{"title":"Recent progress on few-mode fiber amplifier","authors":"H. Ono, Y. Amma, T. Hosokawa, M. Yamada","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548734","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most important issues as regards the few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier (FM-EDFA) is the differential modal gain (DMG). This paper reviews various schemes for reducing the DMG. We also present results for multi-core, few-mode erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (MC-FM-EDFA).","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132000054","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":"Transfer matrix characterization of 10-mode mode-selective spatial multiplexers","authors":"Haoshuo Chen, N. Fontaine, R. Ryf","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548733","url":null,"abstract":"We present characterization results of a pair 10-mode spatial multiplexers based on multi-plane light conversion by employing a swept-wavelength interferometer. Mode-group selectivity and mode-dependent loss are both discussed.","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114436788","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}
A. Khalid, A. Koonen, C. W. Oh, Z. Cao, K. Mekonnen, E. Tangdiongga
{"title":"10 Gbps indoor optical wireless communication employing 2D passive beam steering based on arrayed waveguide gratings","authors":"A. Khalid, A. Koonen, C. W. Oh, Z. Cao, K. Mekonnen, E. Tangdiongga","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548768","url":null,"abstract":"We report an indoor optical wireless communication system based on 2D optical beam steering at using arrayed waveguide gratings. A data rate of 10Gbps is demonstrated with NRZ-OOK modulation maintaining BER ≤ 10-9, while keeping the optical transmitted power below the eye safety limit.","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124793716","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. Wen, Qi Mo, P. Sillard, R. A. Correa, Guifang Li
{"title":"Transmission of RF/microwave signals using few-mode fibers","authors":"H. Wen, Qi Mo, P. Sillard, R. A. Correa, Guifang Li","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548783","url":null,"abstract":"Few-mode fibers offer high optical power handling capability that enables improvement of the RF gain, noise figure and dynamic range of analog fiber-optic links. We demonstrate the advantages in both single-channel and WDM transmission over few-mode fiber links.","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124951408","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":"Energy efficient Kerr frequency combs for optical communication","authors":"M. Jazayerifar, K. Jamshidi","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548740","url":null,"abstract":"Using numerical simulations, we show that microresonator-based Kerr frequency combs with low pump power and non-filled spectrum can have a low noise level and high power efficiency. Therefore, they are reasonable candidates for WDM sources.","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125898195","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":"Indoor localization using low-complexity luminaires and ambient light sensors","authors":"E. Edwards, S. Hranilovic","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548770","url":null,"abstract":"We show that the use of indoor lighting information can lead to improved convergence time and tracking error over a dead-reckoning approach. Additionally, performance can be further improved by introducing low-cost, low-complexity modifications to a subset of indoor lighting infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"10 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123524843","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":"Wireless optical communication in illumination systems","authors":"J. Linnartz","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548764","url":null,"abstract":"Electric lighting is pervasive and with LED lighting the ability arises to modulate light. This paper will address some challenges in using illumination products for Optical Wireless Communication (OWC). Electronic LED drivers are going through extreme cost down and have to adhere to efficiency and other requirements that are not easily compatible with OWC. This paper also validates the use of traditional water pouring for OWC channels in which the transmit power consumed for modulation is a nonlinear function of the emitted energy per communication bit.","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114393488","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":"Investigation of orbital angular momentum mode purity in air-core optical fibers","authors":"Lixian Wang, A. Corsi, L. Rusch, S. Larochelle","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548809","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of spin-orbit coupling in air-core optical fibers degrades the purity of orbital angular momentum modes and induces significant crosstalk. We numerically investigate different air-core fiber geometries and discuss the trade-off between OAM mode purity and effective index separation.","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124572157","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}
Jiefei Zhang, Swarnabha Chattaraj, Siyuan Lu, A. Madhukar
{"title":"On-chip integrable spectrally-uniform quantum dot single photon emitter array with multifunctional dielectric light manipulation elements: Towards quantum information processing","authors":"Jiefei Zhang, Swarnabha Chattaraj, Siyuan Lu, A. Madhukar","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548551","url":null,"abstract":"We report on a new paradigm of on-chip integrated nanophotonic systems comprising regular arrays of spectrally uniform mesa-top single quantum dot (MTSQD) single photon sources (SPS) and dielectric building block based multifunctional light manipulating passive elements aimed at optical quantum information processing.","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121775538","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}
K. Mekonnen, C. W. Oh, A. Khalid, N. Calabretta, E. Tangdiongga, A. Koonen
{"title":"PIC-assisted high-capacity dynamic indoor network utilizing optical wireless and 60-GHz radio-over-fiber techniques","authors":"K. Mekonnen, C. W. Oh, A. Khalid, N. Calabretta, E. Tangdiongga, A. Koonen","doi":"10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2016.7548775","url":null,"abstract":"We present a bidirectional dynamic indoor fiber infrastructure using a photonic integrated cross-connect chip for optical wireless downstream and 60GHz radio-over-fiber upstream transmission. We demonstrate 10Gb/s on-off-keying downstream multicasting and 33Gb/s discrete-multi-tone upstream communication.","PeriodicalId":337671,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134141752","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}