{"title":"Integrated microwave photonics","authors":"Daniel Pérez, I. Gasulla, J. Capmany","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7830955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7830955","url":null,"abstract":"We report on recent advances in the field of integrated microwave photonics covering the different available technology platforms. From the functional point of view we consider both application-specific and universal-oriented programmable processor chips.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124424969","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. Inoshita, Y. Makimoto, H. Kishikawa, N. Goto, S. Yanagiya
{"title":"Contrast ratio and noise tolerance in multisymbol-QPSK-label recognition devices","authors":"K. Inoshita, Y. Makimoto, H. Kishikawa, N. Goto, S. Yanagiya","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831288","url":null,"abstract":"We have proposed waveguide-type optical circuits for recognition of optical QPSK symbols. The contrast ratio is theoretically discussed and the noise tolerance is numerically clarified.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132675924","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}
D. Morero, M. A. Castrillon, T. Goette, Matias Schnidrig, Facundo A. Ramos, Martín C. Asinari, D. Crivelli, M. Hueda
{"title":"Experimental demonstration of a variable-rate LDPC code with adaptive low-power decoding for next-generation optical networks","authors":"D. Morero, M. A. Castrillon, T. Goette, Matias Schnidrig, Facundo A. Ramos, Martín C. Asinari, D. Crivelli, M. Hueda","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831110","url":null,"abstract":"We design and implement a variable-rate non-concatenated LDPC code with an adaptive power-consumption decoder using 28nm CMOS technology. Experimental results obtained from a fabricated 256Gb/s optical transceiver demonstrate that the proposed LDPC achieves a NCG of 11.4dB at BER=10−15 without error-floor.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130734303","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}
P. Gong, Shaghayegh Es’haghian, Karl-Anton Harms, A. Murray, S. Rea, F. Wood, D. Sampson, R. McLaughlin
{"title":"Extracting something from nothing: In vivo imaging of human cutaneous lymphatic vessels using optical coherence tomography","authors":"P. Gong, Shaghayegh Es’haghian, Karl-Anton Harms, A. Murray, S. Rea, F. Wood, D. Sampson, R. McLaughlin","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831014","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a method to image cutaneous lymphatic vessels in vivo with optical coherence tomography (OCT). Our method segments the transparent lymphatic vessels by thresholding the OCT signal after calibration for systematic variations due to the confocal effect and the sensitivity drop-off, and subsequent compensation for light attenuation with depth. We describe the method and present a pilot demonstration on two human burn scar patients undergoing ablative laser fractionation treatment. The results show visualization of the lymphatic vessels (diameter: ∼30–150 μm) separate from the blood microvasculature network.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116610850","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":"Demultiplexing performance investigation of N-OTDM signal by temporal magnification and coherent optical sampling","authors":"X. Hong, D. Kong, L. Yue, Y. Li, Y. Liu, J. Wu","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831203","url":null,"abstract":"Temporal magnification followed by coherent optical sampling is proposed to enable demultiplexing of 160 Gbaud N-OTDM signal with sampling pulses up to 10.4 ps. Compared with coherent matched sampling, the proposed scheme features better performance with sampling pulse width greater than 6 ps.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116902309","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-precision microwave photonic true time delay measurement based on multi-channel microwave interference","authors":"Boyu Chen, Xiaoxiao Xue, Shangyuan Li, Xiaoping Zheng, Hanyi Zhang, Bingkun Zhou","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831195","url":null,"abstract":"A novel true time delay measurement method based on multi-channel microwave interference is demonstrated for characterizing microwave photonic true-time-delay lines. A relative time delay measurement precision of 1 ps is achieved, which demonstrate the advantages over traditional methods in accuracy and stability.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"48 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132478030","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":"Polarization-independent Fresnel lens based on blue phase liquid crystal and polymer composite films","authors":"Hua-Yang Lin, Kai-Hsiang Chan, Yin Lin, Jhao-Cian Gao, Huey-Jiuan Lin, Shug-June Hwang","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831312","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831312","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a novel and simple method for constructing a switchable polarization-independent Fresnel lens using blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC)/polymer composite films, the maximum diffraction efficiency reaches 36 % regardless of the polarization state of incident light, which approaches the theoretical limit ∼41 %.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128609827","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":"Joint iterative detection and decoding using spatially coupled LDPC codes","authors":"M. A. Castrillon, D. Morero, M. Hueda","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831109","url":null,"abstract":"We show that a joint iterative detection and decoding algorithm with spatially-coupled (SC) LDPC codes achieves excellent performance in 100Gbps 16-QAM optical systems with high phase noise. We also demonstrate that complexity and latency of JIDD can be significantly reduced by using SC-LDPC.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132032939","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}
C. Molardi, H. Liang, Xia Yu, A. Cucinotta, S. Selleri
{"title":"Mid-IR random lasing effect induced by increased impact of disorder in a planar slab","authors":"C. Molardi, H. Liang, Xia Yu, A. Cucinotta, S. Selleri","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7830987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7830987","url":null,"abstract":"Random lasing in 2D structures, obtained in QCL substrates carved with random patterns of holes, has been numerically analyzed. Results show the dependency on scattering induced by holes Filling Factor. A Monte Carlo based software has been implemented to investigate the photons travel distance statistics.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133103687","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":"Improvement of optical access M-QAM transmission capacity using DSP based non-orthogonal frequency shift keying","authors":"Y. Won, S. Yoon, D. Seo","doi":"10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCON.2016.7831101","url":null,"abstract":"Non-orthogonal frequency quadrature amplitude modulation (NOFQAM) is proposed to improve the transmission capacity of optical access link. In case of 64-NOFQAM, both no increase of channel bandwidth and no reduction of SNR were observed despite the increase of two more bits/symbol compared with 16-QAM.","PeriodicalId":396459,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122393792","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}