2018 20Th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

2018 20th International Conference on Transparent

Optical Networks (ICTON 2018)

Bucharest, Romania

1-5 July 2018

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ULTRASLOW WAVES AND PHOTONIC QUANTUM DYNAMICS ON THE NANOSCALE ...... 1 Ortwin Hess

LIMITS OF OPTICAL FIBRE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ...... 5 Andrew Ellis ; Filipe Ferreira ; Tingting Zhang ; Mohammad Al Khateeb

IMPROVING THE CAPACITY OF TERRESTRIAL AND SUBMARINE SYSTEMS VIA CHANNEL POWER OPTIMIZATION...... 9 Jose Krause Perin ; Ian Roberts ; Joseph M. Kahn

NONLINEARITY COMPENSATION THROUGH OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION FOR IMPROVED TRANSMISSION REACH/RATE ...... 13 Francesco Da Ros ; Metodi P. Yankov ; Edson P. Da Silva ; Mads Lillieholm ; Pawel M. Kaminski ; P. Guan ; Hao Hu ; Anders T. Clausen ; Michael Galili ; Leif K. Oxenløwe

INTERPLAY OF PULSE SHAPING AND PRE-EMPHASIS FOR HIGH SYMBOL RATE COHERENT TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS ...... 15 Danish Rafique

IMPACT OF LINEAR MODE COUPLING ON THE NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE OF FEW-MODE FIBRES ...... 19 Filipe M. Ferreira ; Christian S. Costa ; Stylianos Sygletos ; Andrew D. Ellis

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF RADIO-OVER-FIBER BASED ON PHASE-MODULATION AND DIRECT-DETECTION FOR THE FUTURE 5G NETWORK...... 23 Maina Emmaeinna ; Salim Faci ; Anne-Laure Billabert ; Ali Kabalan ; Catherine Algani ; Mohamed Lemine Diakité

ENHANCED CAPACITY OF RADIO OVER FIBER LINKS USING POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXED SIGNAL TRANSMISSION...... 27 Nada Badraoui ; Tibor Berceli

FLEXIBLE FOG COMPUTING AND TELECOM ARCHITECTURE FOR 5G NETWORKS...... 33 Luis Velasco ; Marc Ruiz

DESIGN AND PLANNING FOR FIBER-BASED SMALL CELL BACKHAULING ...... 37 Christina Lim ; Chathurika Ranaweera ; Elaine Wong ; Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

SUPPORTING LOW-LATENCY APPLICATIONS THROUGH HYBRID COST-OPTIMISED CLOUDLET PLACEMENT ...... 40 Sourav Mondal ; Goutam Das ; Elaine Wong

ANALOG RADIO-OVER-FIBER SOLUTIONS FOR 5G COMMUNICATIONS IN THE BEYOND- CPRI ERA...... 44 G. Giannoulis ; N. Argyris ; N. Iliadis ; G. Poulopoulos ; K. Kanta ; D. Apostolopoulos ; H. Avramopoulos

GEOMETRICALLY-SHAPED 64-POINT CONSTELLATIONS VIA ACHIEVABLE INFORMATION RATES ...... 49 Bin Chen ; Chigo Okonkwo ; Domaniç Lavery ; Alex Alvarado

QUALITY OF TRANSMISSION ESTIMATOR ENABLING THE TRANSPARENCY PARADIGM IN LEGACY IMDD NETWORKS ...... 53 Emanuele Virgillito ; Stefano Straullu ; Mattia Cantono ; Andrea Castoldi ; Rosanna Pastorelli ; Paolo Savio ; Silvio Abrate ; Vittorio Curri

IMPACT OF CROSSTALK ESTIMATION METHODS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SPECTRALLY AND SPATIALLY FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 57 Miroslaw Klinkowski ; Krzysztof Walkowiak

SCALABILITY ANALYSIS OF SPECTRALLY-SPATIALLY FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH BACK-TO-BACK REGENERATION ...... 61 Krzysztof Walkowiak ; Miroslaw Klinkowski ; Piotr Lechowicz

ON THE CAPACITY AND SCALABILITY OF METRO TRANSPORT ARCHITECTURES FOR UBIQUITOUS SERVICE DELIVERY ...... 65 António Eira ; Nelson Costa ; João Pedro

DISAGGREGATION OF THE OPTICAL LAYER FOR MORE COST-EFFECTIVE METRO NETWORKS...... 70 Tiago Lameiras ; Marco Mussolin ; Paulo S. André ; Bruno Pereira

GRAPHENE/SILICON SCHOTTKY JUNCTION SOLAR CELLS ...... 74 Caterina Ciminelli ; Francesco Dell’olio ; Giuseppe Brunetti ; Donato Conteduca ; Mario N. Armenise

PHOTOCURRENT GENERATION WITH TRANSITION METAL NITRIDES AND TRANSITION METAL CARBIDES...... 78 Satoshi Ishii ; Satish L. Shinde ; Tadaaki Nagao

SOLAR MODULE USING DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS ...... 80 M.H. Buraidah ; L.P. Teo ; Shahan Shah ; M.A. Careem ; I. Albinsson ; B.-E. Mellander ; A.K. Arof

ADVANCED LIGHT HARNESSING FEATURES IN SOLAR CELL DEVICE SIMULATIONS ...... 84 Alexander Quandt ; Tahir Aslan ; Itumeleng Mokgosi ; Robert Warmbier

TAMM POLARITONS AND CAVITY MODES IN THE FIR RANGE...... 88 Jorge Silva ; Mikhail Vasilevskiy

AUTOMATED NETWORK SELECTION FOR MOVING DEVICES WITH RESPECT TO USER PREFERENCES...... 92 Kira Kastell

90-GHZ LINEAR-CELL SYSTEMS FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ...... 96 Tetsuya Kawanishi ; Atsushi Kanno ; Naokatsu Yamamoto

5G CONNECTED VEHICLES SUPPORTED BY OPTICAL FIBER ACCESS ...... 100 Jose A. Lazaro ; Massiel Coves ; Samael Sarmiento ; Jose A Altabas ; Adolfo Lerin

REMOTIZED CONTROL OF POWER ELECTRONIC DEVICES EXPLOITING A PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBER PHOTONIC BUS...... 104 Anantaram Varatharajan ; Paolo Savio ; Erasmo Vizzaccaro ; Silvio Abrate ; Gianmario Pellegrino ; Vittorio Curri

ON THE VARIABILITY OF LAUNCHING AND DETECTION IN POF TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS ...... 108 Alicia López ; Angeles Losada ; Javier Mateo ; Joseba Zubia

ENERGY-TRANSFER PROCESSES AMONG NON-HOMOGENEOUSLY DISTRIBUTED RARE- EARTH IONS AND IMPACT ON AMPLIFICATION AND LASING ...... 113 Irene Carrasco ; Laura Agazzi ; Pavel Loiko ; Markus Pollnau

PHOTODARKENING IN YB-DOPED SILICA FIBERS – MITIGATION BY CO-DOPING AND THERMAL EFFECTS...... 117 Martin Leich ; Sylvia Jetschke ; Sonja Unger ; Anka Schwuchow ; Matthias Jäger

PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BIOACTIVE BOROSILICATE GLASSES AND SCAFFOLDS WITH PERSISTENT LUMINESCENCE ...... 121 P. Roldán Del Cerro ; M. Saarinen ; J. Massera ; I. Norrbo ; M. Lastusaari ; L. Petit

TIME DOMAIN MODELING OF MULTIMODE SELENIDE-CHALCOGENIDE GLASS FIBER BASED MID INFRARED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION SOURCES...... 126 S. Sujecki ; L. Sojka ; Z. Tang ; E. Barney ; D. Furniss ; T. M. Benson ; A. B. Seddon

CONTINUOUS-WAVE AND PULSED OPTICAL FIBER LASERS FOR MEDIUM INFRARED APPLICATIONS...... 130 Mario Christian Falconi ; Dario Laneve ; Michele Bozzetti ; Toney Teddy Fernandez ; Gianluca Galzerano ; Francesco Prudenzano

OPTIMAL CONSTELLATION SHAPING IN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ...... 135 Zhen Qu ; Ivan B. Djordjevic

LDPC CODES DERIVED FROM QUASI-CYCLIC CODE DESIGN SUITABLE FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS ...... 140 Xiaole Sun ; Ivan B. Djordjevic

ROTATIONALLY-INVARIANT MULTI-DIMENSIONAL TRELLIS CODED MODULATION FOR OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS...... 144 Saleem Alreesh ; Stefanos Dris ; André Richter

TRAINING-AIDED JOINT FRAME AND FREQUENCY SYNCHRONIZATION FOR THP FTN COHERENT OPTICAL SYSTEMS...... 148 Shu Zhang ; Oluyemi Omomukuyo ; Octavia A. Dobre ; Xiang Lin ; Deyuan Chang

IMPACT OF ANALOGUE PRE-FILTERING FOR SPECTRAL ROLL-OFF IMPROVEMENT IN SPECTRAL EFFICIENT TRANSMITTER...... 152 Amandeep Kaur ; Fatima C. Garcia Gunning

A METHOD TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF A MILLIMETER WAVE RADIO-OVER- FIBER SYSTEM...... 156 Morad Khosravi Eghbal ; Farzan Aminian ; Mehdi Shadaram

GRAPHENE FOR OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT TELECOMMUNICATION DEVICES...... 160 M. Grande ; G. V. Bianco ; D. Laneve ; P. Capezzuto ; V. Petruzzelli ; M. Scalora ; F. Prudenzano ; G. Bruno ; A. D’orazio

ON UPPER BOUND FOR THE THIRD ORDER INTERCEPT POINT OF MIXERS...... 164 J. Ladvánszky

SEMICONDUCTOR LASER MODELS SUITABILITY TO ASSESS LASER NOISE EFFECTS ON OPTICALLY GENERATED MILLIMETER WAVE SIGNALS ...... 169 B. M. Oliveira ; P. Almeida ; P. Laurêncio ; P. M. Monteiro ; M. C. R. Medeiros

MITIGATION OF NONLINEAR DISTORTIONS IN A MM WAVE OFDM PHOTONIC LINK EMPLOYING DIGITAL SIGNAL PRE-PROCESSING...... 173 B. M. Oliveira ; A. Lorences-Riego ; P. M. Monteiro ; M. C. R. Medeiros

LATENCY-AWARE NETWORK SERVICE ORCHESTRATION OVER AN SDN-CONTROLLED MULTI-LAYER TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE ...... 177 S. Fichera ; R. Martinez ; B. Martini ; M. Gharbaoui ; R. Casellas ; R. Vilalta ; R. Muñoz ; P. Castoldi

MONITORING INTENT FOR OPTICAL CHANNEL DEFRAGMENTATION IN SOFTWARE- DEFINED ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 182 Quan Pham Van ; Dominique Verchere ; Patricia Layec ; Arnaud Dupas ; Frank Ilchmann ; Lars Dembeck ; Huy Tran-Quang ; Djamal Zeghlache

A TWO-LAYER NETWORK SOLUTION FOR RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT HOST-TO-HOST TRANSFER OF BIG DATA...... 186 Alessio Ferrari ; Mattia Cantono ; Behzad Mirkhanzadeh ; Zhen Lu ; Ali Shakeri ; Chencheng Shao ; Marco Tacca ; Miguel Razo ; Andrea Fumagalli ; Giovanni Martinelli ; Gabriele Maria Galimberti ; Vittorio Curri

ACCELERATING VNF-BASED DEEP PACKET INSPECTION WITH THE USE OF GPUS ...... 190 Igor M. Araújo ; Carlos Natalino ; Ádamo L. Santana ; Diego L. Cardoso

METRO-HAUL: SDN CONTROL AND ORCHESTRATION OF DISAGGREGATED OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH MODEL-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT...... 194 Ramon Casellas ; Ricardo Martínez ; Ricard Vilalta ; Raül Muñoz

HIERARCHICAL AND RECURSIVE NFV SERVICE PLATFORM FOR END-TO-END NETWORK SERVICE ORCHESTRATION ACROSS MULTIPLE NFVI DOMAINS ...... 198 Raul Muñoz ; Ricard Vilalta ; Ramon Casellas ; Ricardo Martínez ; Felipe Vicens ; Josep Martrat ; Víctor López ; Diego López

EFFECT ON THE COUPLING BETWEEN PATTERNED DISORDERED EMITTERS AND SURFACE PLASMONS ...... 203 K. Chevrier ; J.M. Benoit ; C. Symonds ; J. Bellessa

MODULATED 3D CROSS-CORRELATION DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING OF MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE INKS ...... 204 Eleonora Frau ; Silvia Schintke

STRUCTURING OF MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLE FLUIDS FOR DECORATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL PRINTING AND COATING ...... 208 Narcis Fosso ; Eleonora Frau ; Silvia Schintke

NOVEL EFFECTS AND FUNCTIONALITIES IN SUBWAVELENGTH PHOTONIC AND PLASMONIC (NANO)STRUCTURES...... 212 Pavel Kwiecien ; Ivan Richter ; Jirí Petrácek ; Vladimír Kuzmiak ; Jirí Ctyroký

DEPLOYMENT OF AIR QUALITY MONITORING SENSORS OVER A DELAY TOLERANT MOBILE AD-HOC NETWORK IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS...... 219 R. Asorey-Cacheda ; A. J. Garcia-Sanchez ; C. Zúñiga-Cañón ; P. Marco-Jornet ; P. A. Moreno-Riquelme ; J. Garcia-Haro

ALGORITHM FOR DETERMINING ROAD BOUNDARIES IN THE RADAR SYSTEM OF AN UNMANNED CAR...... 223 Bui Sy Hanh ; Vladimir Rastorguev ; Victor Schneider

POSSIBILITIES TO OBSERVE SMALL-SIZE UAVS IN THE PROSPECTIVE AIRFIELD RADAR ...... 228 A. E. Ananenkov ; D. V. Marin ; V. M. Nuzhdin ; V. V. Rastorguev ; P. V. Sokolov

AN OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BASED 5G ARCHITECTURE TO ENABLE SMART CITY APPLICATIONS...... 234 Wided Boubakri ; Walid Abdallah ; Noureddine Boudriga

PACKET INSERTION ATTACK DETECTION IN OPTICAL UAV NETWORKS...... 240 Nihel Ramdhan ; Maha Sliti ; Noureddine Boudriga

JAMMING ATTACK DETECTION IN OPTICAL UAV NETWORKS ...... 245 Maha Sliti ; Walid Abdallah ; Noureddine Boudriga

THE EFFECTS OF DEFORMATION IN LARGE STEP INDEX OPTICAL FIBRES...... 250 D. S. Kumar ; S. C. Creagh ; S. Sujecki ; T. M. Benson

1.5 – 2.1 µM BROADBAND ASE IN RARE-EARTH CO-DOPED GLASSES AND DOUBLE-CLAD OPTICAL FIBERS...... 255 Marcin Kochanowicz ; Jacek Zmojda ; Piotr Miluski ; Dariusz Mazur ; Agata Baranowska ; Marta Soltys ; Wojciech A. Pisarski ; Joanna Pisarska ; Tomasz Ragin ; Maurizio Ferrari ; Giancarlo C. Righini ; Matthias Jäger ; Maciej Sitarz ; Dominik Dorosz

MULTICOMPONENT RARE EARTH-DOPED PHOSPHATE GLASSES FOR COMPACT LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS ...... 259 Diego Pugliese ; Nadia G. Boetti ; Edoardo Ceci-Ginistrelli ; Duccio Gallichi-Nottiani ; Davide Janner ; Joris Lousteau ; Daniel Milanese

IN-FIBER FRACTIONAL SIGNAL PROCESSING: RECENT RESULTS AND APPLICATIONS...... 263 Christian Cuadrado-Laborde ; Luis Poveda-Wong ; Antonio Carrascosa ; José Luis Cruz ; Antonio Díez ; Miguel V. Andrés

RECONFIGURABLE MICRORING RESONATOR-BASED OPTICAL TRANSMITTER FOR ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS ...... 267 P. Doddaballapura Lakshmijayasimh ; M. Hammad ; C. Bluemm ; A. Moscoso-Martir ; F. Merget ; J. Witzens ; J. Van De Belt ; P. M. Anandarajah ; A. Kaszubowska-Anandarajah

OUT OF THE 1550 NM WINDOW TRANSMISSION ...... 270 J. P. Turkiewicz

CHIRP MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS WITH PICOSECOND DATA CARRIERS USING A SINGLE SOA...... 274 Md Shakil Ahmed ; Ivan Glesk

ALL-OPTICAL DEMULTIPLEXING OF A 640 GBIT/S OTDM SIGNAL USING BULK SOA TURBO-SWITCHED MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER WITH IMPROVED DIFFERENTIAL SCHEME...... 278 I. Rendón-Salgado ; E. Ramírez-Cruz ; R. Gutiérrez-Castrejón

OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND OPTICAL SENSING AND DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR INCREASING THE RELIABILITY AND SAFETY IN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SCENARIOS ...... 282 Erich Leitgeb ; Thomas Plank ; Pirmin Pezzei ; Hristo Ivanov ; Rafael Pérez-Jiménez

ON-CHIP WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION: FROM ANTENNA DESIGN TO CHANNEL MODELLING ...... 286 Giovanna Calò ; Gaetano Bellanca ; Franco Fuschini ; Marina Barbiroli ; Ali Emre Kaplan ; Michele Bozzetti ; Badrul Alam ; Paolo Bassi ; Vincenzo Petruzzelli

AN OPTICAL NETWORK COMMUNICATION SYSTEM PERFORMANCE USING SILICON PHOTO MULTIPLIERS (SIPM) ...... 290 Rafael M Gutierrez ; Andres I Hernandez

WHEN AND HOW TO APPLY STATISTICS, MACHINE LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES...... 295 Josep Lluis Berral-García

EXAMPLES OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR OPTICAL NETWORK CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT ...... 299 Alba P. Vela ; Marc Ruiz ; Luis Velasco

NONLINEAR OPTICAL PHENOMENA IN SILICON-SMECTIC A LIQUID CRYSTAL (SALC) WAVEGUIDING STRUCTURES ...... 303 B. I. Lembrikov ; D. Ianetz ; Y. Ben-Ezra

THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION OF AZO-BASED THIN FILMS ...... 307 K. Waszkowska ; S. Slassi ; A. Amine ; A. El-Ghayoury ; B. Sahraoui

SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION BY MIE-RESONANT NANOPARTICLES WITH BULK QUADRATIC NONLINEARITY ...... 311 Daria A. Smirnova ; Irina I. Volkovskaya ; Alexander I. Smirnov

NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF OXIDE THIN FILMS...... 314 A. Zawadzka ; P. Plóciennik ; K. Waszkowska ; D. Guichaoua ; B. Sahraoui

SLOW LIGHT IN WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS ON SILICON-ON-INSULATOR PLATFORM ...... 317 Marco Passoni ; Dario Gerace ; Liam O’Faolain ; Lucio Claudio Andreani

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING BASED ON 4×4 MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE STRUCTURES ...... 321 Duy-Tien Le ; Trung-Thanh Le ; Laurence W. Cahill

ELECTRO-OPTIC ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRIDS FOR SIGNAL MODULATION ...... 327 A. R. N. Bastos ; C. M. S. Vicente ; M. Lima ; P. S. André ; R. A. S. Ferreira

DESIGNING ANISOTROPY WITH WAVEGUIDE SUBWAVELENGTH STRUCTURES ...... 331 Robert Halir ; Alaine Herrero-Bermello ; José Manuel Luque-González ; Alejandro Ortega-Moñux ; Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez ; Aitor V. Velasco ; Jens H. Schmid ; Pavel Cheben ; Íñigo Molina-Fernández

EFFICIENT COUPLING INTERFACES IN PHOTONIC SYSTEMS ENABLED BY PRINTED FREEFORM MICRO-OPTICS ...... 334 C. Koos ; W. Freude ; S. Randel ; P.-I. Dietrich ; M. Blaicher ; Y. Xu ; M. R. Billah ; T. Hoose ; M. Trappen ; A. Hofmann

THIN FILMS OF BARIUM STRONTIUM TITANATE FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF LIGHT- BASED APPLICATIONS...... 336 Jarmila Müllerová ; Pavel Šutta ; Lucie Prušáková ; Rostislav Medlín

ENHANCING OPTICAL NONLINEAR PROCESSES PERFORMANCE OF SILICON NITRIDE WAVEGUIDES ...... 340 Camille-Sophie Brès ; Eirini Tagkoudi ; Davide Grassani

NEAR-IR LASER AND RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF COLON MUCOSAL TISSUES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON METABOLITE CHARACTERISATIONS FOR EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF INFLAMMATION AND ULCERATION ...... 344 J. G. Addis ; N Mohammed ; O. Rotimi ; V. Subramanian ; Animesh Jha

NOVEL APPROACH FOR DESIGN OF FIBER-BASED EVANESCENT WAVE SENSORS FOR THE MID-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY ...... 348 Elena Romanova ; Svetlana Korsakova ; Andrei Rozhnev ; Alexander Velmuzhov ; Vladimir Shiryaev

INFRARED-SENSOR BASED ON SELENIDE WAVEGUIDE DEVOTED TO WATER POLLUTION ...... 352 M. Baillieul ; Tomáš Halenkovic ; A.J. Gutierrez-Arrovo ; E. Baudet ; E. Rinnert ; J. Gutwirth ; P. Nemec ; J. Charrier ; L. Bodiou ; F. Colas ; K. Boukerma ; C. Boussard ; B. Bureau ; K. Michel ; V. Nazabal

COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT MULTICAST APPROACHES IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 356 Anliang Cai ; Kai Xu

DEPLOY TOOL: INCREMENTALLY PLANNING MARGINLESS ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 360 Aristotelis Kretsis ; Polizois Soumplis ; Kostas Christodoulopoulos ; Emmanouel Manos Varvarigos

PROCESSING AND BANDWIDTH RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN MULTI-PROVIDER NFV CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES INTERCONNECTED BY ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 364 V. Eramo ; F.G. Lavacca

NON-ORTHOGONAL MULTIPLE ACCESS FOR LONG-HAUL ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 370 Eitan Omiyi ; David Dahan ; Uri Mahlab

ESTIMATING THE MODULATION CHARACTERISTICS OF WHITE LEDS BY THEIR COLOR TEMPERATURE ...... 374 Kai Richter ; Slavisa Aleksic ; Christian-Alexander Bunge

HIGH-BANDWIDTH ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES FOR ULTRA-LOW COST VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION LINKS ...... 378 Priyanka De Souza ; Nikos Bamiedakis ; Kou Yoshida ; Pavlos P. Manousiadis ; Graham A. Turnbull ; Ifor D.W. Samuel ; Richard V. Penty ; Ian H. White

INGAN/GAN LASER DIODES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS ...... 382 Scott Watson ; Steffan Gwyn ; Shaun Viola ; Giovanni Giuliano ; Thomas J. Slight ; Szymon Stanczyk ; Szymon Grzanka ; Amit Yadav ; Duncan Rowe ; Leslie Laycock ; Kevin E. Docherty ; Edik Rafailov ; Piotr Perlin ; Steve Najda ; Mike Leszczynski ; Anthony E. Kelly

ILLUMINATION AND COMMUNICATION CHARACTERISTICS OF YAG:CE PHOSPHOR POWDERS...... 386 Jan Vitasek ; Jan Jargus ; Jan Latal ; Tomas Stratil ; Zdenek Wilcek

AUTOMATED OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH MONITORING AND MACHINE LEARNING...... 391 Fabien Boitier ; Patricia Layec

ENABLING DATA ANALYTICS AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR 5G SERVICES WITHIN DISAGGREGATED MULTI-LAYER TRANSPORT NETWORKS...... 395 Ramon Casellas ; Ricardo Martínez ; Luis Velasco ; Ricard Vilalta ; Pablo Pavón ; Daniel King ; Raül Muñoz

DEEP LEARNING-BASED TRAFFIC PREDICTION FOR NETWORK OPTIMIZATION...... 399 Sebastian Troia ; Rodolfo Alvizu ; Youduo Zhou ; Guido Maier ; Achille Pattavina

EVALUATING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR QOT ESTIMATION ...... 403 Rui Manuel Morais ; João Pedro

MACHINE LEARNING BASED OPTIMAL MODULATION FORMAT PREDICTION FOR PHYSICAL LAYER NETWORK PLANNING...... 407 Danish Rafique

FUNCTIONALIZED METHACRYLIC THIAZOLIDINONE POLYMER FOR OPTICAL APPLICATIONS...... 411 D. Guichaoua ; K. Waszkowska ; V. Smokal ; O. Kharchenko ; B. Kulyk ; O. Krupka ; A. Migalska-Zalas ; B. Sahraoui

THREE-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC STRUCTURES FABRICATED BY TWO-PHOTON POLYMERIZATION FOR MICROFLUIDICS AND MICRONEEDLES ...... 415 Cristina Plamadeala ; Saransh R. Gosain ; Stefan Purkhart ; Bianca Buchegger ; Werner Baumgartner ; Johannes Heitz

MANAGEMENT OF LIGHT PATTERNS BASED ON LOCAL HILBERT TRANSFORM...... 419 K. Staliunas ; W. Ahmed ; M. Botey ; R. Herrero ; Z. Hayran ; H. Kurt

GE-RICH GRADED-INDEX SIGE ALLOYS: EXPLORING A VERSATILE PLATFORM FOR MID-IR PHOTONICS ...... 424 J. M. Ramirez ; Q. Liu ; V. Vakarin ; J. Frigerio ; A. Ballabio ; D. Chrastina ; X. Le Roux ; C. Alonso-Ramos ; G. Isella ; L. Vivien ; D. Marris-Morini

TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDES FOR OPTOELECTRONICS AND BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS...... 428 J. Parra ; I. Olivares ; J. L. Frieiro ; O. Blázquez ; S. Hernández ; B. Garrido ; P. Sanchis

TOWARDS APPLICATIONS OF STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING IN NANOPHOTONICS...... 432 L. Sirleto ; M. A. Ferrara ; A. Vergara

POLYMER HALIDE PEROVSKITES-WAVEGUIDES INTEGRATED IN NANOCELLULOSE AS A WEARABLE AMPLIFIER-PHOTODETECTOR SYSTEM ...... 436 Isaac Suárez ; Ehsan Hassanabadi ; Alberto Maulu ; Niccolò Carlino ; Cecilia Ada Maestri ; Masoud Latifi ; Paolo Bettotti ; Iván Mora-Seró ; Juan P. Martínez-Pastor

INTEGRATION OF NON-VOLATILE FERROELECTRIC ACTUATORS IN SILICON PHOTONICS CIRCUITS...... 439 Isis Maqueira-Albo ; Sara Varotto ; Marco Asa ; Christian Rinaldi ; Matteo Cantoni ; Riccardo Bertacco ; Francesco Morichetti

HOLLOW CORE ANTIRESONANT FIBERS: NOVEL DESIGNS, MATERIALS AND APPLICATIONS...... 443 Walter Belardi ; Adam Lewis ; Francesco De Lucia ; Pier John Sazio

ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING USING ALL-SOLID DUAL-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER...... 447 I. Bugar ; M. Longobucco ; J. Cimek ; L. Curilla ; D. Pysz ; R. Buczynski

OPTICAL MODES IN MONOLITHIC HIGH CONTRAST GRATINGS ...... 451 Maciej Dems ; Marcin Gebski ; Tomasz Czyszanowski

SINGLE- AND DOUBLE-MODE LIGHT GENERATION IN DFB FIBER LASER: WAVELENGTH-SCALE ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELLING BY THE METHOD OF SINGLE EXPRESSION...... 455 Hovik Baghdasaryan ; Tamara Knyazyan ; Tamara Hovhannisyan ; Erich Leitgeb ; Slawomir Sujecki ; Stefano Taccheo ; Trevor Benson

OPTICAL WHITE BOX: MODELING AND IMPLEMENTATION...... 462 P. Castoldi ; A. Giorgetti ; A. Sgambelluri ; G. Cecchetti ; A. Ruscelli ; N. Sambo ; F. Paolucci ; A. Morea ; I. Cerutti ; F. Cugini

ZERO-TOUCH NETWORK SLICING THROUGH MULTI-DOMAIN TRANSPORT NETWORKS ...... 466 Ricard Vilalta ; Pol Alemany ; Ramon Casellas ; Ricardo Martínez ; Carlos Parada ; José Bonnet ; Felipe Vicens ; Raul Muñoz

NETWORK-LEVEL STRATEGIES FOR BEST USE OF OPTICAL FUNCTIONALITIES ...... 470 Artur Minakhmetov ; Hussein Chouman ; Luigi Iannone ; Mounia Lourdiane ; Cédric Ware

OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS FOR PROGRAMMABLE S-BVT ...... 474 Michela Svaluto Moreolo ; Josep M. Fàbrega ; Laia Nadal ; Laura Martín

OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEMS IN DISAGGREGATED OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 478 Josep M. Fàbrega ; Michela Svaluto Moreolo ; Laia Nadal

VARIABLE DATA RATE FOR FREE SPACE OPTICAL LOW EARTH ORBIT DOWNLINKS (OLEODL) ...... 482 Amita Shrestha ; Dirk Giggenbach ; Norbert Hanik

SIMULATION AND MEASUREMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC EFFECT ON OPTICAL BEAM ...... 486 Jan Latal ; Jan Vitasek ; Marian Bojko ; Jan Skrinsky ; Tomas Stratil ; Zdenek Wilcek ; Jakub Kolar

A SIMPLE USER GROUPING AND PAIRING SCHEME FOR NON-ORTHOGONAL MULTIPLE ACCESS IN VLC SYSTEM ...... 493 Esam M. Almohimmah ; Mohammed T. Alresheedi ; Ahmad F. Abas ; Jaafar Elmirghani

CASTOR: A MONITORING AND DATA ANALYTICS ARCHITECTURE TO SUPPORT AUTONOMIC DOMAIN AND SLICE NETWORKING...... 497 Lluís Gifre ; Marc Ruiz ; Luis Velasco

MAXIMIZING THE CAPACITY OF INSTALLED OPTICAL FIBER INFRASTRUCTURE VIA WIDEBAND TRANSMISSION ...... 501 Johannes K. Fischer ; Mattia Cantono ; Vittorio Curri ; Ralf-Peter Braun ; Nelson Costa ; João Pedro ; Erwan Pincemin ; Philippe Doaré ; Claude Le Bouëtté ; Antonio Napoli

NET2PLAN-GIS: AN OPEN-SOURCE NET2PLAN EXTENSION INTEGRATING GIS DATA FOR 5G NETWORK PLANNING...... 505 J. L. Romero-Gázquez ; M. V. Bueno-Delgado ; F. J. Moreno-Muro ; P. Pavon-Marino

TAPERED OPTICAL FIBERS FOR OPTOGENETICS: RAY TRACING MODELING...... 509 Emanuela Maglie ; Marco Pisanello ; Filippo Pisano ; Elisa Bellistri ; Leonardo Sileo ; Massimo De Vittorio ; Ferruccio Pisanello

OPTICAL APPROACHES TO STUDY CELL INVASIVENESS: FROM 2 PHOTON LITHOGRAPHY TO OPTOGENETICS...... 514 Barbara Spagnolo ; Marco Pisanello ; Leonardo Sileo ; Filippo Pisano ; Ferruccio Pisanello ; Massimo De Vittorio

AL2O3MICRORESONATOR BASED PASSIVE AND ACTIVE BIOSENSORS ...... 518 Michiel De Goede ; Lantian Chang ; Meindert Dijkstra ; Raquel Obregón ; Javier Ramón-Azcón ; Elena Martínez ; Laura Padilla ; Jaume Adan ; Francesc Mitjans ; Sonia M. García-Blanco

GEOMETRICAL-OPTICS BASED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY...... 522 M. Marsan ; M. Lucidi ; G. Cincotti

METHODS AND APPLICATIONS OF NEAR-FIELD SUBSURFACE DIAGNOSTICS ...... 523 Konstantin P. Gaikovich

PROGRAMMABLE TRANSFER FUNCTION OPTICAL-DAC USING AN INP SEGMENTED MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR...... 527 Alessandro Aimone ; Stefanos Dris ; Jan Sundermeyer ; Jung Han Choi ; Conrad Zerna ; Andre Richter ; Karl- Otto Velthaus

OPEN INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT FOR PHOTONIC INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY: A PRACTICAL CASE OF RF INTERCONNECTS...... 531 Victor Dolores-Calzadilla ; Weiming Yao ; Tjibbe De Vries ; Kevin Williams

INP-ON-SILICON ELECTRONICALLY TUNABLE LASERS...... 535 Soren Dhoore ; Gunther Roelkens ; Geert Morthier

CAVITY-RESONATOR-INTEGRATED GUIDED-MODE RESONANCE FILTERS FOR COMPACT WDM LIGHT SOURCE...... 539 Junichi Inoue ; Shogo Ura ; Kenji Kintaka

AUTOMATIC CONFIGURATION AND WAVELENGTH LOCKING OF COUPLED MICRO- RING RESONATORS IN PRESENCE OF THERMAL CROSS-TALK ...... 543 Maziyar Milanizadeh ; Douglas Aguiar ; Francesco Morichetti ; Andrea Melloni

WHICH COMPUTATIONAL METHODS ARE GOOD FOR ANALYZING LARGE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MEMBRANE CAVITIES? ...... 547 Radu Malureanu ; Jakob Rosenkrantz De Lasson ; Lars Hagedorn Frandsen ; Philipp Gutsche ; Sven Burger ; Oleksiy S. Kim ; Olav Breinbjerg ; Aliaksandra Ivinskaya ; Fengwen Wang ; Ole Sigmund ; Teppo Hayrynen ; Andrei Lavrinenko ; Jesper Mork ; Niels Gregersen

FINITE-SIZE AND DISORDER EFFECTS ON SLOW-LIGHT PROPAGATION IN AN EXTENDED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL COUPLED-CAVITY WAVEGUIDES WITH GROUP-INDEX BANDWIDTH PRODUCT EXCEEDING 0.47 ...... 551 Mohamed Sabry Abdel-Aliem ; Yiming Lai ; Momchil Minkov ; Vincenzo Savona ; Antonio Badolato ; Romuald Houdré

FANO RESONANCES FOR REALIZING COMPACT AND LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION PHOTONIC SWITCHES ...... 552 Dagmawi A. Bekele ; Yi Yu ; Hao Hu ; Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe ; Kresten Yvind ; Jesper Mork

40 GB/S SECURE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BASED ON OPTICAL CODE TECHNOLOGY ...... 556 Xu Wang ; Zhensen Gao ; Bo Dai ; Gerald Buller

INTENSITY JITTER SUPPRESSION AND QUANTUM FLUCTUATION FOR RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT IN PHOTONIC ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION...... 560 Tsuyoshi Konishi ; Yu Yamasaki

A PLUG-AND-PLAY SYNCHRONISATION SCHEME FOR QUANTUM NETWORKS ...... 564 B. Fedrici ; L. A. Ngah ; O. Alibart ; F. Kaiser ; L. Labonté ; V. D’auria ; S. Tanzilli

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF NETCONF-BASED LOW LATENCY CROSS-CONNECT FOR 5G C-RAN ARCHITECTURES ...... 568 B. Andrus ; A. Autenrieth ; S. Pachnicke ; S. Zou ; J. J. V. Olmos ; I. T. Monroy

A C-RAN BASED 5G PLATFORM WITH A FULLY VIRTUALIZED, SDN CONTROLLED OPTICAL/WIRELESS FRONTHAUL...... 573 Kostas Ramantas ; Angelos Antonopoulos ; Elli Kartsakli ; Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis ; John Vardakas ; Christos Verikoukis

MEDIUM-TRANSPARENT PACKET-BASED FRONTHAULING FOR 5G HOT-SPOT NETWORKS...... 577 G. Kalfas ; P. Maniotis ; A. Mesodiakaki ; S. Papaioannou ; Ch. Vagionas ; M. Gatzianas ; E. Kartsakli ; J. Vardakas

OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORK SOLUTIONS FOR 5G FRONTHAUL...... 581 F. Ponzini ; K. Kondepu ; F. Giannone ; P. Castoldi ; L. Valcarenghi

MILLIMETER-WAVE REAL-TIME ALL-DIGITAL TRANSMITTER WITH ELECTRO- OPTICAL UPCONVERSION...... 586 Samuel S. Pereira ; Abel Lorences-Riesgo ; Daniel C. Dinis ; Arnaldo S. R. Oliveira ; Jose N. Vieira ; Paulo P. Monteiro

MAKE-BEFORE-BREAK WAVELENGTH DEFRAGMENTATION ...... 590 Brigitte Jaumard ; Hamed Pouya ; David Coudert

ANTICIPATING BER DEGRADATION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 595 Alba P. Vela ; Marc Ruiz ; Luis Velasco

OPTIMIZING BACKUP FIBERS IN PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 599 Mateusz Zotkiewicz

SOFT FAILURE LOCALIZATION IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 603 Alba P. Vela ; Behnam Shariati ; Marc Ruiz ; Jaume Comellas ; Luis Velasco

IMPACT OF SELECTED INPUT FEATURES FOR LIGHTPATH FEASIBILITY VALIDATION USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS...... 607 Rui Manuel Morais ; Joao Pedro

LIGHT CONFINEMENT IN RESONATORS BASED ON BLOCH SURFACE WAVES...... 611 D. Aurelio ; T. Perani ; M. Liscidini

POLYMERIC STRIP TO DOUBLE SLOT WAVEGUIDE COUPLER ...... 614 Jozef Chovan ; František Uherek

OPTICAL SENSING DEVICE THROUGH MONITORING CUT-OFF WAVELENGTH OF ASYMMETRIC TRANSMISSION...... 618 Nazmi Yilmaz ; Ahmet Ozer ; Fehim T. Bagci ; Osman O. Kilic ; Tolga Yildirim ; Aytekin Ozdemir ; Hasan Kocer ; Hamza Kurt

TEST METHODS AND PROCESSES IN MANUFACTURING CHAIN OF PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS...... 622 Dzmitry Pustakhod ; Weiming Yao

FABRICATION OF MONOLITHIC ADD-DROP FILTERS IN PURE SILICA BY FEMTOSECOND LASER WRITING ...... 626 P.V.S. Marques ; Vítor A. Amorim ; João M. Maia ; D. Alexandre ; D. Viveiros

THERMALLY STABLE EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER BASED ON SILICON NITRIDE PERIODIC NANOSTRUCTURES...... 630 S. Iadanza ; A. Bakoz ; D. Panettieri ; A. Tedesco ; G. Giannino ; M. Grande ; L. O’Faolain

SILICON-ON-INSULATOR FUNDAMENTAL TO FIRST-ORDER DUAL POLARIZATION MODE CONVERTER BASED ON SI-SI3N4 PHASE PLATE WAVEGUIDE ...... 634 Basma E. Abu-Elmaaty ; Mohammed S. Sayed ; Hossam M. H. Shalaby ; Ramesh K. Pokharel ; Anand Srivastava

ALL DIELECTRIC MODE ORDER TRANSFORMATION PHOTONIC STRUCTURE DESIGN BY EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION APPROACH...... 638 E. Bor ; C. Babayigit ; H. Kurt ; M. Turduev

DIRECTIONAL CLOAKING BY QUADRUPLE LUNEBURG LENS SYSTEM ...... 642 Aydin S. Evren ; C. Babayigit ; E. Bor ; H. Kurt ; M. Turduev

OPTIMIZATION OF EPSILON-AND-MU-NEAR-ZERO REFRACTIVE INDEX PHOTONIC STRUCTURE TO DESIGN UNIDIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE ...... 646 M. Turduev ; E. Bor ; U. G. Yasa ; H. Kurt

LP11 EXCITATION USING ASYMMETRIC DIRECTIONAL COUPLER BASED ON MICROSTRUCTURED CANE ...... 650 Marwa Sammouda ; Faouzi Bahloul ; Philippe Di Bin ; Kyunghwan Oh

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD DROP MULTIPLEXER DESIGN FOR HIGH-ORDER REGULAR AND OFFSET-QAM SIGNALS...... 654 Kyriakos Vlachos ; Filipe Ferreira ; Stelios Sygletos

ANTI-ALIASING AND DATA COMPRESSING TECHNIQUE FOR TIME-STRETCH IMAGING SYSTEM...... 658 Bo Dai

FBG-BASED MULTIDIMENSIONAL QKD ...... 662 Ivan B. Djordjevic

FPGA IMPLEMENTATION OF REAL-TIME SECURE OFDM TRANSMISSION USING DIGITAL CHAOS...... 667 Ying Wang ; Xuelin Yang ; Weisheng Hu

MULTI-FOLD PHYSICAL LAYER DATA ENCRYPTION USING CHAOTIC FREQUENCY HOPPING ...... 671 Cong Geng ; Xuelin Yang ; Weiqiang Sun ; Weisheng Hu

INTER-CORE CROSSTALK DEPENDENCE ON DESIGN PARAMETERS IN COHERENT DETECTION WEAKLY-COUPLED MULTICORE FIBER SYSTEMS ...... 675 Bruno R. P. Pinheiro ; João L. Rebola ; Adolfo V. T. Cartaxo

DESTINATION CONFLICTS DECREASE IN HIGH-CAPACITY OPTICAL LANS...... 679 Peristera Baziana

OPTIMAL DESIGN OF 5G NETWORKS IN RURAL ZONES WITH UAVS, OPTICAL RINGS, SOLAR PANELS AND BATTERIES...... 683 Luca Chiaraviglio ; Lavinia Amorosi ; Nicola Blefari-Melazzi ; Paolo Dell’olmo ; Carlos Natalino ; Paolo Monti

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR AN ENERGY-AWARE SDN-BASED ARCHITECTURE IN 5G EPON NODES ...... 687 Hamzeh Khalili ; Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas ; David Rincon ; Shuaib Siddiqui ; Jose Ramon Piney ; Sebastia Sallent

MODELS FOR EVALUATING POWER SAVING TECHNIQUES IN FLEXIBLE OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS...... 691 Sukriti Garg ; Abhishek Dixit

LONG WAVELENGTH VCSELS EXPLOITATION FOR LOW-COST AND LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION METRO AND ACCESS NETWORKS...... 695 Paola Parolari ; Alberto Gatto

ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF SERVER-CENTRIC PON DATA CENTER ARCHITECTURE FOR FOG COMPUTING ...... 699 Sanaa Hamid Mohamed ; Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi ; Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF FOG COMPUTING HEALTH MONITORING APPLICATIONS...... 703 Ida Syafiza M. Isa ; Mohamed O. I. Musa ; Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi ; Ahmed Q. Lawey ; Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

ENERGY EFFICIENT SERVICE DISTRIBUTION IN INTERNET OF THINGS...... 708 Barzan Yosuf ; Mohamed Musa ; Taisir Elgorashi ; Ahmed Q. Lawey ; J. M. H. Elmirghani

GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR EFFECTIVE SERVICE MAPPING IN THE OPTICAL BACKHAUL OF 5G NETWORKS ...... 712 L. Ruiz ; R. J. Durán ; I. De Miguel ; P. S. Khodashenas ; J.-J. Pedreno-Manresa ; N. Merayo ; J. C. Aguado ; P. Pavon-Marino ; S. Siddiqui ; J. Mata ; P. Fernández ; R. M. Lorenzo ; E. J. Abril

DISTRIBUTED LOCATION ALGORITHMS FOR FLEXIBLE BBU HOTEL PLACEMENT IN C- RAN ...... 716 Carla Raffaelli ; Bahare M. Khorsandi ; Federico Tonini

METRO-FLOW TRAFFIC MODELLING FOR COGNITIVE ADAPTATION OF CORE VIRTUAL NETWORK TOPOLOGIES ...... 720 Fernando Morales ; Marc Ruiz ; Luis Velasco

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF THE VNT RECONFIGURATION ALGORITHM BASED ON TRAFFIC PREDICTION ...... 724 F. Morales ; P. Festa ; M. Ruiz ; L. Velasco

COMBINING ELECTRONIC LAYER PROTECTION AND PRE-PLANNED OPTICAL RESTORATION FOR IMPROVED AND RESOURCE-EFFICIENT RELIABILITY...... 728 Zhen Lu ; Ali Shakeri ; Miguel Razo ; Marco Tacca ; Andrea Fumagalli ; Gabriele Maria Galimberti ; Giovanni Martinelli

AN IMPROVED ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR THE ESTIMATION OF BLOCKING PROBABILITY IN WDM NETWORKS WITH FIRST-FIT WAVELENGTH ASSIGNMENT...... 732 Tianliang Zhang ; Azadeh Samadian ; Ali Shakeri ; Miguel Razo ; Marco Tacca ; Andrea Fumagalli

INITIAL INVESTIGATION FOR THE FABRICATION OF HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS BASED ON ULTRA-THIN AU LAYERS...... 737 Johneph Sukham ; Osamu Takayama ; Andrei Lavrinenko ; Radu Malureanu

CONTROLLING THE NEAR-FIELD OF METASURFACES FOR FREE-ELECTRON MULTI- HARMONIC HARD X-RAY GENERATION...... 741 Gilles Rosolen ; Liang Jie Wong ; Nicholas Rivera ; Bjorn Maes ; Marin Soljacic ; Ido Kaminer

HARMONIC GENERATION IN SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES WITH APPLICATIONS FROM THE 100 GHZ TO THE 1 THZ RANGE ...... 745 M. F. Pereira ; V. Anfertev ; V. Vaks

DIFFERENTIAL CHARGE CARRIER LIFETIME INVESTIGATED IN A BLUE INGAN LED AT OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS...... 747 R. Tomašiunas ; I. Reklaitis ; L. Krencius ; P. Vitta ; S. Karpov ; H. J. Lugauer ; M. Strassburg

OFF-AXIS VORTEX BEAMS DIFFRACTED BY A CIRCULAR GRATING ...... 751 Dmitry Savelyev ; Andrey V. Ustinov

NONRADIATIVE ENERGY TRANSFER AND PHOTOCURRENT ENHANCEMENTS IN HYBRID QUANTUM DOT-MOS2 DEVICES...... 755 John J. Gough ; Niall Mcevoy ; Maria O'Brien ; Alan P. Bell ; John Mcmanus ; David Mccloskey ; John B. Boland ; Jonathan N. Coleman ; Georg S. Duesberg ; A. Louise Bradley

SPIN-ORBIT INTERACTION AND PHONON-MEDIATED SPIN DYNAMICS IN QUANTUM DOTS ...... 759 M. J. Vaughan

LOCALIZED PHOTONIC JETS GENERATED BY STEP-LIKE DIELECTRIC MICROSTRUCTURES ...... 760 V. Drazic ; M. Damghanian ; V. Allie ; L. Blonde

ULTRAFAST NANOOPTICAL NEAR-FIELD PROBING WITH PHOTOELECTRONS...... 764 Peter Dombi

LABEL-FREE SUPER-RESOLUTION MICROSCOPY WITH COHERENT NONLINEAR STRUCTURED-ILLUMINATION...... 767 Mikko J. Huttunen ; Aazad Abbas ; Jeremy Upham ; Robert W. Boyd

COHERENT RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY: TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS AND BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS ...... 771 I. Pope ; F. Masia ; J. Bradley ; K. Ewan ; A. Karuna ; L. Payne ; I. Guschina ; J. Harwood ; K. Swann ; T. Dale ; P. Watson ; W. Langbein ; P. Borri

STIMULATED RAMAN IMAGING OF LIPIDS DROPLETS...... 775 Maria Antonietta Ferrara ; Angela Filograna ; Annalisa D’arco ; Rajeev Ranjan ; Carmen Valente ; Michele Larobina ; Luigi Sirleto

LABEL FREE SUPER-RESOLUTION BY NONLINEAR PHOTO-MODULATED REFLECTIVITY ...... 779 O. Tzang ; D. Hershkovitz ; O. Cheshnovsky

OPTIMIZATION OF SILICON-NITRIDE-BASED NANOWIRES IN NONLINEAR MACH- ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS ...... 780 G. Giannino ; A. Tedesco ; A. D'orazio ; L. O'Faolain ; M. Grande

STABILIZATION OF BROAD AREA SEMICONDUCTOR LASER SOURCES...... 784 J. Medina ; W. W. Ahmed ; S. Kumar ; M. Botey ; R. Herrero ; K. Staliunas

PASSIVE PHASE SHIFTERS BASED IN 1×1 MMI FOR COST-EFFECTIVE PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS...... 787 T. M. Morgado ; B. Neto ; C. M. S. Vicente ; C. Pinho ; A. L. J. Teixeira

SOFTWARE TOOL TO DESIGN MMI SPLITTERS/COUPLERS FOR PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS...... 791 Tiago M. Morgado ; Cátia Pinho ; Berta Neto ; Francisco Rodrigues ; António Teixeira

COST-EFFECTIVE MAGIC-T USING ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS FOR IMAGE COMPRESSION...... 794 Tiago M. Morgado ; Berta Neto ; Cátia Pinho ; Carlos M Vicente ; António Teixeira

FLUORESCENT FIBER IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ANGLE SENSOR...... 798 Paul Faragó ; Ramona Galatus ; Mihaela Cîrlugea ; Sorin Hintea

EFFECT OF MODIFIERS ON OPTICAL AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF BARIUM GALLO-GERMANATE GLASSES DOPED WITH RE IONS ...... 802 R. Jadach ; M. Kochanowicz ; J. Zmojda ; A. Baranowska ; P. Miluski ; M. Lesniak ; M. Soltys ; J. Pisarska ; W. A. Pisarski ; A. Lukowiak ; M. Sitarz ; L. Mochalov ; A. Nezhdanov ; M. Ferrari ; G. Righini ; D. Dorosz

PLASMA PREPARATION OF THE TOP-QUALITY PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS BASED ON AS-SE-TE CHALCOGENIDE SYSTEM...... 806 Aleksey Nezhdanov ; Leonid Mochalov ; Dmitry Usanov ; Mikhail Kudryashov ; Alexander Logunov

PLASMA PREPARED ARSENIC SULFIDE LUMINESCENT QUANTUM DOTS...... 810 Aleksey Nezhdanov ; Leonid Mochalov ; Alexander Logunov ; Mikhail Kudryashov ; Dmitry Usanov ; Ivan Krivenkov

DISPERSION MEASUREMENT OF PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER INFILTRATED WITH TOLUENE...... 813 Van Thuy Hoang ; Rafal Kasztelanic ; Alicja Anuszkiewicz ; Grzegorz Stepniewski ; Adam Filipkowski ; Slawomir Ertman ; Van Cao Long ; Khoa Dinh Xuan ; Ryszard Buczynski

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ALL-SOLID DUAL-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRE FOR ALL- OPTICAL SWITCHING APPLICATIONS ...... 816 M. Longobucco ; J. Cimek ; L. Curilla ; D. Pysz ; R. Buczynski ; I. Bugar

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND BIOSENSING-APPLICATIONS OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES – EXPERIMENTS FOR PHOTONICS AND OTHER NON-CHEMISTRY CURRICULA IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF ENGINEERS...... 820 Hongyan Bi ; Silvia Schintke

SIMULATION OF TIGHT FOCUSING OF LASER LIGHT BY GOLD ZONE PLATE...... 824 Elena S. Kozlova ; Victor V. Kotlyar

ANALYSIS OF THE CONSERVATION OF THE ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF MULTIMODE LAGUERRE-GAUSSIAN BEAMS PROPAGATING IN A RANDOM MEDIUM...... 828 Evgeny O. Monin ; Dmitry A. Savelyev

ENERGY BACKFLOW IN TIGHTLY FOCUSED OPTICAL VORTEX...... 832 S. S. Stafeev ; A.G. Nalimov ; V. V. Kotlyar

VERTICAL PLASMONIC NANOANTENNA FOR EMISSION AND REDIRECTION...... 835 J.M. Benoit ; J. Paparone ; K. Chevrier ; C. Symonds ; J. Laverdant ; J. Bellessa

ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF PLASTICIZED SODIUM-CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE (NACMC) BASED POLYSULFIDE SOLID POLYMER ELECTROLYTE ...... 838 N. N. S. Baharun ; M. A. Mingsukang ; M. H. Buraidah ; H. J. Woo ; A. K. Arof

HIGHLY ANISOTROPIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN ALL-DIELECTRIC ACTIVE WAVEGUIDES ...... 842 Carlos Díaz Aviñó ; Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez ; Isaac Suarez ; Juan P. Martínez-Pastor

GENERAL EXPRESSION OF THE POYNTING VECTOR APPROPRIATE FOR EVANESCENT WAVE REGION: INTRINSIC FUNCTION IN THE METHOD OF SINGLE EXPRESSION ...... 844 Hovik Baghdasaryan ; Tamara Knyazyan ; Tamara Hovhannisyan

FABRICATION OF DOUBLY-CORRUGATED ZERO-CONTRAST-GRATING FOR BROADBAND PIXELATED FILTERING IN THE MID-IR RANGE ...... 849 Léopold Macé ; Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye ; Antoine Monmayrant ; Henri Camon ; Pascal Dubreuil ; Laurent Mazenq ; Meihdi Oussalah ; Adrien Hervy ; Fabien Pradal ; Hervé Leplan

REAL-TIME MEASUREMENTS OF ULTRAFAST INSTABILITIES IN NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS: RECENT ADVANCES ...... 852 John M. Dudley ; Mikko Nahri ; Piotr Ryczkowski ; Cyril Billet ; Jean-Marc Merolla ; Goery Genty ; Pierre- Ambroise Lacourt

OPTIMAL SWITCHING OPERATION OF PT-SYMMETRIC DIMMERS WITH NONUNIFORM GAIN/LOSS AND COUPLING PROFILES...... 853 Anatole Lupu ; Vladimir V. Konotop ; Henri Benisty

TRANSFORMING THE FIBER-OPTIC NETWORK INTO A DENSE AND ULTRASENSITIVE SEISMIC SENSOR ARRAY ...... 857 Andres Garcia-Ruiz ; Regina Magalhães ; Luis Costa ; Francisco J. Cobo ; Hugo F. Martins ; María R. Fernández-Ruiz ; Sonia Martin-Lopez ; Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez

THE FIBER-WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM FOR TEMPERATURE MONITORING USING SAGNAC-LOOP INTERFEROMETER...... 861 Mateusz Madry ; Pawel Bak ; Damian Kowalczyk ; Elzbieta Beres-Pawlik

END-TO-END 5G SERVICE DEPLOYMENT AND ORCHESTRATION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH QOE GUARANTEES ...... 865 Rafael Montero ; Fernando Agraz ; Albert Pagès ; Salvatore Spadaro

TESTING FACILITIES FOR END-TO-END TEST OF VERTICAL APPLICATIONS ENABLED BY 5G NETWORKS: EINDHOVEN 5G BRAINPORT TESTBED...... 869 Idelfonso Tafur Monroy ; Thiago R. Raddo ; Simon Rommel ; Chigo Okonkwo ; Nicola Calabretta ; Ulf Johannsen ; Gijs Dubbelman ; Jesse Scholtes ; Ben Rutten

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SERVICE FUNCTION CHAINING (SFC) AND NETWORK SLICING IN BACKHAUL AND METRO NETWORKS IN SUPPORT OF 5G ...... 874 Adrian Farrel

OPTICAL FRONTHAUL OPTIONS FOR MEETING 5G REQUIREMENTS...... 878 Philippos Assimakopoulos

PLANNING OF RESILIENT OFDM-PON IN SUPPORT OF 5G BACKHAUL ...... 882 Yejun Liu ; Lei Guo

MULTIDIMENSIONAL MULTIPLEXING IN MULTICORE FIBRE FOR HYBRID OPTICAL BACKHAUL PROVISION: THE XCORE APPROACH ...... 886 Roberto Llorente ; Maria Morant ; Julián S. Bruno ; Vicenç Almenar ; Juan Luis Corral ; José M. Fuster ; Javier Valls

DESIGN TRADE-OFFS OF HIGH-SPEED ENERGY-EFFICIENT MODULATORS FOR SHORT- RANGE OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS ...... 890 R. Hosseini ; N. K. Kamutam ; M. Catuneanu ; K. Jamshidi

APPLICATION OF ALL-OPTICAL MEMORY FOR ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS IN COMMUNICATION INTRA-DATACENTER NETWORKS (INTRA-DCNS) ...... 896 Y. Ben Ezra ; B.I. Lembrikov

SUB-µS LATENCY HIGH-PORT OPTICAL PACKET SWITCH FABRICS FOR DISAGGREGATED COMPUTING: THE HIPOλAOS OPS ARCHITECTURE ...... 900 M. Moralis-Pegios ; N. Terzenidis ; G. Mourgias-Alexandris ; K. Vyrsokinos ; N. Pleros

SHORT REACH OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS WITH SINGLE EXTERNALLY MODULATED LASER OPERATED IN C-BAND ...... 904 O. Ozolins ; Xiaodan Pang ; A. Udalcovs ; Lu Zhang ; R. Schatz ; U. Westergren ; G. Jacobsen ; S. Popov ; Jiajia Chen

CLOAKING ON DEMAND BASED ON SCATTERING CANCELATION...... 905 Z. Hayran ; R. Herrero ; M. Botey ; H. Kurt ; K. Staliunas

ALL-DIELECTRIC METASURFACES AS AN EFFICIENT TOOL FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES MANIPULATION...... 909 Andrey Sayanskiy ; Mikhail Odit ; Andrey Miroshnichenko ; Andrey Lavrinenko ; Pavel Belov

LIGHT MANIPULATIONS WITH METASURFACES IN VISIBLE AND INFRARED SPECTRUM: ASYMMETRIC TRANSMISSION AND TUNABILITY WITH PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS...... 912 Hamza Kurt ; Ahmet Ozer ; Hasan Kocer

TAILORING DISORDERED STRUCTURES FOR LIGHT MANAGEMENT...... 916 Aimi Abass ; Stefan Nanz ; Peter M. Piechulla ; Alexander Sprafke ; Ralph B. Wehrspohn ; Carsten Rockstuhl

EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS FOR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SHORT PERIOD SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES...... 920 M. F. Pereira

PROGRESS ON III-V-BI ALLOYS AND LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES...... 922 Li Yue ; Lijuan Wang ; Yanchao Zhang ; Chang Wang ; Xiaolei Zhang ; Chaodan Chi ; Hao Liang ; Xiaoyan Wu ; Juanjuan Liu ; Wenwu Pan ; Chunfang Cao ; Yaoyao Li

VCSEL-BASED OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS: STUDY OF ITS POLARIZATION DYNAMICS UNDER GAIN SWITCHING AND POLARIZATION SELECTIVE OPTICAL INJECTION LOCKING...... 926 A. Quirce ; C. De Dios ; A. Valle ; E. Prior ; L. Pesquera ; K. Panajotov ; J. Palací ; P. Meissner ; P. Acedo

QUANTUM-CASCADE VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASER (QC-VCSEL) ...... 930 Wlodzimierz Nakwaski ; Maciej Dems ; Robert P. Sarzala ; Sandra Grzempa ; Tomasz Czyszanowski

ANTIRESONANT OXIDE ISLAND AS A MEASURE FOR IMPROVED SINGLE-MODE EMISSION IN VCSELS ...... 933 Marta Wieckowska ; Tomasz Czyszanowski ; Guilhem Almuneau ; Maciej Dems

MODES DISTRIBUTION IN QUANTUM-CASCADE VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE- EMITTING LASER (VCSEL) ...... 937 Sandra Grzempa ; Wlodzimierz Nakwaski ; Maciej Dems ; Tomasz Czyszanowski

IMAGING AND TRACKING SINGLE PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES IN 3D BACKGROUND- FREE WITH FOUR-WAVE MIXING INTERFEROMETRY...... 941 P. Borri ; G. Zoriniants ; N. Giannakopoulou ; F. Masia ; I. Pope ; W. Langbein

SYSTEMATIC WAVELENGTH-SCALE ERRORS IN THE LOCALIZATION OF NANOSCALE EMITTERS DUE TO SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING OF LIGHT ...... 945 Jürgen Volz ; Stefan Walser ; Gabriel Araneda ; Yves Colombe ; Daniel B. Higginbottom ; Rainer Blatt ; Arno Rauschenbeutel

INTEGRATED DIELECTRIC SCATTERERS FOR SPEEDING UP CLASSIFICATION OF CELL DIFFRACTION PATTERNS...... 947 Alessio Lugnan ; Joni Dambre ; Peter Bienstman

RECENT ADVANCES IN DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC MICROSCOPY ...... 951 Genaro Saavedra ; Manuel Martinez-Corral ; Jorge I. Garcia-Sucerquia ; Emilio Sanchez-Ortiga ; Ana Doblas

ISOTROPIC-RESOLUTION TOMOGRAPHIC DIFFRACTIVE MICROSCOPY ...... 955 Matthieu Debailleul ; Mounir Houkal ; Carole Ecoffet ; Jonathan Bailleul ; Joël Lambert ; Arnaud Spangenberg ; Hui Liu ; Olivier Soppera ; Olivier Haeberlé

HIGH-FRAME-RATE SINGLE-SHOT SPECTRUM MEASUREMENT FOR ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PULSES BASED ON OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ...... 959 Naoya Wada ; Hideaki Furukawa ; Jose Manuel Delgado Miendinueta

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF RESONANT TUNNELLING DIODE OSCILLATORS EMPLOYING ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS...... 963 J. S. Tavares ; L. M. Pessoa ; H. M. Salgado

A HYBRID METHOD FOR SOLVING SCATTERING PROBLEMS BY COMPLEX BODIES...... 967 Anthony Gourdin ; Patrice Genevet ; Didier Felbacq

GUIDED MODES IN PERIODICAL ARRAYS OF WAVEGUIDES...... 970 A.A. Anastasiev ; A.L. Burin ; M.I. Gozman ; I. Ya. Polishchuk ; Yu. I. Polishchuk ; E.A. Tsyvkunova

WAVEGUIDE SHAPE MODELLING AND OPTIMIZATION FOR HIGH CHANNEL Y-BRANCH SPLITTER IN OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS ...... 973 C. Burtscher ; M. Lucki ; D. Seyringer

ENCAPSULATION TECHNIQUES AND TRAFFIC CHARACTERISATION OF AN ETHERNET- BASED 5G FRONTHAUL ...... 977 F. Civerchia ; F. Giannone ; S. Doddikrinda

DIMENSIONING OF OTN/WDM RINGS FOR THE TRANSPORT OF ETHERNET/CPRI FLOWS IN 5G SCENARIO...... 982 V. Eramo ; M. Listanti ; F.G. Lavacca ; P. Iovanna

SURVIVABLE BBU PLACEMENT FOR C-RAN OVER OPTICAL AGGREGATION NETWORKS...... 988 Mohamed Shehata ; Omran Ayoub ; Francesco Musumeci ; Massimo Tornatore

A LOW-LATENCY TRAFFIC ESTIMATION BASED TDM-PON MOBILE FRONT-HAUL FOR SMALL CELL CLOUD-RAN EMPLOYING FEED-FORWARD ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK...... 992 Ahmed Mohammed Mikaeil ; Weisheng Hu ; Syed Baqar Hussain

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF HYBRID WDM/SDM SIGNAL DELIVERY FOR MOBILE FRONTHAUL OVER PONS USING SDN-ENABLED SLICEABLE BITRATE VARIABLE TRANSCEIVERS...... 996 Josep M. Fabrega ; Laia Nadal ; Ramon Casellas ; Michela Svaluto Moreolo ; F. Javier Vílchez ; Ricard Vilalta ; Ricardo Martínez ; Raul Muñoz ; Salvador Sales ; Ivana Gasulla ; José Capmany

TRANSMISSION OF CPRI SIGNALS ALONG WEAKLY-COUPLED MULTICORE FIBERS FOR SUPPORT OF 5G NETWORKS...... 1000 André S. Marques ; João L. Rebola ; Adolfo V.T. Cartaxo

CLASSES OF SERVICE DEFINED BY SOFT TRUNK RESERVATION TECHNIQUE IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS ...... 1004 Luiz Henrique Bonani Henrique Bonani ; Joel Carlos Farias De Queiroz ; Mauricio Antonio Deffert

PERIODIC DEFRAGMENTATION IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1008 Jaume Comellas ; Laura Vicario ; Gabriel Junyent

NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION AWARE OFFLINE EMBEDDING PROBLEM USING SQUATTING-KICKING STRATEGY FOR ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1012 Ahmed El-Mekkawi ; Xavier Hesselbach ; Jose Ramon Piney

OPTICAL RAM AND OPTICAL CAM ARCHITECTURES FOR DISINTEGRATED COMPUTING AND HIGH-SPEED ROUTING APPLICATIONS...... 1022 Theoni Alexoudi ; Christos Vagionas ; Pavlos Maniotis ; Amalia Miliou

SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR QUALITY OF TRANSMISSION ASSESSMENT IN OPTICAL NETWORKS ...... 1026 Javier Mata ; Ignacio De Miguel ; Ramón J. Durán ; Juan Carlos Aguado ; Noemí Merayo ; Lidia Ruiz ; Patricia Fernández ; Rubén M. Lorenzo ; Evaristo J. Abril ; Ioannis Tomkos

THE ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF LIGHT FOR ULTRA-HIGH CAPACITY DATA CENTERS ...... 1030 Mirco Scaffardi ; Muhamad N. Malik ; Jiangbo Zhu ; Gernot Goeger ; Ning Zhang ; Charalambos Klitis ; Yabin Ye ; Piotr Rydlichowski ; Veronica Toccafondo ; Martin Lavery ; Nicola Andriolli ; Siyuan Yu ; Marc Sorel ; Antonella Bogoni

DIRECT-DETECTION SINGLE-SIDEBAND SYSTEMS: PERFORMANCE COMPARISON AND PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION PENALTIES ...... 1034 Dario Pilori ; Roberto Gaudino

ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF NETWORKS FOR COMPOSABLE DATACENTRE INFRASTRUCTURES...... 1038 Opeyemi O. Ajibola ; Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi ; Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK BASED DATA CENTRE ARCHITECTURE...... 1043 Azza E. A. Eltraify ; Mohamed O. I. Musa ; Ahmed Al-Quzweeni ; Jaafar M.H. Elmirghani

NEPHELE: VERTICAL INTEGRATION AND REAL-TIME DEMONSTRATION OF AN OPTICAL DATACENTER NETWORK ...... 1047 Christos Spatharakis ; Konstantinos Tokas ; Ioannis Patronas ; Paraskevas Bakopoulos ; Dionysios Reisis ; Hercules Avramopoulos

STABILIZATION OF BROAD AREA SEMICONDUCTOR AMPLIFIERS AND LASERS BY DOUBLE MODULATION OF PUMP AND REFRACTIVE INDEX...... 1051 Waqas W. Ahmed ; Shubham Kumar ; Judith Medina ; Muriel Botey ; Ramon Herrero ; Kestutis Staliunas

FEMTO-FARAD OPTOELECTRONIC COUPLING AND LOW-LATENCY NANOPHOTONIC COMPUTING...... 1055 Kengo Nozaki ; Shota Kita ; Akihiko Shinya ; Masaya Notomi

PLASMONICS AND SUPERRESOLUTION IN MICROSPHERICAL NANOSCOPY ...... 1058 Vasily N. Astratov ; Aaron Brettin ; Farzaneh Abolmaali ; Luiz Poffo ; Alexey V. Maslov

MICROSPHERE-ASSISTED MICROSCOPY: FROM 2D TO 3D SUPER-RESOLUTION IMAGING ...... 1062 Paul Montgomery ; Stéphane Perrin ; Sylvain Lecler

HIGH ASPECT PLASMONIC NANOTRENCH STRUCTURES AS SENSORS IN THE NEAR- AND MID-IR FREQUENCY RANGE ...... 1066 Evgeniy Shkondin ; Taavi Repän ; Radu Malureanu ; Andrei V. Lavrinenko ; Osamu Takayama

SPECTRALLY AND SPATIALLY FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND FINDINGS...... 1069 Behnam Shariati ; Dimitrios Klonidis ; Dan M. Marom ; Jaume Comellas ; Luis Velasco ; Ioannis Tomkos

RECENT ADVANCES USING HOMOGENEOUS SINGLE-MODE MULTICORE FIBERS FOR SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLEXING...... 1073 Ruben S. Luis ; Georg Rademacher ; Benjamin J. Puttnam ; Yoshinari Awaji ; Naoya Wada

IMPACT OF CROSSTALK IN SDM SHORT-REACH SYSTEMS IN PRESENCE OF MULTICARRIER TRANSMISSION...... 1076 Mariangela Rapisarda ; Alberto Gatto ; Paola Parolari

CROSSTALK-INDUCED PENALTY IN COHERENT SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION ...... 1080 Paolo Martelli ; Pierpaolo Boffi

RECENT PROGRESSES IN CHINESE TELECOM AND PHOTONICS...... 1084 Shaomin Yan ; Guang Wu

THE SOCIAL-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF FIBER BROADBAND: A HYPE OR A REALITY?...... 1088 Jie Li ; Marco Forzati

TECHNO-ECONOMICS FOR OPTIMAL DEPLOYMENT OF OPTICAL FRONTHAULING FOR 5G IN LARGE URBAN AREAS...... 1095 Myriam Tipán

INTRODUCTION OF 12 CORES OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS IN OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK: PERFORMANCE STUDY AND ECONOMIC IMPACT...... 1099 Jordane Thouras ; Erwan Pincemin ; Djamel Amar ; Philippe Gravey ; Michel Morvan ; Marie-Laure Moulinard

AN INSIGHT INTO THE TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP OF 5G FRONTHAULING ...... 1103 Marco Levantesi ; Darli A. A. Mello

ELASTIC NETWORKS THEMATIC NETWORK RESULTS I: PLANNING AND CONTROL OF FLEX-GRID/SDM...... 1108 F. J. Moreno-Muro ; R. Rumipamba-Zambrano ; J. Perelló ; P. Pavón-Mariño ; J. Solé-Pareta ; R. Martínez ; R. Casellas ; R. Vilalta ; R. Muñoz ; J. Mata ; L. Ruiz ; N. Merayo ; I. De Miguel ; R.J. Durán

ELASTIC NETWORKS THEMATIC NETWORK RESULTS II: EDGE COMPUTING AND WIRELESS SUPPORT...... 1112 X. Masip ; E. Marín ; A. Jurnet ; P. Reviriego ; R. Flores ; C. M. Lentisco ; D. Fernández ; L. Bellido ; S. Gómez ; E. Calle ; G. Otero ; J. A. Hernández ; D. Larrabeiti

OPTIMAL DESIGN OF FILTERLESS OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1116 Brigitte Jaumard ; Yan Wang ; Nicolas Huin

ENABLING MULTIPATH OPTICAL ROUTING WITH HYBRID DIFFERENTIAL DELAY COMPENSATION ...... 1121 Rodolfo Alvizu ; Veronica Soto ; Sebastian Troia ; Guido Maier

PERFORMANCE OF DISPERSION-REDUCED WAVELENGTH ASSIGNMENT IN WAVELENGTH-ROUTED OPTICAL NETWORKS ...... 1125 Bijoy Chand Chatterjee ; Nityananda Sarma ; Abhijit Mitra ; Anand Srivastava ; Norvald Stol ; Eiji Oki

PLANNING OF GEO-DISTRIBUTED CLOUD DATA CENTERS IN FAST DEVELOPING ECONOMIES ...... 1129 Ruiyun Liu ; Weiqiang Sun ; Weisheng Hu

AUTO-SCALING MECHANISM IN THE ICT CONVERGED CROSS STRATUM ORCHESTRATION ARCHITECTURE FOR ZERO-TOUCH SERVICE AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT...... 1133 Young Lee ; Ricard Vilalta ; Ramon Casellas ; Ricardo Martínez ; Raul Muñoz

INFRASTRUCTURE COST EVALUATION OF INTRA-DATA CENTRE NETWORKS ...... 1137 Ronald Romero Reyes ; Thomas Bauschert

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF OPSQUARE DATA CENTER NETWORK WITH ELASTIC ALLOCATION OF WDM TRANSCEIVERS...... 1141 Xuwei Xue ; Fulong Yan ; Bitao Pan ; Nicola Calabretta

INTRA-DATA CENTER NETWORK OPTIMIZATION BY MEANS OF APPLICATION-BASED TRAFFIC MODELING AND OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCHING...... 1145 Mihail Balanici ; Stephan Pachnicke

DECOMPOSED REQUEST SCHEDULING IN SNF OCS NETWORKS...... 1149 Chenchen Zhao ; Xiao Lin ; Shengnan Yue ; Weiqiang Sun

MICROWAVE PHOTONIC ADVANCES FOR PHOTONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING...... 1153 X. Yi

GENERATION OF MMWAVE 5G SIGNALS USING MICROWAVE PHOTONICS...... 1157 Diego Perez-Galacho ; Victor Nacher-Castellet ; Salvador Sales

PHOTONIC-ASSISTED G-BAND WIRELESS LINKS FOR 5G BACKHAUL ...... 1161 Borja Vidal

THIRD-ORDER DISPERSION COMPENSATION FOR RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT IN RF INTERFEROMETRY...... 1164 J. Benítez ; J. Mora

OPTIMIZING DARK FIELD Z-SCAN FOR THIRD ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEAR MEASUREMENTS IN A MICROSCOPIC CONFIGURATION ...... 1168 Mihaela Chis ; Hongzhen Wang ; Christophe Cassagne ; Charles Ciret ; Georges Boudebs

PUMP-PROBE NANOSCOPY BY MEANS OF TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SATURATION...... 1172 Paolo Bianchini ; Kseniya Korobchevskaya ; Giulia Zanini ; Alberto Diaspro

LABEL-FREE IMAGING OF THICK SPECIMENS USING GRADIENT LIGHT INTERFERENCE MICROSCOPY (GLIM)...... 1176 Gabriel Popescu

NONLINEAR OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND GENERATION OF QUANTUM STATES USING INTERMODAL FOUR-WAVE MIXING ...... 1177 Karsten Rottwitt ; Mario A. U. Castaneda ; Erik N. Christensen ; Jesper B. Christensen ; Jacob. G. Koefoed

OPTICAL AND DIGITAL KEY ENABLING TECHNIQUES FOR SDM-BASED OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1181 N. J. Muga ; G. M. Fernandes ; Mário J. N. Lima ; A. N. Pinto ; P. S. André ; M. Facão ; A. M. Rocha

CONNECTION PROVISIONING IN SPECTRALLY-SPATIALLY FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH PHYSICAL LAYER CONSIDERATIONS ...... 1186 G. Savva ; K. Manousakis ; B. Shariati ; I. Tomkos ; G. Ellinas

IMPACT OF INTER-CORE CROSSTALK ON PERFORMANCE OF SPECTRALLY- SPATIALLY FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH B2B REGENERATION ...... 1190 Krzysztof Walkowiak ; Piotr Lechowicz ; Miroslaw Klinkowski

COUPLED VS. UNCOUPLED SDM SOLUTIONS: A PHYSICAL LAYER AWARE NETWORKING COMPARISON...... 1194 Mattia Cantono ; Vittorio Curri

RESILIENT OPTICAL NETWORKS ...... 1198 Vincent W.S. Chan

A PROACTIVE RESTORATION STRATEGY FOR OPTICAL CLOUD NETWORKS BASED ON FAILURE PREDICTIONS...... 1202 Carlos Natalino ; Frederico Coelho ; Gustavo Lacerda ; Antonio Braga ; Lena Wosinska ; Paolo Monti

PRE-EMPTIVE DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION OF FAILURES TOWARDS MARGINLESS OPERATIONS OF OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1207 C. Delezoide ; K. Christodoulopoulos ; A. Kretsis ; N. Argyris ; G. Kanakis ; A. Sgambelluri ; N. Sambo ; P. Giardina ; G. Bernini ; D. Roccato ; A. Percelsi ; R. Morro ; H. Avramopoulos ; E. Varvarigos ; P. Castoldi ; P. Layec ; S. Bigo

INTEGRATED OAM AND TRANSPORT SDN ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTOMATIC AND DYNAMIC RESTORATION OF SIGNAL-DEGRADED CONNECTIONS WITHIN FLEXI-GRID OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1211 R. Martínez ; R. Casellas ; J. M. Fabrega ; R. Vilalta ; R. Muñoz ; F. J. Vilchez ; L. Nadal ; M. Svaluto-Moreolo ; A. Villafranca ; P. Sevillano

ALLIANCE PROJECT: ARCHITECTING A KNOWLEDGE-DEFINED 5G-ENABLED NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE...... 1215 D. Careglio ; S. Spadaro ; A. Cabellos ; J.A. Lazaro ; J. Perelló ; P. Barlet ; J.M. Gené ; J. Paillissé

WAVELENGTH AND SPACE DIVISION PACKET SUPER-CHANNEL SWITCHING SYSTEM FOR FUTURE DATA CENTER OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH A SWITCHING CAPACITY OF 53.3 TB/S/PORT ...... 1221 Jose Manuel Delgado Mendinueta ; Satoshi Shinada ; Uusuke Hirota ; Ruben Soares Luis ; Hideaki Furukawa ; Naoya Wada

ANALYSIS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED METAHEURISTIC ALGORITHM FOR MPLS NETWORK OPTIMIZATION ...... 1225 Mohsin Masood ; Mohamed Mostafa Fouad

OVERVIEW OF SOUTH-BOUND INTERFACES FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1229 Anderson Bravalheri

ADVANCED ROUTING STRATEGY WITH HIGHLY-EFFICIENT FABRIC-WIDE CHARACTERIZATION FOR OPTICAL INTEGRATED SWITCHES ...... 1234 Qixiang Cheng ; Yishen Huang ; Meisam Bahadori ; Madeleine Glick ; Sebastien Rumley

SUPERABSORPTION AS A TIME-REVERSAL OF SUPERRADIANCE...... 1238 Kyungwon An

MODAL INTERACTIONS IN MICROSTADIUM OPTICAL CAVITIES ...... 1239 Takehiro Fukushima

INTEGRATED MICROPHOTONIC TUNEABLE DELAY LINES FOR BEAM STEERING IN PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS...... 1243 Giuseppe Brunetti ; Donato Conteduca ; Francesco Dell’olio ; Mario N. Armenise

MODULATION TRANSPARENT WIRELESS DATA LINK USING PHOTONIC-BASED TRANSMITTER AND ENVELOPE DETECTOR...... 1247 Robinson Guzman ; Alejandro Rivera ; Luis-Enrique García ; Horacio Lamela ; Daniel Segovia

DIRECTIONAL INVISIBILITY OF ELLIPTICAL SHAPED ALL DIELECTRIC STRUCTURE INDUCED BY EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION APPROACH ...... 1251 C. Babayigit ; E. Bor ; H. Kurt ; K. Staliunas ; M. Turduev

WHICH INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM COLLAGEN-BASED TISSUES IMAGED WITH POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE SECOND HARMONIC MICROSCOPY?...... 1255 Juan M. Bueno ; Francisco J. Ávila ; Pablo Artal

TOWARDS AUTOMATED TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION USING PARALLEL BAG-OF- FEATURES EXPERTS DEALING WITH TWO-PHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE AND SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPY DATASETS ...... 1262 Stefan G. Stanciu ; Radu Hristu ; Adrian Dumitru ; Roxana M. Buga ; Tiberiu Totu ; Marius Popescu ; Mariana Costache

CHANGES IN THE COLLAGEN STRUCTURE OF THYROID NODULE CAPSULES DETERMINED BY POLARIZATION-RESOLVED SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPY ...... 1266 Radu Hristu ; Bogdan Paun ; Lucian Eftimie ; Stefan G. Stanciu ; Denis E. Tranca ; George A. Stanciu

A NEW TECHNIQUE IN SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY USED FOR INVESTIGATIONS ON THE BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES...... 1270 D. E. Tranca ; R. Hristu ; S. G. Stanciu ; A. M. Holban ; A. Toma ; C. Stoichita

NANOSCALE INVESTIGATIONS OF OPTICAL FIBER BY USING SCATTERING SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY...... 1273 Denis E. Tranca ; Catalin Stoichita ; Radu Hristu ; Stefan G. Stanciu ; Charles V. Sammut ; George A. Stanciu

RELAXING THE ADC SAMPLING RATE IN HIGH-RESOLUTION RADAR SYSTEMS THROUGH PHOTONIC ANALOGUE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION...... 1276 Pedro E.D. Cruz ; Tiago M. F. Alves ; Adolfo V. T. Cartaxo

DESIGN OF HOLLOW OPTICAL FIBER FOR MODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ...... 1280 Mahdi Kasmi ; Faouzi Bahloul ; Yong Soo Lee ; Kyunghwan Ken Oh ; Sofien Mhatli ; Rabah Attia

PERFORMANCES OF AN OPTICAL OFDM-DMT SYSTEM OVER MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBER...... 1283 Mahdi Kasmi ; Sofien Mhatli ; Faouzi Bahloul ; Iyad Dayoub

OFFSETTING SELF-PHASE MODULATION IN OPTICAL FIBRE BY SINUSOIDALLY TIME- VARYING PHASE...... 1287 Sonia Boscolo ; Frédéric Audo ; Misha Sumetsky ; Christophe Finot

RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION IN FULLY FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NODE ARCHITECTURES...... 1291 Stanislaw Kozdrowski ; Mateusz Zotkiewicz ; Slawomir Sujecki

ADVANCED MODULATION TECHNIQUES FOR LOW PAPR IN VLC SYSTEM ...... 1295 Rizwana Ahmad ; Anand Srivastava ; Hossam A. I. Selmy

MIMO-WDM VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON COMMERCIAL RGBA LEDS...... 1300 Rakesh Krishna Vs ; Ivan B. Djordjevic

INITIALIZATION OF HYBRID UNDERWATER OPTICAL/ACOUSTIC NETWORK WITH ASYMMETRICAL DUPLEX LINK ...... 1305 Yuanhao Liu ; Tao Shang

NETWORK SERVICE SLICING SUPPORTING UBIQUITOUS ACCESS IN PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1309 Wei Wang ; Wei Guo ; Weisheng Hu

FOG INFLUENCE SIMULATION ON LIGHT DISTRIBUTION FROM STREET LIGHTING ...... 1312 Jan Vitasek ; Jan Latal ; Tomas Stratil ; Jan Jargus ; Zdenek Wilcek

MEASUREMENT OF IPTV SERVICES ON A HYBRID ACCESS NETWORK ...... 1316 Jan Latal ; Zdenek Wilcek ; Jakub Kolar ; Josef Vojtech

PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF RELAYED HYBRID FSO/MMW FRONTHAUL NETWORK IN C-RAN ARCHITECTURE ...... 1323 Mahmoud A. Hasabelnaby ; Hossam A. I. Selmy ; Moawad Dessoky ; Anand Srivastava

OPTICAL CHANNEL ESTIMATION BASED ON KALMAN FILTERING FOR VLC SYSTEMS ADOPTING DCO-OFDM ...... 1327 Eman Shawky ; Mohamed A. El-Shimy ; Hossam M. H. Shalaby ; Amr Mokhtar ; El-Sayed A. El-Badawy ; Anand Srivastava

OUTAGE AND POWER SAVING ANALYSIS FOR HYBRID CELLULAR-VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION AND DIRECT CELLULAR DOWNLINK...... 1331 Anand Singh ; Anand Srivastava ; Vivek Ashok Bohara ; G. Subrahmanya Vrk Rao

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF FAIRNESS ORIENTED DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALGORITHM IN INTEGRATED FIBER-WIRELESS ARCHITECTURE BASED ON XG-PON AND WI-FI...... 1335 Ravneet Kaur ; Anand Srivastava ; Bijoy Chand Chatterjee ; Abhijit Mitra ; Byrav Ramamurthy

REAL-TIME EMISSIONS OF TELECOM CORE NETWORKS...... 1339 Hatem A. Alharbi ; Mohamed Musa ; Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi ; Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

DSP-ASSISTED CHANNEL AGGREGATION OPTIONS FOR NEXT-GENERATION MOBILE FRONTHAULING ...... 1343 M. Befekadu ; P. Torres-Ferrera ; R. Gaudino

ESTIMATION OF STOCHASTIC INTERCORE CROSSTALK IN HOMOGENEOUS MCF BASED ON GAUSSIAN FILTERING ...... 1347 Marek Jaworski

PLANNING OF 5G C-RAN WITH OPTICAL FRONTHAUL: A SCALABILITY ANALYSIS OF AN ILP MODEL...... 1352 Miroslaw Klinkowski

SIMULTANEOUS MONITORING OF CHROMATIC DISPERSION AND OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO IN OPTICAL NETWORK USING ASYNCHRONOUS DELAY TAP SAMPLING AND CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK (DEEP LEARNING) ...... 1356 Tomasz Mrozek

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF METALORGANIC THIN FILMS...... 1360 M. Lougdali ; P. Plóciennik ; Y. El Kouari ; A. Korcala ; B. Sahraoui

THE IMPACT OF LIGHTING ON ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF METALS AND 8- HYDROXYQUINOLINE COMPLEXES THIN FILMS...... 1363 A. Aamoum ; A. Korcala ; M. Bakasse ; A. Zawadzka

IMPACT OF OPTICAL PARAMETERS ON NONLINEARITY MEASUREMENT OF BEND INSENSITIVE FIBER – ERRATUM*...... 1366 Annesha Maity ; Sirisha Jeripothula

FILTERLESS AND SEMI-FILTERLESS SOLUTIONS IN A METRO-HAUL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE...... 1370 Omran Ayoub ; Shady Shehata ; Francesco Musumeci ; Massimo Tornatore

TOWARDS 50 GB/S IN HIGH-SPEED PON: OPTIMIZATION OF MODULATION FORMATS USING PRE-CHIRPING...... 1374 P. Torres-Ferrera ; H. Wang ; V. Ferrero ; R. Mercinelli ; R. Gaudino

A NEW DSP-BASED PHYSICAL LAYER ENCRYPTION TECHNIQUE APPLIED TO PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1378 Marcelo Luís Francisco Abbade ; Leonardo Silva Lessa ; Melissa De Oliveira Santos ; Afonso José Do Prado ; Ivan Aldaya

IMPLEMENTING COS IN EON PROTECTION AND RESTORATION SCHEMES TO PRESERVE NETWORK RESOURCES...... 1382 Melissa Stapleton

UPGRADING LINKS WITH ULTRA-LOW LOSS FIBERS IN A SURVIVABLE ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORK...... 1386 Yongcheng Li ; Kai Xu ; Xiaodong Fu ; Sanjay K. Bose ; Gangxiang Shen

CAPACITY INCREASE AND HARDWARE SAVINGS IN DWDM NETWORKS EXPLOITING NEXT-GENERATION OPTICAL LINE INTERFACES...... 1391 Sílvia Pato

PERFORMANCE OF HITLESS DEFRAGMENTATION SCHEME IN QUASI 1+1 PATH PROTECTED ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1397 Bijoy Chand Chatterjee ; Eiji Oki

IMPACT OF LINK FAILURES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF MAPREDUCE IN DATA CENTER NETWORKS...... 1401 Sanaa Hamid Mohamed ; Taisir E. H. El-Gorashi ; Jaafar M.H. Elmirghani

THE SYNOPSYS SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT TO DESIGN AND SIMULATE PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS: A CASE STUDY FOR 400G TRANSMISSION ...... 1405 Enrico Ghillino ; Emanuele Virgillito ; Pablo V. Mena ; Rob Scarmozzino ; Remco Stoffer ; Dwight Richards ; Ali Ghiasi ; Alessio Ferrari ; Mattia Cantono ; Andrea Carena ; Vittorio Curri

COST AND POWER CONSUMPTION COMPARISON OF 400 GBPS INTRA-DATACENTER TRANSCEIVER MODULES ...... 1409 Theodoros Rokkas ; Ioannis Neokosmidis ; Ioannis Tomkos

TOWARDS HIGH SPEED AND LOW POWER SILICON PHOTONIC DATA LINKS ...... 1413 David J. Thomson ; Kapil Debnath ; Weiwei Zhang ; Ke Li ; Shenghao Liu ; Fanfan Meng ; Ali Z. Khokhar ; Callum Littlejohns ; James Byers ; Lorenzo Mastronardi ; Muhammad K. Husain ; Frederic Y. Gardes ; Shinichi Saito ; Xia Chen ; Milan M. Milosevic ; Yohann Franz ; Antoine F. J. Runge ; Sakellaris Mailis ; Anna C. Peacock ; Peter Wilson ; Graham T. Reed

MULTI-SECTION SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS FOR DATA CENTRE NETWORKS...... 1417 M. Hammad ; A. Anchal ; S. O’Duill ; P. Landais ; A. Kaszubowska-Anandarajah ; P. M. Anandarajah

SILICON MODULATORS FOR THE GENERATION OF ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS ...... 1418 Diego Perez-Galacho ; Laurent Bramerie ; Charles Baudot ; Mohamed Chaibi ; Sonia Messaoudène ; Nathalie Vulliet ; Laurent Vivien ; Frederic Boeuf ; Christophe Peucheret ; Delphine Marris-Morini

STRATEGIES FOR OPTIMIZED RAMAN AMPLIFICATION DEPLOYMENT IN DWDM MESH NETWORKS...... 1422 João Pedro ; Nelson Costa

POLARIZATION CONTROL IN CLOSED CAVITY RAMAN FIBER LASERS ...... 1428 Giuseppe Rizzelli ; Pedro Corredera Guillén ; Juan Diego Ania-Castañón

RIN TRANSFER MITIGATION TECHNIQUE USING BROADBAND INCOHERENT PUMP IN DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFIED TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS ...... 1432 Md Asif Iqbal ; Mingming Tan ; Paul Harper

SOLITON TRANSMISSION WITH 5 EIGENVALUES OVER 2000KM OF RAMAN-AMPLIFIED FIBER...... 1436 Benedikt Leible ; Yingkan Chen ; Mansoor I. Yousefi ; Norbert Hanik

CAVITY-ENHANCED SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS...... 1440 Julian Münzberg ; Andreas Vetter ; Wladislaw Hartmann ; Nico Gruhler ; Fabian Beutel ; Simone Ferrari ; Carsten Rockstuhl ; Wolfram H.P. Pernice

GIANT RYDBERG EXCITONS IN SYNTHETIC AND ARTIFICIAL CUPROUS OXIDE...... 1444 Stephen A. Lynch ; Chris Hodges ; Wolfgang W. Langbein ; Liam Gallagher ; Josh Rogers ; Charles S. Adams ; Matthew P. A. Jones ; Ravi P. Singh

FAST, NOISE-FREE MEMORY FOR PHOTON SYNCHRONIZATION AT ROOM TEMPERATURE ...... 1448 Eilon Poem ; Ran Finkelstein ; Ohad Michel ; Ohr Lahad ; Ofer Firstenberg

MULTIMODE STRONG COUPLING OF LASER-COOLED ATOMS TO A NANOFIBER-BASED RING RESONATOR...... 1454 Jürgen Volz ; Aisling Johnson ; Martin Blaha ; Alexander Ulanov ; Philipp Schneeweiss ; Arno Rauschenbeutel

RECENT ADVANCES IN 3D STRUCTURED ILLUMINATION MICROSCOPY ...... 1456 Ana Doblas ; Hasti Shabani ; Genaro Saavedra ; Chrysanthe Preza

ADVANCES IN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY...... 1460 Adrian Podoleanu

FLEXIBLE MOBILE FRONTHAUL WITH COHERENT UDWDM-PON...... 1464 Josep Segarra ; Vicent Sales ; Josep Prat

DIRECT PHASE MODULATION FOR UDWDM ONU WITH BEAT SIGNALS...... 1470 J. Camilo Velásquez ; Iván N. Cano ; Jeison Tabares ; Victor Polo ; Josep Prat

XGPON STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXING ANALYSIS WITH HETEROGENEOUS USERS...... 1474 Anjali Gupta ; Carmen Mas Machuca ; Abhishek Dixit

GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF OBLIVIOUS KEYS THROUGH QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS ...... 1478 Armando N. Pinto ; Mariana F. Ramos ; Nuno A. Silva ; Nelson J. Muga

KEY GENERATION AND DISTRIBUTION USING PHASE FLUCTUATION IN CLASSICAL FIBER CHANNEL ...... 1481 Adnan A.E. Hajomer ; Xuelin Yang ; Amber Sultan ; Weiqiang Sun ; Weisheng Hu

RESILIENT CONTROLLER LOCATION UNDER TARGET ATTACKS ...... 1484 Sergio G. Cosgaya ; Eusebi Calle ; Jose L. Marzo

OPTIMIZED CLOS OXC ARCHITECTURE AND PERFORMANCE ...... 1489 Mihai Banica ; Victor Croitoru

TRANSCEIVER SCALING AND THE IPSR-I ROADMAP...... 1493 Madeleine Glick ; Houman Rastegarfar ; Robert C. Pfahl ; Lionel C. Kimerling

PAM-4 AND DMT FOR INTER-DATA CENTER CONNECTIONS AND 5G FRONTHAUL APPLICATIONS...... 1497 Helmut Griesser ; Nicklas Eiselt ; Annika Dochban ; Michael Eiselt ; Jorg-Peter Elbers

400G INTERCONNECTS FOR DATA CENTRES AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING – WHAT IS NEXT?...... 1498 J.J. Vegas Olmos ; J.J. Mohr ; S.B. Christensen ; K.E. Skouby ; J.P. Turkiewicz

PROBABILISTICALLY SHAPED 8-PAM SUITABLE FOR DATA CENTERS COMMUNICATION ...... 1503 Xiao Han ; Ivan B. Djordjevic

MULTI-BAND NONLINEAR SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION FOR EFFICIENT SIMULATION OF PARAMETRIC OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS AND OSCILLATORS...... 1507 Ioannis Begleris ; Peter Horak

MITIGATION OF AMPLITUDE AND PHASE DISTORTIONS BY USING CONJUGATE-NOLM REGENERATOR...... 1508 Feng Wen ; Baojian Wu ; Feng Yang ; Stylianos Sygletos

NONLINEARITY MITIGATION OF DQPSK SIGNAL BY FREQUENCY-SHIFT FREE SPECTRAL INVERSION USING COUNTER-PROPAGATING DUAL PUMP FOUR-WAVE MIXING IN A SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER...... 1512 Abhishek Anchal ; Pradeep Kumar K ; Sean O’Duill ; Prince M. Anandarajah ; Pascal Landais

CROSS-GAIN MODULATION MITIGATION IN SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL PRE- AMPLIFIERS USING A NEW SYNTHETIC FILTER FOR NRZ-BASED WDM TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS ...... 1517 E. Ramírez-Cruz ; I. Rendón-Salgado ; D. E. Ceballos-Herrera ; R. Gutiérrez-Castrejón

ON-CHIP QUANTUM PHOTONICS USING INTEGRATED QUANTUM DOT EMITTERS...... 1521 A. M. Fox

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN QUANTUM-DOT-BASED SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES AT TELECOM WAVELENGTHS ...... 1522 Anna Musial ; Pawel Mrowinski ; Lukasz Dusanowski ; Grzegorz Sek

RADIATED FIELDS BY POLYGONAL CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES...... 1526 Miguel Urbaneja Torres ; Anna Sitek ; Vidar Gudmundsson ; Andrei Manolescu

DEEP TISSUE MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY BASED ON ADVANCED FEMTOSECOND FIBER SOURCES ...... 1530 Shih-Hsuan Chia ; Hsiang-Yu Chung ; Wei Liu ; Franz X. Kärtner ; Guoqing Chang

APPLICATION OF THE HOLLOW CORE FIBER ENDED WITH FIBER MICROLENS IN THE MULTIPHOTON EXCITATION SETUP ...... 1534 Hanna Stawska ; Maciej Popenda ; Lukasz Langer ; Elzbieta Beres Pawlik

MICROSCOPY DIRECT ESCHERICHIA COLI LIVE/DEAD CELL COUNTING...... 1538 Massimiliano Lucidi ; Marco Marsan ; Daniela Visaggio ; Paolo Visca ; Gabriella Cincotti

THE FUTURE OF ELECTRONICS: SILICON TO CLOUD TECHNOLOGIES...... 1542 Adrian M. Ionescu

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