{"title":"6G Transmitter Based on Heterogeneous III–V-on-Si for Integrated Sensing and Communication","authors":"Akeem Safiriyu;Maria Vargemidou;Chris Vagionas;Joan Ramirez;Salim Faci;Nikos Pleros;Amalia Miliou;Anne-Laure Billabert;Catherine Algani","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3706269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3706269","url":null,"abstract":"The integration of high data-rate optical communication and sensing capabilities within a single photonic device is essential to the evolution of 5G RAN toward 6G systems. This work presents a heterogeneous integrated transmitter capable of supporting scalable deployment of remote radio head for high-speed data communication, high resolution sensing via radio over fiber and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) for 6G with support for multiplexing architecture. The integrated transmitter leverages the III-V on Si heterogeneous integration techniques based on direct die-to-wafer bonding, enabling co-fabrication of laser diode and electroabsorption modulator. The device demonstrates high-speed modulation at data rates up to <inline-formula><tex-math>$text{24},text{Gbps}$</tex-math></inline-formula> in radio over fiber (RoF) transmission, <inline-formula><tex-math>$text{4},text{Gbps}$</tex-math></inline-formula> user data over fiber-wireless (Fi-Wi) link and also enables dynamic amplitude and frequency modulation for high resolution object detection and sensing at a sweep slope of <inline-formula><tex-math>$1.95,mathrm{GHz/mu s}$</tex-math></inline-formula>. Experimental results demonstrate simultaneous communication and sensing capabilities, highlighting the transmitter’s potential for autonomous sensing networks and next-generation wireless systems.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 16","pages":"7199-7206"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148719050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simplification of Φ-OTDR Through Synchronization to a High-Coherence Light Source Over 1×4096 Split","authors":"Bernhard Schrenk","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3704305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3704305","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed acousto-optic fiber sensing builds on specialized components such as narrow-linewidth light sources. Making a step toward simplification, this work proposes and experimentally demonstrates a cloud-inspired deployment scenario that off-loads and centralizes complexity inherent to high-quality light sources that are traditionally hosted by interrogator units. By replacing the high-coherence source with optically synchronized “proxy” sources that resemble traditional telecom lasers, the complexity of field-distributed interrogators can be reduced without striking unfavorable performance trade-offs: Even though the required synchronization process is facilitated over a massive optical budget of 42 dB – or 37.5 dB when additionally taking long-term wavelength excursion due to sub-optimal laser control into account, the induced vibration phase along a probed fiber span can be correctly acquired. Moreover, a sharing factor of more than 1:4000 is established for the centralized high-coherence source by eroding the available feeder budget through a power-split based dissemination network that shares narrow-linewidth light seed among a large number of interrogator units.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 16","pages":"7015-7022"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148719055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long-Haul SDM Transmission Over 12-Coupled-Core Fiber With Semi-Real-Time 24×24 MIMO Processing on FPGA","authors":"Manabu Arikawa;Kohei Hosokawa;Takahiro Odagawa;Hironori Nakanishi;Takaya Maeda;Hiroshi Mukai;Kohki Shibahara;Taiji Sakamoto;Ryota Imada;Kazuhide Nakajima;Yutaka Miyamoto","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3662371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3662371","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrated transoceanic-class space-division multiplexed (SDM) transmission over a 12-coupled-core fiber (12-CCF) with semi-real-time 24 × 24 multi-input multi-output (MIMO) processing implemented on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). 1-Gbaud polarization-division multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying signals, surrounded by eight wavelength-division multiplexed dummy channels of 32 Gbaud on a 37.5-GHz grid with the same spectral power density, were transmitted over the 12-CCF in a recirculating loop configuration consisting of two 51.5-km spans. The average bit error rate before forward error correction remained below the threshold of 2.0<inline-formula><tex-math>$times 10^{-2}$</tex-math></inline-formula> up to 8240 km. Using adaptive 24 × 24 MIMO filter coefficients on the FPGA, we also demonstrated semi-real-time monitoring of channel characteristics, showing a root-mean-square mode-dependent loss of 0.26 dB per span and channel variation on the order of 1ms after long-haul transmission over the 12-CCF.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 16","pages":"7000-7008"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148719059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amir Shahin;Conor Coughlan;Hakim Kobbi;Mathias Berciano;Didit Yudistira;Roger Loo;Shuchi Kaushik;Patrick Carolan;Marta Agati;Peter Verheyen;Maumita Chakrabarti;Dimitrios Velenis;Yoojin Ban;Filippo Ferraro;Peter Ossieur;Dries Van Thourhout;Joris Van Campenhout
{"title":"Towards 100 GHz Waveguide Ge/Si Avalanche Photodiodes for High-Speed Optical Interconnects","authors":"Amir Shahin;Conor Coughlan;Hakim Kobbi;Mathias Berciano;Didit Yudistira;Roger Loo;Shuchi Kaushik;Patrick Carolan;Marta Agati;Peter Verheyen;Maumita Chakrabarti;Dimitrios Velenis;Yoojin Ban;Filippo Ferraro;Peter Ossieur;Dries Van Thourhout;Joris Van Campenhout","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3670103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3670103","url":null,"abstract":"We report on the design, modeling, and measurements of high-speed, silicon-contacted, waveguide-coupled Germanium-on-Silicon (Ge/Si) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) fabricated on 300 mm Silicon On insulator (SOI) wafers. The devices achieve a peak 3-dB bandwidth (BW) exceeding 100 GHz and maintain 70 GHz BW at a responsivity of 2 A/W in both the O- and C-bands, at a relatively low reverse bias of 7 V. These results demonstrate the strong potential of Ge/Si APDs to be used for next-generation short-reach optical interconnects targeting 400 Gbps per lane operation.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 16","pages":"6958-6964"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148718934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huibin Zhou;Yue Zuo;Abdulrahman Alhaddad;Xinzhou Su;Wing Ko;Moshe Tur;Alan E. Willner
{"title":"Tbit/s Mid-IR Free-Space Optical Communications Enabled by Three-Dimensional Channel Multiplexing of Wavelength, Polarization, and Spatial Mode","authors":"Huibin Zhou;Yue Zuo;Abdulrahman Alhaddad;Xinzhou Su;Wing Ko;Moshe Tur;Alan E. Willner","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3668945","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3668945","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally demonstrate a >Tbit/s mid-infrared (mid-IR) free-space optical (FSO) communication system by combining wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM), polarization-division multiplexing (PDM), and mode-division multiplexing (MDM). We transmit 16 multiplexed data channels simultaneously by employing 4 wavelengths at ∼3.4 μm, 2 polarizations, and 2 orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes with orders of <inline-formula><tex-math>$mathcal{l}$</tex-math></inline-formula>= +1 and <inline-formula><tex-math>$mathcal{l}$</tex-math></inline-formula>= +3. The channels are generated in the C-band at the transmitter and converted to mid-IR through difference frequency generation (DFG) nonlinear process. At the receiver, they are converted back to C-band through DFG and detected in the C-band. With each channel carrying a 32-Gbaud QPSK signal, a total data rate of 1.024 Tbit/s is achieved. Our experimental results show that (i) the channel crosstalk between different wavelengths, polarizations, and modes are less than −19 dB, −16 dB, and −15 dB, respectively, (ii) bit-error rates of all multiplexed channels can reach below the 20% forward error correction threshold, and (iii) there is <1-dB optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) penalty induced by channel multiplexing in a single domain (WDM, PDM, or MDM alone), while the OSNR penalty increases to ∼2 dB when combining the three multiplexing schemes.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 16","pages":"7125-7131"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148718942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yang Shi;Chen Yang;Zhiyong Zhao;Yucheng Yao;Ming Tang
{"title":"Enabling Multipoint Localization in Long-Range Interferometric Vibration Sensing System Based on Blind Source Separation","authors":"Yang Shi;Chen Yang;Zhiyong Zhao;Yucheng Yao;Ming Tang","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3705606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3705606","url":null,"abstract":"Fiber interferometers provide an inherent advantage for long-range distributed vibration sensing, yet conventional single-core implementations remain fundamentally limited by phase noise accumulation and the inability to distinguish multiple simultaneous vibration events. In this work, we analyze the noise sources in long-distance fiber-optic interferometers, and propose an interferometric sensing structure based on multicore fibers (MCF)space-division multiplexing (SDM) to significantly suppress the noise accumulation during propagation and achieve the accurate reconstruction of vibration waveforms. Furthermore, we introduce an innovative blind source separation (BSS) method based on degenerate unmixing estimation technique (DUET) to enable the separation and localization of multiple concurrent vibration events along the sensing fiber link without any prior knowledge, by utilizing the signals collected from two counter-propagating interferometers, which provides a competitive solution to the long-standing challenge of multipoint localization in interferometric distributed optical fiber sensors.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 16","pages":"7291-7299"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148718971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polynomial Closed Form Model for Ultra-Wideband Transmission Systems","authors":"P. Poggiolini;Y. Jiang;Y. Gao;F. Forghieri","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3678322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3678322","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrafast and accurate physical layer models are essential for designing, optimizing and managing ultra-wideband optical transmission systems. We present a closed-form Gaussian-Noise (GN)/Enhanced-GN (EGN) model, named Polynomial Closed-Form Model (PCFM). The key to deriving PCFM is expressing the spatial power profile of each channel along a span as a polynomial. Then, under reasonable approximations, the integral calculation can be carried out analytically, for any chosen degree of the polynomial. We present a full detailed derivation of the model. We then validate it vs. the numerically integrated GN-model in a 60/100 km challenging multiband (C+L+S) scenario, including Raman amplification and inter-channel Raman scattering. We then show that the approach works well also in the special case of the presence of multiple lumped loss along the fiber. Overall, the approach shows high reliability and broad generality, achieving a generalized Signal-to-Noise Ratio (GSNR) accuracy of nonlinear interference (NLI) within 0.3 dB of the GN-model benchmark. A software implementing the model, fully reconfigurable to any type of system layout, is available for download under the Creative Commons 4.0 License.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 16","pages":"7100-7117"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11457276","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148718988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Inter-Core Crosstalk in Unrepeatered Transmission Over 2-Core MCF","authors":"Hans Bissessur;Alexis Busson;Farana Hedaraly","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3681107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3681107","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the impact of inter-core crosstalk in unrepeatered systems based on two-core multi-core fibers (MCF). Although the fiber cores are nominally uncoupled, there is always some residual coupling between the cores. We first measure one spool of multi-core fiber, deduce the basic fiber parameters and then simulate the crosstalk in an unrepeatered system as a function of its length. We find that the unidirectional and bidirectional crosstalk values cross for 250 km long links, so that the configuration with the lowest crosstalk depends on the link length. Next, we set up a fully equipped multi-core fiber transmission line with high-power boosters and first order Raman pumps. We transmit 42 channels in the C-band with and without crosstalk over distances ranging from 205 km to 359 km, adapting the modulation format to reach the maximum capacity. We investigate crosstalk impairments in unidirectional and bidirectional configurations and conclude about the optimum configuration. Finally, we compare the system crosstalk as estimated from spectral measurements and from the transmission penalty.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 16","pages":"7009-7014"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148719003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuously Tunable Low-Noise Millimeter-Wave Generation via Photonic Heterodyne","authors":"Weilong Wang;Jin Wang;Cheng Zhang;Wei Zhuang;Longfei Li;Kun Yu;Yufang Liu;Yijie Pan;Jifeng Qu","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3704714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3704714","url":null,"abstract":"High-performance millimeter-wave oscillators play a crucial role in next-generation high-speed wireless communications, ultra-sensitive radar, and precision metrology. Although many photonic-based microwave generation methods have achieved breakthroughs in noise and bandwidth, surpassing the limitations of conventional electronic devices, they still face challenges in broadband tunability and trade-offs among noise level, system complexity, and operating frequency. In this work, we investigate a continuously tunable and low-noise photonic microwave generation approach based on optical heterodyning. Compact MgF<sub>2</sub> whispering-gallery-mode micro-disk resonators incorporating non-vacuum thermal insulation and vibration-isolation were fabricated as optical reference cavities. Under ambient conditions, two semiconductor lasers are independently locked to the two references via the Pound-Drever-Hall frequency stabilization technique, and their heterodyne beat produces continuously tunable millimeter-wave signals spanning 80 GHz − 100 GHz. At a 100 GHz carrier frequency, the system achieves a phase noise of −98 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset and a fractional frequency stability of 6×10<sup>-10</sup> at 1 s averaging time. This method holds strong potential for further miniaturization and packaging through photonic integration, offering a widely accessible low-noise millimeter-wave source for next-generation communications, quantum technologies, and precision measurements.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 16","pages":"7118-7124"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148719006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuxin Ding;Peng Li;Guoqun Chen;Jun Chu;Anqing Jia;Lei Zhang;Jie Luo;Feng He
{"title":"Support Tube DNANF Achieving 0.051 dB/km and Scaled to > 10 000 km of Production","authors":"Yuxin Ding;Peng Li;Guoqun Chen;Jun Chu;Anqing Jia;Lei Zhang;Jie Luo;Feng He","doi":"10.1109/JLT.2026.3716295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2026.3716295","url":null,"abstract":"We report a support tube double nested anti-resonant nodeless fiber (ST-DNANF). During volume manufacturing of double nested anti-resonant nodeless fiber, it was observed that adhesion nodes frequently formed between the glass tubes within the resonant elements, introducing additional loss. To eliminate this effect, we incorporated an additional set of glass supporting structures. The fabricated 48.1 km-long fiber achieves an attenuation as low as 0.051 ± 0.004 dB/km in the C-band window around 1550 nm, together with good longitudinal structural uniformity. To date, the cumulative fabricated length of this fiber has exceeded 10,000 kilometers, with a statistical average attenuation of 0.118 dB/km at 1550 nm, and over 60% of the fibers exhibit attenuation below this level. This design simultaneously addresses the challenges of ultra-low loss, length scalability, and production stability, making it a practical and viable candidate for hollow-core fiber-based long-haul optical communication systems.","PeriodicalId":16144,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Lightwave Technology","volume":"44 16","pages":"7085-7089"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2026-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148719010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}