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 4/4 Copyright © 2018, Optical Society of America (OSA) All Rights Reserved *** This is a print representation of what appears in the IEEE Digital Library. Some format issues inherent in the e-media version may also appear in this print version. IEEE Catalog Number: CFP18OFC-POD ISBN (Print-On-Demand): 978-1-5386-5834-5 ISBN (Online): 978-1-943580-38-5 Additional Copies of This Publication Are Available From: Curran Associates, Inc 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 USA Phone: (845) 758-0400 Fax: (845) 758-2633 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.proceedings.com 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