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Room: Ballroom A
Session: Postdeadline I
4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Subcommittee B. Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide
Jeff Livas, Ciena Corp., USA, Presider

PDP1 4:00 p.m.
Tunable Single-Frequency Ytterbium-Sensitized Erbium-Doped Fiber MOPA Source with 150 W (51.8 dBm) of Output Power at 1563 nm
Yoonchan Jeong, Jayanta K. Sahu, Daniel B. S. Soh, Christophe A. Codemard, Johan Nilsson; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., UK.

A single-frequency, single-mode ytterbium-sensitized erbium-doped fiber master-oscillator power-amplifier generated 150 W of continuous-wave output power at 1563 nm with 33% slope efficiency and was tuned in the range of 1546 to 1566 nm at >125 W.

PDP2 4:15 p.m.
1-cm²-size Er-Doped Waveguide Based on Bismuthate Glass for Compact Amplifier with > 15 dB Gain at Whole C-Band
Yuki Kond^1,2, Motoshi Ono^1,2, Junichi Kageyama^1,2, Manuel Reyes¹, Hideaki Hayashi^1,2, Naoki Sugimoto^1,2; ¹Asahi Glass Co., Ltd., Japan, ²Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association, Japan.

A 1-cm² -size spiral Er-doped waveguide chip having gain values of > 15 dB and output powers higher than 12 dBm at whole C-band is realized by using multicomponent bismuthate glass waveguide.

PDP3 4:30 p.m.
321 W Average Power, 1 GHz, 20 ps, 1060 nm Pulsed Fiber MOPA Source
Pascal Dupriez¹, Andy Piper¹, Andrew Malinowski¹, Jayanta K. Sahu¹, Morten Ibsen¹, Yoonchan Jeong¹, Louise M. Hickey², Mikhail N. Zervas², Johan Nilsson¹, David J. Richardson¹; ¹Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., UK, ²Southampton Photonics, Inc., UK.

Pulses from a gain-switched laser diode were amplified in a fiber MOPA system to produce in excess of 320 W of average power in 20 ps pulses at 1 GHz repetition rate at 1060 nm.

Subcommittee C. Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensating Devices and Sensors
Christi Madsen, Texas A&M Univ., USA, Presider

PDP4 4:45 p.m.
Radiation-Pressure-Driven Micro-Mechanical Oscillator
Hossein Rokhsari, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Tal Carmon, Kerry J. Vahala; Caltech, USA.

We demonstrate for the first time, self generation of mechanical vibrations at RF frequencies stimulated directly by the radiation pressure of circulating photons within optical micro-cavities.

PDP5 5:00 p.m.
40-Gb/s Colorless Tunable Dispersion Compensator with 1000-ps/nm Tuning Range Employing a Planar Lightwave Circuit and a Deformable Mirror
Christopher R. Doerr, Dan M. Marom, Mark A. Cappuzzo, Evans Y. Chen, Annjoe Wong-Foy, Louis T. Gomez, S. Chandrasekhar; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA.

We propose and demonstrate a tunable dispersion compensator for 40-Gb/s signals consisting of a waveguide grating router and a deformable mirror. It has an adjustment range of ±500 ps/nm and a 100-GHz free-spectral range.

PDP6 5:15 p.m.
Fully-Programmable Ring Resonator Based Integrated Photonic Circuit for Phase Coherent Applications
Anjali Agarwal¹, Paul Toliver¹, Ronald Menendez¹, Shahab Etemad¹, Janet Jackel¹, Jeffrey Young¹, Thomas Banwell¹, Brent Little², Sai Chu², John Hryniewicz², Wenlu Chen², Wei Chen², Peter Delfyett³; ¹Telcordia Technologies, USA, ²Little Optics Div., Nomadics Inc., USA, ³School of Optics/CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA.

We demonstrate a novel reconfigurable ring resonator based integrated photonic chip with ultra-fine frequency resolution for spectral phase encoding. A spectrally efficient four-user OCDMA system is shown to operate at 2.5 Gb/s with BER< 10^-9.

PDP7 5:30 p.m.
Wideband All Order PMD Compensation via Pulse Shaping
Mehmetcan Akbulut¹, Li Xu¹, Andrew M. Weiner¹, Peter J. Miller²; ¹Purdue Univ., USA, ²CRI Inc., USA.

We experimentally demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, all order PMD compensation using spectral pulse shaping. Two programmable double-pass pulse shapers are used in series to correct distorted polarization and phase spectra independently.

PDP8 5:45 p.m.
Vibration Tolerant Swept Wavelength Interferometry
Mark Froggatt, Brian J. Soller, Dawn K. Gifford, Matthew S. Wolfe; Luna Technologies, USA .

We describe a vibration tolerant coherent interferometer. The spectral phase response of a reference gas cell in the vicinity of an absorption line is measured in the presence of a vibrational disturbance using this method.

PDP9 6:00 p.m.
Tunable Dispersion Compensator with Integrated Wavelength Locking
Christopher R. Doerr, S. Chandrasekhar, Lawrence L. Buhl, Mark A. Cappuzzo, Evans Y. Chen, Annjoe Wong-Foy, Louis T. Gomez; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA.

We demonstrate a compact and simple silica-waveguide 10-Gb/s dispersion compensator that works with uncontrolled wavelength transmitters by tracking the signal wavelength. 10.7-Gb/s transmissions over 5100ps/nm with duobinary and 3825ps/nm with unchirped NRZ are shown.

PDP10 6:15 p.m.
Demonstration of a Microfiber Loop Optical Resonator
Mikhail Sumetsky, Yury Dulashko, John Fini, Arturo Hale, David DiGiovanni; OFS Labs, USA.

We demonstrate a microfiber loop optical resonator. At telecommunication wavelengths, it achieves loaded and intrinsic Q-factors of 95000 and 630000, respectively. As an example, the resonator performs as an ultrafast gas contact temperature sensor.

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Room: Ballroom B
Session: Postdeadline II
4:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Subcommittee D. Switching, Wavelength-Selective Filtering and Routing Devices
Robert Norwood, Univ. of Arizona, USA, Presider

PDP11 4:00 p.m.
Towards Integrated Polarization Diversity: Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Integrated Polarization Splitters and Rotators
Michael R. Watts¹, Minghao Qi¹, Tymon Barwicz¹, Luciano Socci², Peter T. Rakich¹, Erich P. Ippen¹, Henry I. Smith¹, Hermann A. Haus¹; ¹MIT, USA, ²Pirelli Labs, Italy.

Integrated mode-evolution-based polarization splitters and rotators were designed with rigorous electromagnetic simulations and fabricated with a unique multilayer fabrication strategy. Prototype devices demonstrated effective splitting and rotating of polarization with low cross-talk.

PDP12 4:15 p.m.
Simultaneous Reception of Both Quadratures of 40-Gb/s DQPSK Using a Simple Monolithic Demodulator
Christopher R. Doerr, Douglas M. Gill, Alan H. Gnauck, Lawrence L. Buhl, Peter J. Winzer, Mark A. Cappuzzo, Annjoe Wong-Foy, Evans Y. Chen, Louis T. Gomez; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA.

We demonstrate a novel device that demodulates both quadratures of the optical differential quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK) format in a single interferometer. We present simultaneous measurements of both DQPSK quadratures at 42.7-Gb/s.

Subcommittee E. Optoelectronic Devices
Leo Spiekman, Alphion Corp., USA , Presider

PDP13 4:30 p.m.
A 240-GHz Active Mode-Locked Laser Diode for Ultra-Broadband Fiber-Radio Transmission Systems
Tetsuichiro Ohno, Fumito Nakajima, Tomofumi Furuta, Hiroshi Ito; NTT Photonics Labs, Japan.

A 240-GHz optical millimeter-wave signal with very narrow linewidth (<10Hz) is generated using an active mode-locked laser diode integrated with a high-mesa electroabsorption modulator. Fiber-radio transmission of 3-Gbit/s data at 240 GHz is also demonstrated.

PDP14 4:45 p.m.
Wide Temperature Range (0 to 85ºC), 40-km SMF Transmission of a 1.55-µm, 10Gbit/s InGaAlAs Electroabsorption Modulator Integrated DFB Laser
Shigeki Makino¹, Kazunori Shinoda¹, Takeshi Kitatani¹, Tomonobu Tsuchiya¹, Masahiro Aoki¹, Noriko Sasada², Kenji Uchida², Kazuhiko Naoe², Kazuhisa Uomi²; ¹Hitachi, Ltd., Japan, ²Opnext Japan, Inc., Japan.

A new uncooled 1.55-µm InGaAlAs electroabsorption-modulator integrated DFB-laser suitable for low-power-consumption 10-Gbit/s small-form-factor modules is demonstrated. For the first time, 10-Gbit/s 40-km normal SMF transmission with 1-dB power penalty is achieved from 0 to 85ºC.

PDP15 5:00 p.m.
Highly Reliable and High Yield 1300 nm InGaAlAs Directly Modulated Ridge Fabry-Perot Lasers, Operating at 10 Gb/s, up to 110ºC, with Constant Current Swing
Roberto Paoletti, Michele Agresti, Daniele Bertone, Livio Bianco, Carlo Bruschi, Aurelio Bucceri, Roberto Campi, Carla Dorigoni, Paola Gotta, Manuela Liotti, Gloria Magnetti, Paolo Montangero, Giuliana Morello, Cesare Rigo, Ezio Riva, David Soderstrom, Sandro Stano, Paolo Valenti, Marco Vallone, Marina Meliga; TTC Agilent Technologies, Italy.

Highly reliable, high yield FP laser is presented, showing excellent power characteristics in 25-150ºC temperature range (T₀=78 K). Outstanding dynamic performances (6dB extinction ratio up to 110ºC) are shown, by using 50 mA constant current swing.   

PDP16 5:15 p.m.
Monolithically Integrated 40Gb/s Wavelength Converter with Multi-Frequency Laser
Pietro Bernasconi, Weiguo Yang, Liming Zhang, Nicholas Sauer, Lawrence Buhl, Inuk Kang, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar, David Neilson; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA.

An all-optical wavelength-switch module at 40Gb/s is monolithically integrated in InP by combining an SOA-based wavelength converter and a fast-tunable 8-channel multi-frequency laser. Error-free operation is demonstrated.

PDP17 5:30 p.m.
160 Gbit/s SOA-based Wavelength Converter Assisted by an Optical Bandpass Filter
Yong Liu, Eduward Tangdiongga, Zhonggui Li, Shaoxian Zhang, Huug de Waardt, Giok-Djan Khoe, Harmen J. S. Dorren; Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands.

We demonstrate an error-free 160 Gb/s SOA-based optical wavelength converter. Assisting by an optical bandpass filter, an effectively recovery time of 3 ps is achieved in an SOA, which ensures 160 Gb/s operation.

PDP18 5:45 p.m.
14.7dB/mm TE Mode Nonreciprocal Propagation in an InGaAsP/InP Active Waveguide Optical Isolator
Hiromasa Shimizu, Yoshiaki Nakano; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.

We have fabricated TE mode InGaAsP/InP active waveguide optical isolators demonstrateing 14.7dB/mm TE mode isolation ratio with reduced insertion loss at the wavelength of 1550nm for monolithically integratable optical isolators.

PDP19 6:00 p.m.
A Stable Widely Tunable Laser Using a Silica-Waveguide Triple-Ring Resonator
Morio Takahashi¹, Yukari Deki¹, Sekizen Takaesu¹, Mika Horie¹, Masashige Ishizaka¹, Kenji Sato¹, Koji Kudo¹, Kouichi Suzuki², Taro Kaneko², Xingzhou Xu², Hiroyuki Yamazaki²; ¹System Platforms Res. Labs, NEC Corp., Japan, ²Fiber Optic Devices Div., NEC Corp., Japan.

A tunable laser consisting of a silica-waveguide triple-ring resonator connected directly to a semiconductor optical amplifier is presented. Stable single-mode, grid-hopping free and full-L-band wavelength-digitally-tuning operations with 50-GHz channel spacing are successfully demonstrated.

PDP20 6:15 p.m.
A Semiconductor Tunable Laser Using a Wavelength Selective Reflector Based on Ring Resonators
Seung-June Choi, Zhen Peng, Qi Yang, Eui Hyun Hwang, P. Daniel Dapkus; Univ. of Southern California, USA.

We propose a tunable laser incorporating a cleavage-free wavelength selective reflector (WSR) formed by buried heterostructure (BH) microring resonators. Utilizing the proposed tunable reflector, a compact, 100-GHz-channel-spaced tunable laser is demonstrated.

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Room: Ballroom C
Session: Postdeadline III
4:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.

Subcommittee A. Fibers and Propagation
Karl Koch, Corning, USA, Presider

PDP21 4:00 p.m.
Penalty-Free Dispersion-Managed Soliton Transmission over 100 km Low Loss PCF
Kenji Kurokawa, Katsusuke Tajima, Jian Zhou, Kazuhide Nakajima, Takashi Matsui, Izumi Sankawa; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs, Japan.

We successfully fabricated a 100 km-long, low loss (0.3 dB/km) photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with the lowest Rayleigh scattering coefficient. We achieved the first penalty-free dispersion-managed soliton transmission over 100 km PCF at 10 Gb/s.

PDP22 4:15 p.m.
A Lead Silicate Holey Fiber with y = 1820 W^-1km^-1 at 1550 µm
Julie Y. Y. Leong, Periklis Petropoulos, Symeon Asimakis, Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Roger C. Moore, Ken Frampton, Vittoria Finazzi, Xian Feng, Jonathan H. Price, Tanya M. Monro, David J. Richardson; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., UK.

We report the fabrication of lead silicate holey fibers with record nonlinearities of up to 1860W^-1m^-1 at 1.55µm. Broadband supercontinuum generation is obtained in a dispersion optimized fiber variant at ~100pJ pulse energies for 1.06 pumping.

PDP23 4:30 p.m.
Wavelength Conversion of 40-Gbit/s NRZ Signal Using Four-Wave Mixing in 40-cm-long Bismuth Oxide Based Highly-Nonlinear Optical Fiber
Ju Han Le¹, Tatsuo Nagashima², Tomoharu Hasegawa², Seiki Ohara², Naoki Sugimoto², Takuo Tenermura¹, Kazuro Kikuchi¹; ¹RCAST, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, ²Asahi Glass Co., Ltd, Japan.

We demonstrate the use of an only 40-cm-long Bi₂O₃-based nonlinear fiber with y =1100 W^-1.km^-1 to obtain FWM-based wavelength conversion. Error-free conversion of 40-Gbit/s NRZ signals over ~10 nm is achieved without any SBS suppression scheme

PDP24 4:45 p.m.
Cancellation of Intensity Noise Caused by Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in an Optical Fiber Transmission System
Jinye Zhang, M. R. Phillips; Northwestern Univ., USA.

The primary source of broadband intensity noise on an SBS-degraded optical signal is found to be deterministic and depend on the imaginary part of the Brillouin loss spectrum. The noise is reduced by subsequent transmission through a Brillouin amplifier.

PDP25 5:00 p.m.
Single-Mode Performance in Multimode Fibre Devices
S. G. Leon-Saval¹, T. A. Birks¹, J. Bland-Hawthorn², M. Englund³; ¹Univ. of Bath, UK, ²Anglo-Australian Observatory, Australia, ³Redfern Optical Components, Australia.

We demonstrate a waveguide transition between a multimode fibre and several single-mode fibres. Splicing identical Bragg gratings between two such transitions yields a multimode fibre filter with the transmission spectrum of a single-mode fibre grating.

Subcommittee F. Digital Transmission Systems
Carl Davidson, Tyco Telecommunications, USA, Presider

PDP26 5:15 p.m.
Transmission of 40 Gb/s WDM Signals over 6,250 km of Conventional NZ-DSF with >4 dB FEC Margin
Jin-Xing Cai, Carl R. Davidson, Morten Nissov, Haifeng Li, William Anderson, Yi Cai, Li Liu, Alexei N. Pilipetskii, Dmitri G. Foursa, William W. Patterson, Patrick C. Corbett, Alan J. Lucero, Neal S. Bergano; Tyco Telecommunications, USA.

We successfully transmitted 18x40Gb/s RZ-DPSK channels over 6,250km of non-slope-matched-fibers with >4dB FEC margin using dispersion-slope compensators at the receiver. We demonstrated that 40Gb/s DPSK worked as well as 10Gb/s RZ-OOK for the same spectral efficiency.

PDP27 5:30 p.m.
5120 km RZ-DPSK Transmission over G652 Fiber at 10 Gb/s with No Optical Dispersion Compensation
Doug McGhan, Charles Laperle, Alexander Savchenko, Chuandong Li, Gary Mak, Maurice O'Sullivan; Nortel, Canada.

We report the longest un-regenerated reach achieved for a 10 Gb/s return-to-zero differential phase shift keying (RZ-DPSK) system on standard dispersion fiber (G652) with no optical dispersion compensation.

PDP28 5:45 p.m.
10,200km 22x2x10Gbit/s RZ-DQPSK Dense WDM Transmission without Inline Dispersion Compensation through Optical Phase Conjugation
Sander L. Jansen¹, Dirk van den Borne¹, Carlos Climent², Murat Serbay³, Claus-Joerg Weiske², Herbertus Suche⁴, Peter Krummrich², Stefan Spaelter², Stefano Calabró², Nancy Hecker-Denschlag², Patrick Leisching², Werner Rosenkranz³, Wolfgang Solher⁴, Giok-Djan Khoe¹, Tom Koonen¹, Huug de Waardt¹; ¹Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands, ²Siemens AG, Germany, ³Univ. of Kiel, Germany, ⁴Univ. of Paderborn, Germany.

Using optical phase conjugation with a polarization independent periodically-poled lithium-niobate subsystem, we demonstrate dense WDM 2x10Gbit/s RZ-DQPSK transmission over 10,200km of SSMF with a record accumulated dispersion, exceeding 80,000ps/nm.

PDP29 6:00 p.m.
Coherent Demodulation of 40-Gbit/s Polarization-Multiplexed QPSK Signals with16-GHz Spacing after 200-km Transmission
Satoshi Tsukamoto, Dany-Sebastien Ly-Gagnon, Kazuhiro Katoh, Kazuro Kikuchi; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.

40-Gbit/s polarization-multiplexed QPSK signals with 16-GHz spacing are demodulated after 200-km transmission by using a homodyne phase-diversity receiver. The highlights of our scheme are electrical post-filtering and digital signal processing that enhance the BER performance.

Subcommittee G. Subsystems, Network Elements, and Analog Systems
Kim Roberts, Nortel Networks, USA , Presider

PDP30 6:15 p.m.
Flexible Transport at 10-Gb/s from 0 to 675km (11,500ps/nm) Using a Chirp-Managed Laser, No DCF, and a Dynamically Adjustable Dispersion-Compensating Receiver
Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar¹, Christopher R. Doerr¹, Lawrence L. Buhl¹, Daniel Mahgerefteh², Y. Matsui², B. Johnson², C. Liao², X. Zheng¹, K. McCallion², Z. Fan², P. Tayebati²; ¹Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA, ²AZNA Corp., USA.

We demonstrate continuous detectability of 10-Gb/s data from 0 to 675 km of standard single mode fiber without in-line dispersion compensation using a combination of a chirp-managed laser and tunable optical and electronic dispersion compensation at the receiver.

PDP31 6:30 p.m.
Linear Microwave-Domain Dispersion Compensation of 10-Gb/s Signals Using Heterodyne Detection
Alan H. Gnauck, Jeff Sinsky, Peter J. Winzer, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA.

We demonstrate heterodyne detection of 10-Gb/s signals, and subsequent linear compensation of fiber chromatic dispersion in the microwave domain. We achieve 375-km transmission (with 2-dB penalty) over standard single-mode fiber using duobinary modulation and a single passive microwave dispersion-compensating element.

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Room: Ballroom D
Session: Postdeadline IV
4:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.

Subcommittee G. Subsystems, Network Elements, and Analog Systems
Kim Roberts, Nortel Networks, USA, Presider

PDP32 4:00 p.m.
Demonstration of 2.5 Gslot/s Optically-Preamplified M-PPM with 4 Photons/Bit Receiver Sensitivity
David O. Caplan, Bryan S. Robinson, Robert J. Murphy, Mark L. Stevens; MIT Lincoln Lab, USA.

Photon-efficient optical communications using variable-duty-cycle M-ary pulse-position modulation (M-PPM) with coding is investigated experimentally using a simple, multi-rate nearly quantum-limited receiver with throughputs ranging from 1.25 Gbit/s in the binary case, to 78 Mbit/s for M=256.

PDP33 4:15 p.m.
10-User, Truly-Asynchronous OCDMA Experiment with 511-Chip SSFBG En/Decoder and SC-Based Optical Thresholder
Xu Wang¹, Naoya Wada¹, Taro Hamanaka², Ken-ichi Kitayama², Akihiko Nishiki³; ¹Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, ²Osaka Univ., Japan, ³OKI Electric Industry Co., Japan.

We demonstrate for the first time a 10-user, truly-asynchronous, gigabit OCDMA experiment over 50 km transmission using 511-chip SSFBG encoder/decoder and supercontinuum -based optical thresholder. Suppression of both beat noise and MAI are keys to the success.

PDP34 4:30 p.m.
SOA-Based Regenerative Amplification of Phase Noise Degraded DPSK Signals
Preetpaul Devgan, Myunghun Shin, Vladimir Grigoryan, Jacob Lasri, Prem Kumar; Northwestern Univ., USA.

SOA-based regenerative amplification of phase noise degraded DPSK signals is demonstrated for a single and two non-demultiplexed channels. Q-factor improvement is 1.6dB in the single and about 0.8dB in the two channel regimes.

Subcommittee H. Networks
Mark Feuer, AT&T Res. Labs, USA, Presider

PDP35 4:45 p.m.
DWDM Reach Extension of a GPON to 135 km
Russell Davey¹, Peter Healey¹, Ian Hope¹, Phil Watkinson¹, Dave Payne¹, Oren Marmur², Jörg Ruhmann³, Yvonne Zuiderveld³; ¹BT, UK , ²FlexLight Networks, Israel, ³Infinera, USA.

We report operation of a GPON (2.488 Gbit/s downstream, 1.244 Gbit/s upstream) over 135 km giving performance consistent with ITU-T standards. Advanced DWDM equipment is used to extend the physical reach and provide fibre gain.

PDP36 5:00 p.m.
C/S-Band WDM-PON Employing Colorless Bidirectional Transceivers and SOA-Based Broadband Light Sources
Dong J. Shin, Yong C. Keh, Jin W. Kwon, Eun H. Lee, Jung K. Lee, Moon K. Park, Joong W. Park, Joong K. Kang, Yoon K. Oh, Seung W. Kim, In K. Yun, Hyun C. Shin, Duchang Heo, Jung S. Lee, Hong S. Shin, Hyun S. Kim, Seong B. Park, Dae K. Jung, Seongtaek Hwang, Yun J. Oh, Dong H. Jang, Chang S. Shim; Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea.

We present a low-cost C/S-band WDM-PON employing colorless uncooled bidirectional transceivers and SOA-based broadband light sources. Colorless operations over 32 DWDM channels are demonstrated from -20 to 80 °C in 155-Mb/s bidirectional transmissions over 25 km.

PDP37 5:15 p.m.
200Gchip/s, 16-Label Simultaneous Multiple-Optical Encoder/Decoder and its Application to Optical Packet Switching
Gabriella Cincotti¹, Naoya Wada ², Satoshi Yoshima³, Nobuyuki Kataoka³, Ken-ichi Kitayama³; ¹Univ. of Roma Tre, Italy, ²Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan, ³Osaka Univ., Japan.

200Gchip/s, 16-label simultaneous multiple-optical encoder/decoder are fabricated, which generates and recognizes simultaneously multiple codes in parallel manner. 10Gbit/s optical packet switching with the test encoder/decoder is also experimentally demonstrated. The measured BER is less than 10^-12 in all packets.

PDP38 5:30 p.m.
Traffic Grooming for WDM Rings Using Optical Burst Transport
Jaedon Kim¹, Yu-Li Hsueh¹, Leonid Kazovsky¹, Ching-Fong Su², Richard Rabbat², Takeo Hamada²; ¹Stanford Univ., USA , ²Fujitsu Labs of America, USA.

We propose a sub-lambda traffic grooming scheme for WDM rings, which we term Optical Burst Transport (OBT). To demonstrate its scalability and performance, we investigate the operational issues, and discuss an OBT prototype implementation. 

Subcommittee I. Applications
Milorad Cvijetic, NEC Corp., USA, Presider

PDP39 5:45 p.m.
Field Transmission of 8x170 Gbit/s over High Loss SSMF Link Using Third Order Distributed Raman Amplification
Malte Schneiders¹, Sascha Vorbeck¹, Ralph Leppla¹, Eugen Lach ², Michael Schmidt², Serguei Papernyi³, Kris Sanapi³; ¹T-Systems Intl. GmbH, Germany, ²Alcatel Res. & Innovation, Germany, ³MPB Communications Inc., Canada.

We report transmission of 1x170 Gbit/s over 61dB and 8x170 Gbit/s over 44dB attenuating link in the network of the major European network operator. Third order distributed Raman amplification established long span configuration bridging 210km, respectively 165km repeaterless span.

PDP40 6:00 p.m.
Nationwide GMPLS Field Trial Using Different Types (MPLS/TDM/Lambda) of Switching Capable Equipment from Multiple Vendors
Satoru Okamoto¹, Tomohiro Otani², Wataru Imajuku¹, Daisaku Shimazaki¹, Michiaki Hayashi², Kenichi Ogaki², M. Miyazawa², Itaru Nishioka³, Mikako Nanba⁴, Kazumasa Morita⁴, Shinya Kano⁵, Syoichiro Seno⁶, Kazuhiko Sagara⁷, Nahoko Arai⁸, Hideki Ohtsuki⁸; ¹NTT, Japan, ²KDDI R&D Labs, Japan, ³NEC, Japan, ⁴Furukawa Electric, Japan, ⁵Fujitsu Lab, Japan, ⁶Mitsubishi Electric, Japan, ⁷Hitachi, Japan, ⁸NICT, Japan.

A GMPLS field trial using different types of switching-capable equipment from multiple vendors was conducted on a nationwide scale and setup of MPLS/TDM/Lambda hierarchical LSP was successfully achieved ensuring GMPLS interoperability for the first time.

PDP41 6:15 p.m.
Field Trial of Granularity-Flexible Reconfigurable OADM with Wavelength-Packet-Selective Switch Using Concurrent Generation Technique of Optical Code Label and Payload Data
Nobuyuki Kataoka¹, Ken-ichi Kitayama¹, Naoya Wada², Fumito Kubota², Kyosuke Sone³, Yasuhiko Aoki³, Hideyuki Miyata⁴, Hiroshi Onaka⁴; ¹Osaka Univ., Japan, ²Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, ³Fujitsu Labs Ltd., Japan, ⁴Fujitsu Ltd., Japan.

We demonstrate the first field trial of granularity-flexible ROADM network with avelength-packet-selective switch using concurrent generation technique of address-reconfigurable optical code label and payload. Error-free operations for all 16-wavelength channels are obtained over 90-km transmission.

PDP42 6:30 p.m.
Ultra Low Power Optical Feeder for VDSL
Sandra E. M. Dudley¹, Terence Quinlan¹, Ian D. Henning¹, Stuart Walker¹, Russell Davey², Dave Payne², Ivan Boyd²; ¹Univ. of Essex , UK , ²BT, UK.

We report an optical fiber system to feed street-based VDSL cabinets. Power requirement of 165mW per customer is ~90% lower than conventional systems and can be provided from the customer end along twisted copper pair.

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