Driven primarily by cloud service and data-center applications, short-reach optical
communication has become a key market segment and growing research area in recent …

Systems modulating, transporting, and detecting lightwaves have evolved tremendously in
the past four decades. The first systems, which were relying on intensity modulation with …

This paper reviews recent progress on different high-speed optical short-and medium-reach
transmission systems. Furthermore, a comprehensive tutorial on high-performance, low-cost …

We experimentally propose and demonstrate homodyne coherent detection in a short-
distance data center interconnect with bidirectional fiber transmission. The transmitter in the …

This tutorial highlights challenges and opportunities in achieving efficient flexible optical
networks. Optical signal processing may potentially increase network flexibility because of …

Data center interconnect has stimulated the research on the short-reach communications
with data rate beyond 100G per wavelength and transmission distance of hundreds of …

Polarimetric self-coherent systems using direct-detection-based Stokes-vector receivers
(SVRs) are a promising technology to meet both the cost and capacity requirements of short …

As link bit rates within and between data centers continue to increase, it is challenging to
maintain low power consumption while accommodating ever-tighter optical link budgets …

We report first successful real-time self-homodyne coherent bi-direction transmission
demonstration with 600-Gb/s DP-64QAM under un-cooled~ 7-MHz linewidth DFB laser. A …

A polarization-division-multiplexed (PDM) intensity-modulation/direct-detection (IM/DD)
system enabled by a novel multiple-input and multiple-output DSP operating in the Stokes …