{"title":"Flexible optical receivers","authors":"A. Pinto, F. Guiomar","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253735","url":null,"abstract":"Coherent detection has boosted the applicability of digital signal processing (DSP) in optical fibre communication systems. Based on an universal physical structure, the digital coherent receiver is compatible with a wide range of modulation formats and propagation scenarios. The key for this flexibility lies on an extensive usage of receiver-side DSP. In this paper we will briefly review the basic principles of the digital coherent receiver, highlighting the role of the DSP subsystem. Special emphasis will be given to the mitigation of nonlinear fibre impairments using advanced digital equalizers.","PeriodicalId":217442,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133652327","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":"Impact of the DPSK-OCDM modulation system on optical packet switching performance","authors":"V. Eramo, M. Listanti, A. Cianfrani","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254386","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of a Differential-Phase-Shift-Keying Optical Code-Division Multiplexing(DPSK-OCDM) system with balanced detection is investigated in the case in which Gold codes are used. Allowing more optical codes to be supported, the performance in Packet Loss Probability of a DPSK-OCDM Optical Packet Switch, using both code and wavelength domains to solve output packet contentions, may be increased. In the proposed case study the increase is of two orders of magnitude when the offered traffic is 0.7.","PeriodicalId":217442,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132165218","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}
Y. Ye, A. Francescon, E. Salvadori, M. Angelou, Ioannis Tomkos, I. de Miguel, R. Durán, J. Aguado
{"title":"Extending impairment-aware control plane solutions toward cognitive optical networks","authors":"Y. Ye, A. Francescon, E. Salvadori, M. Angelou, Ioannis Tomkos, I. de Miguel, R. Durán, J. Aguado","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254390","url":null,"abstract":"The current GMPLS control plane suffers from a lack of physical layer details, which is essential to accurately evaluate the effect of physical layer impairments (PLIs) and decide the feasibility of a lightpath. The European Union (EU) funded DICONET project extended the GMPLS protocols to carry PLI information by proposing two control plane architectures: distributed and centralized. The architectures for these two approaches have been defined, modules have been developed, and their performance has been evaluated based on emulation for various metrics. Moreover, suggestions on protocol extensions have been submitted to IETF CCAMP. On the other hand, the network evolves to be more heterogeneous in terms of not only types of services and traffic demands but also physical layers. These new challenges addressed by the EU funded project CHRON will need new architectures, the core of which is a cognitive decision system.","PeriodicalId":217442,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128829887","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":"Novel asymmetrical filtered 40 Gb/s NRZ-DPSK receiver design in a 50GHz grid","authors":"O. Olubodun, N. Doran","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253802","url":null,"abstract":"We present a novel differential phase shift keying receiver design under strong optical filtering. The receiver design is based on the different offset filtering performances of the output ports of the NRZ-DPSK Mach Zehnder Interferometer. The asymmetrical filtered receiver design can significantly increase performance by 2 dB in calculated “Q” for an OSNR of 15 dB.","PeriodicalId":217442,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127823209","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":"InP-based 1.3 μm and 1.55 μm short-cavity VCSELs suitable for telecom- and datacom-applications","authors":"M. Muller, C. Grasse, M. Amann","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254394","url":null,"abstract":"We review the state-of the art of long-wavelength VCSELs. Furthermore, the short-cavity concept which has already been successfully implemented in 1.55 μm devices is extended to 1.3 μm devices resulting in excellent static and dynamic device properties. In particular, high output powers of 1.8 mW at an ambient temperature of 80 °C, high differential quantum efficiencies up to 56% and wall-plug efficiencies up to 36% at room-temperature are reported. Small-signal modulation bandwidths in excess of 15 GHz are presented. The large-signal modulation at a bit-rate of 25 Gbps is investigated.","PeriodicalId":217442,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134642598","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":"Performance evaluation for 2R burst mode optical regenerator cascades in presence of co-channel phase uncorrelated crosstalk","authors":"P. N. Desai, A. J. Phillips, S. Sujecki","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254385","url":null,"abstract":"Performance evaluation of burst mode 2R optical regenerators (BM-OR) cascades impaired with co-channel phase uncorrelated (interferometric) crosstalk is given. BMOR, unlike continuous mode, OR can handle the large power variations of the incoming packets. Bit error rate is evaluated along a cascade of identical BMORs, interspersed with potentially heterogeneous inter-regenerator links. Interferometric crosstalk can occur due to multipath signal propagation and/or imperfect filtering. The impact of signal to crosstalk ratio on the performance of this system is investigated for different nonlinearity degree of the optical reshaper, in case of low and high average packet power.","PeriodicalId":217442,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115236903","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}
E. Giacoumidis, A. Kavatzikidis, N. Diamantopoulos, S. Mikroulis, Ioannis Tomkos
{"title":"Quantitative comparison of low-cost OFDMA-PON transceiver implementations","authors":"E. Giacoumidis, A. Kavatzikidis, N. Diamantopoulos, S. Mikroulis, Ioannis Tomkos","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253935","url":null,"abstract":"A quantitative comparison of up to 40 Gb/s low-cost orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing access (OFDMA)-passive optical networks (PON) implementations for both upstream (US) and downstream (DS) directions is evaluated based on different modulation and detection techniques.","PeriodicalId":217442,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115510247","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":"Decay rates near layers of Au nanospheres","authors":"C. A. Marocico, A. L. Bradley","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254403","url":null,"abstract":"The decay rate of quantum emitters near a layer of Au nanospheres is studied in the framework of a Green's tensor formalism. The localized surface plasmons that can be excited on the gold spheres provide a strong avenue for transporting the energy from the donors to the acceptors. The effect of the layer when compared to a single sphere depends on the concentration and distance in a non-trivial way, having a maximum at a finite distance.","PeriodicalId":217442,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115580852","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":"Coexistence of advance and immediate reservation in WDM networks: Some RWA strategies","authors":"A. Muhammad, R. Forchheimer","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253741","url":null,"abstract":"Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks are advocated as a transport technology for the emerging bandwidth-intensive applications (e.g., Interactive video, ultra-high definition TV, grid computing, e-science, etc.). These applications inherent distinct features such as either delay-sensitive or delay-tolerant. Immediate reservation (IR) and advance reservation (AR) service models have been proposed for satisfying these applications demand, respectively. AR connection requests book network resources relatively far ahead than when they are utilized. The book-ahead time of AR connections not only exacerbates the provisioning rate of IR connection requests, but also results in disrupting IR connections if they are operating on the resources reserved for AR connections, once AR connections become active. To guarantee the service continuity of IR connections and efficiently utilize the network resources, this paper presents four RWA strategies for a dynamic scenario where connection requests belong to both IR and AR (fixed window) traffic demands. Each strategy exploits the connection holding-time awareness in a different way to improve the network blocking probability (BP), and eliminate disruption of IR connections. The book-ahead time of AR requests is varied to investigate its effect on the provisioning rate of AR and IR connection requests. Simulation results confirm that the proposed RWA strategies are able to improve network BP significantly. Moreover, the network total provisioning rate and consequently the resource utilization can be improved substantially by setting the book-ahead time not more than twice the mean holding-time of AR connection requests.","PeriodicalId":217442,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114620510","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":"Super-resolution imaging by high-index microspheres immersed in a liquid","authors":"A. Darafsheh, M. Fiddy, V. Astratov","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254502","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate that the super-resolution imaging of a commercial Blu-ray® disk containing a one-dimensional array of 200 nm width stripes separated by 100 nm width grooves can be achieved using high-index microspheres in a liquid environment. By using barium titanate glass microspheres (2-20 μm diameters) with index around 1.9 totally immersed in isopropanol with index 1.37 we demonstrate better than λ/6 far field resolution, where λ= 600 nm is the peak wavelength of the white-light illumination system. The results of this work can be used in biomedical microscopy, microfluidics and nanophotonics applications for imaging individual cells and/or nanoparticles in a liquid environment.","PeriodicalId":217442,"journal":{"name":"2012 14th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"51 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116822904","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}