A. Oladeji, P. Arnold, M. I. Ali, A. Phillips, I. Sazanovich, J. Weinstein, S. Sujecki
{"title":"Numerical and experimental investigation of near-infrared-visible luminescence in erbium doped sol-gel SiO2","authors":"A. Oladeji, P. Arnold, M. I. Ali, A. Phillips, I. Sazanovich, J. Weinstein, S. Sujecki","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602891","url":null,"abstract":"Erbium doped silicon dioxide (Er3+: SiO2) was obtained by the sol-gel method. Efficient green and red upconversion luminescence was observed using 488 nm (70 mW, continuous wave) and 800 nm (25 ns pulsed) excitation. Upconversion study of luminescence was done for 3 different samples (1%, 4%, 10%: Er3+) of sol-gel SiO2. A theoretical analysis was performed and the results obtained were compared with the experimentally recorded photoluminescence spectra. An evolutionary algorithm was employed for optimising the upconversion coefficients of the rate equations model while the lifetime values were obtained from the Judd-Ofelt analysis. The modelling results closely reproduce the experimentally observed spectra.","PeriodicalId":376939,"journal":{"name":"2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125655464","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}
L. Maigyte, C. Cojocaru, V. Purlys, J. Trull, D. Gailevičius, M. Peckus, M. Malinauskas, K. Staliūnas
{"title":"Focusing by a flat woodpile 3D photonic crystal","authors":"L. Maigyte, C. Cojocaru, V. Purlys, J. Trull, D. Gailevičius, M. Peckus, M. Malinauskas, K. Staliūnas","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602990","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate spatial propagation effect behind the Photonic Crystal under particular dispersion conditions, which lead to a near field focusing. We analyze and experimentally demonstrate full two-dimensional near field focusing of light beams at visible frequencies behind the flat three-dimensional woodpile photonic crystal. Experimental results correspond well with numerical FDTD calculations as well as with the mode expansion studies. The focusing distance of 50 - 70 μm behind the crystal is obtained.","PeriodicalId":376939,"journal":{"name":"2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122886706","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":"Electro-optical effect in BaTiO3 for tuning of narrow-band optical reflection filter","authors":"E. Popov, A. Fehrembach, D. Shu","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602777","url":null,"abstract":"We present a numerical study of tuning properties of a narrow-band optical filter based on the electro-optical (E-O) effect in BaTiO3 crystal layer. The filtering is due to the resonant waveguide mode excitation by using of subwavelength grating. In order to achieve polarization independence we introduce a structure having two-dimensional periodicity. Additional substructures inside each period are used in order to increase the angular tolerances of the filter. A peak reflection exceeding 90% within a spectral interval of 0.1 nm is obtained for the most optimal configuration. By taking into account the linear E-O (Pockels) effect only, the tuning range of 33 nm can be achieved for an applied external electric field that does not exceed 1.5×107 V/m. This shift is multiplied by three (97 nm) when also taking into account the quadratic E-O effect.","PeriodicalId":376939,"journal":{"name":"2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122906944","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. Parca, A. Shahpari, V. Carrozzo, G. Beleffi, A. Teixeira
{"title":"Broadband Free Space Optical urban links for next generation infrastructures and services","authors":"G. Parca, A. Shahpari, V. Carrozzo, G. Beleffi, A. Teixeira","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602796","url":null,"abstract":"Authors present the implementation of a building to building 100 Gbit/s Free Space Optical (FSO) link. The FSO point to point (P2P) connection, 80 meters long, exploited the transmission of a dual polarization multiplexed (PM) QPSK signal. The performances of the implemented broadband coherent system have been evaluated, with fiber propagation to simulate downstream and upstream network configurations, in terms of both bit error rate (BER) and error vector magnitude (EVM).","PeriodicalId":376939,"journal":{"name":"2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131557816","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":"Membrane InP saturable absorbers on silicon as building blocks for transparent optical networks","authors":"O. Raz, M. Tassaert, G. Roelkens, H. Dorren","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602850","url":null,"abstract":"As silicon photonics continues to gain research and industrial relevance, some of the building blocks in this technology such as modulators and switches still suffer from limitation when it comes to insertion losses and/or extinction ratio. In the past two years we have been investigating a promising new building block for silicon on insulator (SOI) circuits which is based on ultra-thin narrow stripes of InP bonded on top of SOI, which operate as saturable absorbers at very low optical power levels. The unique properties of these membrane InP switches (MIPS) make them ideally suitable as complementary components to SOI devices. By controlling the band gap of the active layers in the membrane as well as the confinement of light critical properties of such MIPS can be determined and tailored to specific applications. In this talk we will highlight two exciting applications of MIPS on SOI. First we will show how they enhance the performance of silicon based modulators by regenerating the signal through their non-linear response. Secondly we will show how they may solve a unique engineering challenge for next generation access networks by operating as optically controlled switches with high extinction ratio and no electrical power supply.","PeriodicalId":376939,"journal":{"name":"2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121735066","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. Autenrieth, J. Elbers, P. Kaczmarek, P. Kostecki
{"title":"Cloud orchestration with SDN/OpenFlow in carrier transport networks","authors":"A. Autenrieth, J. Elbers, P. Kaczmarek, P. Kostecki","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602984","url":null,"abstract":"Software Defined Networking offers network programmability through open Application Programming Interfaces (API) and OpenFlow is the most prominent SDN protocol today. However, it is still quite immature and some concepts and features are missing for application in carrier transport networks. In this paper the authors will give an overview of current activities and latest results of the OFELIA project for OpenFlow enabled lambda switching in ROADM-based optical networks. Then the authors highlight required functionality and propose a system architecture to offer cloud orchestration services over multi-carrier and multi-technology transport networks.","PeriodicalId":376939,"journal":{"name":"2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133767653","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":"Diffuse IR-optical wireless system demonstration for mobile patient monitoring in hospitals","authors":"A. Khalid, G. Cossu, E. Ciaramella","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602887","url":null,"abstract":"Patient monitoring in the hospitals is very critical and important for medical treatment during both cure and recovery. Modern hospitals usually implies the facility of mobile patient monitoring based on radio frequency technology, however the radio frequency can experience electromagnetic interference (EMI) with sophisticated medical equipment, which may cause health risk to the patient. We experimentally demonstrate a solution for mobile patient monitoring based on diffuse infra-red (IR) optical wireless technology. In order to avoid background ambient light interference generated by florescent lamps, bipolar signalling is successfully exploited. The data rate of 10 Mbit/s with NRZ-AMI (bipolar signalling) is achieved with BER <; 10-5.","PeriodicalId":376939,"journal":{"name":"2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133768489","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":"Driving a DEMZM to generate wired and wireless OFDM services in hybrid long-reach optical access networks","authors":"P. Almeida, H. Silva","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602771","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, two different configurations to drive multi-services OFDM signals in a dual electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator (DEMZM) to generate an optical hybrid signal (OHS) are investigated. The linearity of the configurations and their performance in the transmission of an OHS composed by a custom 4-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) gigabit Ethernet (GbE) signal, a 20 MHz quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) Long Term Evolution (LTE) signal and three OFDM-ultra-wideband (UWB) signals of the first group of the ECMA-386 standard are compared.","PeriodicalId":376939,"journal":{"name":"2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134181454","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":"Extending the flexgrid optical core towards the edges","authors":"L. Velasco, M. Ruiz, A. Castro, J. Comellas","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602717","url":null,"abstract":"National IP/MPLS network have being designed on top of fixed-grid DWDM optical networks so to spread out covering large areas. Besides, multilayer IP/MPLS-over-DWDM networks take advantage from grooming to achieve high spectrum efficiency, filling the gap between users' flows and wavelength channels' capacity. The advent of the flexgrid technology providing a finer granularity makes possible to perform grooming also at the optical layer. We propose to flatten previous multilayer approaches and advance towards single layer networks consisting in a number of IP/MPLS areas connected through a flexgrid-based core network. A two-step procedure to design such flexgrid-based IP/MPLS national networks is proposed. In this paper, a future large flexgrid core network inter-connecting small areas is shown.","PeriodicalId":376939,"journal":{"name":"2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"6 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134362839","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. Grande, M. Vincenti, T. Stomeo, G. Bianco, D. de Ceglia, G. Magno, V. Petruzzelli, G. Bruno, M. de Vittorio, M. Scalora, A. D’orazio
{"title":"Graphene assisted nanostructures","authors":"M. Grande, M. Vincenti, T. Stomeo, G. Bianco, D. de Ceglia, G. Magno, V. Petruzzelli, G. Bruno, M. de Vittorio, M. Scalora, A. D’orazio","doi":"10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602959","url":null,"abstract":"Graphene is a perfect two-dimensional (2D) carbon sheet in honeycomb lattice with unique, multi-faceted properties. Very recently plasmons have been identified in graphene thus opening a new research field called “graphene plasmonics” which provides a suitable alternative to noble-metal plasmonics, since the associated surface plasmons (SPs) exhibit much larger light confinement abilities and relatively long propagation distances, with the advantage of being highly tunable via electrostatic gating. Moreover graphene can be efficiently integrated in photonic nanostructures in order to increase the optical absorption in the visible and infrared regions (graphene photonics). In this paper we will illustrate some applications of graphene plasmonics and graphene photonics, reported in literature, in different research fields and we will review our recent numerical and experimental results concerning the linear and nonlinear optical response of graphene plasmonic and photonic nanostructures emphasizing their interaction in terms of absorption and optical resonances.","PeriodicalId":376939,"journal":{"name":"2013 15th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115100111","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}