2018 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC 2018)

San Diego, California, USA

11-15 March 2018

Pages 1952-2614

IEEE Catalog Number: CFP18OFC-POD ISBN: 978-1-5386-5834-5

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TECHNO-ECONOMIC EVALUATIONS OF 400G OPTICAL INTERCONNECT IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR DATACENTER NETWORKS...... 1 Theodoros Rokkas ; Ioannis Neokosmidis ; Behnam Shariati ; Ioannis Tomkos

FIBER TYPE DEPENDENT BENEFITS WHEN DEPLOYING UP-TO-300GB/S ELASTIC TRANSPONDERS ADAPTING TO AGEING OF MARGINS ...... 4 Jelena Pesic ; Nicola Rossi ; Thierry Zami

A STATISTICAL ASSESSMENT OF NETWORKING MERIT OF 2MXN WSS...... 7 Mattia Cantono ; Stefano Piciaccia ; Alberto Tanzi ; Gabriele Maria Galimberti ; Brian Smith ; Marcello Bianchi ; Vittorio Curri

NETWORK DESIGN FRAMEWORK TO SPECTRAL- AND COST-EFFICIENTLY EXPLOIT NEXT-GENERATION LINE INTERFACES...... 10 Daniela Moniz ; João Pedro ; João Pires

AGILE OPTICAL NETWORKING: BEYOND FILTERED SOLUTIONS ...... 13 Christine Tremblay ; Émile Archambault ; Michel P. Bélanger ; Paul Littlewood ; William Clelland ; Marija Furdek ; Lena Wosinska

MINIMIZING THE COST AND AUGMENTING THE RESILIENCE OF VULNERABLE OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS ...... 16 Bodhisattwa Gangopadhyay ; João Pedro ; Stefan Spälter

MODULAR SDN-ENABLED S-BVT ADOPTING WIDELY TUNABLE MEMS VCSEL FOR FLEXIBLE/ELASTIC OPTICAL METRO NETWORKS ...... 19 M. Svaluto Moreolo ; L. Nadal ; J. M. Fabrega ; F. J. Vilchez ; R. Casellas ; R. Muñoz ; C. Neumeyr ; A. Gatto ; P. Parolari ; P. Boffi

REAL-TIME DOWNSTREAM 25GBIT/S PAM4 FOR HIGH SPEED TDM-PONS WITH BOTH 25 AND 12.5GBIT/S ONUS ...... 22 S. Barthomeuf ; F. Saliou ; L. Anet Neto ; B. Le Guyader ; P. Chanclou ; D. Erasme

BURST-MODE ACTIVELY-FILTERED RECEIVER FOR TDM-PON ENABLING EXTENDED REACH AND IMPROVED SENSITIVITY...... 25 Robert Borkowski ; Wolfgang Poehlmann ; René Bonk ; Thomas Pfeiffer

INVESTIGATION OF 100G (4×25G) NG-PON2 UPGRADE USING A BURST MODE LASER BASED ON A MULTI-ELECTRODE LASER TO ENABLE 100 GHZ WAVELENGTH GRID ...... 28 Vincent Houtsma ; Doutje Van Veen ; Stefano Porto ; Nagesh Basavanhally ; Cris Bolle ; Harald Schmuck

SYMMETRICAL 50-GB/S/λ PAM-4 TDM-PON IN O-BAND WITH DSP AND SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER SUPPORTING PR-30 LINK LOSS BUDGET ...... 31 Junwen Zhang ; Jun Shan Wey ; Jianjun Yu ; Zhijuan Tu ; Bo Yang ; Wei Yang ; Yong Guo ; Xingang Huang ; Zhuang Ma

DEMONSTRATION OF 50GB/Sλ SYMMETRIC PAM4 TDM-PON WITH 10G-CLASS OPTICS AND DSP-FREE ONUS IN THE O-BAND...... 34 Kuo Zhang ; Qunbi Zhuge ; Haiyun Xin ; Zhenping Xing ; Meng Xiang ; Sujie Fan ; Lilin Yi ; Weisheng Hu ; David V. Plant

OPTICAL VS. ELECTRICAL DUOBINARY CODING FOR 25 GB/S PONS BASED ON DSP-FREE COHERENT ENVELOPE DETECTION...... 37 M. Rannello ; M. Presi ; E. Ciaramella

REAL-TIME FPGA DEMONSTRATION OF PAM-4 BURST-MODE ALL-DIGITAL CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY FOR SINGLE WAVELENGTH 50G PON APPLICATION...... 40 Junwen Zhang ; Xin Xiao ; Jianjun Yu ; Jun Shan Wey ; Xingang Huang ; Zhuang Ma

ADAPTIVE EQUALIZATION ENABLED 25GB/S NRZ MODULATION BASED ON 10-G CLASS OPTICS FOR UPSTREAM BURST-MODE TRANSMISSION ...... 43 Jian Chen ; Acai Tan ; Zhengxuan Li ; Yong Guo ; Yongjia Yin ; Qianwu Zhang ; Yingxiong Song ; Yingchun Li ; Min Wang

SINGLE-CARRIER 48-GBAUD PDM-256QAM TRANSMISSION OVER UNREPEATED 100KM PURE-SILICA-CORE FIBER USING COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE µITLA AND LN-IQ- MODULATOR ...... 46 Asuka Matsushita ; Masanori Nakamura ; Fukutaro Hamaoka ; Yoshiaki Kisaka

IMPROVING ACHIEVABLE INFORMATION RATES OF 64-GBD PDM-64QAM BY NONLINEAR TRANSMITTER PREDISTORTION ...... 49 Robert Elschner ; Robert Emmerich ; Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst ; Felix Frey ; Pablo Wilke Berenguer ; Johannes K. Fischer ; Helmut Grießer ; Danish Rafique ; Jörg-Peter Elbers ; Colja Schubert

ADVANCED DSP TECHNOLOGIES WITH SYMBOL-RATE OVER 100-GBAUD FOR HIGH- CAPACITY OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORK...... 52 Masanori Nakamura ; Fukutaro Hamaoka ; Asuka Matsushita ; Hiroshi Yamazaki ; Munehiko Nagatani ; Takayuki Kobayashi ; Yoshiaki Kisaka ; Yutaka Miyamoto

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF A CHANNEL ESTIMATION ALGORITHM FOR TRANSMITTER-SIDE DIGITAL PRE-COMPENSATION FILTERS ...... 55 Sjoerd Van Der Heide ; Ton Koonen ; Chigo Okonkwo

RECEPTION OF BURST MODE HIGH-ORDER QAM SIGNALS WITH PILOT-AIDED DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING ...... 58 Chen Zhu ; Noriaki Kaneda ; Jeffrey Lee

DIGITALLY ENHANCED DAC: LOW-RESOLUTION DIGITAL PRE-COMPENSATION FOR HIGH SPEED OPTICAL LINKS ...... 61 Yaron Yoffe ; Eyal Wohlgemuth ; Dan Sadot

SUBMARINE CABLES: DEPLOYMENT, EVOLUTION, AND PERSPECTIVES...... 64 Steve Grubb

MODELLING THE IMPACT OF SRS ON NLI GENERATION IN COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT: AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION...... 67 Mattia Cantono ; Jean Luc Auge ; Vittorio Curri

PHYSICAL SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT (TIP) ...... 70 Gert Grammel ; Vittorio Curri ; Jean-Luc Auge

DESIGN OF SUBMARINE “OPEN” CABLES ...... 73 Pascal Pecci ; Vincent Letellier ; Olivier Gautheron ; Alice Shelton ; Olivier Courtois ; Mattéo Gumier ; Vincent Chevalier ; Paul Gabla

MARGIN REQUIREMENT OF DISAGGREGATING THE DWDM TRANSPORT SYSTEM AND ITS CONSEQUENCE ON APPLICATION ECONOMICS...... 76 Michel P. Belanger ; Maurice O'sullivan ; Paul Littlewood

DEMONSTRATION OF 53.125 GB/S, CWDM, PAM-4, DIRECTLY MODULATED LASER TRANSMISSION OVER 20 KM SMF...... 79 Prashant P. Baveja ; Mingshan Li ; Yujing Chen ; Ding Wang ; Huanlin Zhang ; Yi Wang ; Qin Li ; Chong Wang ; Hsiu-Che Wang ; I-Lung Ho ; Jun Zheng

DEMONSTRATION OF REAL-TIME 400G SINGLE-CARRIER ULTRA-EFFICIENT 1.2TB/S SUPERCHANNEL OVER LARGE AEFF ULTRA-LOW LOSS TERRESTRIAL FIBER OF 150KM SINGLE SPAN AND 250KM (2×125KM SPANS) USING ONLY EDFA AMPLIFICATION...... 82 Yu Rong Zhou ; Kevin Smith ; Mike Gilson ; Jingxin Chen ; Weiwei Pan ; Youhui Chang ; Shuangyuan Wu ; Shipeng Wu ; Ian Davis

SILICON PHOTONIC MULTI-RATE DCO-CFP2 INTERFACE FOR DCI, METRO, AND LONG- HAUL OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS...... 85 Y. Loussouarn ; E. Pincemin ; Y. Pan ; G. Miller ; A. Gibbemeyer ; B. Mikkelsen

A 84 GB/S VSB-PAM8 VCSEL-BASED FIBER-FSO CONVERGENCE ...... 88 Yun-Chieh Wang ; Pei-Hsien Chew ; Yu-Bo Jheng ; Chung-Yi Li ; Hai-Han Lu ; Xu-Hong Huang ; Wen-Shing Tsai

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF A 12.5 GB/S INDOOR OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH SILICON INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CIRCUIT ...... 91 Ke Wang ; Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas ; Christina Lim ; Elaine Wong ; Kamal Alameh ; Hongtao Li ; Efstratios Skafidas

USE CASES FOR OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ...... 94 Dominic Schulz ; Pablo Wilke Berenguer ; Jonas Hilt ; Peter Hellwig ; Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos ; Ronald Freund ; Volker Jungnickel

1 GB/S ALL-LED VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM...... 97 Bernhard Schrenk ; Christoph Pacher

230 MBIT/S REAL-TIME OPTICAL WIRELESS TRANSMISSION IN NON-DIRECTED LINE- OF-SIGHT CONFIGURATION ...... 100 G. Cossu ; A. Messa ; W. Ali ; A. Sturniolo ; E. Ciaramella

TOWARDS DYNAMIC ULTRAHIGH CAPACITY SYMMETRIC BIDIRECTIONAL INDOOR OPTICAL-WIRELESS COMMUNICATION...... 103 K. A. Mekonnen ; Z. Cao ; E. Tangdiongga ; A. M. J. Koonen

LCOS-BASED ACCESS NODE FOR BIDIRECTIONAL OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ...... 106 Hsi-Hsir Chou ; Jen-Hao Hsiao

FLEXIBLE TRANSCEIVERS AND THE RATE/REACH TRADE-OFF...... 109 Gabriella Bosco

11.5 BITS/S/HZ PM-256QAM COMB-BASED SUPERCHANNEL TRANSMISSION BY COMBINING OPTICAL AND DIGITAL PILOTS...... 145 Mikael Mazur ; Jochen Schröder ; Abel Lorences-Riesgo ; Tsuyoshi Yoshida ; Magnus Karlsson ; Peter A. Andrekson

FLEX-RATE TRANSMISSION USING HYBRID PROBABILISTIC AND GEOMETRIC SHAPED 32QAM ...... 148 Shaoliang Zhang ; Zhen Qu ; Fatih Yaman ; Eduardo Mateo ; Takanori Inoue ; Kohei Nakamura ; Yoshihisa Inada ; Ivan B. Djordjevic

NOVEL LOW-COMPLEXITY FULLY-BLIND DENSITY-CENTROID — TRACKING EQUALIZER FOR 64-QAM COHERENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS...... 151 Junfeng Zhang ; Wei Chen ; Mingyi Gao ; Bowen Chen ; Gangxiang Shen

NONLINEARITY-TOLERANT 8D MODULATION FORMATS BY SET-PARTITIONING PDM- QPSK ...... 154 D. F. Bendimerad ; H. Hafermann ; H. Zhang

FULLY RECONFIGURABLE SILICON-BASED WAVEGUIDE BRAGG GRATING FOR INTEGRATED MICROWAVE PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS...... 157 Weifeng Zhang ; Jianping Yao

OPTICAL GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION OF LINEARLY CHIRPED MICROWAVE PULSES WITH HIGH TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCT ...... 160 L. E. Ynoquio Herrera ; Ricardo M. Ribeiro ; Vladimir B. Jabulka ; Jean Pierre Von Der Weid

SILICON-BASED BRILLOUIN PHOTONICS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING ...... 163 P. T. Rakich ; E. Kittlaus ; N. Otterstrom ; R. O. Behunin ; Z. Wang

SBS-BASED OEO WITH HIGH TUNING RESOLUTION AND WIDE TUNING RANGE BY SELECTING DIFFERENT-ORDER PHASE MODULATION SIDEBAND AS PUMP ...... 165 Mengyue Shi ; Lilin Yi ; Weisheng Hu

INTEGRATED FREQUENCY-TUNABLE MICROWAVE PHOTONIC BANDPASS FILTER ON A SILICON PHOTONIC CHIP...... 168 Weifeng Zhang ; Jianping Yao

OPTIMUM VCSEL APERTURES FOR HIGH-SPEED MULTIMODE FIBER LINKS...... 171 Justin Lavrencik ; Johan S. Gustavsson ; Erik Haglund ; Anders Larsson ; Stephen E. Ralph

726.7-GB/S 1.5-µM SINGLE-MODE VCSEL DISCRETE MULTI-TONE TRANSMISSION OVER 2.5-KM MULTICORE FIBER...... 174 J. Van Kerrebrouck ; L. Zhang ; R. Lin ; X. Pang ; A. Udalcovs ; O. Ozolins ; S. Spiga ; M. C. Amann ; G. Van Steenberge ; L. Gan ; M. Tang ; S. Fu ; R. Schatz ; S. Popov ; D. Liu ; W. Tong ; S. Xiao ; G. Torfs ; J. Chen ; J. Bauwelinck ; X. Yin

51.56 GBPS PAM4 TRANSMISSION OVER UP TO 2.3 KM OM4 FIBER USING MODE SELECTIVE VCSEL ...... 177 S. M. R. Motaghiannezam ; A. Tatarczak ; H. Chen ; J. Tatum ; C. Kocot

7×100 GBPS PAM-4 TRANSMISSION OVER 1-KM AND 10-KM SINGLE MODE 7-CORE FIBER USING 1.5-µM SM-VCSEL...... 180 Xiaodan Pang ; Joris Van Kerrebrouck ; Oskars Ozolins ; Rui Lin ; Aleksejs Udalcovs ; Lu Zhang ; Silvia Spiga ; Markus C. Amann ; Geert Van Steenberge ; Lin Gan ; Ming Tang ; Songnian Fu ; Richard Schatz ; Gunnar Jacobsen ; Sergei Popov ; Deming Liu ; Weijun Tong ; Guy Torfs ; Johan Bauwelinck ; Xin Yin ; Jiajia Chen

NET 100 GBIT/S EIGHT-DIMENSIONAL FORMATS LOADED DISCRETE MULTITONE TRANSMISSION USING 850 NM MULTIMODE VCSEL...... 183 Xiaofeng Lu ; Darko Zibar ; Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

PARAMETER EXTRACTION THROUGH JOINT OPTIMIZATION OF MODULATION RESPONSE AND RIN SPECTRA...... 186 Alirio Melgar ; Varghese A. Thomas ; Justin Lavrencik ; Stephen E. Ralph

A 14 GB/S DIRECTLY MODULATED HYBRID MICRORING LASER TRANSMITTER...... 189 Ashkan Roshan-Zamir ; Kunzhi Yu ; Di Liang ; Chong Zhang ; Cheng Li ; Gaofeng Fan ; Binhao Wang ; Marco Fiorentino ; Raymond Beausoleil ; Samuel Palermo

MULTI-TENANT HYBRID SLICING WITH CROSS-LAYER HETEROGENEOUS RESOURCE COORDINATION IN 5G TRANSPORT NETWORK ...... 192 Qize Guo ; Rentao Gu ; Mingyu Cen ; Xueyu Kang ; Tianyi Zhao ; Lin Bai ; Yuefeng Ji

ON THE SCALABILITY OF CONNECTIVITY SERVICES IN A MULTI-OPERATOR ORCHESTRATOR SANDBOX...... 195 A. Muhammad ; A. Sgambelluri ; O. Dugeon ; J. Martin-Perez ; F. Paolucci ; O. G. De Dios ; F. Ubaldi ; T. Pepe ; C. J. Bernardos ; P. Monti

CONVERGED ACCESS/METRO INFASTRUCTURES FOR 5G SERVICES ...... 198 Anna Tzanakaki ; Markos Anastasopoulos ; Dimitra Simeonidou

OPTICAL NETWORKS VIRTUALIZATION AND SLICING IN THE 5G ERA ...... 201 Ricard Vilalta ; Arturo Mayoral López-De-Lerma ; Raul Muñoz ; Ricardo Martínez ; Ramon Casellas

SDN-ENABLED SLICEABLE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL (SPECTRAL AND SPATIAL) TRANSCEIVER CONTROLLED WITH YANG/NETCONF...... 204 R. Muñoz ; N. Yoshikane ; R. Casellas ; J. M. Fàbrega ; R. Vilalta ; M. Svaluto Moreolo ; L. Nadal ; R. Martínez ; D. Soma ; Y. Wakayama ; S. Beppu ; S. Sumita ; T. Tsuritani ; I. Morita

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF DDOS MITIGATION OVER A QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (QKD) NETWORK USING SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN) ...... 207 E. Hugues-Salas ; F. Ntavou ; Y. Ou ; J. E. Kennard ; C. White ; D. Gkounis ; K. Nikolovgenis ; G. Kanellos ; C. Erven ; A. Lord ; R. Nejabati ; D. Simeonidou

WHAT APPLICATIONS ARE DRIVING HIGHER CAPACITY IN ACCESS?...... 210 Phil Miguelez

56 GBPS IM/DD PON BASED ON 10G-CLASS OPTICAL DEVICES WITH 29 DB LOSS BUDGET ENABLED BY MACHINE LEARNING...... 213 Peixuan Li ; Lilin Yi ; Lei Xue ; Weisheng Hu

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF UNEQUALLY SPACED PAM-4 SIGNAL TO IMPROVE RECEIVER SENSITIVITY FOR 50-GBPS PON WITH POWER-DEPENDENT NOISE DISTRIBUTION...... 216 Junwen Zhang ; Jun Shan Wey ; Jianyang Shi ; Jianjun Yu ; Zhijuan Tu ; Bo Yang ; Wei Yang ; Yong Guo ; Xingang Huang ; Zhuang Ma

50-GB/S TDM-PON BASED ON 10G-CLASS DEVICES BY OPTICS-SIMPLIFIED DSP...... 219 Lei Xue ; Lilin Yi ; Peixuan Li ; Weisheng Hu

SPECTRUM-EFFICIENT 50-GBPS LONG-RANGE OPTICAL ACCESS OVER 85-KM SSMF VIA DML USING WINDOWED OFDM SUPPORTING QUASI-GAPLESS ASYNCHRONOUS MULTIBAND TRANSMISSION...... 222 Shuyi Shen ; Thavamaran Kanesan ; Peng-Chun Peng ; Feng Lu ; Mu Xu ; Siming Liu ; Chin-Wei Hsu ; Qi Zhou ; Yahya M Alfadhli ; Hyung Joon Cho ; Sufian Mousa Mitani ; Jeff Finkelstein ; Gee-Kung Chang

DEMONSTRATION OF SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE ONUS ACTIVATION IN WDM-PON SYSTEM FOR 5G FRONTHAUL ...... 225 Kyosuke Sone ; Goji Nakagawa ; Yoshio Hirose ; Takeshi Hoshida

OPTIMIZED DIFFERENTIAL DETECTION-BASED OPTICAL CARRIER RECOVERY FOR INTRADYNE PSK RECEIVERS IN UDWDM-PON...... 228 Saeed Ghasemi ; Jeison Tabares ; Victor Polo ; Josep Prat

ADC & DAC — TECHNOLOGY TRENDS AND STEPS TO OVERCOME CURRENT LIMITATIONS...... 231 Tomislav Drenski ; Jens. C. Rasmussen

RECORD 560 GB/S SINGLE-CARRIER AND 850 GB/S DUAL-CARRIER TRANSMISSION OVER TRANSOCEANIC DISTANCES...... 234 I. Fernandez De Jauregui Ruiz ; A. Ghazisaeidi ; P. Brindel ; R. Rios-Müller ; A. Arnould ; H. Mardoyan ; O. Ait Sab ; J. Renaudier ; G. Charlet

8×506-GB/S 16QAM WDM SIGNAL COHERENT TRANSMISSION OVER 6000-KM ENABLED BY PS AND HB-CDM...... 237 Jianjun Yu ; Kaihui Wang ; Junwen Zhang ; Benyuan Zhu ; Steve Dzioba ; Xinying Li ; Hung-Chang Chien ; Xin Xiao ; Yi Cai ; Jianyang Shi ; Yuefei Chen ; Shiping Shi ; Yan Xia

COMPARISON OF NONLINEARITY TOLERANCE OF MODULATION FORMATS FOR SUBCARRIER MODULATION...... 240 Keisuke Kojima ; Tsuyoshi Yoshida ; Kieran Parsons ; Toshiaki Koike-Akino ; David S. Millar ; Keisuke Matsuda

56-GB/S OPTICAL SSB PAM-4 TRANSMISSION OVER 800-KM SSMF USING DDMZM TRANSMITTER AND SIMPLIFIED DIRECT DETECTION KRAMERS-KRONIG RECEIVER...... 243 Mingyue Zhu ; Jing Zhang ; Hao Ying ; Xiang Li ; Ming Luo ; Xiatao Huang ; Yingxiong Song ; Fan Li ; Xingwen Yi ; Kun Qiu

TRANSMITTER-SIDE VOLTERRA FILTERING FOR INCREASED DISPERSION TOLERANCE IN 56 GBAUD PAM-4 SYSTEMS...... 246 Jokhakar Jignesh ; Tobias A. Eriksson ; Mathieu Chagnon ; Bill Corcoran ; Arthur J. Lowery ; Fred Buchali ; Henning Bülow

100GB/S 16-QAM TRANSMISSION OVER 80 KM SSMF USING A SILICON PHOTONIC MODULATOR ENABLED VSB-IM/DD SYSTEM...... 249 Zhenping Xing ; David Patel ; Thang M. Hoang ; Meng Qiu ; Rui Li ; Eslam El-Fiky ; Meng Xiang ; David V. Plant

A 34GBAUD LINEAR TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER WITH AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL FOR 200GB/S DP-16QAM OPTICAL COHERENT RECEIVERS...... 252 Mostafa G. Ahmed ; Tam N. Huynh ; Christopher Williams ; Yong Wang ; Rahul Shringarpure ; Reza Yousefi ; Jose Roman ; Noam Ophir ; Alexander Rylyakov

A 137-MW, 4 CH × 25-GBPS LOW-POWER COMPACT TRANSMITTER FLIP-CHIP-BONDED 1.3-µM LD-ARRAY-ON-SI ...... 255 Toshiki Kishi ; Munehiko Nagatani ; Shigeru Kanazawa ; Shinsuke Nakano ; Hiroaki Katsurai ; Takuro Fujii ; Hidetaka Nishi ; Takaaki Kakitsuka ; Koichi Hasebe ; Kota Shikama ; Yuko Kawajiri ; Atsushi Aratake ; Hideyuki Nosaka ; Hiroshi Fukuda ; Shinji Matsuo

4×40 GB/S 2 PJ/BIT OPTICAL RX WITH 8NS POWER-ON AND CDR-LOCK TIME IN 14NM CMOS...... 258 A. Cevrero ; I. Ozkaya ; T. Morf ; T. Toifl ; M. Seifried ; F. Ellinger ; M. Khafaji ; J. Pliva ; R. Henker ; N. Ledentsov ; J. -R. Kropp ; V. Shchukin ; M. Zoldak ; L. Halmo ; I. Eddie ; J. Turkiewicz

FEC-FREE 60-GB/S SILICON PHOTONIC LINK USING SIGE-DRIVER ICS HYBRID- INTEGRATED WITH PHOTONICS-ENABLED CMOS ...... 261 Benjamin G. Lee ; Nicolas Dupuis ; Jason Orcutt ; Javier Ayala ; Karen Nummy ; Herschel Ainspan ; Jonathan E. Proesel ; Christian W. Baks ; Douglas M. Gill ; Mounir Meghelli ; William M. J. Green

ENERGY-EFFICIENT 120-GBPS DMT TRANSMISSION USING A 1.3-µM MEMBRANE LASER ON SI ...... 264 Nikolaos-Panteleimon Pandelis Diamantopoulos ; Takuro Fujii ; Hidetaka Nishi ; Koji Takeda ; Takaaki Kakitsuka ; Shinji Matsuo

ANALOG OPTICAL SIGNALING FOR LARGE SCALE RADIO TELESCOPES IN HARSH ENVIRONMENTS ...... 267 Jonas Weiss ; Peter Maat

93% COMPLEXITY REDUCTION OF VOLTERRA NONLINEAR EQUALIZER BY L1- REGULARIZATION FOR 112-GBPS PAM-4 850-NM VCSEL OPTICAL INTERCONNECT...... 268 Wan-Jou Huang ; Wei-Fan Chang ; Chia-Chien Wei ; Jun-Jie Liu ; Yi-Ching Chen ; Kai-Lun Chi ; Chih-Lin Wang ; Jin-Wei Shi ; Jyehong Chen

PROGRESS TOWARD AN OPEN, SDN-CONTROLLED PHOTONIC NETWORK...... 271 Kathleen Tse

ESTIMATING NETWORK THROUGHPUT WITH AN ADAPTIVE ROUTING AND WAVELENGTH ASSIGNMENT ALGORITHM...... 274 Robert J. Vincent ; David J. Ives ; Seb J. Savory

JOINT JOBS SCHEDULING AND ROUTING FOR METRO-SCALED MICRO DATACENTERS OVER ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 277 Zhen Liu ; Jiawei Zhang ; Lin Bai ; Yuefeng Ji

“OPEN” AND ITS IMPACT ON ENGINEERING, DESIGN, OPERATIONS AND PROFITABILITY IN THE COMMUNICATION NETWORK ...... 280 Kirsten Rundberget

THROUGHPUT SCALING FOR MMF-ENABLED OPTICAL DATACENTER NETWORKS BY TIME-SLICING-BASED CROSSTALK MITIGATION ...... 283 Zhizhen Zhong ; Nan Hua ; Yufang Yu ; Zhongying Wu ; Juhao Li ; Haozhe Yan ; Shangyuan Li ; Ruijie Luo ; Jialong Li ; Yanhe Li ; Xiaoping Zheng

A HIGH-RELIABILITY SUB-NANOSECOND NETWORK TIME SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD ENABLED BY DOUBLE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTED TIME SYNCHRONIZATION...... 286 Ruijie Luo ; Nan Hua ; Xiaoping Zheng ; Bingkun Zhou

INTEGRATION OF MULTIVARIATE GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODEL FOR ENHANCED PAM-4 DECODING EMPLOYING BASIS EXPANSION...... 289 Feng Lu ; Peng-Chun Peng ; Siming Liu ; Mu Xu ; Shuyi Shen ; Gee-Kung Chang

TRANSMISSION OF 4×50-GB/S PAM-4 SIGNAL OVER 80-KM SINGLE MODE FIBER USING NEURAL NETWORK ...... 292 Ming Luo ; Fan Gao ; Xiang Li ; Zhixue He ; Songnian Fu

OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN FIBER-OPTIC NETWORKS ENABLED BY MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES...... 295 Faisal Nadeem Khan ; Chao Lu ; Alan Pak Tao Lau

JOINT ESTIMATION OF LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO BASED ON NEURAL NETWORKS...... 298 F. J. Vaquero Caballero ; David Ives ; Qunbi Zhuge ; Maurice O'sullivan ; Seb J. Savory

BLIND AND FAST MODULATION FORMAT IDENTIFICATION BY FREQUENCY-OFFSET LOADING FOR HITLESS FLEXIBLE TRANSCEIVER ...... 301 Jianing Lu ; Songnian Fu ; Lei Deng ; Ming Tang ; Zhouyi Hu ; Deming Liu ; Chun-Kit Chan

AN ACCURATE AND ROBUST PDL MONITOR BY DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING IN COHERENT RECEIVER ...... 304 Huihui Li ; Guoxiu Huang ; Zhenning Tao ; Hao Chen ; Shoichiro Oda ; Yuichi Akiyama ; Tomohiro Yamauchi ; Takeshi Hoshida

AN ACCURATE ALGORITHM TO QUANTITATIVELY IDENTIFY THE PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION CAUSED BY LINEAR CROSSTALK ...... 307 Xiaofei Su ; Yangyang Fan ; Ke Zhang ; Hao Chen ; Zhenning Tao ; Shoichiro Oda ; Takeshi Hoshida

INTELLIGENT REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS BASED ON MICROWAVE PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES...... 310 A. Bogoni

FREQUENCY-AGILE AND FILTER-FREE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TRANSCEIVER BASED ON PHOTONICS ...... 313 F. Scotti ; D. Onori ; A. Bogoni ; P. Ghelfi

PHOTONIC SAMPLING OF BROADBAND QAM MICROWAVE SIGNALS EXPLOITING INTERLEAVED OPTICAL NYQUIST PULSES ...... 316 Valeria Vercesi ; Daniel Onori ; John Davies ; Alwyn Seeds ; Chin-Pang Liu

FAST AND LINEAR PHOTONIC INTEGRATED MICROWAVE PHASE-SHIFTER FOR 5G BEAM-STEERING APPLICATIONS ...... 319 F. Falconi ; C. Porzi ; S. Pinna ; V. Sorianello ; G. Serafino ; M. Puleri ; A. D'errico ; M. Romagnoli ; A. Bogoni ; P. Ghelfi

INTEGRATED PHOTONIC TRUE-TIME DELAY BEAMFORMER FOR A KA-BAND PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA RECEIVER ...... 322 Vanessa C. Duarte ; João G. Prata ; Carlos Ribeiro ; Rogério N. Nogueira ; Georg Winzer ; Lars Zimmermann ; Rob Walker ; Stephen Clements ; Marta Filipowicz ; Marek Napierala ; Tomasz Nasilowski ; Jonathan Crabb ; Leontios Stampoulidis ; Javad Anzalchi ; Miguel V. Drummond

DRIVER-LESS SUB 1 VPP OPERATION OF A PLASMONIC-ORGANIC HYBRID MODULATOR AT 100 GBD NRZ...... 325 Benedikt Baeuerle ; Claudia Hoessbacher ; Wolfgang Heni ; Yuriy Fedoryshyn ; Arne Josten ; Christian Haffner ; Tatsuhiko Watanabe ; Delwin L. Elder ; Larry. R. Dalton ; Juerg Leuthold

HIGH SPEED MODULATOR BASED ON ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMER INFILTRATED SUBWAVELENGTH GRATING WAVEGUIDE RING RESONATOR...... 328 Zeyu Pan ; Xiaochuan Xu ; Chi-Jui Chung ; Hamed Dalir ; Hai Yan ; Ke Chen ; Yaguo Wang ; Ray T. Chen

HIGHLY EFFICIENT SILICON PHOTONICS PHASE MODULATOR USING GRAPHENE ...... 331 Marco Romagnoli

RECORD HIGH BANDWIDTH INTEGRATED GRAPHENE PHOTODETECTORS FOR COMMUNICATION BEYOND 180 GB/S...... 334 Daniel Schall ; Emiliano Pallecchi ; Guillaume Ducournau ; Vanessa Avramovic ; Martin Otto ; Daniel Neumaier

SINGLE-SIDEBAND THIN FILM LITHIUM NIOBATE (TFLN™) ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS FOR RF OVER FIBER ...... 337 V. Stenger ; J. Toney ; D. Brown ; S. Mckeown ; B. Griffin ; R. Nelson ; S. Sriram

INTEGRATED FERROELECTRIC BATIO3/SI PLASMONIC MODULATOR FOR 100 GBIT/S AND BEYOND ...... 340 Andreas Messner ; Felix Eltes ; Ping Ma ; Stefan Abel ; Benedikt Baeuerle ; Arne Josten ; Wolfgang Heni ; Daniele Caimi ; Jean Fompeyrine ; Juerg Leuthold

ULTRA-LARGE MODE AREA FIBERS FOR HIGH POWER LASERS...... 343 Cesar Jauregui ; Jens Limpert ; Andreas Tünnermann

DUAL REPETITION-RATE LASER BASED ON IN-CAVITY FRACTIONAL TEMPORAL SELF- IMAGING FOR LOW-NOISE RF SIGNAL GENERATION ...... 346 Mohamed Seghilani ; Xiao-Zhou Li ; Reza Maram ; Luis Romero Cortés ; José Azaña

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF MID-IR OCTAVE SPANNING SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN LOW LOSS SILICON-GERMANIUM WAVEGUIDE...... 349 Milan Sinobad ; Pan Ma ; Barry Luther-Davies ; Stephen Madden ; David J. Moss ; Regis Orobtchouk ; Salim Boutami ; Jean-Michel Hartmann ; Jean-Marc Fedeli ; Christelle Monat ; Christian Grillet

ULTRA-SHORT WAVELENGTH OPERATION OF A THULIUM DOPED FIBER LASER IN THE 1620–1660NM WAVELENGTH BAND ...... 351 S. Chen ; Y. Jung ; S. U. Alam ; S. Jain ; M. Ibsen ; R. Sidharthan ; D. Ho ; S. Yoo ; D. J. Richardson

TUNABLE MULTI-WAVELENGTH EDF LASER BASED ON SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER WITH WEAKLY-COUPLED FMF DELAY LINE ...... 354 Muqing Zhou ; Fang Ren ; Juhao Li ; Dawei Ge ; Yichi Zhang ; Zhangyuan Chen ; Yongqi He

MULTI-WAVELENGTH FIBER LASER USING A SINGLE MULTICORE ERBIUM DOPED FIBER...... 357 Y. Jung ; J. R. Hayes ; S. U. Alam ; D. J. Richardson

REVOLVER HOLLOW-CORE FIBERS AND RAMAN FIBER LASERS ...... 360 A. V. Gladyshev ; A. F. Kosolapov ; M. S. Astapovich ; A. N. Kolyadin ; A. D. Pryamikov ; M. M. Khudyakov ; M. E. Likhachev ; I. A. Bufetov

NON-LINEAR COMPENSATION OF MULTI-CAP VLC SYSTEM EMPLOYING PRE- DISTORTION BASE ON CLUSTERING OF MACHINE LEARNING ...... 363 Xingyu Lu ; Mingming Zhao ; Liang Qiao ; Nan Chi

ACCURATE INDOOR VISIBLE LIGHT POSITIONING SYSTEM UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUE WITH HEIGHT TOLERANCE ...... 366 Chin-Wei Hsu ; Siming Liu ; Feng Lu ; Chi-Wai Chow ; Chien-Hung Yeh ; Gee-Kung Chang

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF OQAM-OFDM BASED MIMO-NOMA OVER VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS ...... 369 Jin Shi ; Yang Hong ; Jing He ; Rui Deng ; Lian-Kuan Chen

SNR-THRESHOLD BASED ADAPTIVE LOADING FOR PAM-FAST-OFDM OVER OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS...... 372 Yang Hong ; Shuang Gao ; Lian-Kuan Chen ; Jian Zhao

DEMONSTRATION OF REDUCED COMPLEXITY MULTI-BAND CAP MODULATION USING XIA-PULSES IN VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS ...... 375 Paul Anthony Haigh ; Izzat Darwazeh

80 GB/S FREE-SPACE RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS WITH CARRIERLESS-AMPLITUDE-PHASE MODULATION AND SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODE...... 378 Ke Wang ; Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas ; Christina Lim ; Elaine Wong ; Kamal Alameh ; Hongtao Li ; Efstratios Skafidas

MULTICHANNEL ANALOG AND DIGITAL SIGNAL TRANSMISSION WITH WATT-CLASS ELECTRICAL POWER DELIVERY BY MEANS OF POWER-OVER-FIBER USING A DOUBLE- CLAD FIBER...... 381 Daisuke Kamiyama ; Akira Yoneyama ; Motoharu Matsuura

DYNAMIC TUNING OF CONTENTION WINDOW FOR OPTICAL WIRELESS NETWORKS...... 384 Sampath Edirisinghe ; Christina Lim ; Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas ; Elaine Wong ; Ke Wang ; Kamal Alameh

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS TELEMETRY...... 387 Lluis Gifre ; Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza ; Behnam Shariati ; Luis Velasco

FIELD TRIAL OF MONITORING ON-DEMAND AT INTERMEDIATE-NODES THROUGH BAYESIAN OPTIMIZATION...... 390 F. Meng ; A. Mavromatis ; Y. Bi ; S. Yan ; R. Wang ; Y. Ou ; K. Nikolovgenis ; R. Nejabati ; D. Simeonidou

COGNITIVE TOOL FOR ESTIMATING THE QOT OF NEW LIGHTPATHS ...... 393 Sandra Aladin ; Christine Tremblay

SOFTWARIZED, ELASTIC AND AGILE OPTICAL NETWORKS FOR DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND FAILURE RECOVERY...... 396 Hiroaki Harai

MACHINE-LEARNING-BASED SOFT-FAILURE DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 399 Shahin Shahkarami ; Francesco Musumeci ; Filippo Cugini ; Massimo Tornatore

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF TRANSPORT SDN RESTORATION OF SIGNAL- DEGRADED CONNECTIONS IN FLEXI-GRID NETWORKS...... 402 R. Martínez ; R. Casellas ; J. M. Fabrega ; R. Vilalta ; R. Muñoz ; L. Nadal ; M. Svaluto Moreolo ; A. Villafranca ; P. Sevillano

OBSERVE-DECIDE-ACT: EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF A SELF-HEALING NETWORK...... 405 K. Christodoulopoulos ; N. Sambo ; N. Argyris ; P. Giardina ; G. Kanakis ; A. Kretsis ; F. Fresi ; A. Sgambelluri ; G. Bernini ; C. Delezoide ; F. Cugini ; H. Avramopoulos ; E. Varvarigos

RECENT PROGRESS AND OUTLOOK FOR COHERENT PON...... 408 Domaniç Lavery ; Sezer Erkilinç ; Polina Bayvel ; Robert I. Killey

FAST, LOW-COMPLEXITY WIDELY-LINEAR COMPENSATION FOR IQ IMBALANCE IN BURST-MODE 100-GB/S/λ COHERENT TDM-PON ...... 411 Ryosuke Matsumoto ; Keisuke Matsuda ; Naoki Suzuki

DEMONSTRATION OF 10-GB/S, 5-GHZ SPACED COHERENT UDWDM-PON WITH DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING IN REAL-TIME...... 414 Ming Luo ; Tao Zeng ; Lilin Yi ; Jie Li ; Xiang Li ; Qi Yang ; Lei Xue

SIMULTANEOUS DPSK-ASK MODULATED DUAL-EML TRANSMITTER FOR COHERENT UDWDM-PON...... 417 J. Camilo Velásquez ; Marc Domingo ; Victor Polo ; Josep Prat

WIDE RANGE CARRIER FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION METHOD USING TRAINING SYMBOLS WITH ASYMMETRIC CONSTELLATIONS FOR BURST-MODE COHERENT RECEPTION ...... 420 Ryo Koma ; Masamichi Fujiwara ; Ryo Igarashi ; Takuya Kanai ; Jun-Ichi Kani ; Akihiro Otaka

DSP FOR HIGH-SPEED FIBER-WIRELESS CONVERGENCE ...... 423 Huaiyu Zeng ; Xiang Liu ; Sharief Megeed ; Frank Effenberger

PROBABILISTIC CONSTELLATION SHAPING: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION...... 426 Laurent Schmalen

BALANCING PROBABILISTIC SHAPING AND FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION FOR OPTIMAL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE...... 429 Junho Cho

COMBINING PROBABILISTIC SHAPING AND NONLINEAR MITIGATION: POTENTIAL GAINS AND CHALLENGES ...... 432 F. P. Guiomar ; L. Bertignono ; A. Nespola ; P. Poggiolini ; F. Forghieri ; A. Carena

A SIMPLE NONLINEARITY-TAILORED PROBABILISTIC SHAPING DISTRIBUTION FOR SQUARE QAM...... 435 Eric Sillekens ; Daniel Semrau ; Gabriele Liga ; Nikita A. Shevchenko ; Zhe Li ; Alex Alvarado ; Polina Bayvel ; Robert. I. Killey ; Domaniç Lavery

EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL COMPARISON OF PROBABILISTICALLY-SHAPED 4096 QAM AND UNIFORMLY-SHAPED 1024 QAM IN ALL-RAMAN AMPLIFIED 160 KM TRANSMISSION ...... 438 Seiji Okamoto ; Masaki Terayama ; Masato Yoshida ; Keisuke Kasai ; Toshihiko Hirooka ; Masataka Nakazawa

RESIDUAL NON-LINEAR PHASE NOISE IN PROBABILISTICALLY SHAPED 64-QAM OPTICAL LINKS...... 441 Dario Pilori ; F. Forghieri ; Gabriella Bosco

NEXT-GENERATION OPTICAL FRONTHAUL IN THE ICIRRUS PROJECT...... 444 Jörg-Peter Elbers ; Jim Zou ; Philippos Asimakopoulos ; Nathan Gomes ; Kai Habel ; Volker Jungnickel ; Gregor Linne ; Christoph Juchems ; Philippe Chanclou ; Patrik Ritoša ; Howard Thomas

FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS OF OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS...... 447 Peter A. Andrekson

TOWARDS PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS BASED ON PPLN WAVEGUIDES ...... 480 T. Umeki ; T. Kazama ; T. Kobayashi ; K. Enbutsu ; O. Tadanaga ; H. Takenouchi ; R. Kasahara ; Y. Miyamoto

FIBER-OPTIC FREQUENCY SHIFTING OF THZ-RANGE WDM SIGNAL USING ORTHOGONAL PUMP-SIGNAL POLARIZATION CONFIGURATION...... 483 Tomoyuki Kato ; Shigeki Watanabe ; Takahito Tanimura ; Robert Elschner ; Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst ; Colja Schubert ; Takeshi Hoshida

POLARIZATION-DIVERSITY IN-LINE PHASE SENSITIVE AMPLIFIER FOR SIMULTANEOUS AMPLIFICATION OF FIBER-TRANSMITTED WDM PDM-16QAM SIGNALS...... 486 T. Umeki ; T. Kazama ; T. Kobayashi ; S. Takasaka ; Y. Okamura ; K. Enbutsu ; O. Tadanaga ; H. Takenouchi ; R. Sugizaki ; A. Takada ; R. Kasahara ; Y. Miyamoto

AIM PROCESS DESIGN KIT (AIMPDKV2.0): SILICON PHOTONICS PASSIVE AND ACTIVE COMPONENT LIBRARIES ON A 300MM WAFER ...... 489 Erman Timurdogan ; Zhan Su ; Christopher V. Poulton ; Matthew J. Byrd ; Simon Xin ; Ren-Jye Shiue ; Benjamin R. Moss ; Ehsan S. Hosseini ; Michael R. Watts

WAFER-SCALE HIGH-DENSITY EDGE COUPLING FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT TESTING OF SILICON PHOTONICS ...... 492 Robert Polster ; Liang Yuan Dai ; Oscar A. Jimenez ; Qixiang Cheng ; Michal Lipson ; Keren Bergman

HIGH-PERFORMANCE INP PIC TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT BASED ON A GENERIC PHOTONIC INTEGRATION FOUNDRY ...... 495 Francisco M. Soares ; Moritz Baier ; Tom Gaertner ; Mike Feyer ; Martin Möhrle ; N. Grote ; M. Schell

SILICON PHOTONICS PLATFORM FOR 400G DATA CENTER APPLICATIONS ...... 498 Tuo Shi ; Tzung-I Su ; Ning Zhang ; Ching-Yin Hong ; Dong Pan

100G SWDM TRANSMISSION OVER 250M OM5 AND OM4+MULTIMODE FIBERS ...... 501 Earl Parsons ; Michael Lanier ; Randall Patterson ; Gary Irwin

VCSEL-BASED OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS FOR FUTURE DATA CENTER APPLICATIONS ...... 504 J. A. Tatum ; G. D. Landry ; D. Gazula ; J. K. Wade ; P. Westbergh

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES BASED ON CHIP-SCALE STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING...... 507 P. T. Rakich

PLASMONICS FOR COMMUNICATIONS...... 510 Juerg Leuthold ; Romain Bonjour ; Yannick Salamin ; Claudia Hoessbacher ; Wolfgang Heni ; Christian Haffner ; Arne Josten ; Benedikt Baeuerle ; Masafumi Ayata ; Andreas Messner ; Ueli Koch ; Tatsuhiko Watanabe ; Yuriy Fedoryshyn ; Ping Ma ; Maurizio Burla ; Delwin L. Elder ; Larry R. Dalton

COUPLING PHOTON SPIN WITH ELECTRON SPIN IN INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CHIPS...... 513 Li He ; Junyang Chen ; Mo Li

SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS FOR FUTURE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS ...... 516 Hirotaka Terai ; Shigehito Miki ; Taro Yamashita ; Shigeyuki Miyajima ; Masahiro Yabuno

LOW-LOSS SILICON PHOTONIC SWITCH MODULE TECHNOLOGY AND ITS USE FOR TO TRANSPONDER AGGREGATORS IN OPTICAL NETWORK NODES...... 519 Shigeru Nakamura ; Shigeyuki Yanagimachi ; Hitoshi Takeshita ; Akio Tajima

BROADBAND AND FABRICATION TOLERANT SILICON POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTERS WITH ULTRA-HIGH EXTINCTION RATIO OF 40 DB...... 522 Thomas Y. L Ang ; Jun Rong Ong ; Ezgi Sahin ; Bryan Pawlina ; G. F. R. Chen ; D. T. H. Tan ; Soon Thor Lim ; Ching Eng Png

TE MODE INPUT OPERATION OF WAVEGUIDE OPTICAL ISOLATOR WITH TAPERED MODE CONVERTER AND MAGNETO-OPTICAL PHASE SHIFTER ...... 525 Ryusuke Yamaguchi ; Yuya Shoji ; Tetsuya Mizumoto

GENETIC ALGORITHM AND POLYNOMIAL CHAOS MODELLING FOR PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF PHOTONIC CIRCUITS UNDER MANUFACTURING VARIABILITY ...... 528 Daniele Melati ; Abi Waqas ; Dan-Xia Xu ; Andrea Melloni

ON-CHIP CONTINUOUSLY TUNABLE OPTICAL DELAY LINE BASED ON CASCADED MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS ...... 531 Daniele Melati ; Andrea Melloni

FLEXIBLE SILICON OPTICAL SPLITTERS BASED ON HIGH ORDER MODES...... 534 Daigao Chen ; Xi Xiao ; Lei Wang ; Yuguang Zhang ; Xiao Hu

ULTRA-BROADBAND AND ULTRA-COMPACT OPTICAL 90° HYBRID BASED ON 2×4 MMI COUPLER WITH SUBWAVELENGTH GRATINGS ON SILICON-ON-INSULATOR...... 537 Luhua Xu ; Yun Wang ; David Patel ; Mohamed Morsy-Osman ; Rui Li ; Michael Hui ; Mahdi Parvizi ; Naim Ben- Hamida ; David. V. Plant

IMPACT OF FRACTIONALLY SPATIAL SUPER-CHANNEL TIME-SLOTTED SWITCH ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ...... 540 Yusuke Hirota ; José Manuel Delgado Mendinueta ; Satoshi Shinada ; Ruben S. Luís ; Hideaki Furukawa ; Hiroaki Harai ; Naoya Wada

MODULATION FORMAT, SPECTRUM AND CORE ASSIGNMENT IN A MULTICORE FLEXI- GRID OPTICAL LINK ...... 543 C. Rottondi ; P. Martelli ; P. Boffi ; L. Barletta ; M. Tornatore

ASSIGNING COUNTER-PROPAGATING CORES IN MULTI-CORE FIBER OPTICAL NETWORKS TO SUPPRESS INTER-CORE CROSSTALK AND INEFFICIENCY DUE TO BI- DIRECTIONAL TRAFFIC ASYMMETRY...... 546 Fengxian Tang ; Longfei Li ; Sanjay K. Bose ; Gangxiang Shen

COMPARISON OF SDM-WDM BASED DATA CENTER NETWORKS WITH EQUAL/UNEQUAL CORE PITCH MULTI-CORE FIBERS...... 549 Hui Yuan ; Arsalan Saljoghei ; Adaranijo Peters ; Georgios Zervas

REDUCTION OF THE POWER CONSUMPTION IN A WDM/SDM NETWORK BY USING CLADDING PUMP SCHEME MC-EDFA WITH IMPAIRMENT AWARE LEAST WAVELENGTH BANDWIDTH ROUTING...... 552 Hitoshi Takeshita ; Keiichi Matsumoto ; Emmanuel Le Taillandier De Gabory

FRAGMENTATION-MINIMIZED TRANSPONDER UPGRADING EMPLOYING CHANNEL BANDWIDTH ALIGNED SLOT ALLOCATION IN FLEXIBLE GRID OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 555 Hiroshi Hasegawa ; Takuma Yasuda ; Yojiro Mori ; Ken-Ichi Sato

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE IN THE ERA OF INTEGRATED OPTICS...... 558 Nick Kucharewski ; Cyriel Minkenberg ; German Rodriguez

SPECTRALLY EFFICIENT AND HIGHLY RESILIENT GROUPED ROUTING NETWORK ENHANCED WITH OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING...... 561 Keisuke Kayano ; Hiroshi Saito ; Yojiro Mori ; Hiroshi Hasegawa ; Ken-Ichi Sato ; Shoichiro Oda ; Setsuo Yoshida ; Takeshi Hoshida

20 GBIT/S TRICOLOR R/G/B LASER DIODE BASED BI-DIRECTIONAL SIGNAL REMODULATION VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM...... 564 Liang-Yu Wei ; Chin-Wei Hsu ; Yung Hsu ; Chi-Wai Chow ; Chien-Hung Yeh

10.72GB/S VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM BASED ON SINGLE PACKAGED RGBYC LED UTILIZING QAM-DMT MODULATION WITH HARDWARE PRE- EQUALIZATION...... 567 Xin Zhu ; Fumin Wang ; Meng Shi ; Nan Chi ; Junlin Liu ; Fengyi Jiang

DEMONSTRATION OF INTER-DIMENSIONAL ADAPTIVE DIVERSITY COMBINING AND REPETITION CODING IN CONVERGED MMW/FSO LINKS FOR 5G AND BEYOND MOBILE FRONTHAUL...... 570 Feng Lu ; Mu Xu ; Shuyi Shen ; Yahya M Alfadhli ; Hyung Joon Cho ; Gee-Kung Chang

ON CSI-FREE LINEAR EQUALIZATION FOR OPTICAL FAST-OFDM OVER VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS ...... 573 Yingjie Shao ; Yang Hong ; Lian-Kuan Chen

ROBUST AND SECURE INDOOR OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORTING MULTIPLE USERS ...... 576 Tian Liang ; Ke Wang ; Christina Lim ; Elaine Wong ; Tingting Song ; Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

HIGH-SPEED TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTODETECTOR ARRAY FOR 4-WDM 25-GBAUD FSO COMMUNICATION ...... 579 Toshimasa Umezawa ; Takahide Sakamoto ; Atsushi Kanno ; Kouich Akahane ; Atsushi Matsumoto ; Naokatsu Yamamoto ; Tetsuya Kawanishi

NODE INTERNAL MODELING FOR NETWORK RECOVERY WITH EMERGENCY OPTICAL SYSTEMS ...... 582 Sugang Xu ; Noboru Yoshikane ; Masaki Shiraiwa ; Takehiro Tsuritani ; Hiroaki Harai ; Yoshinari Awaji ; Naoya Wada

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF FULLY DISAGGREGATED WHITE BOX INCLUDING DIFFERENT TYPES OF TRANSPONDERS AND MONITORS, CONTROLLED BY NETCONF AND YANG ...... 585 N. Sambo ; K. Christodoulopoulos ; N. Argyris ; P. Giardina ; C. Delezoide ; A. Sgambelluri ; A. Kretsis ; G. Kanakis ; F. Fresi ; G. Bernini ; H. Avramopoulos ; E. Varvarigos ; P. Castoldi

P4-BASED MULTI-LAYER TRAFFIC ENGINEERING ENCOMPASSING CYBER SECURITY ...... 588 F. Paolucci ; F. Cugini ; P. Castoldi

FAST AND ACCURATE LIGHTPATH VALIDATION FOR SDN CONTROLLERS...... 591 Rui Manuel Morais ; João Pedro

ULTRA-LOW LOSS SILICA CORE FIBER...... 594 Yoshiaki Tamura

OBSERVATION OF GUIDED ACOUSTIC-WAVE BRILLOUIN SCATTERING AND ITS DIGITAL COMPENSATION IN COHERENT QAM TRANSMISSION...... 597 Masataka Nakazawa ; Masaki Terayama ; Seiji Okamoto ; Masato Yoshida ; Keisuke Kasai ; Toshihiko Hirooka

IMPACT OF SPONTANEOUS GUIDED ACOUSTIC-WAVE BRILLOUIN SCATTERING ON LONG-HAUL TRANSMISSION...... 600 M. A. Bolshtyansky ; J. -X. Cai ; C. R. Davidson ; M. V. Mazurczyk ; D. Wang ; M. Paskov ; O. V. Sinkin ; D. G. Foursa ; A. N. Pilipetskii

PROACTIVE DETECTION OF OPTICAL CABLE FAILURE CAUSED BY WATER FREEZING USING 1-µM-BAND MODE-DETECTION OTDR...... 603 Atsushi Nakamura ; Yusuke Koshikiya ; Tetsuya Manabe

LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS OF SOP TRANSIENTS DUE TO LIGHTNING STRIKES ON OPGW CABLES...... 606 F. Pittalà ; C. Stone ; D. Clark ; M. Kuschnerov ; C. Xie ; A. Haddad

REQUIREMENTS FOR SIMULATION-AIDED DESIGN OF SDM SYSTEMS ...... 609 Igor Koltchanov ; Stefanos Dris ; Alexander Uvarov ; André Richter

BANDWIDTH EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE 5G FRONTHAUL ...... 612 Philippe Sehier

EVOLVED CABLE ACCESS NETWORKS TO SUPPORT 5G SERVICES ...... 615 Zhensheng Jia ; Luis Alberto Campos ; Jing Wang ; Lin Cheng ; Curtis Knittle

DEMONSTRATION OF WEAKLY-COUPLED MDM-WDM AMPLIFICATION AND TRANSMISSION OVER 15-KM FMF EMPLOYING IM/DD...... 618 Jinglong Zhu ; Juhao Li ; Dawei Ge ; Zhongying Wu ; Fang Ren ; Zhenzhen Zhang ; Xiaoying Li ; Yichi Zhang ; Zhengbin Li ; Zhangyuan Chen ; Yongqi He

16-QAM-CARRYING ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM) MODE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TRANSMISSION USING ALL-FIBER FUSED MODE SELECTIVE COUPLER...... 621 Yan Luo ; Wei Zhou ; Lulu Wang ; Andong Wang ; Jian Wang

ENABLING COMPONENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ...... 624 Y. Jung ; S. U. Alam ; D. J. Richardson

A NOVEL FABRICATION METHOD FOR PHOTONIC LANTERNS...... 627 Neethu Mariam Mathew ; Lars Grüner-Nielsen ; Mario A Usuga Castaneda ; Karsten Rottwitt

MODE SELECTIVE PHOTONIC LANTERN WITH GRADED INDEX CORE...... 630 Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias ; Nicolas K. Fontaine ; Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez ; Zeinab Sanjabi Eznaveh ; Md Selim Habib ; Haoshuo Chen ; Roland Ryf ; Dennis Van Ras ; Pierre Sillard ; Cedric Gonnet ; Adrian Amezcua-Correa ; Sergio G. Leon-Saval ; Rodrigo Amezcua Correa

ON JOINT DESIGN OF PROBABILISTIC SHAPING AND FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION FOR OPTICAL SYSTEMS ...... 633 Georg Böcherer

LOW-COMPLEXITY VARIABLE-LENGTH OUTPUT DISTRIBUTION MATCHING WITH PERIODICAL DISTRIBUTION UNIFORMALIZATION...... 651 Tsuyoshi Yoshida ; Magnus Karlsson ; Erik Agrell

EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF RATE FLEXIBILITY AND PROBABILISTIC SHAPING BY 4D SIGNALING...... 654 Fabian Steiner ; Francesco Da Ros ; Metodi Plamenov Yankov ; Georg Böcherer ; Patrick Schulte ; Soren Forchhammer ; Gerhard Kramer

UNIVERSAL HYBRID PROBABILISTIC-GEOMETRIC SHAPING BASED ON TWO- DIMENSIONAL DISTRIBUTION MATCHERS ...... 657 Zhen Qu ; Shaoliang Zhang ; Ivan B. Djordjevic

EFFICIENT OFFLINE EVALUATION OF FEC CODES BASED ON CAPTURED DATA WITH PROBABILISTIC SHAPING ...... 660 Tsuyoshi Yoshida ; Magnus Karlsson ; Erik Agrell

OPTICAL NANOFIBER TECHNOLOGIES FOR SINGLE PHOTON GENERATION...... 663 Kohzo Hakuta

DISSIPATIVE KERR SOLITONS IN PHOTONIC CHIP-BASED MICRORESONATORS...... 666 Romain Bouchand ; Wenle Weng ; Erwan Lucas ; Maxim Karpov ; Martin H. P. Pfeiffer ; Junqiu Liu ; Hairun Guo ; Miles H. Anderson ; Arslan S. Raja ; Anton Lukashchuk ; John D. Jost ; Tobias J. Kippenberg

THREE DIMENSIONAL SILICON OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE STRUCTURE BENT BY ION IMPLANTATION FOR SURFACE COUPLING ...... 669 Y. Sakakibara ; Y. Atsumi ; T. Yoshida

PHOTONIC RESEVOIR COMPUTING: A BRAIN-INSPIRED APPROACH FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING ...... 672 Peter Bienstman ; Joni Dambre ; Andrew Katumba ; Matthias Freiberger ; Floris Laporte ; Alessio Lugnan

INJECTION-LOCKED HOMODYNE DETECTION FOR HIGHER-ORDER QAM TRANSMISSION ...... 675 Keisuke Kasai ; Yixin Wang ; Masato Yoshida ; Toshihiko Hirooka ; Masataka Nakazawa

PHASE NOISE CHARACTERISTICS OF INJECTION-LOCKED LASERS OPERATED AT LOW INJECTION POWERS...... 678 Ravikiran Kakarla ; Kovendhan Vijayan ; Jochen Schröder ; Peter A. Andrekson

SIMULTANEOUS 40-CHANNEL DWDM-DPSK SIGNAL MONITORING SYSTEM REALIZED BY USING SINGLE-CHANNEL LINEAR OPTICAL SAMPLING TECHNIQUE ...... 681 Bingxin Xu ; Xinyu Fan ; Shuai Wang ; Zuyuan He

ON-CHIP QUANTUM OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB SOURCES ...... 684 Christian Reimer ; Michael Kues ; Piotr Roztocki ; Stefania Sciara ; Luis Romero Cortés ; Benjamin Wetzel ; Yanbing Zhang ; Alfonso Cino ; Sai T. Chu ; Brent E. Little ; David J. Moss ; Lucia Caspani ; José Azaña ; Roberto Morandotti

OPTICAL CROSSTALK REDUCTION USING AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSION (ASE)...... 685 Haoshuo Chen ; Nicolas K. Fontaine ; Roland Ryf ; Juan Carlos Alvarado ; John Van Weerdenburg ; Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa ; Chigo Okonkwo ; Ton Koonen

PHOTONIC INTEGRATION FOR QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS ...... 688 Shayan Mookherjea

FAST FREQUENCY TUNING OF SILICON-PHOTONIC THERMO-OPTIC MZI FILTERS USING “TURBO PULSE” METHOD...... 691 Hiroyuki Matsuura ; Keijiro Suzuki ; Satoshi Suda ; Kazuhiro Ikeda ; Hitoshi Kawashima ; Shu Namiki

MACH-ZEHNDER-BASED 1×16 MULTIPLEXER IN SOI AND ANALYSIS OF PHASE NOISE PROPERTIES...... 694 Massimo Valerio Preite ; Philippe Velha ; Olivier Lemonnier ; Christophe Kopp ; Fabrizio Di Pasquale ; Claudio J. Oton

AN INTEGRATED SILICON BRAGG GRATING FILTER WITHOUT CIRCULATOR ...... 697 Rulei Xiao ; Yuechun Shi ; Yong Zhao ; Xiangfei Chen

BANDWIDTH TUNABLE FILTER WITH LARGE BANDWIDTH AND WAVELENGTH TUNING RANGE...... 700 Tingge Dai ; Gencheng Wang ; Jianfei Jiang ; Yuehai Wang ; Yubo Li ; Hui Yu ; Xiaoqing Jiang ; Jianyi Yang

FULLY FLEXIBLE FILTERING ELEMENT ON SOI WITH 7–80 GHZ BANDWIDTH TUNABILITY AND FULL FSR TUNING...... 703 G. Poulopoulos ; G. Giannoulis ; N. Iliadis ; T. Wahlbrink ; A. L. Giesecke ; D. Kalavrouziotis ; D. Apostolopoulos ; H. Avramopoulos

INTEGRATED OPTICAL ULTRA-BROADBAND ADD-DROP FILTER IN SILICON-ON- INSULATOR PLATFORM...... 706 R. Sumi ; Ramesh K Gupta ; Nandita Dasgupta ; Bijoy K Das

OFC 2018: AT&T'S PON & EDGE COMPUTE VISION...... 709 Edward Walter

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF 100 GB/S OPTICAL NETWORK TRANSPORT AND AGGREGATION FOR ETHERNET FRONTHAUL WITH LOW AND BOUNDED DELAY ...... 720 Raimena Veisllari ; Steinar Bjornstad ; Jan P. Braute

COORDINATING MULTI-ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING WITH MOBILE FRONTHAUL FOR OPTIMIZING 5G END-TO-END LATENCY ...... 723 Wei Wang ; Yongli Zhao ; Massimo Tornatore ; Han Li ; Jie Zhang ; Biswanath Mukherjee

SCENARIOS AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FRONTHAUL ...... 726 Andrea Di Giglio ; Anna Tzanakaki ; Dimtira Simeonidou

600-GHZ-WAVE BEAM STEERING BY TERAHERTZ-WAVE COMBINER...... 729 Yang Zhou ; Goki Sakano ; Yusuke Yamanaka ; Hiroshi Ito ; Tadao Ishibashi ; Kazutoshi Kato

OPTICAL BEAMFORMER FOR K-BAND SMART ANTENNA SYSTEMS ...... 732 A. M. Trinidad ; N. Tessema ; Z. Cao ; J. H. C. Van Zantvoort ; A. Dubok ; A. N. H. Al-Rawi ; E. Tangdiongga ; A. B. Smolders ; A. M. J. Koonen

MMWAVE BEAMFORMING USING PHOTONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR FUTURE 5G MOBILE SYSTEMS ...... 735 Hongbo Lu ; Gengchen Liu ; Roberto Proietti ; Vincent Squitieri ; Kaiqi Zhang ; Alberto Castro ; Q. Jane Gu ; Zhi Ding ; S. J. Ben Yoo

120GB/S WIRELESS TERAHERTZ-WAVE SIGNAL DELIVERY BY 375GHZ-500GHZ MULTI- CARRIER IN A 2×2 MIMO SYSTEM...... 738 Xinying Li ; Jianjun Yu ; Kaihui Wang ; Miao Kong ; Wen Zhou ; Zihang Zhu ; Can Wang ; Mingming Zhao ; Gee-Kung Chang

RADIO-OVER-FIBER-BASED SEAMLESS FIBER-WIRELESS CONVERGENCE FOR SMALL CELL AND LINEAR CELL NETWORKS ...... 741 Pham Tien Dat ; Atsushi Kanno ; Naokatsu Yamamoto ; Tetsuya Kawanishi

FOUR-CHANNEL ROF TRANSMISSION OVER POLARIZATION MAINTAINING ELLIPTICAL RING CORE FIBER...... 744 Reza Mirzaei Nejad ; Farzan Tavakoli ; Lixian Wang ; Xun Guan ; Sophie Larochelle ; Leslie A. Rusch

PROBABILISTICALLY SHAPED 16QAM SIGNAL TRANSMISSION IN A PHOTONICS-AIDED WIRELESS TERAHERTZ-WAVE SYSTEM...... 747 Kaihui Wang ; Xinying Li ; Miao Kong ; Pengqi Gou ; Wen Zhou ; Jianjun Yu

EXPANDED-BEAM THROUGH-SUBSTRATE COUPLING INTERFACE FOR ALIGNMENT TOLERANT PACKAGING OF SILICON PHOTONICS ...... 750 N. Mangal ; J. Missinne ; G. Roelkens ; J. Van Campenhout ; G. Van Steenberge ; B. Snyder

CHARACTERIZATION OF COUPLING PROPERTIES OF VERTICALLY CURVED SI SURFACE OPTICAL COUPLER DESIGNED FOR COUPLING WITH 5-µM-MFD SMF...... 753 Y. Atsumi ; T. Yoshida ; E. Omoda ; Y. Sakakibara

PACKAGING AND ASSEMBLY CHALLENGES FOR 50G SILICON PHOTONICS INTERPOSERS...... 756 Bradley Snyder ; Nivesh Mangal ; Guy Lepage ; Sadhishkumar Balakrishnan ; Xiao Sun ; Nicolas Pantano ; Michal Rakowski ; Lieve Bogaerts ; Peter De Heyn ; Peter Verheyen ; Andy Miller ; Marianna Pantouvaki ; Philippe Absil ; Joris Van Campenhout

IN-LINE OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION FOR SILICON PHOTONICS PLATFORM BY FLIP-CHIP BONDED INP-SOAS...... 759 T. Matsumoto ; T. Kurahashi ; R. Konoike ; K. Tanizawa ; K. Suzuki ; A. Uetake ; K. Takabayashi ; K. Ikeda ; H. Kawashima ; S. Akiyama ; S. Sekiguchi

OPTIMIZATION DESIGN OF EFFICIENT BROADBAND BI-LAYER GRATING COUPLERS FOR A SILICON NITRIDE-ON-SILICON FOUNDRY PLATFORM...... 762 Jason C. C. Mak ; Quentin Wilmart ; Ségolène Olivier ; Sylvie Menezo ; Joyce K. S. Poon

SUB-WAVELENGTH SPACING OPTICAL PHASE ARRAY NANOANTENNA EMITTER WITH VERTICAL SILICON PHOTONIC VIAS ...... 765 Yu Zhang ; Chuan Qin ; Kuanping Shang ; Gengchen Liu ; Guangyao Liu ; S. J. Ben Yoo

A COMPACT 212.5-GBIT/S TRANSMITTER OPTICAL SUB-ASSEMBLY WITH DMLS AND QUAD LINEAR DRIVER ...... 768 Naoki Itabashi ; Yoshiyuki Sugimoto ; Yasushi Fujimura ; Keiji Tanaka ; Shoichi Ogita

LOW-COST HYBRID-INTEGRATED MICRO-INTRADYNE COHERENT RECEIVER USING FPCB WIRINGS...... 771 Seo-Young Lee ; Young-Tak Han ; Jong-Hoi Kim ; Young-Ho Ko ; Hyun-Do Jung ; Joong-Seon Choe ; Chun-Ju Youn ; Won-Seok Han ; Seok-Tae Kim ; Yongsoon Baek

SOA FOR FUTURE PONS...... 774 René Bonk

25G BASED PON TECHNOLOGY...... 777 Ed Harstead

DSP-FREE COHERENT RECEIVERS FOR DATA CENTER LINKS...... 780 Jose Krause Perin ; Anujit Shastri ; Joseph M. Kahn

INVESTIGATION ON THE DISPERSION TOLERANCE IN DUAL-DRIVE MZM-BASED DAC- LESS OPTICAL PAM4 TRANSMISSION...... 783 Kuo Zhang ; Qunbi Zhuge ; Haiyun Xin ; Zhenping Xing ; Rui Li ; Meng Xiang ; Sujie Fan ; Lilin Yi ; Weisheng Hu ; David V. Plant

DISPERSION-UNCOMPENSATED TRANSMISSION OF NRZ AND PAM-4 SINGLE-SIDEBAND SIGNALS USING D-EML...... 786 M. E. Chaibi ; L. Bramerie ; D. Erasme ; C. Peucheret

A 50GB/S-PAM4 CDR WITH ON-CHIP EYE OPENING MONITOR FOR REFERENCE-LEVEL AND CLOCK-SAMPLING ADAPTATION...... 789 Liu Chang ; Bozhi Yin ; Tingyu Yao ; Nan Qi ; Dan Li ; Jingbo Shi ; Juncheng Wang ; Hu Shang ; Rui Bai ; Patrick Yin Chiang

SINGLE- λ 112GBIT/S 80-KM TRANSMISSION OF PAM4 SIGNAL WITH OPTICAL SIGNAL- TO-SIGNAL BEAT NOISE CANCELLATION ...... 792 An Li ; Wei-Ren Peng ; Yan Cui ; Yusheng Bai

REAL-TIME DEMONSTRATION OF POLARIZATION-MULTIPLEXED PAM USING A COMPACT SILICON PHOTONICS DEVICE...... 795 A. Nespola ; S. Anderson ; P. Savio ; D. Pilori ; L. Bertignono ; M. Traverso ; M. Webster ; F. Forghieri ; R. Gaudino

SINGLE-CHANNEL 480-GB/S DIRECT DETECTION OF POL-MUX IQ SIGNAL USING SINGLE-SIDEBAND STOKES VECTOR RECEIVER...... 798 Di Che ; Chuanbowen Sun ; William Shieh

THE KRAMERS-KRONIG RECEIVER...... 801 A. Mecozzi ; C. Antonelli ; M. Shtaif ; X. Chen ; S. Chandrasekhar ; P. Winzer

16×112GB/S SINGLE-SIDEBAND PAM4 WDM TRANSMISSION OVER 80KM SSMF WITH KRAMERS-KRONIG RECEIVER ...... 804 Yixiao Zhu ; Mingxuan Jiang ; Xiaoke Ruan ; Chenjia Li ; Fan Zhang

TRANSMISSION IN 125-KM SMF WITH 3.9 BIT/S/HZ SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY USING A SINGLE-DRIVE MZM AND A DIRECT-DETECTION KRAMERS-KRONIG RECEIVER WITHOUT OPTICAL CD COMPENSATION...... 807 M. Presi ; G. Cossu ; G. Contestabile ; E. Ciaramella ; C. Antonelli ; A. Mecozzi ; M. Shtaif

PERFORMANCE OF DIGITAL BACK-PROPAGATION IN KRAMERS-KRONIG DIRECT- DETECTION RECEIVERS ...... 810 Z. Li ; L. Galdino ; T. Xu ; M. S. Erkilinç ; K. Shi ; E. Sillekens ; B. C. Thomsen ; P. Bayvel ; R. I. Killey

1.6TBPS WDM DIRECT DETECTION TRANSMISSION WITH VIRTUAL-CARRIER OVER 1200KM ...... 813 Son Thai Le ; Karsten Schuh ; Mathieu Chagnon ; Fred Buchali ; Henning Buelow

SINGLE-LANE 100GB/S 4-PAM TRANSMISSION OVER 80KM SSMF BASED ON K-K SCHEME AND INTEGRATED 10G TOSA ...... 816 Tianjian Zuo ; Sen Zhang ; Lei Liu ; Weiqiang Cheng ; Xiaofei Xu

THE ENHANCED KRAMERS KRONIG RECEIVER ...... 819 Lior Blech ; Yonina Eldar ; Cristian Antonelli ; Antonio Mecozzi ; Mark Shtaif

COMPACT SILICON MICRORING MODULATOR WITH TUNABLE EXTINCTION RATIO AND WIDE FSR...... 822 Hossam Shoman ; Hasitha Jayatilleka ; Anthony H. K. Park ; Nicolas A. F. Jaeger ; Sudip Shekhar ; Lukas Chrostowski

BANDWIDTH-AWARE FIGURE OF MERIT FOR SILICON-PHOTONIC DEPLETION MODE MODULATORS ...... 825 Hassan Sepehrian ; Aminreza Yekani ; Leslie A. Rusch ; Wei Shi

ACTIVE BRAGG REFLECTOR WAVEGUIDE DEMULTIPLEXER ARRAY WITH OVER 100 WAVELENGTH CHANNELS AND OPTICAL GAIN FOR LARGE PORT-COUNT WSS...... 828 Xiaodong Gu ; Masanori Nakahama ; Fumio Koyama

CMOS-COMPATIBLE SILICON PHOTONIC IQ MODULATOR FOR 84 GBAUD 16QAM AND 70 GBAUD 32QAM ...... 831 Jiachuan Lin ; Hassan Sepehrian ; Leslie A. Rusch ; Wei Shi

COHERENT OPTICS IN SI PHOTONICS...... 834 C. Doerr

THE SOFTWARE-DEFINED FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORK...... 885 António Eira

PREDEPLOYMENT OF TRANSCEIVERS FOR DYNAMIC LIGHTPATH PROVISIONING IN TRANSLUCENT FLEXGRID OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 912 Krzysztof Walkowiak ; Miroslaw Klinkowski

BENEFIT OF PROGRESSIVE DEPLOYMENT OF REGENERATORS ALONG WITH TRAFFIC GROWTH IN WDM ELASTIC NETWORKS...... 915 Thierry Zami ; Annalisa Morea ; Jelena Pesic

SCALABLE TOOLS FOR DESIGNING A RESILIENT VIRTUAL TOPOLOGY IN A MULTI- LAYER COMMUNICATION NETWORK...... 918 Yuri Smirnov ; Alex Gilgur

INTRODUCTION TO CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS...... 923 N/A

DEMONSTRATION OF SDN APPLICATION FOR MULTILAYER VIDEO CONTRIBUTION NETWORK SERVICE ...... 929 Konstantinos Antoniou ; Paul Wright ; Kristan Farrow ; Andrew Lord ; Reza Nejabati ; Dimitra Simeonidou

REAL-TIME INVESTIGATION OF TRANSMISSION LATENCY OF STANDARD 4K AND VIRTUAL-REALITY VIDEOS OVER A COMMERCIAL PON TESTBED...... 932 Jun Shan Wey ; Junwen Zhang ; Xiaohuan Lu ; Zhuang Ma ; Biduo Chen

HOW FAR CAN OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORKS SUPPORT IN MULTI-ACCESS EDGE COMPUTING FOR LOW DELAY? ...... 935 Junli Xue ; Guochu Shou

DYNAMIC ROUTING OF Y-00 QUANTUM STREAM CIPHER IN FIELD-DEPLOYED DYNAMIC OPTICAL PATH NETWORK ...... 938 Fumio Futami ; Takayuki Kurosu ; Ken Tanizawa ; Kentaro Kato ; Satoshi Suda ; Shu Namiki

SEAWATER COMMUNICATION WITH BLUE LASER CARRIED 16-QAM OFDM AT 3.7 GBAUD...... 941 Huai-Yung Wang ; Yu-Fang Huang ; Wei-Chun Wang ; Cheng-Ting Tsai ; Chih-Hsien Cheng ; Yu-Chieh Chi ; Gong-Ru Lin

SEA-TRIAL OF AN ETHERNET-BASED UNDERWATER VLC COMMUNICATION SYSTEM...... 944 G. Cossu ; A. Sturniolo ; A. Messa ; S. Grechi ; D. Scaradozzi ; A. Caiti ; E. Ciaramella

OPTICAL-BASED UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS...... 947 Jen-Chieh Chang ; Yun-Chieh Wang ; De-Yu Chen ; Chung-Yi Li ; Hai-Han Lu ; Xu-Hong Huang ; Wen-Shing Tsai

EFFECT OF LIMITED APERTURE SIZE ON A RETRO-REFLECTED COMMUNICATION LINK BETWEEN A GROUND STATION AND A UAV USING MULTIPLEXING OF ORBITAL- ANGULAR-MOMENTUM BEAMS ...... 950 Long Li ; Runzhou Zhang ; Peicheng Liao ; Hao Song ; Kaiheng Zou ; Guodong Xie ; Zhe Zhao ; Cong Liu ; Haoqian Song ; Kai Pang ; Guillaume Labroille ; Pu Jian ; Dmitry Starodubov ; Brittany Lynn ; Robert Bock ; Moshe Tur ; Alan E. Willner

EXPERIMENTAL EFFECT OF SCATTERING ON AN 80-GBIT/S QPSK WIRELESS LINK USING 4 ORBITAL-ANGULAR-MOMENTUM BEAMS ...... 953 Runzhou Zhang ; Long Li ; Zhe Zhao ; Guodong Xie ; Peicheng Liao ; Hao Song ; Cong Liu ; Haoqian Song ; Kai Pang ; Robert Bock ; Moshe Tur ; Alan E. Willner

AN IF-FREE TDM FRONTHAUL AGGREGATING TWO 128-MIMO SIGNALS WITH ENHANCED SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY USING BASEBAND SAMPLE INTERLEAVED GATHERING ...... 956 Longsheng Li ; Meihua Bi ; Yunhao Zhang ; Kuo Zhang ; Xin Miao ; Weisheng Hu

FREE SPACE INTRA-DATACENTER INTERCONNECTION UTILIZING 2D OPTICAL BEAM STEERING ...... 959 B. Shariati ; A. Bogris ; P. V. Dijk ; C. Roeloffzen ; I. Tomkos ; D. Syvridis

DEMONSTRATION OF MULTIPLE KERR-FREQUENCY-COMB GENERATION USING DIFFERENT LINES FROM ANOTHER KERR COMB LOCATED UP TO A 50 KM DISTANCE ...... 962 Peicheng Liao ; Changjing Bao ; Ahmed Almaiman ; Arne Kordts ; Maxim Karpov ; Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer ; Lin Zhang ; Fatemeh Alishahi ; Kaiheng Zou ; Yinwen Cao ; Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei ; Ahmad Fallahpour ; Moshe Tur ; Youichi Akasaka ; Tobias J Kippenberg ; Alan E. Willner

LINEARLY POLARIZED MULTI-WAVELENGTH COMB VIA RAYLEIGH SCATTERING INDUCED BRILLOUIN RANDOM LASING RESONANCE...... 965 Liang Zhang ; Yuan Wang ; Yanping Xu ; Liang Chen ; Xiaoyi Bao

A FIBERIZED METAMATERIAL DEVICE FOR ULTRAFAST CONTROL OF COHERENT OPTICAL SIGNALS...... 968 Iosif Demirtzioglou ; Angelos Xomalis ; Eric Plum ; Yongmin Jung ; Cosimo Lacava ; Kevin F. Macdonald ; Periklis Petropoulos ; David J. Richardson ; Nikolay I. Zheludev

DYNAMIC MULTIWAVELENGTH OPTICAL REFLECTION FILTER INDUCED IN A SUSPENDED-CORE FIBER BRAGG GRATING BY AMPLITUDE MODULATED ACOUSTIC WAVES ...... 971 Ricardo E Silva ; Martin Becker ; Manfred Rothhardt ; Hartmut Bartelt ; Alexandre A P Pohl

SILICON-GRAPHENE HYBRID SLOT WAVEGUIDE WITH ENHANCED FOUR-WAVE MIXING EFFICIENCY...... 974 Yuxing Yang ; Xinhong Jiang ; Zhenzhen Xu ; Yong Zhang ; Ciyuan Qiu ; Xuhan Guo ; Yikai Su

MULTI-MATERIAL AND MULTI-FUNCTIONAL OPTICAL FIBERS ...... 977 F. Sorin ; Wei Yan ; Alexis G. Page ; Tung Nguyen Dang ; Y. Qu

MOBILE XHAUL EVOLUTION: ENABLING TOOLS FOR A FLEXIBLE 5G XHAUL NETWORK...... 980 Yuki Yoshida

A NOVEL DATA-COMPRESSION TECHNOLOGY FOR DIGITAL MOBILE FRONTHAUL WITH LLOYD ALGORITHM AND DIFFERENTIAL CODING...... 1023 Mu Xu ; Zhensheng Jia ; Jing Wang ; L. Alberto Campos ; Gee-Kung Chang

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF AN ULTRA-LOW-LATENCY FRONTHAUL TRANSPORT OVER A COMMERCIAL TDM-PON PLATFORM ...... 1026 Sarvesh Bidkar ; Joe Galaro ; Thomas Pfeiffer

LOW LATENCY NETWORKS: FUTURE SERVICE LEVEL USE CASES AND REQUIREMENTS...... 1029 Michael Freiberger-Verizon ; Mark T Watts-Verizon

ULTRA-COMPACT SILICON MULTI-MODE WAVEGUIDE BEND BASED ON SUBWAVELENGTH ASYMMETRIC Y-JUNCTION ...... 1032 Weijie Chang ; Luluzi Lu ; Deming Liu ; Minming Zhang

A COMPACT THIN-FILM LITHIUM NIOBATE PLATFORM WITH ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS AND MMIS ...... 1035 Mathias Prost ; Guangyao Liu ; S. J. Ben Yoo

32-PORT 5.5%-? SILICA-BASED CONNECTING DEVICE FOR LOW-LOSS COUPLING BETWEEN SMFS AND SILICON WAVEGUIDES...... 1038 Junichi Hasegawa ; Kazuhiro Ikeda ; Keijiro Suzuki ; Shintaro Yamasaki ; Go Kobayashi ; Masanori Takahashi ; Hitoshi Kawashima

3µM SILICON PHOTONICS...... 1041 Timo Aalto ; Matteo Cherchi ; Mikko Harjanne ; Fei Sun ; Markku Kapulainen

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF 2-µM ON-CHIP TWO-MODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING USING TAPERED DIRECTIONAL COUPLER-BASED MODE(DE)MULTIPLEXER ...... 1044 Meng Huang ; Shuang Zheng ; Yun Long ; Lulu Wang ; Zhengsen Ruan ; Shuhui Li ; Li Shen ; Jian Wang

RECENT PROGRESS AND OUTLOOK ON MULTICORE FIBER FOR PRACTICAL USE...... 1047 Tomohiro Gonda ; Katsunori Imamura ; Kohei Kawasaki ; Ryuichi Sugizaki ; Shinichi Arai ; Masayoshi Tsukamoto ; Masato Shiino

FEW-MODE AND MULTICORE FIBER AMPLIFIERS TECHNOLOGY FOR SDM ...... 1050 Laurent Bigot ; Jean-Baptiste Trinel ; Géraud Bouwmans ; Esben Ravn Andresen ; Yves Quiquempois

INTER-CORE SKEW MEASUREMENTS IN TEMPERATURE CONTROLLED MULTI-CORE FIBER...... 1053 B. J. Puttnam ; G. Rademacher ; R. S. Luís ; J. Sakaguchi ; Y. Awaji ; N. Wada

EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TIME VARIATION OF ICXT IN MCFS WITH MULTIPLE INTERFERING CORES...... 1056 T. M. F. Alves ; A. V. T. Cartaxo

LOW LOSS SPLICING BETWEEN COUPLED MULTI-CORE FIBERS WITH THERMALLY EXPANDED CORES ...... 1059 Masato Suzuki ; Hitoshi Yoshii ; Teruhiro Ito ; Yoshinori Yamamoto ; Tetsuya Hayashi ; Takemi Hasegawa

REALISTIC MODEL FOR FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT CROSSTALK IN WEAKLY-COUPLED MULTICORE FIBER...... 1062 Lin Gan ; Ming Tang ; Li Shen ; Chen Xing ; Changjian Ke ; Chen Yang ; Weijun Tong ; Songnian Fu ; Deming Liu

RATE-ADAPTIVE LDPC CONVOLUTIONAL CODING WITH JOINT LAYERED SCHEDULING AND SHORTENING DESIGN ...... 1065 Toshiaki Koike-Akino ; David S. Millar ; Kieran Parsons ; Keisuke Kojima

MULTILEVEL CODING WITH SPATIALLY-COUPLED CODES FOR BEYOND 400GBPS OPTICAL TRANSMISSION ...... 1068 Yohei Koganei ; Tomofumi Oyama ; Kiichi Sugitani ; Hisao Nakashima ; Takeshi Hoshida

CODED MODULATION FOR NEXT-GENERATION OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS ...... 1071 David S. Millar ; Tobias Fehenberger ; Toshiaki Koike-Akino ; Keisuke Kojima ; Kieran Parsons

AN ITERATIVE SOFT INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR PILOT-ASSISTED OPTICAL- OFDM WITH LDPC CODE OPTIMIZED BY EXIT CHART ...... 1074 Noboru Osawa ; Shinsuke Ibi ; Koji Igarashi ; Seiichi Sampei

IRREGULAR POLAR TURBO PRODUCT CODING FOR HIGH-THROUGHPUT OPTICAL INTERFACE...... 1077 Toshiaki Koike-Akino ; Congzhe Cao ; Ye Wang ; Keisuke Kojima ; David S. Millar ; Kieran Parsons

ENERGY-EFFICIENT HIGH-THROUGHPUT STAIRCASE DECODERS ...... 1080 Christoffer Fougstedt ; Per Larsson-Edefors

INTEGRATED OPTICAL-WIRELESS RESOURCE SLICING MANAGEMENT FOR 5G SERVICE-BASED ARCHITECTURE AND MULTI-LEVEL RAN ...... 1083 Rentao Gu ; Mingyu Cen ; Luhan Wang ; Qize Guo ; Yuanjiong Diao ; Han Li ; Aimin Chen ; Lin Bai ; Yuefeng Ji

DEMONSTRATION OF ROUTING AND SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT AUTOMATION IN A TRANSPORT SDN FRAMEWORK ...... 1086 Srivatsan Balasubramanian ; Satyajeet Singh Ahuja ; Marco Rizzi ; Gayathrinath Nagarajan

HIGH PERFORMANCE STREAMING TELEMETRY IN OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS...... 1088 Abhinava Sadasivarao ; Sachin Jain ; Sharfuddin Syed ; Khuzema Pithewan ; Pravin Kantak ; Biao Lu ; Loukas Paraschis

DEMONSTRATION OF REAL TIME VNF IMPLEMENTATION OF OLT WITH VIRTUAL DBA FOR SLICEABLE MULTI-TENANT PONS ...... 1090 Frank Slyne ; Amr Elrasad ; Christian Bluemm ; Marco Ruffini

CASTOR: AN ARCHITECTURE TO BRING COGNITION TO TRANSPORT NETWORKS...... 1092 L. Velasco ; Ll. Gifre ; J. -L. Izquierdo-Zaragoza ; G. Julián-Moreno ; J. E. López De Vergara

FLOW/APPLICATION TRIGGERED SDN CONTROL IN HYBRID DATA-CENTER NETWORK "HOLST"...... 1094 Yukihiro Imakiire ; Masayuki Hirono ; Masaki Murakami ; Satoru Okamoto ; Naoaki Yamanaka

TOPOLOGY DESCRIPTION GENERATION AND PATH COMPUTATION FRAMEWORK FOR DYNAMIC OPTICAL PATH NETWORK WITH HETEROGENEOUS SWITCHES...... 1096 Kiyo Ishii ; Atsuko Takefusa ; Shu Namiki ; Tomohiro Kudoh

TOWARDS IP & TRANSPORT NETWORK TRANSFORMATION USING STANDARDIZED TRANSPORT NORTHBOUND INTERFACES ...... 1098 Ricard Vilalta ; Victor López ; Young Lee ; Haomian Zheng ; Yi Lin ; Ramon Casellas ; Oscar González-De-Dios ; Ricardo Martínez ; Raul Muñoz

AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF A MULTI-VENDOR DISAGGREGATED NETWORK AT THE L0 LAYER...... 1100 Omer Faruk Yilmaz ; Stephane St-Laurent ; Matthew Mitchell

JOINT OPTIMAL SERVICE CHAIN ALLOCATION, VNF INSTANTIATION AND METRO NETWORK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DEMONSTRATION ...... 1102 F. J. Moreno-Muro ; C. San-Nicolas-Martinez ; E. Martin-Seoane ; M. Garrich ; P. Pavon-Marino ; O. Gonzalez De Dios ; V. López

NETWORK SLICING RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND MONITORING OVER MULTIPLE CLOUDS AND NETWORKS...... 1104 Ricardo Martínez ; Ricard Vilalta ; Ramon Casellas ; Raul Muñoz ; Li Fei ; Pengcheng Tang ; Victor López

FULLY DISAGGREGATED ROADM WHITE BOX WITH NETCONF/YANG CONTROL, TELEMETRY, AND MACHINE LEARNING-BASED MONITORING...... 1106 A. Sgambelluri ; J. -L. Izquierdo-Zaragoza ; A. Giorgetti ; Ll. Gifre ; L. Velasco ; F. Paolucci ; N. Sambo ; F. Fresi ; P. Castoldi ; A. Chiadò Piat ; R. Morro ; E. Riccardi ; A. D'errico ; F. Cugini

O2CMF: EXPERIMENT-AS-A-SERVICE FOR AGILE FED4FIRE DEPLOYMENT OF PROGRAMMABLE NFV ...... 1108 Isabella De A. Ceravolo ; Diego G. Cardoso ; Cristina K. Dominicini ; Pedro Hasse ; Rodolfo Da S. Villaca ; Moises R. N. Ribeiro ; Magnos Martinello ; Reza Nejabati ; Dimitra Simeonidou

DEMONSTRATION OF NFV FOR MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING ON AN OPTICALLY DISAGGREGATED DATACENTRE IN A BOX ...... 1110 Michael Enrico ; Vaibhawa Mishra ; Arsalan Saljoghei ; Maciej Bielski ; Evert Pap ; Ilias Syrigos ; Oscar González De Dios ; Dimitris Theodoropoulos ; Dionisios N Pnevmatikatos ; Andrea Reale ; Dimitris Syrivelis ; Georgios Zervas ; Nick Parsons ; Kostas Katrinis

NETWORK ORCHESTRATION FOR DYNAMIC NETWORK SLICING FOR FIXED AND MOBILE VERTICAL SERVICES ...... 1112 Rodolfo Alvizu ; Sebastian Troia ; Van Minh Nguyen ; Guido Maier ; Achille Pattavina

NETWORKING BENEFIT OF MULTI-SUBCARRIER TRANSCEIVERS...... 1114 Mattia Cantono ; Fernando P. Guiomar ; Andrea Carena ; Vittorio Curri

REMOTE ABSTRACTION OF AN INSTALLED DARK FIBER NETWORK USING NOISE TO SIGNAL RATIO...... 1116 David J. Ives ; F. J. Vaquero Caballero ; Seb J. Savory

DATA-ANALYTICS-BASED OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING TECHNIQUE FOR OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS ...... 1119 Takahito Tanimura ; Takeshi Hoshida ; Tomoyuki Kato ; Shigeki Watanabe ; Hiroyuki Morikawa

TOWARDS A ROUTE PLANNING TOOL FOR OPEN OPTICAL NETWORKS IN THE TELECOM INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT ...... 1122 Brian D. Taylor ; Gilad Goldfarb ; Saumil Bandyopadhyay ; Vittorio Curri ; Hans-Juergen Schmidtke

DEMONSTRATING NETWORK-SCALE GAIN TRANSIENT IMPACT OF MULTIPLE SERIES EDFAS IN LINK FAILURE CASES...... 1125 Yusuke Hirota ; Masaki Shiraiwa ; Hideaki Furukawa ; Hiroaki Harai ; Naoya Wada

DESIGN AND DEPLOYMENT OF OPTICAL WHITE BOX ...... 1128 Niall Robinson

EXTREME SCALE COMPUTING — PERFORMANCE/ENERGY...... 1129 N/A

AUTONOMOUS DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH STEERING WITH SILICON PHOTONIC-BASED WAVELENGTH AND SPATIAL SWITCHING FOR DATACOM NETWORKS...... 1150 Yiwen Shen ; Alexander Gazman ; Ziyi Zhu ; Min Yee The ; Maarten Hattink ; Sebastien Rumley ; Payman Samadi ; Keren Bergman

RECONFIGURABLE SILICON PHOTONIC PLATFORM FOR MEMORY SCALABILITY AND DISAGGREGATION...... 1153 Erik F. Anderson ; Alexander Gazman ; Ziyi Zhu ; Maarten Hattink ; Keren Bergman

SILICON PHOTONICS AND PLASMONICS TOWARDS NETWORK-ON-CHIP FUNCTIONALITIES FOR DISAGGREGATED COMPUTING ...... 1156 Nikos Pleros

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR FIBER NONLINEARITY MITIGATION IN HIGH CAPACITY TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS ...... 1159 Olga Vassilieva

DEPLOYED SYSTEMS FOR QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS...... 1185 Qiang Zhang

CHAOTIC LASER BASED ONLINE PHYSICAL RANDOM BIT STREAMING SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION TO HIGH-THROUGHPUT ENCRYPTION ...... 1186 Kenichi Arai ; Susumu Shinohara ; Peter Davis ; Satoshi Sunada ; Takahisa Harayama

REAL-TIME TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN AT&T'S SDN-ENABLED CORE IP/OPTICAL NETWORK...... 1189 Simon Tse ; Gagan Choudhury

NETWORK MONITORING FOR CLOUD ...... 1192 Martin Machacek

ROF-BASED OPTICAL FRONTHAUL TECHNOLOGY FOR 5G AND BEYOND ...... 1196 Hoon Kim

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSMISSION USING UNIVERSAL FILTERED MULTICARRIER FOR MULTISERVICE APPLICATIONS IN 5G FIBER-WIRELESS INTEGRATED MOBILE FRONTHAUL...... 1199 Hyung Joon Cho ; Hyunwoo Cho ; Xu Mu ; Feng Lu ; Shuyi Shen ; Xiaoli Ma ; Gee-Kung Chang

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF BANDWIDTH-EFFICIENT INDOOR DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM BASED ON IFOF TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTING 4G LTE-A AND 5G MOBILE SERVICES...... 1202 Minkyu Sung ; Joonyoung Kim ; Seung-Hyun Cho ; Hwan Seok Chung ; Joon Ki Lee ; Jong Hyun Lee

DEMONSTRATION OF NON-ORTHOGONAL MULTIPLE ACCESS SCHEME USING MULTILEVEL CODING WITHOUT SUCCESSIVE INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION WITH 60 GHZ RADIO-OVER-FIBER FRONTHAUL...... 1205 Yu Tian ; Ka-Lun Lee ; Christina Lim ; Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

POWER-FADING-FREE IF-OVER-FIBER TRANSMISSION WITH DEMZM USING SIMPLE CHIRP CONTROL FOR HIGH-CAPACITY MOBILE FRONTHAUL LINKS ...... 1208 Shota Ishimura ; Abdelmoula Bekkali ; Kazuki Tanaka ; Kosuke Nishimura ; Masatoshi Suzuki

BLIND COMPENSATION OF NONLINEAR WAVEFORM DISTORTIONS IN RADIO-OVER- FIBER SYSTEM...... 1211 Byung Gon Kim ; Sung Hyun Bae ; Hoon Kim ; Yun C. Chung

A PDM BASED SPECTRAL AGGREGATION AND CELL DENSIFICATION FOR 5G POINT-TO- MULTIPOINT MOBILE FRONTHAUL WITH A POLARIZATION-TRACKING-FREE RAU DESIGN...... 1214 Jhih-Heng Yan ; Mu Xu ; Hsu-Hung Huang ; Mengzhe Liao ; Kai-Ming Feng ; Gee-Kung Chang

HETEROGENEOUSLY INTEGRATED III-V LASERS FABRICATED USING EPITAXIAL GROWTH ON AN INP/SIO2/SI SUBSTRATE...... 1217 Takuro Fujii ; Koji Takeda ; Hidetaka Nishi ; Shinji Matsuo

HIGH-EFFICIENCY, LOW-LOSS OPTICAL PHASE MODULATOR BASED ON III-V/SI HYBRID MOS CAPACITOR ...... 1220 Mitsuru Takenaka ; Jae-Hoon Han ; Jin-Kwon Park ; Frederic Boeuf ; Junichi Fujikata ; Shigeki Takahashi ; Shinichi Takagi

HIGH-SPEED HETEROGENEOUS INP-ON-SI CAPACITIVE PHASE MODULATORS...... 1223 Sylvie Menezo ; Torrey Thiessen ; Philippe Grosse ; Joyce K. S. Poon ; Christophe Jany ; Jeremy Da Fonseca ; Bertrand Szelag ; Benoit Charbonnier ; Georgio El-Zammar ; Olivier Lemonnier ; Patricia Bilondeau ; Stéphane Malhouitre ; Brigitte Montmayeul ; Loic Sanchez

REMOTELY CONTROLLED XG-PON DBA WITH LINEAR PREDICTION FOR FLEXIBLE ACCESS SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE...... 1226 Naoki Hanaya ; Yu Nakayama ; Manabu Yoshino ; Ken-Ichi Suzuki ; Ryogo Kubo

COHERENT RECEIVER DSP IMPLEMENTED ON A GENERAL-PURPOSE SERVER FOR FULL SOFTWARE-DEFINED OPTICAL ACCESS ...... 1229 Sang-Yuep Kim ; Takahiro Suzuki ; Jun-Ichi Kani ; Akihiro Otaka ; Toshihiro Hanawa

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION FOR OVER MBPS BASEBAND-OVER-MODULATION AMCC IMPLEMENTATION IN PTP WDM-PON...... 1232 Zhongwei Tan ; Chuanchuan Yang ; Zhaopeng Xu ; Lei Chen ; Xingang Huang ; Haipeng Guo ; Ziyuan Zheng ; Fan Zhang ; Ziyu Wang

WAVELENGTH ADJUSTMENT OF UPSTREAM SIGNAL USING AMCC WITH POWER MONITORING FOR WDM-PON IN 5G MOBILE ERA ...... 1235 Kazuaki Honda ; Hirotaka Nakamura ; Kazutaka Hara ; Kyosuke Sone ; Goji Nakagawa ; Yoshio Hirose ; Takeshi Hoshida ; Jun Terada ; Akihiro Otaka

MULTI-VENDOR INTEROPERATION OF SFP+ TRANSCEIVERS FOR CPRI SIGNAL TRANSMISSION WITH SUPERIMPOSED AMCC FOR MOBILE FRONTHAUL...... 1238 Goji Nakagawa ; Kyosuke Sone ; Setsuo Yoshida ; Shoichiro Oda ; Yoshio Hirose ; Takeshi Hoshida

10-GBPS REAL-TIME BURST-FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION USING DUAL-STAGE DETECTION FOR FULL-SOFTWARE OPTICAL ACCESS SYSTEMS ...... 1241 Takahiro Suzuki ; Sang-Yuep Kim ; Jun-Ichi Kani ; Akihiro Otaka ; Toshihiro Hanawa

FLEXIBLE ACCESS SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE (FASA)...... 1244 Kota Asaka ; Hirotaka Ujikawa ; Jun-Ichi Kani ; Akihiro Otaka

20-YEAR RELIABILITY TEST RESULTS FOR SC CONNECTOR INSTALLED ON OUTSIDE PLANT ...... 1247 Yoshiteru Abe ; Kota Shikama ; Shuichiro Asakawa ; Shuichi Yanagi

NOVEL IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS FOR IL ESTIMATION OF FIELD TERMINATED CONNECTORS...... 1250 Jose M. Castro ; Yu Huang ; Rick J. Pimpinella ; Bulent Kose ; Asher Novick ; Alex Berian ; Brett Lane

SMALL FOOTPRINT AIR-GAP MULTI FIBER CONNECTOR WITH LOW LOSS AND LOW MATING FORCE ...... 1253 Hajime Arao ; Sho Yakabe ; Fumiya Uehara ; Dai Sasaki ; Takayuki Shimazu

EDGE COUPLING INTEGRATED OPTICS PACKAGING CONCEPT USING LIQUID CRYSTAL ELEMENT ...... 1256 Alex Paquet ; Daniel B. Landry ; Yan Desroches ; Christine Alain

ULTRA-HIGH-DENSITY MCF CONNECTOR TECHNOLOGY...... 1259 Tetsu Morishima ; Osamu Shimakawa ; Jun Ito ; Takayuki Shimazu ; Hajime Arao ; Toshihisa Yokochi ; Fumiya Uehara ; Masaki Ohmura ; Tetsuya Nakanishi ; Tomomi Sano ; Tetsuya Hayashi

PHYSICAL-CONTACT 256-CORE MPO CONNECTOR WITH FLAT POLISHED MULTI-CORE FIBERS...... 1262 Yuki Saito ; Tetsu Morishima ; Ken Manabe ; Tetsuya Nakanishi ; Tomomi Sano ; Tetsuya Hayashi

MULTICORE-FIBER LC RECEPTACLE WITH COMPACT FAN-IN/FAN-OUT FOR SHORT- REACH TRANSCEIVERS...... 1265 Kota Shikama ; Yoshiteru Abe ; Toshiki Kishi ; Koji Takeda ; Takuro Fujii ; Hidetaka Nishi ; Takashi Matsui ; Atsushi Aratake ; Kazuhide Nakajima ; Shinji Matsuo

ADVANCES IN 400 GIGABIT ETHERNET FIELD TRIALS...... 1268 Lynn E. Nelson

COMPARISON OF WDM BANDWIDTH LOADING USING INDIVIDUAL TRANSPONDERS, SHAPED, AND FLAT ASE NOISE...... 1271 Thomas Richter ; Jie Pan ; Sorin Tibuleac

DSP-ENABLED FREQUENCY LOCKING FOR NEAR-NYQUIST SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY SUPERCHANNELS UTILIZING INTEGRATED PHOTONICS ...... 1274 Jeffrey Rahn ; Lee Dardis ; David Krause ; Mark Rice ; Chris Berry ; Aleš Kumpera ; Alan Nilsson ; Xian Xu ; Kevin Croussore ; Parmijit Samra ; Kenneth Weidner ; Zulfikar Morbi ; Scott Demars ; Arseny Vasilyev ; Charles Chen ; Paul Freeman

THE TRADE-OFF BETWEEN TRANSCEIVER CAPACITY AND SYMBOL RATE ...... 1277 L. Galdino ; D. Lavery ; Z. Liu ; K. Balakier ; E. Sillekens ; D. Elson ; G. Saavedra ; R. I. Killey ; P. Bayvel

31.2-TB/S REAL TIME BIDIRECTIONAL TRANSMISSION OF 78×400 GB/S INTERLEAVED CHANNELS OVER C BAND OF ONE 90-KM SMF SPAN...... 1280 Thierry Zami ; Bruno Lavigne ; Oriol Bertran Pardo ; Stefan Weisser ; Julien David ; Maël Le Monnier ; Jean- Paul Faure

HIGH-CAPACITY SDM TRANSMISSION OVER TRANSOCEANIC DISTANCES (INVITED) ...... 1283 A. V. Turukhin ; O. V. Sinkin ; H. G. Batshon ; M. Mazurczyk ; M. A. Bolshtyansky ; D. G. Foursa ; A. N. Pilipetskii

DREDDBOX: DEMONSTRATING DISAGGREGATED MEMORY IN AN OPTICAL DATA CENTRE ...... 1286 A. Saljoghei ; V. Mishra ; M. Bielski ; I. Syrigos ; K. Katrinis ; D. Syrivelis ; A. Reale ; D. N. Pnevmatikatos ; D. Theodoropoulos ; M. Enrico ; N. Parsons ; G. Zervas

DISAGGREGATED OPTICAL DATA CENTER IN A BOX NETWORK USING PARALLEL OCS TOPOLOGIES...... 1289 Hui Yuan ; Arsalan Saljoghei ; Adaranijo Peters ; Georgios Zervas

BRIDGING THE LAST MILE FOR OPTICAL SWITCHING IN DATA CENTERS ...... 1292 Hitesh Ballani ; Paolo Costa ; Istvan Haller ; Krzysztof Jozwik ; Kai Shi ; Benn Thomsen ; Hugh Williams

DECISION TREE CLASSIFICATION BASED MIX-FLOWS SCHEDULING IN OPTICAL SWITCHED DCNS ...... 1295 Cen Wang ; Hong Cao ; Shenzhen Yang ; Junyuan Guo ; Hongxiang Guo ; Jian Wu

WHAT IS THE OPEN COMPUTE PROJECT?...... 1298 N/A

GUARANTEED-AVAILABILITY NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION IN INTER- DATACENTER NETWORKS...... 1301 Jian Kong ; Inwoong Kim ; Xi Wang ; Qiong Zhang ; Weisheng Xie ; Hakki C. Cankaya ; Nannan Wang ; Tadashi Ikeuchi ; Jason P. Jue

DATA ANALYTICS AND MACHINE LEARNING APPLIED TO TRANSPORT LAYER...... 1304 Massimo Tornatore

Q-AVAILABILITY BASED VIRTUAL OPTICAL NETWORK PROVISIONING...... 1340 Inwoong Kim ; Xi Wang ; Martin Bouda ; Olga Vassilieva ; Qiong Zhang ; Paparao Palacharla ; Tadashi Ikeuchi

REAL-TIME SPECTRUM SURVEILLANCE IN FILTERLESS OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1343 B. Shariati ; M. Ruiz ; A. Sgambelluri ; F. Cugini ; L. Velasco

APPLYING DATA VISUALIZATION FOR FAILURE LOCALIZATION...... 1346 Alba P. Vela ; Marc Ruiz ; Luis Velasco

OVER-100-SPATIAL-CHANNEL PROGRAMMABLE SPECTRAL PROCESSOR FOR SDM SIGNAL MONITORING...... 1349 Mitsumasa Nakajima ; Kenya Suzuki ; Kazunori Seno ; Takashi Goh ; Ryoichi Kasahara ; Mitsunori Fukutoku ; Yutaka Miyamoto ; Toshikazu Hashimoto

RECONFIGURABLE 3-CHANNEL ALL-OPTICAL MIMO CIRCUIT ON SILICON BASED ON MULTI-PLANE LIGHT CONVERSION ...... 1352 Rui Tang ; Takuo Tanemura ; Samir Ghosh ; Keijiro Suzuki ; Ken Tanizawa ; Kazuhiro Ikeda ; Hitoshi Kawashima ; Yoshiaki Nakano

SILICON CHIP-TO-CHIP MODE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING...... 1355 Jan M. Baumann ; Edson Porto Da Silva ; Yunhong Ding ; Kjeld Dalgaard ; Lars H. Frandsen ; Leif Katsuo Oxenl?we ; Toshio Morioka

SYMMETRIC LITHIUM-NIOBATE WAVEGUIDE FABRICATED BY BONDING FOR MODE- DIVISION-MULTIPLEXING APPLICATIONS...... 1358 Mengruo Zhang ; Kaixin Chen ; Wei Jin ; Kin Seng Chiang

10 GB/S RADIO-OVER-FIBER AT 28 GHZ CARRIER FREQUENCY LINK BASED ON 1550 NM VCSEL CHIRP ENHANCED INTENSITY MODULATION AFTER 2 KM FIBER ...... 1361 Joris Van Kerrebrouck ; Haolin Li ; S. Spiga ; Markus C. Amann ; Xin Yin ; Johan Bauwelinck ; Piet Demeester ; Guy Torfs

FULL-DUPLEX AND SCALABLE MIMO FIBER-WIRELESS SEAMLESS SYSTEM IN W-BAND FOR FUTURE MOBILE NETWORKS...... 1364 Pham Tien Dat ; Atsushi Kanno ; Naokatsu Yamamoto ; Tetsuya Kawanishi

FULL-DUPLEX COHERENT RADIO-OVER-FIBER TRANSMISSION OVER 1:128 SPLIT PON USING AN EML AS BIDIRECTIONAL RRH OPTICS...... 1367 Bernhard Schrenk

TRANSMITTER-EMBEDDED AMCC, LTE-A AND OTDR SIGNAL FOR DIRECT MODULATION ANALOG RADIO OVER FIBER SYSTEMS ...... 1370 L. E. Ynoquio Herrera ; F. Calliari ; D. Villafani Caballero ; Gustavo C. Amaral ; P. J. Urban ; J. P. Von Der Weid

W-BAND RADIO-OVER-FIBER LINK BASED ON SELF-OSCILLATING OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATOR ...... 1373 G. K. M. Hasanuzzaman ; Atsushi Kanno ; Pham Tien Dat ; Stavros Iezekiel

PHYSICAL LAYER 1 GB/S SECRET WIRELESS DATA TRANSMISSION AT W-BAND USING A PHOTONIC DUFFING SYSTEM ...... 1376 Rafael Puerta ; Alvaro Morales ; Simon Rommel ; Inwoong Kim ; Olga Vassilieva ; Tadashi Ikeuchi ; Idelfonso Tafur Monroy

LEARNING FROM THE OPTICAL SPECTRUM: SOFT-FAILURE IDENTIFICATION AND LOCALIZATION [INVITED] ...... 1379 Luis Velasco ; Behnam Shariati ; Alba P. Vela ; Jaume Comellas ; Marc Ruiz

WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE BASED CAPACITY ESTIMATE AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FIBER-OPTIC LINKS...... 1382 Roland Ryf ; John Van Weerdenburg ; Roberto A. Alvarez-Aguirre ; Nicolas K. Fontaine ; René-Jean Essiambre ; Haoshuo Chen ; Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias ; Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa ; Ton Koonen ; Chigo Okonkwo

NON-LINEARITY MODELING AT ULTRA-HIGH SYMBOL RATES ...... 1385 P. Poggiolini ; G. Bosco ; A. Carena ; F. Guiomar ; M. Ranjbar Zefreh ; F. Forghieri ; S. Piciaccia

OBSERVING THE INTERACTION OF PMD WITH GENERATION OF NLI IN UNCOMPENSATED AMPLIFIED OPTICAL LINKS...... 1388 Mattia Cantono ; Dario Pilori ; Alessio Ferrari ; Andrea Carena ; Vittorio Curri

A NOVEL DETECTION STRATEGY FOR NONLINEAR FREQUENCY-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ...... 1391 Stella Civelli ; Enrico Forestieri ; Marco Secondini

100 GBPS B-MODULATED NONLINEAR FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXED TRANSMISSION ...... 1394 Son T. Le ; K. Schuh ; F. Buchali ; H. Buelow

SILICON PHOTONICS FOR 56G NRZ OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS ...... 1397 Joris Van Campenhout ; Yoojin Ban ; Peter De Heyn ; Ashwyn Srinivasan ; Jeroen De Coster ; Sebastien Lardenois ; Brad Snyder ; Sadhishkumar Balakrishnan ; Guy Lepage ; Negin Golshani ; Sofie Janssen ; Alicja Lesniewska ; Kristof Croes ; Andy Miller ; Peter Verheyen ; Marianna Pantouvaki ; Philippe Absil

ERROR-FREE LOOPBACK OF A COMPACT 25 GB/S × 4 CH WDM TRANSCEIVER ASSEMBLY INCORPORATING SILICON (DE)MULTIPLEXERS WITH AUTOMATED PHASE- ERROR CORRECTION ...... 1400 Tomoyuki Akiyama ; Tsuyoshi Aoki ; Takasi Simoyama ; Akio Sugama ; Shigeaki Sekiguchi ; Yohei Sobu ; Shinsuke Tanaka ; Yu Tanaka ; Seok-Hwan Jeong ; Motoyuki Nishizawa ; Nobuaki Hatori ; Akinori Hayakawa ; Toshihiko Mori

A SINGLE-LASER FLEXIBLE-GRID WDM SILICON PHOTONIC TRANSMITTER USING MICRORING MODULATORS...... 1403 Yelong Xu ; Jiachuan Lin ; Raphaël Dubé-Demers ; Sophie Larochelle ; Leslie Rusch ; Wei Shi

MONOLITHIC OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS IN 65 NM BULK CMOS ...... 1406 A. H. Atabaki ; S. Moazeni ; F. Pavanello ; H. Gevorgyan ; J. Notaros ; L. Alloatti ; M. T. Wade ; C. Sun ; S. A. Kruger ; K. A. Qubaisi ; I. Wang ; B. Zhang ; A. Khilo ; C. Baiocco ; M. A. Popovic ; V. Stojanovic ; R. J. Ram

ZN-DIFFUSION/OXIDE-RELIEF 940 NM VCSELS WITH EXCELLENT HIGH-TEMPERATURE PERFORMANCE FOR 50 GBIT/SEC TRANSMISSION ...... 1409 Kai-Lun Chi ; Zheng-Ting Xie ; M. Agustin ; J. -R. Kropp ; N. N. Ledentsov ; Kuo-Feng Tseng ; Ling-Gang Yang ; Jin-Wei Shi

85° C OPERATION OF 850 NM VCSELS DELIVER A 42 GB/S ERROR-FREE DATA TRANSMISSION FOR 100 METER MMF LINK...... 1412 Hsiao-Lun Wang ; Junyi Qiu ; Xin Yu ; Milton Feng ; N. Holonyak

HIGH-SPEED HIGH-EFFICIENCY BROADBAND SILICON PHOTODIODES FOR SHORT- REACH OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS IN DATA CENTERS...... 1415 Soroush Ghandiparsi ; Aly F. Elrefaie ; Hilal Cansizoglu ; Yang Gao ; Cesar Bartolo-Perez ; Hasina H. Mamtaz ; Ahmed Mayet ; Toshishige Yamada ; Ekaterina Ponizovskaya Devine ; Shih-Yuan Wang ; M. Saif Islam

112GB/S SELF-HETERODYNE STOKES VECTOR DETECTION WITH COMPACT RECEIVER FOR SHORT REACH OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS...... 1418 An Li ; Samina Chowdhury ; Yangjing Wen ; Wei-Ren Peng ; Yan Cui ; Yusheng Bai

APPLICATION OF TOMLINSON-HARASHIMA PRECODING (THP) FOR SHORT-REACH BAND-LIMITED NYQUIST PAM AND FASTER-THAN-NYQUIST PAM SIGNALING ...... 1421 Nobuhiko Kikuchi ; Riu Hirai ; Takayoshi Fukui

PERFORMANCE ENHANCED IM/DD 112 GB/S/ λ TRANSMISSION USING CONSTELLATION SWITCHING PAM4 ...... 1424 Meng Xiang ; Qunbi Zhuge ; Zhenping Xing ; Kuo Zhang ; Thang M. Hoang ; Fangyuan Zhang ; David V. Plant

SINGLE PHOTODIODE-PER-POLARIZATION RECEIVER FOR 400G SYSTEMS...... 1427 Bill Corcoran ; Benjamin Foo ; Arthur J. Lowery

112 GB/S/ λ CAP SIGNALS TRANSMISSION OVER 480 KM IN IM-DD SYSTEM ...... 1430 Jianyang Shi ; Junwen Zhang ; Xinying Li ; Nan Chi ; Gee-Kung Chang ; Jianjun Yu

448-GB/S PAM4 TRANSMISSION OVER 300-KM SMF-28 WITHOUT DISPERSION COMPENSATION FIBER ...... 1433 Zhixin Liu ; Tianhua Xu ; Gabriel Saavedra ; Polina Bayvel

4×100G PAM-4 TRANSMISSION IN FASTER-THAN-NYQUIST SYSTEMS INCORPORATING EIGENVALUE-SPACE PRECODING...... 1436 Mu Xu ; Zhensheng Jia ; Peng-Chun Peng ; Siming Liu ; Feng Lu ; Curtis Knittle ; Gee-Kung Chang

LOW COMPLEXITY FREQUENCY-DOMAIN NONLINEAR EQUALIZATION FOR 40- GB/S/WAVELENGTH LONG-REACH PON ...... 1439 Junwei Zhang ; Changjian Guo ; Jie Liu ; Xiong Wu ; Alan Pak Tao Lau ; Chao Lu ; Siyuan Yu

IMPROVING DISTRIBUTED SENSING WITH CONTINUOUS GRATINGS IN SINGLE AND MULTI-CORE FIBERS ...... 1442 Paul S. Westbrook ; Tristan Kremp ; Kenneth S. Feder ; Wing Ko ; Eric. M. Monberg ; Hongchao Wu ; Debra A. Simoff ; Roy. M. Ortiz

> 10 DB SNR ENHANCEMENT IN DISTRIBUTED ACOUSTIC SENSORS THROUGH FIRST ORDER PHASE NOISE CANCELLATION...... 1445 María R. Fernández-Ruiz ; Juan Pastor-Graells ; Hugo F. Martins ; Andres Garcia-Ruiz ; Sonia Martin-Lopez ; Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez

LONG-RANGE, POWER-EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED FLOW MEASUREMENTS USING CHIRPED-PULSE PHASE-SENSITIVE REFLECTOMETRY...... 1448 Andres Garcia-Ruiz ; Alejandro Dominguez-Lopez ; Juan Pastor-Graells ; Hugo F. Martins ; Sonia Martin-Lopez ; Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez

FROM SPIDER WEBS TO A BIOMIMETIC OPTICAL FIBRE SENSOR...... 1451 Kenny Hey Tow ; Desmond M. Chow ; Fritz Vollrath ; Isabelle Dicaire ; Tom Gheysens ; Luc Thévenaz

STRETCHABLE MULTI-FUNCTION FIBER SENSOR FOR TENSION, BENDING AND TORSION SENSING ...... 1454 Li Xu ; Ning Liu ; Jia Ge ; Xianqiao Wang ; Mable P. Fok

STABLE TORSION SENSOR WITH TUNABLE SENSITIVITY AND ROTATION DIRECTION DISCRIMINATION BASED ON A TAPERED TRENCH-ASSISTED MULTI CORE FIBER ...... 1457 Fengze Tan ; Zhengyong Liu ; Jiajing Tu ; Changyuan Yu ; Chao Lu ; Hwa-Yaw Tam

HIGHLY ACCURATE AND EFFICIENT MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY FOR OPTICAL CABLES AND UTILITY POLES...... 1460 Takashi Goto ; Masaki Waki ; Kazunori Katayama

MODAL DISPERSION COMPENSATION MODULE FOR 100G SWDM TRANSMISSION USING OM4 MULTIMODE FIBER ...... 1463 Xin Chen ; Jason E. Hurley ; Dong Gui ; Jeffery S. Stone ; Ming-Jun Li

NOVEL IN-SERVICE OSNR MONITORING METHOD FOR RECONFIGURABLE COHERENT NETWORKS...... 1466 D. Gariépy ; S. Searcy ; M. Leclerc ; P. Gosselin-Badaroudine ; G. He ; S. Tibuleac

MULTIMODE EDFA DESIGNS WITH REDUCED MDG BY CONSIDERING SPATIALLY DEPENDENT SATURATION EFFECTS ...... 1469 Steffen Jeurink ; Peter M. Krummrich

NONLINEAR ABSORPTION IN SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTOR AND ULTRAFAST MODE- LOCKED LASER PULSE CHARACTERIZATION ...... 1472 Z. Y. Li ; X. K. Zhan ; H. Y. Wang ; S. C. Wang ; C. Q. Wu

ENABLING SIMULTANEOUS DAS AND DTS MEASUREMENT THROUGH MULTICORE FIBER BASED SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING...... 1475 Zhiyong Zhao ; Ming Tang ; Liang Wang ; Songnian Fu ; Weijun Tong ; Chao Lu

100KM QUASI-LOSSLESS FIBER-OPTIC TRANSMISSION WITH A NOVEL CASCADED RANDOM RAMAN FIBER LASER ...... 1478 H. Wu ; B. Han ; Y. J. Rao

PROGRAMMABLE AND FAST-SWITCHABLE PASSIVELY HARMONIC MODE-LOCKING FIBER LASER...... 1481 Guoqing Pu ; Lilin Yi ; Li Zhang ; Weisheng Hu

SILICA CAPILLARY BASED WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATORS AND FUNCTIONAL FIBER DEVICES...... 1484 Xiaobei Zhang ; Jiawei Wang ; Ming Yan ; Hai Xiao ; Tingyun Wang

POLARIZATION-INSENSITIVE AND BANDWIDTH-ADJUSTABLE ANISOTROPIC DYNAMIC GRATINGS BASED ON SYNTHESIS OF OPTICAL COHERENCE FUNCTION METHOD...... 1487 Pan Xu ; Peng Gan ; Jun Wang ; Zhengliang Hu ; Yingming Hu

SIMULTANEOUS DISTRIBUTED TEMPERATURE AND VIBRATION MEASUREMENT WITH UWFBG BASED COHERENT OTDR...... 1490 Fan Ai ; Hao Li ; Tao He ; Zhijun Yan ; Deming Liu ; Qizhen Sun

HIGHLY SENSITIVE TEMPERATURE SENSOR BASED ON HYBRID PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER...... 1493 Zhilin Xu ; Dora Juan Juan Hu ; Zhifang Wu ; Slawomir Ertman ; Tomasz Wolinski ; Weijun Tong ; Perry Ping Shum

HIGHLY MODE SELECTIVE 3-MODE PHOTONIC LANTERN THROUGH GEOMETRIC OPTIMIZATION ...... 1496 Li Shen ; Lin Gan ; Chen Yang ; Weijun Tong ; Songnian Fu ; Deming Liu ; Ming Tang

PERFORMANCE COMPARISON AND ANALYSIS OF NON-LOCAL MEANS AND WAVELET DENOISING FOR BOTDA SENSOR ...... 1499 Huan Wu ; Liang Wang ; Zhiyong Zhao ; Chester Shu ; Chao Lu

112 GB/S PAM4 TRANSMISSION OVER 2 KM SMF USING A C-BAND GESI ELECTRO- ABSORPTION MODULATOR ...... 1502 Eslam El-Fiky ; Peter De Heyn ; Mohamed Osman ; Ashwyn Srinivasan ; Alireza Samani ; Marianna Pantouvaki ; Mohammed Sowailem ; Joris Van Campenhout ; David V. Plant

IN-SERVICE CROSSTALK MONITORING AND TRACING FOR SHORT-REACH SPACE- DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (SDM) OPTICAL NETWORKS ...... 1505 Ruijie Luo ; Nan Hua ; Yufang Yu ; Zhizhen Zhong ; Zhongying Wu ; Juhao Li ; Xiaoping Zheng ; Bingkun Zhou

OCBRIDGE: AN EFFICIENT TOPOLOGY RECONFIGURATION STRATEGY IN OPTICAL DATA CENTER NETWORK ...... 1508 Yinan Tang ; Hongxiang Guo ; Jian Wu

REAL-TIME 100 GBPS/ λ /CORE NRZ AND EDB IM/DD TRANSMISSION OVER 10 KM MULTICORE FIBER...... 1511 Rui Lin ; Xiaodan Pang ; Joris Van Kerrebrouck ; Michiel Verplaetse ; Oskars Ozolins ; Aleksejs Udalcovs ; Lu Zhang ; Lin Gan ; Ming Tang ; Songnian Fu ; Richard Schatz ; Urban Westergren ; Sergei Popov ; Deming Liu ; Weijun Tong ; Timothy De Keulenaer ; Guy Torfs ; Johan Bauwelinck ; Xin Yin ; Jiajia Chen

WAVELENGTH REUSE FOR SCALABLE MULTICASTING: A CROSS-LAYER PERSPECTIVE...... 1514 Houman Rastegarfar ; Kamran Keykhosravi ; Erik Agrell ; Nasser Peyghambarian

SDN-BASED APPLICATION DRIVEN IN-BAND ADAPTIVE CODING IN DATA CENTERS ...... 1517 Mingwei Yang ; Houman Rastegarfar ; Ivan B. Djordjevic

DEMONSTRATION OF 30GBIT/S QPSK-TO-PAM4 DATA-FORMAT AND WAVELENGTH CONVERSION TO ENABLE ALL-OPTICAL GATEWAY FROM LONG-HAUL TO DATACENTER ...... 1520 A. Fallahpour ; A. Mohajerin-Ariaei ; A. Almaiman ; Y. Cao ; F. Alishahi ; C. Bao ; P. Liao ; M. Ziyadi ; B. Shamee ; D. Starodubov ; M. Tur ; C. Langrock ; M. M. Fejer ; J. Touch ; A. E. Willner

A NOVEL SCALABLE AND LOW LATENCY HYBRID DATA CENTER NETWORK ARCHITECTURE BASED ON FLOW CONTROLLED FAST OPTICAL SWITCHES ...... 1523 Fulong Yan ; Gonzalo Guelbenzu ; Nicola Calabretta

ALL-FIBER FULL-DUPLEX BIDIRECTIONAL DATA TRANSMISSION FOR DATA CENTER NETWORKS (DCNS) OVER 2-KM ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM) FIBER USING COMMERCIAL SFP+ TRANSCEIVERS AND MODE SELECTIVE COUPLERS ...... 1526 Yifan Zhao ; Yize Liang ; Xinzhou Su ; Wei Zhou ; Yan Luo ; Zongyuan Huang ; Shuhui Li ; Jian Wang

BLOCKONET: BLOCKCHAIN-BASED TRUSTED CLOUD RADIO OVER OPTICAL FIBER NETWORK FOR 5G FRONTHAUL ...... 1529 Hui Yang ; Yizhen Wu ; Jie Zhang ; Haowei Zheng ; Yuefeng Ji ; Young Lee

DEMONSTRATION OF TRIPLE-MODE CONTROLLER RECOVERY WITH MULTIPLE INTEGRATED SERVICES IN SDN ...... 1532 Muhammad Irfan Anis ; Muhammad Faizan ; Syed Waleed ; Maheen Iqbal

SCHEDULING ALGORITHM FOR ALL-OPTICAL SWITCH UNDER NON-UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONDITION ...... 1535 Jongtae Song ; Kyeong-Eun Han ; Dae-Ub Kim ; Chansung Park ; Kwangjoon Kim

MAXIMIZING AVAILABILITY-WEIGHTED SLICE CAPACITY FOR SLICEABLE WIRELESS- OPTICAL BROADBAND ACCESS NETWORKS...... 1538 Ke Chen ; Chao Guo ; Longfei Li ; Sanjay K. Bose ; Gangxiang Shen

DEMONSTRATION OF X-HAUL ARCHITECTURE FOR 5G OVER CONVERGED SDN FIBER NETWORK...... 1541 Jim Zou ; Anthony Magee ; Michael Eiselt ; Andrew Straw ; Tim Edwards ; Paul Wright ; Andrew Lord

EXTENDED REACH 40KM TRANSMISSION OF C-BAND REAL-TIME 53.125 GBPS PAM-4 ENABLED WITH A PHOTONIC INTEGRATED TUNABLE LATTICE FILTER DISPERSION COMPENSATOR...... 1544 Grant M. Brodnik ; Cátia Pinho ; Frank Chang ; Daniel J Blumenthal

100GB/S POLMUX-NRZ TRANSMISSION AT 1550NM OVER 30KM SINGLE MODE FIBER ENABLED BY A SILICON PHOTONICS OPTICAL DISPERSION COMPENSATOR...... 1547 Vito Sorianello ; Gabriele De Angelis ; Francesco Fresi ; Fabio Cavaliere ; Luca Potì ; Michele Midrio ; Marco Romagnoli

SINGLE-WIRE DAC/ADC CONTROL AND FEEDBACK OF SILICON PHOTONIC RING RESONATOR CIRCUITS FOR WAVELENGTH SWITCHING ...... 1550 Ziyi Zhu ; Alexander Gazman ; David Gidony ; Yiwen Shen ; Kenneth Shepard ; Keren Bergman

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF REAL-TIME ADD/DROP OPERATIONS IN DSP- ENABLED FLEXIBLE ROADMS FOR CONVERGING FIXED AND MOBILE NETWORKS ...... 1553 E. Al-Rawachy ; R. P. Giddings ; J. M. Tang

COARSE AND FINE CONTINUOUSLY TUNABLE OPTICAL DELAY USING THE TIME-OF- FLIGHT IN FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS AND WAVELENGTH CONVERSION ...... 1556 A. Almaiman ; Y. Cao ; A. Mohajerin-Ariaei ; F. Alishahi ; A. Fallahpour ; Starodubov ; P. Liao ; C. Bao ; S. Zach ; N. Cohen ; M. Tur ; A. E. Willner

DOUBLY DIFFERENTIAL TWO-LEVEL 8PSK FOR ENABLING OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING IN COHERENT SYSTEMS...... 1559 Fan Liu ; Yi Lin ; Anthony J. Walsh ; Yonglin Yu ; Liam P. Barry

A NOVEL OFDM TRAINING SEQUENCE STRATEGY BASED ON A SLIDING WINDOW FOR OPTICAL BURST TRAFFIC ...... 1562 Bing Han ; Paulette Gavignet ; Erwan Pincemin

PHOTONIC GENERATION OF PSEUDO RANDOM MICROWAVE WAVEFORM BASED ON A RANDOM FIBER GRATING...... 1565 Hong Deng ; Ping Lu ; Stephen Mihailov ; Jianping Yao

RECONFIGURABLE INTER-CORE SWITCHING WITHIN MULTICORE FIBER...... 1568 Ruoxu Wang ; Qiong Wu ; Ming Tang ; Songnian Fu ; Deming Liu

A 10GB/S ALL-OPTICAL MATCH-LINE FOR OPTICAL CONTENT ADDRESSABLE MEMORY (CAM) ROWS...... 1571 G. Mourgias-Alexandris ; C. Vagionas ; A. Tsakyridis ; P. Maniotis ; N. Pleros

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING IN THE DISCRETE NONLINEAR FREQUENCY DOMAIN ...... 1574 Shi Li ; Jonas Koch ; Stephan Pachnicke

AUTOMATIC TUNING OF MICRORING-BASED HITLESS RECONFIGURABLE ADD-DROP FILTERS...... 1577 Douglas Aguiar ; Maziyar Milanizadeh ; Emanuele Guglielmi ; Francesco Zanetto ; Ruiqiang Ji ; Sujie Zhou ; Yanbo Li ; Xiaolu Song ; Lewei Zhang ; Marco Sampietro ; Francesco Morichetti ; Andrea Melloni

GRAY-ENCODED SET-PARTITION 8QAM FOR PER-WAVELENGTH 200-GB/S APPLICATION ...... 1580 Wei-Ren Peng ; Yanjun Zhu ; An Li ; Yan Cui ; Yusheng Bai

CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK BASED NONLINEAR CLASSIFIER FOR 112-GBPS HIGH SPEED OPTICAL LINK ...... 1583 Chun-Yen Chuang ; Li-Chun Liu ; Chia-Chien Wei ; Jun-Jie Liu ; Lindor Henrickson ; Wan-Jou Huang ; Chih-Lin Wang ; Young-Kai Chen ; Jyehong Chen

PROBABILISTICALLY SHAPED 1024-QAM OFDM TRANSMISSION IN AN IM-DD SYSTEM...... 1586 Jianyang Shi ; Junwen Zhang ; Nan Chi ; Yi Cai ; Xinying Li ; Yun Zhang ; Qi Zhang ; Jianjun Yu

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF FPGA-BASED HITLESS FLEXIBLE RECEIVER WITH BLIND MODULATION FORMAT IDENTIFICATION ...... 1589 Gengchen Liu ; Kaiqi Zhang ; Roberto Proietti ; Hongbo Lu ; Zhi Ding ; S. J. Ben Yoo

100GBPS IM/DD TRANSMISSION OVER 25KM SSMF USING 20G-CLASS DML AND PIN ENABLED BY MACHINE LEARNING...... 1592 Peixuan Li ; Lilin Yi ; Lei Xue ; Weisheng Hu

SINGLE-WAVELENGTH, SINGLE-PHOTODIODE PER POLARIZATION 276 GB/S PDM 8- QAM OVER 100 KM OF SSMF ...... 1595 Rafael Puerta ; Tomohiro Yamauchi ; Takahito Tanimura ; Yuichi Akiyama ; Tomoo Takahara ; Idelfonso Tafur Monroy ; Takeshi Hoshida

EXPLORING THE STOKES SPACE BY NON-ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION MODULATION FOR A SMOOTH UPGRADE OF OPTICAL LINK CAPACITY ...... 1598 Bernhard Schrenk ; Hannes Hübel

REAL-TIME CARRIER PHASE RECOVERY FOR 16-QAM UTILIZING THE NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES ALGORITHM...... 1601 V. Kostalampros ; C. Spatharakis ; K. Maragos ; G. Lentaris ; N. Argyris ; S. Dris ; A. Richter ; H. Avramopoulos ; D. Soudris

SINGLE-IFFT REAL-TIME LAYERED/ENHANCED ACO-OFDM TRANSMITTER ...... 1604 Qibing Wang ; Binhuang Song ; Bill Corcoran ; Arthur James Lowery

LASER PHASE NOISE TOLERANCE OF PROBABILISTICALLY-SHAPED CONSTELLATIONS...... 1607 Seiji Okamoto ; Fukutaro Hamaoka ; Masanori Nakamura ; Yoshiaki Kisaka

SYSTEM PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT USING ASYMMETRIC MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PAM FOR SHORT-REACH OPTICAL TRANSMISSION...... 1610 Shuto Yamamoto ; Akira Masuda ; Hiroki Taniguchi ; Mitsunori Fukutoku

A PMD-ADAPTIVE DBP RECEIVER BASED ON SNR OPTIMIZATION...... 1613 Gabriele Liga ; Cristian B. Czegledi ; Polina Bayvel

FLEXIBLE TRANSMISSION ENABLED BY NOVEL M2-QAM FORMATS WITH RECORD DISTANCE - SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY TUNEABILITY...... 1616 Fred Buchali ; Qian Hu ; Mathieu Chagnon ; Karsten Schuh ; Laurent Schmalen ; Sergejs Makovejs

KRAMERS-KRONIG DETECTION OF POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING SIGNALS BY A SINGLE-ENDED PHOTODIODE...... 1619 Qiulin Zhang ; Chester Shu

WEIGHTED FILTER PENALTY PREDICTION FOR QOT ESTIMATION...... 1622 Camille Delezoide ; Petros Ramantanis ; Patricia Layec

NUMERICAL ESTIMATION OF NONLINEAR IMPAIRMENTS IN A 62.5 µM MMF FOR MDM TRANSMISSION ...... 1625 Marius Brehler ; Peter M. Krummrich

DIGITAL NONLINEARITY COMPENSATION CONSIDERING SIGNAL SPECTRAL BROADENING EFFECTS IN DISPERSION-MANAGED SYSTEMS...... 1628 Boris Karanov ; Tianhua Xu ; Nikita A. Shevchenko ; Domaniç Lavery ; Gabriele Liga ; Robert I. Killey ; Polina Bayvel

NOISE ROBUST RECEIVER FOR EIGENVALUE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS...... 1631 Rasmus T. Jones ; Simone Gaiarin ; Metodi P. Yankov ; Darko Zibar

CHALLENGES AND ADVANCES OF DIRECT DETECTION SYSTEMS FOR DCI AND METRO NETWORKS...... 1634 J. L. Wei ; Q. Zhang ; L. Zhang ; N. Stojanovic ; C. Prodaniuc ; F. Karinou ; C. Xie

SUCCESSIVE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL STOKES-SPACE DIRECT DETECTION...... 1637 Amir Tasbihi ; Frank R. Kschischang

AN EFFICIENT NONLINEAR EQUALIZER FOR 40-GB/S PAM4-PON SYSTEMS ...... 1640 Xizi Tang ; Ji Zhou ; Mengqi Guo ; Jia Qi ; Tiantian Zhang ; Zhenshan Zhang ; Yueming Lu ; Yaojun Qiao

NOISE PREDICTION AND CANCELLATION ALGORITHM FOR THE BANDWIDTH LIMITED PAM-4 SYSTEM IN THE PRESENCE OF INTRA-CHANNEL HOMODYNE CROSSTALK...... 1643 Tianjian Zuo ; Tianyu Song ; Sen Zhang ; Lei Liu ; Weiqiang Cheng ; Xiaofei Xu

IMPROVING THE PERFORMANCE OF COHERENT QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS WITH BAYESIAN INFERENCE ...... 1646 S. Kleis ; C. G. Schaeffer

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PULSE-SHAPING FIR FILTER FOR NONLINEAR INTERFERENCE ALIGNMENT ...... 1649 Toshiaki Koike-Akino ; David S. Millar ; Kieran Parsons ; Keisuke Kojima

FEC-ASSISTED PERTURBATION-BASED NONLINEAR COMPENSATION FOR WDM SYSTEMS ...... 1652 Edson P. Da Silva ; Metodi P. Yankov ; Toshio Morioka ; Leif K. Oxenl?we

NONLINEAR INTERFERENCE MITIGATION VIA DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS ...... 1655 Christian Häger ; Henry D. Pfister

EFFICIENT TIME-DOMAIN DBP USING RANDOM STEP-SIZE AND MULTI-BAND QUANTIZATION ...... 1658 C. S. Martins ; L. Bertignono ; A. Nespola ; A. Carena ; F. P. Guiomar ; A. N. Pinto

RECENT ADVANCES ON MMFS FOR WDM AND MDM...... 1661 D. Molin ; M. Bigot-Astruc ; A. Amezcua-Correa ; P. Sillard

UNIVERSAL FIBERS FOR BOTH SINGLE-MODE AND MULTIMODE TRANSMISSIONS IN DATA CENTERS ...... 1664 Xin Chen ; Jason Hurley ; Jeff Stone ; Aramais R. Zakharian ; Bruce Chow ; Doug Coleman ; Ming-Jun Li

STUDY OF DISPERSION COMPENSATING MULTIMODE FIBER FOR FUTURE VCSEL PAM- 4 CHANNELS AT DATA RATES OVER 100 GB/S...... 1667 Asher Novick ; Jose M. Castro ; Rick Pimpinella ; Bulent Kose ; Paul Huang ; Brett Lane

SPECTRAL DEPENDENCE OF MULTIMODE FIBER MODAL BANDWIDTH ...... 1670 Jose M. Castro ; Rick J. Pimpinella ; Bulent Kose ; Yu Huang ; Asher Novick ; Brett Lane

GRADED-INDEX SEVEN-CORE FIBER OPTIMIZED FOR HIGH DENSITY AND ULTRA- WIDEBAND PARALLEL TRANSMISSION APPLICATION ...... 1673 Yinping Liu ; Lin Ma ; Chen Yang ; Weijun Tong ; Zuyuan He

REFERENCE-LESS METHOD FOR COMPUTING THE TRANSMISSION MATRIX OF A MULTIMODE FIBER ...... 1676 Moussa N'gom ; Theodore B. Norris ; Eric Michielssen ; Raj Rao Nadakuditi

OPTICAL AMPLIFICATION IN EXTENDED WAVELENGTH WINDOWS ...... 1679 M. A. Melkumov

C + L BAND DISTRIBUTED FEW-MODE RAMAN AMPLIFICATION WITH FLATTENED GAIN FOR MODE-DIVISION-MULTIPLEXED OPTICAL TRANSMISSION OVER 75-KM FEW- MODE FIBER ...... 1715 Jiaxiong Li ; Lulu Wang ; Jiangbing Du ; Zuyuan He ; Chengkun Cai ; Long Zhu ; Andong Wang ; Jian Wang

LOW PENALTY, DUAL STAGE, BROADBAND DISCRETE RAMAN AMPLIFIER FOR HIGH CAPACITY WDM METRO NETWORKS ...... 1718 Lukasz Krzczanowicz ; Md Asif Iqbal ; Ian Phillips ; Mingming Tan ; Pavel Skvortcov ; Paul Harper ; Wladek Forysiak

REDUCED CROSSTALK, POLARIZATION INSENSITIVE FIBER OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIER (PI FOPA) FOR WDM APPLICATIONS ...... 1721 M. F. C. Stephens ; V. Gordienko ; N. J. Doran

OPTICAL ADD-DROP FILTER BASED ON RAMAN-ASSISTED PHASE-SENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS ...... 1724 Bofang Zheng ; Qijie Xie ; Chester Shu

OPTICAL MITIGATION OF INTER-CHANNEL CROSSTALK FOR MULTIPLE SPECTRALLY OVERLAPPED 40-GBIT/S QPSK WDM CHANNELS USING NONLINEAR WAVE MIXING...... 1727 A. Mohajerin-Ariaei ; F. Alishahi ; A. Fallahpour ; Y. Cao ; A. Almaiman ; C. Bao ; P. Liao ; B. Shamee ; J. Touch ; M. Tur ; C. Langrock ; M. M. Fejer ; A. E. Willner

OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION IN INSTALLED OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1730 G. Saavedra ; Y. Sun ; K. R. H. Bottrill ; L. Galdino ; F. Parmigiani ; Z. Liu ; D. J. Richardson ; P. Petropoulos ; R. I. Killey ; P. Bayvel

LINK-PLACEMENT CHARACTERIZATION OF OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION FOR NONLINEARITY COMPENSATION ...... 1733 F. Da Ros ; M. P. Yankov ; E. P. Da Silva ; M. Lillieholm ; S. Forchhammer ; M. Galili ; L. K. Oxenl?we

SILICON WAVEGUIDE WITH LATERAL P-I-N DIODE FOR NONLINEARITY COMPENSATION BY ON-CHIP OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION...... 1736 A. Gajda ; F. Da Ros ; E. P. Da Silva ; A. Peczek ; E. Liebig ; A. Mai ; M. Galili ; L. K. Oxenl?we ; K. Petermann ; L. Zimmermann

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES FOR FLEXIBLE NETWORKS...... 1739 Alan E. Willner

NANOPHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY FOR CHIP-BASED QUANTUM LIGHT SOURCES...... 1763 Marcelo Davanco

LOW THRESHOLD CURRENT 1.3 µM FABRY-PEROT III-V QUANTUM DOT LASERS ON (001) SI WITH SUPERIOR RELIABILITY...... 1766 Daehwan Jung ; Justin Norman ; M J Kennedy ; Robert Herrick ; Chen Shang ; Catherine Jan ; Arthur C. Gossard ; John E. Bowers

HIGH PERFORMANCE 1550 NM QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS OPERATING AT 25–100° C ...... 1769 O. Eyal ; A. Willinger ; V. Mikhelashvili ; S. Banyoudeh ; F. Schnabel ; V. Sichkovsky ; J. P. Reithmaier ; G. Eisenstein

LATERAL CURRENT INJECTION MEMBRANE BURIED HETEROSTRUCTURE LASERS INTEGRATED ON 200-NM-THICK SI WAVEGUIDE ...... 1772 Takuma Aihara ; Tatsurou Hiraki ; Koji Takeda ; Koichi Hasebe ; Takuro Fujii ; Tai Tsuchizawa ; Takaaki Kakitsuka ; Shinji Matsuo

NANOSCALE OPTICAL MODULATORS: APPLICATION DRIVERS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS...... 1775 Gordon A. Keeler

BENEFITS OF PERFORMANCE AWARENESS IN COHERENT DYNAMIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 1778 Juraj Slovak ; Wolfgang Schairer ; Maximilian Herrmann ; Klaus Pulverer ; Enrico Torrengo

EXTENSION OF SDN NETWORKS TO THE SATELLITE DOMAIN; INTEGRATION OF AN SDN ENABLED WAN NETWORK, WITH TERRESTRIAL AND SUBMARINE ELEMENTS, WITH COMMAND AND CONTROL OF MULTIPLE SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS...... 1781 R. Kimball ; R. Williams ; J. Connelly ; N. Mcneal ; C. Cynamon ; R. Hughes ; K. Richardson

CAPACITY ENHANCEMENT IN OPTICAL NETWORKS USING MARGIN EXTRACTION...... 1784 Mohammad Sheikh Zefreh ; Serge Asselin

DEMONSTRATION OF AUTOMATIC CONNECTION PAIR DISCOVERY AND PATH SETTING IN FILTER-LESS POINT-TO-POINT WDM SYSTEMS...... 1787 Yutaka Takita ; Masatake Miyabe ; Kazuyuki Tajima ; Hiroshi Tomonaga ; Takeshi Hoshida

HOW MUCH IS CD ROADM CONTENTION BLOCKING?...... 1790 Guangzhi Li ; Kerong Yan ; Li Huang ; Bin Xia ; Fanhua Kong ; Yang Li

INFLUENCE OF THE MATURITY OF TECHNOLOGY ON THE BENEFIT OF 75 GHZ-SPACED 64 GBAUD CHANNELS IN WDM ELASTIC NETWORKS ...... 1793 Thierry Zami ; Bruno Lavigne ; Marco Bertolini

MICROWAVE PHOTONIC SYSTEMS FOR RF SENSING APPLICATIONS...... 1796 Dalma Novak ; Rod Waterhouse

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF DISTRIBUTED MASSIVE MIMO (DM-MIMO) IN IN-BUILDING FIBER-WIRELESS NETWORKS...... 1821 Solomon T. Abraha ; Dave F. Castellana ; Xiaojun Liang ; Anthony Ng'oma ; Andrey Kobyakov

MITIGATION OF MULTI-USER ACCESS IMPAIRMENTS IN 5G A-ROF-BASED MOBILE FRONTHAUL UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING FOR AN ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK NONLINEAR EQUALIZER ...... 1824 Siming Liu ; Yahya M. Alfadhli ; Shuyi Shen ; Huiping Tian ; Gee-Kung Chang

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF ANALOG IFOF-BASED SEAMLESS FIBER- WIRELESS INTERFACE FOR 5G INDOOR DAS SUPPORTING 8 FA AND 2×2 MIMO CONFIGURATION ...... 1827 Joonyoung Kim ; Minkyu Sung ; Eon-Sang Kim ; Seung-Hyun Cho ; Jong Hyun Lee

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF ANALOG TRANSMISSION USING MODE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ...... 1830 Cheng Xu ; Guanjun Gao ; Pengyue Deng ; Ruihuan Wu ; Tianwei Jiang ; Yifan Shen ; Jie Zhang

266.1-TBIT/S REPEATERED TRANSMISSION OVER 90.4-KM 6-MODE FIBER USING DUAL C+L-BAND 6-MODE EDFA ...... 1833 Yuta Wakayama ; Daiki Soma ; Shohei Beppu ; Seiya Sumita ; Koji Igarashi ; Takehiro Tsuritani

MODE-MULTIPLEXED 16-QAM TRANSMISSION OVER 2400-KM LARGE-EFFECTIVE-AREA DEPRESSED-CLADDING 3-MODE FIBER ...... 1836 John Van Weerdenburg ; Roland Ryf ; Roberto Alvarez-Aguirre ; Nicolas K. Fontaine ; René-Jean Essiambre ; Haoshuo Chen ; Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias ; Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa ; Simon Gross ; Nicolas Riesen ; Michael Withford ; David W. Peckham ; Alan Mccurdy ; Robert Lingle ; Ton Koonen ; Chigo Okonkwo

93.34 TBIT/S/MODE (280 TBIT/S) TRANSMISSION IN A 3-MODE GRADED-INDEX FEW- MODE FIBER ...... 1839 Georg Rademacher ; Ruben S. Luís ; Benjamin J. Puttnam ; Roland Ryf ; Hideaki Furukawa ; Ryo Maruyama ; Kazuhiko Aikawa ; Akihiro Maruta ; Yoshinari Awaji ; Naoya Wada

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM) DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFIER OVER 18-KM OAM FIBER WITH DATA-CARRYING OAM MULTIPLEXING AND WAVELENGTH-DIVISION MULTIPLEXING...... 1842 Long Zhu ; Jiaxiong Li ; Guoxuan Zhu ; Lulu Wang ; Chengkun Cai ; Andong Wang ; Shuhui Li ; Ming Tang ; Zuyuan He ; Siyuan Yu ; Cheng Du ; Wenyong Luo ; Jie Liu ; Jiangbing Du ; Jian Wang

MAXIMUM SUBMARINE CABLE CAPACITY ANALYSIS WITH C-BAND, C+L-BAND, AND MULTICORE FIBER C-BAND...... 1845 John D. Downie

56 GB/S DAC-LESS AND DSP-FREE PAM-4 USING A SILICON PHOTONIC DUAL-DRIVE MICHELSON INTERFEROMETRIC MODULATOR...... 1848 Rui Li ; David Patel ; Eslam El-Fiky ; Alireza Samani ; Zhenping Xing ; Yun Wang ; David V. Plant

106-GBIT/S PAM4 40-KM TRANSMISSION USING AN AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE WITH 42- GHZ BANDWIDTH...... 1851 Masahiro Nada ; Toshihide Yoshimatsu ; Yoshifumi Muramoto ; Tetsuichiro Ohno ; Fumito Nakajima ; Hideaki Matsuzaki

MONOLITHIC DUAL-POLARIZATION SILICON MODULATOR FOR 180 GB/S DMT SIGNAL TRANSMISSION ...... 1854 Xinru Wu ; Yang Hong ; Yeyu Tong ; Lin Chang ; Wen Zhou ; Lian-Kuan Chen ; John E. Bowers ; Hon Ki Tsang

100 GB/S DAC-LESS AND DSP-FREE TRANSMITTERS USING GESI EAMS FOR SHORT- REACH OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS ...... 1857 Jochem Verbist ; Michiel Verplaetse ; Joris Lambrecht ; Ashwyn Srivinasan ; Peter De Heyn ; Timothy De Keulenaer ; Ramses Pierco ; Arno Vyncke ; Philippe Absil ; Xin Yin ; Guy Torfs ; Joris Van Campenhout ; Gunther Roelkens ; Johan Bauwelinck

ASSESSMENT OF INTEGRATED GE FRANZ-KELDYSH MODULATOR FOR DISCRETE MULTI-TONE MODULATION...... 1860 Yeyu Tong ; Xinru Wu ; Jie Liu ; Chester Shu ; Hon Ki Tsang

56GHZ WAVEGUIDE GE/SI AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE...... 1863 Mengyuan Huang ; Pengfei Cai ; Su Li ; Guanghui Hou ; Naichuan Zhang ; Tzung-I Su ; Ching-Yin Hong ; Dong Pan

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS FOR NEXT GENERATION INTRA- AND INTER-DATACENTER INTERCONNECTS ...... 1866 Mohamed Morsy-Osman ; David V. Plant

KRAMERS-KRONIG RECEIVER WITHOUT DIGITAL UPSAMPLING...... 1869 Tianwai Bo ; Hoon Kim

TRANSMISSION OF 80-GBD 16-QAM OVER 300 KM AND KRAMERS-KRONIG RECEPTION USING A LOW-COMPLEXITY FIR HILBERT FILTER APPROXIMATION ...... 1872 Christoph Füllner ; Stefan Wolf ; Juned N. Kemal ; Joachim Lutz ; Lars Altenhain ; Rolf Schmid ; Wolfgang Freude ; Christian Koos ; Sebastian Randel

COMPARISON OF CHROMATIC DISPERSION SENSITIVITY BETWEEN KRAMERS-KRONIG AND SSBI ITERATIVE CANCELLATION RECEIVER...... 1875 Chuanbowen Sun ; Di Che ; William Shieh

264 GB/S TWIN-SSB-KK DIRECT DETECTION TRANSMISSION ENABLED BY MIMO PROCESSING ...... 1878 Sujie Fan ; Qunbi Zhuge ; Zhenping Xing ; Kuo Zhang ; Thang M. Hoang ; Mohamed Morsy-Osman ; Mohammed Y. S. Sowailem ; Yan Li ; Jian Wu ; David V. Plant

FREQUENCY-RESOLVED MEASUREMENTS OF SIGNAL, NOISE, AND SIGNAL-SIGNAL BEAT INTERFERENCE IN SELF-COHERENT DIRECT-DETECTION RECEIVERS ...... 1881 Xi Chen ; Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar ; Peter Winzer

SINGLE WAVELENGTH 480 GB/S DIRECT DETECTION TRANSMISSION OVER 80 KM SSMF ENABLED BY STOKES VECTOR RECEIVER AND REDUCED-COMPLEXITY SSBI CANCELLATION...... 1884 Thang M. Hoang ; Qunbi Zhuge ; Zhenping Xing ; Mohammed Sowailem ; Mohamed Morsy-Osman ; David V. Plant

REALIZING AI-ASSISTEDMULTI-LAYER RESTORATION IN A SOFTWARE-DEFINED IP- OVER-EON WITH DEEP LEARNING: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ...... 1887 Siqi Liu ; Baojia Li ; Zuqing Zhu

DEEP-RMSA: A DEEP-REINFORCEMENT-LEARNING ROUTING, MODULATION AND SPECTRUM ASSIGNMENT AGENT FOR ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS ...... 1890 Xiaoliang Chen ; Jiannan Guo ; Zuqing Zhu ; Roberto Proietti ; Alberto Castro ; S. J. B. Yoo

ANN-BASED TRANSFER LEARNING FOR QOT PREDICTION IN REAL-TIME MIXED LINE- RATE SYSTEMS ...... 1893 Weiyang Mo ; Yue-Kai Huang ; Shaoliang Zhang ; Ezra Ip ; Daniel C. Kilper ; Yoshiaki Aono ; Tsutomu Tajima

MACHINE LEARNING-ASSISTED MANAGEMENT OF A VIRTUALIZED NETWORK...... 1896 Michiaki Hayashi

FIELD TRIAL OF GAUSSIAN PROCESS LEARNING OF FUNCTION-AGNOSTIC CHANNEL PERFORMANCE UNDER UNCERTAINTY ...... 1899 F. Meng ; S. Yan ; K. Nikolovgenis ; Y. Ou ; R. Wang ; Y. Bi ; E. Hugues-Salas ; R. Nejabati ; D. Simeonidou

ANALYTICS-DRIVEN FAULT DISCOVERY AND DIAGNOSIS FOR COGNITIVE ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS ...... 1902 Danish Rafique ; Thomas Szyrkowiec ; Achim Autenrieth ; Joerg-Peter Elbers

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF COGNITIVE PROVISIONING AND ALIEN WAVELENGTH MONITORING IN MULTI-DOMAIN EON...... 1905 R. Proietti ; X. Chen ; A. Castro ; G. Liu ; H. Lu ; K. Zhang ; J. Guo ; Z. Zhu ; L. Velasco ; S. J. B. Yoo

HIGH-ORDER POLARIZATION OVERLAY FOR FUTURE OPTICAL ACCESS...... 1908 Bernhard Schrenk ; Fabian Laudenbach ; Hannes Hübel

BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT FOR AN OPTICAL ACCESS LINK BY USING A FREQUENCY INTERLEAVED DAC ...... 1911 Christian Schmidt ; Christoph Kottke ; Ronald Freund ; Volker Jungnickel

BANDWIDTH EXTENSION TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH-SPEED ACCESS NETWORKS ...... 1914 Christoph Kottke ; Christian Schmidt ; Ronald Freund ; Volker Jungnickel

60-KM TRANSMISSION OF 28-GB/S QPSK UPSTREAM SIGNAL IN RSOA-BASED WDM PON USING SBS SUPPRESSION TECHNIQUE ...... 1917 Daeho Kim ; Byung Gon Kim ; Hoon Kim

NOVEL DDM-OFDM-PON WITH HYBRID SUB-NYQUIST SAMPLING RATES FEATURING HETEROGENEOUS ONUS WITH DIFFERENT CAPACITIES ...... 1920 Jhih-Hao Hsu ; Min Yu ; Chia-Chien Wei ; Chi-Hsiang Lin ; Chun-Ting Lin ; Fumin Liu ; Lei Zhou ; Liming Fang

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF HIGH-ORDER QAM OFDM BASED ON PROBABILISTICALLY SHAPING IN THE DATACOM ...... 1923 Jianyang Shi ; Junwen Zhang ; Xinying Li ; Nan Chi ; Yun Zhang ; Qi Zhang ; Jianjun Yu

REALIZATION OF TUNABLE FREQUENCY RESPONSE IN POLARIZATION MODULATION AND DIRECT DETECTION SCHEME FOR HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL ACCESS SYSTEM ...... 1926 Siming Liu ; Peng-Chun Peng ; Chin-Wei Hsu ; Huiping Tian ; Gee-Kung Chang

LEVERAGING DEEP LEARNING TO ACHIEVE EFFICIENT RESOURCE ALLOCATION WITH TRAFFIC EVALUATION IN DATACENTER OPTICAL NETWORKS ...... 1929 Ao Yu ; Hui Yang ; Wei Bai ; Linkuan He ; Hongyun Xiao ; Jie Zhang

A NOVEL BUFFERING DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF OPTICAL FLOW SWITCH WITH SMART SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS...... 1932 Yuh-Jiuh Cheng ; Yhi Shiau ; Bor-Tauo Chen

OPTICAL NETWORKS THROUGHPUT ENHANCEMENT VIA TCP STOP-AND-WAIT ON HYBRID SWITCHES...... 1935 Artur Minakhmetov ; Cédric Ware ; Luigi Iannone

OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCHING ENABLED RECONFIGURABLE HPC NETWORK FOR TRAFFIC PATTERN ...... 1938 Shang Yu ; Bingli Guo ; Wenzhe Li ; Yu Zhou ; Xin Li ; Shanguo Huang

THE ROLE OF STANDARDS FOR CLOUD-SCALE DATA CENTERS...... 1941 Mark Filer ; Brad Booth ; David Bragg

IMAGE TRANSMISSION THROUGH MULTIMODE FIBERS ...... 1944 Demetri Psaltis

DEMONSTRATION OF STABLE 3×10 GB/S MODE GROUP-MULTIPLEXED TRANSMISSION OVER A 20 KM FEW-MODE FIBER ...... 1946 Huiyuan Liu ; He Wen ; Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias ; Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez ; Ning Wang ; Pierre Sillard ; Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa ; Guifang Li

3×4×10-GB/S MDM-WDM TRANSMISSION OVER 21-KM OM3 MMF WITH OOK MODULATION AND DIRECT DETECTION ...... 1949 Zhongying Wu ; Juhao Li ; Yu Tian ; Dawei Ge ; Jinglong Zhu ; Yichi Zhang ; Jinyi Yu ; Zhengbin Li ; Zhangyuan Chen ; Yongqi He

APPLICATIONS OF MULTIMODE FIBERS FOR SPECTROSCOPY AND POLARIZATION CONTROL...... 1952 Hui Cao

ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM) OF LIGHT IN FIBER ...... 1955 Siddharth Ramachandran

PHASE PURITY MEASUREMENT OF ULTRA-BROADBAND ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM MODE EXCITED BY META-FACET FEW-MODE FIBER...... 1956 Yifan Zhao ; Jinrun Zhang ; Jian Wang

DESIGN OF A WEAKLY-COUPLED RING-CORE FMF AND DEMONSTRATION OF 6-MODE 10-KM IM/DD TRANSMISSION ...... 1959 Dawei Ge ; Juhao Li ; Jinglong Zhu ; Lei Shen ; Yuyang Gao ; Jinyi Yu ; Zhongying Wu ; Zhengbin Li ; Zhangyuan Chen ; Yongqi He

PANDA-TYPE ELLIPTICAL-CORE MULTI-MODE FIBER WITH FULLY LIFTED EIGENMODES FOR LOW-CROSSTALK DIRECT FIBER VECTOR EIGENMODE SPACE- DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ...... 1962 Shi Chen ; Jian Wang

OUTLOOK ON IN-FIBER SILICON PHOTONICS ...... 1965 A. C. Peacock

INTERFACING TELECOM FIBERS AND SILICON CORE FIBERS WITH NANO-SPIKES FOR IN-FIBER SILICON DEVICES...... 1967 O. Aktas ; H. Ren ; A. F. J. Runge ; A. C. Peacock ; T. Hawkins ; J. Ballato ; U. J. Gibson

NOVEL OSNR MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES FOR COHERENT-DETECTION SYSTEMS...... 1970 Daniel Gariepy ; Steven Searcy ; Gang He ; Sorin Tibuleac

OSNR MEASUREMENT COMPARISON IN SYSTEMS WITH ROADM FILTERING FOR FLEXIBLE GRID NETWORKS ...... 1973 Jie Pan ; Thomas Richter ; Sorin Tibuleac

REAL-TIME 10GBPS POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT QUASICOHERENT RECEIVER FOR NG-PON2 ACCESS NETWORKS ...... 1976 Jose A. Altabas ; Guillermo Silva Valdecasa ; Morten Didriksen ; Jose A. Lazaro ; Ignacio Garces ; Idelfonso Tafur Monroy ; Jesper B. Jensen

WORLD'S FIRST TO-CAN COHERENT TRANSCEIVER...... 1979 Bernhard Schrenk ; Fotini Karinou

COHERENT ANALOG LOW POWER, SMALL SIZE 400/200/100GB/S RECEIVER BASED ON BIPOLAR SIGE TECHNOLOGY...... 1982 Edem Ibragimov ; Hong Jiang ; Pushui Xu ; Xiangtao Li

ACCESS NETWORK ECONOMICS: A TOTAL-COST-OF-OWNERSHIP PERSPECTIVE ...... 1985 Christoph Lange ; Dirk Kosiankowski ; Sandro Krauß ; Andreas Gladisch

SOFTWARE DEFINED 5G CONVERGED ACCESS AS A VIABLE TECHNO-ECONOMIC SOLUTION...... 1988 A. Marotta ; K. Kondepu ; D. Cassioli ; C. Antonelli ; L. M. Correia ; L. Valcarenghi

DBA CAPACITY AUCTIONS TO ENHANCE RESOURCE SHARING ACROSS VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATORS IN MULTI-TENANT PONS ...... 1991 Nima Afraz ; Amr Elrasad ; Marco Ruffini

DEEP NEURAL NETWORK BASED DYNAMIC RESOURCE REALLOCATION OF BBU POOLS IN 5G C-RAN ROADM NETWORKS ...... 1994 Weiyang Mo ; Craig L. Gutterman ; Yao Li ; Gil Zussman ; Daniel C. Kilper

JOINT OPTIMIZATION OF BBU POOL ALLOCATION AND SELECTION FOR C-RAN NETWORKS...... 1997 Yao Li ; Mariya Bhopalwala ; Sandip Das ; Jiakai Yu ; Weiyang Mo ; Marco Ruffini ; Daniel C. Kilper

MIXCO: OPTIMAL COOPERATIVE CACHING FOR MOBILE EDGE COMPUTING IN FIBER- WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS ...... 2000 Ning Wang ; Weidong Shao ; Sanjay K. Bose ; Gangxiang Shen

ON THE EFFECTS OF TRANSMITTER INDUCED CHANNEL CORRELATION IN BROADBAND WDM TRANSMISSION ...... 2003 J. -X. Cai ; Y. Hu ; A. Turukhin ; M. V. Mazurczyk ; M. Paskov ; H. G. Batshon ; C. R. Davidson ; M. Bolshtyansky ; D. G. Foursa

TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT USING BROADBAND INCOHERENT COUNTER-PUMPED DISTRIBUTED RAMAN AMPLIFICATION...... 2006 Md Asif Iqbal ; Mingming Tan ; Paul Harper

INTER-CHANNEL STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING AND ITS IMPACT IN WIDEBAND TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS...... 2009 G. Saavedra ; D. Semrau ; M. Tan ; Md. A. Iqbal ; D. J. Elson ; L. Galdino ; P. Harper ; R. I. Killey ; P. Bayvel

EXPERIMENTS ON STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING IN S- AND L-BANDS 16-QAM SIGNALS FOR ULTRA-WIDEBAND COHERENT WDM SYSTEMS ...... 2012 K. Minoguchi ; S. Okamoto ; F. Hamaoka ; A. Matsushita ; M. Nakamura ; E. Yamazaki ; Y. Kisaka

THE ROLE OF OPEN-SOURCE NETWORK OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE IN THE SDN/NFV WORLD ...... 2015 Pablo Pavón Mariño ; Miquel Garrich ; Francisco Javier Moreno Muro

HYSTERESIS-BASED MARGIN ALLOCATION FOR ADAPTIVE CODING IN SDN-ENABLED OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 2051 Yao Li ; Mingwei Yang ; Weiyang Mo ; Shengxiang Zhu ; Zhen Qu ; Ivan B. Djordjevic ; Daniel C. Kilper

AN AUTOMATED SERVICE-DOWNGRADE NEGOTIATION SCHEME FOR APPLICATION- CENTRIC NETWORKS ...... 2054 Antonio Marsico ; Marco Savi ; Domenico Siracusa ; Elio Salvadori

APPLICATION AWARE MULTILAYER CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION OF ELASTIC WDM SWITCHED OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 2057 Ioannis Tomkos ; Ciril Rožic ; Marco Savi ; Pontus Sköldström ; Victor Lopez ; Mohit Chamania ; Domenico Siracusa ; Chris Matrakidis ; Dimitrios Klonidis ; Ori Gerstel

COMPONENTS FOR HIGH SPEED 5G ACCESS ...... 2060 H. Debrégeas ; R. Borkowski ; R. Bonk ; Th. Pfeiffer ; F. Lelarge ; M. Achouche

BEYOND 25 GB/S DIRECTLY-MODULATED WIDELY TUNABLE VCSEL FOR NEXT GENERATION ACCESS NETWORK ...... 2063 Alberto Gatto ; Paola Parolari ; Christian Neumeyr ; Pierpaolo Boffi

10GB/S LOW-COST DIRECTLY MODULATED MULTI-ELECTRODE LASER WITH SUPPRESSED THERMAL WAVELENGTH DRIFT FOR BURST-MODE UPSTREAM TRANSMISSION IN TWDM-PONS...... 2066 Stefano Porto ; Doutje Van Veen ; Vincent Houtsma ; Nagesh Basavanhally ; Cris Bolle ; Harald Schmuck ; Paul D. Townsend ; Mark Earnshaw ; Thomas Pfeiffer

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR NGPON2 TUNABLE ONUS...... 2069 John O'carroll

ENTROPY LOADING FOR BAND-LIMITED MESHED-OPTICAL-NETWORKS: THE MULTICARRIER ADVANTAGE...... 2085 Di Che ; William Shieh

4096 QAM (72 GBIT/S) SINGLE-CARRIER COHERENT OPTICAL TRANSMISSION WITH A POTENTIAL SE OF 15.8 BIT/S/HZ IN ALL-RAMAN AMPLIFIED 160 KM FIBER LINK ...... 2088 Masaki Terayama ; Seiji Okamoto ; Keisuke Kasai ; Masato Yoshida ; Masataka Nakazawa

ACHIEVEMENT OF 90-GBAUD PAM-4 WITH MLSE BASED ON 2ND ORDER VOLTERRA FILTER AND 2.88-TB/S O-BAND TRANSMISSION USING 4- λ LAN-WDM AND 4-CORE FIBER SDM ...... 2091 Akira Masuda ; Shuto Yamamoto ; Hiroki Taniguchi ; Mitsunori Fukutoku

SCALING OPTICAL NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEXT GENERATION SDM ...... 2094 Peter J. Winzer

MICROSECOND OPTICAL SWITCHING NETWORK OF PROCESSOR SOCS WITH OPTICAL I/O ...... 2123 S. Moazeni ; J. Henriksson ; T. J. Seok ; M. T. Wade ; C. Sun ; M. C. Wu ; V. Stojanovic

AUTOMATED CALIBRATION OF BALANCED CONTROL TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE OF SILICON PHOTONIC SWITCH FABRICS...... 2126 Yishen Huang ; Qixiang Cheng ; Keren Bergman

SYSTEM-LEVEL DEMONSTRATION OF A DYNAMICALLY RECONFIGURED BURST-MODE LINK USING A NANOSECOND SI-PHOTONIC SWITCH...... 2129 Alex Forencich ; Valerija Kamchevska ; Nicolas Dupuis ; Benjamin G. Lee ; Christian Baks ; George Papen ; Laurent Schares

O-BAND ENERGY-EFFICIENT BROADCAST-FRIENDLY INTERCONNECTION SCHEME WITH SIPHO MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR (MZM) & ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING ROUTER (AWGR)...... 2132 Stelios Pitris ; Charoula Mitsolidou ; Theoni Alexoudi ; Diego Pérez-Galacho ; Laurent Vivien ; Charles Baudot ; Peter De Heyn ; Joris Van Campenhout ; Delphine Marris-Morini ; Nikos Pleros

INTEGRATED, SCALABLE AND RECONFIGURABLE SILICON PHOTONICS BASED OPTICAL SWITCH FOR COLORLESS, DIRECTIONLESS AND CONTENTIONLESS OPERATION...... 2135 Stefano Tondini ; Astghik Chalyan ; Giorgio Fontana ; Lorenzo Pavesi ; Nikola Zecevic ; Michael Hofbauer ; Bernhard Goll ; Horst Zimmermann ; Stefano Stracca ; Alberto Bianchi ; Costanza Manganelli ; Philippe Velha ; Paolo Pintus ; Fabrizio Di Pasquale ; Claudio J. Oton ; Christophe Kopp ; Laetitia Adelmini ; Olivier Lemonnier ; Gabriel Pares ; Guido Chiaretti ; Aina Serrano ; Jose Ángel Ayucar ; Giovan Battista Preve ; Minsu Kim ; Jong Moo Lee ; Francesco Testa

MONOLITHIC MODE LOCKED LASER-BASED OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB FOR OFDM INTEGRATED ON INP GENERIC TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM...... 2138 Mu-Chieh Lo ; Robinson Guzman ; Guillermo Carpintero

A HETEROGENEOUSLY INTEGRATED III-V/SI COLLIDING PULSE MODE-LOCKED LASER WITH ON-CHIP FEEDBACK...... 2141 Songtao Liu ; Tin Komljenovic ; Sudharsanan Srinivasan ; Erik Norberg ; Gregory Fish ; John E. Bowers

TEMPORAL SOLITON LOCKED IN A MICRO-RESONATOR PUMPED BY A DIODE LASER WITHOUT AN AMPLIFIER...... 2144 Nicolas Volet ; Xu Yi ; Qi-Fan Yang ; Eric J. Stanton ; Paul A. Morton ; Ki Youl Yang ; Kerry J. Vahala ; John E. Bowers

AN INAS/INP QUANTUM DOT C-BAND COHERENT COMB LASER ...... 2147 Z. G. Lu ; J. R. Liu ; C. Y. Song ; J. Weber ; Y. Mao ; S. D. Chang ; H. P. Ding ; P. J. Poole ; P. Barrios ; D. Poitras ; S. Janz ; M. O'sullivan

ULTRA-NARROW LINEWIDTH QUANTUM DOT COHERENT COMB LASERS ...... 2150 Z. G. Lu ; J. R. Liu ; P. J. Poole ; C. Y. Song ; S. D. Chang

INP PHOTONIC INTEGRATED COMB GENERATOR MADE BY A CASCADE OF OPTICAL MODULATORS ...... 2153 T. Cassese ; N. Andriolli ; M. Chiesa ; A. R. Criado ; G. Contestabile

WIDE, CONTINUOUSLY SWEPT VCSEL USING A NOVEL AIR-CAVITY-DOMINANT DESIGN ...... 2156 Pengfei Qiao ; Kevin T. Cook ; Jipeng Qi ; Larry A. Coldren ; Connie J. Chang-Hasnain

LARGE-SCALE SILICON PHOTONIC SWITCH...... 2159 Eric Bernier ; Patrick Dumais ; Dominic J. Goodwill ; Hamid Mehrvar ; Dritan Celo ; Jia Jiang ; Chunshu Zhang ; Fei Zhao ; Xin Tu ; Chunhui Zhang ; Shengyong Yan ; Jifang He ; Ming Li ; Wanyuan Liu ; Yuming Wei ; Dongyu Geng

CROSSTALK SPECTRUM OPTIMISATION FOR STACKED WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCHES BASED ON 2D BEAM STEERING...... 2162 Haining Yang ; Philip Dolan ; Brian Robertson ; Peter Wilkinson ; Daping Chu

INTEGRATED WAVELENGTH SELECTIVE SWITCH ARRAY FOR SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXED NETWORK WITH ULTRA-LOW INTER-SPATIAL CHANNEL CROSSTALK...... 2165 Keita Yamaguchi ; Kazunori Seno ; Kenya Suzuki ; Hiroki Kawahara ; Mitsunori Fukutoku ; Toshikazu Hashimoto ; Yutaka Miyamoto

FAST, HIGH-RADIX SILICON PHOTONIC SWITCHES...... 2168 Tao Chu ; Lei Qiao ; Weijie Tang ; Defeng Guo ; Weike Wu

DUAL 8×16 MCS USING HYBRID-INTEGRATED SILICA PLC AND POLYMER TIR SWITCH ARRAY...... 2171 Jang-Uk Shin ; Sangho Park ; Young-Tak Han ; Yongsoon Baek ; Byeongkwon Choi ; Joonoh Park ; Chulhee Park

PUMP MODE CHARACTERIZATION OF ANNULAR CLADDING ERBIUM-DOPED FIBERS USING LOW-COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY...... 2174 Huiyuan Liu ; Haoshuo Chen ; Nicolas K. Fontaine ; Roland Ryf ; Jian Chen ; Qianwu Zhang ; Yingchun Li ; Cang Jin ; Y. Messaddeq ; Sophie Larochelle ; Guifang Li

EDF LENGTH DEPENDENCE OF AMPLIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS OF CLADDING PUMPED 19-CORE EDFA...... 2177 S. Takasaka ; K. Maeda ; K. Kawasaki ; K. Yoshioka ; H. Oshio ; R. Sugizaki ; H. Takahashi ; T. Tsuritani ; M. Shiino

LOW-LOSS AND LOW-CROSSTALK ALL-FIBER-BASED SIX-MODE MULTIPLEXER AND DEMULTIPLEXER FOR MODE-MULTIPLEXED QAM SIGNALS IN C-BAND ...... 2180 Koji Igarashi ; Yuta Wakayama ; Daiki Soma ; Takehiro Tsuritani ; Itsuro Morita ; Kyung Jun Park ; Jaekwon Ko ; Byoung Yoon Kim

TILTED FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS FOR SELECTIVE COUPLING IN A MULTICORE OPTICAL FIBER...... 2183 David Barrera ; Javier Madrigal ; Salvador Sales

NON-CIRCULARLY-SYMMETRIC MODE-GROUP DEMULTIPLEXER BASED ON FUSED- TYPE FMF COUPLER FOR MGM TRANSMISSION ...... 2186 Yuyang Gao ; Juhao Li ; Chunyan Du ; Cen Xia ; Yan Liu ; Zhengbin Li ; Yongqi He ; Zhangyuan Chen ; Guifang Li

MODE-SELECTIVE POLISHED FIBER COUPLERS BASED ON FIBER GRATINGS...... 2189 Sebastian Schlangen ; Kort Bremer ; Andreas Isaak ; Marc Christopher Wurz ; Gabriel Pelegrina Bonilla ; Jörg Neumann ; Bernhard Roth ; Ludger Overmeyer

O-BAND SILICON PHOTONICS 8×8 ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATING ROUTER (AWGR) FOR 1.6 TB/S ON-CHIP ROUTING ...... 2192 Stelios Pitris ; George Dabos ; Charoula Mitsolidou ; Theoni Alexoudi ; Peter De Heyn ; Joris Van Campenhout ; Ronald Broeke ; George T. Kanellos ; Nikos Pleros

ULTRA-COMPACT SILICON POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER WITH A SHORT COUPLING LENGTH OF 0.768 µM...... 2195 Yong Zhang ; Xiaodong Wang ; Xuhan Guo ; Ciyuan Qiu ; Xiulan Cheng ; Yikai Su ; Richard Soref

INTER-DIE FABRICATION UNIFORMITY OF SILICON PHOTONIC FIBER-TO-WAVEGUIDE EDGE COUPLERS ...... 2198 Jun Rong Ong ; Thomas Ang ; Tina X. Guo ; Ezgi Sahin ; Soon Thor Lim ; D. T. H. Tan ; Wang Hong ; Ching Eng Png

A SIMPLE, ROBUST TWO-TONE METHOD TO MEASURE THE DYNAMIC NONLINEAR CHARACTERISTICS OF PHASE SHIFTER IN SILICON MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR...... 2201 Tong Ye ; Yanhui Qi ; Hao Chen ; Zhenning Tao ; Tomofumi Oyama ; Hisao Nakashima ; Takeshi Hoshida ; Haowen Shu ; Xingjun Wang

A LARGE-SIGNAL EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT FOR DEPLETION-TYPE SILICON RING MODULATORS ...... 2204 Minkyu Kim ; Myungjin Shin ; Min-Hyeong Kim ; Byung-Min Yu ; Christian Mai ; Stefan Lischke ; Lars Zimmermann ; Woo-Young Choi

NARROW LINEWIDTH HYBRID INP-TRIPLEX PHOTONIC INTEGRATED TUNABLE LASER BASED ON SILICON NITRIDE MICRO-RING RESONATORS ...... 2207 Yi Lin ; Colm Browning ; Roelof Bernardus Timens ; Douwe H. Geuzebroek ; Chris G. H. Roeloffzen ; Dimitri Geskus ; Ruud M. Oldenbeuving ; René G. Heideman ; Youwen Fan ; Klaus J. Boller ; Jialin Zhao ; Liam P. Barry

HIGH PERFORMANCE SELF-INJECTION LOCKED 524 NM GREEN LASER DIODE FOR HIGH BITRATE VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS...... 2210 M. Hosne M. Shamim ; M. A. Shemis ; Chao Shen ; Hassan M. Oubei ; Tien Khee Ng ; Boon S. Ooi ; M. Z. M. Khan

HIGH THROUGHPUT BANDWIDTH CHARACTERIZATION OF SILICON PHOTONIC MODULATORS USING OFFSET FREQUENCY COMBS...... 2213 Nathan C. Abrams ; Robert Polster ; Liang Yuan Dai ; Keren Bergman

PHASE NOISE CHARACTERIZATION OF A MODE-LOCKED QUANTUM-DOT COHERENT OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB SOURCE LASER ...... 2216 Kristian Zanette ; John. C. Cartledge ; Rongqing Hui ; Maurice O'sullivan

A 520-NM GREEN GAN LED WITH HIGH BANDWIDTH AND LOW CURRENT DENSITY FOR GIGABITS OFDM DATA COMMUNICATION...... 2219 Chien-Ju Chen ; Jhih-Heng Yan ; De-Hua Chen ; Kai-Hsiang Lin ; Kai-Ming Feng ; Meng-Chyi Wu

MODELING AND DESIGN ASPECTS OF A MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONIC CHIP ENABLING 64GBAUD OPERATION ...... 2222 Danish Rafique ; Benjamin Wohlfeil ; Gilda Raoof Mehrpoor ; Helmut Griesser ; Despoina Petousi ; Pedro Rito ; Iria Garcia Lopez ; Lars Zimmermann ; Michael Eiselt ; Joerg-Peter Elbers

POLY-CRYSTALLINE SILICON WAVEGUIDE DEVICES ON HOLLOW DEEP TRENCH ISOLATION IN STANDARD FOUNDRY BULK SILICON PROCESS ...... 2225 Sungwon Chung ; Makoto Nakai ; Edward Preisler ; Hossein Hashemi

SILICON PHOTONIC MODULATOR BASED ON COUPLED BRAGG GRATING RESONATORS USED AS PHASE SHIFTERS...... 2228 Omid Jafari ; Hassan Sepehrian ; Wei Shi ; Sophie Larochelle

BLOCK-WISE TIME DOMAIN LARGE SIGNAL MODEL OF CARRIER-DEPLETION MACH- ZEHNDER SILICON PHOTONIC MODULATORS ...... 2231 Qun Zhang ; Jianying Zhou ; Jin Hong

DEMONSTRATION OF A RECTANGULARLY-ARRANGED STRONGLY-COUPLED MULTI- CORE FIBER ...... 2234 S. Saitoh ; K. Takenaga ; K. Aikawa

CLADDING-RODS-ASSISTED DEPRESSED-CORE 9-LP-MODE FIBER WITH IMPROVED MODAL SPACING...... 2237 Jiawei Han ; Jie Zhang ; Guanjun Gao ; Yongli Zhao ; Shanglin Hou

DESIGN, FABRICATION, MEASUREMENT AND MDM TRANMISSION OF A NOVEL WEAKLY-COUPLED ULTRA LOW LOSS FMF ...... 2240 Lei Shen ; Su Chen ; Xueting Sun ; Yaping Liu ; Lei Zhang ; Tao Hu ; Juhao Li

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF POWER COUPLING IN FEW-MODE STEP INDEX FIBERS...... 2243 Gianluca Guerra ; Andrea Galtarossa ; Luca Palmieri

OBSERVATION OF FIBER FUSE PROPAGATION SPEED OSCILLATION DUE TO INTER- MODE INTERFERENCE IN TWO-MODE FIBERS ...... 2246 Shoulin Jiang ; Lin Ma ; Xinyu Fan ; Shuai Wang ; Zuyuan He

SOLID TYPE LOW-LATENCY SINGLE-MODE FIBER WITH LARGE EFFECTIVE AREA AND LOW LOSS ...... 2249 Y. Sagae ; T. Matsui ; K. Tsujikawa ; K. Nakajima

TOWARD MULTILAYER DISAGGREGATED NODE TELEMETRY AND LOCAL DECISION MAKING...... 2252 Luis Velasco ; Lluís Gifre ; Jose-Luis Izquierdo-Zaragoza

FIRST EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF DISAGGREGATED EMERGENCY OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR QUICK DISASTER RECOVERY...... 2255 Masaki Shiraiwa ; Noboru Yoshikane ; Sugang Xu ; Takehiro Tsuritani ; Naoki Miyata ; Tatsuo Mori ; Masatake Miyabe ; Toru Katagiri ; Sota Yoshida ; Masaki Tanaka ; Tomofumi Hayashi ; Hidetsugu Sugiyama ; Ikuo Satou ; Mashito Mikuni ; Satoru Okamoto ; Naoaki Yamanaka ; Yoshinari Awaji ; Naoya Wada

INTEGRATED INP POLARIZATION ROTATOR USING THE PLASMONIC EFFECT ...... 2258 Shinmo An ; O-Kyun Kwon

ORCHESTRATING LIGHTPATH ADAPTATION AND FLEXIBLE FUNCTIONAL SPLIT TO RECOVER VIRTUALIZED RAN CONNECTIVITY...... 2261 K. Kondepu ; N. Sambo ; F. Giannone ; P. Castoldi ; L. Valcarenghi

CROSS-LAYER AWARE PACKET-OPTICAL LINK MANAGEMENT IN SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEM...... 2264 Young-Jin Kim ; Jesse E. Simsarian ; Nakjung Choi ; Nishok N. Mohanasamy ; Marina Thottan

VPN SERVICE PROVISIONING VIA VIRTUAL ROUTER DEPLOYMENT AND QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION ...... 2267 A. Aguado ; V. López ; J. Martinez-Mateo ; M. Peev ; D. López ; V. Martín

ON THE BENEFITS OF PROGRAMMABLE OPTICS FOR POST-FAILURE VM MIGRATIONS IN DATA-CENTERS ...... 2270 Ashwin Gumaste ; Aniruddha Kushwaha ; Admela Jukan

JOINT INTRA- AND INTER-DATACENTER NETWORK OPTIMIZATION AND ORCHESTRATION...... 2273 G. Landi ; M. Capitani ; A. Kretsis ; P. Kokkinos ; K. Christodoulopoulos ; E. Varvarigos

DISAGGREGATING OPTICAL NODES IN A MULTI-LAYER SDN ORCHESTRATOR FOR THE INTEGRATION OF AN IN-OPERATION PLANNING TOOL ...... 2276 Federico Pederzolli ; Mohit Chamania ; Michele Santuari ; Thomas Szyrkowiec ; Chris Matrakidis ; Ciril Rožic ; Dimitrios Klonidis ; Victor Lòpez ; Domenico Siracusa

CAPEX OPTIMIZATION WITH JOINT ALLOCATION OF HYBRID RF/FSO AND OPTICAL FIBRE RESOURCES IN 5G BACKHAUL ...... 2279 Da Feng ; Weiqiang Sun ; Weisheng Hu

A SHARED SEGMENT PROTECTION APPROACH FOR DISTRIBUTED SUB-TREE BASED OPTICAL MULTICASTING SCHEME IN ELASTIC OPTICAL DATACENTER NETWORKS...... 2282 Tao Gao ; Xin Li ; Bingli Guo ; Shan Yin ; Shanguo Huang

JOINT OPTIMIZATION OF UNICAST, ANYCAST, MULTICAST AND MANYCAST TRAFFICS IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 2285 Xiao Luo ; Chen Shi ; Xue Chen ; Liqian Wang

ON MULTI-LAYER RESTORATION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH ENCRYPTION SOLUTION DEPLOYMENT...... 2288 Xin Jin ; Wei Lu ; Siqi Liu ; Zuqing Zhu

THERMO-OPTICAL PHASE SHIFTER WITH INTEGRATED DIODES FOR MULTIPLEXED CONTROL...... 2291 Antonio Ribeiro ; Wim Bogaerts

RELIABILITY GAINS OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAMMABILITY IN AN OPTICAL C-RAN...... 2294 Houman Rastegarfar ; Tommy Svensson ; Nasser Peyghambarian

TECHNO ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF IMMERSIVE VIDEO SERVICES IN 5G CONVERGED OPTICAL/WIRELESS NETWORKS...... 2297 Ioannis Neokosmidis ; Theodoros Rokkas ; Pietro Paglierani ; Claudio Meani ; Karim M. Nasr ; Klaus Moessner ; Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui ; Pouria Sayyad Khodashenas

TOWARDS SECURE OPTICAL NETWORKS: A FRAMEWORK TO AID LOCALIZATION OF HARMFUL CONNECTIONS ...... 2300 Federico Pederzolli ; Marija Furdek ; Domenico Siracusa ; Lena Wosinska

IMPACT OF WSS FILTERING PENALTY ON THE CAPACITY OF ELASTIC WDM RING OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 2303 Haining Yang ; Paul Wright ; Brian Robertson ; Peter Wilkinson ; P. R. Dolan ; Andrew Lord ; Daping Chu

MULTIPLANE ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM AND WAVELENGTH SWITCH BASED ON INTEGRATED TUNABLE VORTEX EMITTERS...... 2307 M. Scaffardi ; N. Andriolli ; M. N. Malik ; N. Zhang ; E. Lazzeri ; C. Klitis ; M. Lavery ; M. Sorel ; A. Bogoni

WHEN CORD MEETS HUB ...... 2310 Qingya She ; Kirsten Rundberget ; Weisheng Xie

ULTRA-FAST HITLESS 100GBIT/S REAL-TIME BANDWIDTH VARIABLE TRANSMITTER WITH SDN OPTICAL CONTROL...... 2313 Arnaud Dupas ; Patricia Layec ; Dominique Verchere ; Quan Pham Van ; Sébastien Bigo

REGENERATOR ALLOCATION IN NONLINEAR ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH RANDOM DATA RATES ...... 2316 Li Yan ; Yuxin Xu ; Maïté Brandt-Pearce ; Nishan Dharmaweera ; Erik Agrell

REAL-TIME DEMONSTRATION OF ADAPTIVE FUNCTIONAL SPLIT IN 5G FLEXIBLE MOBILE FRONTHAUL NETWORKS ...... 2319 Yahya Alfadhli ; Mu Xu ; Siming Liu ; Feng Lu ; Peng-Chun Peng ; Gee-Kung Chang

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF SDN-CONTROLLED VARIABLE-RATE FRONTHAUL FOR CONVERGED LTE-OVER-PON ...... 2322 Pedro Alvarez ; Frank Slyne ; Christian Bluemm ; Johann M. Marquez-Barja ; Luiz A. Dasilva ; Marco Ruffini

INTEGRATED POLARIZATION BEAM SPLITTER MODULE FOR POLARIZATION- ENCODED FREE-SPACE BB84 QKD ...... 2325 J. -S. Choe ; H. Ko ; B. -S. Choi ; K. -J. Kim ; C. J. Youn

A FLEXIBLE LOW-LATENCY METRO-ACCESS CONVERGED NETWORK APPROACH BASED ON TIME-SYNCHRONIZED TWDM-PON...... 2328 Jialong Li ; Nan Hua ; Yufang Yu ; Zhizhen Zhong ; Xiaoping Zheng ; Bingkun Zhou

K-MEANS CLUSTERING BASED MULTI-DIMENSIONAL QUANTIZATION SCHEME FOR DIGITAL MOBILE FRONTHAUL ...... 2331 Lu Zhang ; Xiaodan Pang ; Oskars Ozolins ; Aleksejs Udalcovs ; Sergei Popov ; Shilin Xiao ; Jiajia Chen

IMPROVED LINK BUDGET (35 DB) OF 2×25 GB/S WDM/TDM-PON BY USING CROSSTALK- FREE SOA AND FEC...... 2334 Han Hyub Lee ; Kyeong-Hwan Doo ; Kwangok Kim ; Sil-Gu Mun ; Seung Hwan Kim ; Hwan Seok Chung

HIGH OPTICAL BUDGET PTP DWDM SYSTEM IN OVERLAY WITH CWDM FOR MOBILE XHAUL WITH REMOTE WAVELENGTH TUNING AND MONITORING IN TUNABLE SFPS...... 2337 S. Barthomeuf ; F. Saliou ; N. Genay ; L. Anet Neto ; P. Chanclou ; E. Pennings ; J. H. Ahn ; S. K. Yu ; S. E. Hong

HIGHLY FLEXIBLE WDM PON SYSTEM WITH A SINGLE TDM TIME LENS SOURCE ENABLING RECORD 150 KM DOWNSTREAM REACH ...... 2340 P. Guan ; F. Da Ros ; M. Lillieholm ; K. Dalgaard ; M. Galili ; P. Jeppesen ; T. Morioka ; L. K. Oxenl?we

USING RAMAN GAIN TO OFFSET EXCESS LOSSES OF AN INTELLIGENT OPTICAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORK IN A TWDM PON...... 2343 Michael Straub ; Patrick Iannone

REDUNDANCY FOR LONG-REACH TWDM PON...... 2346 Liang B Du ; Shuang Yin ; Xiangjun Zhao Tao ; Zhang Adam Barratt ; Joy Jiang ; Daoyi Wang ; Cedric F Lam

SIMULTANEOUS MULTIBAND WSN, WLAN, LTE-A, AND GB/S 4-PAM SIGNALS TRANSMISSION OVER 50 M 1 MM CORE DIAMETER POF FOR HOME AREA NETWORK...... 2349 F. Form ; N. C. Tran ; H. P. A. Van Den Boom ; E. Tangdiongga ; A. M. J. Koonen

LINEARIZED PHOTONIC DOWN-CONVERSION USING SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION...... 2352 D. R. Reilly ; P. Moraw ; G. S. Kanter

ACHIEVABLE INFORMATION RATE ENHANCEMENT OF VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION USING PROBABILISTICALLY SHAPED OFDM MODULATION...... 2355 Zhixue He ; Wu Liu ; Chenhui Xie ; Songnian Fu ; Xiang Li ; Chao Yang ; Qi Yang

COMPACT GRATING COUPLER FOR HIGHER-ORDER MODE COUPLING...... 2358 Yaxiao Lai ; Yu Yu ; Songnian Fu ; Jing Xu ; Perry Ping Shum ; Xinliang Zhang

PAM-4 WIRELESS TRANSMISSION BASED ON LOOK-UP-TABLE PRE-DISTORTION AND CMMA EQUALIZATION AT V-BAND...... 2361 Wen Zhou ; Pengqi Gou ; Kaihui Wang ; Miao Kong ; Xinying Li ; Li Zhao ; Zihang Zhu ; Jianjun Yu

SPECTRALLY EFFICIENT SSB SIGNALS FOR W-BAND LINKS ENABLED BY KRAMERS- KRONIG RECEIVER...... 2364 Luis Gonzalez Guerrero ; Haymen Shams ; Irshaad Fatadin ; Martyn J. Fice ; Mira Naftaly ; Alwyn J. Seeds ; Cyril C. Renaud

MODAL DISPERSION AND FEED LIGHT CROSSTALK MITIGATIONS BY USING CENTER- AND OFFSET-LAUNCHING FOR OPTICALLY-POWERED RADIO-OVER-MULTIMODE FIBER SYSTEMS ...... 2367 Hayao Kuboki ; Motoharu Matsuura

MULTIPATH INTERFERENCE FREE MULTI-LED VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS WITH GOLD SEQUENCE MULTIPLEXING...... 2370 Jhih-Heng Yan ; Ya-Jou Cheng ; Kai-Hsiang Lin ; De-Hua Chen ; Chien-Ju Chen ; Kai-Ming Feng

MISO VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM UTILIZING MCMMA AIDED PRE- CONVERGENCE OF STBC DECODING ...... 2373 Liang Qiao ; Xingyu Lu ; Shangyu Liang ; Nan Chi

ENHANCED EMISSION AND MODULATION PROPERTIES OF LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMA COUPLED GAN-BASED GREEN LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES...... 2376 Jiehui Li ; Pengqi Gou ; Nan Chi ; Haiyan Ou

SIMULTANEOUS TEMPERATURE AND STRAIN MEASUREMENT USING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR BOTDA SENSING SYSTEM...... 2379 Biwei Wang ; Liang Wang ; Changyuan Yu ; Chao Lu

LINEARIZED PHASE MODULATION MICROWAVE PHOTONICS LINK VIA OPTIMIZING PROCESSING OF OPTICAL SIDEBANDS ...... 2382 Ruihuan Wu ; Tianwei Jiang ; Song Yu ; Jianming Shang ; Chenxia Liu ; Wanyi Gu

PHOTONIC DESIGN PARAMETERS FOR AWG-BASED RF CHANNELIZED RECEIVERS ...... 2385 Kyle Davis ; Andrew Stark ; Benjamin Yang ; Anthony Lentine ; Christopher Derose ; Michael Gehl

DIGITAL RADIO OVER FIBER DISTRIBUTION USING MILLIMETRE WAVE BRIDGING ...... 2388 Haymen Shams ; Tongyun Li ; Cyril C. Renaud ; Alwyn J. Seeds ; Richard Penty ; Martyn Fice ; Ian White

COMPACT AND POWER EFFICIENT 2 × 2 THERMO-OPTICAL SWITCH BASED ON DUAL- NANOBEAM MZI ...... 2391 Xinhong Jiang ; Hongxia Zhang ; Ciyuan Qiu ; Yong Zhang ; Yikai Su ; Richard Soref

BROADBAND SOI MODE ORDER CONVERTER BASED ON TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION...... 2394 Min Teng ; Keisuke Kojima ; Toshiaki Koike-Akino ; Bingnan Wang ; Chungwei Lin ; Kieran Parsons

DESIGN, FABRICATION AND DEMONSTRATION OF ULTRA-BROADBAND ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM (OAM) MODES EMITTER AND SYNTHESIZER ON SILICON PLATFORM ...... 2397 Nan Zhou ; Shuang Zheng ; Xiaoping Cao ; Shengqian Gao ; Shimao Li ; Mingbo He ; Xinlun Cai ; Jian Wang

PIZZA BOX TRANSPONDERS DEPLOYMENT IN THE FIELD AND RELATED ISSUES...... 2400 Giuseppe Rizzelli ; Andrew Sutters ; Nitin Goel

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATION OF AN 8-CHANNEL DIRECTLY MODULATED MEMBRANE- LASER ARRAY AND A SIN AWG FILTER ON SI ...... 2403 Hidetaka Nishi ; Takuro Fujii ; Nikolaos-Panteleimon Diamantopoulos ; Koji Takeda ; Erina Kanno ; Takaaki Kakitsuka ; Tai Tsuchizawa ; Hiroshi Fukuda ; Shinji Matsuo

SUPERIOR BER TRANSMISSION OF 106-GB/S/LANE SKEWLESS PAM4 OVER 10 KM BY UTILIZING 1.3-µM DIRECTLY MODULATED INGAALAS-MQW BH LASERS AND INCOHERENT MULTIPLEXING OF TWO NRZ SIGNALS...... 2406 Kouji Nakahara ; Riu Hirai ; Takeshi Kitatani ; Nobuhiko Kikuchi ; Takayoshi Fukui ; Kaoru Okamoto ; Yasushi Sakuma ; Kohichi R. Tamura ; Shigehisa Tanaka

MODE SELECTIVE ACTIVE MULTIMODE INTERFEROMETER LASER DIODE WITH OVER 40 GHZ DIRECT MODULATION BANDWIDTH...... 2409 Bingzhou Hong ; Tomotaka Mori ; Haisong Jiang ; Kiichi Hamamoto

A FULLY-INTEGRATED MULTI- λ HYBRID DML TRANSMITTER...... 2412 Di Liang ; Chong Zhang ; Ashkan Roshan-Zamir ; Kunzhi Yu ; Cheng Li ; Geza Kurczveil ; Yingtao Hu ; Wenqing Shen ; Marco Fiorentino ; Satish Kumar ; Samuel Palermo ; Raymond Beausoleil

WIDE-RANGE AUTOMATED WAVELENGTH CALIBRATION OVER A FULL FSR IN A DUAL-RING BASED SILICON PHOTONIC SWITCH...... 2415 Qingming Zhu ; Hongxia Zhang ; Ruiyuan Cao ; Ning Zhao ; Xinhong Jiang ; Danping Li ; Yanbo Li ; Xiaolu Song ; Xuhan Guo ; Yong Zhang ; Ciyuan Qiu

SELF-HOLDING OPERATION OF MAGNETO-OPTICAL SWITCH USING THIN-FILM MAGNET ...... 2418 Ken Okazeri ; Kenji Muraoka ; Yuya Shoji ; Shigeki Nakagawa ; Nobuhiko Nishiyama ; Shigehisa Arai ; Tetsuya Mizumoto

PHOTONIC SWITCH FABRICS IN COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ...... 2421 Benjamin G. Lee

DEMONSTRATION OF ON-CHIP 640-GBIT/S THROUGHPUT, GRANULARITY-FLEXIBLE PROGRAMMABLE OPTICAL FILTERING AND RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL ADD/DROP MULTIPLEXING ON SILICON PLATFORM ...... 2449 Shuang Zheng ; Yun Long ; Dingshan Gao ; Yan Luo ; Lulu Wang ; Jinrun Zhang ; Andong Wang ; Long Zhu ; Nan Zhou ; Meng Huang ; Zhengsen Ruan ; Li Shen ; Jian Wang

LOW-CROSSTALK, LOW-POWER MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER OPTICAL SWITCH BASED ON III-V/SI HYBRID MOS PHASE SHIFTER...... 2452 Qiang Li ; Jae-Hoon Han ; Chong Pei Ho ; Shinichi Takagi ; Mitsuru Takenaka

NONLINEARITY OF OPTICAL FIBERS: A TUTORIAL...... 2455 Govind P. Agrawal

BLUE-ENHANCED SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN A GRADED-INDEX FLUORINE- DOPED MULTIMODE FIBER ...... 2458 Z. Sanjabi Eznaveh ; M. A. Eftekhar ; J. E. Antonio Lopez ; M. Kolesik ; H. Lopez Aviles ; F. W. Wise ; D. N. Christodoulides ; R. Amezcua Correa

NONLINEAR PROPAGATION EQUATIONS FOR ARBITRARY LEVELS OF RANDOM LINEAR COUPLING BETWEEN MODES...... 2461 Shaival Buch ; Sami Mumtaz ; René-Jean Essiambre ; Antonia M. Tulino ; Govind P. Agrawal

STABLE MEASUREMENT OF EFFECTIVE AREA IN COUPLED MULTI-CORE FIBER...... 2464 Elaine S. Chou ; Tetsuya Hayashi ; Takuji Nagashima ; Joseph M. Kahn ; Tetsuya Nakanishi

NON-INVASIVE DISTRIBUTED CHARACTERIZATION IN PHASE AND INTENSITY OF THE NONLINEAR STAGE OF MODULATION INSTABILITY...... 2467 Corentin Naveau ; Pascal Szriftgiser ; François Copie ; Alexandre Kudlinski ; Matteo Conforti ; Stefano Trillo ; Arnaud Mussot

DIGITAL PRE-COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES ENABLING COST-EFFECTIVE HIGH- ORDER MODULATION FORMATS TRANSMISSION ...... 2470 D. Sadot ; Y. Yoffe ; H. Feig ; G. Paryanti

SECURE TRANSMISSION USING QAM QUANTUM NOISE STREAM CIPHER WITH CONTINUOUS VARIABLE QKD ...... 2473 Masataka Nakazawa ; Masato Yoshida ; Takuya Hirano

SINGLE-LASER DIFFERENTIAL PHASE SHIFT TRANSMITTER FOR SMALL FORM- FACTOR QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION OPTICS...... 2476 Bernhard Schrenk ; Michael Hentschel ; Hannes Hübel

96-GBAUD PDM-8QAM SINGLE CHANNEL TRANSMISSION OVER 9,600 KM BY NONLINEAR TOLERANCE ENHANCEMENT USING PPLN-BASED OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION ...... 2479 T. Kobayashi ; T. Umeki ; R. Kasahara ; H. Yamazaki ; M. Nagatani ; H. Wakita ; H. Takenouchi ; Y. Miyamoto

COMPENSATION OF MODE COUPLING IN MDM TRANSMISSION SYSTEM USING DIGITAL OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION ...... 2482 Sunghyun Bae ; Youngho Jung ; Byoung Gon Kim ; Jun Ho Chang ; Hoon Kim ; Yun C. Chung

LEVERAGING PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS TO ACHIEVE KNOWLEDGE-DEFINED ORCHESTRATION IN A HYBRID OPTICAL/ELECTRICAL DC NETWORK: COLLABORATIVE FORECASTING AND DECISION MAKING...... 2485 Wei Lu ; Lipei Liang ; Bingxin Kong ; Baojia Li ; Zuqing Zhu

SERVICE FUNCTION-ORIENTED TOPOLOGY AGGREGATION IN MULTI-DOMAIN INTER- DC ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS...... 2488 Boyuan Yan ; Yongli Zhao ; Xiaosong Yu ; Wei Wang ; Jie Zhang

ULTRAFAST BEAM STEERING ENABLED BY PHOTONICS & PLASMONICS...... 2491 Juerg Leuthold ; Romain Bonjour ; Yannick Salamin ; Claudia Hoessbacher ; Wolfgang Heni ; Christian Haffner ; Arne Josten ; Benedikt Baeuerle ; Masafumi Ayata ; Andreas Messner ; Ueli Koch ; Tatsuhiko Watanabe ; Yuriy Fedoryshyn ; Ping Ma ; Maurizio Burla

WIRELESS EXTENSION FOR 2.5 GBIT/S GPON ...... 2492 Rattana Chuenchom ; Andrzej Banach ; Yigal Leiba ; Mateusz Lech ; Andreas Steffan ; Jörg Honecker ; Andreas Stöhr

ENABLING 5G SERVICES IN PON WITH A NOVEL SMART EDGE BASED ON SIP MRM ...... 2495 Xun Guan ; Yelong Xu ; Jiachuan Lin ; Mingyang Lyu ; Raphaël Dubé-Demers ; Sophie Larochelle ; Wei Shi ; Leslie A. Rusch

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF DOPPLER COMPENSATION TECHNIQUE USING PERIOD- ONE NONLINEAR SEMICONDUCTOR LASER DYNAMICS FOR OFDM-ROF COHERENT DETECTION ...... 2498 Yu-Han Hung ; Jhih-Heng Yan ; Hsu-Hung Huang ; Chin-Hao Tseng ; Kai-Ming Feng ; Sheng-Kwang Hwang

DEMONSTRATION OF ULTRA-HIGH-RESOLUTION PHOTONICS-BASED KABAND INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGING ...... 2501 Yao Yao ; Fangzheng Zhang ; Ying Zhang ; Xingwei Ye ; Daiyin Zhu ; Shilong Pan

EXTREMELY WIDE BANDWIDTH MICROWAVE PHOTONIC PHASE SHIFTER FOR W- BAND CHIRPED MONOPULSE RADAR...... 2504 Bohao Liu ; Jhih-Min Wun ; Nathan P O'malley ; D. E. Leaird ; Nan-Wei Chen ; Jin-Wei Shi ; Andrew M. Weiner

EFFICIENT MOBILE FRONTHAUL USING WINDOWED OFDM EXHIBITING HIGH CFO TOLERANCE AND STRONG OOB-LEAKAGE SUPPRESSION WITH LOW DSP COMPLEXITY ...... 2507 Shuyi Shen ; Thavamaran Kanesan ; Feng Lu ; Mu Xu ; Lin Cheng ; Jing Wang ; Yahya M Alfadhli ; Hyung Joon Cho ; Sufian Mousa Mitani ; Gee-Kung Chang

4 OAM × 4 WDM OPTICAL SWITCHING BASED ON AN INNOVATIVE INTEGRATED TUNABLE OAM MULTIPLEXER...... 2510 N. Zhang ; M. Scaffardi ; M. N. Malik ; V. Toccafondo ; C. Klitis ; M. P. J. Lavery ; G. Meloni ; F. Fresi ; E. Lazzeri ; D. Marini ; J. Zhu ; X. Cai ; S. Yu ; L. Potì ; G. Preve ; A. Bogoni ; M. Sorel

83.33 TB/S COHERENT PDM-8PSK SDM-TDM SPATIAL SUPER-CHANNEL AND HIGH-SPEED CORE-JOINT SWITCHING SYSTEM ...... 2513 José Manuel Delgado Mendinueta ; Satoshi Shinada ; Yusuke Hirota ; Ruben S. Luís ; Hideaki Furukawa ; Naoya Wada

LARGE-SCALE OPTICAL CIRCUIT SWITCH ARCHITECTURE FOR INTRA-DATACENTER NETWORKING ...... 2516 Yojiro Mori ; Ken-Ichi Sato

T/O-BAND WAVELENGTH ROUTING SYSTEM USING QUANTUM DOT SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES AND 1081-CHANNEL AWG ROUTER ...... 2519 Ryogo Kubo ; Takuto Fujimoto ; Takahiro Shobudani ; Yudai Okuno ; Masaki Suzuki ; Hiroyuki Tsuda ; Makoto Sudo ; Tadashi Hajikano ; Yasunori Tomomatsu ; Katsumi Yoshizawa

NEXT-GENERATION ROADM EMPLOYING BANDWIDTH-ADAPTIVE SILICON-PHOTONIC FILTERS FOR FLEXIBLE DROP OPERATION...... 2522 Yojiro Mori ; Koh Ueda ; Keijiro Suzuki ; Hiroyuki Matsuura ; Ken Tanizawa ; Kazuhiro Ikeda ; Shu Namiki ; Hitoshi Kawashiwa ; Ken-Ichi Sato

EXPERIMENTAL UTILIZATION OF REPEATED SPATIAL-MODE SHIFTING FOR ACHIEVING DISCRETE DELAYS IN A FREE-SPACE RECIRCULATING LOOP ...... 2525 A. Almaiman ; A. Mohajerin-Ariaei ; G. Xie ; Z. Zhao ; Y. Cao ; F. Alishahi ; P. Liao ; C. Bao ; A. Fallahpour ; B. Shamee ; Y. Akasaka ; S. Zach ; N. Cohen ; M. Tur ; A. E. Willner

CONTENTIONLESS TWIN 8×24 WSS WITH LOW INSERTION LOSS...... 2528 Paul D. Colbourne ; Sheldon Mclaughlin ; Chester Murley ; Simon Gaudet ; Dan Burke

ULTRA-HIGH BANDWIDTH INP IQ MODULATOR CO-ASSEMBLED WITH DRIVER IC FOR BEYOND 100-GBD CDM...... 2531 Y. Ogiso ; H. Wakita ; M. Nagatani ; H. Yamazaki ; M. Nakamura ; T. Kobayashi ; J. Ozaki ; Y. Ueda ; S. Nakano ; S. Kanazawa ; T. Fujii ; Y. Hashizume ; H. Tanobe ; N. Nunoya ; M. Ida ; Y. Miyamoto ; N. Kikuchi

COUPLED-CORE EDFA COMPATIBLE WITH FMF TRANSMISSION...... 2534 Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias ; Nicolas K. Fontaine ; Haoshuo Chen ; J. Enrique Antonio-Lopez ; Steffen Wittek ; Jiaxiong Li ; Stefan Gausmann ; Roland Ryf ; Cedric Gonnet ; Adrian Amezcua-Correa ; Marianne Bigot ; Axel Schülzgen ; Guifang Li ; Pierre Sillard ; Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa

204-GBAUD ON-OFF KEYING TRANSMITTER FOR INTER-DATA CENTER COMMUNICATIONS ...... 2537 Haik Mardoyan ; Filipe Jorge ; Oskars Ozolins ; Jose Manuel Estaran ; Aleksejs Udalcovs ; Agnieszka Konczykowska ; Muriel Riet ; Bernadette Duval ; Virginie Nodjiadjim ; Jean-Yves Dupuy ; Xiaodan Pang ; Urban Westergren ; Jiajia Chen ; Sergei Popov ; Sébastien Bigo

ULTRA-HIGH BANDWIDTH INTEGRATED LITHIUM NIOBATE MODULATORS WITH RECORD-LOW VP...... 2540 Mian Zhang ; Cheng Wang ; Xi Chen ; Maxime Bertrand ; Amirhassan Shams-Ansari ; Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar ; Peter Winzer ; Marko Loncar

64 GBD MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED COHERENT QPSK SINGLE POLARIZATION RECEIVER IN 0.25 µM SIGE-PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY...... 2543 Christian Kress ; Sergiy Gudyriev ; Heiner Zwickel ; Juned N. Kemal ; Stefan Lischke ; Lars Zimmermann ; Christian Koos ; J. Christoph Scheytt

A 128 GB/S PAM4 SILICON MICRORING MODULATOR...... 2546 Jie Sun ; Meer Sakib ; Jeffrey Driscoll ; Ranjeet Kumar ; Hasitha Jayatilleka ; Yoel Chetrit ; Haisheng Rong

POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS IN OPTICAL FIBERS — DOES IT HELP OR RUIN PHOTON ENTANGLEMENT DISTRIBUTION?...... 2549 D. E. Jones ; B. T. Kirby ; M. Brodsky

GIANT FARADAY ROTATION IN GADOLINIUM DOPED SILICA OPTICAL FIBERS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE OPTICAL ISOLATORS...... 2552 Rand Ismaeel ; Ali Masoudi ; Yun Wang ; Wanvisa Talataisong ; Norberto Chiodini ; Timothy Lee ; Martynas Beresna ; Gilberto Brambilla

FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A MODE-SELECTIVE 45-MODE SPATIAL MULTIPLEXER BASED ON MULTI-PLANE LIGHT CONVERSION...... 2555 Satyanarayana Bade ; Bertrand Denolle ; Gauthier Trunet ; Nicolas Riguet ; Pu Jian ; Olivier Pinel ; Guillaume Labroille

SCALABLE MODE SORTER SUPPORTING 210 HERMITE-GAUSSIAN MODES ...... 2558 Nicolas K. Fontaine ; Roland Ryf ; Haoshuo Chen ; David T. Neilson ; Kwangwoong Kim ; Joel Carpenter

LOW INSERTION LOSS AND POWER EFFICIENT 32 × 32 SILICON PHOTONICS SWITCH WITH EXTREMELY-HIGH-? PLC CONNECTOR ...... 2561 Keijiro Suzuki ; Ryotaro Konoike ; Junichi Hasegawa ; Satoshi Suda ; Hiroyuki Matsuura ; Kazuhiro Ikeda ; Shu Namiki ; Hitoshi Kawashima

LOSSLESS OPERATION OF SOA-INTEGRATED SILICON PHOTONICS SWITCH FOR 8 × 32- GBAUD 16-QAM WDM SIGNALS...... 2564 R. Konoike ; K. Suzuki ; T. Inoue ; T. Matsumoto ; T. Kurahashi ; A. Uetake ; K. Takabayashi ; S. Akiyama ; S. Sekiguchi ; K. Ikeda ; S. Namiki ; H. Kawashima

DSP-FREE AND REAL-TIME NRZ TRANSMISSION OF 50GB/S OVER 15KM SSMF AND 64GB/S BACK-TO-BACK WITH A 1.3µM VCSEL...... 2567 M. Verplaetse ; L. Breyne ; Christian Neumeyr ; Timothy De Keulenaer ; Wouter Soenen ; X. Yin ; P. Ossieur ; G. Torfs ; J. Bauwelinck

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF 112 GB/S PAM-4 AMPLIFIER-FREE TRANSMISSION OVER A RECORD REACH OF 40 KM USING 1.3 µM DIRECTLY MODULATED LASER...... 2570 Weiyu Wang ; Pengchao Zhao ; Zhike Zhang ; Huanlu Li ; Dajun Zang ; Ninghua Zhu ; Yuchun Lu

GENERATION AND INTRADYNE DETECTION OF SINGLE-WAVELENGTH 1.61-TB/S USING AN ALL-ELECTRONIC DIGITAL BAND INTERLEAVED TRANSMITTER...... 2573 X. Chen ; S. Chandrasekhar ; G. Raybon. S. Olsson ; J. Cho ; A. Adamiecki ; P. Winzer

FPGA INVESTIGATION ON ERROR-FLOOR PERFORMANCE OF A CONCATENATED STAIRCASE AND HAMMING CODE FOR 400G-ZR FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION ...... 2576 Yi Cai ; Weiming Wang ; Weifeng Qian ; Jia Xing ; Kai Tao ; Junjie Yin ; Shihua Zhang ; Ming Lei ; Erkun Sun ; Ke Yang ; Hungchang Chien ; Qun Liao ; Huan Chen

180-GBAUD ALL-ETDM SINGLE-CARRIER POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXED QPSK TRANSMISSION OVER 4480 KM ...... 2579 G. Raybon ; A. Adamiecki ; J. Cho ; F. Jorge ; A. Konczykowska ; M. Riet ; B. Duval ; J. -Y. Dupuy ; N. Fontaine ; P. J. Winzer ; S. Chandrasekhar ; X. Chen

159 TBIT/S C+L BAND TRANSMISSION OVER 1045 KM 3-MODE GRADED-INDEX FEW- MODE FIBER ...... 2582 Georg Rademacher ; Ruben S. Luis ; Benjamin J. Puttnam ; Tobias A. Eriksson ; Erik Agrell ; Ryo Maruyama ; Kazuhiko Aikawa ; Hideaki Furukawa ; Yoshinari Awaji ; Naoya Wada

RECORD-HIGH 17.3-BIT/S/HZ SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY TRANSMISSION OVER 50 KM USING PROBABILISTICALLY SHAPED PDM 4096-QAM ...... 2585 Samuel L. I. Olsson ; Junho Cho ; Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar ; Xi Chen ; Ellsworth C. Burrows ; Peter J. Winzer

DMD-UNMANAGED LONG-HAUL SDM TRANSMISSION OVER 2500-KM 12-CORE × 3-MODE MC-FMF AND 6300-KM 3-MODE FMF EMPLOYING INTERMODAL INTERFERENCE CANCELLING TECHNIQUE...... 2588 K. Shibahara ; T. Mizuno ; L. Doowhan ; Y. Miyamoto ; H. Ono ; K. Nakajima ; S. Saitoh ; K. Takenaga ; K. Saitoh

DISTRIBUTED AGGREGATION AND RECEPTION OF A 400-GB/S NET RATE SUPERCHANNEL IN A SINGLE-PHOTODIODE 110-GHZ KRAMERS-KRONIG RECEIVER...... 2591 Isaac Sackey ; Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst ; Robert Emmerich ; Robert Elschner ; Tomoyuki Kato ; Takahito Tanimura ; Shigeki Watanabe ; Takeshi Hoshida ; Colja Schubert

1-TB/S PHOTONICS-AIDED VECTOR MILLIMETER-WAVE SIGNAL WIRELESS DELIVERY AT D-BAND ...... 2594 Xinying Li ; Jianjun Yu ; Li Zhao ; Kaihui Wang ; Wen Zhou ; Jiangnan Xiao

HIGH-SPEED AND HANDOVER-FREE COMMUNICATIONS FOR HIGH-SPEED TRAINS USING SWITCHED WDM FIBER-WIRELESS SYSTEM...... 2597 Pham Tien Dat ; Atsushi Kanno ; Keizo Inagaki ; Toshimasa Umezawa ; François Rottenberg ; Jérome Louveaux ; Naokatsu Yamamoto ; Tetsuya Kawanishi

FULLY-LOADED AND CASCADED OPERATION OF POLARIZATION-DIVERSITY 8 × 8 SILICON PHOTONICS OPTICAL SWITCH WITH 11-CH × 32/44-GBAUD DP-16QAM WDM TRANSMISSION ...... 2600 Takayuki Kurosu ; Takashi Inoue ; Keijiro Suzuki ; Satoshi Suda ; Shu Namiki

A SILICON PHOTONIC TRANSCEIVER AND HYBRID TUNABLE LASER FOR 64 GBAUD COHERENT COMMUNICATION...... 2603 Ari Novack ; Matthew Streshinsky ; Tam Huynh ; Tal Galfsky ; Hang Guan ; Yang Liu ; Yangjin Ma ; Ruizhi Shi ; Alexandre Horth ; Yaojia Chen ; Amir Hanjani ; Jose Roman ; Yury Dziashko ; Ran Ding ; Saeed Fathololoumi ; Andy Eu-Jin Lim ; Kishore Padmaraju ; Rafid Sukkar ; Rick Younce ; Harald Rohde ; Robert Palmer ; Guido Saathoff ; Torsten Wuth ; Marc Bohn ; Abdelrahman Ahmed ; Mostafa Ahmed ; Christopher Williams ; Daihyun Lim ; Abdellatif Elmoznine ; Alexander Rylyakov ; Tom Baehr-Jones ; Peter Magill ; Dominick Scordo ; Michael Hochberg

EVOLUTION FROM 8QAM LIVE TRAFFIC TO PS 64-QAM WITH NEURAL-NETWORK BASED NONLINEARITY COMPENSATION ON 11000 KM OPEN SUBSEA CABLE ...... 2606 Valey Kamalov ; Ljupcho Jovanovski ; Vijay Vusirikala ; Shaoliang Zhang ; Fatih Yaman ; Kohei Nakamura ; Takanori Inoue ; Eduardo Mateo ; Yoshihisa Inada

41.5 TB/S DATA TRANSPORT OVER 549 KM OF FIELD DEPLOYED FIBER USING THROUGHPUT OPTIMIZED PROBABILISTIC-SHAPED 144QAM TO SUPPORT METRO NETWORK CAPACITY DEMANDS ...... 2609 Tiejun J. Xia ; Daniel L. Peterson ; Glenn A. Wellbrock ; Ezra Ip ; Yue-Kai Huang ; Ting Wang ; Yoshiaki Aono ; Tsutomu Tajima

THE FIRST TESTBED DEMONSTRATION OF COGNITIVE END-TO-END OPTICAL SERVICE PROVISIONING WITH HIERARCHICAL LEARNING ACROSS MULTIPLE AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS ...... 2612 Gengchen Liu ; Kaiqi Zhang ; Xiaoliang Chen ; Hongbo Lu ; Jiannan Guo ; Jie Yin ; Roberto Proietti ; Zuqing Zhu ; S. J. Ben Yoo

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