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CFP10425-PRT 978-1-4244-8536-9

36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2010)

Torino, Italy 19-23 September 2010

Volume 1 Pages 1-762

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.A: ALL-OPTICAL PROCESSING – I Ultra-High-Speed Optical Signal Processing of Tbaud Data Signals ........................................................................................................... 1

L. K. Oxenløwe, M. Galili, H. C. Hansen Mulvad, H. Hu, H. Ji, J. Xu, E. Palushani, J. L. Areal, A. T. Clausen, P. Jeppesen

All-Optical Phase-Regenerative Multicasting of 40 Gbit/s DPSK Signal in a Degenerate Phase Sensitive Amplifier............................ 7Radan Slavik, Joseph Kakande, Francesca Parmigiani, Lars Gruner Nielsen, Dan Jakobsen, Soren Herstrom, Periklis Petropoulos, David J Richardson

Passband Optimisation for Hybrid 40G/100G System Using Tunable Asymmetric Interleaver ............................................................ 10Philip N. Ji, Jianjun Yu, Gang-Ding Peng, Ting Wang

Demonstration of 100-Gbit/s DQPSK Data Exchange between Two Different Wavelength Channels using Parametric Depletion in a Highly Nonlinear Fiber ...................................................................................................................................... 13

Jian Wang, Scott R. Nuccio, Hao Huang, Xue Wang, Omer F Yilmaz, Xiaoxia Wu, Jeng-Yuan Yang, Yang Yue, Alan Willner

640 Gb/s All-Optical Logic Functions in a PPLN Waveguide ..................................................................................................................... 16Antonella Bogoni, Xiaoxia Wu, Zahra Bakhtiari, Scott R. Nuccio, Alan Willner

High-Resolution 640 Gbit/s Clock Recovery using Time-Domain Optical Fourier Transformation and Narrowband Optical Filter.............................................................................................................................................................................. 19

Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, Pengyu Guan, Keisuke Kasai, Toshihiko Hirooka, Masataka Nakazawa

1.B: WDM PON Reflective Based Active Semiconductor Components for Next Generation Optical Access Networks................................................... 22

Anna Borghesani

Athermal Colourless C-band Optical Transmitter for Passive Optical Networks.................................................................................... 28S. H. Lee, A. Wonfor, R. V. Penty, I. H. White, G. Busico, R. Cush, M. Wale

A Cost-Effective WDM-PON using a Multiple Contact Fabry-Pérot Laser Diode .................................................................................. 31Sil-Gu Mun, Ho-Sung Cho, Chang-Hee Lee

Highly Improved Uplink Transmission in Bidirectional PONS by Using a RZ Direct-modulated R-SOA ........................................... 34Luca Banchi, Raffaele Corsini, Marco Presi, Fabio Cavaliere, Ernesto Ciaramella

RSOA as a Sawtooth Generator for Rayleigh Backscattering Effect Mitigation...................................................................................... 37Mireia Omella, Philippe Chanclou, Jose A Lazaro, Josep Prat

Multicasting in WDM-PON Using Cross-Gain Modulation in Semiconductor Optical Amplifier......................................................... 40Kwanil Lee, Sang Bae Lee, Paolo Ghelfi, An Truong Nguyen, Luca Poti, Giancarlo Prati

1.C: COHERENT IMPAIRMENT MITIGATION Electronic Nonlinearity Compensation in 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK Optical Coherent Transmission Systems ........................................ 43

Chongjin Xie, René-Jean Essiambre

Interplay between Local Oscillator Phase Noise and Electrical Chromatic Dispersion Compensation in Digital Coherent Transmission System....................................................................................................................................................................... 46

Shoichiro Oda, Chihiro Ohshima, Toshiki Tanaka, Takahito Tanimura, Hisao Nakashima, Nobukazu Koizumi, Takeshi Hoshida, Huijian Zhang, Zhenning Tao, Jens C. Rasmussen

Interleaved Polarization Division Multiplexing in Self-Homodyne Coherent WDM Systems ................................................................ 49Martin Sjodin, Erik Agrell, Guo-Wei Lu, Pontus Johannisson, Magnus Karlsson, Peter A Andrekson

Pattern-dependent Nonlinear Impairments on QPSK Signals in Dispersion-managed Optical Transmission Systems............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 52

Petros Ramantanis, Yann Frignac

Capabilities of Real-Time Digital Coherent Transceivers ........................................................................................................................... 55Lynn Nelson, Sheryl Woodward

1.D: ENERGY EFFICIENT OPTICAL NETWORKS Optical Networks: How Much Power Do They Consume and How Can We Optimize This? ................................................................ 61

Willem Vereecken, Ward Van Heddeghem, Bart Puype, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet, Piet Demeester

Energy Footprint of Telecommunication Networks ..................................................................................................................................... 65Christoph Lange, Dirk Kosiankowski, Ralf Hulsermann, Rainer Weidmann, Andreas Gladisch

Higher Capacity with Smaller Global Energy Consumption in Core Optical Networks Due to Elastic Channel Spacing............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 71

T. Zami, A. Morea, J. Renaudier, O. Rival, H. Mardoyan, O. Bertran-Pardo, J.-C. Antona, S. Bigo

Power Managed Optical Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Tree Signalling Demonstration in GMPLS-controlled Wavelength Switched Optical Networks........................................................................................................................................................ 74

Takehiro Tsuritani, Ayako Murakami, Lei Liu, Kenichi Ogaki, Munefumi Tsurusawa

Power-Aware Traffic Engineering for Multi-layer Networks with Partial Deployment of TDM-XCs .................................................. 77Wenyu Shen, Takehito Yamamoto, Yukio Tsukishima, Noriyuki Takahashi

1.F: DEVICES FOR ADVANCED MODULATION I Advances in Remote Amplified Modulator Developments for Applications from 10Gb/s WDM Access to 100Gb/s Core Networks .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 80

Christophe Kazmierski

Modulation and Chirp Evaluation of 100 GHz DFB-TWEAM .................................................................................................................. 83M. Chacinski, U. Westergren, L. Thylén, R. Schatz, J. Li, A. Djupsjöbacka, B. Stoltz

16-QAM Transmitter using Monolithically Integrated Quad Mach-Zehnder IQ Modulator ................................................................ 86Guo-Wei Lu, Takahide Sakamoto, Akito Chiba, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Tetsuya Miyazaki, Kaoru Higuma, Masaaki Sudo, Junichiro Ichikawa

Quantum-Dash Mode-Locked Laser Source for Wavelength-Tunable 56 Gbit/s DQPSK ...................................................................... 89Yousra Ben M'Sallem, Quang Trung Le, Laurent Bramerie, Quoc Thai Nguyen, Eric Borgne, Pascal Besnard, Sophie Larochelle, Leslie Rusch, Jean-Claude Simon

10.7gbd DQPSK Packet Transmission Using a Widely Tunable Slotted Fabry-Perot Laser .................................................................. 92Frank Smyth, Colm Browning, Kai Shi, Frank H Peters, Brian Corbett, Brendan Roycroft, Liam Barry

80 Gb/s Multi-Wavelength Booster Amplification in an InGaAs/GaAs Quantum-Dot Semiconductor Optical Amplifier............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 95

Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Christian Meuer, Andrey Galperin, Holger Schmeckebier, Reinhold Ludwig, Dmitriy Puris, Dieter Bimberg, Klaus Petermann, Colja Schubert

1.E: METAMATERIALS AND PLASMONICS CLEO 1 Plasmonics in Future Information and Energy Generation Technologies................................................................................................. 98

Harry A. Atwater

Photonic Crystal Defect Cavities Coupled to N-V Centres in Diamond ..................................................................................................101Luca Marseglia, J. P. Harrison, J. P. Hadden, A. Young, F. Jelezko, B. Naydenov, J. Meijer, A. C. Stanley-Clarke, Y.-L. D. Ho, J. L. O’Brien, J. G. Rarity

Plasmon Resonances on Gold Nanowires Directly Drawn in Step-Index Fiber ......................................................................................104Hemant Tyagi, Ho Wai Lee, Markus Schmidt, Patrick Uebel, Nicolas Joly, Michael Scharrer, Philip Russell

Characterization and Control of Femtosecond Localized Plasmon using Spectral Interferometry with SNOM or Fringe-resolved Autocorrelation with Dark-field Microscopy ..................................................................................................................107

Fumihiko Kannari, Keiichiro Matsuishi, Takuya Harada, Jun Ohi, Yu Oishi

Minimum Energy Dissipation in Signal Transfer via Optical Near-Field Interactions in the Subwavelength Regime .....................110Makoto Naruse, Hirokazu Hori, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Motoichi Ohtsu

Radiation Pressure Force Enhancement in Metamaterials .......................................................................................................................113Simon Horsley, Maurizio Artoni, Guiseppe La Rocca

2.A: ALL-OPTICAL PROCESSING – II All-Optical Phase and Amplitude Regeneration of a 40Gbit/s DPSK Black-Box Phase Sensitive Amplifier ......................................116

Francesca Parmigiani, Radan Slavik, Joseph Kakande, Lars Gruner Nielsen, Dan Jakobsen, Soren Herstrom, Ruwan Weerasuriya, Stylianos Sygletos, Andrew Ellis, Periklis Petropoulos, David J Richardson

Reconfigurable and Finely Tunable Optical Tapped Delay Line to Achieve 40 Gb/s Equalization and Correlation using Conversion/Dispersion Based Delays .................................................................................................................................................119

Omer F Yilmaz, Salman Khaleghi, Nisar Ahmed, Scott R. Nuccio, Irfan Fazal, Xiaoxia Wu, Alan Willner

80 Gb/s Multicast Wavelength Conversion by XGM in a QD-SOA .........................................................................................................122G. Contestabile, A. Maruta, S. Sekiguchi, K. Morito, M. Sugawara, K. Kitayama

Optical Signal Processing for Energy-efficient Dynamic Optical Path Networks ..................................................................................125Shu Namiki, Toshifumi Hasama, Hiroshi Ishikawa

Almost Distortion Free Storage of 1Gbps/8bit Optical Packets for up to 100 Bit Lengths....................................................................131Stefan Preussler, Kambiz Jamshidi, Andrzej Wiatrek, Thomas Schneider

Novel Method of All-optical OR Operation Using Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Mach-Zehnder Interferometers ...............................................................................................................................................................................................134

I. Kang, M. Rasras, L. Buhl, M. Dinu, S. Cabot, M. Cappuzzo, L. T. Gomez, Y. F. Chen, S. S. Patel, N. Dutta, A. Piccirilli, J. Jaques, C. R. Giles

2.B: TDM PON Architectural Options and Challenges for Next Generation Optical Access ...........................................................................................136

Dirk Breuer, Ralf Hülsermann, Christoph Lange, Thomas Monath, Erik Weis

Dual-rate Optical Transceiver Incorporating Fully Optimized Burst-mode AGC/ATC Functions for 10G-EPON Systems.............................................................................................................................................................................................................141

Masaki Noda, Satoshi Yoshima, Kenji Ishii, Satoshi Shirai, Masamichi Nogami, Junichi Nakagawa

Single Platform 10G-EPON 10.3-Gbps/1.25-Gbps Dual-Rate CDR with Fast Burst-Mode Lock Time Employing 82.5 GS/s Sampling IC and Bit-Rate Adaptive Decision Logic Circuit ....................................................................................................144

Naoki Suzuki, Kenichi Nakura, Seiji Kozaki, Hitoyuki Tagami, Masamichi Nogami, Junichi Nakagawa

10.3Gbps Burst-mode Receiver Capable of Upstream Transmission with Short Overhead for 10G-EPON ......................................147Jun Sugawa, Daisuke Mashimo, Hiroki Ikeda

Upstream FEC Performance in Combination with Burst Mode Receivers for Next Generation 10 Gbit/s PON ...............................150Einar In De Betou, Eduardo Mobilon, Bruno Angeli, Peter Öhlen, Alexander Lindström, Stefan Dahlfort, Elmar Trojer

Facility Database-Free Maintenance System for Optical Fibre Network Combined with PON OAM Function ...............................153Nazuki Honda, Hiroshi Watanabe, Noriyuki Araki, Yuji Azuma

2.C: NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION Coherent Polarization-multiplexed Formats: Receiver Requirements and Mitigation of Fiber Non-linear Effects .........................156

A. Carena, G. Bosco, V. Curri

Dispersion Management in Phase Modulated Optical Transmission Systems ........................................................................................162Antonio Mecozzi, Marco Tabacchiera, Francesco Matera, Marina Settembre

Nonlinear Tolerance of Ultra-Densely Spaced 100Gb/s Coherent PDM-QPSK Channels ....................................................................165J. Renaudier, O. Bertran-Pardo, P. Tran, L. Pierre, H. Mardoyan, G. Charlet, S. Bigo

A Comparison of 43-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-DPSK and POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK Modulation for Long-Haul Transmission Systems ....................................................................................................................................................................................168

V. A. J. M. Sleiffer, M. S. Alfiad, D. Van Den Borne, S. L. Jansen, M. Kuschnerov, S. Adhikari, H. De Waardt

Experimental Comparison between Binary and Quadrature Phase Shift Keying at 40Gbit/s in a Transmission System Using Coherent Detection.................................................................................................................................................................171

M. Salsi, G. Charlet, O. Bertran-Pardo, J. Renaudier, H. Mardoyan, P. Tran, S. Bigo

Nonlinear Effects in Long-Haul Transmission over Bimodal Optical Fibre ...........................................................................................174C. Koebele, M. Salsi, G. Charlet, S. Bigo

2.D: OPTICAL NODE TECHNOLOGIES AND ROUTING Optically Interconnected High-Performance Data Centers ......................................................................................................................177

Keren Bergman

Colourless, Directionless, Contentionless ROADM Architecture Using Low-Loss Optical Matrix Switches .....................................180Rich Jensen, Andrew Lord, Nick Parsons

Impact of Node Directionality on Restoration in Translucent Optical Networks...................................................................................183Dimitri Staessens, Didier Colle, Mario Pickavet, Piet Demeester

Experimental Evaluation of Dynamic PCE-based Path Restoration with Centralized and Distributed Wavelength Assignment in GMPLS-enabled Transparent WSON networks...............................................................................................................186

Raul Munoz, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martinez

Availability Analysis of Shared Backup Path Protection Subject to SRLG Constraints in WDM Mesh Networks...........................189Heng Zhang, Xiaoping Zheng, Yanhe Li, Hanyi Zhang

IP Offloading over Multi-granular Photonic Switching Technologies .....................................................................................................192Juan P. Fernandez-Palacios, Luis Perez, Juan Rodriguez, John Dunne, Mark Basham

2.F: DEVICES FOR ADVANCED MODULATION II Performance of a Novel Integrated Coherent Receiver Module for 100G Ethernet Applications and Beyond ..................................195

Reinhold Ludwig, Johannes K. Fischer, Andreas Matiss, Lutz Molle, Christoph Leonhardt, Heinz-Gunter Bach, Reinhard Kunkel, Andreas Umbach, Colja Schubert

Demonstration of 112-Gbit/s DP-QPSK Modulation using InP n-p-i-n Mach-Zehnder Modulators...................................................199Yasuo Shibata, Eiichi Yamada, Takako Yasui, Akira Ohki, Kei Watanabe, Hiroyuki Ishii, Ryuzo Iga, Hiromi Oohashi

Cascadability Assessment of a Microcavity-Saturable-Absorber-based Phase-Preserving Amplitude Regenerator in a DPSK Transmission System...................................................................................................................................................................202

Quang Trung Le, Laurent Bramerie, Mathilde Gay, Sebastien Lobo, Michel Joindot, Jean-Claude Simon, Hoang-Trung Nguyen, Jean-Louis Oudar

Ultrasmall PBS-Integrated Coherent Mixer Using 1.8%-Delta Silica-Based Planar Lightwave Circuit.............................................205Takashi Inoue, Kazutaka Nara

95-Gb/s NRZ-DPSK Modulation with Full-ETDM Technique .................................................................................................................208Atsushi Kanno, Takahide Sakamoto, Akito Chiba, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Masaaki Sudo, Kaoru Higuma, Junichiro Ichikawa

2.E: NEW FRONTIERS IN ULTRAFAST SCIENCE CLEO2 Arbitrary Waveform Generation with High Repetition Rate Optical Frequency Combs .....................................................................211

A. M. Weiner

Sub-two-cycle Pulse Generation from Near to Mid-Infrared by Optical Parametric Amplifiers.........................................................214Daniele Brida, Stefano Bonora, Cristian Manzoni, Dario Polli, Marco Marangoni, Paolo Villoresi, Sandro De Silvestri, Giulio Cerullo

Theory of Linearly Chirped Quasi-Parabolic Ultrashort Pulses from Coherent Nonlinear Optical Amplifiers ................................217Stefan Wabnitz, Victor Kozlov

Dispersive Mirror Compressor for Chirped Pulse Amplifiers ..................................................................................................................220Volodymyr Pervak, Izhar Ahmad, Sergey Trushin, Zsuzsanna Major, Stefan Karsch, Ferenc Krausz

Similariton for Femtosecond Optics .............................................................................................................................................................223L. Mouradian, A. Zeytunyan, A. Muradyan, G. Yesayan, F. Louradour, A. Barthelemy

100 GHz Passive Harmonic Mode-Locking in a Fabry-Perot Diode Laser with Patterned Effective Index .......................................226D. Bitauld, S. Osborne, S. O’Brien

3.A: CHARACTERISATION OF SUBSYSTEMS Linear, Self-Referenced Fiber-Optics Technique for Single-Shot and Real-Time (Sub-)picosecond Optical Pulse Characterization .............................................................................................................................................................................................229

Yongwoo Park , Mirco Scaffardi, Antonio Malacarne, Luca Potì, José Azana

Characterization of a pin-TWA Photoreceiver in OOK-System Experiments up to 112 Gb/s .............................................................232C. Schubert , J. Li , H.-G. Bach , G. G. Mekonnen , R. E. Makon , R. H. Derksen , V. Hurm , A. Djupsjöbacka, M. Chacinski, U. Westergren, A. G. Steffan, R. Driad

A Wide-Range and Scrambling-Free Adaptive Optical Compensation Method for DGD Using PRZ Scheme ..................................235Emmanuel Le Taillandier De Gabory, Sadao Fujita, Manabu Arikawa, Kiyoshi Fukuchi

Investigation on the Robustness of a Nyquist-WDM Terabit Superchannel to Transmitter and Receiver Non-Idealities...........................................................................................................................................................................................................238

G. Bosco, A. Carena, V. Curri, P. Poggiolini, E. Torrengo, F. Forghieri

Compensation of Non-ideal Carving Induced Phase Distortions in Coherent 100 Gb/s PM-RZ-QPSK Signal..................................241Hwan Seok Chung, Sun Hyok Chang, Kwangjoon Kim

A Study on Automatic Bias Control for Arbitrary Optical Signal Generation by Dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder Modulator........................................................................................................................................................................................................244

Tsuyoshi Yoshida, Takashi Sugihara, Kenichi Uto, Hiroshi Bessho, Kazushige Sawada, Kazuyuki Ishida, Katsuhiro Shimizu, Takashi Mizuochi

3.B: NEXT-GENERATION ACCESS Optical Access Beyond 10 Gb/s PON ...........................................................................................................................................................247

Patrick Iannone, Kenneth C Reichmann

Flexible Load Balancing Technique using Dynamic Wavelength Bandwidth Allocation (DWBA) Toward 100Gbit/s-class-WDM/TDM-PON ................................................................................................................................................................252

Kazutaka Hara, Hirotaka Nakamura, Shunji Kimura, Manabu Yoshino, Susumu Nishihara, Shinya Tamaki, Jun-Ichi Kani, Naoto Yoshimoto, Hisaya Hadama

Self-Pumped Dense (40λx32 split) PON with Extended 30 dB Loss Budget and ONUs Comprising a Single 10 Gb/s RSOA ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................255

Bernhard Schrenk, Guilhem De Valicourt, Francesc Bonada, Jose A Lazaro, Romain Brenot, Josep Prat

First Demonstration of Secure, AWG Performance Interrogation using OFDM Edge-tones on WDM Access Networks ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................258

M. P. Thakur, J. E. Mitchell, T. J. Quinlan, M. C. Parker, S. D. Walker

High Bit Rate Burst Mode Optical OFDM for Next Generation Passive Optical Networks .................................................................261Luiz Anet Neto, Ahmed Gharba, Philippe Chanclou, Naveena Genay, Benoit Charbonnier, Meryem Ouzzif, Christelle Aupetit-Berthelemot, Jerome Le Masson

Full-duplex 10G-TDM-OCDMA-PON System using Only a Pair of En/Decoder ..................................................................................264Satoshi Yoshima, Yusuke Tanaka, Nobuyuki Kataoka, Naoya Wada, Junichi Nakagawa, Ken'Ichi Kitayama

3.C: OFDM AND SUPERCHANNEL 400-Gbit/s Optical OFDM Transmission over 80 km in 50-GHz Frequency Grid .................................................................................267

Hidenori Takahashi, Koki Takeshima, Itsuro Morita, Hideaki Tanaka

7 x 224-Gb/s WDM Transmission of Reduced-Guard-Interval CO-OFDM with 16-QAM Subcarrier Modulation on a 50-GHz Grid over 2000 km of ULAF and Five ROADM Passes ......................................................................................................270

Xiang Liu, S. Chandrasekhar, B. Zhu, P. J. Winzer, D. W. Peckham

Digital Phase Noise Estimation and Mitigation Approach for Direct-Detection Optical OFDM Transmissions................................273Wei-Ren Peng, Itsuro Morita, Hideaki Tanaka

High Speed OFDM Data Transmission Over 5 km GI-Multimode Fiber Using Spatial Multiplexing With 2x4 MIMO Processing...........................................................................................................................................................................................276

Bernd Franz, Detlef Suikat, Roman Dischler, Fred Buchali, Henning Buelow

Terabit Superchannels for High Spectral Efficiency Transmission .........................................................................................................279Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar, Xiang Liu

Terabit Transmission of High Capacity Multiband OFDM Superchannels on Field Deployed Single Mode Fiber ..........................285Roman Dischler, Fred Buchali, Axel Klekamp, Wilfried Idle, Eugen Lach, Achim Schippel, Malte Schneiders, Sascha Vorbeck, Ralf-Peter Braun

3.D: ENERGY AND IMPAIRMENT-AWARE OPTICAL NETWORKS Fundamental Limits on Energy Use in Optical Networks .........................................................................................................................288

Dan Kilper, David Neilson, Dimitrios Stiliadis, Dusan Suvakovic, Suresh Goyal

QoS-Aware Cross-Layer Multicasting for Optical Packet-Switched Networks: Simulation Exploration and Test-Bed Demonstration .........................................................................................................................................................................................294

Caroline P Lai, Balagangadhar G Bathula, Vinod M. Vokkarane, Keren Bergman

Experimental Demonstration of a Novel QoS-Aware Hybrid Optical Network .....................................................................................297Eduard Escalona, Yixuan Qin, Georgios S. Zervas, Joan Triay, George Zarris, Norberto Amaya-Gonzalez, Reza Nejabati, Cristina Cervello-Pastor, Dimitra Simeonidou

QoS Aware Energy Optimal Network Topology Design and Dynamic Link Power Management.......................................................300Haruka Yonezu, Kou Kikuta, Daisuke Ishii, Satoru Okamoto, Eiji Oki, Naoaki Yamanaka

QoS Performance Benchmarking of Networking Paradigms in Core Networks ....................................................................................303A. Stavdas, T. Orphanoudakis, A. Drakos

Energy-Efficient Design of Wavelength-Routing Networks ......................................................................................................................306Andrea Bianco, Edoardo Bonetto, Davide Cuda, Guido Alejandro Gavilanes Castillo, Marco Mellia, Fabio Neri

3.F: DISTRIBUTED METROLOGY Advanced Brillouin-based Distributed Optical Fibre Sensors With Sub-Meter Scale Spatial Resolution ..........................................309

Luc Thevenaz, Stella M. Foaleng, Kwang-Yong Song, Sanghoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov, Jean-Charles Beugnot, Moshe Tur

Fading-noise Suppressed cm-level Resolution Reflectometry over 10-km Range with Phase Noise and Chromatic Dispersion Compensation ..............................................................................................................................................................................315

Yusuke Koshikiya, Xinyu Fan, Fumihiko Ito, Zuyuan He, Kazuo Hotate

Evaluation of Structure Fluctuation along Bending-Loss-Insensitive Hole-Assisted Fibres by Using Bi-Directional OTDR Measurement ......................................................................................................................................................................................318

Itaru Ishida, Shoji Tanigawa, Shoichiro Matsuo

Optical Coherence Domain Reflectometry by Use of Optical Frequency Comb with Arbitrary-waveform Phase Modulation ......................................................................................................................................................................................................321

Hiroshi Takahashi, Zuyuan He, Kazuo Hotate

Accurate Distributed Characterization of Polarization Properties in Optical Fibers ............................................................................324Luca Palmieri

4.A: OFDM TRANSCEIVERS Experimental Investigation of Self Coherent Optical OFDM Systems Using Fabry-Perot Filters for Carrier Extraction ........................................................................................................................................................................................................330

S. Adhikari, S. L. Jansen, M. Alfiad, B. Inan, A. Lobato, V. A. J. M. Sleiffer, W. Rosenkranz

Enabling High Capacity Direct-Detection Optical OFDM Transmissions Using Beat Interference Cancellation Receiver ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................333

Wei-Ren Peng, Itsuro Morita, Hideaki Tanaka

Discrete-Fourier Transform based Implementation for Optical Fast OFDM.........................................................................................336Jian Zhao, Andrew D. Ellis

Multi-band Coherent Optical OFDM Receiver Enabled by Optical Frequency Combs .......................................................................339Xingwen Yi, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Ryan P. Scott, S. J. B. Yo

Mitigation of Dispersion Penalty for Short-Cyclic-Prefix Coherent Optical OFDM Systems ..............................................................342Liang Du, Arthur Lowery

Pilot-Tone-based Nonlinearity Compensation for Optical OFDM Systems ............................................................................................345B. Inan, S. Randel, S. L. Jansen, A. Lobato, S. Adhikari, N. Hanik

Electronic Signal Processing for Crosstalk- and ISI-Free Operation in All-Optical OFDM ................................................................348Jian Zhao, Andrew Ellis

4.B: NETWORK CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT Distributed Virtual Infrastructure Using Dynamic Optical Path Networks ...........................................................................................351

Tomohiro Kudoh

Lab-Trial of Multi-Domain Lightpath Provisioning with PCE Path Computation combining BRPC and Path-Key Topology Confidentiality in GMPLS Translucent WSON networks .......................................................................................................355

Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martinez, Raul Munoz, Takehiro Tsuritani, Lei Liu, Munefumi Tsurusawa

A GMPLS-based Path Establishment Experiment with Tunable Dispersion Compensation over In-Field Fibers ............................358Shoichiro Seno, Eiichi Horiuchi, Takashi Sugihara, Toshitsugu Uesugi, Toshiyuki Ichikawa, Yoshimasa Baba, Takashi Mizuochi

Experimental Evaluation of Path Restoration for a Centralised Impairment-Aware GMPLS-Controlled All-Optical Network..............................................................................................................................................................................................361

Fernando Agraz, Jordi Perello, Marianna Angelou, Siamak Azodolmolky, Luis Velasco, Salvatore Spadaro, Panagiotis Kokkinos, Emmanouel Varvarigos, Ioannis Tomkos

Designated PCE Election Procedure for Traffic Engineering Database Creation in GMPLS Multi-Layer Networks ......................364Filippo Cugini, Nicola Andriolli, Giulio Bottari, Paola Iovanna, Luca Valcarenghi, Piero Castoldi

A Dynamic System to React to Traffic Changes in Multi-Layer Networks.............................................................................................367Paola Iovanna, Maurizio Naldi, Roberto Sabella, Cristiano Zema

4.C: SILICON PHOTONICS I Scaling IT with Silicon.pptx ..........................................................................................................................................................................370

Lionel Kimerling

Advantages of CMOS Photonics for Future Transceiver Applications ...................................................................................................390Drew Guckenberger, Sherif Abdalla, Colin Bradbury, Jim Clymore, Peter De Dobbelaere, Dennis Foltz, Steffen Gloeckner, Mark Harrison, Steve Jackson, Daniel Kucharski, Yi Liang, Carrie Lo, Michael Mack, Gianlorenzo Masini, Attila Mekis, Adithyaram Narasimha, Mark Peterson, Thierry Pinguet, John Redman, Subal Sahni, Brian Welch, Kosei Yokoyama, Shuhuan Yu

Fully Reconfigurable Silicon CMOS Photonic Lattice Filters ..................................................................................................................396Nicolas K Fontaine, Salah Ibrahim, Stevan Djordjevic, Binbin Guan, Tiehui Su, Stanley Cheung, Runxiang Yu, Ryan P Scott, Andrew Pomerene, Liberty Gunter, Steven Danziger, Zhi Ding, Katsunari Okamoto, S. J. B. Yoo

4.D: NONLINEAR EFFECTS IN FIBRES Recent Advances in Highly Nonlinear Fibres..............................................................................................................................................399

David J Richardson, Xian Feng, Francesco Poletti, Sonali Dasgupta, Angela Camerlingo, Francesca Parmigiani, Periklis Petropoulos, Wei Loh, Soren Herstrom, Lars Gruner Nielsen

A Single-mode, High Index-contrast, Lead Silicate Glass Fibre with High Nonlinearity, Broadband Near-zero Dispersion at Telecommunication Wavelengths .........................................................................................................................................402

X. Feng, G. M. Ponzo, F. Poletti, A. Camerlingo, F. Parmigiani, M. N. Petrovich, P. Petropoulos, N. M. White, W. H. Loh, D. J. Richardson

A Silica Based Highly Nonlinear Fibre with Improved Threshold for Stimulated Brillouin Scattering..............................................405Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Sonali Dasgupta, Marc D. Mermelstein, Dan Jakobsen, Søren Herstrøm, Martin E. V. Pedersen, Ee Leong Lim, Shaiful-Ul Alam, Francesca Parmigiani, David Richardson, Bera Pálsdóttir

Low-Penalty Uniformly Tunable Wavelength Conversion over 30 nm using SBS-suppressed Low Dispersion Slope Highly Nonlinear Fibers ................................................................................................................................................................................408

Stephane Petit, Takayuki Kurosu, Masanori Takahashi, Takeshi Yagi, Shu Namiki

Experimental Observation of Brillouin Linewidth Broadening and Decay Time in Photonic Crystal Fiber......................................411Jean-Charles Beugnot, Birgit Stiller, Stella M. Foaleng, Min W Lee, Michael Delque, Alexandre Kudlinski, H. Maillotte, Vincent Laude, Luc Thevenaz, Thibaut Sylvestre

Demonstration of a Low Loss and Ultra Highly Nonlinear AsSe Suspended-Core Chalcogenide Fiber .............................................414Duc Minh Nguyen, Sy Dat Le, Laurent Brilland, Quentin Coulombier, Johann Troles, David Mechin, Thierry Chartier, Monique Thual

4.E: NEW CONCEPTS IN NONLINEAR OPTICS AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS CLEO3 Octave-Spanning Tunable Frequency Combs on a Chip...........................................................................................................................417

Pascal Del’Haye, Tobias Herr, Emanuel Gavartin, Ronald Holzwarth, Tobias J. Kippenberg

Giant Enhancement of Second-Harmonic Generation from Sub-Wavelength Resonant Waveguide Grating ...................................419A. Saari, G. Genty, M. Siltanen, P. Karvinen, P. Vahimaa, M. Kuittinen, M. Kauranen

Quantum Information Science with Photonic Chips ..................................................................................................................................422Alberto Politi, Jonathan Matthews, Alberto Peruzzo, Anthony Laing, Pruet Kalasuwan, Xiao-Qi Zhou, Maria Rodas Verde, Andre Stefanov, John Rarity, Timothy Ralph, Mark Thompson, Jeremy O'Brien

Raman Amplifiers without Quantum-Defect Heating................................................................................................................................425Alexander Nazarkin, Amir Abdolvand, Philip Russell

CW Lasing in a Telecom Fibre due to the Random Distributed Feedback via Rayleigh Scattering ....................................................428Sergey A Babin, Sergei Turitsyn, Atalla El-Taher, Paul Harper, Dmitriy V. Churkin, Sergey I. Kablukov, Evgenii V Podivilov, Juan Diego Ania-Castanon

Compression of Femtosecond Pulses into Dissipative Few-Cycle Optical Solitons in Coherent Nonlinear Resonant Media ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................431

Stefan Wabnitz, Nikolay Rosanov, Victor Kozlov

5.A: REALISATION OF DIGITAL COHERENT RECEIVERS Digital Signal Processing - from Simulation to Silicon............................................................................................................................... 434

C. R. S. Fludger, J. C. Geyer, T. Duthel, C. Schulien

112Gb/s Optical Transponder with PM-QPSK and Coherent Detection Employing Parallel FPGA-based Real-Time Digital Signal Processing, FEC and 100GbE Ethernet Interface ....................................................................................................460

Kiyoshi Fukuchi, Daisaku Ogasahara, Junqiang Hu, Toru Takamichi, Tadashi Koga, Masaki Sato, Emmanuel Le Taillandier De Gabory, Yoichi Hashimoto, Tomoki Yoshihara, Wakako Maeda, Jun-Ichi Abe, Yue-Kai Huang, Kohei Hosokawa, Yutaka Yano, Masahiro Shigihara, Yoshinobu Ueki, Yasuo Saito, Kazuya Kikuchi, Manabu Arikawa, Yoichi Nomiyama, Ting Wang, Tsutomu Tajima

FPGA-based 112Gb/s Coherent DP-QPSK Receiver and Multi-stage PMD-PDL Emulator for Fast Evaluation of Digital Signal Processing Algorithms ...........................................................................................................................................................463

Takahito Tanimura, Yasuhiko Aoki, Hisao Nakashima, Takeshi Hoshida, Jianqiang Li, Zhenning Tao, Jens C. Rasmussen

Design Studies for an ASIC Implementation of an Optical OFDM Transceiver ....................................................................................466Rachid Bouziane, Peter Milder, Robert Koutsoyannis, Yannis Benlachtar, Christian R Berger, James C. Hoe, Markus Pueschel, Madeleine Glick, Robert I Killey

5.B: LONG-REACH PON Converged Heterogeneous Optical Metro-Access Networks .....................................................................................................................469

Thomas Pfeiffer

Protection Strategies for Long-Reach PON.................................................................................................................................................475Marco Ruffini, David Payne, Linda Doyle

Large Splitting and Long Reach Passive Optical Networks with Mode Coupling Receivers ................................................................478Ning Cheng, Zhenxing Liao, Frank Effenberger

Full-Duplex 10 Gb/s Transmission in Ultra-Dense PONs With Tree Splits >1:1k and Noise-Powered Extender Box ......................481Johan Bauwelinck, Bernhard Schrenk, Francesc Bonada, Bart Baekelandt, Jose A Lazaro, Philippe Chanclou, Josep Prat, Xing-Zhi Qiu

Single SOA to Extend Simultaneously the Optical Budget of Coexisting G-PON and 10G-PON.........................................................484Fabienne Saliou, Philippe Chanclou, Naveena Genay, Jose A Lazaro, Francesc Bonada, Amine Othmani, Yunke Zhou

First 100 km Uplink Transmission at 2.5 Gbit/s for Hybrid WDM/TDM PON based on Optimized Bi-electrode RSOA ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................487

Guilhem De Valicourt, Romain Brenot, Philippe Chanclou

5.C: SILICON PHOTONICS II A Germanium-on-Silicon Laser .................................................................................................................................................................... NA

Jurgen Michel

III-V/Silicon-on-Insulator Photonic Integrated Circuit for Fiber-to-the-Home Central Office Transceivers in a Point-to-Point Network Configuration ........................................................................................................................................................490

Diedrik Vermeulen, Thijs Spuesens, Peter De Heyn, Pauline Mechet, Richard Notzel, Steven Verstuyft, Dries Van Thourhout, Gunther Roelkens

Silicon Photonic Filters for High Speed Data Transmission Applications...............................................................................................493B. J. Luff, D. Feng, J. Fong, C. C. Kung, W. Qian, H. Liang, M. Asghari M. Boudreau, X. Hong, D. Hui, R. Narayan, S. Rangarajan, M. Gokhale

40 Gbit/s Silicon-Organic Hybrid (SOH) Phase Modulator ......................................................................................................................496L. Alloatti, D. Korn, D. Hillerkuss, T. Vallaitis, J. Li, R. Bonk, R. Palmer, T. Schellinger, A. Barklund, R. Dinu, J. Wieland, M. Fournier, J. Fedeli, P. Dumon, R. Baets, C. Koos, W. Freude, J. Leuthold

Integration of Hybrid Silicon DFB Laser and Electro-Absorption Modulator using Quantum Well Intermixing ............................499Siddharth Jain, Matthew Sysak, Geza Kurczveil, John Bowers

Ultra-Low-Loss Nano-Taper Coupler for Silicon-on-Insulator Ridge Waveguide.................................................................................502Minhao Pu, Liu Liu, Haiyan Ou, Kresten Yvind, Jørn M. Hvam

5.D: FIBRE LASERS Mode-Locking in 25-km Fibre Laser ...........................................................................................................................................................505

Sergei Turitsyn, Mykhaylo Dubov, Sergey Kobtsev, Alexey Ivanenko

Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses in Two-Stage Chirped Pulse Amplification System Based on Large Mode Area Photonic Bandgap Fibres .....................................................................................................................................................................508

Dmitry A. Gaponov, Sebastien Fevrier, Philippe Roy, Louis Daniault, Marc Hanna, Frederic Druon, Patrick Georges, Mikhail E. Likhachev, Svetlana Aleshkina, Mikhail Yu. Salganskii, Mikhail V. Yashkov, Aleksey N. Guryanov

Over 10-W Linearly-Polarized Single Cavity Fibre Laser at 1180 nm Wavelength with Slope Efficiency of 56 % using Yb-Doped Polarization-Maintaining Solid Photonic Bandgap Fibre.............................................................................................511

Masahiro Kashiwagi, Katsuhiro Takenaga, Kentaro Ichii, Tomoharu Kitabayashi, Shoji Tanigawa, Kensuke Shima, Shoichiro Matsuo, Munehisa Fujimaki, Kuniharu Himeno

High Power L-Band Lumped Raman Fibre Amplifier with Fast Transient Suppression using Photonic Crystal Fibre .................................................................................................................................................................................................................514

David Menashe, Uri Ghera, Aviram Golan, Florence Leplingard, Christian Simonneau, Gilles Melin, Laurence Galkovsky, David Boivin

Gain Statistics of a Fiber Optical Raman Amplifier with a Temporally Incoherent Pump ..................................................................517Yiqing Xu, Stuart Gerald Murdoch

Overcoming the Fundamental Limits of High-Power Fiber Amplifer Devices ....................................................................................... NAC. E. Headley, J. P. Phillips, A. M. Desantolo , J. M. Fini, E. Gonzales, J. W. Nicholson, E. Monberg, F. Dimarcello, T. F. Taunay, M. F. Fishteyn, D. J. Digiovanni, S. Ghalmi, S. Ramachandran

5.E: ADVANCED PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES CLEO4 Unique Phase Retrieval of Ultrashort Optical Pulses with Well-Separated Frequency Components ..................................................520

T. F. Taunay, M. F. Fishteyn, D. J. Digiovanni , S. Ghalmi , S. Ramachandran

Thermal Improvement of InP Wire Photonic Crystal Laser on Silicon by Addition of Diamond Nanoparticles in Polymer Bonding Layer .................................................................................................................................................................................523

Alexandre Bazin, Yacine Halioua, Paul Monnier, Frederic Bordas, Tim Karle, Sandrine Perruchas, Thierry Gacoin, Hugues Girard, Isabelle Sagnes, Gunther Roelkens, Rama Raj, Fabrice Raineri

THz Pulse Train Generation in Small Core PCF........................................................................................................................................526Alexander Podlipensky, Sebastian Stark, Philip Russell

A Chaotic Photonic Integrated Circuit for Gb/s True Random Number Generation............................................................................528Stavros Deligiannidis, Evangelos Pikasis, Apostolos Argyris, Antonis Bogris, Dimitris Syvridis

Passive Mode-Locking in AlGaInAs 1.55-μm Strained Quantum Well Lasers: Modelling and Experiment......................................531Julien Javaloyes, Piotr Stolarz, Lianping Hou, Marc Sorel, Ann Bryce, Salvador Balle

Large-Bandwidth, High-Energy Pulses in Similariton Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers...............................................................................534Brandon Bale, Stefan Wabnitz

6.A: MULTILEVEL AND DD SYSTEMS Are Multilevel Pseudorandom Sequences Really Needed to Emulate Highly Dispersive Optical Transmission Systems? ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................537

Edouard Grellier, Jean-Christophe Antona, Sébastien Bigo

RZ-interleaving in 100-Gb/s Polarization Multiplexed DQPSK for PMD and PDL-affected Metro Networks..................................540Maddalena Ferrario, Pierpaolo Boffi, Lucia Marazzi, Paolo Martelli, Paola Parolari, Mario Martinelli

Direct-Detection High-Speed Multilevel Signalling with Digital Signal Processing ...............................................................................543Nobuhiko Kikuchi

Chromatic Dispersion Compensation Technique for Incoherent Multilevel Receiver with Simple Digital Signal Processing ........................................................................................................................................................................................................549

Nobuhiko Kikuchi, Shinya Sasaki

Simultaneous Dispersion and Noise Monitoring for Phase-Simultaneous Dispersion and Noise Monitoring for Phasemodulated Analyzer .............................................................................................................................................................................552

T. D. Vo, M. D. Pelusi, J. Schröder, S. J. Madden, D.-Y. Choi, D. A. P. Bulla, B. Luther-Davies, B. J. Eggleton

25 Gb/s Parallel CMOS-based Optical Receiver with Very Low Inter-channel Crosstalk and Power Consumption........................555Takashi Takemoto, Fumio Yuuki, Hiroki Yamashita, Shinji Tsuji, Yong Lee, Tetsuya Saito, Shinji Nishimura

6.B: HOME-NETWORKS I Optical Wireless Indoor Networks: Recent Implementation Efforts ......................................................................................................558

Klaus-Dieter Langer, Jelena Vucic

First Demonstration of Broadcasting High Capacity Data in Large-Core POF-based In-Home Networks........................................564Y. Shi, H. Yang, D. Visani, C. M. Okonkwo, H. P. A. Van Den Boom, H. Kragl, G. Tartarini, S. Randel, E. Tangdiongga, A. M. J. Koonen

7 x10-Gb/s Multicore Multimode Fiber Transmissions for Parallel Optical Data Links.......................................................................567Benyuan Zhu, Thierry F. Taunay, Man F. Yan, Michael Fishteyn, George Oulundsen, Durgesh Vaidya

Integrated PAM2 Decision Feedback Equalizer for Gigabit Ethernet over Standard SI-POF using Red LED .................................570Conrad Zerna, Jan Sundermeyer, Andrea Fiederer, Nanko Verwaal, Bernd Offenbeck, Norbert Weber

Efficient Line Launch for Bandwidth Improvement of 10 Gbit/s Multimode Fibre Links Using Elliptical Gaussian Beam.................................................................................................................................................................................................................573

L. Geng, C. H. Kwok, S. H. Lee, J. D. Ingham, R. V. Penty, I. H. White, D. G. Cunningham

Towards a New Gigabit Ethernet PHY for SI-POF ...................................................................................................................................576Antonino Nespola, Dario Zeolla, Stefano Straullu, Paolo Savio, Silvio Abrate, Julio Ramirez, Roberto Gaudino

6.C: HIGH BIT-RATE TRANSMISSION Technologies towards Terabit Transmission Systems................................................................................................................................579

Fred Buchali

4x170 Gbit/s DWDM/OTDM Transmission Using Only One Quantum Dash Fabry Perot Mode-locked Laser................................603Marcia Costa E Silva, Laurent Bramerie, Mathilde Gay, Sebastien Lobo, Michel Joindot, Jean-Claude Simon

1.28 Tbit/s/channel Single-polarization DQPSK Transmission over 525 km Using Ultrafast Time-domain Optical Fourier Transformation.................................................................................................................................................................................606

Pengyu Guan, Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, Yutaro Tomiyama, Toshiyuki Hirano, Toshihiko Hirooka, Masataka Nakazawa

0.87 Tbit/s 160 Gbaud Dual-Polarization D8PSK OTDM Transmission over 110 km ..........................................................................609Ekawit Tipsuwannakul, Michael Galili, Marios Bougioukos, Maria Spyropoulou, Jorge Seoane, Beata Zsigri, Christophe Peucheret, Carl Lundstrom, Guo-Wei Lu, Per Olof Hedekvist, Christos Kouloumentas, Hercules Avramopoulos, Cedric Ware, Didier Erasme, Peter A Andrekson

6.D: NOVEL FIBRES AND DEVICES Silicon Photonic Crystal Fiber ......................................................................................................................................................................612

Fatih Yaman, Xiaobo Xie, Guifang Li

Strictly-Bound Modes of an Idealised Hollow-Core Fibre Without a Photonic Bandgap .....................................................................613Tim Birks, David Bird, Fetah Benabid, Peter Roberts

Single-polarization State Hybrid Photonic Crystal Fiber ..........................................................................................................................616Cerqueira S. Arismar Jr, D. G. Lona, L. M. Fontes, H. L. Fragnito

Optical Micro/Nanofiber Devices .................................................................................................................................................................619M. Sumetsky

6.E: NONLINEAR DEVICES Phase-Sensitive Fiber-Optic Parametric Amplifiers and Their Applications .........................................................................................625

Peter A. Andrekson, Carl Lundström, Zhi Tong

Parametric Tunable Dispersion Compensator Using Cascaded Sum- and Difference-Frequency Generation of PPLN Waveguide............................................................................................................................................................................................631

Ken Tanizawa, Kiyofumi Kikuchi, Kaori Sugiura, Haruhiko Kuwatsuka, Sunao Kurimura, Hirochika Nakajima, Junichiro Ichikawa, Shu Namiki

Flexible and Transparent Waveband Conversion Using Multiple-QPM LiNbO3 Waveguides ............................................................634Hongbin Song, Osamu Tadanaga, Takeshi Umeki, Isao Tomita, Masaki Asobe, Shuto Yamamoto, Kunihiko Mori, Kazushige Yonenaga

Elimination of the Chirp of Optical Pulses through Cascaded Nonlinearities in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides......................................................................................................................................................................................................637

Kwang Jo Lee, Sheng Liu, Katia Gallo, Periklis Petropoulos, David J Richardson

All-Silicon Telecom Wavelength Detector Fabricated on Silicon-On-Insulator .....................................................................................640Laurent-Daniel Haret, Xavier Checoury, Zheng Han, Philippe Boucaud, Sylvain Combrie, Alfredo De Rossi

Silicon Nanowire Based Radio-Frequency Spectrum Analyser ................................................................................................................643Bill Corcoran, Trung Duc Vo, Mark D Pelusi, Christelle Monat, Dan-Xia Xu, Adam Densmore, Rubin Ma, Siegfried Janz, David Moss, Benjamin Eggleton

7.A: SYNCHRONISATION IN DIGITAL COHERENT RECEIVERS Modified Frequency and Phase Estimation for M-QAM Optical Coherent Detection ..........................................................................646

Yinwen Cao, Song Yu, Ying Chen, Yuliang Gao, Wanyi Gu, Ji Yuefeng

Wide-Range and Fast-Tracking Frequency Offset Estimator for Optical Coherent Receivers............................................................649Tadao Nakagawa, Koichi Ishihara, Takayuki Kobayashi, Riichi Kudo, Munehiro Matsui, Yasushi Takatori, Masato Mizoguchi

Low Complexity Carrier Recovery for Coherent QAM using Superscalar Parallelization ..................................................................652Kittipong Piyawanno, Maxim Kuschnerov, Bernhard Spinnler, Berthold Lankl

Novel Carrier Extraction Scheme for Phase Modulated Signals Using Feed-Forward Based Modulation Stripping .......................655Selwan K. Ibrahim, Stylianos Sygletos, Ruwan Weerasuriya, Andrew Ellis

Operational Regime of Symbol-by-Symbol Phase Noise Estimation for POLMUX 16-QAM ..............................................................658Fangrong Peng, Henk Wymeersch, Ahmet Serdar Tan, Martin Sjodin, Pontus Johannisson, Erik Agrell, Peter A Andrekson, Magnus Karlsson

Two-stage Feed-forward Carrier Phase Recovery Algorithm for High-order Coherent Modulation Formats..................................661Xiang Zhou, Jianjun Yu

The Impact of Self-Phase Modulation on Digital Clock Recovery in Coherent Optical Communication ...........................................664Ahmet Serdar Tan, Henk Wymeersch, Pontus Johannisson, Martin Sjodin, Erik Agrell, Peter A Andrekson, Magnus Karlsson

7.B: HOME NETWORKS II Implementation of a Real-Time DMT-based 100 Mbit/s Visible-Light Link ..........................................................................................667

J. Vucic, L. Fernández, C. Kottke, K. Habel, K.-D. Langer

37 Gbps Transmission Over 200 m of MMF Using Single Cycle Subcarrier Modulation and a VCSEL with 20 GHz Modulation Bandwidth ..................................................................................................................................................................................672

Krzysztof Szczerba, Bengt-Erik Olsson, Petter Westbergh, Anna Rhodin, Johan Gustavsson, A. Haglund, Magnus Karlsson, Anders Larsson, Peter A Andrekson

Multi-standard Transmission of Converged Wired and Wireless Services over 100m Plastic Optical Fibre .....................................675H. Yang, D. Visani, C. M. Okonkwo, Y. Shi, Giovanni Tartarini, E. Tangdiongga, A. M. J. Koonen

Shared Medium 2 Gbps Baseband & 2 Gbps UWB In-Building Converged Optical/Wireless Network with Multimode Fiber and Wireless Transmission .............................................................................................................................................678

Jesper Bevensee Jensen, Roberto Rodes, Marta Beltran, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

Controlling the Impact of Modal Noise on Harmonic and Intermodulation Distortions in Radio over Multimode Fiber Links ......................................................................................................................................................................................................681

Gianpiero Alcaro, Davide Visani, Giovanni Tartarini, Luigi Tarlazzi, Pier Faccin

Experimental Demonstration of 8x8 10 Gb/s Low-Latency and Contention-less Wavelength Routing Optical Switch for Data Center Networks.................................................................................................................................................................684

Roberto Proietti, Yawei Yin, Junya Kurumida, Xiaohui Ye, Binbin Guan, Runxiang Yu, Venkatesh Akella, S. J. B. Yoo

7.C: SUBMARINE TRANSMISSION Ultra-long-haul Coherent Transmission for Submarine Applications .....................................................................................................687

Massimiliano Salsi

Transoceanic PM-QPSK Terabit Superchannel Transmission Experiments at Baud-Rate Subcarrier Spacing ...............................692E. Torrengo, R. Cigliutti, G. Bosco, G. Gavioli, A. Alaimo, A. Carena, V. Curri, F. Forghieri, S. Piciaccia, M. Belmonte, A. Brinciotti, A. La Porta, S. Abrate, P. Poggiolini

80×100-Gbit/s Transmission Over 9,000km Using Erbium-doped Fibre Repeaters Only.....................................................................695M. Salsi, C. Koebele, P. Tran, H. Mardoyan, S. Bigo, G. Charlet

High Spectral Efficiency Long-Haul Transmission with Pre-Filtering and Maximum A Posteriori Probability Detection ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................698

Y. Cai, J. X. Cai, C. R. Davidson, D. Foursa, A. Lucero, O. Sinkin, A. Pilipetskii, G. Mohs, Neal S. Bergano

40 × 112 Gb/s Transmission over an Unrepeatered 365 km Effective Area-Managed Span Comprised of Ultra-Low Loss Optical Fibre ..........................................................................................................................................................................................701

John D. Downie, Jason Hurley, John Cartledge, Sergey Ten, Scott Bickham, Snigdharaj Mishra, Xianming Zhu, Andrey Kobyakov

7.D: OPTICAL TESTBEDS Network Traffic and System Capacity: Scaling for the Future ................................................................................................................704

Robert W. Tkach

Field Trial of 80 (10 x 8λ) Gbps Colored Optical Packet Switching of 4K&2K Uncompressed Streaming.........................................726Nobuyuki Kataoka, Kenji Shimizu, Tetsuo Kawano, Kunitake Kaneko, Kyosuke Sone, Mitsuru Maruyama, George Ishikawa, Yoshinari Awaji, Hideki Otsuki, Tomonori Aoyama, Susumu Kinoshita, Naoya Wada, Ken-Ichi Kitayama

Experimental Demonstration and Comparison of Distributed and Centralized Multi-domain Resilient Translucent WSON ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................729

Lei Liu, Takehiro Tsuritani, Ramon Casellas, Ricardo Martinez, Raul Munoz, Munefumi Tsurusawa

Carrier Wavelength Reuse of Multicarrier Distributed OADM Network Using Optical Carrier Regeneration ...............................732Motoharu Matsuura, Eiji Oki

7.E: ULTRA-FAST DEVICES 320Gb/s Data Routing in a Monolithic Multistage Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Switching Circuit ...........................................735

Aaron Albores-Mejia, Fausto Gomez-Agis, Dorren Harm, Xaveer Leijtens, Meint K Smit, David Robbins, Kevin Williams

Ultra-fast All-Optical Demultiplexer for 320Gbits/s Serial Data Exploiting Sum-Frequency Generation in a PPLN Waveguide .......................................................................................................................................................................................................739

F. Gomez-Agis, C. M. Okonkwo, A. Albores-Mejia, E. Tangdiongga, H. J. S. Dorren

On-Chip Wavelength Multicasting of 3×320-Gb/s Pulsed-RZ Optical Data ...........................................................................................742Aleksandr Biberman, Noam Ophir, Amy C. Turner-Foster, Mark A. Foster, Michal Lipson, Alexander L. Gaeta, Keren Bergman

100-GHz, 1.1-ps Pulse Train at 1.5 µm from a Passively Modelocked Er,Yb:Glass Laser....................................................................745A. E. H. Oehler, T. Südmeyer, K. J. Weingarten, U. Keller

Highly Precise Optical Pulse Synthesis for Flat Spectrum Supercontinuum Generation with Wide Mode Spacing .........................748Ken Kashiwagi, Hiroyuki Ishizu, Yuichiro Kodama, Samuel Choi, Takashi Kurokawa

Direct Measurement of Soliton-effect Pulse Compression in Photonic Crystal Waveguides ................................................................751Pierre Colman, Chad Husko, Sylvain Combrie, Isabelle Sagnes, Chee Wei Wong, Alfredo De Rossi

8.A: OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING SUBSYSTEMS Demonstration of Optical Label Switching with Phase-Shifted Preamble-Based Optical Serial-to-Parallel Conversion-Type Label Processor ................................................................................................................................................................754

Go Yazawa, Satoshi Shimizu, Hiroyuki Uenohara

Variable-length DQPSK Optical Packet Switching and Buffering Using Asynchronous Buffer Manager .........................................757Satoshi Shinada, Hideaki Furukawa, Hiroaki Harai, Naoya Wada

Optical Packet Switched Ring Node for Optical Packets at 160 Gb/s Data Rate....................................................................................760Wenrui Wang, Nicola Calabretta, Fausto Gomez-Agis, Ton Ditewig, Dorren Harm

First Development of Integrated Optical Packet and Circuit Switching Node for New-Generation Networks ..................................763Hideaki Furukawa, Takaya Miyazawa, Kenji Fujikawa, Naoya Wada, Hiroaki Harai

Development of Compact Hierarchical Optical Path Cross-Connect Prototype Utilizing Integrated Colorless Multi/Demultiplexers .....................................................................................................................................................................................766

Ryosuke Hirako, Kiyo Ishii, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ken-Ichi Sato

Multipath Routing in a Fully Scheduled Integrated Optical Switch Fabric............................................................................................769Ripalta Stabile, Haibo Wang, Adrian Wonfor, Kai Wang, Richard Penty, Ian White, Kevin Williams

All-Optical Level Equalization of Data Packets Using a Fiber-Optic Parametric Amplifier ................................................................772Reinhold Ludwig, Thomas Richter, Johannes K. Fischer, Shigeki Watanabe, Ryo Okabe, Tomoyuki Kato, Colja Schubert

8.B: PON DEPLOYMENTS European PON Deployments: A Carrier View of the Technical, Regulatory, and Economic Challenges...........................................775

Paolo Solina

A Quantitative Techno-economic Comparison of Current and Next Generation Metro/Access Converged Optical Networks ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................795

Sotiria Chatzi, Jose A. Lazaro, Josep Prat, Ioannis Tomkos

Failed ONU Detection Technique Applicable to Commercially Available Passive Optical Networks .................................................798Masayuki Oishi, Kazuho Ohara, Yukio Horiuchi

8.C: ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS 11 x 171 Gb/s PDM 16-QAM Transmission over 1440 km with a Spectral Efficiency of 6.4 b/s/Hz using High-Speed DAC..................................................................................................................................................................................................................801

Shogo Yamanaka, Takayuki Kobayashi, Akihide Sano, Hiroji Masuda, Eiji Yoshida, Yutaka Miyamoto, Tadao Nakagawa, Munehiko Nagatani, Hideyuki Nosaka

Transmission of 11 x 224-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-16QAM over 1500 km of LongLine and Pure-silica SMF ..........................................804M. S. Alfiad, M. Kuschnerov, S. L. Jansen, T. Wuth, D. Van Den Borne, H. De Waardt

Four-Dimensional Optimized Constellations for Coherent Optical Transmission Systems ..................................................................807Magnus Karlsson, Erik Agrell

8×224 Gbit/s PDM 16QAM WDM Transmission with Real-Time Signal Processing at the Transmitter ...........................................813M. Nölle, J. Hilt, L. Molle, M. Seimetz, R. Freund

WDM Field Trial over 764 km SSMF with 16 x 112 Gb/s NRZ-DQPSK Co-propagating with 10.7 Gb/s NRZ.................................816Wilfried Idler, Eugen Lach, Axel Klekamp, Karsten Schuh, Bernhard Junginger, Wolfgang Kuebart, Dieter Werner, Ralf-Peter Braun, Achim Schippel, Malte Schneiders, Sascha Vorbeck, Andreas Gerhard Steffan

8.D: FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTIVE OPTICAL NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES Challenges and Evolution of Optical Transport Networks........................................................................................................................819

Peter J. Winzer

Distance-Adaptive Super-Wavelength Routing in Elastic Optical Path Network (SLICE) with Optical OFDM...............................822Hidehiko Takara, B. Kozicki, Yoshiaki Sone, Takafumi Tanaka, Atsushi Watanabe, Akira Hirano, Kazushige Yonenaga, Masahiko Jinno

Spectrally/Bitrate Flexible Optical Network Planning............................................................................................................................... 825K. Christodoulopoulos, I. Tomkos, E. Varvarigos

Experimental Demonstration of a Self-Optimised Multi-Bit-Rate Optical Network .............................................................................828Georgios S. Zervas, George Zarris, Norberto Amaya-Gonzalez, Joan Triay, Eduard Escalona, Yixuan Qin, Cristina Cervello-Pastor, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra Simeonidou

Algorithms for Maximizing Spectrum Efficiency in Elastic Optical Path Networks that Adopt Distance Adaptive Modulation ......................................................................................................................................................................................................831

T. Takagi, H. Hasegawa, K. Sato, T. Tanaka, B. Kozicki, Y. Sone, M. Jinno

Dynamic Power Control for Mixed Line Rate Transparent Wavelength Switched Optical Networks................................................834Guanjun Gao, Jie Zhang, Wanyi Gu, Feng Zhiyong, Yabin Ye

8.E: SILICA PHOTONIC CIRCUITS Modulation-level-selectable Optical Modulator with a Hybrid Configuration of Silica PLCs and LiNbO3 Phase Modulators ......................................................................................................................................................................................................837

Hiroshi Yamazaki, Takashi Goh, Atsushi Mori, Shinji Mino

Ultrawide-Passband Tandem MZI-Synchronized AWG and Group Delay Ripple Balancing Out Technique ..................................840M. Oguma, T. Kitoh, A. Mori, H. Takahashi

Monolithic Integration of a Silica-based Arrayed Waveguide Grating Filter and Silicon Variable Optical Attenuators based on p-i-n Carrier-Injection Structures ..........................................................................................................................843

Hidetaka Nishi, Tai Tsuchizawa, Toshifumi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Shinojima, Rai Kou, Sungbong Park, Koji Yamada, Sei-Ichi Itabashi

Tunable Optical Equalizer for 40-Gbps Intensity-Modulated Signal using PLC-Based Finite-Impulse-Response Filter.................................................................................................................................................................................................................846

Hoang Manh Nguyen, Koji Igarashi, Kazuhiro Katoh, Kazuro Kikuchi

Silica-Based Adaptive-Delay DPSK Demodulator with a Cascaded Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Configuration .........................849Yusuke Nasu, Kuninori Hattori, Takashi Saida, Yasuaki Hashizume, Yohei Sakamaki

Ultra-low Loss Silica-based Waveguides with Millimeter Bend Radius ..................................................................................................852Jared F. Bauters, Martijn J. R. Heck, Demis John, Ming-Chun Tien, Arne Leinse, René G. Heideman, Daniel J. Blumenthal, John E. Bowers

Circulator-Free Reflection-Type Tunable Optical Dispersion Compensator Using Cascaded Arrayed-Waveguide Gratings ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................855

Yuichiro Ikuma, Takayuki Mizuno, Hiroshi Takahashi, Hiroyuki Tsuda

8.F: TRANSMISSION FIBRES Fiber Characteristics for Next-Generation Ultra-Long-Haul Transmission Systems ............................................................................858

Gabriel Charlet

Hole-assisted Dual Concentric Core Fibre with Ultra Large Negative Dispersion Coefficient of -11200 ps/nm/km..........................864Taiji Sakamoto, Takashi Matsui, Kyozo Tsujikawa, Shigeru Tomita

Micro-Bend Losses of Trench-Assisted Single-Mode Fibers .....................................................................................................................867Pierre Sillard, Simon Richard, Louis-Anne De Montmorillon, Marianne Bigot-Astruc

MPI Characteristics of HAF Based Optical Cord with MFD Unmatched Launching and Impact of Sweep Fusion Splicing.............................................................................................................................................................................................................870

Takashi Matsui, Kazuhide Nakajima, Yukihiro Goto, Tomoya Shimizu, Toshio Kurashima

Tough Ultra Bend-Insensitive Fiber Having Compressive Residual Stress at Surface of Pure-Silica Cladding.................................873Tetsuya Nakanishi, Masaaki Hirano, Maki Inai, Takashi Sasaki, Tomoyuki Hattori

Crosstalk Variation of Multi-Core Fibre due to Fibre Bend.....................................................................................................................876Tetsuya Hayashi, Takuji Nagashima, Osamu Shimakawa, Takashi Sasaki, Eisuke Sasaoka

POSTER SESSION Simultaneous UWB Monocycle Pulse Generation and Frequency Up-conversion with Multicasting Capability Using FWM Effect in a Highly Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fiber (HNL-PCF) .....................................................................................879

Fangzheng Zhang, Jian Wu, Songnian Fu, Kun Xu, Yan Li, Xiaobin Hong, Ping Shum, Jintong Lin

Bismuth-activated Silica-core Fibres Fabricated by SPCVD ....................................................................................................................882Konstantin Golant, Alex Bazakutsa, Oleg Butov, Yuri Chamorovskiy, Alexey Lanin, Sergey Nikitov

Black-box Optical Regenerator Exploiting Non-Degenerate Phase-Sensitive Amplification ................................................................885Alexandros Fragkos, Antonis Bogris, Dimitris Syvridis

Dual-Core Elliptical Hollow Optical Fiber with Linearly Wavelength-Decreasing Birefringence .......................................................888Minkyu Park, Luca Schenato, Luca Palmieri, Sejin Lee, Andrea Galtarossa, Kyunghwan Oh

Single-End Distributed Measurement of Root Mean Square Differential Group Delay in Single Mode Fibers.................................891Samuel Fosuhene, Luca Palmieri, Andrew Leitch, Andrea Galtarossa

Design of Uniform Power Transfer Functions for Tunable Optical Parametric Regenerator..............................................................894Mingyi Gao, Junya Kurumida, Shu Namiki

Bending-Induced Single-Mode Behaviour of a Polarizing Double-Clad Yb-Doped Photonic Crystal Fiber ......................................897Enrico Coscelli, Federica Poli, Davide Passaro, Annamaria Cucinotta, Stefano Selleri, Christina Olausson, Lasse Leick, Jes Broeng

Control of the Properties of Fiber Bragg Gratings Based on the Acousto-Optic Effect ........................................................................900Carlos A. F. Marques, Roberson A. Oliveira, John Canning, Alexandre A. P. Pohl, Rogério N. Nogueira

Effective Space Division Multiplexing by Multi-Core Fibers ....................................................................................................................903Katsunori Imamura, Kazunori Mukasa, Takeshi Yagi

Experimental Characterization of Optical Properties of an Elliptical Core Photonic Bandgap Fibers with High Birefringence ...................................................................................................................................................................................................906

Gilhwan Kim, Kyujin Hwang, Kwanil Lee, Kyung Shik Lee, Lee Sang-Bae

Large Core “Uni-mode” Photonic Bandgap Fiber Compatible with Standard Single Mode Fiber .....................................................909Hirokazu Kubota, Zuyuan He, Kazuo Hotate

Trench-Assisted Bend-Resistant OM4 Multi-Mode Fibers .......................................................................................................................912Denis Molin, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Koen De Jongh, Pierre Sillard

Tunable DPSK Demodulation Using Variable Optical Delay in a Straight-Line Interferometric Structure ......................................915Yongheng Dai, Chester Shu

Raman Amplification-Based Multiwavelength Synchronous Pulse Compressor and its Application to All-Channel OTDM Demultiplexing in a Single-Parametric-Gate .................................................................................................................................918

Hung Nguyen Tan, Quang Nguyen-The, Motoharu Matsuura, Naoto Kishi

Dispersion Asymmetric NOLM for Reconfigurable All-optical Two-channel Demultiplexing Using Single Baseband Control Pulse .................................................................................................................................................................................921

Jiangbing Du, Yongheng Dai, Gordon Kin Pang Lei, Chester Shu

Optimization of Large-Mode-Area Tapered-Index Multi-Core Fibers with High Differential Mode Bending Loss for Ytterbium-Doped Fiber Applications ....................................................................................................................................................924

Lorenzo Rosa, Kunimasa Saitoh

Gain Bandwidth Optimisation and Enhancement in Ultra-long Raman Fibre Laser Based Amplifiers .............................................927Mercedes Alcon-Camas, Atalla El-Taher, Juan Diego Ania-Castanon, Paul Harper, Zhijun Yan

True Time Delay on Tunable Microwave Photonic Filter based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Fibers..................................930Juan Sancho, Sanghoon Chin, Mikel Sagues, Alayn Loayssa, Juan Lloret, Ivana Gasulla, Salvador Sales, Luc Thévenaz, José Capmany

Effective All-Optical Polarization Control Induced by Raman Nonlinear Amplification .....................................................................933Maddalena Ferrario, Valentina Gilardone, Paolo Martelli, Lucia Marazzi, Mario Martinelli

Photonic Delay Line for Broadband Optical Signals, based on Dynamic Grating Reflectors in Fibers ..............................................936Sanghoon Chin, Nikolay Primerov, Luc Thevenaz

Multi-wavelength Ultra-long Raman Fibre Laser Based on Rayleigh-scattering Feedback .................................................................939Atalla El-Taher, Dmitriy V. Churkin, Paul Harper, Sergey A Babin, Sergei Turitsyn, Juan Diego Ania-Castanon

Multi-Channel 40 Gbit/s NRZ-DPSK Demodulation Using a Single Silicon Microring Resonator .....................................................942Yunhong Ding, Jing Xu, Christophe Peucheret, Minhao Pu, Jorge Seoane, Haiyan Ou, Xinliang Zhang, Dexiu Huang

1.3 μm Solid-state Dye-doped Plastic Waveguide Laser ............................................................................................................................945Kunishige Oe, Takashi Morishita, Kenichi Yamashita, Hisao Yanagi

Optical Comb Generation Using an Amplified Fiber Loop based on a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier .........................................948Reinhold Herschel, Christian Schaeffer

A High-Speed POF Receiver with 1 mm Integrated Photodiode in 180 nm CMOS...............................................................................951Filip Tavernier, Michiel Steyaert

Direct Digital Drive Optical QAM Modulator with a Single Multi-Electrode Mach Zehnder Modulator ..........................................954Yossef Ehrlichman, Ofer Amrani, Ruschin Shlomo

High Efficiency Grating Couplers for Silicon-on-Insulator Photonic Circuits .......................................................................................957Zhechao Wang, Yongbo Tang, Lech Wosinski

Si-Wire Optical Switch Enabling Three Possible Cross-Connections among Four Ports......................................................................960Yuya Shoji, Kenji Kintaka, Satoshi Suda, Hitoshi Kawashima, Toshifumi Hasama, Hiroshi Ishikawa

Low-Crosstalk Operation of Si-Wire Cascaded-MZI Switch....................................................................................................................963Yuya Shoji, Kenji Kintaka, Satoshi Suda, Hitoshi Kawashima, Toshifumi Hasama, Hiroshi Ishikawa

Transmission of 112Gb/s PM-RZ-DQPSK over 960 km with Adaptive Polarization Tracking Based on Power Difference ........................................................................................................................................................................................................966

Jinnan Zhang, Xueguang Yuan, Mi Lin, Tao Jinjing, Yangan Zhang, Minglun Zhang, Xiaoguang Zhang

Novel Ultrafast Vertically Emitting Semiconductor Lasers ......................................................................................................................969W. P. Pallmann, M. Hoffmann, V. J. Wittwer, B. Rudin, P. Kreuter, B. Witzigmann, M. Golling, Y. Barbarin, T. Südmeyer, U. Keller

25Gbps x 4ch Photodiode Array with High Responsivity for 100Gbps Ethernet ...................................................................................972Ryota Takemura, Masaharu Nakaji, Daisuke Suzuki, Chikara Watatani, Hitoshi Sakuma, Takashi Nagira, Toshitaka Aoyagi, Takahide Ishikawa

A Single InP Membrane Disc Cavity for Both Transmission and Detection of 10Gb/s Signals in On Chip Interconnects ...................................................................................................................................................................................................975

Oded Raz, Liu Liu, Rajesh Kumar, Geert Morthier, Phillippe Regreny, Dorren Harm

A Novel Optically Clocked Transistor Array using Differential Operation, for Parallel-to-Serial Conversion .................................978H. Ishikawa, R. Urata, T. Nakahara, Y. Suzaki, H. Sugiyama, R. Takahashi

All-Optical Wavelength Conversion at 40Gb/s with Enhanced XPM by Facet Reflection using Intersubband Transition in InGaAs/AlAsSb Quantum Well Waveguide ........................................................................................................................981

Ryoichi Akimoto, Guangwei Cong, Shin-Ichirou Gozu, Teruo Mozume, Hiroshi Ishikawa

Controlling the Delay of 100 Gb/s Polarization Division Multiplexed Signals Through Silicon Photonics Delay Lines .................................................................................................................................................................................................................984

F. Morichetti, A. Canciamilla, C. Ferrari, M. Torregiani, M. Ferrario, R. Siano, P. Boffi, L. Marazzi, P. Martelli, P. Parolari, M. Martinelli, A. Samarelli, M. Sorel, R. M. De La Rue, L. O'Faolain, D. M. Beggs, T. F. Krauss, A. Melloni

Broadband Optical Comb Generation using Mach-Zehnder-Modulator-Based Flat Comb Generator with Feedback Loop ................................................................................................................................................................................................987

Isao Morohashi, Takahide Sakamoto, Hideyuki Sotobayashi, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Iwao Hosako

Reconfigurable and Simultaneous Implementation of All-optical Logic Gate Using Four-Wave Mixing (FWM) in HNLF for NRZ-PolSK Signal .......................................................................................................................................................................990

Lanlan Li, Jian Wu, Jifang Qiu, Bingbing Wu, Yan Li, Kun Xu, Xiaobing Hong, Jintong Lin

High-sensitivity 10Gbps Ge Photoreceiver Operating at λ ~1.55 µm .......................................................................................................993Jiho Joo, Sanghoon Kim, In Gyoo Kim, Ki-Seok Jang, Gyungock Kim

25 nm-Wide Silicon Wire Fabrication with i-Line Photolithography for Efficient Spot Size Converters ...........................................995Youichi Sakakibara, Naoya Ichimura, Toshihiro Kamei, Emiko Itoga, Toshiyuki Masakage, Koichi Nakanishi, Yuya Shoji, Makoto Okano, Kenji Kintaka, Hitoshi Kawashima, Masahiko Mori

Passive Mode-locking Dynamics in a 3.1GHz Quantum Dot Laser Diode Operating around 1.5μm ..................................................998Saeed Tahvili, Martijn J. R. Heck, Richard Notzel, Meint K Smit, Erwin A. J. M. Bente

All-Optical 40 Gb/s 3R Regeneration Assisted by Clock-Extraction Based on a Passively Mode-Locked Quantum-Dash Fabry-Perot Laser ..............................................................................................................................................................................1001

Ramon Maldonado-Basilio, Sylwester Latkowski, Josue Parra-Cetina, Pascal Landais

Experimental Validation of Efficient Methods for the Prediction of Patterning Effects in SOA-based Optical Switches .........................................................................................................................................................................................................1004

Jing Xu, Yunhong Ding, Weiqi Xue, Christophe Peucheret, Jorge Seoane, Beata Zsigri, Palle Jeppesen, Jesper Moerk

Enhanced Continuous Tuning Speeds of Temperature-Tuned GT-Etalon Tunable Dispersion Compensators for Rapid Channel Provisioning .......................................................................................................................................................................1007

Aaron J. Zilkie, Lan Sheng, Atul Pradhan, Mark Summa, Loren Stokes, Doug Grow, Jerry Gage, Rad Sommer

10GHz Demonstration of Four-Wave-Mixing in Photonic Crystal Waveguides ..................................................................................1010Akram Akrout, Sylvain Combrie, Pierre Colman, Laurent Bramerie, Kevin Lengle, Marcia Costa-E-Silva, Jean-Claude Simon, Alfredo De Rossi

Reconfigurable 40-Gbit/s Tributary Selection from a 640-Gbit/s Signal using NOLM-Based Cascaded Demultiplexing ..............................................................................................................................................................................................1013

Xiaoxia Wu, Antonella Bogoni, Hao Huang, Scott R. Nuccio, Jian Wang, Omer F Yilmaz, Alan Willner

Simple Automatic Nonlinear Compensation with Low Complexity for Implementation in Coherent Receivers .............................1016Jonas C Geyer, Chris R S Fludger, Thomas Duthel, Christoph Schulien, Bernhard Schmauss

Electronic Precompensation of the Nonlinear Distortion in a 10 Gb/s 4-ary ASK Directly Modulated Laser..................................1019Abdullah S Karar, Ying Jiang, John C Cartledge, James Harley, David J Krause, Kim Roberts

Inter-Channel FWM Impairments Compensation of ASK Transmission with Digital Coherent Detection .....................................1022Jing Liang, Kazuhumi Nishiuchi, Katsushi Iwashita

Analysis of the Stability of Recirculating Frequency Shifter Used as a Multi-tone wideband Light Source.....................................1025Jianping Li, Xuan Li, Xiaoguang Zhang, Feng Tian, Lixia Xi

Digital Clock Recovery with Adaptive Loop Gain to Overcome Channel Impairments in 112 Gbit/s CP-QPSK Receivers ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1028

Christina Hebebrand, Antonio Napoli, Alessandro Bianciotto, Stefano Calabro, Bernhard Spinnler, Werner Rosenkranz

Low Cost Comb Source in a Coherent Wavelength Division Multiplexed System ...............................................................................1031Robert Maher, P. M. Anandarajah, Selwan K. Ibrahim, Liam P. Barry, Andrew D. Ellis, Philip Perry, Richard Phelan, Brian Kelly, James O’Gorman

Phase Modulation Enabled Relaxation of DAC/ADC Requirements and Optical OFDM Performance Improvement over SMF-based IMDD Systems ........................................................................................................................................1034

X. Zheng, J. M. Tang

QPSK Transmitter Characterization and Reconstruction of Optical Field by 1 Symbol Delayed Self-Homodyne Detection ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1037

M. Zaeh, T. Duthel, C. R. S. Fludger, Jonas C. Geyer, S. Wiese, C. Schulien

Rapid Mueller Matrix and PMD Characterization Based on Time-resolved Analysis of Pol-mux Signals.......................................1040Keiji Okamoto, Xinyu Fan, Tatsuya Okamoto, Fumihiko Ito, Yohei Sakamaki, Toshikazu Hashimoto

Demonstration of Multi-Degree Color/Direction-Independent Waveguide-Based Transponder-Aggregator for Flexible Optical Path Networks ..................................................................................................................................................................1043

Kenji Mizutani, Masahiro Sakauchi, Akio Tajima

Real-Time Homodyne Reception of 40-Gb/s BPSK Signal by Digital Optical Phase-Locked Loop ...................................................1046Takahide Sakamoto, Akito Chiba, Atsushi Kanno, Isao Morohashi, Tetsuya Kawanishi

Investigation of DSP Requirements for Coherent Transmission using Experimental 10Gbaud/s 8PSK Data .................................1049Steffen Freund, Hadrien Louchet, Gerard Schuetzler, Michael Rohde, Andre Richter

16 QAM Synthesis by Angular Superposition of Polarization using Dual-Polarization QPSK Modulator.......................................1052Isao Morohashi, Masaaki Sudo, Takahide Sakamoto, Atsushi Kanno, Akito Chiba, Junichiro Ichikawa, Tetsuya Kawanishi

Performance Investigation of the Joint SPM Compensation in a Long-haul Coherent Dual-Polarization QPSK System ............................................................................................................................................................................................................1055

Shaoliang Zhang, Lei Xu, Pooi Yuen Kam, Changyuan Yu, Ting Wang

Compensation of Transmission Impairments by Digital Backward Propagation for Different Link Designs ..................................1058Chien-Yu Lin, Michael Holtmannspoetter, M. Rameez Asif, Bernhard Schmauss

Single-Pump FWM-Wavelength Conversion in HNLF using Coherent Receiver-based Electronic Compensation ........................1061Robert Elschner, Thomas Richter, Lutz Molle, Colja Schubert, Klaus Petermann

Novel In-Band OSNR Monitoring System Based on a Polarization Interferometer ............................................................................1064J. J. Martínez, M. I. Roche, A. Villafranca, C. D. Heras, J. M. Subias, J. Pelayo, I. Garcés, P. Blasco, E. Pellejer

Relationship Between Electrical Bandwidth and FEC Overhead in a 100GbE Digital Coherent Transceiver.................................1067S. R. Desbruslais, S. J. Savory

Experimental Characterisation of QAM16 at Symbol Rates up to 42Gbaud .......................................................................................1070D. S. Millar, S. Makovejs, I. Fatadin, R. I. Killey, P. Bayvel, S. J. Savory

Low-cost 10 Gb/s Chip-to-chip Optical Interconnect...............................................................................................................................1073Aeffendi Hashim, Nikos Bamiedakis, Richard V. Penty, Ian H. White

160-Gbit/s Packet Clock Distribution with Instantaneous Synchronization and Low Timing Jitter .................................................1076Fausto Gomez-Agis, Nicola Calabretta, Aaron Albores-Mejia, Oded Raz, Dorren Harm

Multicasting of 50 Gb/s RZ-DPSK Signals using Self-Seeded FWM with Phase Modulated Pumps for SBS Suppression ...................................................................................................................................................................................................1079

Omer F Yilmaz, Jian Wang, Xue Wang, Scott R. Nuccio, Xiaoxia Wu, Alan Willner

Offset QPSK Receiver Implementation in 112 Gb/s Coherent Optical Networks ................................................................................1082Thomas Detwiler, Andrew Stark, Yu-Ting Hsueh, Steven Searcy, Bert Basch, Robert Lingle, G. K. Chang, Stephen Ralph

Impact of Network Load and Traffic Sparsity on the Performance of a Digital Burst-Mode Receiver.............................................1085Jose Manuel Delgado Mendinueta, Polina Bayvel, Benn C. Thomsen

Suppression and Compensation of Linear/Nonlinear Crosstalk for Spectrum-Overlapped Signal in Carrier-Phase-Locked WDM ................................................................................................................................................................................................1088

Shuto Yamamoto, Kazushige Yonenaga, Tetsuo Takahashi

Transmission Performance of 40 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Signals Alongside 10 Gb/s Signals ......................................................................1091Kazuyuki Ishida, Hiroki Goto, Katsuhiro Shimizu

112 Gb/s Field Trial of Complete ETDM System Based on Monolithically Integrated Transmitter & Receiver Modules for Use in 100GbE.........................................................................................................................................................................1094

J. Li, C. Schubert, R. H. Derksen, R. E. Makon, V. Hurm, A. Djupsjöbacka, M. Chacinski, U. Westergren, H.-G. Bach, G. G. Mekonnen, A. G. Steffan, R. Driad, H. Walcher, J. Rosenzweig

Stable Coherent MIMO Transport over Few Mode Fiber Enabled by an Adiabatic Mode Splitter..................................................1097Henning Bülow, Hussein Al-Hashimi , Bernhard Schmauss

4x43Gb/s Unrepeatered Transmission over 525km Using PDM-RZ-BPSK with a Coherent Receiver .............................................1100Dominique Mongardien, Philippe Bousselet, Hans Bissessur, Stephane Ruggeri, Julien Lestrade

An Efficient and Frequency-Offset-Tolerant Channel Estimation and Synchronization Method for PDM CO-OFDM Transmission....................................................................................................................................................................................1103

Chun Ju Youn, Xiang Liu, S. Chandrasekhar, Yong-Hwan Kwon, Jong-Hoi Kim, Joong-Seon Choe, Kwang-Seong Choi, Eun Soo Nam

Statistical Characterization of PM-QPSK Signals after Propagation in Uncompensated Fiber Links..............................................1106A. Carena, G. Bosco, V. Curri, P. Poggiolini, M. Tapia Taiba, F. Forghieri

Systematic Investigation of Interplay between Nonlinear and Polarization Dependent Loss Effects in Coherent Polarization Multiplexed Systems...............................................................................................................................................................1109

Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Takao Naito

Real-Time 127-Gb/s Coherent PM-QPSK Transmission over 1000km NDSF with >10 Cascaded 50GHz ROADMs.....................1112Steve Gringeri, Roman Egorov, Bert Basch, Glenn Wellbrock, Bo Zhang, Christian Malouin, Samuel Liu, Edem Ibragimov, Sunil Khatana, Rob Lofland, Roberto Marcoccia, Theodore Schmidt, Cibby Pulikkaseril, Michael Roelens, Larry Fabiny, Steve Frisken

Perspectives of Principal Mode Transmission in a Multi-mode Fiber ...................................................................................................1115Adrian A. Juarez, Stefan Warm, Christian A. Bunge, Peter Krummrich, Klaus Petermann

Nonlinear Propagation of 1 Tbps Superchannels based on 240 Gbps PM-16QAM Subcarriers on PSCF with Hybrid Erbium/Raman Fiber Amplification ............................................................................................................................................1118

V. Curri, A. Carena, G. Bosco, P. Poggiolini, F. Forghieri

Increasing the PDL Tolerance of Systems by Use of the Golden-code ...................................................................................................1121Eado Meron, Anton Andrusier, Meir Feder, Mark Shtaif

43Gbit/s RZ-DQPSK Transmission Over 1000km of G.652 Ultra-Low-Loss Fibre with 250km Amplifier Spans ..........................1124Liam Gleeson, Mary McCarthy, Marc Stephens, Ian Phillips, Wladek Forysiak, Christopher Towery, Sergey Ten

Extended Bandwidth for Long Haul DWDM Transmission Using Ultra-long Raman Fiber Lasers .................................................1127Lee Barker, Atalla El-Taher, Mercedes Alcon-Camas, Juan Diego Ania-Castanon, Paul Harper

Capacity Loss due to Polarization Effects in Coherent Optical Systems ...............................................................................................1130E. Matarazzo, M. Mayrock

Design Guidelines for Electronic PMD Equalizers used in Coherent PDM QPSK Systems ...............................................................1133N. Mantzoukis, A. Vgenis, C. S. Petrou, I. Roudas, T. Kamalakis, L. Raptis

Phase Noise Cancellation in Coherent Optical Receivers by Digital Coherence Enhancement ..........................................................1136Marco Secondini, Gianluca Meloni, Tommaso Foggi, Giulio Colavolpe, Luca Poti, Enrico Forestieri

Error-free Transmission of Serial 1.28 Tbaud RZ-DPSK Signal ...........................................................................................................1139H. Hu, M. Galili, L. K. Oxenløwe, J. Xu, H. C. H. Mulvad, C. Peucheret, A. T. Clausen, P. Jeppesen

First Experimental Demonstration of End-to-End Real-Time Optical OFDM Symbol Synchronization Using Subtraction and Gaussian Windowing in 25km SMF IMDD Systems ...................................................................................................1142

X. Q. Jin , R. P. Giddings, E. Hugues-Salas, J. M. Tang

Fibre Nonlinearities in WDM-Systems with Reduced Channel-Spacing and Symbol-Rate ................................................................1145Carsten Behrens, Robert I Killey, Seb Savory, Ming Chen, Polina Bayvel

Increased IP Layer Protection Bandwidth Due to Router Bypass..........................................................................................................1148Ori Gerstel, Rob Batchellor

Implementation of the Information-Diffusion-Based Routing on a Large-Scale ASON Test-Bed .....................................................1151Yue Chen, Nan Hua, Xiaoping Zheng, Hanyi Zhang, Bingkun Zhou

Performance of Cost Effective 100G Transmission in Transparent Wide-Area Optical Network.....................................................1154Pedro J. Reyes, Iñigo Molina-Fernández, Javier Jiménez

Classified Cloning for QoS Provisioning in OBS Networks ....................................................................................................................1157Shavan K. Askar, Georgios S. Zervas, David K. Hunter, Dimitra Simeonidou

Comparison of DWDM Network Topologies with Bit-Rate Adaptive Optical OFDM Regarding Restoration................................1160Axel Klekamp, Fred Buchali, Roman Dischler, Frank Ilchmann

Routing in Meshed and Clustered Optical Networks ...............................................................................................................................1163Christina (Tanya) Politi, Vassilios Anagnostopoulos, Alexandros Stavdas

Performance Evaluation of an Impairment-Aware Lightpath Computation Engine ..........................................................................1166Panagiotis Kokkinos, Siamak Azodolmolky, Marianna Angelou, Emmanouel Varvarigos, Ioannis Tomkos

Physical Layer Validation of Filterless Optical Networks .......................................................................................................................1169Jean-Philippe Savoie, Christine Tremblay, David Plant, Michel Belanger

Survivable Impairment-Aware Traffic Grooming with Dedicated Path Protection ............................................................................1172Ankitkumar Patel, Jason P. Jue, Xi Wang, Qiong Zhang, Paparao Palacharla, Takao Naito

A Path Establishment Method using Autonomous Logical Tree Topology in OCDM Networks .......................................................1175Tatsuya Fukuda, Ken-Ichi Baba

Distributed Support of Link Sleep Mode for Energy Efficient GMPLS Networks ..............................................................................1178Isabella Cerutti, Nicola Sambo, Piero Castoldi

Effective Utilization of Transceiver Bank in Optical Multicast Capable ROADM with Considering Physical Layer Constraints ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1181

Hwanseok Chung, Sunhyok Chang, Kwangjoon Kim

Ethernet Burst Transport: A Scalable Solution for Optical Metro Networks ......................................................................................1184P. Testa, A. Germoni, R. Sabella, M. Listanti, L. Caponecchia, F. Scalise

Preserving Confidentiality in PCEP-based Inter-domain Path Computation.......................................................................................1187F. Paolucci, F. Cugini, B. Martini, M. Gharbaoui, L. Valcarenghi, P. Castoldi

Double Cooperating PCEs for IA-RWA Computation with QoT Compensation in Transparent Optical Networks ......................1190Ying Wang, Jie Zhang, Yongli Zhao, Xuping Cao, Hai Huang, Wanyi Gu, Yuefeng Ji

Unified Model Metrics and Constraints for Assessing Network Energy Use ... ....................................................................................1193S. K. Korotky, K. N. Oikonomou

Demonstration of C/S Based Hardware Accelerated QoT Estimation Tool in Dynamic Impairment-Aware Optical Network .........................................................................................................................................................................................................1196

Yixuan Qin, K. Cheng, Joan Triay, Eduard Escalona, Georgios S. Zervas, George Zarris, Norberto Amaya-Gonzalez, Cristina Cervello-Pastor, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra Simeonidou

White LED Ceiling Lights Positioning Systems for Optical Wireless Indoor Applications ................................................................1199Swook Hann, Jung-Hun Kim, Soo-Young Jung, Chang-Soo Park

Gigabit Transmission over PMMA Step-Index Plastic Optical Fiber Using an Optical Receiver for Multilevel Communication.............................................................................................................................................................................................1202

M. Atef

Increasing Multimode Fiber Transmission Capacity by Mode Selective Spatial Light Phase Modulation.......................................1205Grzegorz Stepniak, Lukasz Maksymiuk, Jerzy Siuzdak

Wavelength Reused Bidirectional Adaptively Modulated Optical OFDM Transmission in Colourless WDM-PONs.....................1208J. L. Wei, E. Hugues-Salas, R. P. Giddings, X. Q. Jin, X. Zheng, J. M. Tang

Spectral Multi-Level ASK × BPSK OCDM Based on Electrical-Domain Spatial Code Spreading and Self-Homodyne Detection ....................................................................................................................................................................................1211

Shin Kaneko, Sang-Yuep Kim, Noriki Miki, Hideaki Kimura, Hisaya Hadama, Koichi Takiguchi, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Takashi Yamada, Yoshiyuki Doi

Efficient Excess Intensity Noise Suppression of based 100-GHz Spectrum-Sliced WDM-PON with Pre-Spectrum-Sliced Seed Light Source..............................................................................................................................................................................1214

Han Hyub Lee, Seung-Hyun Cho, Jie Hyun Lee, Sang Soo Lee

Hybrid WDM/TDM Passive Optical Network with Dynamic Virtual PON (VPON) Capability .......................................................1217Xiaofei Cheng, Yong Kee Yeo, Zhaowen Xu, Xu Shao, Yixin Wang

Reliable Overlaid PON Architecture using WDM with Shared Protection...........................................................................................1220Jiajia Chen, Lena Wosinska

Hybrid Optical/Wireless Link with Software Defined Receiver for Simultaneous Baseband and Wireless Signal Detection ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1223

Darko Zibar, Antonio Caballero Jambrina, Neil Guerrero Gonzalez, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

VCSEL-based Gigabit Impulse Radio UWB for Converged Wireless Sensor and Communication In-Building Networks ........................................................................................................................................................................................................1226

T. B. Gibbon, T. T. Pham, C. Neumeyr, E. Rönneberg, M. Ortsiefer, I. Tafur Monroy

Cognitive Digital Receiver for Burst Mode Phase Modulated Radio over Fiber Links .......................................................................1229Neil Guerrero Gonzalez, Darko Zibar, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

An 80-km-Reach Centralized-light-source WDM PON utilizing Inverse-RZ-Duobinary Downstream Signals...............................1232Zhixin Liu, Jing Xu, Yang Qiu, Chun-Kit Chan

Demonstration and Investigation of 1.25-Gbps per Subscriber Upstream Transmission Using 10G ECDM-PON Technology ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1235

Yasuhiro Kotani, Hideyuki Iwamura, Hideaki Tamai, Masahiro Sarashina, Masayuki Kashima

Cost-Effective Protection in Long-Reach Hybrid PON ...........................................................................................................................1238Dong-Min Seol, Eui-Suk Jung, Sang Soo Lee

A Novel ECDM-OFDM-PON Architecture for Next-Generation Optical Access Network ................................................................1241Lijia Zhang, Xiangjun Xin, Bo Liu, Chong Xiu Yu, Xiaoli Yin, Ru Zhang

Flexible Radio-over-Fibre Signal Distribution in In-building Networks based on Modulated ASE Noise ........................................1244Hyun-Do Jung, Marco Presi, Pallab Choudhury, Ton Ditewig, Eduward Tangdiongga, Ernesto Ciaramella, Ton Koonen

Detaining Online Upstream Scheduling in WDM/TDMA EPONs .........................................................................................................1247Konstantinos Kanonakis, Ioannis Tomkos

Dual Output SOA based Amplifier for PON extenders ...........................................................................................................................1250Ari Tervonen, Marco Mattila, Werner Weiershausen, Tuomo Von Lerber, Earl Parsons, Hacene Chaouch, Andrej T Marculescu, Juerg Leuthold, Franko Kueppers

Localisation of Ultra-Wide Band Radio Signals by Time-Multiplexed Photonic Analog-to-Digital Processing ...............................1253Roberto Llorente, Maria Morant, Nicolas Amiot, Bernard Uguen

Impact of Modulation Formats on ONU Energy Saving .........................................................................................................................1256Luca Valcarenghi, Marco Presi, Giampiero Contestabile, Ernesto Ciaramella, Piero Castoldi

Simultaneous Bidirectional Wire-line and Wireless Signal Transmission Based on a Cross-remodulation WDM-PON ................................................................................................................................................................................................................1259

Shu-Chuan Lin, San-Liang Lee, Ye-Li Shiu

Predistortion Compensation of Nonlinearities in Optical Channelization Systems for Microwave Applications ............................1262Anjali Agarwal, Thomas Banwell, Paul Toliver, Ted Woodward

Experimental Demonstration of a Single-carrier Frequency Division Multiple Address based PON (SCFDMA-PON) Architecture........................................................................................................................................................................................1265

Juhao Li, Cheng Zhang, Fan Zhang, Yongqi He, Zhangyuan Chen

PON Topology Analysis for Subcarrier Multiplexed Quantum Key Distribution ...............................................................................1268J. Capmany, C. R. Fernández-Pousa

CLEO POSTERS Nonlinear Envelope Equation Description of Harmonic Generation in Quadratic and Cubic Nonlinear Devices...........................1271

Stefan Wabnitz, Victor V. Kozlov

Soliton Absorption Spectroscopy in Normal-Dispersion Lasers .............................................................................................................1274Vladimir Kalashnikov, Evgeni Sorokin, Irina Sorokina

Characterization in Intensity and Phase of a Passive All-Optical Device Based on Saturable Absorbers for High Bit Rate 2R Regeneration ..................................................................................................................................................................................1277

Hoang-Trung Nguyen, Coraline Fortier, Julien Fatome, Guy Aubin, Jean-Louis Oudar

Slow Light Enhancement of Nonlinear Effects in Photonic Crystal Waveguides .................................................................................1280Marco Santagiustina, Carlo Someda, Alfredo De Rossi, Giovanni Vadala

Detection of Ultrashort Pulses with a Plasmonic Nanocavity Based on the Insulator-Insulator-Metal Waveguide.........................1283Dmitry Fedyanin, Aleksey Arsenin, Vladimir Leiman, Anatoly Gladun

Photonic Generation of Tunable Ultra-Wideband Signals Using an SOA-integrated SGDBR Laser................................................1286Hui Lv, Yonglin Yu, Tan Shu, Dexiu Huang, Shan Jiang, Liam Barry

Temporal Dynamics of Nonlinear Switching in GaAs Photonic-Crystal-based Devices ......................................................................1289Stefania Malaguti, Andrea Armaroli, Gaetano Bellanca, Stefano Trillo, Sylvain Combrie, Pierre Colman, Alfredo De Rossi

9.A: DIGITAL EQUALISATION SUBSYSTEMS A Comparison of Different Options to Improve PDM-QPSK Resilience against Cross-channel Nonlinearities ..............................1292

Donato Sperti, Paolo Serena, Alberto Bononi

43 Gb/s DQPSK Transmission over Fibre with 2450 ps/nm of Dispersion using Electronic Pre-equalization .................................1295T. Kobayashi, S. Kametani, Y. Konishi, T. Sugihara, S. Hirano, K. Tsutsumi, K. Yamagishi, T. Ichikawa, S. Inoue, K. Kubo, Y. Takahashi, K. Goto, K. Uto, T. Yoshida, K. Sawada, H. Bessho, K. Koguchi, K. Shimizu, T. Mizuochi

Convergence Comparison of CMA and ICA for Blind Polarization Demultiplexing of QPSK and 16-QAM Signals .....................1298Pontus Johannisson, Henk Wymeersch, Martin Sjodin, Ahmet Serdar Tan, Erik Agrell, Peter A Andrekson, Magnus Karlsson

Adaptive Blind Equalization for Coherent Optical BPSK System .........................................................................................................1301Meng Yan, Zhenning Tao, Huijian Zhang, Weizhen Yan, Takeshi Hoshida, Jens C. Rasmussen

Block versus Adaptive MIMO Equalization for Coherent PolMux QAM Transmission Systems .....................................................1304Mehrez Selmi, Philippe Ciblat, Yves Jaouen, Christophe Gosset

Low Complexity Soft Differential Decoding of QPSK for Forward Error Correction in Coherent Optic Receivers ......................1307Maxim Kuschnerov, Stefano Calabro, Kittipong Piyawanno, Bernhard Spinnler, Mohammad Alfiad, Antonio Napoli, Berthold Lankl

9.B: RADIO OVER FIBRE A Novel Radio-over-Fiber System Using the xy-MIMO Wireless Technique for Enhanced Radio Spectral Efficiency .......................................................................................................................................................................................................1310

Shu-Hao Fan, Hung-Chang Chien, Arshad Chowdhury, Cheng Liu, Wei Jian, Yu-Ting Hsueh, Gee-Kung Chang

Experimental Demonstration of 2 Gbps IR-UWB Transmission over 100m GI-POF using Novel Pulse Generation Technique ......................................................................................................................................................................................................1313

Solomon T Abraha, Chigo Okonkwo, Eduward Tangdiongga, Ton Koonen

Experimental Performance Comparison of 60 GHz DCM OFDM and Impulse BPSK Ultra-Wideband with Combined Optical Fibre and Wireless Transmission...............................................................................................................................1316

Marta Beltrán, Jesper Bevensee Jensen, Xianbin Yu, Roberto Llorente, I. Tafur Monroy

2x21 Gbps Symmetrical Full-Duplex Transmission of OFDM Wireless Signals over a Bidirectional IMDD Radio-over-Fiber System at 60 GHz ......................................................................................................................................................................1319

Po Tsung Shih, Anthony Ng'Oma, Chun-Ting Lin, Frank Annunziata, Jyehong Chen, Jacob George, Michael Sauer, Sien Chi

32.65-Gbps OFDM RoF Signal Generation at 60GHz Employing an Adaptive I/Q Imbalance Correction .....................................1322Wen-Jr Jiang, Chun-Ting Lin, Li-Ying Wang He, Chia-Chien Wei, Chun-Hung Ho, Yi-Min Yang, Po-Tsung Shih, Jyehong Chen, Sien Chi

16 Gb/s QPSK Wireless-over-Fibre Link in 75-110GHz Band Employing Optical Heterodyne Generation and Coherent Detection .......................................................................................................................................................................................1325

Darko Zibar, Rakesh Sambaraju, Antonio Caballero Jambrina , Ruben Alemany, Javier Herrera, Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

A Multi-Wavelength Access Network featuring WiMAX Transmission over GPON Links ...............................................................1328Manoj Thakur, Milos Milosavljevic, Pandelis Kourtessis, John Mitchell, John Micheal Sr

9.C: FIBRE DEVICES High Quality Non-Linearly Compressed Cavity-Less 40 GHz Sub-Picosecond Pulse Source ............................................................1331

Andeas O J Wiberg, Bill Ping Piu Kuo, Camille-Sophie Bres, Stojan Radic

Polarization Insensitive Arbitrary Wavelength Conversion in Entire C-band using a PM-HNLF ....................................................1334Shigehiro Takasaka, Masanori Takahashi, Yu Mimura, Masateru Tadakuma, Ryuichi Sugizaki, Takeshi Yagi

Phase-preserving Multilevel Amplitude Regeneration Using Modified Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirrors .................................1337Tobias Roethlingshoefer, Martin Hierold, Klaus Sponsel, Georgy Onishchukov, Bernhard Schmauss, Gerd Leuchs

All-optical Control and Stabilization of the Polarization State of a 10-Gbit/s RZ Telecommunication Signal .................................1340J. Fatome, S. Pitois, P. Morin, G. Millot

Very Large, Tunable, Positive and Negative Group Delay for High-Bandwidth Signals ....................................................................1343Kambiz Jamshidi, Andrzej Wiatrek, Christoph Bersch, Georgy Onishchukov, Gerd Leuchs, Christian A. Bunge, Thomas Schneider

Interferometer Based In-Band OSNR Monitoring of Single and Dual Polarisation QPSK Signals ...................................................1346E. Flood, W. H. Guo, D. Reid, M. Lynch, A. L. Bradley, L. P. Barry, J. F. Donegan

9.D: HIGH-SPEED SOURCES 4x25-Gbit/s, 1.3-μm, Monolithically Integrated Light source for 100-Gbit/s Ethernet ........................................................................1349

Takeshi Fujisawa, Shigeru Kanazawa, Nobuhiro Nunoya, Hiroyuki Ishii, Yoshihiro Kawaguchi, Akira Ohki, Naoki Fujiwara, Kiyoto Takahata, Ryuzo Iga, Fumiyoshi Kano, Hiromi Oohashi

25-Gb/s Multi-channel 1.3-μm Surface-emitting Laser for Massive Data Links ..................................................................................1355Koichiro Adachi, Kazunori Shinoda, Takashi Shiota, Takeshi Kitatani, Toshihiko Fukamachi, Yasunobu Matsuoka, Daichi Kawamura, Toshiki Sugawara, Shinji Tsuji

1550nm Directly Modulated Lasers For 10Gb/s SMF Transmission up to 65km at 45°C With Chirp Optimized InAs/InP Quantum Dashes ..........................................................................................................................................................................1358

Nicolas Chimot, Francois Lelarge

Monolithically Integrated Tunable DFB Laser Array and Mach-Zehnder Modulator .......................................................................1361S. Matsuo, H. Ishii, T. Sato, R. Sato, K. Kasaya, A. Ohki, Y. Shibata, H. Oohashi

Directly Frequency Modulated DFB Laser Integrated with EA Modulator for Extended Transmission Reach .............................1364Koichi Hasebe, Shinji Matsuo, Hiroaki Sanjoh, Akira Ohki, Takaaki Kakitsuka, Yasuo Shibata

Analogue Modulation Performance of 20 GHz Directly Modulated High-Speed Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers .............................................................................................................................................................................................................1367

Zihad Qureshi, Jonathan Ingham, Michael J Crisp, Richard Penty, Ian White

9.F: QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS AND NONLINEAR WAVELENGTH GENERATION Nonlinear Wavelength Conversion and Pulse Manipulation in Photonic Crystal Fibres ....................................................................1370

William Wadsworth

Disappearance of Polarization Entanglement due to the Relative Orientation of Two Fiber's PMD Vectors. .................................1396Misha Brodsky, Cristian Antonelli, Mark Shtaif

Quantum Communications: Present Status and Future Prospects ........................................................................................................1399Prem Kumar, Joseph B. Altepeter, Matthew A. Hall

10.A: COHERENT RECEIVER DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS Multi-Impairments Monitoring from the Equalizer in a Digital Coherent Optical Receiver .............................................................1405

Md. Saifuddin Faruk, Yojiro Mori, Chao Zhang, Kazuro Kikuchi

Joint DGD, PDL and Chromatic Dispersion Estimation in Ultra-Long-Haul WDM Transmission Experiments with Coherent Receivers ..............................................................................................................................................................................1408

G. Bosco, R. Cigliutti, E. Torrengo, A. Carena, V. Curri, P. Poggiolini, F. Forghieri

Enhanced Digital Coherent Receiver for High Spectral-Efficiency Dual-Polarization Quadrature Duobinary Systems...........................................................................................................................................................................................................1411

Jianqiang Li, Zhenning Tao, Huijian Zhang, Weizhen Yan, Takeshi Hoshida, Jens C. Rasmussen

Digital Coherent Receiver Based on Parallel Optical Sampling .............................................................................................................1414Johannes K. Fischer, Reinhold Ludwig, Lutz Molle, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Christoph Leonhardt, Andreas Matiss, Colja Schubert

Ultrafast Digital Coherent Receiver Based on Parallel Processing of Decomposed Frequency Subbands ........................................1417Chao Zhang, Yojiro Mori, Koji Igarashi, Kazuhiro Katoh, Kazuro Kikuchi

DA and AD Converters in SiGe Technology: Speed and Resolution for Ultra High Data Rate Applications...................................1420Tobias Ellermeyer, Rolf Schmid, Anna Bielik, Jorg Rupeter, Michael Moller

10.B: WDM PON AND RADIO OVER FIBRE Demonstrations of RSOA based Loop-Back WDM-PON with 100 Gb/s (80 x 1.25 Gb/s) Capacity Employing Spectrum Sliced Incoherent Light Injection .............................................................................................................................................1426

Seung-Hyun Cho, Jie-Hyun Lee, Jong-Hoon Lee, Eun-Gu Lee, Han-Hyub Lee, Eui-Suk Jung, Byoung-Seok Choi, Dong-Churl Kim, O-Kyun Kwon, Sang Soo Lee

A WDM-PON with an 80 Gb/s Capacity Based on Wavelength-Locked Polarisation Independent Fabry-Perot Laser Diode ...................................................................................................................................................................................................1429

Hoon-Keun Lee, Ho-Sung Cho, Joon-Young Kim, Sang-Hwa Yoo, Chang-Hee Lee

Rayleigh Back-scattering Reduction by Means of Quantized Feedback Equalization in WDM-PONs .............................................1432Josep Prat

Multi-Operability and Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation in PONs with Electrically Reconfigurable SOA/REAM-Based ONUs...................................................................................................................................................................................................1435

Johan Bauwelinck, Bernhard Schrenk, Christophe Kazmierski, Jose A Lazaro, Josep Prat, Xing-Zhi Qiu

Use of a Reflective Electro-Absorption Modulator and Semiconductor Optical Amplifier for Converged Wireless over Fiber Access Networks ........................................................................................................................................................................1438

B. Ftaich-Frigui, C. Aupetit-Berthelemot, A. Belhouji, M. Mouhamadou , C. Kazmierski

Optical and Electrical Power Dynamic Range of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers in Radio-over-Fiber Networks ....................1441Swen Koenig, Joerg Pfeifle, Rene Bonk, Thomas Vallaitis, Christian Meuer, Dieter Bimberg, Christian Koos, Wolfgang Freude, Juerg Leuthold

Simultaneous Generation and Routing of Millimetre-Wave Signals Exploiting Optical Frequency Multiplication ........................1444C. M. Okonkwo, S. T. Abraha, Y. Shi, H. Yang, H. De Waardt, E. Tangdiongga, A. M. J. Koonen

10.C: PARAMETRIC EFFCTS IN FIBRES Experimental Characterization of the Phase Squeezing Properties of a Phase-Sensitive Parametric Amplifier in Non-Degenerate Idler Configuration .........................................................................................................................................................1447

Carl Lundstrom, Benjamin J Puttnam, Zhi Tong, Magnus Karlsson, Peter A Andrekson

Saturation Effects In Degenerate Phase Sensitive Fiber Optic Parametric Amplifiers .......................................................................1450Joseph Kakande, Francesca Parmigiani, Radan Slavik, Lars Gruner Nielsen, Soren Herstrom, Dan Jakobsen, Periklis Petropoulos, David J Richardson

Self-Phase Tracked Fiber-Optical Parametric Sampling Gate for 640-Gb/s OTDM De-multiplexing ..............................................1453Bill P.-P. Kuo, Andreas O. J. Wiberg, Nikola Alic, Stojan Radic

Noise Figure Non-reciprocity in Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers with Zero-Dispersion-Wavelength Variations...................1456Zhi Tong, Carl Lundström, Magnus Karlsson, Peter A. Andrekson

Narrow-Linewidth Tunable Continuous-Wave Fiber Optical Parametric Oscillator with 1 W Output Power ...............................1459R. Malik, M. E Marhic

A Widely Tunable Fiber Laser Based on Narrow Band Parametric Amplification .............................................................................1462A. Gershikov, E. Shumakher, A. Willinger, G. Eisenstein

10.D: MODULES AD PACKAGING Co-Packaged 107 Gb/s Photoreceiver for Direct Detection Comprising InP-based pinTWA and DEMUX .....................................1465

G. Giorgis Mekonnen, Heinz-Gunter Bach, Reinhard Kunkel, Colja Schubert, Detlef Pech, Agnieszka Konczykowska, A. Scavennec, Muriel Riet, Filipe Jorge

A CAN-type MIC-PD ROSA Operating at 40-Gbit/s...............................................................................................................................1468Tetsuichiro Ohno, Yoshifumi Muramoto, Kimikazu Sano, Satoshi Kodama, Naoteru Shigekawa

Compact, Very-Low-Electric-Power-Consumption (0.84 W) 1.3-µm Optical Amplifier Module using AlGaInAs MQW-SOA....................................................................................................................................................................................................1471

Shinsuke Tanaka, Nobuaki Hatori, Ayahito Uetake, Shigekazu Okumura, Mitsuru Ekawa, Goji Nakagawa, Ken Morito

Four-channel 25Gbps Optical Receiver for 100Gbps Ethernet with Built-in Demultiplexer Optics .................................................1474Hiroshi Aruga , Keita Mochizuki , Hiromitsu Itamoto , Ryota Takemura , Keitaro Yamagishi , Masaharu Nakaji, Atsushi Sugitatsu

Small Form Factor Dual Balanced Photoreceiver with Sensitive Peak-level Detectors for 40 Gb/s DQPSK Applications...................................................................................................................................................................................................1477

M. L. Nielsen, J. Honecker, A. Jacob, S. Bottacchi, R. Ludwig, G. Unterbörsch, A. Umbach

30-Gb/s VCSEL Transmitter Fabricated on Flexible Printed Circuit Substrate..................................................................................1480Takatoshi Yagisawa, Takashi Shiraishi, Naoki Kuwata, Tadashi Ikeuchi

10.E: IMPACT OF POLARISATION AND PMD Which is the Dominant Nonlinearity in Long-haul PDM-QPSK Coherent Transmissions?...............................................................1483

Alberto Bononi, Paolo Serena, Nicola Rossi, Donato Sperti

The Performance of Polarization Switched-QPSK (PS-QPSK) in Dispersion Managed WDM Transmissions ...............................1486Paolo Serena, Armando Vannucci, Alberto Bononi

Polarization-Multiplexed Transmission System Outage due to Nonlinearity-Induced Depolarization .............................................1489Marcus Winter, Dimitar Kroushkov, Klaus Petermann

Demonstration of the Benefits Brought by PMD in Polarization-multiplexed Systems .......................................................................1495O. Bertran-Pardo, J. Renaudier, G. Charlet, P. Tran, H. Mardoyan, M. Bertolini, M. Salsi, S. Bigo

PMD-induced Nonlinear Penalty Reduction in Coherent Polarization-Multiplexed QPSK Transmission .......................................1498Chunmin Xia, Jose Filipe Da Silva Pina, Arne Striegler, Dirk Van Den Borne

Polarization-Mode-Dispersion Impairments in 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK Coherent Systems .................................................................1501Chongjin Xie

10.F: NETWORK DESIGN AND PLANNING Coarse Granular Routing in Optical Path Networks and Impact of Supplemental Intermediate Grooming ...................................1504

Yoshiyuki Yamada, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ken-Ichi Sato

Combining Multi-Period and Multi-Layer Network Planning: Ignored Potential?............................................................................1507Eleni Palkopoulou, Clara Meusburger, Dominic Schupke, Lena Wosinska, Thomas Bauschert

Simple Analytical Estimation of Router Bypass Effectiveness ................................................................................................................1510Ori Gerstel

10-40 Gbit/s Multi Bit-rate GMPLS-controlled Transparent Optical Networks in Presence of Cross-phase Modulation ....................................................................................................................................................................................................1513

N. Sambo, F. Cugini, M. Secondini, G. Bottari, F. Cavaliere, P. Iovanna, P. Castoldi

Advantages of Elasticity versus Fixed Data-rate Schemes for Restorable Optical Networks .............................................................1516A. Morea, O. Rival

Translucent Optical Network Design: A Novel Two-Step Method.........................................................................................................1519Giuseppe Rizzelli, Guido Maier, Achille Pattavina

Scalable and Cost-Effective Design of Optical Transport Networks Supporting Heterogeneous Ethernet Services .......................1522João Santos, João Pedro, Paulo Monteiro, João Pires

Author Index

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CFP10425-PRT 978-1-4244-8536-9

36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2010)

Torino, Italy 19-23 September 2010

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

S1 BROADBAND OPTICAL ACCESS: PON OR POINT TO POINT PRESENTATIONS FTTH Look Ahead - Technologies & Architectures ...................................................................................................................................... 1

Cedric F. Lam

Potential Directions for Next Generation Access ........................................................................................................................................ NADirk Breuer

Next Generation FTTH Networks: Future Directions and Technical Challenges .................................................................................. NAAkira Agata

Open Fiber Network....................................................................................................................................................................................... NAEverhard Wienke

European City Networks - Broadband as a Utility ..................................................................................................................................... NAHerman Wagter

Introduction to the Vendor Session .............................................................................................................................................................. NAGerlas Van Den Hoven

Practical Issues Impacting Future Optical Access Systems ....................................................................................................................... NAThomas Pfeiffer

What’s “Next” in Next-Generation Access Technologies - WDM PON ................................................................................................... NABernd Hesse

Progress in Optical Components for FTTH Networks............................................................................................................................... NAStefan J. Murry

S2 CELEBRATING CHARLES KAO’S NOBEL PRIZE: CONSIDERATION ON THE PAST & FUTURE PRESENTATIONS Early (and Later) Fibre R&D in Europe ..................................................................................................................................................... NA

David Payne

Making the First Low Loss Optical Fibers for Communications ............................................................................................................... 34Peter C. Schultz

Fiber Fabrication in Japan.............................................................................................................................................................................. 43Tadashi Miyashita

Semiconductor Laser Development and Its Impact ..................................................................................................................................... 57Yasuharu Suematsu, Kenichi Iga

Lightwave Modulators: Early Days .............................................................................................................................................................. 64Ivan P. Kaminow

Milestone System Advances............................................................................................................................................................................. 73Palle Jeppesen, Christophe Peucheret

Impact of C. Kao's Work on European R&D ............................................................................................................................................... 85Carlo G. Someda

Past/Present System Advances, with an Eye Towards the Future .............................................................................................................. 97Robert Tkach, Andrew Chraplyvy

S3 OPTICAL NETWORKING FOR FUTURE BROADBAND INTERNET SERVICES INTRODUCTION An Essential Infrastructure for the Future Internet ..................................................................................................................................107

Alexandros Stavdas

QUANTIFCATION OF THE CHALLENGES Role of Optics and Electronics in Creating Future Broadband Networks ..............................................................................................124

Ken-Ichi Sato

Generalized Architecture for Dynamic Infrastructure Services ...............................................................................................................131S. Figuerola, R. Nejabati, E. Escalona, D. Simeonidou , J. A. Garcia-Espin, G. Landi, N. Ciulli, M. Brogle, B. Belter, P. Vicat-Blanc Primet, J. Jiménez, D. Simeonidou

Network Evolution and the Impact in Core Networks............................................................................................................................... 151Esther Le Rouzic

ARCHITECTURAL CONSIDERATIONS Evolutionary Approach Towards Ultra-High Capacity and QoS Aware Transport Networks ............................................................159

Juan Fernández-Palacios

Optical Technologies, the Enabler of the Efficient Internet? .................................................................................................................... NAAndreas Gladisch

On the influence of High Split, Long Reach, High Data Rate Access Technologies on the Core Network Services ...........................169Klaus Schmidt-Schykowski

New Generation Metro Networks: Challenges and Opportunities ...........................................................................................................177Dominique Chiaroni

CONCLUSIONS Optical Networking: Supporting the Digital Agenda and Future Broadband Services in Europe.......................................................189

Andrew Houghton

S4 TECHNO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS AND SCENARIOS FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF 100 GB/S COHERENT SYSTEMS PRESENTATIONS 100G Coherent Trials and Deployments: AT&T Plans and Perspective ................................................................................................198

Peter Magill

100G Studies: Drivers, Field Trial, Technology Choice and Network Options.......................................................................................210Yu Rong Zhou, Andrew Lord, Kevin Smith, Dave Johnson

100G Coherent Trials and Deployments: Deutsche Telekom Plans and Perspective ............................................................................220Sascha Vorbeck, Malte Schneiders, Werner Weiershausen

Paradigms of 40/100 Gbps Deployments on France Telecom Long-Haul Transport Network: Overcoming Transmission Impairments while Adapting Network Architecture and Analyzing Economical Impact.............................................228

Erwan Pincemin, Hubert Poignant

100G Coherent Deployments: Telecom Italia Plans and Perspectives .....................................................................................................243Roberto Clemente

Technical and Techno-economic Challenges for 100G. Telefónica R&D Perspective............................................................................247Javier Jiménez

100G Coherent Trials and Deployments: Verizon Plans and Perspective ..............................................................................................256Bert Basch

100G Market Update and Forecast .............................................................................................................................................................. NAAndrew Schmitt

S5 HIGH-SPEED SHORT-RANGE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS PRESENTATIONS The 1 Gigabit over 1 mm POF Story - from Vision to Standard ..............................................................................................................266

Olaf Ziemann, Sven Loquai, Juri Vinogradov, Roman Kruglov

Achieving Low Cost Gigabit Connectivity Using POF............................................................................................................................... 288Rubén Pérez-Aranda, Carlos Pardo

Towards Exaflop Servers and Supercomputers: The Roadmap for Lower Power and Higher Density Optical Interconnects ...................................................................................................................................................................................................296

Petar Pepeljugoski, Jeffrey Kash, Fuad Doany, Daniel Kuchta, Laurent Schares, Clint Schow, Marc Taubenblatt, Bert Jan Offrein, Alan Benner

High-Speed VCSELs and Subassemblies for Short-Range Optical Communications ...........................................................................310J. A. Lott

Optical Interconnects for Chip-to-Chip Communications ........................................................................................................................324Mitchell Fields

Chip-to-Chip Photonic Packaging by Using Thin Glass Based Waveguide Substrates on Board and Module Level ........................334Henning Schröder

Gigabit Optical Wireless: Results and Future Challenges.........................................................................................................................347Dominic O'Brien

Visible Light Communications......................................................................................................................................................................362Shinichiro Haruyama

S6 TOWARDS 1000 GBIT/S PRESENTATIONS Preparing For the Future ..............................................................................................................................................................................384

Glenn Wellbrock

From 100G to 1000G: Is There a Straight Road Ahead? ..........................................................................................................................394Michel W. Chbat, Stefan Spälter

After Today's 100GE Transmission in Optical Networks .........................................................................................................................410Sébastien Bigo, Giovanni Bellotti, Olivier Rival

Beyond 100Gbit/s: System Implications towards 400G and 1T ................................................................................................................424Marco Camera, Bengt-Erik Olsson, Gianmarco Bruno

Technologies for 1 Tbps ................................................................................................................................................................................. NARonald Freund

Photonic Integration Technologies for Advanced Modulation Formats ..................................................................................................439Yoshinori Hibino

LASER 50 SYMPOSIUM Lasers: Fifty Years ........................................................................................................................................................................................467

Orazio Svelto

50 Years of Lasers, 50 Years of Nonlinear Optics ...................................................................................................................................... NARobert Boyd

PD SESSION 1 In-Line, High Speed Fibre Polarimeter with Large Calibration Bandwidth and Accurate Reference-Free Calibration Procedure ...................................................................................................................................................................................486

V. Mikhailov, S. Dunn, P. S. Westbrook

In-Fiber Unidirectional Variable-Optical-Attenuator Controlled by Light ............................................................................................489M. S. Kang, P. St. J. Russell

Phase-Sensitive Amplified DWDM DQPSK Signals Using Free-Running Lasers with 6-dB Link SNR Improvement over EDFA-based Systems.............................................................................................................................................................................492

Zhi Tong, Carl Lundström, Ekawit Tipsuwannakul, Magnus Karlsson, Peter A. Andrekson

Integrated-optic OFDM Demultiplexer Using Slab Star Coupler-based Optical DFT Circuit .............................................................495Koichi Takiguchi, Tsutomu Kitoh, Atsushi Mori, Manabu Oguma, Hiroshi Takahashi

Monolithic InP 100-Port Photonic Switch ...................................................................................................................................................498Ibrahim Murat Soganci, Takuo Tanemura, Koji Takeda, Masaru Zaitsu, Mitsuru Takenaka, Yoshiaki Nakano

20-Gbit/s Directly Modulated Buried Heterostructure Photonic Crystal Laser with 8.76-fJ/bit Operating Energy .........................501Shinji Matsuo, Akihiko Shinya, Chin-Hui Chen, Kengo Nozaki, Tomonari Sato, Yoshihiro Kawaguchi, Masaya Notomi

PD SESSION 2 112x112 Gb/s Transmission over 9,360 km with Channel Spacing Set to the Baud Rate (360% Spectral Efficiency).......................504

J. -X. Cai, Y. Cai, Y. Sun, C. R. Davidson, D. G. Foursa, A. Lucero, O. Sinkin, W. Patterson, A. Pilipetskii, G. Mohs, Neal S. Bergano

Generation and 1,200-km Transmission of 448-Gb/s ETDM 56-Gbaud PDM 16-QAM using a Single I/Q Modulator........................................................................................................................................................................................................507

P. J. Winzer, A. H. Gnauck, S. Chandrasekhar, S. Draving, J. Evangelista, B. Zhu

512 QAM (54 Gbit/s) Coherent Optical Transmission over 150 km with an Optical Bandwidth of 4.1 GHz .....................................510Seiji Okamoto, Kazushi Toyoda, Tatsunori Omiya, Keisuke Kasai, Masato Yoshida, Masataka Nakazawa

100 x 120-Gb/s PDM 64-QAM Transmission over 160 km Using Linewidth-Tolerant Pilotless Digital Coherent Detection ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................513

Akihide Sano, Takayuki Kobayashi, Akihiko Matsuura, Shuto Yamamoto, Shogo Yamanaka, Eiji Yoshida, Yutaka Miyamoto, Munehiro Matsui, Masato Mizoguchi, Takayuki Mizuno

Transmission of a 213.7-Gb/s Single-Polarization Direct-Detection Optical OFDM Superchannel over 720-km Standard Single Mode Fiber with EDFA-only Amplification ...................................................................................................................516

Wei-Ren Peng, Hidenori Takahashi, Itsuro Morita, Hideaki Tanaka

Single Coherent Detection of a 606-Gb/s CO-OFDM Signal with 32-QAM Subcarrier Modulation Using 4x 80-Gsamples/s ADCs............................................................................................................................................................................................519

Xiang Liu, S. Chandrasekhar, P. J. Winzer, S. Draving, J. Evangelista, N. Hoffman, B. Zhu, D. W. Peckham

PD SESSION 3 First Demonstration of Real-Time LED-based Gigabit Ethernet Transmission on 50m of A4a.2 SI-POF with Significant System Margin ............................................................................................................................................................................522

A. Nespola, S. Straullu, P. Savio, D. Zeolla, S. Abrate, D. Cárdenas, Julio Ramirez, N. Campione, R. Gaudino

Burst-Mode Compound Optical Amplifier with Automatic Level Control Circuit that Offers Enhanced Setting Flexibility in a 10 Gb/s-Class PON ...............................................................................................................................................................525

Masamichi Fujiwara, Ken-Ichi Suzuki, Kazutaka Hara, Takeshi Imai, Katsuhisa Taguchi, Hiroshi Ishii, Naoto Yoshimoto, Hisaya Hadama

First Demonstration of All-Optical QPSK Signal Regeneration in a Novel Multi-Format Phase Sensitive Amplifier ......................528Joseph Kakande, Adonis Bogris, Radan Slavík, Francesca Parmigiani, Dimitris Syvridis, Periklis Petropoulos, David J. Richardson

Demonstration of World-First Experimental Optical Fast OFDM System at 7.174Gbit/s and 14.348Gbit/s......................................531Selwan K. Ibrahim, Jian Zhao, Danish Rafique, John A. O’Dowd, Andrew D. Ellis

Demonstration of the Interconnection of Two Optical Packet Rings with a Hybrid Optoelectronic Packet Router .........................534D. Chiaroni, R. Urata, J. Gripp, J. E. Simsarian, G. Austin, S. Etienne, T. Segawa, Y. Pointurier, C. Simonneau, Y. Suzaki, T. Nakahara, M. Thottan, A. Adamiecki, D. Neilson, J. C. Antona, S. Bigo, R. Takahashi, V. Radoaca

Monolithic PDM-DQPSK Receiver in Silicon .............................................................................................................................................537Christopher R. Doerr, Long Chen

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