{"title":"Phase-sensitive fiber-optic parametric amplifiers and their applications","authors":"P. Andrekson, C. Lundstrom, Z. Tong","doi":"10.1364/ACPC.2012.AS3G.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/ACPC.2012.AS3G.1","url":null,"abstract":"We review some fundamental and practical aspects of fiber-optic parametric amplifiers (FOPAs). In particular, their unique phase-sensitive amplification ability along with the corresponding ultralow noise figure will be discussed. Applications of both phase-insensitive and phase-sensitive FOPAs will also be covered.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117347528","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. Barker, A. El-Taher, M. Alcón-Camas, J. Ania-Castañón, P. Harper
{"title":"Extended bandwidth for long haul DWDM transmission using ultra-long Raman fiber lasers","authors":"L. Barker, A. El-Taher, M. Alcón-Camas, J. Ania-Castañón, P. Harper","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621427","url":null,"abstract":"We present an ultra-long Raman fibre laser amplified system which, with only a single pump wavelength, provides comparable gain flatness and broader spectral bandwidth than a conventional gain flattened C-band EDFA. A 20×42.7Gb/s experiment shows compatibility with DWDM systems.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115296752","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":"A dynamic system to react to traffic changes in multi-layer networks","authors":"P. Iovanna, M. Naldi, R. Sabella, C. Zema","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621168","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamic handling of traffic in multi-layer networks gets more complex when the optical layer is involved. A system based on measurements and forecasting is proposed in order to optimize multi-layer networks taking into account economic targets.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115338662","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. Stabile, H. Wang, A. Wonfor, Kenneth Wang, R. Penty, I. H. White, Kevin A. Williams
{"title":"Multipath routing in a fully scheduled integrated optical switch fabric","authors":"R. Stabile, H. Wang, A. Wonfor, Kenneth Wang, R. Penty, I. H. White, Kevin A. Williams","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621152","url":null,"abstract":"A compact and efficient control plane has been implemented to demonstrate multipath routing for a twenty-electrode photonic integrated circuit with round-robin scheduling. A single slot clock with 3.2 µs packet period dynamically cycles connections between all input and output ports.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127147842","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. S. Tahvili, L. Du, M. Heck, R. Notzel, M. Smit, E. Bente
{"title":"Passive mode-locking dynamics in a 3.1GHz quantum dot laser diode operating around 1.5µm","authors":"M. S. Tahvili, L. Du, M. Heck, R. Notzel, M. Smit, E. Bente","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621408","url":null,"abstract":"We report on passive mode-locking in a 3.1GHz InAs/InP(100) quantum dot laser diode operating around 1.5µm. The range of stable passive mode-locking, detailed measurements of the linewidth of the optical modes and the phase modulation in output pulses are presented.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124708420","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":"Rayleigh back-scattering reduction by means of Quantized Feedback Equalization in WDM-PONs","authors":"J. Prat","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621423","url":null,"abstract":"Quantized-Feedback Equalization at the digital decision of the OLT-RX allows recovering the low frequency components after filtering out the associated corrupting Rayleigh back-scattering noise added in the bidirectional WDM-PON transmission, obtaining a substantial tolerance increase.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124847076","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":"Electronic nonlinearity compensation in 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK optical coherent transmission systems","authors":"C. Xie, R. Essiambre","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621340","url":null,"abstract":"We show that implementing pre- and post-dispersion compensation in electronic nonlinearity compensation can significantly improve the performance of 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK coherent systems. More electronic compensation stages are required for a system without optical dispersion compensators (ODCs) than that with ODCs.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126106101","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}
V. Sleiffer, M. Alfiad, D. van den Borne, S. Jansen, M. Kuschnerov, S. Adhikari, H. de Waardt
{"title":"A comparison of 43-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-DPSK and POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK modulation for long-haul transmission systems","authors":"V. Sleiffer, M. Alfiad, D. van den Borne, S. Jansen, M. Kuschnerov, S. Adhikari, H. de Waardt","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621432","url":null,"abstract":"We compare the suitability of 43-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-DPSK and POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK modulation for long-haul optical transmission. We experimentally demonstrate that the higher robustness against nonlinear impairments of 43-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-DPSK allows for a ~40% increase in feasible transmission distance.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123707482","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}
Hejie Yang, D. Visani, C. Okonkwo, Yun-qing Shi, G. Tartarini, E. Tangdiongga, A. Koonen
{"title":"Multi-standard transmission of converged wired and wireless services over 100m plastic optical fibre","authors":"Hejie Yang, D. Visani, C. Okonkwo, Yun-qing Shi, G. Tartarini, E. Tangdiongga, A. Koonen","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621507","url":null,"abstract":"The first multi-standard transmission consisting of 6 Gbit/s DMT baseband and 200 Mbit/s MB-OFDM UWB radio signals over 100m perfluorinated graded-index plastic optical fibre is demonstrated. Transmission performance indicates BER < 10<sup>−5</sup> and EVM < −22dB respectively.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123721467","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":"Technologies towards terabit transmission systems","authors":"F. Buchali","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621186","url":null,"abstract":"This tutorial reviews technologies towards terabit transport: Increase of bitrate per channel by higher symbol rate or higher number of bit per symbol, alternatively superchannel application consisting of non-overlapping or overlapping sub-channels contributing to increased spectral efficiency.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125266897","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}