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The Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT) contains theoretical and experimental papers on such topics as fiber and cable technologies; active and passive guided wave components such as light sources, detectors, repeater, switches, and fiber sensors; integrated optics and optoelectronics, systems, and sub-systems, networks; and switching. JLT is a joint publishing effort of the IEEE and OSA.

Editor-in-Chief: Peter J. Winzer, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
ISSN: 0733-8724 (print); 1558-2213 (online)
Frequency: 24 semi-monthly online issues, 6 bimonthly print issues.
2011 ISI Impact Factor: 2.784

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Dynamic Process of Free Space Excitation of Asymmetric Resonant Microcavity
The underlying physics and detailed dynamical process of the free space beam excitation to the asymmetric... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 12, pp.1884-1889 (2013)

Design and Analysis of Ultrafast and Tunable All Optical Metamaterial Switch Enhanced by Metal Nanocomposite
In this paper, we propose a tunable all optical switch based on metamaterial structure enhanced with metal... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 12, pp.1877-1883 (2013)

Optical Label Routing Processing for BPSK Labels Using Complex-Valued Neural Network
Optical neural-network circuit to recognize BPSK labels for photonic label routing is proposed,... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 12, pp.1867-1876 (2013)

Performance Analysis of SAC-OCDMA Systems Adopting Overlapping PPM Schemes
A fertile technique, for increasing single-user throughput while keeping a constraint on the light... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 12, pp.1856-1866 (2013)

Field Trial Demonstration of Spectrum Defragmentation and Grooming in Elastic Optical Node
A novel optical node architecture based on all-optical traffic grooming for flexible optical networks is... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 12, pp.1845-1855 (2013)

Flexible Polymer Waveguides With Integrated Mirrors Fabricated by Soft Lithography for Optical Interconnection
Flexible polymer waveguides with integrated 45° mirrors to support surface normal optical... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 11, pp.1835-1841 (2013)

Reach-Related Energy Consumption in IP-Over-WDM 100G Translucent Networks
The quest of extended optical reach has been one of the major drivers for the transmission systems research... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 11, pp.1828-1834 (2013)

Low-Polarization-Dependent Silica Waveguide Monolithically Integrated on SOI Photonic Platform
We developed a low-polarization-dependent silica- based waveguide, which can be monolithically... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 11, pp.1821-1827 (2013)

A Novel Multi User Interference Cancellation Scheme for Synchronous OCDMA Networks
In this paper we have proposed a novel multi-user interference (MUI) cancellation scheme for OCDMA systems... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 11, pp.1813-1820 (2013)

Amplified 2-μm Thulium-Doped All-Fiber Mode-Locked Figure-Eight Laser
We report the first mode-locked, thulium-doped fiber figure-eight laser. The mode-locked... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 11, pp.1809-1812 (2013)

Slow-Light Fiber-Bragg-Grating Strain Sensor With a 280-femtostrain/√Hz Resolution
We report a fiber strain sensor based on a single fiber Bragg grating (FBG) with a minimum... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 11, pp.1804-1808 (2013)

Optical Multicasting of 16QAM Signals in Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguide
We experimentally demonstrate multicasting operation of a 16QAM signal, by simultaneously... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 11, pp.1797-1803 (2013)

A Novel Seven-Core Multicore Tellurite Fiber
A novel seven-core multicore tellurite fiber is proposed and fabricated in the paper. Each core... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 11, pp.1793-1796 (2013)

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Vol. 31, Iss. 12 — Jun. 15, 2013  

Field Trial Demonstration of Spectrum Defragmentation and Grooming in Elastic Optical Node
A novel optical node architecture based on all-optical traffic grooming for flexible optical networks is... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 12, pp.1845-1855 (2013)

Performance Analysis of SAC-OCDMA Systems Adopting Overlapping PPM Schemes
A fertile technique, for increasing single-user throughput while keeping a constraint on the light... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 12, pp.1856-1866 (2013)

Optical Label Routing Processing for BPSK Labels Using Complex-Valued Neural Network
Optical neural-network circuit to recognize BPSK labels for photonic label routing is proposed,... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 12, pp.1867-1876 (2013)

Design and Analysis of Ultrafast and Tunable All Optical Metamaterial Switch Enhanced by Metal Nanocomposite
In this paper, we propose a tunable all optical switch based on metamaterial structure enhanced with metal... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 12, pp.1877-1883 (2013)

Dynamic Process of Free Space Excitation of Asymmetric Resonant Microcavity
The underlying physics and detailed dynamical process of the free space beam excitation to the asymmetric... Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 31 Issue 12, pp.1884-1889 (2013)

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