{"title":"Effective gain clamping of semiconductor optical amplifiers by injecting broad-band self-generated amplified spontaneous emission","authors":"J.M. Oh, D. Lee","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2007.4348420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2007.4348420","url":null,"abstract":"A conventional SOA is effectively gain-clamped by the injection of self-generated broadband amplified spontaneous emission. The gain is clamped up to an input power of-2 dBm with an output power in excess of 11 dBm.","PeriodicalId":367455,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116095077","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 Polarization Hole Burning in Lightly Loaded Ultra Long-Haul WDM Systems","authors":"B. Bakhshi, L. Rahman, E. Golovchenko","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2007.4348333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2007.4348333","url":null,"abstract":"In lightly loaded ultra-long WDM systems, which use idlers for power management, we show experimentally that a higher inline EDFA output power can significantly reduce the PHB-induced performance fluctuations, with enhanced system margin in result.","PeriodicalId":367455,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116097755","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":"Impacts of Multiple Backups and Multi-Link Sharing among Primary and Backups for Dynamic Service Provisioning in Survivable Mesh Networks","authors":"Lei Song, B. Mukherjee","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2007.4348689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2007.4348689","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a reliability analysis for connections with 1 + N protection and primary-backup k-link sharing. We develop a cost-effective dynamic provisioning scheme to carry connections which have stringent SLA requirements with availability guarantee and resource efficiency.","PeriodicalId":367455,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122488076","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}
Shiquan Yang, J. Cameron, J. Snoddy, Lufan Zou, X. Bao
{"title":"PRBS data delay in an all fiber slow light system based on SBS effect, NRZ vs. RZ","authors":"Shiquan Yang, J. Cameron, J. Snoddy, Lufan Zou, X. Bao","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2007.4348844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2007.4348844","url":null,"abstract":"We study the data delay effect in a fiber SBS slow light system. The results show that, with the same pump configuration, NRZ has a larger delay and better eye opening than RZ format.","PeriodicalId":367455,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122606961","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":"Cost vs. Capacity Tradeoff with Shared Mesh Protection in Optical-Bypass-Enabled Backbone Networks","authors":"J. M. Simmons","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2007.4348502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2007.4348502","url":null,"abstract":"Shared mesh protection based on cross-connecting pre-deployed protection subconnections is well suited for the optical-bypass-enabled networks currently being deployed. This scheme poses a cost-versus-capacity tradeoff, which is investigated through studies on several realistic backbone networks.","PeriodicalId":367455,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116738077","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 Phase-Correlated Signal Generation by Phase-Reconstruction of OTDM Signals through Differential Cross-Phase Modulation in an SOA-MZI","authors":"S. Kumar, A. Willner","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2007.4348329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2007.4348329","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a method to generate high-speed coherent phase-modulated signals using DXPM in an SOA-MZI. Results include generation of 80-Gb/s RZ-DPSK, CSRZ, GAP-CSRZ, PAP-CSRZ, and AMI modulation formats. The technique also enables output pulse-width control.","PeriodicalId":367455,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116743420","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":"Single-End Spectral Resolved Measurement of Polarization Mode Dispersion in Optical Fibers","authors":"H. Dong, P. Shum, J.Q. Zhou, Y. Gong","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2007.4348312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2007.4348312","url":null,"abstract":"An improved single-end backreflection technique is proposed to perform the spectral resolved measurement of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers. This technique is based on the PMD dynamical equation, which is realized by measuring the reflected polarization state evolution in both frequency and time domains. An experimental setup, employing continuous-wave and far-end Fresnel reflection, is constructed. The agreement between the results of single-end and forward measurements is very good.","PeriodicalId":367455,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116753035","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":"Transmission Performance Maximization of Adaptively Modulated Optical OFDM Signals in MMF Based Links Using Optimum Analogue-to-Digital Converters","authors":"J.M. Tang, K. Shore","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2007.4348858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2007.4348858","url":null,"abstract":"It will be shown that 40Gb/s over 220m and 32Gb/s over 300m AMOOFDM signal transmission with loss margins of about 15dB is feasible in installed worst-case MMF IMDD links having 3-dB effective bandwidths of 150MHz.km.","PeriodicalId":367455,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117238313","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}
Xiaofei Cheng, Y. Wen, Zhaowen Xu, Yixin Wang, J. Shankar, P. Shum
{"title":"In-Service Fault Localization in WDM Passive Optical Networks","authors":"Xiaofei Cheng, Y. Wen, Zhaowen Xu, Yixin Wang, J. Shankar, P. Shum","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2007.4348375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2007.4348375","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a novel in-service fault localization scheme combined and monitored simultaneously. Fiber fault and automatic protection switching in ONUs are monitored in real-time at central office (CO) without interrupting customer service.","PeriodicalId":367455,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129510492","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}
J. Cai, D. Foursa, A. Lucero, M. Nissov, W. Anderson, A. Pilipetskii, W. Patterson, P. Corbett, N. Bergano
{"title":"Long-Haul 40 Gb/s RZ-DPSK Transmission over 4,450 km with 150-km Repeater Spacing using Raman Assisted EDFAs","authors":"J. Cai, D. Foursa, A. Lucero, M. Nissov, W. Anderson, A. Pilipetskii, W. Patterson, P. Corbett, N. Bergano","doi":"10.1109/OFC.2007.4348906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OFC.2007.4348906","url":null,"abstract":"40Gb/s RZ-DPSK signals were successfully transmitted over 4450km with 150km repeater spacing (33dB span loss) using Raman assisted EDFAs. The performance was compared with EDFA only amplification and 110km repeater spacing. Long-term Q-factor fluctuations were also quantified for Raman-assisted amplification.","PeriodicalId":367455,"journal":{"name":"OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128271707","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}