{"title":"Scaling the advantages of intra-channel nonlinearity compensation in future flexible optical networks","authors":"D. Rafique, A. Ellis","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P4.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P4.18","url":null,"abstract":"We report that, contrary to common perception, intra-channel nonlinearity compensation offers significant improvements of up to 4dB, in nonlinear tolerance (Q-factor), in a flexible traffic scenario, and further improvements with increasing local link dispersion, for an optical transport network employing flexible 28Gbaud PM-mQAM transponders.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"3 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":"116500041","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}
I. Ishida, K. Takenaga, S. Matsuo, K. Saitoh, M. Koshiba
{"title":"Investigation of longitudinal power decay of a MCF by using a 50-km weakly-coupled multi-core fibre","authors":"I. Ishida, K. Takenaga, S. Matsuo, K. Saitoh, M. Koshiba","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.MO.1.F.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.MO.1.F.1","url":null,"abstract":"The longitudinal power decay due to crosstalk of a weakly-coupled MCF is observed with bi-directional OTDR technique. The center core and outer cores of MCFs with hexagonal layout show the different crosstalk characteristics until the power of cores is saturated.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"8 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":"127574866","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. Yang, S. Zou, E. Tangdiongga, X. Jin, Z. Cao, C. Okonkwo, H. Chen, A. Koonen
{"title":"A lightwave centralized and dispersion immune bidirectional mm-wave over fiber scheme for access networks","authors":"B. Yang, S. Zou, E. Tangdiongga, X. Jin, Z. Cao, C. Okonkwo, H. Chen, A. Koonen","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P6.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P6.07","url":null,"abstract":"A lightwave centralized and dispersion immune RoF scheme is demonstrated by combining the use of a dual-drive MZM in CO and an AWG in RN. Bidirectional transmission of 25 MS/s 128 QAM signal at 38.4 GHz and 1.25 Gb/s OOK signal with a RSOA is successfully achieved. The proposed scheme also features simple structure and high transmission stability.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"171 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":"127588710","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}
H. Yamazaki, T. Goh, T. Saida, Y. Hashizume, S. Mino, M. Nagatani, H. Nosaka, Koichi Murata
{"title":"Dual-carrier dual-polarization IQ modulator driven with high-speed DACs for 400-Gb/s applications","authors":"H. Yamazaki, T. Goh, T. Saida, Y. Hashizume, S. Mino, M. Nagatani, H. Nosaka, Koichi Murata","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.WE.3.E.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.WE.3.E.1","url":null,"abstract":"An optical dual-carrier generator, four parallel IQ modulators, and a polarization multiplexer are integrated in a single modulator with a silica-LiNbO3 hybrid configuration. By driving the modulator with high-speed DACs we developed, we generated a 400-Gb/s dual-carrier dual-polarization 16QAM signal.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"43 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":"127677178","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. Salsi, J. Vuong, C. Koebele, Philippe Genevaux, H. Mardoyan, P. Tran, S. Bigo, Guillaume Le Cocq, L. Bigot, Y. Quiquempois, A. Le Rouge, P. Sillard, M. Bigot-Astruc, G. Charlet
{"title":"In-line few-mode optical amplifier with erbium profile tuned to support LP01, LP11, and LP21 mode groups","authors":"M. Salsi, J. Vuong, C. Koebele, Philippe Genevaux, H. Mardoyan, P. Tran, S. Bigo, Guillaume Le Cocq, L. Bigot, Y. Quiquempois, A. Le Rouge, P. Sillard, M. Bigot-Astruc, G. Charlet","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.3.F.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.TU.3.F.1","url":null,"abstract":"We report and characterize an optical amplifier capable of five-mode amplification, with erbium concentration profile adjusted for low gain excursion across the modes. The cross-talk between modes is characterized in the middle of the C-band.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"19 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":"133617456","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":"1.25 Gbit/s visible light WDM link based on DMT modulation of a single RGB LED luminary","authors":"C. Kottke, J. Hilt, K. Habel, J. Vucic, K. Langer","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.WE.3.B.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.WE.3.B.4","url":null,"abstract":"We report the first Gigabit-range visible light link based on off-the-shelf RGB-type white LEDs. By application of WDM and DMT modulation an aggregate rate of 1.25 Gbit/s within the FEC 2·10-3 limit has been reached at illumination levels recommended by the lighting standard for the working environment.","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":"133698242","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}
Z. Lali-Dastjerdi, O. Ozolins, Y. An, V. Cristofori, Francesco Da Ros, N. Kang, H. Hu, H. Mulvad, K. Rottwitt, M. Galili, C. Peucheret
{"title":"Demonstration of cascaded in-line single-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers in recirculating loop transmission","authors":"Z. Lali-Dastjerdi, O. Ozolins, Y. An, V. Cristofori, Francesco Da Ros, N. Kang, H. Hu, H. Mulvad, K. Rottwitt, M. Galili, C. Peucheret","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.MO.2.C.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.MO.2.C.5","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of cascaded single-pump fiber optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs) is experimentally studied for the first time using recirculating loop transmission with 80-km dispersion managed spans. Error-free performance has been achieved over 320 km for 40-Gbit/s CSRZ-OOK and CSRZ-DPSK modulated signals.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"3 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":"133787466","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}
Cen Xia, R. Amezcua-correa, N. Bai, E. Antonio-Lopez, D. May-Arrioja, A. Schulzgen, M. Richardson, J. Liñares, C. Montero, E. Mateo, Xiang Zhou, Guifang Li
{"title":"Low-crosstalk few-mode multi-core fiber for high-mode-density space-division multiplexing","authors":"Cen Xia, R. Amezcua-correa, N. Bai, E. Antonio-Lopez, D. May-Arrioja, A. Schulzgen, M. Richardson, J. Liñares, C. Montero, E. Mateo, Xiang Zhou, Guifang Li","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2012.6705925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2012.6705925","url":null,"abstract":"A seven-core few-mode multi-core fiber in which each core supports three spatial modes has been designed and fabricated. Low inter-core crosstalk is achieved with a high mode density. This fiber allows multiplexed transmission of 21 spatial modes per polarization.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"199 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":"133861877","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}
Xi Wang, Inwoong Kim, Qiong Zhang, P. Palacharla, M. Sekiya
{"title":"A hitless defragmentation method for self-optimizing flexible grid optical networks","authors":"Xi Wang, Inwoong Kim, Qiong Zhang, P. Palacharla, M. Sekiya","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P5.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.P5.04","url":null,"abstract":"We present an auto-defragmentation method to continuously `defrag' flexible grid optical networks without service disruption. Signal dependency map is introduced to identify candidate signals to be retuned and their retune sequence. Simulation results show up to 76% reduction in request blocking and 38% reduction in the number of stranded slots.","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":"134068261","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":"High-speed indoor optical wireless communication system with a steering mirror based up-link receiver","authors":"Ke Wang, A. Nirmalathas, C. Lim, E. Skafidas","doi":"10.1364/ECEOC.2012.WE.3.B.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ECEOC.2012.WE.3.B.3","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a steering mirror based up-link receiver for indoor optical wireless communication systems. Experimental results show that the up-link bit rate can be increased by >85% and the error-free (BER<;10-9) beam footprint at 500Mbps can be improved by >39%.","PeriodicalId":270552,"journal":{"name":"2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communications","volume":"10 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":"114227179","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}