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OFC/NFOEC 2006 Agenda of Postdeadline Sessions

Abstracts

Room: Ballroom A
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Session: Postdeadline I

Category A: Fibers and Propagation
Tanya Monro; Univ. of Adelaide, Australia, Presider

PDP1 • 5:30 p.m.
12-GHz-Bandwidth SBS Slow Light in Optical Fibers,
Zhaoming Zhu¹, Andrew M. C. Dawes¹, Daniel J. Gauthier¹, Lin Zhang², Alan E. Willner²; ¹Dept. of Physics, Duke Univ., USA, ²Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Southern California, USA.
We increased the bandwidth of SBS slow light in an optical fiber to 12.6 GHz. We delayed 75-ps pulses by up to 47 ps and studied the data pattern dependence of the broadband SBS slow-light system.

PDP2 • 5:45 p.m.
Four-Fold Reduction in the Speed of Light at Practical Power Levels Using Brillouin Scattering in a 2-m Bismuth-Oxide Fiber,
Cesar Jáuregui, Hirotaka Ono, Periklis Petropoulos, David J. Richardson; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., UK.
A Bismuth-doped high-nonlinear fibre is used to generate Brillouin-assisted slow-light. The speed of light was reduced by a factor of four. Results indicate that this fibre will allow the development of practical devices for communications.

PDP3 • 6:00 p.m.
Demonstration of Anomalous Dispersion in a Solid, Silica-Based Fiber at lamda < 1300 nm,
Siddharth Ramachandran, Samir Ghalmi, Jeffrey Nicholson, Man F. Yan, Patrick Wisk, Eric Monberg, Frank V. Dimarcello; OFS Labs, USA.
We demonstrate the first all-solid (non-holey), silica-based fiber with anomalous-dispersion (+60 ps/nm-km) at wavelengths (1080 nm) where silica material dispersion is negative. We demonstrate its functionality as a critical enabler for an all-fiber, Yb-based, femtosecond ring laser.

PDP4 • 6:15 p.m.
Fibre Core Shape Transitions for Optical Interfacing,
K. Lai, A. Witkowska, S. G. Leon-Saval, W. J. Wadsworth, T. A. Birks; Univ. of Bath, UK.
Transitions in core shape are formed in photonic crystal fibres by differential pressurisation of the holes and localised heating. Low-loss anamorphic transitions to rectangular and annular cores are formed, and improved coupling from diode lasers to fibres thereby demonstrated.

PDP5 • 6:30 p.m.
10 GHz 0.5 ps Pulse Generation in 1000 nm Band in PCF for High Speed Optical Communication,
Kenji Kurokawa, Katsusuke Tajima, Kazuhide Nakajima; NTT Access Network Service Systems laboratories, Japan.
We achieved the first 10 GHz 0.5 ps pulses at 1063 nm by employing the higher-order soliton effect in PCF. We compressed 11 ps pulses from an Yb fiber laser stabilized with PLL technology.

PDP6 • 6:45 p.m.
Faraday Effect in Long Telecom Fibers with Randomly Varying Birefringence,
Misha Brodsky¹, Andrei Sirenko², Anton Zavriyev³, Alexei Trifonov³; ¹AT&T Labs - Res., USA, ²NJIT, USA, ³MagiQ Technologies, USA.
We measure relative propagation delay between two orthogonally polarized pulses in long fibers in the presence of a weak axial magnetic field (~50µT). We find that the fiber birefringence modifies the Faraday eigenstates, which became noncircular and wander in time.

PDP7 • 7:00 p.m.
Epitaxy-Free 1.53 µm Quantum Dot Laser,
Sjoerd Hoogland, Vlad Sukhovatkin, Ian Howard, Sam Cauchi, Larissa Levina, Edward H. Sargent; Univ. of Toronto, Canada.
We report lasing operation of solution-processed semiconductor quantum dot films at 1.53 µm. A solid quantum dot film was used inside a hollow-core optical fibre to form a whispering gallery mode resonator.

Category C: Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensating Devices and Sensors
David Weidman; Avanex, USA, Presider

PDP8 • 7:15 p.m.
Compact, Full C-Band, Widely Tunable Optical Dynamic Dispersion Compensators,
Wei Chen¹, Wenlu Chen¹, Sai Chu¹, Brent Little¹, John Hryniewicz¹, David Gill¹, Oliver King¹, Fred Johnson¹, Roy Davidson¹, Kevin Donovan¹, John Gibson¹, Hua Jiao², Gary Carter²; ¹Nomadics, Inc, USA, ²CSEE Dept., Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Country, USA.
A very compact high index contrast PLC dynamic dispersion compensator (DDC) is fabricated and its data transmission performance characterized at 10 GB/s. The DDC is tunable over +/-3000 psec/nm, and operates on 90 50-GHz channels in the C-band simultaneously.

PDP9 • 7:30 p.m.
Polarization-Independent Tunable Dispersion Compensator Comprised of a Silica Arrayed Waveguide Grating and a Polymer Slab,
Christopher R. Doerr¹, Lawrence L. Buhl¹, Mark A. Cappuzzo¹, Evans Y. Chen¹, Annjoe Wong-Foy¹, Louis T. Gomez¹, Robert Blum², Henk Bulthuis²; ¹Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA, ²Gemfire Corp., USA.
We present a planar lightwave circuit tunable optical dispersion compensator that combines silica and polymer waveguides to achieve a low power consumption and low polarization dependence. We demonstrate dispersion compensation of a 10-Gb/s pluggable transceiver.

PDP10 • 7:45 p.m.
Orthogonal Polarization Heterodyne OSNR Monitoring Technique Insensitive to Polarization Effects,
Chongjin Xie, Daniel C. Kilper, Lothar Möller, Roland Ryf; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA.
A monitoring technique is demonstrated that utilizes polarization orthogonality and heterodyne mixing to measure the in-band optical-signal-to-noise-ratio. This technique is insensitive to PMD and nonlinear polarization scattering, and operates independently of the optical signal properties.

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Room: Ballroom B
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Session: Postdeadline II

Category D: Switching, Wavelength-Selective Filtering, and Routing Devices
Paul Colbourne; JDS Uniphase, Canada, Presider

PDP11 • 5:30 p.m.
Integrated Holographic Filters for Flat-Passband Optical Multiplexers,
Dmitri Iazikov, Christoph M. Greiner, Thomas W. Mossberg; LightSmyth Technologies, Inc., USA.
The first fully-integrated (26x4x1 mm, silica-on-silicon), single-mode, CWDM multiplexer matching performance of bulk-optical alternatives is described as are the enabling, lithographically-scribed, integrated holographic filters, which uniquely provide flat passbands without loss penalty.

PDP12 • 5:45 p.m.
Compact, Low Cost Chip Scale Triplexer WDM Filters,
Wei Chen, Brent Little, Wenlu Chen, Sai Chu, John Hryniewicz, David Gill, Oliver King, Fred Johnson, Roy Davidson, Kevin Donovan, John Gibson; Nomadics, Inc., USA.
A high-index contrast PLC branching delay line filter realizes WDM filters for FTTP triplexer applications. The filters achieve low loss and high extinction ratios, while the ultra-compact dimensions accommodates thousands of chips a 6" silicon wafer.

PDP13 • 6:00 p.m.
Tunable Narrowband Optical Filter in CMOS,
Mahmoud S. Rasras¹, Doug M. Gill¹, Sanjay S. Patel¹, Alice E. White¹, Kun-Yii Tu¹, Young-Kai Chen¹, Daniel N. Carothers², Andrew T. Pomerene², Michael J. Grove², Daniel Sparacin³, Jurgen Michel³, Mark A. Beals³, Lionel C. Kimerling³; ¹Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA, ²BAE Systems, USA, ³MIT, USA.
We demonstrate a compact, fully tunable, narrowband (1GHz) 4th order pole/zero optical filter that is fabricated in a silicon complementary metal oxide semiconductor foundry.

PDP14 • 6:15 p.m.
High performance 'Drop and Continue' Functionality in a Wavelength Selective Switch,
Steven J. Frisken¹, Hao Zhou¹, Dmitri Abakoumov¹, Glenn Baxter¹, Simon Poole¹, Heider Ereifej², Peter Hallemeier²; ¹Engana Pty Ltd, Australia, ²Optium Corp., USA.
We demonstrate for the first time channel-selective optical power sharing between a designated express-port and any drop-port of a 1x9 50 Channel WSS. Bit-Error Rate testing shows that this drop-and-continue functionality can be implemented with negligible system penalty.

PDP15 • 6:30 p.m.
Compact Grating Couplers Between Optical Fibers and Silicon-on-Insulator Photonic Wire Waveguides with 69% Coupling Efficiency,
Frederik Van Laere, Gunther Roelkens, Jonathan Schrauwen, Dirk Taillaert, Pieter Dumon, Wim Bogaerts, Dries Van Thourhout, Roel Baets; Ghent Univ. - IMEC, Belgium.
We present efficient, compact and broadband grating couplers in Silicon-on-Insulator, for coupling between single mode fiber and nanophotonic waveguides. By adding a gold bottom mirror, the coupling efficiency is increased to 69%.

Category B: Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide
Johan Nilsson; Southampton Univ., UK, Presider

PDP16 • 6:45 p.m.
375 THz Parametric Translation of Modulated Signal from 1550nm to Visible Band,
Rui Jiang¹, Robert Saperstein¹, Nikola Alic¹, Maziar Nezhad¹, Colin J. McKinstrie², Joseph Ford¹, Yeshaiahu Fainman¹, Stojan Radic¹; ¹Univ. of Califonia San Diego, USA, ²Bell Labs, USA.
Record parametric frequency-translation of NRZ-modulated signal over 375THz is demonstrated using silica-PCF. The 1550-nm band is mapped to visible 500-nm spectral window, proving the feasibility of all-fiber universal band translator. Both single-channel and WDM architectures are constructed and demonstrated experimentally.

PDP17 • 7:00 p.m.
High Reliability 49 dB Gain, 13 W PM Fiber Amplifier at 1550 nm with 30 dB PER and Record Efficiency,
Paul Wysocki, Thomas Wood, Andrew Grant, Douglas Holcomb, Kok-Wai Chang, Michael Santo, Linda Braun, Gregory Johnson; Lucent Technologies, USA.
We present a single-mode, polarization-maintaining, Er/Yb-codoped cladding-pumped amplifier with 49 dB gain, 13W power, 30 dB PER, 12.9% E/O conversion efficiency, and 42% O/O power-stage slope efficiency. The HPOA was built using all fiber-based components qualifiable in harsh environments.

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PDP20 • 7:15 p.m.
Widely Wavelength-Tunable Femtosecond Pulse Generation Based on Comb-Like Profiled Fiber Comprised of HNLF and Zero Dispersion-Slope NZDSF,
Takashi Inoue, Naomi Kumano, Masanori Takahashi, Takeshi Yagi, Misao Sakano; Fitel Photonics Lab, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Japan.
Using a dispersion-flattened comb-like profiled fiber comprised of HNLF and zero dispersion-slope NZDSF, we demonstrate extremely wideband wavelength-tunable femtosecond pulse generation. 100-fs optical pulses are successfully generated for the wavelengths of 1530, 1570, and 1610nm.

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Category E: Optoelectronic Devices
Ed Murphy; JDS Uniphase, USA, Presider

PDP22 • 5:30 p.m.
Ultra-High-Bandwidth (>35 GHz) Electrooptically-Modulated VCSEL,
Anagnostis Paraskevopoulos¹,², Hans-Jürgen Hensel¹, Wolf-Dietrich Molzow¹, Holger Klein¹, Norbert Grote¹, Nikolai Ledentsov², Vitali Shchukin², Carsten Möller², Alexey Kovsh², Daniil Livshits², Igor Krestnikov², Sergei Mikhrin², Piet Matthijsse³, Gerard Kuyt³; ¹Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommunications, Germany, ²NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH, Germany, ³Draka Comteq Optical Fibre, The Netherlands.
Electrical bandwidth of 60 GHz and optical bandwidth exceeding 35 GHz, limited by the photodetector response, are demonstrated for an electrooptically-modulated VCSEL. The maximum single mode power approaches 3mW continuous wave. Modulation voltage efficiency factor is 3-10 dB/V.

PDP23 • 5:45 p.m.
10-Gbps 1.3 and 1.55-µm InP-Based VCSELs: 85°C 10-km Error-Free Transmission and Room Temperature 40-km Transmission at 1.55-µm with EDC,
Nobuhiko Nishiyama, Catherine Caneau, John D. Downie, Michael Sauer, Chung-en Zah; Corning Inc., USA.
10-Gbps Error-free transmission through 10-km single-mode fiber by both 1.3 and 1.55-µm AlGaInAs/InP VCSELs have been demonstrated at 85°C. Also, 1.55-µm VCSELs with EDC shows 4-times distance expansion (40-km) for 10.7-Gbps FEC format over standard single-mode fiber.

PDP24 • 6:00 p.m.
First Demonstration of a Polarization Insensitive Low Time Jitter and Optical Noise Tolerant All-Optical Clock Recovery at 40 GHz Using a Self-Pulsating Laser Tandem,
Bruno Lavigne¹, Jeremie Renaudier², Francois Lelarge², O. Legouezigou¹, H. Gariah¹, Guanghua Duan²; ¹Alcatel Res. and Innovation, France, ²Alcatel III-V Lab, France.
We experimentally demonstrate a polarization insensitive all-optical clock recovery, tolerant for an input optical signal to noise ratio as low as 15dB/0.1nm, by cascading a bulk-based and a quantum-dots based self-pulsating lasers at 40Gbit/s.

PDP25 • 6:15 p.m.
A 40 Gb/s 3R Burst-Mode Receiver with 4 Integrated MZI Switches,
Dimitrios Petrantonakis, George T. Kanellos, Panagiotis Zakynthinos, Nikolaos Pleros, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, Hercules Avramopoulos; Natl. Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece.
We demonstrate for the first time a 40 Gb/s all-optical 3R burst-mode receiver error-free operation for 9.3 dB power fluctuation between short, bursty packets. It consists of a sequence of four integrated MZI switches.

PDP26 • 6:30 p.m.
Low Drive Voltage, Negative Chirp 40 Gb/s EA-Modulator/Widely-Tunable Laser Transmitter, Using Quantum-Well-Intermixing
James W. Raring, Leif A. Johansson, Erik J. Skogen, Matthew N. Sysak, Henrik N. Poulsen, Steven P. DenBaars, Larry A. Coldren; Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
We present the first 40Gb/s widely-tunable EAM/laser transmitters demonstrating 1.0-1.5VPtoP drive, low-chirp, and under 0.5dB of power penalty for transmission through 2.3km of fiber. A robust quantum-well-intermixing technique was employed for the realization of these devices.

PDP27 • 6:45 p.m.
A 17-Gb/s Low-Power Optical Receiver Using a Ge-on-SOI Photodiode with a 0.13-µm CMOS IC,
Laurent Schares, Clint L. Schow, Steven J. Koester, Gabriel Dehlinger, Richard A. John, Fuad E. Doany; IBM, USA.
We report the fastest (17Gb/s) and lowest-voltage (1.8V) all-silicon CMOS optical receiver to date, based on a germanium-on-SOI photodiode. The 12.5-Gb/s sensitivity at 850nm is -12.7dBm (BER=10^-12), with a power consumption as low as 50mW.

PDP28 • 7:00 p.m.
Error-Free 320 Gb/s SOA-Based Wavelength Conversion Using Optical Filtering,
Yong Liu¹, Eduward Tangdiongga¹, Zhonggui Li¹, H. de Waardt¹, A.M.J. Koonen¹, G.D. Khoe¹, H.J.S. Dorren¹, Xuewen Shu², Ian Bennion²; ¹Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, ²Aston Univ., UK.
We demonstrate error-free 320 Gb/s SOA-based optical wavelength conversion. By utilizing optical filtering, an effective recovery time of less than 1.8 ps is achieved in an SOA, which ensures 320 Gb/s operation.

PDP29 • 7:15 p.m.
Ultra-Wideband Wavelength Conversion over 300 nm by Cascaded SOA-Based Wavelength Converters,
Motoharu Matsuura, Naoto Kishi, Tetsuya Miki; Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan.
We report on, for the first time, over 300 nm all-optical wavelength conversion utilizing multi-stage cascaded SOA-based wavelength converters by means of nonlinear polarization rotation.

NFOEC
Ann Von Lehman; Telcordia Technologies, USA, Presider

PDP30 • 7:30 p.m.
New Field Trial Distance Record of 3040 km on Wide Reach WDM with 10 and 40 Gbps Transmission Including OC-768 Traffic without Regeneration,
David Z. Chen¹, Tiejun J. Xia¹, Glenn Wellbrock¹, Pavel Mamyshev², James J. Zik², Steve Penticost², Guido Grosso³, Allen Dismukes³, Philippe Perrier³, Hervé Fevrier³; ¹Verizon Communications Inc., USA, ²Mintera Optical Networks, USA, ³Xtera Communications Inc., USA.
Verizon successfully carried Juniper OC-768 traffic on their Richardson, Texas, field trial network to 3040km and 2560km, respectively, using Mintera's 40Gbps RZ-DPSK and CS-RZ transponders over Xtera's all Raman ULH system loaded with 68x10Gbps channels.

PDP31 • 7:45 p.m.
Athermal AWGs for Colourless WDM-PON with -40°C to + 70°C and Underwater Operation,
Lasse Leick, Martin Boulanger, Jesper G. Nielsen, Husain Imam, Jan Ingenhoff; Ignis Photonyx A/S, Denmark.
Athermal AWGs are ideal candidates for MUX/DEMUX in WDM-PON applications being passive, scalable, cyclic and low cost. This paper demonstrates an AWG with -40°C to 70°C and underwater operation in all C, L, S and E-bands.

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Room: Ballroom D
5:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Session: Postdeadline IV

Category F: Digital Transmission System
Peter Krummrich; Siemens AG, Germany, Presider
Takashi Mizuochi; Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan, Presider

PDP32 • 5:30 p.m.
10 x 107-Gbit/s Electronically Multiplexed and Optically Equalized NRZ Transmission over 400 km,
Gregory Raybon, Peter J. Winzer, Chris R. Doerr; Lucent Technologies, USA.
We transmit 10 electronically multiplexed 107-Gbit/s NRZ channels (0.7 bits/s/Hz spectral efficiency) over 400 km of nonzero dispersion fiber. A single-chip optical equalizer compensates for optical modulator bandwidth limitations for all wavelengths simultaneously.

PDP33 • 5:45 p.m.
Improved Margin in Long-Haul 40 Gb/s Systems Using Bit-Synchronously Modulated RZ-DQPSK,
Jin-Xing Cai, Morten Nissov, Carl R. Davidson, William T. Anderson, Yi Cai, Alexei N. Pilipetskii, Dmitri G. Foursa, Will Patterson, Patrick C. Corbett, Alan J. Lucero, Neal S. Bergano; Tyco Telecommunications, USA.
We demonstrated a substantial improvement in FEC margin at 40 Gb/s using bit-synchronously modulated RZ-DQPSK. We transmitted 28×40 Gb/s CRZ-DQPSK channels over 6,550 km with ~2 dB of actual FEC margin, without any PMD compensation.

PDP34 • 6:00 p.m.
1.6-b/s/Hz Spectrally Efficient 40 x 85.6-Gb/s Transmission Over 1,700 km of SSMF Using POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK,
Dirk van den Borne¹, Sander L. Jansen¹, Erich Gottwald², Peter M. Krummrich², Giok-Djan Khoe¹, Huug de Waardt¹; ¹Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, ²Siemens AG, Communications, Germany.
Long-haul transmission (>1,000 km) with 1.6-b/s/Hz spectral efficiency is shown for the first time. Using polarization-multiplexed RZ-DQPSK, we demonstrate 40 x 85.6-Gb/s transmission over 1,700 km (18 x 94.5 km) of standard-single-mode fiber with 1-dB Q-margin.

PDP35 • 6:15 p.m.
Distribution of Fiber-Generated Polarization Entangled Photon-Pairs over 100 km of Standard Fiber in OC-192 WDM Environment,
Chuang Liang, Kim F. Lee, Jun Chen, Prem Kumar; Northwestern Univ., USA.
We demonstrate distribution of polarization entanglement over 100 km in a WDM environment. Two-photon interference with visibility >90% is observed in coincidence detection of photon-pairs that have traveled with classical data signals, one on adjacent channel.

PDP36 • 6:30 p.m.
100Gbit/s DQPSK Transmission Experiment without OTDM for 100G Ethernet Transport,
Masahiro Daikoku¹, Itsuro Morita¹, Hidenori Taga¹, Hideaki Tanaka¹, Tetsuya Kawanishi², Takahide Sakamoto², Tetsuya Miyazaki², Tkahisa Fujita³; ¹KDDI R&D Labs Inc., Japan, ²Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, ³New Technology Res. Labs, Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd., Japan.
We demonstrate 100Gbit/s DQPSK transmission experiment over 50km SMF. Without resorting OTDM, 100Gbit/s transmission was enabled with DQPSK format and commercially available electronics. Possibility of DQPSK modulation for future 100G Ethernet transport is verified.

Category G: Subsystems, Network Elements and Analog Systems
John C. Cartledge; Queen's Univ., Canada, Presider

PDP37 • 6:45 p.m.
Integrated 100 Gbit/s ETDM Receiver in a Transmission Experiment over 480 km DMF,
Rainer H. Derksen¹, Gottfried Lehmann¹, Claus-Jörg Weiske², Colja Schubert³, Reinhold Ludwig³, Sebastian Ferber³, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst³, Michael Möller⁴, Joachim Lutz⁴; ¹Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, IC ONT, Germany, ²Siemens AG, Com FN T D HW 1, Germany, ³Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommunications Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Germany, ⁴MICRAM Microelectronic GmbH, Germany.
We report an integrated ETDM receiver for 100 Gbit/s, which comprises 1:2-demultiplexing and clock & data recovery on a single chip. The ETDM receiver was tested successfully in a 100 Gbit/s transmission experiment over 480 km dispersion managed fiber.

PDP38 • 7:00 p.m.
Demonstration of a Class-B Microwave-Photonic Link Using Optical Frequency Modulation and Complementary Fiber-Bragg-Grating Discriminators,
Thomas E. Darcie, Jinye Zhang, Peter F. Driessen, Jae-Jeong Eun; Univ. of Victoria, Canada.
A high-dynamic-range (110.4 dB/Hz2/3) class-B optical link is demonstrated using optical frequency modulation, linear Bragg-grating frequency discriminators, and balanced detection to eliminate the optical carrier. A total average received photocurrent of only 0.88 mA minimizes shot noise and intensity noise.

PDP39 • 7:15 p.m.
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing for Adaptive Dispersion Compensation in Long Haul WDM Systems,
Arthur J. Lowery, Liang Du, Jean Armstrong; Monash Univ., Australia.
Simulations show orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with optical single sideband modulation can adaptively compensate for dispersion in 4000-km 32×10Gbps WDM SMF links with 40% spectral efficiency. OFDM requires no reverse feedback path so can compensate rapid plant variations.

PDP40 • 7:45 p.m. (Please note the delayed start time of this presentation.)
Degree-4 Node Using a Single Wavelength-Selective Switch,
Christopher R. Doerr; Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA.
We demonstrate a degree-4 node using a single 1×7 wavelength-selective switch. This is a factor of four reduction in main component count over conventional designs, but demands must be symmetric, and individual channel power control is not possible.

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Room: Ballroom E
5:30 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Session: Postdeadline V

Category H: Networks
Paul Bonenfant; Morgan Keenan & Co., USA , Presider

PDP41 • 5:30 p.m.
Scaling of Most-Likely Traffic Patterns of Hose- and Cost-Constrained Ring and Mesh Networks,
Steven K. Korotky¹, Kostas N. Oikonomou²; ¹Lucent Technologies, USA, ²AT&T, USA.
We report analytical results and statistical comparisons for the solution to the hose- and cost-constrained inverse problem for the traffic matrix and distance-dependence of ring and mesh networks based on the method of maximum entropy.

PDP42 • 5:45 p.m.
Cost Effective Architectures for Core Transport Networks,
Rob Batchellor, Ori Gerstel; Cisco Systems, USA.
We describe recent approaches that are considered by carriers for building future core packet networks, combining DWDM, TDM and routing technologies. We compare the capital and operational cost of these approaches using real-world networks and pricing models.

PDP43 • 6:00 p.m.
Demonstration of 2.5 Gbps Optical Burst Switched WDM Rings Network,
Jaedon Kim¹, Jinwoo Cho¹, Mayank Jain¹, David Gutierrez¹, Leonid G. Kazovsky¹, Ching-Fong Su², Richard Rabbat², Takeo Hamada²; ¹Stanford Univ. , USA , ²Fujitsu Labs of America, USA .
We present a 2.5 Gbps OBS network testbed named Optical Burst Transport (OBT). OBT combines a reliable control channel with a tightly controlled high speed burst mode transmission. The result is verified by burst mode BER test.

PDP44 • 6:15 p.m.
Field Trial of 3-WDM×10-OCDMA×10.71 Gbps, Truly-Asynchronous, WDM/DPSK-OCDMA Using Hybrid E/D without FEC and Optical Threshold,
Xu Wang¹, Naoya Wada¹, Tetsuya Miyazaki¹, Gabrilla Cincotti², Ken-ichi Kitayama³; ¹Natl. Inst. of of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, ²Univ. of Roma Tre, Italy, ³Osaka Univ., Japan.
A cost-effective WDM/DPSK-OCDMA sharing a single multi-port encoder in central office, tunable decoders in ONU was demonstrated in field trial. 111 km error-free transmission of truly-asynchronous, 3-WDM×10-OCDMA×10.71Gbps/user has been achieved without FEC and optical thresholding.

PDP45 • 6:30 p.m.
320-Gb/s Capacity (32 Users × 10 Gb/s) SPECTS O-CDMA Local Area Network Testbed,
Vincent J. Hernandez, Wei Cong, Ryan P. Scott, Chunxin Yang, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Brian H. Kolner, Jonathan P. Heritage, S. J. Ben Yoo; Univ. of California, Davis, USA.
We demonstrate, for the first time, an error-free, 320-Gb/s optical code division multiple access (O-CDMA) network testbed employing the spectral phase encoded time spreading (SPECTS) technique. Results with and without forward error correction (FEC) are presented.

PDP46 • 6:45 p.m.
Experimental Demonstration of an Interference-Avoidance-Based Protocol for O-CDMA Networks,
Poorya Saghari¹, Purushotham Kamath², Vahid Reza Arbab¹, Mahta Haghi¹, Alan E. Willner¹, Joseph A. Bannister², Joseph D. Touch²; ¹Univ. of Southern California, USA, ²Information Sciences Inst., USA.
We demonstrate the transmission scheduling algorithm in an O-CDMA network to avoid congestion collapse in an O-CDMA network. Our result shows that transmission scheduling increases the performance of the system by orders of magnitude.

Category I: Emerging Applications and Access Solutions
Raghu Ranganathan; Ciena Corp., USA , Presider

PDP47 • 7:00 p.m.
Field Trial of Signaling Interworking of Multi-Carrier ASON/GMPLS Network Domains,
Satoru Okamoto¹, Tomohiro Otani²,³, Yoshiaki Sone¹, Wataru Imajuku¹, Kenji Ogaki², Masanori Miyazawa², Itaru Nishioka⁴, Keiji Miyazaki⁵, Akira Nagata⁵, Syoichiro Seno⁶, Daisuke Ishii⁷, Syuichi Okamoto³, Nahoko Arai³, Hideki Otsuki³; ¹NTT Labs, Japan, ²KDDI R&D Labs, Japan, ³Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan, ⁴NEC Corp., Japan, ⁵FUJITSU Labs Ltd., Japan, ⁶Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan, ⁷Keio Univ., Japan.
A seamless end-to-end call set up over multi-carrier ASON and GMPLS network domains was successfully achieved. Interworking of two ASON network domains and five GMPLS network domains was demonstrated on a nationwide scale.

PDP48 • 7:15 p.m.
The First Application-Driven Lambda-on-Demand Field Trial over a US Nationwide Network,
Yukio Tsukishima¹, Akira Hirano¹, Naohide Nagatsu¹, Takuya Ohara¹, Wataru Imajuku¹, Masahiko Jinno¹, Yoshihiro Takigawa¹, Kazuo Hagimoto¹ , Luc Renambot², Byungil Jeong², Jason Leigh², Tom DeFanti², Alan Verlo², Linda Winkler³; ¹NTT, Japan, ²Electronic Visualization Lab, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA, ³Argonne Natl. Lab, USA.
The Lambda-on-demand functionality with link aggregation to accommodate the dynamic bandwidth demands of an ultra-high-resolution visualization application was realized in over a US nationwide photonic network for the first time.

PDP49 • 7:30 p.m.
Directly Modulated Self-Seeding Reflective SOAs as Colorless Transmitters for WDM Passive Optical Networks,
Elaine Wong¹, Ka Lun Lee¹, Trevor Anderson²; ¹Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Australia, ²Natl. ICT Australia, Victoria Res. Lab, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia.
We present the first demonstration of directly-modulated self-seeding reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers as colorless transmitters in a WDM-PON, eliminating centralized broadband sources, active temperature control and external modulators.

PDP50 • 7:45 p.m.
Uncooled, Optical Injection-Locked 1.55 µm VCSELs for Upstream Transmitters in WDM-PONs,
Elaine Wong¹,² , Xiaoxue Zhao¹, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain¹, Werner Hoffman³, Markus C. Amann³; ¹Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA, ²Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia, ³Walter Schottky Inst., Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany.
We present the first demonstration of injection-locked 1.55 µm VCSELs for operation as low-cost, stable, uncooled, and directly modulated upstream transmitters in a WDM-PON where the injection-locking light is furnished by modulated downstream signals.

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Over 100km Bidirectional, Multi-Channels COF-PON without Optical Amplifier,
Gyaneshwar C. Gupta, Masayuki Kashima, Hideyuki Iwamura, Hideaki Tamai, Takashi Ushikubo, Takeshi Kamijoh; OKI Electric Industry C., Ltd., Japan.
We presented noble PON based Code Division Multiplexing (CDM) on fiber "COF" and demonstrated over 100km bidirectional 4-channels CWDM transmission without optical amplifier and outline COF-PON architecture, coding gain to improve receiver sensitivity, bidirectional transmission (on same wavelength), experimental results.

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