R. Akimoto, H. Kuwatsuka, S. Gozu, T. Mozume, H. Ishikawa
{"title":"All-optical wavelength conversion of 21.4-Gb/s QPSK signals using intersubband transition in InGaAs/AlAsSb coupled double quantum wells","authors":"R. Akimoto, H. Kuwatsuka, S. Gozu, T. Mozume, H. Ishikawa","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.WE.2.E.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.WE.2.E.6","url":null,"abstract":"We have demonstrated format-free wavelength conversion using cross-phase modulation associated with intersubband transition (ISBT) in a quantum wells waveguide. The waveguide functions as an all-optical phase modulator and a TM-polarized-QPSK launched signal that excites ISBT is converted to a cross-polarized TE-signal immune to ISBT absorption.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134544566","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}
O. Jan, D. Sandel, M. El-Darawy, K. Puntsri, A. Al-Bermani, R. Noé
{"title":"Phase noise robustness of SIM-OFDM in CO-OFDM transmission","authors":"O. Jan, D. Sandel, M. El-Darawy, K. Puntsri, A. Al-Bermani, R. Noé","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P4.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P4.05","url":null,"abstract":"We present the robustness of subcarrier-index modulation OFDM to combat laser phase noise. Simulation results show the ability of using DFB lasers with SIM-OFDM in 16-QAM CO-OFDM system with 1024-point FFT.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131693293","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}
Hirotaka Nakamura, K. Taguchi, S. Tamaki, T. Mizuno, Y. Hashizume, Takashi Yamada, Mikitaka Ito, Hiroshi Takahashi, S. Kimura, N. Yoshimoto
{"title":"40Gbit/s-class-λ-tunable WDM/TDM-PON using tunable B-Tx and cyclic AWG router for flexible photonic aggregation networks","authors":"Hirotaka Nakamura, K. Taguchi, S. Tamaki, T. Mizuno, Y. Hashizume, Takashi Yamada, Mikitaka Ito, Hiroshi Takahashi, S. Kimura, N. Yoshimoto","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.4.B.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.4.B.3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a 40Gbit/s-class-λ-tunable WDM/TDM-PON for flexible photonic aggregation networks that achieves the aggregation of a large number of users using the DWBA algorithm without an L2-SW. A λ-switching transmission experiment was conducted using a newly developed 40Gbit/s-class fast-switching tunable B-Tx and 4 × 4 cyclic AWG router.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127404764","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. de Valicourt, C. Simonneau, D. Chiaroni, F. Vacondio, L. Lorcy, J. Antona, S. Bigo
{"title":"Distributed fast optical packet power equalization for efficient WDM packet switched networks","authors":"G. de Valicourt, C. Simonneau, D. Chiaroni, F. Vacondio, L. Lorcy, J. Antona, S. Bigo","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.3.A.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.3.A.4","url":null,"abstract":"We evaluate a distributed optical packet equalization scheme based on automatic gain control semiconductor optical amplifiers in a packet ring network. In presence of packet power discrepancies, we demonstrate that BER floors can be removed.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133850977","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. Bertolini, O. Rocher, A. Bisson, P. Pecci, G. Bellotti
{"title":"Multi-rate vs. OTN: Comparing approaches to build scalable, cost-effective 100Gb/s networks","authors":"M. Bertolini, O. Rocher, A. Bisson, P. Pecci, G. Bellotti","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P5.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P5.11","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we compare network designs based on pure WDM equipments at both 10Gb/s and 100Gb/s line rate, to a pure 100Gb/s design where electrical OTN switches are integrated with WDM equipment. OTN switches introduction grants savings in terms of CAPEX and OPEX, and optimizes network utilization.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115751294","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. Liao, Weiqing Gao, T. Cheng, Z. Duan, Takenobu Suzuki, Y. Ohishi
{"title":"Supercontinuum generation in picosecond regime in a highly nonlinear tapered tellurite microstructured optical fiber","authors":"M. Liao, Weiqing Gao, T. Cheng, Z. Duan, Takenobu Suzuki, Y. Ohishi","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P1.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P1.07","url":null,"abstract":"We have demonstrated broad SC generation from UV to mid IR by using a highly nonlinear tapered tellurite microstructured fiber pumped by a 15-ps-pulsed laser with the peak power of 375 W. The constructed SC light source is cost-effective, since neither femtosecond pulsed laser nor high power picosecond pulsed laser is adopted.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115789564","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":"Advances in transmission over a few-mode fiber: State of the art and research results","authors":"E. Ip","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.1.C.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.1.C.5","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the design of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for few-mode fiber supporting two mode groups at the signal wavelength. We investigate the achievable gain region, gain equalization and system sensitivity to pump perturbations.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123908408","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}
X. Liu, S. Chandrasekhar, A. Gnauck, P. Winzer, S. Randel, S. Corteselli, B. Zhu, T. Taunay, M. Fishteyn
{"title":"Digital coherent superposition for performance improvement of spatially multiplexed 676-Gb/s OFDM-16QAM superchannels","authors":"X. Liu, S. Chandrasekhar, A. Gnauck, P. Winzer, S. Randel, S. Corteselli, B. Zhu, T. Taunay, M. Fishteyn","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.3.C.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.3.C.2","url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate the use of digital coherent superposition to improve the performance of space-division-multiplexed (SDM) 676-Gb/s OFDM-16QAM superchannels, achieving ~4 dB improvement in OSNR by using two SDM copies and 1075-km (14×76.8km) transmission over a seven-core-fiber with an effective aggregate spectral efficiency of 23.7 b/s/Hz.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124225895","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}
R. Pastorelli, G. Bosco, A. Carena, P. Poggiolini, V. Curri, S. Piciaccia, F. Forghieri
{"title":"Investigation of the dependence of non-linear interference on the number of WDM channels in coherent optical networks","authors":"R. Pastorelli, G. Bosco, A. Carena, P. Poggiolini, V. Curri, S. Piciaccia, F. Forghieri","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.WE.2.C.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.WE.2.C.2","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally investigate nonlinearity impact in a multi-span uncompensated coherent optical system, transmitting, in the 50GHz grid, N<sub>ch</sub>×100G CP-DQPSK channels, varying N<sub>ch</sub> from 3 to 71. A good agreement was found with an analytical model, confirming the progressive growth of interference with N<sub>ch</sub>. Impacts on network design are evaluated.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114464454","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}
Qiong Zhang, Xi Wang, P. Palacharla, M. Sekiya, D. Bihon
{"title":"Shared mesh restoration for OTN/WDM networks using CDC-ROADMs","authors":"Qiong Zhang, Xi Wang, P. Palacharla, M. Sekiya, D. Bihon","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.4.D.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.4.D.4","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a coordinated shared mesh restoration scheme at sub-wavelength connection level using integrated OTN switch and CDC-ROADM nodes. The optical layer flexibility of CDC-ROADMs in the integrated node enables additional OTN line card sharing and simulation results show up to 18% savings in OTN line cards compared to classic ROADMs.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123669719","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}