Guest Editorial on the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC)

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 381–383 (2012)
• Charles H. Joyner, Mehran Esfandiari, Biswanath Mukherjee, Dominic A. Schupke, and Vishnu Shulka

OFDM for Next-Generation Optical Access Networks

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 384–398 (2012)
• Neda Cvijetic

Transmitter Predistortion for Simultaneous Improvements in Bit Rate, Sensitivity, Jitter, and Power Efficiency in 20 Gb/s CMOS-Driven VCSEL Links

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 399–405 (2012)
• Alexander V. Rylyakov, Clint L. Schow, Benjamin G. Lee, Fuad E. Doany, Christian W. Baks, and Jeffrey A. Kash

Demonstration of Record Sensitivities in Optically Preamplified Receivers by Combining PDM-QPSK and M-Ary Pulse-Position Modulation

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 406–413 (2012)
• Xiang Liu, Thomas H. Wood, Robert W. Tkach, and S. Chandrasekhar

An Open-Source Path Computation Element (PCE) Emulator: Design, Implementation, and Performance

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 414–426 (2012)
• Mohit Chamania, Marek Drogon, and Admela Jukan

A Tutorial on Nonlinear Photonic Applications of Carbon Nanotube and Graphene

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 427–447 (2012)
• Shinji Yamashita

Optical Interconnects for High-Performance Computing

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 448–457 (2012)
• Marc A. Taubenblatt

Generation of Coherent and Frequency-Locked Multi-Carriers Using Cascaded Phase Modulators for 10 Tb/s Optical Transmission System

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 458–465 (2012)
• Jianjun Yu, Ze Dong, Junwen Zhang, Xin Xiao, Hung-Chang Chien, and Nan Chi

InP-Based Comb Generator for Optical OFDM

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 466–472 (2012)
• Nicolas Dupuis, Christopher R. Doerr, Liming Zhang, Long Chen, Nick J. Sauer, Po Dong, Lawrence L. Buhl, and Dongwahn Ahn

Monolithic Flexible-Grid 1 × 2 Wavelength-Selective Switch in Silicon Photonics

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 473–478 (2012)
• Christopher R. Doerr, Lawrence L. Buhl, Long Chen, and Nicolas Dupuis

A Symmetric-Rate, Extended-Reach 40 Gb/s CWDM-TDMA PON With Downstream and Upstream SOA-Raman Amplification

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 479–485 (2012)
• K. C. Reichmann, P. P. Iannone, C. Brinton, J. Nakagawa, T. Cusick, M. Kimber, C. Doerr, L. L. Buhl, M. Cappuzzo, E. Y. Chen, L. Gomez, J. Johnson, A. M. Kanan, J. Lentz, Y. F. Chang, B. Pálsdóttir, T. Tokle, and L. Spiekman

High-Capacity Space-Division-Multiplexed DWDM Transmissions Using Multicore Fiber

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 486–492 (2012)
• Benyuan Zhu, John M. Fini, Man F. Yan, Xiang Liu, S. Chandrasekhar, Thierry F. Taunay, Michael Fishteyn, Eric M. Monberg, and Frank V. Dimarcello

Terabit Optical Access Networks Based on WDM-OFDMA-PON

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 493–503 (2012)
• Neda Cvijetic, Milorad Cvijetic, Ming-Fang Huang, Ezra Ip, Yue-Kai Huang, and Ting Wang

Transmission of Single-Channel 16-QAM Data Signals at Terabaud Symbol Rates

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 504–511 (2012)
• Thomas Richter, Evarist Palushani, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Reinhold Ludwig, Lutz Molle, Markus Nölle, and Colja Schubert

Field-Trial of an All-Optical PSK Regenerator/Multicaster in a 40 Gbit/s, 38 Channel DWDM Transmission Experiment

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 512–520 (2012)
• Radan Slavík, Adonis Bogris, Joseph Kakande, Francesca Parmigiani, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Richard Phelan, Josef Vojtech, Periklis Petropoulos, Dimitris Syvridis, and David J. Richardson

Mode-Division Multiplexing Over 96 km of Few-Mode Fiber Using Coherent 6 × 6 MIMO Processing

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 521–531 (2012)
• Roland Ryf, Sebastian Randel, Alan H. Gnauck, Cristian Bolle, Alberto Sierra, Sami Mumtaz, Mina Esmaeelpour, Ellsworth C. Burrows, René-Jean Essiambre, Peter J. Winzer, David W. Peckham, Alan H. McCurdy, and Robert Lingle

Generation and Transmission of 21.4-Gbaud PDM 64-QAM Using a Novel High-Power DAC Driving a Single I/Q Modulator

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 532–536 (2012)
• Alan H. Gnauck, Peter J. Winzer, Agnieszka Konczykowska, Filipe Jorge, Jean-Yves Dupuy, Muriel Riet, Gabriel Charlet, B. Zhu, and David W. Peckham

New Technologies and Directions for the Optical Control Plane

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 537–546 (2012)
• Lyndon Y. Ong, Evelyne Roch, Stephen Shew, and Alexander Smith

Transmission of Mixed 224-Gb/s and 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK at 50-GHz Channel Spacing Over 1200-km Dispersion-Managed LEAF® Spans and Three ROADMs

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 547–552 (2012)
• Chongjin Xie, Gregory Raybon, and Peter J. Winzer

PDM-Nyquist-32QAM for 450-Gb/s Per-Channel WDM Transmission on the 50 GHz ITU-T Grid

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 553–559 (2012)
• Xiang Zhou, Lynn E. Nelson, Peter Magill, Rejoy Isaac, Benyuan Zhu, David W. Peckham, Peter I. Borel, and Kenneth Carlson

Terabit/s-Class Optical PCB Links Incorporating 360-Gb/s Bidirectional 850 nm Parallel Optical Transceivers

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 560–571 (2012)
• Fuad E. Doany, Clint L. Schow, Benjamin G. Lee, Russell A. Budd, Christian W. Baks, Cornelia K. Tsang, John U. Knickerbocker, Roger Dangel, Benson Chan, How Lin, Chase Carver, Jianzhuang Huang, Jessie Berry, David Bajkowski, Frank Libsch, and Jeffrey A. Kash

Wavelength Conversion and All-Optical Regeneration: Achievements and Open Issues

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 572–582 (2012)
• Ernesto Ciaramella

Characterization of Crosstalk in Ultra-Low-Crosstalk Multi-Core Fiber

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 583–589 (2012)
• Tetsuya Hayashi, Toshiki Taru, Osamu Shimakawa, Takashi Sasaki, and Eisuke Sasaoka

Low Cost, Injection Molded 120 Gbps Optical Backplane

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 590–596 (2012)
• Paul Rosenberg, Sagi Mathai, Wayne V. Sorin, Moray McLaren, Joseph Straznicky, Georgios Panotopoulos, David Warren, Terry Morris, and Michael R. T. Tan

Next-Generation Broadband Access Networks and Technologies

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 597–608 (2012)
• Elaine Wong

Mixed Line-Rate Transmission (112-Gb/s, 450-Gb/s, and 1.15-Tb/s) Over 3560 km of Field-Installed Fiber With Filterless Coherent Receiver

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 609–617 (2012)
• Yue-Kai Huang, Ezra Ip, Tiejun J. Xia, Glenn A. Wellbrock, Ming-Fang Huang, Yoshiaki Aono, Tsutomu Tajima, and Milorad Cvijetic

Mode-Division Multiplexing of 2 × 100 Gb/s Channels Using an LCOS-Based Spatial Modulator

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 618–623 (2012)
• Massimiliano Salsi, Clemens Koebele, Donato Sperti, Patrice Tran, Haik Mardoyan, Patrick Brindel, Sébastien Bigo, Aurélien Boutin, Frédéric Verluise, Pierre Sillard, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Lionel Provost, and Gabriel Charlet

45.8 and 125 Gb/s CP-QPSK/CP-BPSK Field Trial Over Installed Submarine Cable

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 624–633 (2012)
• Vincent A. J. M. Sleiffer, Vladimir Veljanovski, Dirk van den Borne, Joe Capasso, Hayri Kuluslu, Jose Seixas, Volker Schramm, Alexander Tschersich, Rogerio Nogueira, Natasa B. Pavlovic, Kristofer Ivarson, Stefan Spaelter, and Huug de Waardt

Reception of Dual-Spatial-Mode CO-OFDM Signal Over a Two-Mode Fiber

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 634–640 (2012)
• An Li, Abdullah Al Amin, Xi Chen, Simin Chen, Guanjun Gao, and William Shieh

Ultralow Power 80 Gb/s Arrayed CMOS Silicon Photonic Transceivers for WDM Optical Links

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 641–650 (2012)
• Xuezhe Zheng, Frankie Y. Liu, Jon Lexau, Dinesh Patil, Guoliang Li, Ying Luo, Hiren D. Thacker, Ivan Shubin, Jin Yao, Kannan Raj, Ron Ho, John E. Cunningham, and Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy

20 Tbit/s Transmission Over 6860 km With Sub-Nyquist Channel Spacing

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 651–657 (2012)
• Jin-Xing Cai, Carl R. Davidson, Alan Lucero, Hongbin Zhang, Dmitri G. Foursa, Oleg V. Sinkin, William W. Patterson, Alexei N. Pilipetskii, Georg Mohs, and Neal S. Bergano

Space Division Multiplexed Transmission of 109-Tb/s Data Signals Using Homogeneous Seven-Core Fiber

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• Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 30, Iss. 4, pp. 658–665 (2012)
• Jun Sakaguchi, Yoshinari Awaji, Naoya Wada, Atsushi Kanno, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Tetsuya Hayashi, Toshiki Taru, Tetsuya Kobayashi, and Masayuki Watanabe