. ; Siqueira, M. ; Scaraficci, R. ; Salvador, M. ; Mariote, L. ; Guerrero, N. ; Carvalho, L. ; van't Hooft, F. ; Santos, G. ; Magalhaes, E. ; Januario, J.

WIRELESS-DATACENTER BACKHAUL OVER HARDWARE VIRTUALIZED FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORK .....................................................................................................................................................................................................369

Rofoee, B.R. ; Zervas, G. ; Yan Yan ; Shuping Peng ; Nejabati, R. ; Tzanakaki, A. ; Simeonidou, D.

VIRTUAL NETWORK RECONFIGURATION IN OPTICAL CLOUD SUBSTRATES....................................................................372Bai, H. ; Gu, F. ; Liang, K. ; Rahnamay-Naeini, M. ; Khan, S. ; Hayat, M. ; Ghani, N.

OPTICAL COMPONENT TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS FOR NGPON2 SYSTEMS............................................................................375Murano, R.

OUTAGE PROBABILITY DUE TO STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING IN GPON AND TWDM-PON COEXISTENCE .............................................................................................................................................................................................378

Curri, V. ; Capriata, S. ; Gaudino, R.

BEYOND 5DB NONLINEAR RAMAN CROSSTALK REDUCTION VIA PSD CONTROL OF 10GB/S OOK IN RF-VIDEO COEXISTENCE SCENARIOS FOR NEXT-GENERATION PON ...................................................................................381

Tanaka, A. ; Cvijetic, N. ; Ting Wang

BURST-MODE ELECTRONIC DISPERSION COMPENSATION.......................................................................................................384Ossieur, P. ; Porto, S. ; Antony, C. ; Jain, A. ; Kelly, D. ; Quadir, N.A. ; Talli, G. ; Townsend, P.D.

DEMONSTRATION OF 10GB/S BURST-MODE TRANSMISSION USING A LINEAR BURST-MODE RECEIVER AND BURST-MODE ELECTRONIC EQUALIZATION ..................................................................................................387

Porto, S. ; Antony, C. ; Talli, G. ; Carey, D. ; Ossieur, P. ; Townsend, P.D.

A BI-DIRECTIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER ACTING SIMULTANEOUSLY AS UPSTREAM PRE-AMPLIFIER AND DOWNSTREAM BOOSTER IN LOW COST NG-PON2 OPTICAL LINE TERMINATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................390

Bonk, R. ; Poehlmann, W. ; Schmuck, H. ; Pfeiffer, T.

TECHNIQUES TO DETECT AND STOP FIBER FUSES.......................................................................................................................393Kurokawa, K.

ADVANCED OPTICAL PULSE SIGNAL PROFILING USING DISTRIBUTABLE “OPTICAL PULSE RULER” .....................396Konishi, T. ; Nagashima, T. ; Murakawa, T.

128KM FULLY-DISTRIBUTED HIGH-SENSITIVITY FIBER-OPTIC INTRUSION SENSOR WITH 15M SPATIAL RESOLUTION .............................................................................................................................................................................399

Fei Peng ; Zheng-Pu Peng ; Xin-Hong Jia ; Yun-Jiang Rao ; Zi-Nan Wang ; Han Wu

FAST PUMP-POWER-INDEPENDENT BRILLOUIN FIBER OPTIC SENSOR................................................................................402Motil, A. ; Danon, O. ; Peled, Y. ; Tur, M.

COMPACT MULTI-CORE FIBER FAN-OUT WITH GRIN-LENS AND MICRO-LENS ARRAY.................................................405Shimakawa, O. ; Arao, H. ; Harumoto, M. ; Sano, T. ; Inoue, A.

ALL-FIBER MODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXER OPTIMIZED FOR C-BAND .................................................................................408Kyung Jun Park ; Kwang Yong Song ; Young Kie Kim ; Byoung Yoon Kim

ULTRAFAST LASER FABRICATION OF 3D PHOTONIC COMPONENTS IN FLEXIBLE GLASSES ......................................411Sheng Huang ; Mingshan Li ; Chen, K.P. ; Garner, S.M. ; Ming-Jun Li ; Cimo, P.

57 CHANNEL (19×3) SPATIAL MULTIPLEXER FABRICATED USING DIRECT LASER INSCRIPTION ...............................414Mitchell, P. ; Brown, G. ; Thomson, R. ; Psaila, N. ; Kar, A.

ORBITAL-ANGULAR-MOMENTUM MODE (DE)MULTIPLEXER: A SINGLE OPTICAL ELEMENT FOR MIMO-BASED AND NON-MIMO-BASED MULTIMODE FIBER SYSTEMS...................................................................................417

Milione, G. ; Hao Huang ; Lavery, M.P.J. ; Thien An Nguyen ; Guodong Xie ; Yinwen Cao ; Willner, M. ; Tur, M. ; Dolinar, S. ; Alfano, R.R. ; Padgett, M.J. ; Willner, A.E.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF BASIC FUNCTIONALITIES FOR 0.1-THZ ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM) COMMUNICATIONS...........................................................................................................................................420

Long Zhu ; Xuli Wei ; Jian Wang ; Zhongqi Zhang ; Zhuoyu Li ; Han Zhang ; Shuhui Li ; Kejia Wang ; Jinsong Liu

LOW LOSS (<0.2DB PER TRANSITION) CMOS COMPATIBLE MULTI-LAYER SI3N4-ON-SOI PLATFORM WITH THERMAL-OPTICS DEVICE INTEGRATION FOR SILICON PHOTONICS .....................................................................423

Ying Huang ; Xianshu Luo ; Junfeng Song ; Tsung-Yang Liow ; Lo, P.G.-Q.

INTEGRATED SINGLE AND MULTI-LAYER SI3N4 PLATFORM FOR ULTRALOW LOSS PROPAGATION AND SMALL BENDING RADII..................................................................................................................................................................426

Spencer, D.T. ; Heck, M.J.R. ; Moreira, R. ; Bovington, J. ; Bowers, J.E. ; Leinse, A. ; Van den Vlekkert, H.H. ; Heideman, R.G. ; Hoekman, M. ; Veenstra, T.T.

SI3N4-ON-SOI POLARIZATION ROTATOR-SPLITTER BASED ON TM0-TE1 MODE CONVERSION...................................429Sacher, W.D. ; Ying Huang ; Ding Liang ; Barwicz, T. ; Mikkelsen, J.C. ; Taylor, B.J.F. ; Guo-Qiang Lo ; Poon, J.K.S.

HIGH EFFICIENCY SILICON NITRIDE GRATING COUPLER WITH DBR ..................................................................................432Huijuan Zhang ; Chao Li ; Xiaoguang Tu ; Haifeng Zhou ; Xianshu Luo ; Mingbin Yu ; Lo, G.Q.

LOW LOSS/LARGE TOLERANCE MODE CONVERTER BETWEEN SIN WAVEGUIDE AND CLEAVED SINGLE MODE FIBER ................................................................................................................................................................................435

Lianxi Jia ; Junfeng Song ; Tsung-Yang Liow ; Xianshu Luo ; Xiaoguang Tu ; Qing Fang ; Sing-Chee Koh ; Mingbin Yu ; Guoqiang Lo

TRANSMISSION OF A 1.44 TBIT/S DATA STREAM USING A FEEDBACK-STABILIZED SIN KERR FREQUENCY COMB SOURCE .................................................................................................................................................................438

Pfeifle, J. ; Yu, Y. ; Schindler, P.C. ; Brasch, V. ; Herr, T. ; Weimann, C. ; Hartinger, K. ; Holzwarth, R. ; Freude, W. ; Kippenberg, T.J. ; Koos, C.

VARIABLE OPTICAL POWER SPLITTER WITH FIELD-INDUCED WAVEGUIDES IN LIQUID CRYSTALS IN PARANEMATIC PHASE........................................................................................................................................................................441

Costache, F. ; Hartwig, H. ; Bornhorst, K. ; Blasl, M.

BISTABLE SWITCHING OPERATION IN A SI SAMPLED GRATING WAVEGUIDE WITH FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS CLADDING ..........................................................................................................................444

Nakatsuhara, K. ; Kato, A. ; Hayama, Y.

A PATH TO 300 MM HYBRID SILICON PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS .........................................................................447Bowers, J.E. ; Bovington, J.T. ; Liu, A.Y. ; Gossard, A.C.

A CMOS WAFER-SCALE, MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED WDM PLATFORM FOR TB/S OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS .......................................................................................................................................................................................450

Guoliang Li ; Creazzo, T. ; Marchena, E. ; Yu, P.K.L. ; Krasulick, S.

AN 8-WAVELENGTH LASER ARRAY WITH HIGH BACK REFLECTION TOLERANCE FOR HIGH-SPEED SILICON PHOTONIC TRANSMITTERS .................................................................................................................................................453

Schares, L. ; Lee, Y.H.D. ; Kuchta, D.M. ; Koren, U. ; Ketelsen, L.

STRAIN-INDUCED ENHANCEMENT OF FREE-CARRIER EFFECTS IN SIGE FOR OPTICAL MODULATOR AND VOA APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................456

Younghyun Kim ; Takenaka, M. ; Osada, T. ; Hata, M. ; Takagi, S.

8×14GB/S SI RING WDM MODULATOR ARRAY WITH INTEGRATED TUNGSTEN HEATERS AND GE MONITOR PHOTODETECTORS..............................................................................................................................................................459

Pantouvaki, M. ; Verheyen, P. ; Lepage, G. ; De Coster, J. ; Yu, H. ; De Heyn, P. ; Masood, A. ; Bogaerts, W. ; Absil, P. ; Van Campenhout, J.

DEMONSTRATION OF OVER 1000-CHANNEL HYBRID INTEGRATED LIGHT SOURCE FOR ULTRA-HIGH BANDWIDTH INTERCHIP OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION................................................................................................462

Shimizu, T. ; Okano, M. ; Takahashi, H. ; Hatori, N. ; Ishizaka, M. ; Yamamoto, T. ; Mori, M. ; Horikawa, T. ; Urino, Y. ; Nakamura, T. ; Arakawa, Y.

INTEGRATED SILICON PHOTONICS LINKS FOR HIGH BANDWIDTH DATA TRANSPORTATION ..................................465Hai-Feng Liu

DEMONSTRATION OF 1-TO-13 PDM-8QAM SCFDM SUPERCHANNEL MULTICASTING IN HNLF ...................................468Paikun Zhu ; Juhao Li ; Yuanxiang Chen ; Yingying Xu ; Nan Zhang ; Bingli Guo ; Zhangyuan Chen ; Yongqi He

DISTRIBUTED GENERATION OF A 400-GB/S NYQUIST 16QAM DENSE SUPERCHANNEL BY FIBER-FREQUENCY CONVERSION ....................................................................................................................................................................471

Richter, T. ; Schmidt-Langhorst, C. ; Elschner, R. ; Kato, T. ; Watanabe, S. ; Schubert, C.

640 GBIT/S OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING USING A NOVEL IN-BAND OPTICAL NOTCH-FILTER LABELING SCHEME...................................................................................................................................................................................474

Medhin, A.K. ; Galili, M. ; Oxenlowe, L.K.

DYNAMIC ROUTING OF MILLIMETER-WAVE SIGNAL FOR IN-BUILDING NETWORKS USING INTEGRATED RESONANT SWITCH MATRIX ....................................................................................................................................477

Zou, S. ; DasMahapatra, P. ; Stabile, R. ; Williams, K.A. ; Tangdiongga, E. ; Koonen, A.M.J.

PHOTONIC INTERCONNECTS FOR DATA CENTERS ......................................................................................................................480Tekin, T. ; Pleros, N. ; Apostolopoulos, D.

ON THE ROLE OF OPEN-SOURCE OPTICAL NETWORK PLANNING.........................................................................................483Pavon-Marino, P. ; Izquierdo-Zaragoza, J.-L.

NETWORK-EFFICIENT SUPERCHANNEL TRANSMISSION BY THE MULTICHANNEL COMPENSATION OF NONLINEARITIES ................................................................................................................................................................................486

Lima, T.C. ; Rozental, V.N. ; Barreto, A.N. ; Mello, D.A.A.

FINDING AN OBJECTIVE COST FOR SLICEABLE FLEXGRID TRANSPONDERS....................................................................489Velasco, L. ; Gonzalez de Dios, O. ; Lopez, V. ; Fernandez-Palacios, J. ; Junyent, G.

IMPACT OF REDUCING CHANNEL SPACING FROM 50GHZ TO 37.5GHZ IN FULLY TRANSPARENT MESHED NETWORKS ................................................................................................................................................................................492

Morea, A. ; Renaudier, J. ; Ghazisaeidi, A. ; Bertran-Pardo, O. ; Zami, T.

OPTIMIZED AMPLIFIER PLACEMENTS FOR IMPROVED ENERGY AND SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY IN PROTECTED MIXED-LINE-RATE NETWORKS..................................................................................................................................495

Lopez Vizcaino, J. ; Ye, Y. ; Jimenez, F. ; Macho, A. ; Krummrich, P.M.

DEMONSTRATION OF ALL-OPTICAL INVERSE MULTIPLEXING IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS..........................498Yingying Xu ; Juhao Li ; Paikun Zhu ; Bingli Guo ; Yuanxiang Chen ; Yucheng Zhong ; Yan Wang ; Zhangyuan Chen ; Yongqi He

ON THE USAGE OF MULTIFLOW TRANSPONDERS UNDER ANYCAST AND UNICAST TRAFFIC IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS ............................................................................................................................................................501

Walkowiak, K. ; Klinkowski, M.

3.25-GBPS VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BASED ON SINGLE CARRIER FREQUENCY DOMAIN EQUALIZATION UTILIZING AN RGB LED........................................................................................................................504

Yuanquan Wang ; Rongling Li ; Yiguang Wang ; Ziran Zhang

BI-DIRECTIONAL 400 MBIT/S LED-BASED OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION FOR NON-DIRECTED LINE-OF-SIGHT TRANSMISSION .....................................................................................................................................507

Cossu, G. ; Corsini, R. ; Khalid, A.M. ; Ciaramella, E.

LED-BASED VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION IN A PRACTICAL INDOOR INTERFERED ENVIRONMENT EMPLOYING DMT AND STBC .................................................................................................................................510

Chia-Chien Wei ; Fang-Ming Wu ; Zhen-Yu Chen ; Chun-Ting Lin ; Yung-Jui Chen ; Sien Chi

NEXT GENERATION VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS: 10 MB/S WITH POLYMER LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES .....................................................................................................................................................................................513

Haigh, P.A. ; Bausi, F. ; Ghassemlooy, Z. ; Papakonstantinou, I. ; Le Minh, H. ; Flechon, C. ; Cacialli, F.

HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ...............................................................................................................516Jungickel, Volker ; Vucic, Jelena ; Langer, Klaus-Dieter

FTTH CHALLENGES IN LATIN AMERICA ..........................................................................................................................................519Hiroshi Saito, N.

OPTICAL FIBER RUNS THROUGH “IN-UNIT” WITH 0.9MM DROP, CLEAR CLIPS AND EPOXY WITH INVISIBLE TRACKS....................................................................................................................................................................................522

Chen, D.Z. ; Colasanto, C. ; Levendos, C. ; Durkin, M. ; Chiliki, M. ; Ditmore, R. ; Anderson, P. ; Kidd, K. ; Hessenthaler, S. ; Carey, J.

THE IMPACT OF INTER-PLATFORM COMPETITION ON THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF MUNICIPAL FIBER NETWORKS .....................................................................................................................................................................................525

Tahon, M. ; Van der Wee, M. ; Verbrugge, S. ; Colle, D. ; Pickavet, M.

SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING AND APPLICABILITY TO ACCESS NETWORKS ......................................................528Bitar, N.

MOBILE BACKHAUL SYNCHRONIZATION REQUIREMENTS FOR BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORKS .......................531Powell, B.

A PRACTICAL APPROACH FOR EXCESS BANDWIDTH DISTRIBUTION FOR EPONS...........................................................534Elrasad, A. ; Shihada, B.

AMPLIFICATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR CAPACITY AND REACH ENHANCEMENTS ..........................................................537Andrekson, P.A.

WAVELENGTH CONVERSION OF QPSK SIGNALS IN SINGLE-PUMP FOPA WITH 20 DB CONVERSION EFFICIENCY .................................................................................................................................................................................................571

Temprana, E. ; Ataie, V. ; Peric, A. ; Alic, N. ; Radic, S.

LINEAR AND NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION OF 16-QAM OVER 105 KM PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFIED LINK ................................................................................................................................................................................................................574

Olsson, S.L.I. ; Eriksson, T.A. ; Lundstrom, C. ; Karlsson, M. ; Andrekson, P.A.

DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENT OF SIGNAL POWER EVOLUTION IN A PHASE SENSITIVE PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER ......................................................................................................................................................................577

Alishahi, F. ; Vedadi, A. ; Soto, M.A. ; Denisov, A. ; Mehrany, K. ; Thevenaz, L. ; Bres, C.-S.

GAUSSIAN NOISE MODEL AIDED IN-BAND CROSSTALK ANALYSIS IN ROADM-ENABLED DWDM NETWORKS...................................................................................................................................................................................................580

Jie Pan ; Isautier, P. ; Filer, M. ; Tibuleac, S. ; Ralph, S.E.

N-DEGREE ROADM ARCHITECTURE COMPARISON: BROADCAST-AND-SELECT VERSUS ROUTE-AND-SELECT IN 120 GB/S DP-QPSK TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS...................................................................................................583

Filer, M. ; Tibuleac, S.

NEXT GENERATION PHOTONIC NODE ARCHITECTURE USING SOFTWARE-DEFINED UNIVERSAL TRANSCEIVERS...........................................................................................................................................................................................586

Aoki, Y. ; Xi Wang ; Nakagawa, G. ; Oda, S. ; Sone, K. ; Tanimura, T. ; Hoshida, T. ; Palacharla, P. ; Sekiya, M. ; Rasmussen, J.C.

CROSSTALK OPTIMIZATION IN LOW EXTINCTION-RATIO SWITCH FABRICS ...................................................................589Yi Qian ; Mehrvar, H. ; Huixiao Ma ; Xiaoling Yang ; Kun Zhu ; Fu, H.Y. ; Dongyu Geng ; Goodwill, D. ; Dumais, P. ; Bernier, E.

SILICA-BASED PLC 1×N SWITCH FOR ALL WAVELENGTH BANDS ..........................................................................................592Watanabe, T. ; Mizuno, T. ; Hashizume, Y. ; Takahashi, T.

FLEXIBILITY IN SUBMARINE FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS.............................................................................................................595Nyman, B.

OPTICAL MIMO-SDM SYSTEM CAPACITIES .....................................................................................................................................598Winzer, P.J. ; Foschini, G.J.

CHARACTERIZATION OF MODE-DEPENDENT LOSS IN SDM SYSTEMS..................................................................................601Andrusier, A. ; Shtaif, M. ; Antonelli, C. ; Mecozzi, A.

EXPERIMENTAL TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN MIMO CHANNEL MATRIX CHARACTERIZATION VERSUS DISTANCE FOR 6×28GBAUD QPSK TRANSMISSION OVER 40×25KM FEW MODE FIBER...................................604

Cvijetic, N. ; Ip, E. ; Prasad, N. ; Ming-Jun Li ; Ting Wang

1-THZ BANDWIDTH OF 70-KRAD/S ENDLESS OPTICAL POLARIZATION CONTROL ..........................................................607Koch, B. ; Noe, R. ; Mirvoda, V. ; Sandel, D.

21.4 GB/S DISCRETE MULTITONE TRANSMISSION OVER 50-M SI-POF EMPLOYING 6-CHANNEL WDM .....................610Kruglov, R. ; Vinogradov, J. ; Loquai, S. ; Ziemann, O. ; Bunge, C.-A. ; Hager, T. ; Strauss, U.

2D ASYMMETRIC SILICON WAVEGUIDE GRATING FOR OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER ...........................................................613Chao Li ; Haifeng Zhou ; Mingbin Yu ; Guo-Qiang Lo

30-GBPS SILICON MICRORING MODULATOR FOR SHORT- AND MEDIUM-REACH OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS .......................................................................................................................................................................................616

Malacarne, A. ; Gambini, F. ; Faralli, S. ; Klamkin, J. ; Poti, L.

50 GB/S SILICON TRAVELING WAVE MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR NEAR 1300 NM ......................................................619Streshinsky, M. ; Ran Ding ; Novack, A. ; Yang Liu ; Xiaoguang Tu ; Lim, A.E.-J. ; Chen, E.K.S. ; Lo, P.G.-Q. ; Baehr-Jones, T. ; Hochberg, M.

A 16GHZ OPTICAL CACHE MEMORY ARCHITECTURE FOR SET-ASSOCIATIVE MAPPING IN CHIP MULTIPROCESSORS ..................................................................................................................................................................................622

Maniotis, P. ; Fitsios, D. ; Kanellos, G.T. ; Pleros, N.

A COMPACT AND ALIGNMENT-TOLERANT SI POLARIZATION ROTATOR FOR RIB AND CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES ..............................................................................................................................................................................................625

Haifeng Zhou ; Huijuan Zhang ; Lianxi Jia ; Chao Li ; Xianshu Luo ; Guoqiang Lo

A HIGH PERFORMANCE NONLINEAR COMPENSATION ALGORITHM WITH REDUCED COMPLEXITY BASED ON XPM MODEL ...........................................................................................................................................................................628

Yangyang Fan ; Liang Dou ; Zhenning Tao ; Hoshida, T. ; Rasmussen, J.C.

A NOVEL CHIP-MULTIPROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE WITH OPTICALLY INTERCONNECTED SHARED L1 OPTICAL CACHE MEMORY.............................................................................................................................................631

Maniotis, P. ; Gitzenis, S. ; Tassiulas, L. ; Pleros, N.

A RECONFIGURABLE AND REDUNDANT OPTICALLY-CONNECTED MEMORY SYSTEM USING A SILICON PHOTONIC SWITCH.................................................................................................................................................................634

Shiraishi, T. ; Li, Q. ; Liu, Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Padmaraju, K. ; Ding, R. ; Hochberg, M. ; Bergman, K.

ACCELERATING HPC WORKLOADS WITH DYNAMIC ADAPTATION OF A SOFTWARE-DEFINED HYBRID ELECTRONIC/OPTICAL INTERCONNECT.........................................................................................................................637

Christodoulopoulos, K. ; Katrinis, K. ; Ruffini, M. ; O'Mahony, D.

ADIABATICALLY WIDENED SILICON MICRORING RESONATORS WITH IMPROVED TOLERANCE TO WAFER-SCALE VARIATIONS..................................................................................................................................................................640

Mikkelsen, J.C. ; Sacher, W.D. ; Poon, J.K.S.

ADVANCES IN CHARACTERIZATION OF THE VCSEL MODE PARTITION NOISE PENALTY IN OPTICAL FIBER CHANNELS ...................................................................................................................................................................643

Castro, J. ; Pimpinella, R. ; Kose, B. ; Lane, B.

ALL-FIBER ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER BASED ON AN INTRACAVITY POLARIZING FIBER GRATING .......................................................................................................................................................................................................646

Chengbo Mou ; Zuxing Zhang ; Zhijun Yan ; Kaiming Zhou ; Lin Zhang ; Turitsyn, S.

AN ULTRA-BROADBAND FIBER GRATING COUPLER WITH FOCUSING CURVED SUBWAVELENGTH STRUCTURES ...............................................................................................................................................................................................649

Qiuhang Zhong ; Wei Shi ; Yun Wang ; Chrostowski, L. ; Plant, D.V.

AN ULTRACOMPACT SILICON POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER BASED ON MODE CONVERSION IN MULTIMODE WAVEGUIDE .....................................................................................................................................................................652

Wei Yang ; Yanping Li ; Xingjun Wang ; Ziyu Wang

BANDWIDTH PERFORMANCES ANALYSIS FOR HIGH-SPEED SILICON DEPLETION-MODE MODULATOR ...............................................................................................................................................................................................655

Hao Xu ; Xianyao Li ; Xi Xiao ; Zhiyong Li ; Yude Yu ; Jinzhong Yu

BIT-ERROR RATE PERFORMANCE OF SUPER-NYQUIST-WDM DP-QPSK SIGNALS WITH DUOBINARY-PULSE SHAPING................................................................................................................................................................658

Igarashi, K. ; Tsuritani, T. ; Morita, I.

CHROMATIC DISPERSION ESTIMATION METHOD FOR NYQUIST AND FASTER THAN NYQUIST COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................................................................661

Stojanovic, N. ; Karinou, F. ; Bangning Mao

COMPACT BRAGG GRATING REFLECTORS IN SILICON WAVEGUIDES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO RESONATOR FILTERS........................................................................................................................................................................664

Chang-Joon Chae ; Skafidas, E. ; Duk-Yong Choi

COMPENSATION METHOD FOR BLIND SEGMENTS OF DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL-FIBER VIBRATION SENSOR BASED ON DIFFERENTIAL-COHERENT OTDR ................................................................................................................667

Chao Pan ; Hongliang Ye ; Mingming Li ; Shuhui Zhao ; Xiaohan Sun

COMPLETE SI-PHOTONICS DEVICE-LIBRARY ON 300MM WAFERS ........................................................................................670Fowler, D. ; Baudot, C. ; Fedeli, J.M. ; Caire, B. ; Virot, L. ; Leliepvre, A. ; Grand, G. ; Myko, A. ; Marris-Morini, D. ; Messaoudene, S. ; Souhaite, A. ; Olivier, S. ; Grosse, P. ; Duan, G.-H. ; Ben Bakir, B. ; Boeuf, F. ; Vivien, L. ; Menezo, S.

CROSSTALK REDUCTION IN HOLOGRAPHIC WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCHES BASED ON PHASE-ONLY LCOS DEVICES .................................................................................................................................................................673

Haining Yang ; Robertson, B. ; Daping Chu

DESIGN OF AN OPTICAL FIBER SUPPORTING 16 OAM MODES .................................................................................................676Brunet, C. ; Ung, B. ; Messaddeq, Y. ; LaRochelle, S. ; Bernier, E. ; Rusch, L.A.

DESIGN OF DYNAMIC RANGE ENHANCED COLORLESS RECEPTION SYSTEMS WITH COHERENT BALANCED RECEIVER .............................................................................................................................................................................679

Xuan He ; Bo Zhang ; Lofland, R. ; Yang Yue ; O'Neil, J. ; Schmidt, T. ; Anderson, J. ; Pan, Z.

EFFICIENT GUARD INTERVAL REDUCTION FOR COHERENT OPTICAL OFDM ..................................................................682Hae Young Rha ; Byoung Gu Jeon ; Hae-wook Choi

ENHANCED NONLINEAR THERMO-OPTIC EFFECT IN SILICON MICRORING RESONATORS WITH P-I-P MICROHEATERS FOR NONRECIPROCAL TRANSMISSION ...................................................................................................685

Liangjun Lu ; Linjie Zhou ; Xinwan Li ; Jianping Chen

ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER MODE LOCKED BY GRAPHENE IN CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE POLYMER COMPOSITE ............................................................................................................................................................................688

Chengbo Mou ; Arif, R. ; Lobach, A.S. ; Spitsina, N.G. ; Kazakov, V.A. ; Turitsyn, S. ; Rozhin, A.

ESTIMATION OF OSNR FOR NYQUIST-WDM TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS USING STATISTICAL MOMENTS OF EQUALIZED SIGNALS IN DIGITAL COHERENT RECEIVERS..........................................................................691

Faruk, M.S. ; Mori, Y. ; Kikuchi, K.

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF RESIDUAL ADDED SIGNAL CROSSTALK IN A SILICON PHOTONICS INTEGRATED ROADM .....................................................................................................................................................694

Sorianello, V. ; Testa, F. ; Velha, P. ; Doneda, S. ; Romagnoli, M.

FIBERS FOR MULTI-CHANNEL ERBIUM DOPED AMPLIFIERS IN OPTICAL SPACE COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................................................................697

Hill, M. ; Gray, R. ; Hankey, J. ; Gillooly, A.

FRACTIONAL PULSE REPETITION-RATE MULTIPLICATION BASED ON TEMPORAL SELF-IMAGING .......................700Maram, R. ; Azaña, J.

HIGHLY UNIFORM AND LOW-LOSS PASSIVE SILICON PHOTONICS DEVICES USING A 300MM CMOS PLATFORM ...................................................................................................................................................................................................703

Selvaraja, S.K. ; De Heyn, P. ; Winroth, G. ; Ong, P. ; Lepage, G. ; Cailler, C. ; Rigny, A. ; Bourdelle, K.K. ; Bogaerts, W. ; Van Thourhout, D. ; Van Campenhout, J. ; Absil, P.

HIGH-PERFORMANCE REFLECTIVE LIQUID LEVEL SENSOR BASED ON TITLED FIBER BRAGG GRATING INSCRIBED IN THE THIN-CORE FIBER ...........................................................................................................................706

Bobo Gu ; Wenliang Qi ; Yanyan Zhou ; Jie Zheng ; Shum, P.P. ; Feng Luan

HIGH-SPEED SILICON MODULATORS WITH SLOW-WAVE ELECTRODES ............................................................................709Ran Ding ; Yangjin Ma ; Yang Liu ; Yisu Yang ; Lim, A.E.-J. ; Lo, P.G.-Q. ; Baehr-Jones, T. ; Hochberg, M.

IFFT STAGE-DEPENDENT MINIMUM BIT RESOLUTION MAPS FOR REAL-TIME OPTICAL OFDM TRANSCEIVERS...........................................................................................................................................................................................712

Zhang, J.J. ; Yuan, W.Y. ; Giddings, R.P. ; Wang, M. ; Tang, J.M.

IMPACT OF FABRICATION NON-UNIFORMITY ON CHIP-SCALE SILICON PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS.......................................................................................................................................................................................................715

Chrostowski, L. ; Wang, X. ; Flueckiger, J. ; Wu, Y. ; Wang, Y. ; Fard, S.T.

IMPROVEMENT OF SIGNAL QUALITY AFTER LONG-HAUL TRANSMISSION OVER MULTI-CORE FIBER WITH ADAPTIVE MIMO-FDE USING TIME-DOMAIN COEFFICIENT SELECTION ...................................................718

Arikawa, M. ; Le Taillandier de Gabory, E. ; Ito, T. ; Fukuchi, K.

INVERSE DISPERSION DESIGN IN SILICON WAVEGUIDES..........................................................................................................721Castello-Lurbe, D. ; Torres-Company, V. ; Silvestre, E.

LARGE MODE AREA HYBRID MULTI-TRENCH FIBER FOR ANOMALOUS DISPERSION ...................................................724Jain, D. ; Baskiotis, C. ; Sahu, J.K.

LASER INTEGRATION WITH CMOS ASSEMBLY PROCESS FOR SI PHOTONICS...................................................................727Tseng, R. ; O'Callaghan, J. ; Eid, F. ; Gleeson, M. ; Rawlings, B. ; Kobrinsky, M. ; Ban, I. ; Nagle, R. ; McFarlane, W. ; Corbett, B. ; Chang, P.

LOW-COMPLEXITY TRAINING-AIDED 2×2 MIMO FREQUENCY DOMAIN FRACTIONALLY-SPACED EQUALIZATION...........................................................................................................................................................................................730

Pittala, F. ; Mezghani, A. ; Slim, I. ; Nossek, J.A.

MAGNETO-OPTIC NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR FOR ALL-OPTICAL 3R SIGNAL REGENERATION .........................................................................................................................................................................................733

Feng Wen ; Bao-Jian Wu ; Xing-Yu Zhou ; Hao Yuan ; Kun Qiu

MULTI FUNCTIONALITY DEMONSTRATION FOR MULTI CORE FIBER FAN-IN/FAN-OUT DEVICES USING FREE SPACE OPTICS....................................................................................................................................................................736

Tottori, Y. ; Tsuboya, H. ; Kobayashi, T.

NEGATIVE CURVATURE FIBERS WITH REDUCED LEAKAGE LOSS ........................................................................................739Belardi, W. ; Knight, J.C.

NEGATIVE GROUP VELOCITY PROPAGATION BY COMBINATION OF AN EDFA AND A SBS LASER RING CAVITY ...............................................................................................................................................................................................742

Dinghuan Deng ; Weiqing Gao ; Zhongchao Duan ; Tonglei Cheng ; Suzuki, T. ; Ohishi, Y.

NOVEL DESIGN OF LARGE-MODE-AREA ROD-TYPE FIBERS WITH NEGATIVE CURVATURE TRENCHES AT 1 µM ...................................................................................................................................................................................745

Junhua Ji ; Jiang Sun ; Nilsson, J. ; Seongwoo Yoo

ON-CHIP DEMULTIPLEXING OF POLARIZATION AND WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXED OFDM/OQAM 64/128-QAM SIGNALS USING SILICON 2D GRATING COUPLER AND MICRORING RESONATORS ..................................748

Jian Wang ; Chengcheng Gui ; Chao Li ; Qi Yang ; Dinshan Gao ; Junqiang Sun ; Xinliang Zhang

OSNR MONITORING BY USING SINGLE SAMPLING CHANNEL GENERATED 2-D PHASE PORTRAIT ...........................751Yi Yu ; Changyuan Yu

OVER 300 CHANNELS UNCOUPLED FEW-MODE MULTI-CORE FIBER FOR SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ..........................................................................................................................................................................................754

Watanabe, T. ; Kokubun, Y.

PATH TO SILICON PHOTONICS COMMERCIALIZATION: 25 GB/S PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT IN A CMOS MANUFACTURING FOUNDRY LINE ........................................................................................................................................757

Lim, A.E.-J. ; Tsung-Yang Liow ; Junfeng Song ; Chao Li ; Qing Fang ; Xiaoguang Tu ; Ning Duan ; Kok Kiong Chen ; Tern, R.P.C. ; Chuan Peng ; Bong Woong Mun ; Islam, M.N. ; Jae Soo Park ; Subbu, C. ; Guo-Qiang Lo

PLC-TYPE LP11 MODE ROTATOR WITH SINGLE-TRENCH WAVEGUIDE FOR MODE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION ..........................................................................................................................................................760

Uematsu, T. ; Hanzawa, N. ; Saitoh, K. ; Ishizaka, Y. ; Masumoto, K. ; Sakamoto, T. ; Matsui, T. ; Tsujikawa, K. ; Yamamoto, F.

PULSE DESIGN TRADE-OFFS FOR SPECTRUM-EFFICIENT PDM-WDM COHERENT OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................763

Ghazisaeidi, A. ; Fickers, J. ; Charlet, G.

RECORD-HIGH SENSITIVITY RECEIVER USING PHASE SENSITIVE FIBER OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION.........................................................................................................................................................................................766

Malik, R. ; Olsson, S.L.I. ; Andrekson, P.A. ; Lundstrom, C. ; Karlsson, M.

REDUCED WAFER-SCALE FREQUENCY VARIATION IN ADIABATIC MICRORING RESONATORS ................................769Zhan Su ; Hosseini, E.S. ; Timurdogan, E. ; Jie Sun ; Leake, G. ; Coolbaugh, D.D. ; Watts, M.R.

REDUCING CABLING COMPLEXITY IN LARGE FLATTENED BUTTERFLY NETWORKS BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE ..........................................................................................................................................................................................772

Csernai, M. ; Ciucu, F. ; Braun, R.-P. ; Gulyas, A.

ROBUST AND CONTROLLABLE GENERATION OF FREQUENCY COMBS IN MICRORESONATORS WITH SELECTED SIDEBAND FEEDBACK ...........................................................................................................................................775

Yufeng Jiang ; Xin Zhao ; Jian Wang ; Ben Niu ; Ya Liu ; Guoqing Hu ; Pei-Hsun Wang ; Minghao Qi ; Weiner, A.M. ; Zheng Zheng

ROBUST DESIGN OF 3-DB DIRECTIONAL COUPLER WITH WEAK GAP SENSITIVITY FOR SILICON WIRE WAVEGUIDE ....................................................................................................................................................................................778

Cong, G.W. ; Suzuki, K. ; Kim, S.H. ; Tanizawa, K. ; Namiki, S. ; Kawashima, H.

SCALABLE AND DISTRIBUTED OPTICAL INTERCONNECT ARCHITECTURE BASED ON AWGR FOR HPC AND DATA CENTERS........................................................................................................................................................................781

Proietti, R. ; Zheng Cao ; Yuliang Li ; Yoo, S.J.B.

SCALABLE AND TOPOLOGY ADAPTIVE INTRA-DATA CENTER NETWORKING ENABLED BY WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCHING ...........................................................................................................................................784

Zhonghua Zhu ; Shan Zhong

SILICON RIDGE WAVEGUIDE DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS WITH IMPROVED TOLERANCE TO WAFER-SCALE VARIATIONS..................................................................................................................................................................787

Mikkelsen, J.C. ; Sacher, W.D. ; Poon, J.K.S.

STABILITY OF FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS FABRICATED USING UV AR+ AND ARF EXCIMER IN BISMUTH-ALUMINUM-CO-DOPED SILICA FIBERS .........................................................................................................................790

Violakis, G. ; Limberger, H.G. ; Mashinsky, V.M. ; Dianov, E.M.

TIME-INTERLEAVED CARRIER-SUPPRESSED RETURN-TO-ZERO QPSK FOR FILTER-LESS DUAL-CARRIER TRANSMISSION .......................................................................................................................................................................793

Sakamoto, T. ; Guo-Wei Lu ; Kawanishi, T.

TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION OF QUAD-CARRIER QPSK-OFDM SIGNAL WITH BLIND EQUALIZATION...........................................................................................................................................................................................796

Fan Li ; Junwen Zhang ; Jiangnan Xiao ; Lin Chen ; Xinying Li

TUNABLE THIRD-HARMONIC GENERATION IN A NOVEL CHALCOGENIDE-TELLURITE HYBRID OPTICAL FIBER...........................................................................................................................................................................................799

Tonglei Cheng ; Dinghuan Deng ; Weiqing Gao ; Zhongchao Duan ; Suzuki, T. ; Ohishi, Y.

ULTRA-SMALL, LOW-CROSSTALK, ELECTRICALLY-DRIVEN INGAASP PHOTONIC-WIRE OPTICAL SWITCHES ON III–V CMOS PHOTONICS PLATFORM.....................................................................................................................802

Ikku, Y. ; Yokoyama, M. ; Ichikawa, O. ; Osada, T. ; Hata, M. ; Takenaka, M. ; Takagi, S.

56-GB/S DIRECT MODULATION IN INGAALAS BH-DFB LASERS AT 55 C .................................................................................805Nakahara, K. ; Wakayama, Y. ; Kitatani, T. ; Taniguchi, T. ; Fukamachi, T. ; Sakuma, Y. ; Tanaka, S.

TUNABLE 16 DFB LASER ARRAY WITH UNEQUALLY SPACED PASSIVE WAVEGUIDES FOR BACKSIDE WAVELENGTH MONITOR .................................................................................................................................................808

Sasahata, Y. ; Matsumoto, K. ; Nagira, T. ; Sakuma, H. ; Kishimoto, K. ; Suzuki, M. ; Suzuki, D. ; Horiguchi, Y. ; Takabayashi, M. ; Mochizuki, K. ; Gotoda, M. ; Aruga, H. ; Ishimura, E.

MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED 2-SECTION LASERS FOR INJECTION LOCKED GAIN SWITCHED COMB GENERATION .................................................................................................................................................................................811

Rui Zhou ; Anandarajah, P.M. ; Gutierrez Pascual, M.D. ; O'Carroll, J. ; Phelan, R. ; Kelly, B. ; Barry, L.P.

SUPPRESSION OF SUPERMODE NOISE IN A HARMONICALLY MODE-LOCKED HYBRID SILICON LASER USING AN INTRA-CAVITY FILTER .........................................................................................................................................814

Srinivasan, S. ; Arrighi, A. ; Heck, M.J.R. ; Hutchinson, J. ; Norberg, E. ; Fish, G. ; Bowers, J.E.

A HYBRID SILICON/INP INTEGRATED FEEDBACK STABILIZED MODE-LOCKED LASER ................................................817Davenport, M.L. ; Srinivasan, S. ; Heck, M.J.R. ; Bowers, J.E.

MONOLITHIC BURIED HETEROSTRUCTURE DFB LASER ARRAY FOR INTEGRATED OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS AND WDM SYSTEMS..............................................................................................................................................820

Jingsi Li ; Song Tang ; Wang, J. ; Yue Liu ; Haiming Xu ; Qi Tang ; Xiangfei Chen ; Cheng, J.

UNCOOLED CLEAR-EYE-OPENING OPERATION (25 TO 95 C) OF 25.8/28-GBPS 1.3-µM INGAALAS-MQW DIRECTLY MODULATED DFB LASERS................................................................................................................................................823

Fukamachi, T. ; Nakamura, A. ; Sakuma, Y. ; Hayakawa, S. ; Washino, R. ; Mukaikubo, M. ; Okamoto, K. ; Nakajima, T. ; Motoda, K. ; Naoe, K. ; Nakahara, K. ; Wakayama, Y. ; Uomi, K.

MULTI-LAYER RESTORATION - THE IMPACT ON THE OPTICAL LAYER ..............................................................................826Gunkel, M.

FAST RESTORATION IN SDN-BASED FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS ..................................................................................829Giorgetti, A. ; Paolucci, F. ; Cugini, F. ; Castoldi, P.

VOLUME 2

ENHANCING RESTORATION PERFORMANCE USING SERVICE RELOCATION IN PCE-BASED RESILIENT OPTICAL CLOUDS ...............................................................................................................................................................832

Ahmed, J. ; Monti, P. ; Wosinska, L. ; Spadaro, S.

NETWORK COST SAVINGS AND SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION USING PRIORITY-DRIVEN SUB-50MS SHARED MESH PROTECTION.................................................................................................................................................................835

Roy, S. ; Kota, S.A. ; Turkcu, O. ; Hand, S. ; Verma, K. ; Rao, R.

HIGHLY SURVIVABLE SOFTWARE DEFINED SYNERGISTIC IP+OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS..........................838Dongxu Zhang ; Xuefei Song ; Songtao Mai ; Shuang Hao ; Hongxiang Guo ; Yinben Xia

THE EVOLUTION OF 850NM VCSELS FROM 10GB/S TO 25 AND 56GB/S ...................................................................................841Tatum, J.A.

64GB/S TRANSMISSION OVER 57M MMF USING AN NRZ MODULATED 850NM VCSEL ......................................................844Kuchta, D.M. ; Rylyakov, A.V. ; Schow, C.L. ; Proesel, J.E. ; Baks, C. ; Westbergh, P. ; Gustavsson, J.S. ; Larsson, A.

A 40-GB/S VCSEL TRANSMITTER FOR OPTICAL INTERCONNECT WITH GROUP-DELAY COMPENSATION PRE-EMPHASIS .........................................................................................................................................................847

Tsunoda, Y. ; Sugawara, M. ; Oku, H. ; Ide, S. ; Tanaka, K.

HIGH SPEED TEMPERATURE INSENSITIVE OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION WITH COMPACT 850NM TO-CAN ASSEMBLIES................................................................................................................................................................................850

Turkiewicz, J.P. ; Kropp, J.-R. ; Ledentsov, N.N. ; Shchukin, V.A. ; Schafer, G.

40-GB/S FPC-BASED OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER WITH INTEGRATED-LENS ON SMALL ACTIVE AREA DIAMETER OF PHOTODIODE.................................................................................................................................................................853

Sugawara, M. ; Shiraishi, T. ; Yagisawa, T. ; Tsunoda, Y. ; Oku, H. ; Ide, S. ; Tanaka, K.

LOW POWER CMOS-DRIVEN 1060 NM MULTIMODE OPTICAL LINK .......................................................................................856Heroux, J.B. ; Kise, T. ; Funabashi, M. ; Aoki, T. ; Schow, C. ; Rylyakov, A.V. ; Nakagawa, S.

NEW MMF AND VCSEL METRICS FOR SYSTEM REACH PREDICTIONS..................................................................................859Molin, D. ; Bigot-Astruc, M. ; Sillard, P.

HIGH-RESOLUTION, PHOTONICALLY-SAMPLED, ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION EMPLOYING SPATIAL OVERSAMPLING ......................................................................................................................................................................862

Golani, O. ; Mauri, L. ; Pasinato, F. ; Cattaneo, C. ; Consonnni, G. ; Balsamo, S. ; Marom, D.M.

MICROWAVE BEAM STEERING WITH TUNABLE SPECTRAL FILTERING USING CYCLIC ADDITIONAL OPTICAL TRUE TIME DELAY......................................................................................................................................865

Cao, Z. ; Wang, Q. ; Lu, R. ; Reniers, A.C.F. ; van den Boom, H.P.A. ; Tangdiongga, E. ; Koonen, A.M.J.

TUNABLE FREQUENCY-DOUBLING BRILLOUIN OPTOELECTRONIC OSCILLATOR USING SINGLE-SIDEBAND SUPPRESSED-CARRIER MODULATION .........................................................................................................................868

Jizhao Zang ; Yan Li ; Zhisheng Yang ; Jian Wu ; Wei Li ; Rongqing Hui ; Jintong Lin

A FULLY FREQUENCY REFERENCED PARAMETRIC POLYCHROMATICALLY SAMPLED ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION .....................................................................................................................................................................871

Esman, D.J. ; Wiberg, A.O.J. ; Temprana, E. ; Myslivets, E. ; Kuo, B.P.-P. ; Alic, N. ; Radic, S.

THE FIRST FULLY PHOTONICS-BASED RADAR DEMONSTRATOR: CONCEPT AND FIELD TRIAL................................874Ghelfi, P. ; Laghezza, F. ; Scotti, F. ; Serafino, G. ; Capria, A. ; Pinna, S. ; Bogoni, A.

ANALOG AND DIGITAL PHOTONICS FOR FUTURE MILITARY SYSTEMS ..............................................................................877Matthews, P.J.

NOISE POWER DIRECTED ADAPTIVE FREQUENCY DOMAIN LEAST MEAN SQUARE ALGORITHM WITH FAST CONVERGENCE FOR DMGD COMPENSATION IN FEW-MODE FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS........................................................................................................................................................................................................880

Xuan He ; Yi Weng ; Junyi Wang ; Pan, Z.

FREQUENCY-DOMAIN CLOCK PHASE DETECTOR FOR NYQUIST WDM SYSTEMS............................................................883Kuang-Tsan Wu ; Han Sun

FEED-FORWARD AND FEEDBACK TIMING RECOVERY FOR NYQUIST AND FASTER THAN NYQUIST SYSTEMS........................................................................................................................................................................................................886

Stojanovic, N. ; Yu Zhao ; Changsong Xie

SINGLE-CARRIER 448 GB/S DUAL-POLARIZATION 16-QAM TRANSMISSION OVER 1200 KM USING FIXED LOOK-UP TABLE BASED MAP DETECTION .........................................................................................................................889

Rezania, A. ; Ke, J.H. ; Gao, Y. ; Cartledge, J.C.

BLIND AND UNIVERSAL DSP FOR ARBITRARY MODULATION FORMATS AND TIME DOMAIN HYBRID QAM TRANSMISSIONS .............................................................................................................................................................892

Yuliang Gao ; Qunbi Zhuge ; Plant, D.V. ; Chao Lu ; Lau, A.P.T.

A NOVEL UPDATE ALGORITHM IN STOKES SPACE FOR ADAPTIVE EQUALIZATION IN COHERENT RECEIVERS ...................................................................................................................................................................................................895

Bosco, G. ; Visintin, M. ; Poggiolini, P. ; Forghieri, F.

ENERGY EFFICIENT DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ....................................................................................................................898Kuschnerov, M. ; Bex, T. ; Kainzmaier, P.

COMPACT WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH BASED ON HIGH-DENSITY BRAGG REFLECTOR WAVEGUIDE ARRAY WITH 120 OUTPUT PORTS .............................................................................................................................901

Xiaodong Gu ; Koyama, F.

16-CHANNEL O-OFDM DEMULTIPLEXER IN SILICON PHOTONICS .........................................................................................904Rahim, A. ; Schwarz, S. ; Bruns, J. ; Zimmermann, L. ; Ahmed, S.J. ; Schaffer, C.G. ; Petermann, K.

FINE RESOLUTION ARBITRARY OPTICAL FILTERING WITH A HYBRID GUIDED-WAVE/FREE-SPACE OPTICS PLATFORM ...................................................................................................................................................................................907

Marom, D.M. ; Sinefeld, D. ; Rudnick, R. ; Golani, O. ; Goldstein, N.

OPTIMIZED 90 HYBRIDS WITH SIDEWALL GRATING IN SILICON ON INSULATOR ..........................................................909Fohn, T. ; Vogel, W. ; Schmidt, M. ; Berroth, M. ; Butschke, J. ; Letzkus, F.

DELAYED INTERFEROMETER BASED SI-WIRE WDM DEMULTIPLEXERS FABRICATED BY PHASE CONTROLLABLE AND PRODUCTIVE 300-MM WAFER-SCALE ARF-IMMERSION LITHOGRAPHY TECHNOLOGY .............................................................................................................................................................................................912

Seok-Hwan Jeong ; Shimura, D. ; Simoyama, T. ; Horikawa, T. ; Tanaka, Y. ; Morito, K.

LOW CROSSTALK WAVELENGTH TUNABLE FILTER THAT UTILIZES SYMMETRIC AND ASYMMETRIC MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS.................................................................................................................915

Takashina, S. ; Mori, Y. ; Hasegawa, H. ; Sato, K.-I. ; Watanabe, T.

ONE GHZ RESOLUTION ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING FILTER WITH LCOS PHASE COMPENSATION .........................................................................................................................................................................................918

Rudnick, R. ; Sinefeld, D. ; Golani, O. ; Marom, D.M.

32-DB LOSS BUDGET HIGH-CAPACITY OFDM LONG-REACH PON OVER 60-KM TRANSMISSION WITHOUT OPTICAL AMPLIFIER...........................................................................................................................................................921

Chia-Chien Wei ; Hsing-Yu Chen ; Hsuan-Hao Chu ; Yu-Chao Chen ; Cih-Yuan Song ; I-Cheng Lu ; Jyehong Chen

A COHERENT-BASED OLT RECEIVER WITH A POWER-CONTROLLED OPTICAL LOCAL OSCILLATOR FOR UPSTREAM OFDM/TDMA-PON..........................................................................................................................924

Sang-Yuep Kim ; Kani, J.-I. ; Terada, J. ; Yoshimoto, N.

50-GBPS 100-KM EAM-BASED OFDM-IMDD TRANSMISSION EMPLOYING NOVEL SSII CANCELLATION .........................................................................................................................................................................................927

Hsing-Yu Chen ; Chia-Chien Wei ; Yu-Chao Chen ; Hsuan-Hao Chu ; Cih-Yuan Song ; I-Cheng Lu ; Jyehong Chen

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF MULTI-BAND UPSTREAM IN STATISTICAL OFDM-PONS AND COMPARISON WITH DIGITAL SUBCARRIER ASSIGNMENT........................................................................................................930

Cano, I.N. ; Escayola, X. ; Schindler, P. ; Santos, M.C. ; Polo, V. ; Leuthold, J. ; Prat, J.

37.5-KM URBAN FIELD TRIAL OF OFDMA-PON USING COLORLESS ONUS WITH DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION AND TCM ................................................................................................................................................933

Ruprecht, C. ; Yingkan Chen ; Fritzsche, D. ; von Hoyningen-Huene, J. ; Hanik, N. ; Weis, E. ; Breuer, D. ; Rosenkranz, W.

17.125GB/S OVER 25KM TRANSMISSIONS OF REAL-TIME DUAL-BAND OPTICAL OFDM SIGNALS MODULATED BY 1GHZ RSOAS...............................................................................................................................................................936

Zhang, Q.W. ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Ling, Y. ; Zhang, H.B. ; Giddings, R.P. ; Wang, M. ; Tang, J.M.

P-OFDM: SPECTRALLY EFFICIENT UNIPOLAR OFDM ..................................................................................................................939Elgala, H. ; Little, T.D.C.

UP TO 60 KM BIDIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION OF A 16 CHANNELS × 10 GB/S FDM-WDM PON BASED ON SELF-SEEDED REFLECTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS .........................................................................942

Le, S.D. ; Lebreton, A. ; Saliou, F. ; Deniel, Q. ; Charbonier, B. ; Chanclou, P.

[TUTORIAL] ACTIVITIES FOR CONFORMANCE AND INTEROPERABILITY TESTING IN EPON STANDARDIZATION ..................................................................................................................................................................................945

Suzuki, K.-I.

BENEFITS OF ACTIVE STATEFUL PCE FOR FLEXGRID NETWORKS .......................................................................................969Cugini, F. ; Paolucci, F. ; Fresi, F. ; Meloni, G. ; Berrettini, G. ; Sambo, N. ; Giorgetti, A. ; Foggi, T. ; Poti, L. ; Castoldi, P.

SDN BASED PROVISIONING ORCHESTRATION OF OPENFLOW/GMPLS FLEXI-GRID NETWORKS WITH A STATEFUL HIERARCHICAL PCE ..........................................................................................................................................972

Casellas, R. ; Munoz, R. ; Martinez, R. ; Vilalta, R. ; Liu, L. ; Tsuritani, T. ; Morita, I. ; Lopez, V. ; Gonzalez de Dios, O. ; Fernandez-Palacios, J.P.

FLEXIBLE-CLIENT: THE MISSING PIECE TOWARDS TRANSPORT SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS ......................975Patel, A.N. ; Kanonakis, K. ; Ji, P.N. ; Junqiang Hu ; Ting Wang

FILTER OPTIMIZATION IN SDN-BASED FLEXGRID NETWORKS...............................................................................................978Paolucci, F. ; Fresi, F. ; Castro, A. ; Velasco, L. ; Cugini, F. ; Sambo, N. ; Giorgetti, A. ; Poti, L. ; Castoldi, P.

ABNO: A FEASIBLE SDN APPROACH FOR MULTI-VENDOR IP AND OPTICAL NETWORKS .............................................981Aguado, A. ; Lopez, V. ; Marhuenda, J. ; Gonzalez de Dios, O. ; Fernandez-Palacios, J.P.

TOWARDS A NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM ................................................................................................................................984Lopez, V. ; Gonzalez de Dios, O. ; Fuentes, B. ; Yannuzzi, M. ; Fernandez-Palacios, J.P. ; Lopez, D.

ENGINEERING SILICON PHOTONICS SOLUTIONS FOR METRO DWDM .................................................................................987Nielsen, T.N. ; Doerr, C. ; Chen, L. ; Vermeulen, D. ; Azemati, S. ; McBrien, G. ; Mikkelsen, B. ; Rasmussen, C. ; Nadarajah, N.

OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER FOR CWDM NETWORKS WITH MULTI SUBCHANNEL INTERFACE........................................990Yoon Koo Kwon ; Kang Yong Jung ; Ho Sung Cho ; Jongyoon Shin ; Seungjoo Hong ; Jong Yeong Lim ; Sungmin Cho ; Hee Yeal Rhy ; Gwang Yong Yi

448 GBIT/S DP-16QAM TRANSMISSION USING INTEGRATED TUNABLE CMOS LASER SOURCES..................................993Marchena, E. ; Camera, M. ; Bruno, G. ; Chaouch, H. ; Albanna, S. ; Hong Cai ; Blivin, C. ; He, L. ; Zyskind, J. ; Krasulick, S. ; Tartaglia, A. ; Mizrahi, A. ; Stone, R.

10 GB/S CAP128 SYSTEM USING DIRECTLY MODULATED LASER FOR SHORT REACH OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................................................................996

Li Tao ; Yiguang Wang ; Yuliang Gao ; Lau, A.P.T. ; Chao Lu

GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION OF 100-GB/S PDM 4-PAM USING DIRECTLY MODULATED VCSELS AND COHERENT DETECTION................................................................................................................................................999

Chongjin Xie ; Spiga, S. ; Po Dong ; Winzer, P. ; Gnauck, A. ; Greus, C. ; Ortsiefer, M. ; Neumeyr, C. ; Muller, M. ; Amann, M.-C.

FIRST EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF COHERENT CAP FOR 300-GB/S METROPOLITAN OPTICAL NETWORKS .............................................................................................................................................................................1002

Estaran, J. ; Olmedo, M.I. ; Zibar, D. ; Xiaogeng Xu ; Monroy, I.T.

NYQUIST-SHAPED DISPERSION-PRECOMPENSATED SUBCARRIER MODULATION WITH DIRECT DETECTION ................................................................................................................................................................................................1005

Erkilinc, M.S. ; Kilmurray, S. ; Pachnicke, S. ; Griesser, H. ; Thomsen, B.C. ; Bayvel, P. ; Killey, R.I.

BLIND SYMBOL SYNCHRONISATION IN DIRECT-DETECTION OPTICAL OFDM USING VIRTUAL SUBCARRIERS ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1008

Bouziane, R. ; Milder, P.A. ; Kilmurray, S. ; Thomsen, B.C. ; Pachnicke, S. ; Bayvel, P. ; Killey, R.I.

16-ARY STOKES-VECTOR MODULATION ENABLING DSP-BASED DIRECT DETECTION AT 100 GBIT/S.....................1011Kikuchi, K. ; Kawakami, S.

DIRECT-DETECTION OPTICAL OFDM ..............................................................................................................................................1014Wei-Ren Peng

DEMONSTRATION OF ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM STATE CONVERSION USING TWO HYBRID 3D PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS............................................................................................................................................1017

Chuan Qin ; Binbin Guan ; Scott, R. ; Proietti, R. ; Fontaine, N.K. ; Tiehui Su ; Ferrari, C. ; Cappuzzo, M. ; Klemens, F. ; Keller, B. ; Earnshaw, M. ; Yoo, S.J.B.

1×11 FEW-MODE FIBER WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH USING PHOTONIC LANTERNS ......................................1020Carpenter, J. ; Leon-Saval, S.G. ; Salazar Gil, J.R. ; Bland-Hawthorn, J. ; Baxter, G. ; Stewart, L. ; Frisken, S. ; Roelens, M.A.F. ; Eggleton, B.J. ; Schroder, J.

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF POLARIZATION-MULTIPLEXING COMBINED WITH ON-CHIP MODE-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXING ....................................................................................................................................................................1023

Chen, C.P. ; Driscoll, J.B. ; Ophir, N. ; Grote, R.R. ; Osgood, R.M. ; Bergman, K.

ON-CHIP MULTIPLEXING CONVERSION BETWEEN PDM AND MDM ....................................................................................1026Mengyuan Ye ; Yu Yu ; Weili Yang ; Jinghui Zou ; Yaguang Qin ; Xinliang Zhang

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF A GAIN-FLATTENING FILTER FOR FEW-MODE FIBER BASED ON A SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR ...................................................................................................................................1029

Ip, E. ; Ruo Yu Gu ; Ming-Jun Li ; Yue-Kai Huang ; Kahn, J.

A TWO-MODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING FILTER DEMONSTRATED USING A SOI RING RESONATOR ....................1032Dorin, B.A. ; Ye, W.N.

FEW-MODE FIBERWAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH WITH SPATIAL-DIVERSITY AND REDUCED-STEERING ANGLE ....................................................................................................................................................................................1035

Fontaine, N.K. ; Ryf, R. ; Chang Liu ; Ercan, B. ; Salazar Gil, J.R. ; Leon-Saval, S.G. ; Bland-Hawthorn, J. ; Neilson, D.T.

DYNAMIC MODE GROUP EQUALIZATION FILTER AND VARIABLE OPTICAL ATTENUATOR FOR FEW MODE FIBERS ..................................................................................................................................................................................1038

Weiss, I. ; Gerufi, J. ; Sinefeld, D. ; Blau, M. ; Bin-Nun, M. ; Lingle, R. ; Gruner-Nielsen, L. ; Marom, D.M.

MICRON-SCALE SILICON PHOTONIC DEVICES AND CIRCUITS..............................................................................................1041Dazeng Feng ; Luff, B.J. ; Jatar, S. ; Asghari, M.

BOX-LESS WAVEGUIDE GE PD FOR BULK-SI BASED SILICON PHOTONIC PLATFORM..................................................1044Ji, H.-C. ; Cho, K.S. ; Lee, B.S. ; Cho, K.Y. ; Choi, S.H. ; Kim, J.H. ; Shin, Y.H. ; Kim, S.G. ; Lee, S.Y. ; Byun, H.I. ; Parmar, S. ; Nejadmalayeri, A.H. ; Kim, D.H. ; Bok, J.K. ; Park, Y.S. ; Shin, D.J. ; Joe, I.S. ; Kuh, B.J. ; Kim, B.S. ; Kim, K.C. ; Choi, H.M. ; Ha, K.H.

10 GB/S BIT ERROR FREE PERFORMANCE OF A MONOLITHIC SILICON AVALANCHE WAVEGUIDE-INTEGRATED PHOTODETECTOR .......................................................................................................................................................1047

Ackert, J.J. ; Karar, A.S. ; Cartledge, J.C. ; Jessop, P.E. ; Knights, A.P.

MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED 25GBIT/SEC RECEIVER FOR 1.55µM IN PHOTONIC BICMOS TECHNOLOGY ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1050

Knoll, D. ; Lischke, S. ; Zimmermann, L. ; Heinemann, B. ; Micusik, D. ; Ostrovskyy, P. ; Winzer, G. ; Kroh, M. ; Barth, R. ; Grabolla, T. ; Schulz, K. ; Fraschke, M. ; Lisker, M. ; Drews, J. ; Trusch, A. ; Kruger, A. ; Marschmeyer, S. ; Richter, H.H. ; Fursenko, O. ; Yamamoto, Y. ; Wohlfeil, B. ; Petermann, K. ; Beling, A. ; Zhou, Q. ; Tillack, B.

POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE 5×20GB/S WDM GE RECEIVER USING COMPACT SI RING FILTERS WITH COLLECTIVE THERMAL TUNING ..........................................................................................................................................1053

De Heyn, P. ; De Coster, J. ; Verheyen, P. ; Lepage, G. ; Pantouvaki, M. ; Absil, P. ; Bogaerts, W. ; Van Thourhout, D. ; Van Campenhout, J.

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION OF SI-SILICA WAVEGUIDE DELAY LINE INTERFEROMETER AND GERMANIUM PHOTODETECTORS FOR 25-GBIT/S DPSK DEMODULATOR ..........................................................................1056

Hiraki, T. ; Fukuda, H. ; Tsuchizawa, T. ; Kou, R. ; Nishi, H. ; Takeda, K. ; Yamamoto, T. ; Ishikawa, Y. ; Wada, K. ; Yamada, K.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF PILOT-SYMBOLS-AIDED CYCLE SLIP MITIGATION FOR QPSK MODULATION FORMAT.............................................................................................................................................................1059

Haiquan Cheng ; Yan Li ; Miao Yu ; Jizhao Zang ; Jian Wu ; Jintong Lin

CYCLE-SLIP CORRECTION IN 100GB/S PM-QPSK SYSTEMS......................................................................................................1062Ling Liu ; Liangchuan Li

MODULATION FORMAT IDENTIFICATION BASED ON RECEIVED SIGNAL POWER DISTRIBUTIONS FOR DIGITAL COHERENT RECEIVERS.............................................................................................................................................1065

Jie Liu ; Zhenhua Dong ; Kangping Zhong ; Lau, A.P.T. ; Chao Lu ; Yanzhao Lu

1.15 TB/S NYQUIST PDM 16-QAM TRANSMISSION WITH JOINT MATCHED FILTERING AND FREQUENCY-DOMAIN EQUALIZATION ...........................................................................................................................................1068

Zhu, C. ; Du, L.B. ; Corcoran, B. ; Tran, A.V. ; Anderson, T. ; Lowery, A.J. ; Skafidas, E.

REDUCING THE POWER CONSUMPTION OF THE CMA EQUALIZER UPDATE FOR A DIGITAL COHERENT RECEIVER ...........................................................................................................................................................................1071

Cardenas, D. ; Lavery, D. ; Watts, P. ; Savory, S.J.

NOVEL EQUALIZER ARCHITECTURE FOR HITLESS RATE SWITCHING IN ENERGY-EFFICIENT OPTICAL SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................................................................................................1074

Rozental, V.N. ; Bruno, G. ; Camera, M. ; Mello, D.A.A.

AGGRESSIVE QUANTIZATION ON PERTURBATION COEFFICIENTS FOR NONLINEAR PRE-DISTORTION...............................................................................................................................................................................................1077

Qunbi Zhuge ; Reimer, M. ; Borowiec, A. ; O'Sullivan, M. ; Plant, D.V.

REDUCED OSNR PENALTY FOR FREQUENCY DRIFT TOLERANT COHERENT PACKET SWITCHED SYSTEMS USING DOUBLY DIFFERENTIAL DECODING...............................................................................................................1080

Walsh, A.J. ; Mountjoy, J. ; Fagan, A. ; Browning, C. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Barry, L.P.

IMPACT OF SLICE-ABILITY ON DYNAMIC RESTORATION IN GMPLS-BASED FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS.................................................................................................................................................................................................1083

Dallaglio, M. ; Giorgetti, A. ; Sambo, N. ; Cugini, F. ; Castoldi, P.

RELIABILITY-CONSTRAINED RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR OPTICALLY INTERCONNECTED DISTRIBUTED CLOUDS...........................................................................................................................................................................1086

Yi Zhu ; Yan Liang ; Qiong Zhang ; Qingya She ; Xi Wang ; Palacharla, P. ; Sekiya, M.

AFTER FAILURE REPAIR OPTIMIZATION IN DYNAMIC FLEXGRID OPTICAL NETWORKS ..........................................1089Ruiz, M. ; Zotkiewicz, M. ; Castro, A. ; Klinkowski, M. ; Velasco, L. ; Pioro, M.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RELIABILITY TRADEOFF IN OPTICAL CORE NETWORKS..................................................1092Wiatr, P. ; Jiajia Chen ; Monti, P. ; Wosinska, L.

PHYSICAL LAYER CHARACTERISTICS AND DESIGN OF LONG HAUL FAST TURN-ON/OFF AND FLOW SWITCHED ALL-OPTICAL NETWORKS ...............................................................................................................................1095

Junio, J. ; Lei Zhang ; Chan, V.

A MOVING SOURCE ROUTING SOLUTION FOR HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY COMMUNICATION IN OPTICAL CORE TRANSPORT NETWORKS.......................................................................................................................................1098

Nan Hua ; Xiaoping Zheng

MAXIMUM ENTROPY (MAXENT) ROUTING AND SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT FOR FLEXGRID-BASED ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKING .....................................................................................................................................................1101

Wright, P. ; Parker, M.C. ; Lord, A.

SINGLE-CARRIER AND DUAL-CARRIER 400-GB/S AND 1.0-TB/S TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS ...........................................1104Raybon, G. ; Adamiecki, A. ; Randel, S. ; Winzer, P.J.

1 TB/S - 4×343 GB/S SUBCARRIERS ON 50GHZ GRID - TRANSMISSION OVER 480 KM SMF WITH 22 GHZ BANDWIDTH SEMICONDUCTOR MODULATOR.............................................................................................................................1107

Idler, W. ; Buchali, F. ; Schuh, K. ; Cameron, N. ; Brast, T. ; Schmid, S. ; Steffan, A.

TRANSMISSION OF 400G DUAL-CARRIER DP-16QAM AND MULTI-CARRIER DP-QPSK SIGNALS OVER REGIONAL AND LONG-HAUL DISTANCES WITH SPAN LENGTHS GREATER THAN 200 KM .........................................1110

Ming-Fang Huang ; Shaoliang Zhang ; Mino, K. ; Aono, Y.

OVER 2000-KM TRANSMISSION OF 60-GBAUD PDM-QPSK SIGNAL WITH HETERODYNE DETECTION AND SE OF 4B/S/HZ ...................................................................................................................................................................................1113

Xinying Li ; Junwen Zhang ; Fan Li ; Jiangnan Xiao

TRANSMISSION OF 128-GB/S PDM-4PAM GENERATED WITH ELECTROABSOPTION MODULATORS OVER 960-KM STANDARD SINGLE-MODE FIBER ..........................................................................................................................1116

Chongjin Xie

TRANSMISSION OF 480-GB/S DUAL-CARRIER PM-8QAM OVER 2550KM SMF-28 USING ADAPTIVE PRE-EQUALIZATION ...............................................................................................................................................................................1119

Junwen Zhang ; Hung-Chang Chien ; Ze Dong ; Yan Xia ; Yufei Chen ; Jiangnan Xiao

RECONFIGURABLE 100 GB/S SILICON PHOTONIC NETWORK-ON-CHIP ..............................................................................1122Po Dong ; Young-Kai Chen ; Tingyi Gu ; Buhl, L.L. ; Neilson, D.T. ; Sinsky, J.H.

DEVELOPMENT OF 1060NM 25-GB/S VCSEL AND DEMONSTRATION OF 300M AND 500M SYSTEM REACH USING MMFS AND LINK OPTIMIZED FOR 1060NM........................................................................................................1125

Kise, T. ; Suzuki, T. ; Funabashi, M. ; Nagashima, K. ; Lingle, R. ; Vaidya, D.S. ; Shubochkin, R. ; Kamino, J.T. ; Xin Chen ; Bickham, S.R. ; Hurley, J.E. ; Ming-Jun Li ; Evans, A.F.

NONLINEAR COMPENSATION FOR 980 NM HIGH POWER, SINGLE-MODE VCSELS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT OM 4 FIBER TRANSMISSION ..........................................................................................................................................1128

I-Cheng Lu ; Chia-Chien Wei ; Hsing-Yu Chen ; Pei-Yu Chung ; Peng-Hao Huang ; Jia-Wei Jiang ; Kai-Lun Chi ; Jin-Wei Shi ; Jyehong Chen

ULTRA-COMPACT 320 GB/S AND 160 GB/S WDM TRANSMITTERS BASED ON SILICON MICRORINGS .......................1131Yang Liu ; Ran Ding ; Qi Li ; Zhe Xuan ; Yunchu Li ; Yisu Yang ; Lim, A.E.-J. ; Lo, P.G.-Q. ; Bergman, K. ; Baehr-Jones, T. ; Hochberg, M.

TERAHERTZ PHOTONICS FOR COMMUNICATIONS....................................................................................................................1134Seeds, A.J.

PASSIVE APPROACH FOR PHASE FLUCTUATION CANCELLATION OF ANONYMOUS MICROWAVE SIGNAL TRANSMISSION.........................................................................................................................................................................1182

Li, Z.-L. ; Yan, L.-S. ; Peng, Y.-L. ; Pan, W. ; Luo, B. ; Shao, L.Y.

PHOTONIC ULTRA-WIDEBAND SOFTWARE-DEFINED RF RECEIVER FOR ELECTRONIC SPECTRUM MEASUREMENTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................1185

Onori, D. ; Laghezza, F. ; Ghelfi, P. ; Pinna, S. ; Scotti, F. ; Serafino, G. ; Bogoni, A.

OPTICAL COMBS FOR SENSOR APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................1188Newbury, N.R. ; Baumann, E. ; Coddington, I. ; Cromer, C. ; Deschenes, J.-D. ; Giorgetta, F.R. ; Rieker, G. ; Sonderhouse, L. ; Swann, W.C. ; Sinclair, L.C.

DATA TRANSMISSION AT TERABIT/S DATA RATES USING SILICON-ORGANIC HYBRID (SOH) FREQUENCY COMBS ...............................................................................................................................................................................1191

Weimann, C. ; Schindler, P.C. ; Bekele, D. ; Palmer, R. ; Korn, D. ; Pfeifle, J. ; Koeber, S. ; Schmogrow, R. ; Alloatti, L. ; Elder, D.L. ; Yu, H. ; Bogaerts, W. ; Dalton, L.R. ; Freude, W. ; Leuthold, J. ; Koos, C.

HIGH-CONTRAST, ALL-SILICON WAVEGUIDING PLATFORM FOR MULTI-OCTAVE INTEGRATED PHOTONICS ................................................................................................................................................................................................1194

Chiles, J. ; Khan, S. ; Ma, J. ; Fathpour, S.

LARGE- SCALE DATA CENTER NETWORKS ...................................................................................................................................1197Hendel, A.

2D OPTOELECTRONIC ENGINES WITH WAFER SCALE SELF-ALIGNED OPTICAL CORES ............................................1200Mathai, S. ; Rosenberg, P. ; Sorin, W. ; Straznicky, J. ; Kiyama, L. ; Mack, W. ; Panotopoulos, G. ; Culler, J. ; Devenport, K. ; Tan, M.

A LOW LATENCY OPTICAL TOP OF RACK SWITCH FOR DATA CENTRE NETWORKS WITH MINIMIZED PROCESSOR ENERGY LOAD ........................................................................................................................................1203

Shiyun Liu ; Qixiang Cheng ; Wonfor, A. ; Penty, R. ; White, I. ; Watts, P.M.

CONNECTOR PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS FOR D-SHAPED MULTI-CORE MULTI MODE FIBER ...................................1206Pepeljugoski, P. ; Doany, F. ; Kuchta, D.M. ; Lee, B.G. ; Schow, C. ; Schares, L.

HIGHLY RELIABLE SILICONE BASED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES EMBEDDED IN PCBS .....................................................1209Lamprecht, T. ; Halter, M. ; Meier, D. ; Beyer, S. ; Betschon, F. ; John, R. ; Amb, C. ; Swatowski, B. ; Weidner, K.

MULTI-LAYER SDN ON A COMMERCIAL NETWORK CONTROL PLATFORM FOR PACKET OPTICAL NETWORKS.................................................................................................................................................................................................1212

Felix, A. ; Borges, N. ; Wu, H. ; Hanlon, M. ; Birk, M. ; Tschersich, A.

FIRST INTERNATIONAL SDN-BASED NETWORK ORCHESTRATION OF VARIABLE-CAPACITY OPS OVER PROGRAMMABLE FLEXI-GRID EON.....................................................................................................................................1215

Yoshida, Y. ; Maruta, A. ; Kitayama, K. ; Nishihara, M. ; Tanaka, T. ; Takahara, T. ; Rasmussen, J.C. ; Yoshikane, N. ; Tsuritani, T. ; Morita, I. ; Yan, S. ; Shu, Y. ; Channegowda, M. ; Yan, Y. ; Rofoee, B.R. ; Hugues-Salas, E. ; Saridis, G. ; Zervas, G. ; Nejabati, R. ; Simeonidou, D. ; Vilalta, R. ; Munoz, R. ; Casellas, R. ; Martinez, R. ; Svaluto, M. ; Fabrega, J.M. ; Aguado, A. ; Lopez, V. ; Marhuenda, J. ; Gonzalez de Dios, O. ; Fernandez-Palacios, J.P.

FIRST EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF ABNO-DRIVEN IN-OPERATION FLEXGRID NETWORK RE-OPTIMIZATION ..................................................................................................................................................................................1218

Velasco, L. ; Paolucci, F. ; Gifre, L. ; Aguado, A. ; Cugini, F. ; Castoldi, P. ; Lopez, V.

FIRST λ-TUNABLE DYNAMIC LOAD-BALANCING OPERATION ENHANCED BY 3-MSEC BIDIRECTIONAL HITLESS TUNING ON SYMMETRIC 40-GBIT/S WDM/TDM-PON ..............................................................1221

Kaneko, S. ; Yoshida, T. ; Furusawa, S. ; Sarashina, M. ; Tamai, H. ; Suzuki, A. ; Mukojima, T. ; Kimura, S. ; Yoshimoto, N.

SERIAL 103.125-GB/S TRANSMISSION OVER 1 KM SSMF FOR LOW-COST, SHORT-REACH OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS .....................................................................................................................................................................................1224

Lee, J. ; Kaneda, N. ; Pfau, T. ; Konczykowska, A. ; Jorge, F. ; Dupuy, J.-Y. ; Young-Kai Chen

30GBPS OPTICAL LINK UTILIZING HETEROGENEOUSLY INTEGRATED III-V/SI PHOTONICS AND CMOS CIRCUITS........................................................................................................................................................................................1227

Dupuis, N. ; Lee, B.G. ; Proesel, J.E. ; Rylyakov, A. ; Rimolo-Donadio, R. ; Baks, C.W. ; Schow, C.L. ; Ramaswamy, A. ; Roth, J.E. ; Guzzon, R.S. ; Koch, B. ; Sparacin, D.K. ; Fish, G.A.

557-KM UNREPEATERED 100G TRANSMISSION WITH COMMERCIAL RAMAN DWDM SYSTEM, ENHANCED ROPA, AND CABLED LARGE AEFF ULTRA-LOW LOSS FIBER IN OSP ENVIRONMENT............................1230

Xia, T.J. ; Peterson, D.L. ; Wellbrock, G.A. ; Do-il Chang ; Perrier, P. ; Fevrier, H. ; Ten, S. ; Tower, C. ; Mills, G.

FIELD DEMONSTRATION OF 3×341-GB/S PDM-OFDM-256 ITERATIVE POLAR MODULATION SIGNALS WITH A RECORD 11.0-B/S/HZ INTRACHANNEL SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY .............................................................................1233

Chandrasekhar, S. ; Xiang Liu ; Winzer, P.J. ; Lotz, T. ; Youn, C.J. ; Kwon, Y.H. ; Nam, E.S.

1.4TB REAL-TIME ALIEN SUPERCHANNEL TRANSPORT DEMONSTRATION OVER 410KM INSTALLED FIBER LINK USING SOFTWARE RECONFIGURABLE DP-16QAM/QPSK .................................................................................1236

Yu Rong Zhou ; Smith, K. ; Payne, R. ; Lord, A. ; Raddatz, L. ; Bertolini, M. ; Van De Velde, T. ; Colombo, C. ; Korkmaz, E. ; Fontana, M. ; Evans, S.

23 TBIT/S TRANSMISSION OVER 17-KM CONVENTIONAL 50-µM GRADED-INDEX MULTIMODE FIBER....................1239Ryf, R. ; Fontaine, N.K. ; Chen, H. ; Guan, B. ; Randel, S. ; Sauer, N. ; Yoo, S.J.B. ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Delbue, R. ; Pupalaikis, P. ; Sureka, A. ; Shubochkin, R. ; Sun, Y. ; Lingle, R.

12-CORE × 3-MODE DENSE SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXED TRANSMISSION OVER 40 KM EMPLOYING MULTI-CARRIER SIGNALS WITH PARALLEL MIMO EQUALIZATION........................................................1242

Mizuno, T. ; Kobayashi, T. ; Takara, H. ; Sano, A. ; Kawakami, H. ; Nakagawa, T. ; Miyamoto, Y. ; Abe, Y. ; Goh, T. ; Oguma, M. ; Sakamoto, T. ; Sasaki, Y. ; Ishida, I. ; Takenaga, K. ; Matsuo, S. ; Saitoh, K. ; Morioka, T.

TRANSMISSION OF 20×440-GB/S SUPER-NYQUIST-FILTERED SIGNALS OVER 3600 KM BASED ON SINGLE-CARRIER 110-GBAUD PDM QPSK WITH 100-GHZ GRID ..............................................................................................1245

Zhang, J. ; Yu, J. ; Dong, Z. ; Jia, Z. ; Chien, H.C. ; Cai, Y. ; Ge, C. ; Shi, S. ; Chen, Y. ; Wang, H. ; Xia, Y.

TRANSMISSION OVER 9,100 KM WITH A CAPACITY OF 49.3 TB/S USING VARIABLE SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY 16 QAM BASED CODED MODULATION....................................................................................................................1248

Cai, J.-X. ; Zhang, H. ; Batshon, H.G. ; Mazurczyk, M. ; Sinkin, O.V. ; Sun, Y. ; Pilipetskii, A. ; Foursa, D.G.

30.6-TB/S FULL-DUPLEX BIDIRECTIONAL TRANSOCEANIC TRANSMISSION OVER 75×90.9-KM FIBER SPANS............................................................................................................................................................................................................1251

Yaman, F. ; Shaoliang Zhang ; Yue-Kai Huang ; Yequn Zhang ; Ming-Fang Huang ; Djordjevic, I.B. ; Mateo, E. ; Inada, Y. ; Inoue, T. ; Ogata, T.

COHERENT IN-LINE SUBSTITUTION OF OFDM SUBCARRIERS USING FIBER-FREQUENCY CONVERSION AND FREE-RUNNING LASERS ..................................................................................................................................1254

Richter, T. ; Schmidt-Langhorst, C. ; Elschner, R. ; Kato, T. ; Tanimura, T. ; Watanabe, S. ; Schubert, C.

FLEX-GRID COMPATIBLE ULTRA WIDE FREQUENCY COMB SOURCE FOR 31.8 TB/S COHERENT TRANSMISSION OF 1520 UDWDM CHANNELS ................................................................................................................................1257

Ataie, V. ; Temprana, E. ; Liu, L. ; Myslivets, E. ; Kuo, B.P.-P. ; Alic, N. ; Radic, S.

SINGLE-CHIP SILICON PHOTONICS 100-GB/S COHERENT TRANSCEIVER ..........................................................................1260Doerr, C. ; Chen, L. ; Vermeulen, D. ; Nielsen, T. ; Azemati, S. ; Stulz, S. ; McBrien, G. ; Xu, X.-M. ; Mikkelsen, B. ; Givehchi, M. ; Rasmussen, C. ; Park, S.-Y.

PIC-TO-PIC EXPERIMENT AT 130GB/S BASED ON A MONOLITHIC TRANSMITTER USING SWITCHING OF PREFIXED OPTICAL PHASES AND A MONOLITHIC COHERENT RECEIVER .......................................1263

Mardoyan, H. ; Bertran-Pardo, O. ; Jenneve, P. ; de Valicourt, G. ; Mestre, M.A. ; Bigo, S. ; Kazmierski, C. ; Chimot, N. ; Steffan, A.G. ; Honecker, J. ; Zhang, R. ; Runge, P. ; Richter, A. ; Arellano, C. ; Ortega-Monux, A. ; Molina-Fernandez, I.

ULTRA-COMPACT MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED INP TRANSMITTER AT 224 GB/S WITH PDM-2ASK-2PSK MODULATION .................................................................................................................................................................................1266

de Valicourt, G. ; Mestre, M.A. ; Jenneve, P. ; Mardoyan, H. ; Antona, J.C. ; Bigo, S. ; Bertran-Pardo, O. ; Kazmierski, C. ; Chimot, N. ; Blache, F. ; Garreau, A.

TWO-DIMENSIONAL, 37-CHANNEL, HIGH-BANDWIDTH, ULTRA-DENSE SILICON PHOTONICS OPTICAL INTERFACE .............................................................................................................................................................................1269

Kopp, V.I. ; Park, J. ; Wlodawski, M.S. ; Hubner, E. ; Singer, J. ; Neugroschl, D. ; Genack, A.Z. ; Dumon, P. ; Van Campenhout, J. ; Absil, P.

PROGRAMMABLE GAIN EQUALIZER FOR MULTI-CORE FIBER AMPLIFIERS ..................................................................1272Fontaine, N.K. ; Guan, B. ; Ryf, R. ; Chen, H. ; Koonen, A.M.J. ; Ben Yoo, S.J. ; Abedin, K. ; Fini, J. ; Taunay, T.F. ; Neilson, D.T.

100-GB/S SINGLE-BAND REAL-TIME COHERENT OPTICAL DP-16QAM-OFDM TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION ................................................................................................................................................................................................1275

Xiao, X. ; Li, F. ; Yu, J. ; Li, X. ; Xia, Y. ; Chen, F.

160-GB/S STOKES VECTOR DIRECT DETECTION FOR SHORT REACH OPTICAL COMMUNICATION ........................1278Di Che ; An Li ; Xi Chen ; Qian Hu ; Yifei Wang ; Shieh, W.

ALL-ELECTRONIC FLEXIBLY PROGRAMMABLE 864-GB/S SINGLE-CARRIER PDM-64-QAM ........................................1281Randel, S. ; Pilori, D. ; Corteselli, S. ; Raybon, G. ; Adamiecki, A. ; Gnauck, A. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Winzer, P. ; Altenhain, L. ; Bielik, A. ; Schmid, R.

GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION OF A 400-GB/S PDM/WDM SIGNAL USING A MONOLITHIC 2×4 VCSEL ARRAY AND COHERENT DETECTION ................................................................................................................................1284

Chongjin Xie ; Spiga, S. ; Po Dong ; Winzer, P. ; Bergmann, M. ; Kogel, B. ; Neumeyr, C. ; Amann, M.-C.

INTEGRATED SILICON-ORGANIC HYBRID (SOH) FREQUENCY SHIFTER............................................................................1287Lauermann, M. ; Weimann, C. ; Knopf, A. ; Elder, D.L. ; Heni, W. ; Palmer, R. ; Korn, D. ; Schindler, P.C. ; Koeber, S. ; Alloatti, L. ; Yu, H. ; Bogaerts, W. ; Dalton, L.R. ; Rembe, C. ; Leuthold, J. ; Freude, W. ; Koos, C.

RAPIDLY RECONFIGURABLE RF ARBITRARY WAVEFORM SYNTHESIS USING A CMOS SILICON PHOTONIC CHIP .......................................................................................................................................................................................1290

Jian Wang ; Fuwan Gan ; Ben Niu ; Hao Shen ; Leaird, D.E. ; Weiner, A.M. ; Minghao Qi

A COMPACT OPTICALLY DRIVEN TRAVELLING-WAVE RADIATING SOURCE .................................................................1293Bowers, S.M. ; Abiri, B. ; Aflatouni, F. ; Hajimiri, A.

HIGH-POWER MICROWAVE PHOTODIODES ..................................................................................................................................1296Beling, A.

STRONG ENHANCEMENT IN SATURATION POWER OF SUB-THZ PHOTODIODE BY USING PHOTONIC MILLIMETER-WAVE FEMTOSECOND PULSE GENERATOR......................................................................................................1299

Jhih-Min Wun ; Yi-Shiun Chen ; Cheng-Hung Lai ; Hao-Yun Liu ; Huang, C.-B. ; Ci-Ling Pan ; Jin-Wei Shi

A PHOTONIC INTEGRATED FRACTIONAL HILBERT TRANSFORMER WITH CONTINUOUS TUNABILITY ...............................................................................................................................................................................................1302

Weilin Liu ; Ming Li ; Guzzon, R.S. ; Norberg, E.J. ; Coldren, L.A. ; Jianping Yao

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF A TUNABLE SINGLE-BANDPASS PHOTONIC RADIOFREQUENCY FILTER BASED ON OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB FROM A MICRORING .............................................................................1305

Xiaoxiao Xue ; Hyoung-Jun Kim ; Yi Xuan ; Jian Wang ; Leaird, D.E. ; Minghao Qi ; Weiner, A.M.

TRANSMISSION OF 400G PM-16QAM CHANNELS OVER LONG-HAUL DISTANCE WITH COMMERCIAL ALL-DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFICATION SYSTEM AND AGED STANDARD SMF IN FIELD ....................................1308

Xia, T.J. ; Wellbrock, G.A. ; Ming-Fang Huang ; Shaoliang Zhang ; Yue-Kai Huang ; Do-il Chang ; Burtsev, S. ; Pelouch, W. ; Zak, E. ; de Pedro, H. ; Szeto, W. ; Fevrier, H.

150 × 120 GB/S FIELD TRIAL OVER 1,504 KM USING ALL-DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFICATION ............................1311Do-il Chang ; Burtsev, S. ; Pelouch, W. ; Zak, E. ; de Pedro, H. ; Szeto, W. ; Fevrier, H. ; Xia, T.J. ; Wellbrock, G.A.

REAL-TIME GRIDLESS 800G SUPER-CHANNEL TRANSPORT FIELD TRIAL OVER 410KM USING COHERENT DP-16 QAM...........................................................................................................................................................................1314

Yu Rong Zhou ; Smith, K. ; Payne, R. ; Lord, A. ; Whalley, G. ; Bennett, T. ; Maniloff, E. ; Alexander, S. ; Boymel, D.

400GB/S REAL-TIME TRIAL USING RATE-ADAPTIVE TRANSPONDERS FOR NEXT GENERATION FLEXIBLE-GRID NETWORKS ...............................................................................................................................................................1317

Pagano, A. ; Riccardi, E. ; Bertolini, M. ; Farelli, V. ; Van De Velde, T.

FIELD TRIAL OF DIRECT-DETECTION AND MULTI-CARRIER BASED 100G TRANSCEIVER..........................................1320Kwangjoon Kim ; Hwan Seok Chung ; Sun Hyok Chang ; Jyung Chan Lee ; Jong Hyun Lee

COST-EFFECTIVE NEXT GENERATION MOBILE FRONTHAUL ARCHITECTURE WITH MULTI-IF CARRIER TRANSMISSION SCHEME ...................................................................................................................................................1323

Seung-Hyun Cho ; Heuk Park ; Hwan Seok Chung ; Kyeong Hwan Doo ; Sangsoo Lee ; Jong Hyun Lee

MULTI-SERVICE OFDM UPLINK TRANSMISSION IN FULL-DUPLEX FTTX SYSTEMS USING RSOA-BASED WDM-PON ARCHITECTURE ...................................................................................................................................................1326

Nguyen, A.T. ; Lefebvre, K. ; Rusch, L.A.

DEVELOPMENT OF SI PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY: GE/SI AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE FOR PON APPLICATIONS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1329

Mengyuan Huang ; Pengfei Cai ; Liangbo Wang ; Tuo Shi ; Wang Chen ; Su Li ; Guanghui Hou ; Ching-yin Hong ; Dong Pan

GAIN-CONTROLLED OPTICAL AMPLIFIER TECHNOLOGIES FOR LONG-REACH AND HIGH-SPLITTING-RATIO PON SYSTEMS ......................................................................................................................................................1332

Fujiwara, M.

COMPARISON OF DOWNSTREAM TRANSMITTERS FOR HIGH LOSS BUDGET OF LONG-REACH 10G-PON ................................................................................................................................................................................................................1335

Zhengxuan Li ; Lilin Yi ; Weisheng Hu

INCREASING SPLITTING RATIO OF 10GB/S-CLASS PONS BY USING FW-DMF THAT ACTS AS LOW LOSS SPLITTER FOR UPSTREAM AND CONVENTIONAL SPLITTER FOR DOWNSTREAM ..............................................1338

Fujiwara, M. ; Suzuki, K.-I. ; Yoshimoto, N. ; Oguma, M. ; Soma, S.

DEMONSTRATION OF 10G BURST-MODE DML AND EDC IN SYMMETRIC 40GBIT/S TWDM-PON OVER 40KM PASSIVE REACH............................................................................................................................................................................1341

Yong Guo ; Songlin Zhu ; Guohua Kuang ; Yongjia Yin ; Yang Gao ; Dezhi Zhang ; Xin Liu

MULTICORE EDFA FOR SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING BY UTILIZING CLADDING-PUMPED TECHNOLOGY ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1344

Tsuchida, Y. ; Tadakuma, M. ; Sugizaki, R.

CHALLENGES OF FEW MODE AMPLIFIERS....................................................................................................................................1347Salsi, M.

1.7 µM BAND OPTICAL FIBER AMPLIFIER .......................................................................................................................................1350Yamada, M. ; Ono, H. ; Ohta, K. ; Aozasa, S. ; Tanaka, T. ; Senda, K. ; Maeda, Y. ; Koyama, O. ; Ono, J.

S-BAND THULIUM-DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER ENHANCEMENT USING ASE SUPPRESSION...........................................1353Emami, S.D. ; Muhammad, A.R. ; Harun, S.W. ; Ahmad, H. ; Abdul Rashid, H.A.

EXCITED STATE ABSORPTION IN BISMUTH-DOPED FIBERS WITH VARIOUS GLASS COMPOSITIONS ....................1356Dianov, E.M. ; Riumkin, K.E. ; Melkumov, M.A. ; Bufetov, I.A.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF SILICON-BASED METALLIC WHISPERING GALLERY MODE DISK RESONATORS AND THEIR THERMO-TUNING .....................................................................................................................1359

Fei Lou ; Thylen, L. ; Wosinski, L.

AIR-SUSPENDED HIGH-Q RING MICROCAVITIES WITH SCATTERER-AVOIDING “WIGGLER” SUPERMODE FIELDS ...............................................................................................................................................................................1362

Yangyang Liu ; Popovic, M.A.

AN SOI BASED POLARIZATION INSENSITIVE FILTER FOR ALL-OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY ..................................1365Jinghui Zou ; Yu Yu ; Weili Yang ; Zhao Wu ; Ye Mengyuan ; Guanyu Chen ; Xinliang Zhang

WAVELENGTH LOCKING OF A WDM SILICON MICRORING DEMULTIPLEXER USING DITHERING SIGNALS.......................................................................................................................................................................................................1368

Padmaraju, K. ; Lian-Wee Luo ; Xiaoliang Zhu ; Glick, M. ; Dutt, R. ; Lipson, M. ; Bergman, K.

10-GB/S BPSK LINK USING SILICON MICRORING RESONATORS FOR MODULATION AND DEMODULATION ......................................................................................................................................................................................1371

Qi Li ; Yang Liu ; Padmaraju, K. ; Ran Ding ; Logan, D.F. ; Ackert, J.J. ; Knights, A.P. ; Baehr-Jones, T. ; Hochberg, M. ; Bergman, K.

HIGH-SPEED ON-CHIP PHOTONIC LINK BASED ON ULTRALOW-POWER MICRORING MODULATOR .....................1374Xi Xiao ; Hao Xu ; Xianyao Li ; Zhiyong Li ; Yu Yude ; Yu Jinzhong

ENERGY-EFFICIENT ACTIVE PHOTONICS IN A ZERO-CHANGE, STATE-OF-THE-ART CMOS PROCESS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................1377

Wade, M.T. ; Shainline, J.M. ; Orcutt, J.S. ; Sun, C. ; Kumar, R. ; Moss, B. ; Georgas, M. ; Ram, R.J. ; Stojanovic, V. ; Popovic, M.A.

DIGITAL COHERENT TECHNOLOGY FOR LONG-REACH OPTICAL ACCESS......................................................................1380Lavery, D. ; Savory, S.J.

EXTENDED TWDM-PON DEMONSTRATION UP TO 100 KM AND 35 DB ODN LOSS ON BURST-MODE COHERENT REFLECTIVE PON ............................................................................................................................................................1383

Straullu, S. ; Forghieri, F. ; Bosco, G. ; Ferrero, V. ; Gaudino, R.

A LONG REACH IM/DD OFDM-PON USING SUPER-NYQUIST IMAGE INDUCED ALIASING AND CODE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ....................................................................................................................................................................1386

Changjian Guo ; Longling Dai

COMPARISON OF RX-DSP-STRUCTURES IN EXPERIMENTAL OFDMA-PON UPLINK TRANSMISSION SYSTEM ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1389

von Hoyningen-Huene, J. ; Griesser, H. ; Eiselt, M. ; Ruprecht, C. ; Rosenkranz, W.

REAL-TIME SOFTWARE-DEFINED DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATION USING OPENFLOW FOR NEXT-GENERATION OFDM-BASED OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS .......................................................................................1392

Johnson, S. ; Weiyang Mo ; Cvijetic, M. ; Jun He ; Wissinger, J. ; Willner, A.E.

MASTER-TO-SLAVE INJECTION-LOCKED WRC-FPLD PAIR WITH 16 DWDM-PON CHANNELS FOR 16-QAM OFDM TRANSMISSION .................................................................................................................................................................1395

Min-Chi Cheng ; Cheng-Ting Tsai ; Gong-Ru Lin

N:1 PROTECTION DESIGN FOR MINIMISING OLTS IN RESILIENT DUAL-HOMED LONG-REACH PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK .............................................................................................................................................................1398

Nag, A. ; Payne, D.B. ; Ruffini, M.

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF WEIGHTED INTER-FRAME AVERAGING BASED CHANNEL ESTIMATION FOR CO-OFDM SYSTEM..........................................................................................................................................................................1401

Paikun Zhu ; Juhao Li ; Hui Zhao ; Cheng Zhang ; Yue Liu ; Yuping Zhao ; Yongqi He ; Zhangyuan Chen

ENHANCED DISPERSION TOLERANCE OF COHERENT OFFSET-QAM OFDM OVER CONVENTIONAL OFDM ............................................................................................................................................................................................................1404

Jian Zhao ; Ellis, A.D.

DEMONSTRATION OF SOFTWARE-DEFINED MULTIBAND OFDM WITH LOW-COMPLEXITY PHASE NOISE COMPENSATION .........................................................................................................................................................................1407

Xi Chen ; Jiayuan He ; Di Che ; Shieh, W.

FAST WAVELENGTH SWITCHING DP-OFDM TRANSCEIVER IN A 5-NODE 800KM COHERENT OBS NETWORK ...................................................................................................................................................................................................1410

Maher, R. ; Hou-Man Chin ; Thakur, M.P. ; Lavery, D. ; Bayvel, P. ; Savory, S.J. ; Thomsen, B.C.

PRE-AMPLIFIED 64-QAM-OFDM MODULATION OF A COLORLESS LASER DIODE FOR 30 GBIT/S TRANSMISSION WITH ENHANCED SNR............................................................................................................................................1413

Cheng-Ting Tsai ; Min-Chi Cheng ; Gong-Ru Lin

40GBPS 100-KM SSMF VSB-IMDD OFDM TRANSMISSION EXPERIMENT BASED ON SSII CANCELLATION AND FBG-FILTERING ............................................................................................................................................1416

Cheng Ju ; Xue Chen ; Zhiguo Zhang

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF DISCRETE MULTITONE TRANSMISSION IN THE PRESENCE OF OPTICAL NOISE AND CHROMATIC DISPERSION ...................................................................................................................1419

Dochhan, A. ; Nadal, L. ; Griesser, H. ; Eiselt, M. ; Svaluto Moreolo, M. ; Elbers, J.-P.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKING UTILIZING TIME-SLICEABLE BITRATE VARIABLE OFDM TRANSCEIVER ............................................................................................................1422

Fabrega, J.M. ; Svaluto Moreolo, M. ; Vflchez, F.J. ; Rofoee, B.R. ; Ou, Y. ; Amaya, N. ; Zervas, G. ; Simeonidou, D. ; Yoshida, Y. ; Kitayama, K.

WIDELY TUNABLE SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS.............................................................................................................................1425Larson, M.C.

NARROW LINEWIDTH TUNABLE LIGHT SOURCE INTEGRATED WITH DISTRIBUTED REFLECTOR LASER ARRAY ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1450

Kobayashi, G. ; Kiyota, K. ; Kimoto, T. ; Mukaihara, T.

A WIDE BANDWIDTH COHERENT OPTICAL COMB SOURCE BASED ON A MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED MODE-LOCKED RING LASER ...................................................................................................................................1453

Moskalenko, V. ; Latkowski, S. ; de Vries, T. ; Augustin, L.M. ; Leijtens, X.J.M. ; Smit, M.K. ; Bente, E.A.J.M.

AN INTEGRATED HETERODYNE OPTICAL PHASE-LOCKED LOOP WITH RECORD OFFSET LOCKING FREQUENCY ...............................................................................................................................................................................................1456

Mingzhi Lu ; Hyun-Chul Park ; Bloch, E. ; Johansson, L.A. ; Rodwell, M.J. ; Coldren, L.A.

SINGLE QUANTUM DASH MODE-LOCKED LASER AS A COMB-GENERATOR IN FOUR-CHANNEL 112 GBIT/S WDM TRANSMISSION ...............................................................................................................................................................1459

Gay, M. ; O'Hare, A. ; Bramerie, L. ; Hao, Z. ; Fresnel, S. ; Peucheret, C. ; Besnard, P. ; Joshi, S. ; Barbet, S. ; Lelarge, F.

ENABLING AUTONOMIC PROVISIONING IN SDN CLOUD NETWORKS WITH NFV SERVICE CHAINING ...................................................................................................................................................................................................1462

Cannistra, R. ; Carle, B. ; Johnson, M. ; Kapadia, J. ; Meath, Z. ; Miller, M. ; Young, D. ; DeCusatis, C. ; Bundy, T. ; Zussman, G. ; Bergman, K. ; Carranza, A. ; Sher-DeCusatis, C. ; Pletch, A. ; Ransom, R.

PETABIT/S TRANSMISSION USING MULTICORE FIBERS ...........................................................................................................1465Sano, A. ; Takara, H. ; Kobayashi, T. ; Miyamoto, Y.

LONG-HAUL TRANSMISSION USING MULTICORE FIBERS........................................................................................................1468Takahashi, H. ; Igarashi, K. ; Tsuritani, T.

ULTRA-HIGH CAPACITY TRANSMISSION WITH FEW-MODE SILICA AND HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS ..............................................................................................................................................................1471

Sleiffer, V.A.J.M. ; Leoni, P. ; Jung, Y. ; Chen, H. ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Alam, S.U. ; Petrovich, M. ; Poletti, F. ; Wheeler, N.V. ; Baddela, N. ; Hayes, J. ; Numkam Fokoua, E. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Gruner-Nielsen, L. ; Sun, Y. ; de Waardt, H.

SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED TRANSMISSION OVER 3×3 COUPLED-CORE MULTICORE FIBER ..........................1474Ryf, R. ; Fontaine, N.K. ; Montoliu, M. ; Randel, S. ; Chang, S.H. ; Chen, H. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Essiambre, R.-J. ; Winzer, P.J. ; Taru, T. ; Hayashi, T. ; Sasaki, T.

METHODS FOR MAPPING OF LOCAL FIBER CHARACTERISTICS WITH SUBMOLECULAR ACCURACY .................................................................................................................................................................................................1477

Myslivets, E.

NONLINEAR FIBER DESIGNS WITH INTRINSICALLY LOW DISPERSION VARIATIONS ..................................................1480Fini, J.M. ; Gruner-Nielsen, L.

HIGHLY NONLINEAR TELLURITE GLASS FIBER FOR BROADBAND APPLICATIONS......................................................1483Ettabib, M.A. ; Hammani, K. ; Xian Feng ; Bela, M. ; Jindan Shi ; Bogris, A. ; Kapsalis, A. ; Syvridis, D. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Petropoulos, P.

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY AND CROSSTALK OPTIMIZATION IN FOURMODE PHASE-SENSITIVE MULTICASTING MIXER BY VECTORIAL PHASE MANIPULATION .........................................................................................1486

Lan Liu ; Zhi Tong ; Wiberg, A.O.J. ; Myslivets, E. ; Kuo, B.P.P. ; Alic, N. ; Radic, S.

COHERENT RECEPTION AND 126 GHZ BANDWIDTH DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING OF CO-OFDM SUPERCHANNEL GENERATED BY FIBER FREQUENCY CONVERSION .................................................................................1489

Tanimura, T. ; Kato, T. ; Okabe, R. ; Oda, S. ; Richter, T. ; Elschner, R. ; Schmidt-Langhorst, C. ; Schubert, C. ; Rasmussen, J.C. ; Watanabe, S.

TIME-DIVISION HYBRID MODULATION FORMATS: TX OPERATION STRATEGIES AND COUNTERMEASURES TO NONLINEAR PROPAGATION ..............................................................................................................1492

Curri, V. ; Carena, A. ; Poggiolini, P. ; Cigliutti, R. ; Forghieri, F. ; Fludger, C. ; Kupfer, T.

ROBUST AND EFFICIENT RECEIVER-SIDE COMPENSATION METHOD FOR INTRA-CHANNEL NONLINEAR EFFECTS.............................................................................................................................................................................1495

Oyama, T. ; Nakashima, H. ; Oda, S. ; Yamauchi, T. ; Tao, Z. ; Hoshida, T. ; Rasmussen, J.C.

DYNAMICS OF INTRA SUPER-CHANNEL FIBER NONLINEARITY COMPENSATION IN FLEX-GRID OPTICAL NETWORKS .............................................................................................................................................................................1498

Rafique, D. ; Rahman, T. ; Napoli, A. ; Spinnler, B.

MULTI-CHANNEL NONLINEARITY COMPENSATION OF 128-GB/S PDM-QPSK SIGNALS IN DISPERSION-MANAGED TRANSMISSION USING DISPERSION-FOLDED DIGITAL BACKWARD PROPAGATION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1501

Cen Xia ; Xiang Liu ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Fontaine, N.K. ; Likai Zhu ; Li, G.

SIMPLIFIED NONLINEARITY PRE-COMPENSATION USING A MODIFIED SUMMATION CRITERIA AND NON-UNIFORM POWER PROFILE .............................................................................................................................................1504

Gao, Y. ; Karar, A.S. ; Cartledge, J.C. ; Yam, S.S.-H. ; O'Sullivan, M. ; Laperle, C. ; Borowiec, A. ; Roberts, K.

MITIGATING INTRA-CHANNEL NONLINEARITY IN COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS USING ISI-FREE POLYNOMIAL PULSES............................................................................................................................................1507

Karar, A.S. ; Gao, Y. ; Cartledge, J.C. ; Gazor, S. ; O'Sullivan, M. ; Laperle, C. ; Borowiec, A. ; Roberts, K.

EFFICIENT FIBER NONLINEARITY MITIGATION IN 50-GHZ-DWDM TRANSMISSION OF 256-GB/S PDM-16QAM SIGNALS BY FOLDED DIGITAL-BACK-PROPAGATION AND CHANNELIZED FBG-DCMS ......................1510

Xiang Liu ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Winzer, P.J. ; Maheux-L, B. ; Brochu, G. ; Trepanier, F.

PON RESILIENCE ......................................................................................................................................................................................1513Effenberger, F.J.

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF TYPE B PROTECTION FOR TWDM-PON SYSTEM ...................................................................1516Nishitani, T. ; Mizuguchi, J. ; Mukai, H.

FTTDP: ONU COMPLEXITY REDUCTION .........................................................................................................................................1519McGarry, M.P. ; Gurrola, E.

ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN NG-PON2 ...............................................................................................................................................1522Rui Wang ; Bhaumik, P. ; Han-Hyub Lee ; Sang-Soo Lee ; Mukherjee, B.

OPTICAL NETWORK UNIT (ONU) POWER SAVING IN TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXED PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS (TDM-PONS) ....................................................................................................................................................1525

Yuanqiu Luo ; Effenberger, F.

CORRELATION-BASED END-REFLECTION-ASSISTED BRILLOUIN ANALYSIS FOR DISCRIMINATING SMALL BRANCH LENGTH DIFFERENCE ..........................................................................................................................................1528

Takahashi, H. ; Kito, C. ; Ito, F. ; Hotate, K.

FIBER BASED MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING DEVICES FOR FEW MODE FIBER SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXED COMMUNICATIONS ..............................................................................................................................1531

Giles, I.P. ; Rongsheng Chen ; Garcia-Munoz, V.

HOW TO CONNECT MULTICORE AND MULTIMODE FIBERS ...................................................................................................1534Nagase, R.

MODE MULTIPLEXER/DEMULTIPLEXER BASED ON A PARTIALLY ELONGATED MULTI-CORE FIBER ............................................................................................................................................................................................................1537

Uemura, H. ; Sasaki, Y. ; Nishimoto, S. ; Uematsu, T. ; Takenaga, K. ; Omichi, K. ; Goto, R. ; Matsuo, S. ; Saitoh, K.

SPATIAL MODE SWITCHABLE, WAVELENGTH TUNABLE ERBIUM DOPED FIBER LASER INCORPORATING A SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATOR ....................................................................................................................1540

Jung, Y. ; Li, Z. ; Wong, N.H.-L. ; Daniel, J.M.O. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Alam, S.U. ; Richardson, D.J.

ULTRA-SMALL COHERENT MIXER CONSISTS OF 5.5%-∆ ZRO2-SIO2-BASED LOW LOSS PLC......................................1543Takahashi, M. ; Uchida, Y. ; Yamasaki, S. ; Hasegawa, J. ; Yagi, T.

SPOT SIZE CONVERTER WITH CROSS-VERTICAL TAPER FOR LOW-LOSS COUPLING BETWEEN ZRO2-SIO2 PLC AND SMF .......................................................................................................................................................................1546

Yamasaki, S. ; Uchida, Y. ; Takahashi, M. ; Hasegawa, J. ; Yagi, T.

GRAPHENE AND BEYOND FOR ULTRAFAST OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERCONNECTS ........................1549Fengnian Xia

SMALL-SIZED MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER OPTICAL SWITCH USING THIN FILM GE2SB2TE5 PHASE-CHANGE MATERIAL .........................................................................................................................................1552

Moriyama, T. ; Kawashima, H. ; Kuwahara, M. ; Xiaomin Wang ; Asakura, H. ; Tsuda, H.

HIGH-EFFICIENCY THERMAL-TUNABLE MICRORING RESONATORS MADE OF CU-DIELECTRIC-SI HYBRID PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES .................................................................................................................................................1555

Shiyang Zhu ; Lo, G.Q. ; Kwong, D.L.

SILICON WAVEGUIDES AND FILTERS IN HYPERUNIFORM DISORDERED PHOTONIC SOLIDS FOR THE NEAR-INFRARED.............................................................................................................................................................................1558

Milosevic, M.M. ; Florescu, M. ; Weining Man ; Steinhardt, P.J. ; Torquato, S. ; Chaikin, P.M. ; Amoah, T. ; Nahal, G. ; Mullen, R.A.

NOVEL SYNCHRONOUS CLOCK DISTRIBUTION AND RECOVERY FOR HIGH-SPEED UDWDM-OFDMA-BASED MOBILE BACKHAUL ................................................................................................................................................1561

Ming Zhu ; Cvijetic, N. ; Ming-Fang Huang ; Ting Wang ; Gee-Kung Chang

A NOVEL DBA SCHEME FOR TDM-PON BASED MOBILE FRONTHAUL .................................................................................1564Tashiro, T. ; Kuwano, S. ; Terada, J. ; Kawamura, T. ; Tanaka, N. ; Shigematsu, S. ; Yoshimoto, N.

DYNAMIC COMPRESSION METHOD USING WIRELESS RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR DIGITIZED RADIO OVER TDM-PON SYSTEM ........................................................................................................................................................1567

Shibata, N. ; Kuwano, S. ; Terada, J. ; Yoshimoto, N.

JOINT BANDWIDTH PROVISIONING AND CACHE MANAGEMENT FOR VIDEO DISTRIBUTION IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS ...............................................................................................................1570

Li, X. ; Kanonakis, K. ; Cvijetic, N. ; Tanaka, A. ; Qiao, C. ; Wang, T.

DIGITALLY SUB-BANDED COHERENT OPTICAL OFDM TRANSMISSION .............................................................................1573Nazarathy, M. ; Tolmachev, A.

CHANNEL EQUALIZATION BASED ON INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS FOR COHERENT OPTICAL PDM-OFDM ..............................................................................................................................................................................1576

Xiang Li ; Wen-De Zhong ; Alphones, A. ; Changyuan Yu

NONLINEAR-TOLERANT ADAPTIVE ZERO-GUARD-INTERVAL COOFDM FOR HIGHLY SPECTRAL EFFICIENT OPTICAL TRANSMISSION ...............................................................................................................................................1579

Wei Wang ; Qunbi Zhuge ; Xian Xu ; Osman, M. ; Chagnon, M. ; Meng Qiu ; Plant, D.V.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF DATA-DEPENDENT PILOT-AIDED PHASE NOISE ESTIMATION FOR CO-OFDM ................................................................................................................................................................1582

Le, S.T. ; Kanesan, T. ; McCarthy, M.E. ; Giacoumidis, E. ; Phillips, I.D. ; Stephens, M.F.C. ; Tan, M. ; Doran, N.J. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Turitsyn, S.K.

DIRECT-DETECTION MULTI-BAND OFDM METRO NETWORKS EMPLOYING VIRTUAL CARRIERS AND LOW RECEIVER BANDWIDTH....................................................................................................................................................1585

Alves, T.M.F. ; Alberto, A.A.P. ; Cartaxo, A.V.T.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF DIGITAL COHERENT SUPERPOSITION OF OPTICAL OFDM SUBCARRIER PAIRS FOR MITIGATION OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR PHASE NOISE .....................................................1588

Xingwen Yi ; Xuemei Chen ; Chao Li ; Ming Luo ; Qi Yang ; Zhaohui Li ; Kun Qiu

102.4-GB/S SINGLE-POLARIZATION DIRECT-DETECTION RECEPTION USING SIGNAL CARRIER INTERLEAVED OPTICAL OFDM ..........................................................................................................................................................1591

Di Che ; Xi Chen ; Jiayuan He ; An Li ; Shieh, W.

INP MODULATORS WITH LINEAR ACCELERATOR LIKE SEGMENTED ELECTRODE STRUCTURE ...........................1594Kato, T.

AWG-DBR-BASED WDM TRANSMITTER FABRICATED IN AN INP GENERIC FOUNDRY PLATFORM..........................1597Lawniczuk, K. ; Kazmierski, C. ; Wale, M.J. ; Szczepanski, P. ; Piramidowicz, R. ; Smit, M.K. ; Leijtens, X.J.M.

AN INP MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED MULTI-FREQUENCY WAVELENGTH CONVERTER ...................................1600Bontempi, F. ; Andriolli, N. ; Faralli, S. ; Klamkin, J. ; Kleijn, E. ; de Vries, T. ; Contestabile, G.

NEGATIVE-CHIRPED EAM-SOA FOR DISTANCE-INSENSITIVE OPTICAL OFDM TRANSMISSION IN LONG-REACH OFDMA PONS.................................................................................................................................................................1603

Kuo-Chun Chang ; Shin-Wei Shen ; Mao-Chin Hsu ; Yi-Jen Chiu ; Chia-Chien Wei ; Chao-Kuei Lee

A COMPACT LOW-POWER 224-GB/S DP-16QAM MODULATOR MODULE WITH INP-BASED MODULATOR AND LINEAR DRIVER ICS ..........................................................................................................................................1606

Tatsumi, T. ; Itabashi, N. ; Ikagawa, T. ; Kono, N. ; Seki, M. ; Tanaka, K. ; Yamaji, K. ; Fujimura, Y. ; Uesaka, K. ; Nakabayashi, T. ; Shoji, H. ; Ogita, S.

OPTOELECTRONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (OEICS) FOR 100G ETHERNET AND COHERENT NETWORKS BASED ON MULTI-GUIDE VERTICAL INTEGRATION PLATFORM .................................................................1609

Ristic, S. ; Florjanczyk, M. ; Lebby, M.

SMART CYBER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BIG DATA PROCESSING ..........................................................................................1612Makkes, M.X. ; Cushing, R. ; Oprescu, A.-M. ; Koning, R. ; Grosso, P. ; Meijer, R. ; de Laat, C.

100G AND BEYOND ...................................................................................................................................................................................1615Roberts, Kim

SUBCARRIER MULTIPLEXING USING DACS FOR FIBER NONLINEARITY MITIGATION IN COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS....................................................................................................................1642

Meng Qiu ; Qunbi Zhuge ; Xian Xu ; Chagnon, M. ; Morsy-Osman, M. ; Plant, D.V.

NONLINEARITY MITIGATION WITH SPECTRAL SHAPING FOR CHANNEL SPACING GREATER THAN NYQUIST ......................................................................................................................................................................................................1645

Sinkin, Oleg V. ; Foursa, Dmitri G. ; Mazurczyk, Matt V. ; Zhang, Hongbin ; Cai, Jin-Xing ; Sun, Yu ; Pilipetskii, Alexei N.

OPTICAL SPECTRAL SHAPING AND HIGH SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY IN LONG HAUL SYSTEMS...................................1648Mazurczyk, M.

SPECIALTY FIBERS FOR FIBER-OPTIC SENSORS .........................................................................................................................1651Schuster, K. ; Lehmann, H. ; Elsmann, T. ; Habisreuther, T. ; Dochow, S.

PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBERS FOR SENSING APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................1655Berghmans, F. ; Thienpont, H.

ELECTRICAL CURRENT-DRIVEN DUAL-CORE OPTICAL FIBER WITH EMBEDDED METAL ELECTRODES .............................................................................................................................................................................................1658

Zhenggang Lian ; Segura, M. ; Podoliak, N. ; Xian Feng ; White, N. ; Horak, P. ; Loh, W.H.

VOLUME 3

INVERSE-PARABOLIC GRADED-INDEX PROFILE FOR TRANSMISSION OF CYLINDRICAL VECTOR MODES IN OPTICAL FIBERS .................................................................................................................................................................1661

Ung, B. ; Wang, L. ; Brunet, C. ; Vaity, P. ; Jin, C. ; Rusch, L.A. ; Messaddeq, Y. ; LaRochelle, S.

FLAT-TOP BEAM FROM A 50µM-CORE YB-DOPED LEAKAGE CHANNEL FIBER ...............................................................1664Fanting Kong ; Guancheng Gu ; Hawkins, T.W. ; Parsons, J. ; Jones, M. ; Dunn, C. ; Kalichevsky-Dong, M.T. ; Wei, K. ; Samson, B. ; Liang Dong

RECTANGLE LATTICE LARGE MODE AREA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER..........................................................................1667Xin Wang ; Shuqin Lou ; Wenliang Lu

5 × 50 GB/S WDM TRANSMISSION OF 32 GBAUD DP-3-PSK OVER 36,000 KM FIBER WITH SPATIALLY COUPLED LDPC CODING .......................................................................................................................................................................1670

Buchali, F. ; Schmalen, L. ; Klekamp, A. ; Schuh, K. ; Leven, A.

6.3-TB/S UNREPEATERED TRANSMISSION OVER 402-KM FIBER USING HIGH POWER YB-FREE CLAD-PUMPED L-BAND EDFA ..............................................................................................................................................................1673

Zhu, B. ; Borel, P. ; Carlson, K. ; Jiang, X. ; Peckham, D.W. ; Lingle, R. ; Law, M. ; Rooney, J. ; Yan, M.F.

TRANSOCEANIC TRANSMISSION OF DUAL-CARRIER 400G DP-8QAM AT 121.2KM SPAN LENGTH WITH EDFA-ONLY ....................................................................................................................................................................................1676

Shaoliang Zhang ; Yaman, F. ; Ting Wang ; Mateo, E. ; Inoue, T. ; Inada, Y. ; Ogata, T.

1.92 TBIT/S, 64 QAM COHERENT NYQUIST PULSE TRANSMISSION OVER 150 KM WITH A SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY OF 7.5 BIT/S/HZ ................................................................................................................................................................1679

Otuya, D.O. ; Kasai, K. ; Hirooka, T. ; Yoshida, M. ; Nakazawa, M.

BIORTHOGONAL MODULATION IN 8 DIMENSIONS EXPERIMENTALLY IMPLEMENTED AS 2PPM-PS-QPSK .............................................................................................................................................................................................................1682

Eriksson, T.A. ; Johannisson, P. ; Agrell, E. ; Andrekson, P.A. ; Karlsson, M.

2048 QAM (66 GBIT/S) SINGLE-CARRIER COHERENT OPTICAL TRANSMISSION OVER 150 KM WITH A POTENTIAL SE OF 15.3 BIT/S/HZ..........................................................................................................................................................1685

Beppu, S. ; Kasai, K. ; Yoshida, M. ; Nakazawa, M.

ON THE EMULATION OF HIGH SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY SYSTEMS IN LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS .....................1688Charlet, G. ; Tran, P. ; Brindel, P. ; Rios-Muller, R.

FPGA-BASED OPTICAL NETWORK FUNCTION PROGRAMMABLE NODE ............................................................................1691Yan Yan ; Zervas, G. ; Rofoee, B.R. ; Simeonidou, D.

FLEXIBILITY OF PROGRAMMABLE ADD/DROP ARCHITECTURE FOR ROADMS .............................................................1694Garrich, M. ; Oliveira, J.R.F. ; Siqueira, M. ; Amaya, N. ; Zervas, G.S. ; Simeonidou, D. ; Oliveira, J.C.R.F.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION AND BENEFITS OF SELF-HEALING HARD-WIRED AND SYNTHETIC ROADMS..............................................................................................................................................................................1697

Dzanko, M. ; Furdek, M. ; Gonzalez, N.A. ; Zervas, G. ; Mikac, B. ; Simeonidou, D.

IMPLICATIONS OF SUPER-CHANNELS ON COLORLESS, DIRECTIONLESS AND CONTENTIONLESS (CDC) ROADM ARCHITECTURES ........................................................................................................................................................1700

Malik, A. ; Wauford, W. ; Zhong Pan ; Goel, N.K. ; Hand, S. ; Mitchell, M.

QOS OF OPTICAL PACKET METRO NETWORKS ...........................................................................................................................1703Gravey, A. ; Gravey, P. ; Morvan, M. ; Uscumlic, B. ; Sadeghioon, L.

ENHANCEMENT OF FIBER FREQUENCY UTILIZATION BY EMPLOYING GROUPED OPTICAL PATH ROUTING .....................................................................................................................................................................................................1706

Terada, Y. ; Mori, Y. ; Hasegawa, H. ; Sato, K.-I.

HARDWARE SCALE AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF COMPACT OXC ADD/DROP ARCHITECTURE .......................................................................................................................................................................................1709

Ishida, H. ; Hasegawa, H. ; Sato, K.-I.

PON EVOLUTION FOR RESIDENTIAL AND BUSINESS APPLICATIONS ..................................................................................1712O'Byrne, V.

FLEXIBLE TWDM PONS..........................................................................................................................................................................1715Ning Cheng

DELAY MODULATION FOR TWDM PONS.........................................................................................................................................1718Ning Cheng ; Min Zhou ; Litvin, K. ; Effenberger, F.

AUTOMATIC ONU WAVELENGTH CONTROL IN TWDM PONS.................................................................................................1721Ning Cheng ; Effenberger, F.

BENEFICIAL OLT TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER CONCEPTS FOR NG-PON2 USING SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS ......................................................................................................................................1724

Bonk, R. ; Schmuck, H. ; Poehlmann, W. ; Pfeiffer, T.

MEASUREMENT AND MITIGATION OF WAVELENGTH DRIFT DUE TO SELF-HEATING OF TUNABLE BURST-MODE DML FOR TWDM-PON.................................................................................................................................................1727

van Veen, D. ; Pohlmann, W. ; Farah, B. ; Pfeiffer, T. ; Vetter, P.

FLEXIBLE AND AUTOMATED OPERATIONAL CONTROL IN SDN TRANSPORT-BASE VIRTUAL ROUTER .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1730

Hayashitani, M. ; Hasegawa, Y. ; Suzuki, K. ; Mizukoshi, Y.

FIELD DEMONSTRATION OF DATACENTER RESOURCE MIGRATION VIA MULTI-DOMAIN SOFTWARE DEFINED TRANSPORT NETWORKS WITH MULTI-CONTROLLER COLLABORATION.............................1733

Yiming Yu ; Yi Lin ; Jie Zhang ; Yongli Zhao ; Jianrui Han ; Haomian Zheng ; Yadi Cui ; Minglu Xiao ; Hui Li ; Yang Peng ; Yuefeng Ji ; Haifeng Yang

SDN CONCEPT: FROM THEORY TO NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION .....................................................................................1736Tancevski, L.

VARIATION OF OTN SWITCHING BENEFITS IN REAL-WORLD NETWORKS BASED ON NETWORK AND TRAFFIC CONNECTIVITY ............................................................................................................................................................1739

Roy, S. ; Turkcu, O. ; Hand, S. ; Melle, S.

COMPARISON OF CONVERGED PACKET-OPTICAL CORE NETWORK ARCHITECTURES .............................................1742Melle, S. ; Ahuja, S. ; Turkcu, O. ; Hand, S.J.

USING SDN TECHNOLOGY TO ENABLE COST-EFFECTIVE BANDWIDTH-ON-DEMAND FOR CLOUD SERVICES ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1745

Doverspike, R. ; Clapp, G. ; Douyon, P. ; Freimuth, D.M. ; Gullapalli, K. ; Hartley, J. ; Mavrogiorgis, E. ; O'Connor, J. ; Pastor, J. ; Ramakrishnan, K.K. ; Rauch, M.E. ; Stadler, M. ; Von Lehmen, A. ; Wilson, B. ; Woodward, S.L.

100 GB/S PAM4-CAP2 REAL-TIME MODULATION OF A SINGLE OPTICAL SOURCE FOR NEXT-GENERATION DATACOMMUNICATION LINKS..............................................................................................................................1748

Ingham, J.D. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H. ; Cunningham, D.G.

NOVEL HIGH-RESOLUTION OTDR TECHNOLOGY FOR MULTI-GBPS TRANSCEIVERS ..................................................1751Kuznia, C. ; Ahadian, J. ; Pommer, D. ; Hagan, R. ; Bachta, P. ; Wong, M. ; Kusumoto, K. ; Skendzic, S. ; Tabbert, C. ; Beranek, M.W.

60-GB/S CAP-64QAM TRANSMISSION USING DML WITH DIRECT DETECTION AND DIGITAL EQUALIZATION.........................................................................................................................................................................................1754

Junwen Zhang ; Xinying Li ; Yan Xia ; Yufei Chen ; Jianguo Yu ; Xue Chen ; Jiangnan Xiao

DIGITAL QAM MODULATION AND EQUALIZATION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE 400 GBE DATA CENTER MODULES ..................................................................................................................................................................................1757

Lyubomirsky, I. ; Ling, W.A.

50GBIT/S PAM-4 MMF TRANSMISSION USING 1060NM VCSELS WITH REACH BEYOND 200M ......................................1760Pavan, S.K. ; Lavrencik, J. ; Shubochkin, R. ; Sun, Y. ; Kim, J. ; Vaidya, D. ; Lingle, R. ; Kise, T. ; Ralph, S.E.

EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS OF THE IMPACT OF MULTI-PATH INTERFERENCE ON PAM SIGNALS.......................................................................................................................................................................................................1763

Fludger, C.R.S. ; Mazzini, M. ; Kupfer, T. ; Traverso, M.

LOW NOISE AND REGENERATIVE PHASE SENSITIVE AMPLIFIER BASED ON PPLN WAVEGUIDES ..........................1766Umeki, T. ; Asobe, M. ; Takara, H. ; Tadanaga, O. ; Enbutsu, K. ; Miyamoto, Y. ; Takenouchi, H.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF OPTICAL NYQUIST GENERATION OF 32-GBAUD QPSK USING A COMB-BASED TUNABLE OPTICAL TAPPED-DELAY-LINE FIR FILTER ...............................................................1769

Ziyadi, M. ; Chitgarha, M.R. ; Mohajerin-Ariaei, A. ; Khaleghi, S. ; Almaiman, A. ; Willner, M.J. ; Touch, J. ; Tur, M. ; Paraschis, L. ; Langrock, C. ; Fejer, M.M. ; Willner, A.E.

NONLINEARITY-TOLERANT FREQUENCY DOMAIN ROOT M-SHAPED PULSE FOR SPECTRALLY EFFICIENT COHERENT TRANSMISSIONS ........................................................................................................................................1772

Xian Xu ; Zhuge, Q. ; Chatelain, B. ; Meng Qiu ; Chagnon, M. ; Morsy-Osman, M. ; Wei Wang ; Plant, D.V.

A HIGHLY-INTEGRATED OPTICAL FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER BASED ON PHASE-LOCKED LOOPS ......................1775Mingzhi Lu ; Hyun-Chul Park ; Bloch, E. ; Johansson, L.A. ; Rodwell, M.J. ; Coldren, L.A.

COST-EFFECTIVE OPTICAL NYQUIST PULSE GENERATOR WITH ULTRAFLAT OPTICAL SPECTRUM USING DUAL-PARALLEL MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATORS ......................................................................................................1778

Qiang Wang ; Li Huo ; Yanfei Xing ; Caiyun Lou ; Bingkun Zhou

ACCURATE BIT ERROR RATIO MONITOR BY SPECTRAL FILTERING AND OPTICAL POWER MEASUREMENTS ......................................................................................................................................................................................1781

Oda, S. ; Yamauchi, T. ; Jeng-Yuan Yang ; Akasaka, Y. ; Vassilieva, O. ; Aoki, Y. ; Sekiya, M. ; Rasmussen, J.C.

ROBUST AUTONOMOUS SOFTWARE-DEFINED COHERENT OPTICAL RECEIVER ...........................................................1784Isautier, P. ; Jie Pan ; Ralph, S.E.

EXPERIMENT TURBULENCE COMPENSATION OF 50-GBAUD/S ORBITAL-ANGULAR-MOMENTUM QPSK SIGNALS USING INTENSITY-ONLY BASED SPGD ALGORITHM ...................................................................................1787

Guodong Xie ; Yongxiong Ren ; Hao Huang ; Lavery, M.P.J. ; Ahmed, N. ; Yan Yan ; Changjing Bao ; Long Li ; Zhe Zhao ; Yinwen Cao ; Willner, M. ; Padgett, M.J. ; Tur, M. ; Dolinar, S.J. ; Boyd, R.W. ; Shapiro, J.H. ; Willner, A.E.

DEGENERATE MODE-GROUP DIVISION MULTIPLEXING USING DELAYED ADAPTIVE FREQUENCY-DOMAIN EQUALIZATION ......................................................................................................................................................................1790

Kai Shi ; Gordon, G.S.D. ; Thomsen, B.C.

FIRST EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF A TIME DOMAIN MULTIPLEXED SDM RECEIVER FOR MIMO TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................................1793

van Uden, R.G.H. ; Okonkwo, C.M. ; Chen, H. ; Huijskens, F.M. ; de Waardt, H. ; Koonen, A.M.J.

ULTRA-HIGH 230-BIT/S/HZ SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY USING OFDM/OQAM 64-QAM SIGNALS OVER POL-MUXED 22 ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM) MODES .........................................................................................1796

Jian Wang ; Shuhui Li ; Chao Li ; Long Zhu ; Chengcheng Gui ; Dequan Xie ; Ying Qiu ; Qi Yang ; Shaohua Yu

SUPERCHANNEL FOR NEXT-GENERATION OPTICAL NETWORKS ........................................................................................1799Xiang Liu ; Chandrasekhar, S.

COHERENT TRANSMITTERS AND RECEIVERS FOR PLUGGABLE MODULES ....................................................................1832Chen, Y.K.

128-GB/S DP-QPSK USING LOW-LOSS MONOLITHIC SILICON IQ MODULATOR INTEGRATED WITH PARTIAL-RIB POLARIZATION ROTATOR........................................................................................................................................1835

Goi, K. ; Kusaka, H. ; Oka, A. ; Ogawa, K. ; Tsung-Yang Liow ; Xiaoguang Tu ; Guo-Qiang Lo ; Dim-Lee Kwong

SIMPLE THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMPLEX MODULATOR ...........................................................................................................1838Yamazaki, H. ; Hashizume, Y. ; Saida, T.

INTEGRATED PHOTONIC COHERENT RECEIVERS......................................................................................................................1841Masanovic, M.L.

MONOLITHIC COHERENT RECEIVER BASED ON 120-DEGREE OPTICAL HYBRIDS ON SILICON ...............................1844Po Dong ; Chongjin Xie ; Buhl, L.L.

INP COHERENT RECEIVER CHIP WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE AND MANUFACTURABILITY FOR CFP2 MODULES .........................................................................................................................................................................................1847

Farwell, S. ; Aivaliotis, P. ; Qian, Y. ; Bromley, P. ; Griggs, R. ; Hoe, J.N.Y. ; Smith, C. ; Jones, S.

ADAPTIVE PHOTONIC-ASSISTED M-ARY ASK/M-QAM MILLIMETER-WAVE SYNTHESIS IN MULTI-ANTENNA RADIO-OVER-FIBER SYSTEM..........................................................................................................................................1850

Ming Zhu ; Lin Cheng ; Jing Wang ; Cheng Liu ; Gee-Kung Chang

FREQUENCY-HOPPING MICROWAVE WAVEFORM GENERATION BASED ON A FREQUENCY-TUNABLE OPTOELECTRONIC OSCILLATOR .................................................................................................................................1853

Wangzhe Li ; Weifeng Zhang ; Jianping Yao

TUNABLE QAM TRANSMITTER BASED ON DIRECT MODULATION LASER ........................................................................1856Kakande, J. ; Slavik, R. ; Phelan, R. ; O'Carroll, J. ; Kelly, B. ; Richardson, D.J.

PHOTONICS-BASED RADIO-FREQUENCY ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION ........................................................1859Weiner, A.M.

ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A 3-WAY HANDSHAKE SIGNALING PROTOCOL FOR HIGHLY DYNAMIC TRANSPORT NETWORKS..................................................................................................................................................1887

Skoog, R. ; Gannett, J. ; Kim, K. ; Kobrinski, H. ; Rauch, M. ; Von Lehmen, A. ; Wilson, B.

E2E TRAFFIC ENGINEERING ROUTING FOR TRANSPORT SDN ...............................................................................................1890Iovanna, P. ; Ubaldi, F. ; Di Michele, F. ; Fernandez-Palacios Gimenez, J.P. ; Lopez, V.

IMPACT OF IP LAYER ROUTING POLICY ON MULTI-LAYER DESIGN ..................................................................................1893Palkopoulou, E. ; Gerstel, O. ; Stiakogiannakis, I. ; Telkamp, T. ; Lopez, V. ; Tomkos, I.

IMPACT OF INTERNET PEERING ON NETWORK ARCHITECTURES AND ECONOMICS ..................................................1896Turner, B.

100 GBIT/S DP-QPSK TRANSMISSION OVER A 32 KM LEGACY MULTI-MODE GI FIBER USING A REAL-TIME DIGITAL COHERENT TRANSCEIVER ........................................................................................................................1899

Hirooka, T. ; Nakazawa, M. ; Komukai, T. ; Sakano, T.

10-GB/S, 20-KM VCSEL OPTICAL ACCESS LINK AT 1.5 µM WITH 23-DB POWER BUDGET...............................................1902Jingjing Zhou ; Yu Changyuan ; Hoon Kim

20 GB/S MODE-GROUP-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING EMPLOYING HERMITE-GAUSSIAN LAUNCHES OVER WORST-CASE MULTIMODE FIBER LINKS ..........................................................................................................................1905

Yunxi Li ; Ingham, J.D. ; Olle, V.F. ; Gordon, G. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.

A 30 GB/S FULL-DUPLEX BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION OPTICAL WIRELESS-OVER FIBER INTEGRATION SYSTEM AT W-BAND .................................................................................................................................................1908

Chanjuan Tang ; Xinying Li ; Fan Li ; Junwen Zhang ; Jiangnan Xiao

A DATA-AIDED AMPLITUDE AND PHASE EQUALIZER FOR DIRECT-DETECTION OPTICAL OFDM...........................1911Chenxi Hao ; Xuelin Yang ; Weisheng Hu ; Chenglin Bai

A SOFTWARE-DEFINED TIME SYNCHRONIZATION SOLUTION IN TRANSPORT NETWORKS ......................................1914Liuyan Han ; Han Li ; Lei Wang ; Nan Hua

ALL-OPTICAL TREE-BASED GREEDY ROUTER .............................................................................................................................1917Sahhaf, S. ; Dixit, A. ; Tavernier, W. ; Colle, D. ; Pickavet, M. ; Demeester, P.

ANALYSIS OF EXTENDED RANGE VARIABLE GAIN HYBRID RAMAN-EDFAS IN SYSTEMS USING NYQUIST-WDM 100/200G PM-QPSK/16QAM ......................................................................................................................................1920

Forysiak, W. ; Govan, D.S. ; McClean, I. ; Nayar, B.K. ; Olubodun, O.A. ; Doran, N.J.

ASYNCHRONOUS MDM-OCDM-BASED 10G-PON OVER 40KM-SMF AND 2KM-TMF USING MODE MUX/DEMUX AT REMOTE NODE AND OLT .....................................................................................................................................1923

Kodama, T. ; Isoda, T. ; Morita, K. ; Maruta, A. ; Maruyama, R. ; Kuwaki, N. ; Matsuo, S. ; Wada, N. ; Cincotti, G. ; Kitayama, K.-I.

BROADBAND PREDISTORTION CIRCUIT DESIGN FOR ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATOR IN RADIO OVER FIBER SYSTEM ...............................................................................................................................................................1926

Ran Zhu ; Xiupu Zhang

CALCULATING AVAILABILITY BOUNDS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS AND IP NETWORK TOPOLOGIES .........................1929Weston-Dawkes, J.

CAPEX MODEL AND ANALYSIS FOR METRO NETWORKS: DWDM VS. PACKET ...............................................................1932Ming Xia ; Dahlfort, S. ; Lu, L.L. ; Guangquan Wang ; Shen, S.

CHANNELIZED CHROMATIC DISPERSION COMPENSATION FOR XPM SUPPRESSION AND SIMPLIFIED DIGITAL SPM COMPENSATION ..................................................................................................................................1935

Du, L.B. ; Lowery, A.J.

COHERENT OPTICAL TRANSMISSION AT 40 AND 100 GBPS OVER 1000 KM OF DCF-FREE G.652 AND G.655 FIBRE INFRASTRUCTURE ..........................................................................................................................................................1938

Zia-Chahabi, O. ; Grot, D. ; Guillossou, T. ; Pincemin, E.

CONSTELLATION EXPANSION AND MULTI-SYMBOL DETECTION FOR DIFFERENTIALLY ENCODED 100G SYSTEMS ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1941

Leoni, P. ; Sleiffer, V. ; Calabro, S. ; Lankl, B.

COST TRADEOFFS IN CONVERGED METRO NETWORKS DESIGNS .......................................................................................1944Hernandez-Valencia, E. ; Mezhoudi, M. ; Tang, B.

COST-EFFICIENT DESIGN OF FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS IMPLEMENTED BY ARCHITECTURE ON DEMAND ...............................................................................................................................................................................................1947

Muhammad, A. ; Zervas, G.S. ; Amaya, N. ; Simeonidou, D. ; Forchheimer, R.

DELAYED SELF-HOMODYNE DETECTION FOR OFDM-PON DOWNSTREAM ......................................................................1950Rong Hu ; Tao Gui ; Zhaohui Li ; Haibo Li ; Chao Li ; Cai Li ; Xiao Xiao ; Qi Yang ; Shaohua Yu ; Xi Chen ; Shieh, W.

DEMONSTRATION AND NETWORK SCALABILITY ANALYSIS OF 8-FIBER-DELAY-LINE SOA-BASED OPTICAL BUFFER EMBEDDED OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING ..............................................................................................1953

Furukawa, H. ; Shinada, S. ; Miyazawa, T. ; Hirayama, T. ; Wada, N. ; Harai, H.

DEMONSTRATION OF OPENFLOW-ENABLED TRAFFIC AND NETWORK ADAPTIVE TRANSPORT SDN ...................1956Ji, P.N. ; Xia, T.J. ; Junqiang Hu ; Ming-Fang Huang ; Aono, Y. ; Tajima, T. ; Wellbrock, G.A. ; Ting Wang

DEMONSTRATION OF REAL-TIME 1.2 TB/S TRANSMISSION OVER 4 TYPES OF FIBER WITH NYQUIST WDM PROTOTYPE SYSTEM ..................................................................................................................................................................1959

Chengliang Zhang ; Yufei Chen ; Runhan Wang ; Xue Chen ; Junjie Li ; Yiran Ma ; Qi Zhang ; Hongyan Zhou ; Zheng Yan ; Bailin Shen ; Qinmin Zhou ; Dongdong Shang ; Chao Ge

DEVELOPMENT OF LC TYPE OPTICAL VISUAL CONNECTION IDENTIFIER (V.C.I) FOR MULTIMODE FIBER ............................................................................................................................................................................................................1962

Suzuki, K. ; Nakatani, Y. ; Kojima, S. ; Sato, T. ; Sueoka, T. ; Nishikawa, T.

DIGITAL BACK-PROPAGATION FOR HIGH SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY TERABIT/S SUPERCHANNELS .........................1965Liga, G. ; Tianhua Xu ; Galdino, L. ; Killey, R. ; Bayvel, P.

DIGITAL ORTHOGONAL FILTERED OPTICAL OFDM FOR ELASTIC PONS..........................................................................1968Bolea, M. ; Giddings, R.P. ; Tang, J.M.

DOWSTREAM AND UPSTREAM NYQUIST BAND OPTIMIZATION FOR HETERODYNE COHERENT PON ................................................................................................................................................................................................................1971

Reis, J.D. ; Shahpari, A. ; Ferreira, R. ; Neves, D.M. ; Lima, M. ; Teixeira, A.L.

DUAL-WAVELENGTH CLOCK RECOVERY WITH SIMULTANEOUS FOURFOLD DEMULTIPLEXING USING AN OPTOELECTRONIC OSCILLATOR .................................................................................................................................1974

Qiang Wang ; Li Huo ; Yanfei Xing ; Dong Wang ; Xin Chen ; Caiyun Lou ; Bingkun Zhou

ENERGY AND SPECTRUM EFFICIENCY WITH MULTI-FLOW TRANSPONDERS AND ELASTIC REGENERATORS IN SURVIVABLE FLEXIBLE BANDWIDTH VIRTUAL OPTICAL NETWORKS .....................................1977

Bowen Chen ; Weisheng Xie ; Jie Zhang ; Jue, J.P. ; Yongli Zhao ; Shanguo Huang ; Wanyi Gu

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF A COGNITIVE OPTICAL NETWORK FOR REDUCTION OF RESTORATION TIME...............................................................................................................................................................................1980

Kachris, C. ; Klonidis, D. ; Francescon, A. ; Siracusa, D. ; Salvadori, E. ; Fernandez, N. ; Jimenez, T. ; Duran, R.J. ; de Miguel, I. ; Aguado, J.C. ; Lorenzo, R.M. ; Borkowski, R. ; Caballero, A. ; Tafur Monroy, I. ; Yabin, Ye. ; Tymecki, A. ; Tomkos, I.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF RECONFIGURABLE LONG-REACH ULTRAFLOW ACCESS: SOFTWARE-DEFINED DUAL-MODE NETWORKS...........................................................................................................................1983

Shen, T.S.R. ; Shuang Yin ; Dhaini, A.R. ; Kazovsky, L.G.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF ROBUSTNESS AND ACCURACY OF AN MZI-BASED OSNR MONITOR UNDER TRANSMITTER DRIFT AND RECONFIGURABLE NETWORKING CONDITIONS FOR POL-MUXED 25-GBAUD QPSK AND 16-QAM CHANNELS .............................................................................................................1986

Almaiman, A. ; Chitgarha, M.R. ; Daab, W. ; Ziyadi, M. ; Mohajerin-Ariaei, A. ; Khaleghi, S. ; Willner, M. ; Vusirikala, V. ; Zhao, X. ; Kilper, D. ; Paraschis, L. ; Ahsan, A. ; Wang, M. ; Bergman, K. ; Tur, M. ; Touch, J.D. ; Willner, A.E.

EXPLOITING DEGRADED-SERVICE TOLERANCE TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE OF TELECOM NETWORKS.................................................................................................................................................................................................1989

Savas, S.S. ; Habib, M.F. ; Tornatore, M. ; Mukherjee, B.

FEC OVERHEAD AND FIBER NONLINEARITY MITIGATION: PERFORMANCE AND POWER CONSUMPTION TRADEOFFS ................................................................................................................................................................1992

Rafique, D. ; Rahman, T. ; Napoli, A. ; Calabro, S. ; Spinnler, B.

FIBER-NONLINEARITY LIMITATION OF TRANSMISSION DISTANCES IN ULTRA-DENSE GRIDLESS PHOTONIC NETWORKS..........................................................................................................................................................................1995

Mori, Y. ; Hasegawa, H. ; Sato, K.-I.

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF A WAVELENGTH SWEPT DISCOVERY PROCESS FOR λ-TUNABLE WDM/TDM-PON SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................1998

Sarashina, M. ; Tamai, H. ; Furusawa, S. ; Suzuki, A. ; Kashima, M. ; Mukojima, T. ; Kaneko, S. ; Yoshida, T. ; Kimura, S. ; Yoshimoto, N.

GLOBAL ROADM-BASED SPECTRUM EQUALIZER IN SDN ARCHITECTURE FOR QOT OPTIMIZATION AT DWDM NETWORKS ...........................................................................................................................................2001

Magalhaes, E. ; Oliveira, J. ; Carvalho, H. ; Magalhaes, M. ; Garrich, M. ; Siqueira, M. ; Bordonalli, A. ; Oliveira, J.

HIGH DEGREE OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECT BASED ON MULTICAST SWITCH ...................................................................2004Zami, T.

HIGH LINEARITY DOWNCONVERTING ANALOG PHOTONIC LINK BASED ON DIGITAL SIGNAL POST-COMPENSATION ...........................................................................................................................................................................2007

Zheng Niu ; Yu Hongchen ; Minghua Chen ; Pengxiao Li ; Hongwei Chen ; Shizhong Xie

IMPROVEMENT OF CONTINUOUS-VARIABLE QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM BY USING A PRACTICAL NOISELESS LINEAR AMPLIFIER ................................................................................................................................2010

Yi-Chen Zhang ; Song Yu ; Wanyi Gu

IMPROVED ROBUSTNESS TO SYNCHRONIZATION ERRORS WITH A NOVEL WINDOWING TECHNIQUE FOR 40GHZ 64-QAM OFDM-ROF SYSTEM ...............................................................................................................2013

Fan Li ; Yu Jianjun ; Junwen Zhang ; Lin Chen ; Xinying Li ; Jiangnan Xiao ; Gee-Kung Chang

INVESTIGATION ON BURST-MODE INTER-CHANNEL CROSSTALK IN XG-PON AND TWDM-PON ..............................2016Han Hyub Lee ; Hee Yeal Rhy ; Gwang Yong Yi ; Jong Hyun Lee ; Sangsoo Lee

JITTER IMPACT ON MOBILE FRONTHAUL LINKS .......................................................................................................................2019Diallo, T.A. ; Pizzinat, A. ; Chanclou, P. ; Saliou, F. ; Deletre, F. ; Aupetit-Berthelemot, C.

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OPTICAL FLOWBROKER: LOAD-BALANCING IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED MULTI-DOMAIN OPTICAL NETWORKS.................................................................................................................................................................................................2028

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OPTICAL MULTIPLEXING OF ASYNCHRONOUS OOK AND DQPSK SIGNALS IN PPLN WAVEGUIDE .........................2031Malacarne, A. ; Pinna, S. ; Bogoni, A.

OPTIMIZATION DESIGN FOR MULTI-DOMAIN OPTICAL NETWORK PROTECTION........................................................2034Liang, K. ; Bai, H. ; Rahnamay-Naeini, M. ; Xu, F. ; Batayneh, M. ; Hayat, M. ; Ghani, N.

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PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF GA, ROA, AND TSA FOR SOLVING THE MAX-RWA PROBLEM IN OPTICAL NETWORKS .............................................................................................................................................................................2040

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PERFORMANCE DEPENDENCE OF SINGLE-CARRIER DIGITAL BACK-PROPAGATION ON FIBER TYPES AND DATA RATES.......................................................................................................................................................................2043

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PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS OF LARGE-SCALE OXC THAT ACHIEVES MODULAR AND HITLESS EXPANSION.................................................................................................................................................................................................2046

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PHOTONIC ARCHITECTURE FOR BEAM FORMING OF RF PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA ..................................................2049Akiba, S. ; Oishi, M. ; Nishikawa, Y. ; Minoguchi, K. ; Hirokawa, J. ; Ando, M.

POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE PHASE-TRANSMULTIPLEXING OF CSRZOOK AND RZ-BPSK TO RZ-QPSK VIA XPM IN A PCF.........................................................................................................................................................................2052

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PROPER SELECTION FOR MODULATION RANDOMNESS OF TRAINING SEQUENCE FOR EFFICIENT OPTICAL DMT TRANSMISSION ...........................................................................................................................................................2058

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QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF NON-LINEAR IMPAIRMENTS ON BLOCKING LOAD IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS .............................................................................................................................................................................2061

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REDUCING NONLINEAR DISTORTION IN OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION USING A MIDWAY PHASE-SHIFTING FILTER......................................................................................................................................................................2064

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SMOOTH QUICK-IN AND FADE-OUT OPERATIONS-ENABLED EMERGENCY OPTICAL NETWORKS FOR DISASTER RECOVERY...................................................................................................................................................................2067

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SPECTRUM ALLOCATION FOR TIME-VARYING TRAFFIC IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS USING TRAFFIC PATTERN ..................................................................................................................................................................................2070

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STATIC ROUTING AND SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT IN CO-EXISTING FIXED/FLEX GRID OPTICAL NETWORKS.................................................................................................................................................................................................2073

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SUITABILITY OF 130 GB/S AND 260 GB/S REAL TIME TRANSPONDERS FOR ADVANCED A/D STAGES IN WAVELENGTH CROSS-CONNECTS ...............................................................................................................................................2076

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SYMMETRIC 100-GB/S TWDM-PON WITH DSB OFDM MODULATION ....................................................................................2079Yuanbao Luo ; Bangjiang Lin ; Hui Yang ; Juhao Li ; Yongqi He ; Zhangyuan Chen ; Zhengbin Li

TIME VARYING ISI MODEL FOR NONLINEAR INTERFERENCE NOISE.................................................................................2082Dar, R. ; Feder, M. ; Mecozzi, A. ; Shtaif, M.

TOWARD 20 GBPS UPSTREAM FDMA-PON REAL-TIME AND LOW-SPEED DSP DEMONSTRATOR ..............................2085Straullu, S. ; Nespola, A. ; Savio, P. ; Chang, J. ; Ferrero, V. ; Charbonnier, B. ; Abrate, S. ; Gaudino, R.

ULTRA-COMPACT CONTENTIONLESS ROADM ARCHITECTURE WITH HIGH RESILIENCE BASED ON FLEXIBLE WAVELENGTH ROUTER ...................................................................................................................................................2088

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ULTRA-FAST ALL-OPTICAL SELF-AWARE PROTECTION SWITCHING BASED ON A BISTABLE LASER DIODE ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................2091

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COMPLEXITY AND FLEXIBLE GRID NETWORKS .........................................................................................................................2094Tornatore, M. ; Rottondi, C. ; Rizzelli, G. ; Morea, A.

DYNAMIC DIFFERENTIAL DELAY AWARE RMSA FOR ELASTIC MULTI-PATH PROVISIONING IN GMPLS FLEXI-GRID DWDM NETWORKS .........................................................................................................................................2097

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GREEN GROOMING IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS.............................................................................................................2100Ying Wu ; Weigang Hou ; Lei Guo ; Yejun Liu ; Zhimin Sun

ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF IP-OVER-ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH SLICEABLE OPTICAL TRANSPONDER..........................................................................................................................................................................................2103

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OPEX SAVINGS BY REDUCTION OF STOCK OF SPARE PARTS WITH SLICEABLE BANDWIDTH VARIABLE TRANSPONDERS .................................................................................................................................................................2106

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EFFECT OF LINK MARGINS AND FREQUENCY GRANULARITY ON THE PERFORMANCE AND MODULATION FORMAT SWEET SPOT OF MULTIPLE FLEXGRID OPTICAL NETWORKS ..............................................2109

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ADAPTIVE FEC SELECTION FOR LIGHTPATHS IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS ........................................................2112Yongcheng Li ; Hua Dai ; Gangxiang Shen ; Bose, S.K.

CROSSTALK ANALYSIS OF FSK LIGHT LABEL ON 112 GBPS DP-QPSK SIGNAL IN CNCG ROADM NETWORK ...................................................................................................................................................................................................2115

Nakagawa, G. ; Oda, S. ; Sone, K. ; Aoki, Y. ; Hironishi, K. ; Tanimura, T. ; Hoshida, T. ; Rasmussen, J.C.

PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT 8QAM CONSTELLATIONS FOR THE USE IN FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS........................................................................................................................................................2118

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OVER 10-TBIT/S/PORT OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING USING POLARIZATION-MULTIPLEXED DWDM/16-QAM PACKETS ......................................................................................................................................................................2121

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NON-DATA-AIDED FEEDFORWARD TIMING RECOVERY FOR FLEXIBLE TRANSCEIVERS EMPLOYING PDM-MQAM MODULATIONS ......................................................................................................................................2124

Morsy-Osman, M. ; Chagnon, M. ; Zhuge, Q. ; Xian Xu ; Plant, D.V.

OPTICAL COMB-ENABLED COST-EFFECTIVE ROADM SCHEME FOR ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS ...................2127Paikun Zhu ; Juhao Li ; Luoping Niu ; Yingying Xu ; Yuanxiang Chen ; Xiaopeng Xie ; Xin Chen ; Bingli Guo ; Zhangyuan Chen ; Yongqi He

OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING NODE DESIGN FOR 400 G SOFTWARE-DEFINED OPTICAL NETWORKING WITH COHERENT DETECTION .............................................................................................................................2130

Ze Dong ; Jianjun Yu ; Yufei Chen ; Yan Xia ; Xue Chen

INP-BASED HIGH-SPEED TRANSPONDER.........................................................................................................................................2133Griffin, R.A.

NEW OTDR MEASUREMENT AND MONITORING TECHNIQUES ..............................................................................................2136Champavere, A.

10-TIMES BROADENED FAST OPTICAL FREQUENCY SWEEPING FOR HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION OFDR .............................................................................................................................................................................................................2139

Dan Xu ; Jiangbing Du ; Xinyu Fan ; Qingwen Liu ; Zuyuan He

HIGH-DIMENSIONAL STOKES-SPACE ANALYSIS FOR MONITORING FAST CHANGE OF MODE DISPERSION IN FEW-MODE FIBERS ..................................................................................................................................................2142

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MEASUREMENT OF DISTRIBUTED MODAL BIREFRINGENCE IN A FEW-MODE FIBER BASED ON BRILLOUIN DYNAMIC GRATING ........................................................................................................................................................2145

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MODAL CROSSTALK MEASUREMENT BASED ON INTENSITY TONE FOR FEW-MODE FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS .....................................................................................................................................................................2148

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MEASUREMENT OF INTRAMODAL AND INTERMODAL BRILLOUIN GAIN SPECTRA IN A FEW-MODE FIBER ............................................................................................................................................................................................................2151

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MEASUREMENT OF MODE COUPLING DISTRIBUTION ALONG A FEW-MODE FIBER USING A SYNCHRONOUS MULTI-CHANNEL OTDR ........................................................................................................................................2154

Nakazawa, M. ; Yoshida, M. ; Hirooka, T.

MODELING RAMAN AMPLIFICATION IN MULTIMODE AND MULTICORE FIBERS ..........................................................2157Antonelli, C. ; Mecozzi, A. ; Shtaif, M.

QUASI PHASE-MATCHED FOPA WITH 50 NM GAIN BANDWIDTH USING DISPERSION STABLE HIGHLY NONLINEAR FIBER.................................................................................................................................................................2160

Takasaka, S. ; Taniguchi, Y. ; Takahashi, M. ; Hiroshi, J. ; Tadakuma, M. ; Matsuura, H. ; Doi, K. ; Sugizaki, R.

CHARACTERIZATION OF A FIBER-OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER IN A 5 × 28-GBD 16-QAM DWDM SYSTEM .........................................................................................................................................................................................2163

Sackey, I. ; Elschner, R. ; Nolle, M. ; Richter, T. ; Molle, L. ; Meuer, C. ; Jazayerifar, M. ; Warm, S. ; Petermann, K. ; Schubert, C.

WAVELENGTH ASSIGNMENT DEPENDENCY OF AGC EDFA GAIN OFFSET UNDER DYNAMIC OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCHING ..........................................................................................................................................................2166

Ishii, K. ; Kurumida, J. ; Namiki, S.

A FULLY-INTEGRATED IN-BAND OSNR MONITOR USING A WAVELENGTH-TUNABLE SILICON MICRORING RESONATOR AND PHOTODIODE ..............................................................................................................................2169

Qi Li ; Padmaraju, K. ; Logan, D.F. ; Ackert, J.J. ; Knights, A.P. ; Bergman, K.

CLOCK RECOVERY OF PHASE MODULATED OPTICAL OFDM SUPERCHANNEL .............................................................2172Power, M.J. ; Jia, W. ; Webb, R.P. ; Manning, R.J. ; Garcia Gunning, F.C.

ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL CLOCK RECOVERY BASED ON PHASE-ONLY LINEAR OPTICAL FILTERING..................................................................................................................................................................................................2175

Maram, R. ; Deming Kong ; Galili, M. ; Oxenlowe, L.K. ; Azana, J.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF ALL-OPTICAL PHASE NOISE MITIGATION OF 40-GBITS/S QPSK SIGNALS BY MIXING DIFFERENTIALLY DELAYED NONLINEAR PRODUCTS ........................................................2178

Mohajerin-Ariaei, A. ; Chitgarha, M.R. ; Ziyadi, M. ; Khaleghi, S. ; Almaiman, A. ; Willner, M.J. ; Touch, J. ; Yang, J.-Y. ; Akasaka, Y. ; Sekiya, M. ; Tur, M. ; Paraschis, L. ; Langrock, C. ; Fejer, M.M. ; Willner, A.E.

COUNTER-DITHERING PUMP SCHEME FOR CASCADED DEGENERATE FWM BASED WAVELENGTH CONVERTER...............................................................................................................................................................................................2181

Hung Nguyen Tan ; Inoue, T. ; Tanizawa, K. ; Petit, S. ; Oikawa, Y. ; Takasaka, S. ; Yagi, T. ; Namiki, S.

SIMULTANEOUS PHASE REGENERATION OF COWDM BPSK SIGNALS BY HYBRID OPTICAL PHASE SQUEEZER ..................................................................................................................................................................................................2184

Kurosu, T. ; Mingyi Gao ; Namiki, S.

1THZ-BANDWIDTH POLARIZATION-DIVERSE OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION OF 10×114GB/S DP-QPSK WDM SIGNALS ...............................................................................................................................................................................2187

Stephens, M.F.C. ; Tan, M. ; Phillips, I.D. ; Sygletos, S. ; Harper, P. ; Doran, N.J.

AN OPTICAL PHASE QUANTISER EXHIBITING SUPPRESSED PHASE DEPENDENT GAIN VARIATION ......................2190Bottrill, K.R.H. ; Hesketh, G. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Horak, P. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Petropoulos, P.

NEARLY-IDEAL OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION BASED NONLINEAR COMPENSATION SYSTEM............................2193Solis-Trapala, K. ; Inoue, T. ; Namiki, S.

C AND L BAND SELF-SEEDED WDM-PON LINKS USING INJECTIONLOCKED FABRY-PÉROT LASERS AND MODULATION AVERAGING........................................................................................................................................................2196

Komljenovic, T. ; Babic, D. ; Sipus, Z.

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF A FULL C-BAND TUNABLE WDM-PON SYSTEM WITH NOVEL HIGH-TEMPERATURE DS-DBR LASERS ........................................................................................................................................................2199

Pachnicke, S. ; Zhu, J. ; Lawin, M. ; Wonfor, A. ; Eiselt, M. ; Penty, R.V. ; Cush, R. ; Turner, R. ; Firth, P. ; Wale, M.J. ; White, I.H. ; Elbers, J.-P.

NYQUIST SIGNALING FOR SPECTRALLY-EFFICIENT OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS....................................................2202Reis, J.D. ; Shahpari, A. ; Ferreira, R. ; Neves, D.M. ; Lima, M. ; Teixeira, A.L.

OPERATION OF A RSOA WDM PON SELF-SEEDED TRANSMITTER OVER MORE THAN 50 KM OF SSMF UP TO 10 GB/S .................................................................................................................................................................................2205

Parolari, P. ; Marazzi, L. ; Brunero, M. ; Martinelli, M. ; Maho, A. ; Barbet, S. ; Lelarge, F. ; Brenot, R. ; Gavioli, G. ; Simon, G. ; Saliou, F. ; Deniel, Q. ; Chanclou, P.

70KM EXTERNAL CAVITY DWDM SOURCES BASED ON O-BAND SELF SEEDED RSOAS FOR TRANSMISSIONS AT 2.5GBIT/S .............................................................................................................................................................2208

Simon, G. ; Saliou, F. ; Chanclou, P. ; Deniel, Q. ; Erasme, D. ; Brenot, R.

FIRST SYSTEM DEMONSTRATION OF HITLESS λ-TUNING SEQUENCE FOR DYNAMIC WAVELENGTH ALLOCATION IN WDM/TDM-PON .......................................................................................................................................................2211

Kaneko, S. ; Yoshida, T. ; Furusawa, S. ; Sarashina, M. ; Tamai, H. ; Suzuki, A. ; Mukojima, T. ; Kimura, S. ; Yoshimoto, N.

HIGH OUTPUT POWER AND BURST EXTINCTION RATIO ONU USING A SIMPLE CONFIGURATION BOOSTER SOA WITH GAIN PEAK DETUNING FOR WDM/TDM-PON .......................................................................................2214

Taguchi, K. ; Asaka, K. ; Kimura, S. ; Yoshimoto, N.

ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS IN COGNITIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS: EU PROJECT CHRON DEMONSTRATION ....................................................................................................................................................................................2217

Borkowski, R. ; Caballero, A. ; Klonidis, D. ; Kachris, C. ; Francescon, A. ; de Miguel, I. ; Duran, R.J. ; Zibar, D. ; Tomkos, I. ; Tafur Monroy, I.

NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION: BEYOND CARRIER-GRADE CLOUDS............................................................2220Lopez, D.R.

FLEXIBLE VIRTUAL NETWORK PROVISIONING OVER DISTANCE-ADAPTIVE FLEX-GRID OPTICAL NETWORKS.................................................................................................................................................................................................2238

Xi Wang ; Qiong Zhang ; Inwoong Kim ; Palacharla, P. ; Sekiya, M.

OPTICAL GROOMING WITH SPECTRUM ENGINEERING (OG-SE) IN FLEXI-GRID NETWORKS ...................................2241Xiaosong Yu ; Yongli Zhao ; Jie Zhang

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF VIRTUAL TOPOLOGY DESIGN AND RECONFIGURATION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS BY MEANS OF COGNITION .......................................................................................................................2244

Siracusa, D. ; Francescon, A. ; Fernandez, N. ; de Miguel, I. ; Duran, R.J. ; Aguado, J.C. ; Salvadori, E.

500 GB/S AND BEYOND PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MODULE TRANSMITTERS AND RECEIVERS .................................................................................................................................................................................................2247

Kish, F. ; Reffle, M. ; Butrie, T. ; Ziari, M. ; Evans, P. ; Corzine, S. ; Tsai, H.-S. ; Pavinski, D. ; Zhang, J. ; Tang, J. ; Dentai, A. ; Muthiah, R. ; Pleumeekers, J. ; Lambert, D. ; Missey, M. ; La, V. ; Fisher, M. ; Murthy, S. ; Salvatore, R. ; Demars, S. ; James, A. ; Rahn, J. ; Kumar, S. ; Mitchell, M. ; Zhang, J. ; Tiangong Liu ; Nagarajan, R. ; Kato, M. ; Welch, D.

PACKAGING OF SILICON PHOTONICS SYSTEMS .........................................................................................................................2250De Dobbelaere, P. ; Ayazi, A. ; Chi, Y. ; Dahl, A. ; Denton, S. ; Gloeckner, S. ; Kam-Yan Hon ; Hovey, S. ; Liang, Y. ; Mack, M. ; Masini, G. ; Mekis, A. ; Peterson, M. ; Pinguet, T. ; Schramm, J. ; Sharp, M. ; Sohn, C. ; Stechschulte, K. ; Sun, P. ; Vastola, G. ; Verslegers, L. ; Zhou, R.

PILOT-AIDED LOG-LIKELIHOOD RATIO FOR LDPC CODED M-QAM CO-OFDM SYSTEM..............................................2253Shengjiao Cao ; Pooi-Yuen Kam ; Changyuan Yu

20×224GBPS (56GBAUD) PDM-QPSK TRANSMISSION IN 50GHZ GRID OVER 3040KM G.652 FIBER AND EDFA ONLY LINK USING SOFT OUTPUT FASTER THAN NYQUIST TECHNOLOGY...........................................................2256

Liangchuan Li ; Yanzhao Lu ; Ling Liu ; Deyuan Chang ; Zhiyu Xiao ; Yijia Wei

ADAPTIVE JOINT CARRIER RECOVERY AND TURBO DECODING FOR NYQUIST TERABIT OPTICAL TRANSMISSION IN THE PRESENCE OF PHASE NOISE .................................................................................................................2259

Yu Zhao ; Stojanovic, N. ; Chang, D. ; Xie, C. ; Mao, B. ; Binh, L.M. ; Xiao, Z. ; Fan Yu

ADVANCED CODED MODULATION FOR ULTRAHIGH SPEED OPTICAL TRANSMISSION...............................................2262Djordjevic, I.B.

CHALLENGES WITH PLUGGABLE OPTICAL MODULES FOR COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ...............................................................................................................................................................2303

Duthel, T. ; Hermann, P. ; von Mohrenfels, T.W. ; Whiteaway, J. ; Kupfer, T.

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF PRE- AND POST-COMPENSATION FOR BANDWIDTH-CONSTRAINED SIGNAL IN HIGH-SPECTRAL-EFFICIENCY OPTICAL COHERENT SYSTEMS.......................................................................2306

Zhensheng Jia ; Hung-Chang Chien ; Junwen Zhang ; Ze Dong ; Yi Cai

A NOVEL ADAPTIVE DIGITAL PRE-EQUALIZATION SCHEME FOR BANDWIDTH LIMITED OPTICAL COHERENT SYSTEM WITH DAC FOR SIGNAL GENERATION ...................................................................................................2309

Junwen Zhang ; Hung-Chang Chien ; Yan Xia ; Yufei Chen ; Jiangnan Xiao

LINEAR OPTICAL MODULATOR .........................................................................................................................................................2312Kaneko, A. ; Yamazaki, H. ; Miyamoto, Y.

DSP-IMPLEMENTABLE BLOCK PROCESSING OF CARRIER-PHASE RECOVERY FOR M-QAM SIGNALS.......................................................................................................................................................................................................2315

Inoue, T. ; Namiki, S.

EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF NETWORK BY SPECTRUM DEFRAGMENTATION ..............................................................2318Sone, K. ; Xi Wang ; Yamashita, S. ; Aoki, Y.

DEMONSTRATION OF ONLINE SPECTRUM DEFRAGMENTATION ENABLED BY OPENFLOW IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS ...............................................................................................................2321

Shoujiang Ma ; Cen Chen ; Shengru Li ; Mingyang Zhang ; Suoheng Li ; Yan Shao ; Zuqing Zhu ; Lei Liu ; Yoo, S.J.B.

EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF A HIGH PERFORMANCE BACKEND PCE FOR FLEXGRID OPTICAL NETWORK RE-OPTIMIZATION............................................................................................................................................................2324

Gifre, L. ; Velasco, L. ; Navarro, N. ; Junyent, G.

SDN CONTROL OF ALL-OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION AND DEFRAGMENTATION FOR SUPER-CHANNELS ...................................................................................................................................................................................2327

Paolucci, F. ; Sambo, N. ; Meloni, G. ; Berrettini, G. ; Fresi, F. ; Poti, L. ; Castoldi, P.

ADAPTIVE RECONFIGURATION OF SUB-LAMBDA AND WAVELENGTH PATHS FOR UNPREDICTABLE TRAFFIC DEMANDS .............................................................................................................................................2330

Kadohata, A.

REDUCE SPECTRUM DEFRAGMENTATION LATENCY IN EONS WITH EFFECTIVE PARALLELIZATION OF CONNECTION RECONFIGURATIONS .................................................................................................2333

Changsheng You ; Mingyang Zhang ; Zuqing Zhu

CORONET: TESTBEDS, CLOUD COMPUTING, AND LESSONS LEARNED ...............................................................................2336Von Lehmen, A. ; Doverspike, R. ; Clapp, G. ; Freimuth, D.M. ; Gannett, J. ; Kim, K. ; Kobrinski, H. ; Mavrogiorgis, E. ; Pastor, J. ; Rauch, M. ; Ramakrishnan, K.K. ; Skoog, R. ; Wilson, B. ; Woodward, S.L.

COMPARATIVE COST ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH SHARED MESH PROTECTION IN THE BEYOND-100-GB/S NETWORKS ERA .........................................................................................................................................2338

Yoshikane, N. ; Tsuritani, T.

IMPACT OF TRANSPONDERS AND REGENERATORS WAKE-UP TIME ON SLEEP-MODE ENABLED TRANSLUCENT OPTICAL NETWORKS..............................................................................................................................................2341

Pages, A. ; Tornatore, M. ; Perello, J. ; Spadaro, S. ; Morea, A.

CONTENTIONLESS AND NEAR CONTENTIONLESS BLOCKING PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMICS FOR ALL COHERENT METRO/REGIONAL NETWORKS ..............................................................................................................2344

Younce, R. ; Gringeri, S. ; Yajun Wang ; Larikova, J.

LONG WAVELENGTH HIGH SPEED VCSELS FOR LONG HAUL AND DATA CENTERS .....................................................2347Ortsiefer, M. ; Kogel, B. ; Rosskopf, J. ; Gorblich, M. ; Xu, Y. ; Greus, C. ; Neumeyr, C.

LOW DRIVING VOLTAGE (< 400MVPP) ELECTRO-ABSORPTION MODULATOR LATERALLY INTEGRATED WITH VCSEL ..................................................................................................................................................................2350

Dalir, H. ; Takahashi, Y. ; Koyama, F.

BIFUNCTIONAL 1550-NM TUNABLE DEVICE AND ITS TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS .........................................2353Weijian Yang ; Yi Rao ; Chase, C. ; Gerke, S.A. ; Li Zhu ; Huang, M. ; Chang-Hasnain, C.J.

HIGH PERFORMANCE 1.3µM INAS QUANTUM DOT LASERS EPITAXIALLY GROWN ON SILICON .............................2356Liu, A.Y. ; Chong Zhang ; Snyder, A. ; Lubychev, D. ; Fastenau, J.M. ; Liu, A.W.K. ; Gossard, A.C. ; Bowers, J.E.

MODULAR HYBRID DILATED MACH-ZEHNDER SWITCH WITH INTEGRATED SOAS FOR LARGE PORT COUNT SWITCHES .......................................................................................................................................................................2359

Cheng, Q. ; Wonfor, A. ; Wei, J.L. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.

DISPERSIONLESS LOW-LOSS MINIATURE SLOW LIGHT DELAY LINES BASED ON OPTICAL FIBERS ......................2362Sumetsky, M.

TOMOGRAPHIC ALGORITHM FOR TRANSVERSE MEASUREMENT OF MULTI-CORE AND MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS ...........................................................................................................................................2365

Yablon, A.D.

MULTICORE-FIBER CABLE WITH CORE DENSITY OF 6 CORES/MM2 ...................................................................................2368Ishida, I. ; Amma, Y. ; Hirakawa, K. ; Uemura, H. ; Sasaki, Y. ; Takenaga, K. ; Itou, N. ; Osato, K. ; Matsuo, S.

DEPENDENCE OF CROSSTALK INCREASE DUE TO TIGHT BEND ON CORE LAYOUT OF MULTI-CORE FIBER ............................................................................................................................................................................................................2371

Hayashi, T. ; Nakanishi, T. ; Sasaki, T. ; Saitoh, K. ; Koshiba, M.

RECONFIGURABLE SDM OPTICAL VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZER ....................................................................................2374Carpenter, J. ; Eggleton, B.J. ; Schroder, J.

DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL MT TYPE 2-MULTICORE FIBER CONNECTOR .........................................................................2377Watanabe, K. ; Saito, T. ; Suematsu, K. ; Nagase, R. ; Shiino, M.

1.9 µM COHERENT SOURCE GENERATION IN HYDROGEN-FILLED HOLLOW CORE FIBER BY STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING .................................................................................................................................................2380

Zefeng Wang ; Fei Yu ; Wadsworth, W.J. ; Knight, J.C.

BROADLY TIME-DISPERSION-TUNED NARROW LINEWIDTH ALL-FIBER-INTEGRATED OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATOR.................................................................................................................................................................2383

Lei Zhang ; Sigang Yang ; Hongwei Chen ; Minghua Chen ; Shizhong Xie

PUMP ATTENUATION ASSISTED ONE-THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION IN SILICA-GERMANATE FIBERS ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................2386

Tianye Huang ; Xuguang Shao ; Zhifang Wu ; Lee, T. ; Yunxu Sun ; Huy Quoc Lam ; Jing Zhang ; Brambilla, G. ; Shum Ping

OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS FOR TELECOM AND DATACOM APPLICATIONS .............................................................2389Alic, N. ; Radic, S.

ERBIUM-DOPED LASER WITH MULTI-SEGMENTED SILICON NITRIDE STRUCTURE .....................................................2392Purnawirman ; Hosseini, E.S. ; Baldycheva, A. ; Sun, J. ; Bradley, J.D.B. ; Adam, T.N. ; Leake, G. ; Coolbaugh, D. ; Watts, M.R.

REAL-TIME ALL-OPTICAL OFDM TRANSMISSION SYSTEM BASED ON TIME-DOMAIN OPTICAL FOURIER TRANSFORMATION .............................................................................................................................................................2395

Guan, P. ; Kong, D. ; Roge, K.M. ; Mulvad, H.C.H. ; Galili, M. ; Oxenlowe, L.K.

ALL-OPTICAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE DEMULTIPLEXING USING OPTICAL NYQUIST PULSE SAMPLING...................................................................................................................................................................................................2398

Seya, D. ; Harako, K. ; Hirooka, T. ; Nakazawa, M.

APPLICATIONS OF LCOS-BASED PROGRAMMABLE OPTICAL PROCESSORS ....................................................................2401Roelens, M. ; Schroder, J. ; Blown, P. ; Pulikkaseril, C. ; Poole, S. ; Frisken, S.

ENHANCED TUNABLE PARAMETRIC DELAY ASSISTED BY GAIN-TRANSPARENT STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING......................................................................................................................................................................2404

Liang Wang ; Chaoran Huang ; Xiaofei Cheng ; Shu, C.

A BANDWIDTH-TUNABLE NARROWBAND RECTANGULAR OPTICAL FILTER BASED ON STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING .........................................................................................................................................2407

Wei Wei ; Lilin Yi ; Yan Zhang ; Jaouen, Y. ; Yingxiong Song ; Yi Dong ; Weisheng Hu

ALL OPTICAL PROCESSING IN QD-SOAS .........................................................................................................................................2410Contestabile, G.

FULLY COHERENT SELF- HOMODYNE BI-DIRECTIONAL ENHANCED PERFORMANCE PON ......................................2413Shahpari, A. ; Luis, R.S. ; Reis, J.D. ; Ferreira, R. ; Vujicic, Z. ; Mendinueta, J.M.D. ; Lima, M. ; Wada, N. ; Teixeira, A.

SIMPLIFIED POLARIZATION DIVERSITY HETERODYNE RECEIVER FOR 1.25GB/S COST-EFFECTIVE UDWDM-PON ..............................................................................................................................................................................................2416

Cano, I.N. ; Lerin, A. ; Polo, V. ; Prat, J.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF A NOVEL POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT COHERENT RECEIVER FOR PONS..............................................................................................................................................................................2419

Presi, M. ; Corsini, R. ; Ciaramella, E.

DEMONSTRATION OF 3-ONU MULTIPLEXED COHERENT IFDMAPON UPLINK SYSTEM USING REAL-TIME PROTOTYPES .................................................................................................................................................................................2422

Ishii, K. ; Yoshida, Y. ; Onohara, K. ; Noda, M. ; Nogami, M. ; Maruta, A. ; Mizuochi, T. ; Kitayama, K.-I.

ENERGY SAVING THROUGH TRAFFIC PROFILING AND PREDICTION IN SELF-OPTIMIZING OPTICAL NETWORKS .............................................................................................................................................................................2425

Siracusa, D. ; Pederzolli, F. ; Lo Cigno, R. ; Salvadori, E.

JOINT OPTIMIZATION OF TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE AND BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION BASED ON SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKS ..............................................................................................................................................2428

Wei Guo ; Bin Wang ; Yaohui Jin ; Weisheng Hu ; Ming Xia

INTEGRATED PACKET/CIRCUIT HYBRID NETWORK FIELD-TRIAL DEMONSTRATING SUB-WAVELENGTH AGGREGATION ..........................................................................................................................................................2431

Bjornstad, S. ; Veisllari, R. ; Braute, J.P. ; Bozorgebrahimi, K.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF CENTRALIZED CONTROL MECHANISM OVER ALL-OPTICAL NETWORK BASED ON OPENFLOW PROTOCOL .........................................................................................................2434

Yongjian Wei ; Junhu Guo ; Hui Li ; Yuefeng Ji

TAKING OPTICS TO THE CHIP: FROM BOARD-MOUNTED OPTICAL ASSEMBLIES TO CHIP-LEVEL OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS..................................................................................................................................................................2437

Schmidtke, K. ; Flens, F. ; Mahgarefteh, D.

HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MODULATION FOR MODE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ....................................................................2440Arik, S.O. ; Millar, D.S. ; Koike-Akino, T. ; Kojima, K. ; Parsons, K.

PHOTONIC-LANTERN-BASED MODE MULTIPLEXERS FOR FEW-MODE-FIBER TRANSMISSION ................................2443Ryf, R. ; Fontaine, N.K. ; Montoliu, M. ; Randel, S. ; Ercan, B. ; Chen, H. ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Leon-Saval, S.G. ; Bland-Hawthorn, J. ; Salazar-Gil, J.R. ; Sun, Y. ; Lingle, R.

8.96TB/S (32×28GBAUD×32QAM) TRANSMISSION OVER 0.95 KM 19 CELL HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER .......................................................................................................................................................................................2446

van Uden, R.G.H. ; Okonkwo, C.M. ; Chen, H. ; Wheeler, N.V. ; Poletti, F. ; Petrovich, M.N. ; Richardson, D.J. ; de Waardt, H. ; Koonen, A.M.J.

6×28GBAUD 128-SP-QAM TRANSMISSION OVER 41.7 KM FEW-MODE FIBER WITH A 6×6 MIMO FDE.........................2449van Uden, R.G.H. ; Okonkwo, C.M. ; Chen, H. ; de Waardt, H. ; Koonen, A.M.J.

USING ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM MODES FOR OPTICAL TRANSMISSION...........................................................2452Jian Wang ; Willner, A.E.

CARRIER RECOVERY ALGORITHMS AND REAL-TIME DSP IMPLEMENTATION FOR COHERENT RECEIVERS .................................................................................................................................................................................................2455

Pfau, T.

CARRIER PHASE ESTIMATION FOR DP-16QAM USING QPSK PARTITIONING AND QUASI-MULTIPLIER-FREE ALGORITHMS .....................................................................................................................................................2472

Kang Ping Zhong ; Jian Hong Ke ; Ying Gao ; Cartledge, J.C. ; Lau, A.P.T. ; Chao Lu

HOMODYNE OFDM USING SIMPLE OPTICAL CARRIER RECOVERY.....................................................................................2475Zhixin Liu ; Wu, D.S. ; Richardson, D.J. ; Slavik, R.

A STUDY OF LASER WHITE AND BROWNIAN FM NOISE IN COHERENT QPSK SIGNALS ...............................................2478Matsuda, K. ; Bessho, H. ; Hasegawa, K. ; Yoshida, T. ; Ishida, K.

OVERCOMING THE EFFECT OF CYCLE SLIPS CAUSED BY LOW FREQUENCY NOISE FROM MONOLITHIC TUNABLE LASERS........................................................................................................................................................2481

Huynh, T.N. ; Barry, L.P.

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