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2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.OTuA • Distortion MitigationGiuseppe Bordogna; NortelNetworks Ltd, Canada, Presider

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.OTuB • Optical PacketSwitching SubsystemsMasashi Usami; KDDI R&D Labs,Japan, Presider

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.OTuC • Nonlinear Fibers ISatoki Kawanishi; NTT, Japan,Presider

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.OTuD • Silicon Photonics IMichael Wale; BookhamTechnology, UK, Presider

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.OTuE • Network ArchitectureBiswanath Mukherjee; Univ. ofCalifornia at Davis, USA, Presider

OTuA1 • 2:00 p.m.Transmission of 42.8Gbit/s PolarizationMultiplexed NRZ-QPSK over 6400km ofStandard Fiber with No Optical Disper-sion Compensation, Seb J. Savory,Giancarlo Gavioli, Robert I. Killey, PolinaBayvel; Univ. College London, UK. Wereport the longest reach achieved for a42.8Gbit/s system on standard fiber withno optical dispersion compensation. Usinga digital coherent receiver a record totaldispersion of 107,424ps/nm was compen-sated with 1.2dB OSNR penalty.

OTuB1 • 2:00 p.m. InvitedOptical Switching Technologies for DataNetworking, David T. Neilson; Bell Labs,Lucent Technologies, USA. Optics provideshigh capacity links for data networkingbut wavelength circuit granularity resultsin increased complexity for packet net-works. Approaches and technologies toprovide optical switching to eliminate thislimitation will be described.

OTuC1 • 2:00 p.m. Tutorial

Highly Nonlinear Fibers and Their Ap-plications, Govind Agrawal; Univ. of Roch-ester, USA. This tutorial focuses on highlynonlinear fibers, such as tapered,microstructured, and photonic-crystalfibers, with emphasis on their applica-tions. Topics covered include ultrahighRaman-induced frequency shifts, solitonfission, four-wave mixing, andsupercontinuum generation.

Govind P. Agrawal is a Professor of Opticsat the Institute of Optics of University ofRochester. His previous appointmentswere at Ecole Polytechnique, France, CityUniversity of New York, and Bell Labora-tories, NJ. He is an author or coauthor ofmore than 300 research papers, multiplereview articles, and seven books. Thefourth edition of his well-known bookNonlinear Fiber Optics appeared in 2007.Dr. Agrawal is a Fellow of both the Opticalsociety of America and IEEE. He served asan associate Editor of JOSA B from 1993to 1998 and of Optics Express from 2001 to2004.

OTuD1 • 2:00 p.m. InvitedCMOS Based Photonic Integration forOptical Interconnects, Cary Gunn;Luxtera, USA. No abstract available.

OTuE1 • 2:00 p.m. InvitedOptics and the Challenge of CarrierNetwork Transformation, AndreasGladisch; T-Systems, Germany. The trans-formation of network architecture to-wards a multi-service packet network isexplained and the dependencies betweennew optical technologies and networkarchitectures are discussed.

OTuA2 • 2:15 p.m.Electronic Post-Compensation for Non-linear Phase Noise in a 1000-km 20-Gbit/s Optical QPSK Transmission SystemUsing the Homodyne Receiver with Digi-tal Signal Processing, Kazuro Kikuchi,Marcos Fukase, Sang-Yuep Kim; RCAST,Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. We demonstrateelectronic post-compensation for nonlin-ear phase noise in a 1000-km 20-Gbit/soptical QPSK transmission system. Opti-mized phase shift proportional to intensitynoise is given to the homodyne-detectedelectric field, leading to effective phase-noise reduction.

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OFC/NFOEC Technical Session Abstracts

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.OTuF • Pulsed LasersJake Bromage; Univ. of Rochester,USA, Presider

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.OTuG • Colorless ONU’sGlenn Wellbrock; Ciena Corp.,USA, Presider

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.NTuA • NetworkingConvergence for Multi-HaulArchitecturesThomas Wood; Lucent, USA,Presider

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.NTuB • ASON/GMPLS(Panel Discussion)

OTuF1 • 2:00 p.m.All-Fiber Passive Mode-Lockers UsingAttachable Vertically Aligned CarbonNanotube Film, Yong-Won Song, ErikEinarsson, Shinji Yamashita, ShigeoMaruyama; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan. Wedramatically improve the preparationprocess and operation efficiency of carbonnanotube mode-lockers employing atransferable vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotube film. All-fiberlaser mode-locking is achieved utilizingthe film attached to a D-shaped fiber.

OTuG1 • 2:00 p.m.A High-Performance PON System forBoth Access and Local Networking UsingWavelength-Switchable Transceivers,Jaegwan Kim1, Chang-Joon Chae2; 1Infor-mation and Communication Univ., Repub-lic of Korea, 2Victoria Res. Lab-Natl. ICTAustralia Ltd., Univ. of Melbourne, Austra-lia. We propose a new PON architecturewhere both access and local networkingservices are enabled using wavelength-switchable transceivers. Simulation showsthat available bandwidth is nearly doubledwith fast wavelength switching and delayis drastically improved.

NTuA1 • 2:00 p.m.43Gb/s Adaptive Polarization ModeDispersion Compensator Field Trial,Brian Heffner1, Ted Schmidt1, RossSaunders1, Rongqing Hui2, Doug Richards3,Gary Nicholl4; 1StrataLight Communica-tions, USA, 2Univ. of Kansas, USA, 3SprintNextel, USA, 4Cisco Systems, Canada. Wedescribe long-term field measurements at43Gb/s over a high-PMD link, using onereceiver with adaptive PMD compensationand a second receiver without. The Q atboth receivers is monitored and correlatedwith instantaneous DGD.

NTuA2 • 2:20 p.m.DGD Estimation in Optical Systems ofHigh Capacity, Cieslak Agnaldo1, João A.Brito Junior2,3; 1Intelig Telecomunicações,Brazil, 2Pontificial Catholic Univ. of Rio deJaneiro, Brazil, 3Telemar, Brazil. We showthat short cable sections with low PMDused in the deployment of long links, theestimated probability of DGD overcomescertain maximum DGD value based oncabler data systematically overestimatesPMD power penalties.

OTuG2 • 2:15 p.m.Hybrid Dual-Fiber-Ring with Single-Fiber-Trees Dense Access Network Archi-tecture Using RSOA-ONU, Jose A. Lazaro1,Reynaldo I. Martinez2, Victor Polo1,Cristina Arellano1, Josep Prat1; 1Univ.Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain,2Univ. Simón Bolívar, Venezuela. Long-reach, high-density centralized-light accessnetwork using remote amplification andReflective SOA for upstream remodulationin an user-single-fiber completely passiveWDM-PON providing broadband to>1000 users distributed along large dis-tances.

OTuF2 • 2:15 p.m.High-Energy Ultrashort Pulse Genera-tion from a Fundamentally Mode-LockedFiber Laser at 1.7 MHz, Kok Hann Fong1,Kazuro Kikuchi1, Sze Y. Set2; 1Univ. of To-kyo, Japan, 2Alnair Labs Corp., Japan. Wepropose and demonstrate a self-starting,fundamentally mode-locked fiber laserstabilized by a single-wall carbonnanotube saturable absorber, capable ofgenerating 200-fs, 1-nJ pulses at a lowrepetition rate of 1.7 MHz.

NTuB • 2:00 p.m.ASON/GMPLS, Monica Lazer; AT&T,USA. This panel focuses on network appli-cations for ASON/GMPLS from bothvendor and carrier perspectives. Industrywide work is advancing standards andinteroperability agreements in support ofintelligent optical networks. Significantadvances in standardization include: •ITU-T has completed recommendationson the Automatically Switched OpticalNetworks (ASON) architecture and re-quirements for signaling, routing, andneighbor discovery. • IETF has completedRFCs for GMPLS signaling coveringSONET/SDH, Optical Transport Net-works (OTN), and is working on routingprotocols extensions. • OpticalInternetworking Forum (OIF) has com-pleted work on Interoperability Agree-ments (IAs) for UNI and E-NNI signaling,it has staged several world-wideinteroperability events, and is working onupdates to IAs. • TMF is completing workon extending the Multi-Technology Net-work Management (MTNM) interface formanagement of ASON networks.

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OTuA • DistortionMitigation—Continued

OTuB • Optical PacketSwitching Subsystems—Continued

OTuC • Nonlinear Fibers I—Continued

OTuD • Silicon Photonics I—Continued

OTuE • NetworkArchitecture—Continued

OTuA3 • 2:30 p.m.Electronic Dispersion Compensation inBandwidth Limited 43 Gb/s PSBT Sys-tems for 50 GHz Spaced DWDM Applica-tion, Fred Buchali; Alcatel SEL AG, Ger-many. We studied electronic dispersioncompensation in bandwidth limited PSBTsystems for 50GHz spaced DWDM. Trans-mitter optimization in conjunction withViterbi equalization enables 43Gb/s data-transmission in 30GHz optical channelswith 230ps/nm CD and 18ps DGD toler-ance.

OTuB2 • 2:30 p.m.All-Optical Combinatorial NetworkBased on SOAs for Packet ContentionResolution in a 2 x 2 Photonic Node,Mirco Scaffardi1, Francesco Fresi2, GianlucaBerrettini1, Gianluca Meloni1, AntonellaBogoni2, Luca Potì2; 1Scuola SuperioreSant’Anna, Italy, 2CNIT, Italy. A complexintegrable all-optical combinatorial net-work based on Semiconductor OpticalAmplifiers is demonstrated. As an applica-tion, contention detection and switchingcontrol in 2x2 photonic node is per-formed in a diverse priority self routingpacket network.

OTuD2 • 2:30 p.m.An Electrically Pumped Hybrid SiliconEvanescent Amplifier, Hyundai Park1,Alexander W. Fang1, John E. Bowers1, Rich-ard Jones2, Oded Cohen3; 1Univ. of Califor-nia at Santa Barbara, USA, 2Intel, USA,3Intel, Israel. A hybrid silicon evanescentamplifier utilizing a wafer bonded struc-ture of a silicon waveguide and AlGaInAsquantum wells is demonstrated. Maxi-mum chip gain obtained is 13dB with a3dB output saturation power of 11dBm.

OTuE2 • 2:30 p.m.Blocking and Waveband Assignment inWDM Networks with LimitedReconfigurability, Onur Turkcu, SureshSubramaniam; ECE Dept., The GeorgeWashington Univ., USA. In this paper, weshow quantitatively the benefits of usingReconfigurable Optical Add-Drop Multi-plexers (ROADMs) with limited tunabletransponders in all-optical networks. Wecompare two transponder sharing modelsand two waveband assignment schemes.

OTuA4 • 2:45 p.m. InvitedOrthogonal Frequency Division Multi-plexing for Optical Dispersion Compen-sation, Arthur J. Lowery, Jean Armstrong;Monash Univ., Australia. Orthogonal Fre-quency Division Multiplexing offers anattractive method of electronically com-pensating for single-mode and multipathdispersion in optical links and optically-switched networks. This paper reviewsrecent progress in optical OFDM systems.

OTuB3 • 2:45 p.m.Optically-Addressable Packet TimeslotInterchanger Using a Quadruple SwitchArray, Olga Zouraraki1, DimitriosPetrantonakis1, KonstantinosYiannopoulos2, Rui Meleiro3,4, LidaSadeghioon5, Alistair Poustie6, GraemeMaxwell6, Emmanouel Varvarigos2,Kyriakos Vlachos2, Paulo Monteiro3,4,Dimitra Simeonidou5, HerculesAvramopoulos1; 1Natl. Technical Univ. ofAthens, Greece, 2Univ. of Patras, Greece,3Univ. of Aveiro, Portugal, 4Siemens Net-works S.A, Portugal, 5Univ. of Essex, UK,6Ctr. for Integrated Photonics, UK. Wepropose and demonstrate a wavelengthconverter-based Time-Slot-Interchangerarchitecture consisting of cascaded pro-grammable delay stages. It uses an inte-grated quadruple switch array of HMZIswitches and operated error-free with 10Gb/s NRZ packets.

OTuD3 • 2:45 p.m.Multilayer 3-D Photonics in Silicon,Prakash Koonath1,2, Bahram Jalali1,2; 1Dept.of Electrical Engineering, USA, 2Univ. ofCalifornia, USA. Three-dimensionallyintegrated devices have been realized inSilicon using SIMOX 3D sculpting. De-vices are fabricated, for the first time, onthree vertically-integrated silicon layers,paving the way towards ultra-dense opto-electronic structures in Silicon.

OTuE3 • 2:45 p.m.Delay Sensitive Smoothed Round Robin(DS2R2) Scheduler for Light-Trail andSLiT Networks, Paresh Bafna1, Ashwin A.Gumaste1, Nasir Ghani2; 1Indian Inst.ofTechnology, India, 2Tennessee TechnologicalUniv., USA. We propose Delay SensitiveSmoothed Round Robin scheduling algo-rithm for provisioning services over light-trail and SLiT networks. Compliance todelay requirements for services such asPWE3, VoD, Voice and data and goodefficiency are observed.

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OTuF • Pulsed Lasers—Continued

OTuG • Colorless ONU’s—Continued

NTuA • NetworkingConvergence for Multi-HaulArchitectures—Continued

OTuF3 • 2:30 p.m.A Mode-Hop-Free, Frequency-Tunable40 GHz Mode-Locked Fiber Laser, MasatoYoshida, Keisuke Kasai, MasatakaNakazawa; Tohoku Univ., RIEC, Japan. Wehave successfully realized a mode-hop-free, frequency-tunable 40 GHz mode-locked fiber laser by installing an opticaletalon in the cavity. By tuning the etalonpeak frequency, the laser frequency wascontinuously tuned over 1 GHz.

OTuG3 • 2:30 p.m.WDM-PON Architecture with C-BandOLT, L-Band ONU, and U-Band Monitor-ing Based on FP-LDs Wavelength-Lockedby a Single, Depolarized, CW Super-continuum, Ju Han Lee1, Young-GeunHan1, Sang Bae Lee1, Chul Han Kim2; 1Ko-rea Institue of Science and Technology(KIST), Republic of Korea, 2Univ. of Seoul,Republic of Korea. We demonstrate a bidi-rectional WDM-PON based on a single,depolarized, 130-nm, CW super-continuum. The architecture incorporat-ing low-cost, wavelength-locked FP-LDsfeatures the unique wavelength-bandallocation of C-band for OLT, L-band forONUs, and U-band for channel-monitor-ing.

NTuA3 • 2:40 p.m. InvitedFalling Boundaries from Metro to ULHOptical Transport Equipment, Michel W.Chbat, Hans-Juergen Schmidtke; SiemensCommunications, Inc., USA. With in-creased price pressure and expandingrequirements, metropolitan, regional, andLH/ULH transport equipment are rapidlycollapsing toward universal platforms.Enabling technologies and impact of thisconvergence on optical network architec-ture and design will be reviewed.

OTuF4 • 2:45 p.m.Third-Order Dispersion Role in Mode-Locked Regimes of Yb-Doped Fiber La-sers, Yury Logvin1, Vladimir P. Kalosha2,Hanan Anis1; 1School of Information Tech-nology and Engineering, Univ. of Ottawa,Canada, 2Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Ottawa,Canada. Novel features in the stretched-pulse and similariton-cubicon regimes ofYb-doped fiber laser are found by meansof numerical simulations when a photonicband-gap fiber with strong third-orderdispersion is used for dispersion compen-sation.

OTuG4 • 2:45 p.m.On the Influence of ONU-Gain on Trans-mission in Centrally Seeded-LightWDM-PONs, Cristina Arellano1, JosepPrat1, Klaus-Dieter Langer2; 1Univ.Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain,2Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommunications,Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Germany. Gain influ-ence on transmission in reflective-ONU isanalyzed theoretically and experimentally.A general expression for the optical signal-to-crosstalk ratio is given. Experimentalresults with two types of reflective-ONUare in agreement with the theoreticalapproach.

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OTuC2 • 3:00 p.m.High Resolution Extraction of FiberPropagation Parameters for AccurateModeling of Slow Light Systems Basedon Narrow Band Optical ParametricAmplification, Evgeny Shumakher, AmnonWillinger, Roy Blit, David Dahan, GadiEisenstein; Technion, Israel. The spatialdistributions of fiber propagation param-eters are estimated with a high spatialresolution using measured ASE spectra ofnarrow parametric gain. This allows accu-rate modeling of slow light propagation ofhigh bit rate data.

OTuA5 • 3:15 p.m.Adaptive PMD Compensation UsingOFDM in Long-Haul 10Gb/s DWDMSystems, Neda Cvijetic, Lei Xu, Ting Wang;NEC Labs America, USA. In this paper, weshow OFDM can adaptively compensatefor large all-order PMD without requiringfeedback. We demonstrate error-freetransmission on a 1920km 40x10Gb/sDWDM link with 48ps mean DGD inpresence of fiber nonlinearity.

OTuB4 • 3:00 p.m.All-Optical Packet Switching by Pulsed-Pump Wavelength Exchange in a HighlyNonlinear Dispersion-Shifted Fiber,Henry K. Y. Cheung1, Rebecca W. L. Fung1,C. H. Kwok2, Kenneth K. Y. Wong1; 1Univ. ofHong Kong, Hong Kong, 2Chinese Univ. ofHong Kong, Hong Kong. We demonstrateexperimentally for the first time successfulswitching of packets based on wavelengthexchange with two pulsed pumps locatedat the anomalous-dispersion region. Si-multaneous packet switching betweendifferent wavelengths at same timeslot isachieved.

OTuD4 • 3:00 p.m. Tutorial

Recent Advances in Germanium Quan-tum Well Structures — A New Modula-tion Mechanism for Silicon-CompatibleOptics, David A. B. Miller; Stanford Univ.,USA. Silicon technology increasingly canimplement both electronics and optics forcommunications. The recent discovery ofstrong electroabsorption in Ge quantumwells on silicon may fill a key gap, allowinga merged technology for many applica-tions.

David A. B. Miller received the B.Sc. de-gree from St Andrews University, and, in1979, the Ph.D. degree from Heriot-WattUniversity, both in physics. He was withBell Laboratories from 1981 to 1996, as adepartment head from 1987, latterly of theAdvanced Photonics Research Depart-ment. He is currently the W. M. KeckProfessor of Electrical Engineering, theDirector of the Solid State and PhotonicsLaboratory, and a Co-Director of theStanford Photonics Research Center atStanford University, Stanford, California,USA. His research interests include physicsand devices in nanophotonics, nano-metallics, and quantum-well optoelec-tronics, and fundamentals and applica-tions of optics in information sensing,switching, and processing. He has pub-lished more than 250 scientific papers,holds 60 patents, is a Fellow of OSA, IEEE,APS, and the Royal Societies of Edinburghand London, holds honorary degrees fromthe Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Heriot-Watt University, and has received numer-ous awards.

OTuE4 • 3:00 p.m. InvitedHOPI Testbed, Rick Summerhill;Internet 2, USA. This talk focuses on someof the recent results from the Hybrid Op-tical and Packet infrastructure (HOPI)project of Internet2. The HOPI projectexamines hybrid networking: how toincorporate layer 1 through layer 3 net-work capabilities into a coherent networkdesign. It examines two fundamentalareas: dynamic provisioning of layer 1services to support applications, and hy-brid capabilities, the integration of layer 1through layer 3 services.




OTuD • Silicon Photonics I—Continued


OTuB5 • 3:15 p.m.Asynchronous All-Optical Circuit forSerial-to-Parallel Conversion of LabelBits of DPSK Packets, Nicola Calabretta,Marco Presi, Giampiero Contestabile,Ernesto Ciaramella; Scuola SuperioreSant’Anna, Italy. We present a novel asyn-chronous all-optical circuit for extractionand serial-to-parallel-conversion of labelbits from DPSK packets. The circuit re-quires only two optical switches regardlessthe label bits number, is scalable, low-power consumption, and compact.

OTuB6 • 3:30 p.m.Improved Label Property of OrthogonalASK/DPSK Labeling by Using a 40 Gb/sManchester Coded Payload, Nan Chi,Dexiu Huang; Wuhan Natl. Lab for Opto-electronics, China. We experimentallydemonstrate an orthogonal ASK/DPSKlabeling using a 40Gb/s Manchester codedpayload and a 2.5Gb/s DPSK label. Theextinction ration can be increased to 11dBresulting in 8 dB improvement for thelabel sensitivity.

OTuC3 • 3:15 p.m.Effect of Draw-Induced Residual Elasticand Inelastic Strains on Brillouin Fre-quency Shift in Optical Fibers, WeiwenZou1, Zuyuan He1, Andrew D. Yablon2,Kazuo Hotate1; 1Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, 2OFSLabs, USA. The effect of draw-inducedresidual elastic and inelastic strains onBrillouin frequency shift (BFS) in opticalfibers is investigated. It is found that theBFS is linearly proportional to the drawtension with -4.2 MHz/gram.

OTuE5 • 3:30 p.m.A Protocol for Efficient Tunable LaserUtilization to Support Incremental Up-grade in a WDM-PON, Huan Song,Amitabha Banerjee, Biswanath Mukherjee;Univ. of California at Davis, USA. Wepresent a novel protocol to achieve betterutilization of tunable lasers across differ-ent user groups in a WDM-PON. Wedemonstrate the protocol’s advantage tosupport incremental upgrade of band-width with increasing user bandwidthrequest.

OTuA6 • 3:30 p.m.Electronic Dispersion CompensationBased on Optical Field Reconstructionwith Orthogonal Differential Direct-Detection and Digital Signal Processing,Xiang Liu, Xing Wei; Bell Labs, LucentTechnologies, USA. We present a receiver-side electronic dispersion compensationscheme based on optical field reconstruc-tion using orthogonal differential direct-detection and DSP. Dispersion compensa-tions for 20-Gb/s DQPSK and 10-Gb/sOOK signals over 2000-km SSMF trans-mission are numerically demonstrated.

OTuC4 • 3:30 p.m.Self-Trapping and Self-Frequency Shiftof Solitons in Photonic Crystal Fiber,Alexander Podlipensky, PrzemyslawSzarniak, Nicolas Joly, Chris Poulton, PhilipSt. J. Russell; Inst. of Optics, Informationand Photonics (Max Planck Res. Group),Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.We demonstrate experimentally for thefirst time the self-trapping of solitons inhighly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber.The trapping occurs at particular powerand is driven by fission of high-ordersolitons and their self-frequency shift.

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OTuF5 • 3:00 p.m. InvitedAdvances in Femtosecond Fiber Lasers,Jeff Nicholson; OFS Labs, USA. Passivelymodelocked, femtosecond fiber lasers arediscussed. Recent advances in mode-locking schemes and cavity designs arereviewed.

OTuG5 • 3:00 p.m. InvitedWDM-PON with Colorless ONUs, FranckPayoux, Philippe Chanclou, GenayNaveena; France Telecom, France. Thispaper describes the interest of operatorsfor WDM PON and more particularlywith colorless ONUs. Operator needs arepresented and techniques to obtain color-less ONUs are reviewed.

NTuA4 • 3:20 p.m. InvitedOptimizing Transport Systems to Inte-grate TDM and Packet Services, SteveGringeri1, Nablir N. Bitar1, Roman Egorov1,Bert Basch1, Craig Suitor2, Harry Peng2;1Verizon Labs, USA, 2Nortel, Canada.Transport elements must evolve toseamlessly integrate TDM and packetservices into a single platform. This inte-gration is best achieved using a hybridswitch that is capable of switching bothTDM and packet flows.



NTuA • NetworkingConvergence for Multi-HaulArchitectures—Continued

OTuF6 • 3:30 p.m.Nonlinear Distortion Free Fiber-BasedChirped Pulse Amplification with Self-Phase Modulation up to 2Pi, GuanghaoZhu, Joel Edingberg, Chris Xu; CornellUniv., USA. By using an electo-optic phasemodulator to realize nonlinear phase pre-compensation, we demonstrate nonlineardistortion free fiber-based chirped pulseamplification with accumulated self-phasemodulation up to 2.0 Pi radians.

OTuG6 • 3:30 p.m.Wavelength Shifting for Colorless ONUsin Single-Fiber WDM-PONs, Josep Prat,Mireia Omella, Victor Polo; Univ.Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain. With thepurpose of reducing the crosstalk causedby Rayleigh Backscattering in bidirectionalcentralized light systems, we propose areflective ONU design that performswavelength shifting by means of combinedPM and SSB modulation.


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OTuA7 • 3:45 p.m.Performance Evaluation of ElectronicEqualizers for Dynamic PMD Compen-sation in Systems with FEC, ChongjinXie1, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar1,Dieter Werner2, Herbert Haunstein3; 1BellLabs, Lucent Technologies, USA, 2LucentTechnologies, USA, 3Univ. of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Experimental investi-gations show that the dynamic perfor-mance of PMD compensation using elec-tronic equalizers in systems with FEC isvery different from the performance in thestatic case and in systems without FEC.

OTuB7 • 3:45 p.m.A 40 Gb/s Asynchronous Optical PacketBuffer Based on an SOA Gate Matrix forContention Resolution, John P. Mack,Henrik N. Poulsen, Emily F. Burmeister,John E. Bowers, Daniel J. Blumenthal; Univ.of California at Santa Barbara, USA. Wedemonstrate a 40 Gb/s optical packetbuffer with asynchronous and autono-mous control for use in contention resolu-tion. Layer-2 (packet recovery) measure-ments are presented with less than 1 dBpower penalty up to 10 circulations.

OTuC5 • 3:45 p.m.Fusion-Spliceable Bi

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Crystal Fiber, Tatsuo Nagashima,Tomoharu Hasegawa, Seiki Ohara, NaokiSugimoto; Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. Res. Ctr.,Japan. We fabricated Bi

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m), high nonlinearity (780 W-1km-1) andsmall dispersion (-5 ps/nm/km) at 1550nm.

OTuE6 • 3:45 p.m.Improving Access Performance with anIntegrated PON and WiMAX withMIMO, Peng Lin1, Ting Wang1, YoshihikoSuemura2, Shinya Nakamura2, ChunMingQiao3; 1NEC Labs America, USA, 2OpticalNetwork Div., NEC Corp., Japan, 3SUNY atBuffalo, USA. We propose and evaluate anear-optimal antenna allocation approachfor a PON+WiMAX network with MIMOthat takes advantage of the optical wirelessintegration to achieve a high throughputand good resilience.





4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Coffee Break, Exhibit Hall

4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.OTuH • TransmissionSubsystemsSalim Gurib; France Telecom,France, Presider

4:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.OTuI • WavelengthConversionStefan Spaelter; Siemens,Germany, Presider

4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.OTuJ • Nonlinear Fibers IIMisha Brodsky; AT&T Labs - Res.,USA, Presider

4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.OTuK • Waveguide LasersPaul Wysocki; Unopsys LLC, USA,Presider

4:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.OTuL • High-SpeedMultimode Fiber Transmissionand ModelingWerner Rosenkranz; Univ. of Kiel,Germany, Presider

OTuL1 • 4:30 p.m. InvitedCompensating Multimode Fiber Disper-sion Using Adaptive Optics, Joseph Kahn;Stanford Univ., USA. Adaptive optics cancompensate multimode dispersion, en-abling 10 Gbit/s transmission through 11km of standard 50 micron fiber. Thismethod scales better than electrical equal-ization to multiple WDM channels, highbit rates and long fibers.

OTuK1 • 4:30 p.m.High-Gain Optical Amplification ofEuropium-Aluminum NanoclusterDoped Planar Polymer Waveguide,Hiroshi Mataki1, Nobuko Mibuka1, KanameTsuchii1, Ayami Suzuki1, Shigeru Yamaki1,Jun Sun1, Hironori Taniguchi2, KenichiYamashita2, Kunishige Oe2; 1KRI Inc., Ja-pan, 2Kyoto Inst. of Technology, Japan. Wehave successfully demonstrated opticalamplification using a planar PMMA(polymethylmethacrylate) opticalwaveguide with doped Eu-Al nanoclusters.The optical gain of 5.57dB/mm was ob-served while well suppressing the concen-tration quenching.

OTuJ1 • 4:30 p.m. InvitedPractical Considerations for the Applica-tion of Highly Nonlinear Fibers, ToshiakiOkuno, Tetsuya Nakanishi, MasaakiHirano, Masahi Onishi; Sumitomo ElectricIndustries, Ltd., Japan. Comparison ofrecent reported highly nonlinear fibers iscarried out with viewpoints of practicaluse. Currently, silica-based highly nonlin-ear fibers are concluded to be most prom-ising, and their recent progress is brieflyreviewed.

OTuI1 • 4:30 p.m. InvitedAll Optical Tunable Wavelength Conver-sion at > 160 Gb/s, Hideaki Furukawa1,Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas2, NaoyaWada1, Satoshi Shinada1, Hiroshi Tsuboya3,Tetsuya Miyazaki1; 1Natl. Inst. of Informa-tion and Communications Technology,Japan, 2Natl. ICT Australia, Australia,3OPTOQUEST CO., Japan. We describeerror-free 160 Gb/s tunable all-opticalwavelength conversion using cascadedsum- and difference-frequency generationin periodically poled LiNbO

3 waveguide.

By using spectral-shaping, the BER of lessthan 10-9 is achieved in 23 nm tuning-range.

OTuH1 • 4:30 p.m.Optical Transceiver Employing an RSOAwith Feed-Forward Current Injection,Wooram Lee, Seung Hyun Cho, MahnYoung Park, Jie Hyun Lee, Chulyoung Kim,Geon Jeong, Byoung Whi Kim; Electronicsand Telecommunications Res. Inst., Repub-lic of Korea. We propose an optical trans-ceiver employing an RSOA of which gainis controlled by feed-forward current.With a low injection power below the gainsaturation, the improved remodulation isclearly demonstrated at 1.25-Gb/s datarate.

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OTuF7 • 3:45 p.m.Generation of 160-GHz Sub-PicosecondIn-Phase Pulse Train from Optical BeatSignal, Takashi Inoue, Yu Mimura, JiroHiroishi, Takeshi Yagi, Misao Sakano;Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Japan. Wepropose a method to generate in-phaseoptical pulse train from optical beat signalbased on four-wave mixing and asymmet-ric spectral filtering. A 160-GHz repeating,0.7-ps-FWHM, nearly transform-limited,in-phase sech pulse train is successfullygenerated.

OTuG7 • 3:45 p.m.A Self-Restorable Colorless BidirectionalWDM-PON Based on ASE-Injected FP-LDs, Kwanil Lee1, Ju Han Lee1, Young-GeunHan1, Sang Bae Lee1, Sil-Gu Mun2, Sang-Mook Lee2, Chang-Hee Lee2; 1Korea Inst. ofScience and Technology, Republic of Korea,2Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Tech-nology, Republic of Korea. We propose anddemonstrate a cost-effective self-restorablebidirectional WDM-PON based on ASE-injected FP-LDs, which utilizes the peri-odic and routing characteristics of thearrayed waveguide grating. The networkrestoration was achieved within 7 ms.



4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Coffee Break, Exhibit Hall

4:30 p.m.–6:00 p.m.OTuM • Silicon Photonics IIOlav Solgaard; Stanford Univ.,USA, Presider

4:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.OTuN • Fiber PMD andPolarizationPaul Westbrook; OFS Labs, USA,Presider

4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.NTuC • Advanced OpticalNetwork ArchitecturesMehran Esfandiari; AT&T, USA,Presider

4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.NTuD • Optical NetworkControl and ManagementBruce Miller; Alcatel, USA,Presider

NTuD1 • 4:30 p.m.GMPLS RSVP-TE Signaling Recoverywith Graceful Restart in Optical UserNetwork Interface, Zhiyu Zhou, KangChen, Ludi Zheng; Bell Labs Res. China,China. OIF UNI signaling re-uses theGMPLS RSVP-TE between clients con-nected to the transport network. Thispaper proposes an approach to make useof standard messages to recover the signal-ing state on the source client router.

NTuC1 • 4:30 p.m.Applications of ROADMs and ControlPlanes in Metro and Regional Networks,Klaus Grobe; ADVA AG Optical Network-ing, Germany. Reconfigurable OADMs(ROADMs), together with Control Planes,can have significant influence on networkconfigurations, applications, and effi-ciency. This paper identifies most relevantapplications areas and resulting benefits. Italso discusses ROADM/GMPLS refer-ences.

OTuN1 • 4:30 p.m.Fourier Pulse-Shaper Based Program-mable DGD Emulator, Shawn X. Wang,Andrew M. Weiner; Purdue Univ., USA. Wedeveloped and tested a deterministic dif-ferential group delay (DGD) emulatorbased on a VIPA Fourier pulse-shaper. TheDGD emulator can be programmed togenerate essentially arbitrary frequencydependent DGD profiles.

OTuM1 • 4:30 p.m.Compact, Low-Loss Waveguide Cross-ings for High-Index-Contrast SOI Pho-tonic Wires, Wim Bogaerts, Pieter Dumon,Dries Van Thourhout, Roel Baets; GhentUniv., IMEC, Belgium. Waveguide cross-ings are essential for complex photoniccircuits. We present compact crossings forsilicon-on-insulator photonic wires. Bylocally applying a lower index contrast,97.5% transmission is achieved in a 6µmlength with only -40dB crosstalk.


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OTuH • TransmissionSubsystems—Continued

OTuI • WavelengthConversion—Continued

OTuJ • Nonlinear Fibers II—Continued

OTuK • Waveguide Lasers—Continued

OTuL • High-SpeedMultimode Fiber Transmissionand Modeling—Continued

OTuH2 • 4:45 p.m.Transmitter Comparison and UnequalBit Error Probabilities in CoherentQPSK Systems, Hongxia Zhao, MagnusKarlsson, Erik Agrell; Chalmers Univ. ofTechnology, Sweden. We compare differentQPSK transmitters and find that somesimple configurations can give rise to asignificant difference in BER between thetwo transmitted bits. The optimum re-ceiver filter bandwidth is affected by thisphenomenon.

OTuI2 • 5:00 p.m.Widely Tunable Wavelength Conversionby Four-Wave Mixing in 1-m Dispersion-Shifted Bismuth-Oxide Photonic CrystalFiber, K. K. Chow1, K. Kikuchi1, T.Nagashima2, T. Hasegawa2, S. Ohara2, N.Sugimoto2; 1Res. Ctr. for Advanced Scienceand Technology, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan,2Asahi Glass Co. Ltd., Japan. We demon-strate four-wave mixing based wavelengthconversion using a 1-meter-long disper-sion-shifted bismuth-oxide photoniccrystal fiber. A 3-dB conversion range of35 nm is obtained with around 1-dBpower penalty for 10 Gb/s NRZ signal.

OTuJ2 • 5:00 p.m.High Power Parabolic Pulse Generationin Dispersion Decreasing Tapered Fibre,Alexei Plotski1, Alexej A. Sysoliatin1,Michail Y. Salganskii1, Paul Harper2, JimHarrison2, Sergei K. Turitsyn2, Anton I.Latkin3; 1Fibre Optics Res. Ctr., RussianFederation, 2Photonics Res. Group, School ofEngineering and Applied Science, AstonUniv., UK, 3Inst. of Automation andElectrometry SB RAS, Russian Federation.High-power pulse propagation in fibrewith tapered decreasing normal dispersionis studied experimentally and numerically.With appropriate fibre design and launchconditions generation of parabolic pulseand step-function waveforms in passivefibre is confirmed.

OTuK2 • 4:45 p.m.High-Power Stable Single-FrequencyWaveguide Laser, Giuseppe Della Valle1,Alessandro Festa1, Karin Ennser1, StefanoTaccheo1, Paolo Laporta1, Gino Sorbello2;1Politecnico di Milano - IFN-CNR, Italy,2Univ. di Catania, Italy. We demonstrate awaveguide laser providing over 20 mW inrobust single-frequency operation using 9-mm-long active waveguide. Overall cavitylength is <60 mm including butt-coupledfiber-Bragg-grating mirrors. Power scalingto 100 mW is discussed.

OTuL2 • 5:00 p.m.10.7 Gb/s Over 300 m GI-MMF Using a 2x 2 MIMO System Based on Mode GroupDiversity Multiplexing, StefanSchoellmann, Steven Soneff, WernerRosenkranz; Chair for Communications,Univ. of Kiel, Germany. We investigateexperimentally the feasibility of a 2x2MIMO system based on Mode GroupDiversity Multiplexing to enlarge thebandwidth distance product of MMF. Adata rate of 10.7Gb/s over 300m GI-MMFis achieved.

OTuK3 • 5:00 p.m. Tutorial

Teaching Silicon New Tricks, BahramJalali; Univ. of California at Los Angeles,USA. This tutorial will elucidate silicon’sprospect as an active optical medium. Itwill review recent breakthroughs on am-plification, lasing, wavelength conversion,energy harvesting, and a new class ofdevices based on nonlinear multi-modestructures.

Bahram Jalali is a Professor of ElectricalEngineering, the and the Director of theOptoelectronic Circuits and System Labo-ratory at UCLA. From 1988-1992, he wasa Member of Technical Staff at the PhysicsResearch Division of AT&T Bell Laborato-ries in Murray Hill, N.J. where he con-ducted research on ultrafast electronicsand optoelectronics. His current research

OTuH3 • 5:00 p.m.Dispersion Compensation Using All-PassDigital IIR Filters, Gilad Goldfarb,Guifang Li; College of Optics & Photonics:CREOL & FPCE, Univ. of Central Florida,USA. The use of infinite impulse responsefilters to achieve chromatic dispersioncompensation for homodyne phase-diver-sity detection systems employing digitalsignal processing is proposed. Theory,simulation and experimental results showthe advantages of this approach.

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OTuM • Silicon Photonics II—Continued

OTuN • Fiber PMD andPolarization—Continued

NTuC • Advanced OpticalNetwork Architectures—Continued

NTuD • Optical NetworkControl and Management—Continued

OTuM2 • 4:45 p.m.A Compact Polarization-IndependentWavelength Duplexer Using a Polariza-tion-Diversity SOI Photonic Wire Cir-cuit, Wim Bogaerts1, Dirk Taillaert1, PieterDumon1, Elroy Pluk2, Dries VanThourhout1, Roel Baets1; 1Ghent Univ. -IMEC, Belgium, 2Genexis B.V, Netherlands.We present a wavelength duplexer in sili-con-on-insulator photonic wires. Wemade a polarization-diversity circuit usingfiber grating couplers with polarizationsplitter and a bidirectional AWG, resultingin a polarization dependent loss of only0.66dB.

OTuN2 • 4:45 p.m.Broadband All-Order Polarization ModeDispersion Compensation, HouxunMiao1, Li Xu1, Andrew M. Weiner1,2,Carsten Langrock2, Rostislav V. Roussev2,Martin M. Fejer2; 1Purdue Univ., USA,2Stanford Univ., USA. We demonstratebroadband all-order polarization modedispersion (PMD) compensation by ap-plying broadband states of polarizationsensing, frequency-resolved optical gating(FROG), and ultrafast pulse shaping tech-niques.

NTuC2 • 4:50 p.m.Network Planning and ArchitectureAnalysis of Wavelength Blocking in Opti-cal and Digital ROADM Networks, SergeMelle, Vijay Vusirikala; Infinera, USA.Detailed network planning analysis indi-cates wavelength blocking in all-opticalROADM networks incurs additional OEOfor wavelength conversion, and constrainsservice reconfiguration. Analyses showthat digital ROADM systems mitigatethese problems and provide greater serviceflexibility.

NTuD2 • 4:50 p.m.Backup Path Multiplexing over Surviv-able GMPLS Networks, Yuanqiu Luo1, SiYin1, Ting Wang1, Shinya Nakamura2,Nirwan Ansari3; 1NEC Labs America, USA,2NEC Corp., Japan, 3New Jersey Inst. ofTechnology, USA. This paper proposes atraffic recovery scheme for GMPLS net-works. By considering SRLG information,recovery failure probability, recovery time,and signal loss, our scheme achieves highsharing of the backup resources.

OTuN3 • 5:00 p.m. InvitedPMD Outage Probabilities Revisited,Herwig Kogelnik, Peter J. Winzer; LucentTechnologies, USA. In the time intervals ofits validity, the new hinge model for opti-cal fiber transmission links requires a re-examination of the traditional concepts ofPMD outage and their impact on systemdesign.

OTuM3 • 5:00 p.m.Ultra-Compact Reconfigurable SiliconOptical Devices Using Micron-ScaleLocalized Thermal Heating, William M. J.Green, Hendrik F. Hamann, Lidija Sekaric,Michael J. Rooks, Yurii A. Vlasov; IBMThomas J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA. Noveldesign of a compact low-loss and high-efficiency micro-heater is demonstratedfor silicon photonic wire ultra-compactreconfigurable devices. Highly localizedheating enables reduced thermal crosstalkfor densely packed, individually address-able cascaded devices.

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OTuH4 • 5:15 p.m.A Study on Residual Distortion Equaliza-tion in Combination with Pre-Distortionand Post-Equalization, Takashi Sugihara,Hiroshi Kubo, Takashi Mizuochi, KatsuhiroShimizu; Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan.We show numerically that in a 40Gb/s-QPSK system, dispersion incompletelycompensated by pre-distortion can beprecisely equalized by a post-equalizer.The compensation capability is stronglydependent on the demodulation scheme,i.e. coherent or incoherent.

OTuI3 • 5:15 p.m.320 Gbit/s DQPSK All-Optical Wave-length Conversion Using Four WaveMixing, Michael Galili1, Bernd Huettl2,Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst2, AlexandreGual i Coca2, Reinhold Ludwig2, ColjaSchubert2; 1COM-DTU, Denmark,2Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommunications,Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Germany. In thispaper we demonstrate wavelength conver-sion of 320Gbit/s DQPSK and 160Gbit/sDPSK data signals by four wave mixing inhighly nonlinear fibre. Error free opera-tion is shown for conversion of bothDPSK and DQPSK.

OTuJ3 • 5:15 p.m.Parabolic Pulse Generation throughPassive Reshaping of Gaussian Pulses ina Normally Dispersive Fiber, ChristopheFinot, Lionel Provost, Periklis Petropoulos,David J. Richardson; Optoelectronics Res.Ctr., UK. We numerically and experimen-tally demonstrate that a Gaussian pulsecan be reshaped into a pulse with a stableparabolic intensity profile during propa-gation in two sections of normally disper-sive nonlinear fibers.

OTuL3 • 5:15 p.m.Transmission of 10-Gb/s and 40-Gb/sSignals over 3.7 km of Multimode FiberUsing Mode-Field Matched CenterLaunching Technique, Dong Hoon Sim,Yuichi Takushima, Yun C. Chung; KAIST,Republic of Korea. We experimentallydemonstrate the transmission of 10-Gb/sand 40-Gb/s signals over 3.7 km of multi-mode fiber by using the mode-fieldmatched center launching technique.






OTuL4 • 5:30 p.m.10 Gb/s Transmitter-Based Equalizationfor Extended-Reach Multimode-FiberDatacommunication Links, Jonathan D.Ingham, Richard V. Penty, Ian H. White;Univ. of Cambridge, UK. Transmitter-based equalization is investigated for en-hanced performance in 10Gb/s multi-mode-fiber links. Rigorous simulationsand proof-of-principle experiments over500m of FDDI-grade-fiber confirm for thefirst time the potential superiority of thetechnique relative to receiver-basedschemes.

OTuJ4 • 5:30 p.m.Supercontinuum Spectrum Broadeningby One-Bobbin Compact Modules Com-prised of Re-Coated Comb-Like ProfiledFiber and HNLF, Masanori Takahashi,Takashi Inoue, Yuki Taniguchi, MasateruTadakuma, Misao Sakano, Takeshi Yagi;Furukawa Electruc Co., Ltd., Japan. Wedemonstrated SC spectrum broadeningfrom the original value of 25nm to 100nmwithout changing output power and mod-ule size by the efficient pulse compressionand novel package of a 6-step CPF and500m HNLF.

OTuI4 • 5:30 p.m.All-Optical Wavelength Conversion andMulticasting by Cross-Gain Modulationin a Single-Stage Fiber Optical Paramet-ric Amplifier, Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong1,Guo-Wei Lu2, Kwan-Chi Lau3, P. K. A.Wai3, Lian-Kuan Chen4; 1Univ. of HongKong, Hong Kong, 2Natl. Inst. of Informa-tion and Communications Technology,Japan, 3Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., HongKong, 4Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, HongKong. We have demonstrated an all-opticalwavelength conversion and multicastingfor a 10Gb/s NRZ system with 100GHzchannel spacing by using a single-stagetwo-pump fiber optical parametric ampli-fier (OPA) with conversion gain of at least15dB.

OTuH5 • 5:30 p.m.A Novel Bias Control Technique for MZModulator with Monitoring Power ofBackward Light for Advanced Modula-tion Formats, Kenro Sekine, ChieHasegawa, Nobuhiko Kikuchi, ShinyaSasaki; Hitachi, Ltd., Central Res. Lab,Japan. We propose a novel high-sensitiveand cost-effective bias control scheme forMZ modulator with minimizing moni-tored power of backward-traveling light,and demonstrate its effectiveness with theexperiments of 10-Gbit/s CSRZ and 43-Gbit/s RZ-DQPSK signals.

interests are in silicon photonics andultrafast photonic signal processing. Dr.Jalali has published over 200 scientificpapers in and holds 6 US patents. He is aFellow of IEEE and of Optical Society ofAmerica (OSA) and the Chair of the LosAngeles Chapter of the IEEE Lasers andElectro Optics Society (LEOS). In 2005, hewas chosen by the Scientific AmericanMagazine as the 50 Leaders Shaping theFuture of Technology. He is a member ofthe California Nano Systems Institute(CNSI). While on leave from UCLA from1999-2001, Dr. Jalali founded CognetMicrosystems, a Los Angeles based fiberoptic component company. He served asCompany’s CEO, President and Chairman,from the company’s inception through itsacquisition by Intel Corporation in April2001. He has received the BridgeGate 20Award for his contribution to the south-ern California economy. From 2001-2004,he served as a consultant to Intel Corpora-tion. Dr. Jalali serves on the Board ofTrustees of the California Science Center.

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OTuM4 • 5:15 p.m.Silicon-on-Insulator Platform for Build-ing Fiber-to-the-Home Transceivers,Serge Bidnyk1, Matt Pearson1, AshokBalakrishnan1, Mae Gao1, Dazeng Feng2,Hong Liang2, Wei Qian2, Cheng-ChihKung2, Joan Fong2, Peter Zhou2, Jeremy Yin2,Mehdi Asghari2; 1Enablence TechnologiesInc, Canada, 2Kotura Inc., USA. A silicon-on-insulator platform is proposed forbuilding bi-directional transceivers forfiber-to-the-home applications. The plat-form includes a monolithically integratedplanar reflective grating and a multi-stageinterferometer combined with hybridiza-tion structures for placement of lasers andphotodetectors.

OTuN4 • 5:30 p.m.All-Fiber PMD Emulator with ReducedNumber of Polarization Controllersbetween Sections, Lianshan Yan1, BoZhang1, X. Steve Yao1, Alan Willner2; 1Gen-eral Photonics Corp., USA, 2Univ. of South-ern California, USA. We propose an all-fiber PMD emulator based on polariza-tion-maintaining- fiber and fiber-squeezertype polarization controllers. The numberof polarization controllers has been sig-nificantly reduced to lower the cost with-out distorting the statistical distributions.

NTuC3 • 5:10 p.m.Optical Cross Connects Architecturewith per-Node Add&Drop Functionality,Paolo Ghelfi1, Filippo Cugini1, Luca Potì1,Antonella Bogoni1, Piero Castoldi2, RodolfoDi Muro3, Bimal Nayar3; 1CNIT, Italy,2Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy,3Ericsson Ltd., UK. We propose a cost-effective implementation of add&dropfunctionality in Optical-Cross-Connects,based on per-node add&drop. The archi-tecture is shown to significantly reduce thenode cost at any nodal degree withoutaffecting the network behavior.

NTuD3 • 5:10 p.m.Experimental Validation of Fibre Chan-nel over Multi Protocol Label Switchingfor the Wide-Area Storage Area Net-works, Munefumi Tsurusawa1, TakahiroMiyamoto1, Hideaki Tanaka1, Moran Roth2,Ronen Solomon2; 1KDDI R&D Labs Inc.,Japan, 2Corrigent Systems, USA. We vali-dated the feasibility of Fibre Channel overMPLS technology. The fundamentalevaluation as well as the statistical multi-plexing of FC frame and Ethernet frameover MPLS network was successfully dem-onstrated for the first time.





NTuD4 • 5:30 p.m. InvitedOAM in Packet Transport Networks, LeonBruckman1, Bert Basch2; 1Corrigent Sys-tems, USA, 2Verizon Labs, USA. Networksare transitioning from TDM to packettransport optimized architectures. Packetnetworks are based on technologies tradi-tionally lacking OAM tools. We willpresent the OAM tools being developedand their application to the transportlayers.

NTuC4 • 5:30 p.m.Study of Impact of Photonic SwitchSpeed on Transport Networks, TiejunXia, Glenn Wellbrock; Verizon Communica-tions, USA. Impact of photonic switchspeed on performance of transport net-works is studied with a new variableswitch speed test set. The results of thestudy generate the requirements for new“maintenance friendly” optical networks.

OTuM5 • 5:30 p.m.Demonstrated 4x4 Gbps Silicon Photo-nic Integrated Parallel Electronic toWDM Interface, Benjamin G. Lee1, Ben-jamin A. Small1, Justin D. Foster1, KerenBergman1, Qianfan Xu2, Michal Lipson2;1Columbia Univ., USA, 2Cornell Univ.,USA. A 4x4 Gbps microring modulatorcascade with the ability to directly convertparallel electrical bus data into multiple-wavelength optical signals in a single sili-con-on-insulator waveguide interface isdemonstrated with < 10-12 bit error rates.

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OTuH6 • 5:45 p.m.Characteristics of Printed Circuit Inter-connect Induced Jitter on 10Gb/s OpticalTransmitters, Badri N. Gomatam, GeorgeNoh; Vitesse Semiconductor Corp., USA. Wereport on the effects of printed circuitinterconnects on jitter induced in theoptical domain. We show this jitter may beequalized without the need for additionalclock-and-data recovery prior to opticalconversion.

OTuI5 • 5:45 p.m.Error-Free 320 Gb/s Simultaneous Add-Drop Multiplexing, Hans ChristianHansen Mulvad1, Leif K. Oxenløwe1, AndersT. Clausen1, Michael Galili1, Lars Grüner-Nielsen2, Palle Jeppesen1; 1COM•DTU,Dept. of Communications, Optics & Mate-rials, Denmark, 2OFS Fitel Denmark, Den-mark. We report on the first demonstra-tion of error-free time-division add-dropmultiplexing at 320 Gb/s. The add- anddrop-operations are performed simulta-neously in a nonlinear optical loop mirrorwith only 100 m of highly nonlinear fibre.

OTuI6 • 6:00 p.m.Demonstration of an All-Optical DataVortex Switch Node, Hyun-Do Jung1,Idelfonso Tafur Monroy2, A.M.J. Koonen1;1Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Nether-lands, 2Technical Univ. of Denmark, Den-mark. We report on the fully all-opticaloperation of a data vortex switch nodebased on MZI-SOA gates. All-optical self-routing of WDM 10Gb/s optical packetshas been successfully achieved.

OTuJ5 • 5:45 p.m.Light Generation beyond a ContinuumEdge Using a Fiber Bragg Grating, PaulWestbrook, Jeffrey Nicholson, KennethFeder; OFS Labs, USA. We generate lightbeyond the short wavelength edge of anoptical continuum in highly nonlinearfiber pumped by an Er femtosecond laser,with a Bragg grating as a phase matchingelement.

OTuL5 • 5:45 p.m.Impact of Noise Transfer in TransparentNetworks on Different 43 Gb/s Formats,Hans Bissessur, Christian Bastide; Alcatel,France. We experimentally investigate thesensitivity of different 43 Gb/s formats tonon-white noise which occurs in areconfigurable network, and discuss thesystem design to reduce its penalty.






OTuL6 • 6:00 p.m.Adaptive Split-Step Quasi-Spectral FiniteDifference Method for Nonlinear OpticalPulse Propagation, Tristan Kremp; Inst.für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik,RWTH Aachen Univ. of Technology, Ger-many. Combining a new semi-analyticalstep size estimation strategy with highlyefficient quasi-spectral finite differences, afast adaptive split-step solver for the non-linear Schrödinger equation is presented.For large WDM systems, a substantialspeed-up is obtained.

OTuJ6 • 6:00 p.m. InvitedEntanglement Generation with FiberNonlinearity for Quantum Communica-tion in the Telecom Band, Prem Kumar,Kim Fook Lee, Jun Chen, Chuang Liang;Northwestern Univ., USA. The Kerrnonlinearity of optical fiber can be uti-lized to create high-fidelity entangledphotons in the telecom band. We reviewour progress to date and the potential forpractical quantum communications infiber-optic networks.

OTuH7 • 6:00 p.m. InvitedStatus of Optical Modules and Sub-Sys-tems Standards, Peter Anslow; Nortel, UK.The current status of standardisation ofthe optical specifications applied to trans-mitters and receivers is reviewed withparticular emphasis on the standardsemerging from the ITU-T targeted atMetro DWDM links.

6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Conference Reception, Hilton Anaheim Hotel

OTuK4 • 6:00 p.m. InvitedHybrid Silicon Evanescent Laser in aSilicon-on-Insulator Waveguide, JohnBowers1, Alexander W. Fang1, HyundaiPark1, Richard Jones2, Mario J. Paniccia2,Oded Cohen3; 1Univ. of California at SantaBarbara, USA, 2Intel Corp., USA, 3IntelCorp., Israel. We demonstrate electricallypumped silicon evanescent lasers operat-ing cw at 40°C. Light is confined by SOIwaveguides, and the evanescent tail isamplified by AlGaInAs quantum wells.This process is applicable to silicon-eva-nescent-photonic-integrated circuits.

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OTuM6 • 5:45 p.m.CMOS Compatible Guided-Wave Tun-able Optical Equalizer, Douglas M. Gill1,Mahmoud S. Rasras1, Xiang Liu1, Kun-YiiTu1, Y. K. Chen1, Alice E. White1, Sanjay S.Patel1, Andrew Pomerene2, DanielCarothers2, Thomas Love2, Micheal J.Grove2, Daniel K. Sparacin3, Mark Beals3,Jurgen Mitchel3, Jifeng Liu3, L. C.Kimerling3; 1Bell Labs, USA, 2BAE Systems,USA, 3MIT, USA. A compact 4th-orderpole-zero optical filter fabricated entirelyin a silicon complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor foundry is configured as atunable optical equalizer. Equalization of abandwidth-limited 10-Gb/s signal is dem-onstrated with a single voltage control.

OTuN5 • 5:45 p.m.An All-Fiber Tunable Polarization-De-pendent Loss Element, Rong Huang, FaresAlhassen, David Tseng, Ozdal Boyraz,Henry P. Lee; Univ. of California at Irvine,USA. We describe the implementation of awavelength-tunable polarization-depen-dent-loss element on polarization-main-taining fiber using two independently-controlled acoustic gratings. Continuousattenuation in both fast and slow axes atthe same wavelength is demonstrated.

NTuC5 • 5:50 p.m.T-MPLS: Carrier-Class Transport forConverged Optical/Packet Networks,Enrique Hernandez-Valencia; Lucent Tech-nologies, USA. Transport MPLS (T-MPLS)is a recent recommendation from ITU-Tspecifying a connection-oriented, packet-switched architecture for carrier classtransport networks. Here discuss T-MPLSforwarding model, OA&M and controlplane capabilities for connection supervi-sion, performance and survivability.

NTuD5 • 6:10 p.m.Emerging Network Need for Alien Wave-length Management, David Zhi Chen,Michael F. Lane; Verizon, USA. Optical-transmission-distance reaches coast-to-coast without regeneration; costs havebeen reduced due to elimination of regen-erations. Mixed-traffic-pattern leads tochallenging task of managing the dy-namic-wavelength which traverses mul-tiple-network-domains. Effective opticalinteroperability starts with proper man-agement of Alien-Wavelength.





NTuC6 • 6:10 p.m.Field Trial of Photonic Switches for Effi-cient Fiber Network Operation andMaintenance, Tiejun Xia1, Michael F.Lane1, Timothy Lawter1, Glenn Wellbrock1,Richard Jensen2, Mike Bitting2, Aaron Bent2,Kevin Karch3, Jonathan Lacey3, DavidAltstaetter3; 1Verizon Communications,USA, 2Polatis Inc., USA, 3Calient Networks,Inc., USA. Results of Verizon field trialusing MEMS and Beam-steering photonicswitching technologies for automatingnetwork operation and maintenance func-tions show that operational expenses anddowntime can be significantly reduced.

OTuN6 • 6:00 p.m.Ultrafast Sampling of Complex Polariza-tion Components for CharacterizingPolarization Mode Dispersion, KeijiOkamoto, Xinyu Fan, Fumihiko Ito; NTTCorp., Japan. We demonstrate the ultrafastobservation of the complex polarizationcomponents by using a multi-channellinear optical sampling technique. Simul-taneous characterization of the temporalwaveform and the PMD provides a uniquefeature for diagnosing high-speed chan-nels.

6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Conference Reception, Hilton Anaheim Hotel

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