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Reconfigurable Networks: Challenges and Opportunities

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThA
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• Frisken, Steven
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Modeling 40 Gb/s CSRZ-DPSK and RZ-DPSK Trans-Atlantic Transmission with Dispersion Slope Compensation

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB1
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• Anderson, William T; Liu, Li; Cai, Yi; Cai, Jin-Xing; Kovsh, Dmitriy; Li, Haifeng; Pilipetskii, Alexei N; Nissov, Morten; Bergano, Neal S
• We model a 40 Gb/s RZ and CSRZ-DPSK transmission over a trans-Atlantic system using non-slope-matched fiber with dispersion slope compensation. Slope compensation is necessary to...

1 b/s/Hz Coherent WDM Transmission over 112 km of Dispersion Managed Optical Fibre

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB10
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• Healy, Tadhg; Ellis, Andrew D; Garcia Gunning, Fatima C; Cuenot, Benjamin; Rukosueva, Margarita
• The performance advantage of using dispersion-managed fibre in coherent WDM systems is demonstrated. Limitations due to nonlinearity are no more severe for a 298 Gb/s Coherent WDM...

On Performance of Coherent Phase-Shift-Keying Modulation in 40 Gb/s Long-Haul Optical Fiber Transmission Systems

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB11
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• Cai, Yi; Liu, Li; Pilipetskii, Alexei N; Nissov, Morten; Bergano, Neal S
• We compare the performance of coherent binary-phase-shift-keying and incoherent differential-binary-phase-shift-keying formats in linear and nonlinear 40-Gb/s systems. We show that...

Optical Minimum-Shift Keying Format and Its Dispersion Tolerance

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB12
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• Mo, Jinyu; Wen, Yang Jing; Dong, Yi; Wang, Yixin; Lu, Chao
• Detailed principle for optical MSK generation and detection is presented. 10.7Gb/s MSK data is transmitted and its dispersion tolerance is compared with that of RZ-DPSK and RZ-OOK....

Modulation Parameter Tolerance for 8- and 16- APSK (Amplitude- and Phase- Shift Keying) Signals

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB13
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• Sekine, Kenro; Kikuchi, Nobuhiko; Sasaki, Shinya
• We investigate the impact of non-ideal modulating condition on multilevel APSK modulations, and find 4-% angular misalignment of orthogonal PSK components or residual chirp of 0.2 in...

Opto-Electrical Filter for 40 Gb/s Optical Single Sideband Signal Generation

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB14
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• Fonseca, Daniel D; Cartaxo, Adolfo V; Monteiro, Paulo P
• A 40 Gb/s opto-electrical filter for optical single sideband (OSSB) signal generation is experimentally shown. The improved dispersion tolerance of the OSSB signal is experimentally...

Analytical Investigation of Optimization, Performance Bound, and Chromatic Dispersion Tolerance of 4-Amplitude-Shifted-Keying Format

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB15
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• Zhao, Jian; Huo, Li; Chan, Chun-Kit; Chen, Lian-Kuan; Lin, Chinlon
• By using Karhunen-Loeve expansion and saddlepoint approximation methods, we show the optimal optical and electrical receiver bandwidth, optimal multilevel spacing,...

Effects of Cumulative PDG on the Scalability of SOA-Based Optical Packet Switching Networks

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB16
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• Liboiron-Ladouceur, Odile; Bergman, Keren; Borodisky, Misha; Brodsky, Misha
• Using a re-circulating loop we study the extreme cases of cumulative PDG in SOA-based packet switching nodes. We show that node polarization dependence could limit the physical layer...

PMD Rules for Physical Constraint-Based Routing in All Optical Networks

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB17
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• Zhou, Yu Rong; Lord, Andrew; Santoni, Stefano; Setti, Dario; Fischer, Thomas; Lehmann, Gottfried; Bulow, Henning; Haunstein, Herbert; Schinabeck, Alfons
• PMD rules are developed from transmission modeling, enabling a fast and accurate estimate of the PMD penalty with and without mitigation, which are well suited for the physical...

Phase-Preservation Capability of All-Optical Amplitude Regenerators Using Fiber Nonlinearity

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB18
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• Matsumoto, Masayuki
• Phase preservation by all-optical amplitude regenerators using fiber nonlinearity is experimentally examined. It is shown that regenerators based on soliton filtering or on...

Optimization on Cross-Gain-Modulating Power and Wavelength for Pulsed Data-Pattern Reshaping in Optical-Clock Controlled Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB19
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• Chang, Yung-Cheng; Hung, Chi-Ming; Yu, Kun-Chieh; Lin, Gong-Ru
• Effect of cross-gain-modulating power and wavelength a reshaped-optical-clock injected SOA at 10Gbit/s is investigated to achieve pulsed data-pattern transformation with highest...

Wavelength Dependent Channel Performance in Long Haul WDM Systems and Its Usage in All Optical Networks

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB2
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• Schuster, Matthias; Lehmann, Gottfried; Schupke, Dominic A; Duhovnikov, Svetoslav; Göger, Gernot
• In long haul WDM-systems the reach of the individual channels depends on the wavelength. In all optical networks this can be used to avoid regeneration if an appropriate wavelength...

Simple Improvement of Error Correction Capability of Standard FEC Using Repeated Trial-and-Error Method

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB20
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• Leibrich, Jochen; Rosenkranz, Werner
• Error correction capability of standard RS(255,239)-code is optimized within the limits of hard-decision decoding. An improvement of about 0.2 dB is achieved without noticeable...

Automatic Installation in QKD System Using Photon-Counting Optical Power Meter

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB21
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• Maeda, Wakako; Tanaka, Akihiro; Takahashi, Seigo; Tajima, Akio
• A burst-length-setting and phase-optimization technique were proposed for use in QKD, and we demonstrated their repeatability. QKD could automatically be installed on a strange...

Experimental Demonstration of the Continuous Tuning of Microwave Photonic Filters by Sinuosidal Modulation of the Filter Coefficients

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB22
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• Sales, Salvador H; Mora, Jose; Manzanedo, Maria Dolores; Garcia-Olcina, Raimundo; Capmany, Jose; Ortega, Beatriz; Pastor, Daniel
• We show the results of a technique to tune continuously the resonances of the microwave photonic filters are shifted by changing the weight of the optical taps it improves the...

Linearity and Ultra-Linearization of Ring Resonator Based Modulators for Sub-Octave Bandpass Analog Optical Links

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB23
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• Tazawa, Hidehisa; Steier, William H
• The linearity of a ring resonator based modulator is experimentally studied. From the experimental transfer function, the intermodulation-free dynamic range is predicted to be 123...

Novel SOA-Based Switch for Multiple Radio-over-Fiber Service Applications

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB24
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• Qian, Xin; Lin, Tao; Penty, Richard V; White, Ian H
• An all-optical 3x3 SOA-based switch is demonstrated for routing radio-over-fiber signals. It is demonstrated that different RF signals, such as terrestrial digital TV and wireless...

Experimental Demonstration of Simultaneous All-Optical Frequency Conversion for Full-Duplex WDM RoF Systems

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB25
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• Song, Ho-Jin; Song, Jong-In
• Simultaneous all-optical frequency up- and down-conversions of optical IF and optical RF signals to the upper and lower frequency band, respectively, using a SOA-MZI without...

Near-Single Sideband Modulation in Strong Optical Injection Locked Semiconductor Lasers

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• Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2006 paper: JThB26
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• Sung, Hyuk-Kee; Lau, Erwin K; Wu, Ming C
• Asymmetric modulation sidebands have been demonstrated by controlling frequency detuning of strong optical injection-locked semiconductor lasers. Near-single sideband generated by...