A tutorial on the flexible optical networking paradigm: State of the art, trends, and research challenges

I Tomkos, S Azodolmolky, J Sole-Pareta… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rigid fixed-grid wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical networks can no longer
keep up with the emerging bandwidth-hungry and highly dynamic services in an efficient …

A survey of optical carrier generation techniques for terabit capacity elastic optical networks

M Imran, PM Anandarajah… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elastic optical networks (EON) have been proposed to meet the network capacity and
dynamicity challenges. Hardware and software resource optimization and re-configurability …

High-spectral-efficiency optical modulation formats

PJ Winzer - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2012 - opg.optica.org
As 100-Gb/s coherent systems based on polarization-division multiplexed quadrature phase
shift keying (PDM-QPSK), with aggregate wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) capacities …

On the performance of Nyquist-WDM terabit superchannels based on PM-BPSK, PM-QPSK, PM-8QAM or PM-16QAM subcarriers

G Bosco, V Curri, A Carena, P Poggiolini… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We investigated through simulations the performance of Nyquist-WDM Terabit
superchannels implemented using polarization-multiplexed phase shift-keying based on 2 …

Performance limits in optical communications due to fiber nonlinearity

AD Ellis, ME McCarthy, MAZ Al Khateeb… - Advances in Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we review the historical evolution of predictions of the performance of optical
communication systems. We will describe how such predictions were made from the outset …

Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses of exceptional quality

MA Soto, M Alem, M Amin Shoaie, A Vedadi… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses possess a rectangular spectrum, enabling data to be encoded
in a minimum spectral bandwidth and satisfying by essence the Nyquist criterion of zero inter …

Monolithic Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits for Compact 100 Gb/s Coherent Optical Receivers and Transmitters

P Dong, X Liu, S Chandrasekhar… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based coherent optical transmitters
and receivers for high-speed long-distance fiber optical transmission. High-degree photonic …

Ultrahigh-speed “orthogonal” TDM transmission with an optical Nyquist pulse train

M Nakazawa, T Hirooka, P Ruan, P Guan - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We propose a novel “orthogonal” TDM transmission scheme using an optical Nyquist pulse
that enables us to achieve an ultrahigh data rate and spectral efficiency simultaneously …

Resource allocation for space-division multiplexing: Optical white box versus optical black box networking

A Muhammad, G Zervas… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Elastic optical networking (EON) with space-division multiplexing (SDM) is the only evident
long-term solution to the capacity needs of the future networks. The introduction of space via …

Survivable elastic optical networks: survey and perspective

G Shen, H Guo, SK Bose - Photonic Network Communications, 2016 - Springer
Elastic optical networks (EONs) have been receiving extensive attention because of their
inherent flexibility and the efficiency with which they allocate fiber-bandwidth. For an EON …