{"title":"Comparitive analysis on the mitigation of intra channel nonlinearities in WDM mesh networks","authors":"D. Rafique, A. Ellis","doi":"10.1109/PHO.2011.6110813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHO.2011.6110813","url":null,"abstract":"We compare various nonlinearity mitigation techniques and demonstrate that spectral-inversion significantly outperforms low-precision digital back-propagation, and enables Qeff improvements up to 3.5dB. We further report that pre-chirped spectral-inversion approaches the performance of ideal digital back-propagation.","PeriodicalId":173679,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116333688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An optically tunable frequency-quadrupling optoelectronic oscillator","authors":"Wangzhe Li, J. Yao","doi":"10.1109/PHO.2011.6110633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHO.2011.6110633","url":null,"abstract":"A novel optically tunable frequency-quadrupling optoelectronic oscillator is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The generation of a frequency-quadrupled microwave signal with a frequency tunable from 32 GHz to 44 GHz is experimentally demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":173679,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121960430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GI-core polymer optical waveguide fabricated using soft-lithography method for optical circuit boards","authors":"Y. Sugimori, T. Ishigure","doi":"10.1109/PHO.2011.6110766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHO.2011.6110766","url":null,"abstract":"We successfully fabricate large-sized (20-cm long) graded-index (GI) core polymer optical waveguides with high thermal durability, using the soft-lithography method. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the fabricated GI-core waveguide shows lower inter-channel crosstalk than the SI-core waveguides fabricated using the same method.","PeriodicalId":173679,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting","volume":"87 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124843312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Guilhabert, N. Laurand, A. Kanibolotsky, J. Herrnsdorf, Y. Chen, P. Skabara, M. Dawson
{"title":"Flexible organic semiconductor laser array","authors":"B. Guilhabert, N. Laurand, A. Kanibolotsky, J. Herrnsdorf, Y. Chen, P. Skabara, M. Dawson","doi":"10.1109/PHO.2011.6110665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHO.2011.6110665","url":null,"abstract":"A 4×4 array of flexible organic lasers is reported. It is fabricated by soft-lithography using a silica master grating with an added photoresist mask. The lasers emit around 425nm and have typical threshold optical pump energy of 0.2μJ.","PeriodicalId":173679,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129777713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrated transmitters from backbone to on-chip applications","authors":"S. Matsuo","doi":"10.1109/PHO.2011.6110563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHO.2011.6110563","url":null,"abstract":"Photonic integrated circuits including on-chip lasers are required to span various application areas, from backbone to on-chip. The choice of laser must be carefully considered with requirements, such as output power, size and power consumption.","PeriodicalId":173679,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting","volume":"10 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128256391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Presi, N. Calabretta, C. Porzi, R. Corsini, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella
{"title":"All-optical self-routing of 40 Gb/s DPSK packets","authors":"M. Presi, N. Calabretta, C. Porzi, R. Corsini, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella","doi":"10.1109/PHO.2011.6110415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHO.2011.6110415","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a self-routing all-optical circuit for switching 40 Gb/s DPSK packets. In our scheme, an all-optical header processor feeds a set-reset flip-flop that drives a coherent wavelength converter. We report an overall limited power penalty.","PeriodicalId":173679,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128270030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Buller, N. Krichel, A. Mccarthy, N. Gemmell, M. J. Tanner, R. Hadfield
{"title":"Single-photon counting imaging systems","authors":"G. Buller, N. Krichel, A. Mccarthy, N. Gemmell, M. J. Tanner, R. Hadfield","doi":"10.1109/PHO.2011.6110740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHO.2011.6110740","url":null,"abstract":"Active, three-dimensional long-range imaging using time-correlated single photon counting has the potential for accurate depth resolution at low average power illumination. We report advances in this field.","PeriodicalId":173679,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128662492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconfigurable optical DPSK pattern recognition based on incoherent optical processing","authors":"A. Malacarne, R. Ashrafi, Yongwoo Park, J. Azaña","doi":"10.1109/PHO.2011.6110583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHO.2011.6110583","url":null,"abstract":"Time-spectrum convolution is successfully employed for implementing asynchronous optical DPSK pattern recognition. Dynamic switched recognition of different 64-bit patterns in 12Gb/s DPSK-PRBS optical burst with contrast ratio up to 3.8dB is demonstrated.","PeriodicalId":173679,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129368130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Widely tunable waveguide filters based on long-range surface plasmon polaritons","authors":"Jongwon Lee, F. Lu, M. Belkin","doi":"10.1109/PHO.2011.6110403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHO.2011.6110403","url":null,"abstract":"We report widely tunable waveguide filters based on long-range surface plasmon polaritons. A 0.004 variation in the refractive index of the top filter cladding dielectric translates into 210 nm of bandpass tuning at telecom wavelengths.","PeriodicalId":173679,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting","volume":"300 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130964949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Renversez, M. Duhant, W. Renard, A. Bétourné, T. Nguyên, G. Canat, F. Smektala, Q. Coulombier, J. Troles, L. Brilland
{"title":"Nonlinear effects above 2 µm in chalcogenide suspended core microstructured optical fibers: Modeling and experiments","authors":"G. Renversez, M. Duhant, W. Renard, A. Bétourné, T. Nguyên, G. Canat, F. Smektala, Q. Coulombier, J. Troles, L. Brilland","doi":"10.1109/PHO.2011.6110425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHO.2011.6110425","url":null,"abstract":"We present our latest results on the linear and nonlinear modeling, and on the fabrication of chalcogenide suspended core microstructured optical fibers for mid-infrared generation. We focus on an AsSe glass composition. We have used a thulium-doped fiber laser to pump our fibers around 2 μm. In order to enhance further the nonlinearities and to manage the chromatic dispersion for supercontinuum application, we have tapered some of our microstructured optical fibers.","PeriodicalId":173679,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Photonic Society 24th Annual Meeting","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129255185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}