The USC Optical Communications Laboratory has many active research projects, including

  • Optical performance monitoring

  • Slow light and its applications

  • Optical signal processing

  • Microring resonator-based devices

  • Variable-rate receiver design

  • Advanced modulation formats, OCDMA, and OFDM

  • Polarization-based devices

Some of our more recent publications are listed below. The full articles may be downloaded from the IEEE Xplore website, OSA OpticsInfoBase and Engineering Village.

For a complete list of our publications, download the following PDF file:
Complete Publications List (Last update: March 2009)

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Refereed Journal Articles
"Tunable 105 ns Optical Delay for 80 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK, 40 Gb/sRZ-DPSK, and 40 Gb/s RZ-OOK Signals using Wavelength Conversion and Chromatic Dispersion"
L. Christen, O. F. Yilmaz, S. Nuccio, X. Wu, I. Fazal, A. E. Willner, C. Langrock, and M. M. Fejer
accepted to Optics Letters, 2009.
"Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of a Direct- Detected RF-Tone Assisted Optical OFDM System"
W.-R. Peng, X. Wu, V. R. Arbab, K.-M. Feng, B. Shamee, L. C. Christen, J.- Y. Yang, A. E. Willner, and S. Chi
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2009.
"Optical Signalto- Noise Ratio Monitoring of an 80-Gb/s Polarization-Multiplexed Return-to-Zero Differential Phase-Shift Keying Channel"
J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, V. R. Arbab, A. Agarwal, L. Paraschis, and A. E. Willner
accepted to Optics Letters, 2009.
"Estimation of the Bit Error Rate for Direct- Detected OFDM Signals with Optically Pre-amplified Receivers"
W.-R. Peng, K.-M. Feng, A. E. Willner, and S. Chi
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2009.
"Mach- Zehnder Interferometer-Assisted Monitoring of OSNR, Chromatic and Polarization Mode Dispersion for NRZ-OOK, NRZ-DPSK and Optical Duobinary"
Y. K. Lize, J.-Y. Yang, L. C. Christen, P. Saghari, S. Nuccio, T. Wu, N. Godbout, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2009.
"Compensation for I/Q Imbalances and Bias Deviation of the Mach-Zehnder Modulators in Direct-Detected Optical OFDM Systems"
W.-R. Peng, B. Zhang, X. Wu, K.-M. Feng, A. E. Willner, and S. Chi
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 103-105, 2009.
"Silicon Microring-Based Signal Modulation for Chip-Scale Optical Interconnection"
L. Zhang, Y. Li, M. Song, J.-Y. Yang, R. G. Beausoleil and A. E. Willner
accepted to the Journal of Applied Physics-A (A Springer Verlag journal), Special Issue on Photonic Interconnects, 2009.
"Multiplexing Two 40-Gb/s WDM Signals into an 80-Gb/s Signal Using XPM in a 0.8-meter Bi-HNLF"
X. Wu, A. Bogoni, M. Scaffardi, G. Berrettini, P. Ghelfi, L. Pot�, G. Meloni and A. E. Willner
accepted to Electronics Letters, 2009.
"Optical Performance Monitoring Using Artificial Neural Networks Trained with Eye-Diagram Parameters"
J. A. Jargon, X. Wu, and A. E. Willner
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 54-56 , 2009.
"Optical Data Timing Skews in On-Chip Optical WDM Interconnects"
Y. Li, L. Zhang, R. G. Beausoleil, P. Daniel Dapkus, and A. E. Willner
accepted to Optics Communications, 2009.
"Multi-Channel SBS Slow Light Using Spectrally-Sliced Incoherent Pumping"
B. Zhang, L. Yan, L. Zhang, and A. E. Willner
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Special Issue on Slow Light, vol. 26, pp. 3763-3769, 2008.
"Fiber-Based Slow-Light Technologies"
G. M. Gehring, R. W. Boyd, A. L. Gaeta, D. J. Gauthier, and A. E. Willner
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Special Issue on Slow Light, vol. 26, pp. 3752-3762, 2008.
"Time-Slot-Interchange of 40 Gb/s Variable Length Optical Packets Using Conversion/Dispersion-Based Tunable Delays"
O. F. Yilmaz, L. Christen, X. Wu, S. R. Nuccio, I. Fazal, and A. E. Willner
To be published in Optics Letters, 2008.
"Optical 10-to-20 and 20-to-40 Gb/s PRBS Data Multiplexing Utilizing Conversion/Dispersion-Based Tunable Optical Delays"
X. Wu, L. Christen, O. F. Yilmaz, S. R. Nuccio, and A. E. Willner
Optics Letters, vol. 33, pp. 1518-1520, 2008.
"Monolithic Modulator and Demodulator of Differential Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying Signals Based on Silicon Microrings"
L. Zhang, J.-Y. Yang, Y. Li, R. G. Beausoleil and A. E. Willner
Optics Letters, vol. 33, pp. 1428-1430, 2008.
"All-Optical Chromatic Dispersion Monitoring for Phase-Modulated Signals Utilizing Cross-Phase Modulation in a Highly-Nonlinear Fiber"
J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, X. Wu, O. Yilmaz, V. Arbab, B. Zhang, S. Nuccio, L. Christen, and A. E. Willner
To be published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2008.
"Mach-Zehnder Interferometer-Assisted Monitoring of OSNR, Chromatic and Polarization Mode Dispersion for NRZ-OOK, NRZ-DPSK and Optical Duobinary"
Y. K. Lize, J.-Y. Yang, L. C. Christen, P. Saghari, S. Nuccio, T. Wu, N. Godbout, and A. E. Willner
To be published in IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2008.
"Coupled-Ring-Resonator-Based Silicon Modulator for Enhanced Performance"
Y. Li, L. Zhang, M. Song, B. Zhang, J.-Y. Yang, R. G. Beausoleil, A. E. Willner, and P. D. Dapkus
To be published in Optics Express, 2008.
"Self-Coherent Multi-Symbol Detection of Optical Differential Phase-Shift-Keying"
M. Nazarathy, X. Liu, L. Christen, Y. K. Lize, and A. E. Willner
To be published in IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2008.
"Optical Performance Monitoring Using Artificial Neural Networks Trained with Eye-Diagram Parameters"
Jeffrey A. Jargon, Xiaoxia Wu, and Alan E. Willner
To be published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2008.
"Chromatic Dispersion Tolerance in Optimized NRZ-, RZ- and CSRZ-DPSK Demodulation"
Y. K. Lize, X. Wu, M. Nazarathy, Y. Atzmon, L. Christen, S. R. Nuccio, M. Faucher, N. Godbout, and A.E. Willner
Optics Express, vol. 16, pp. 4228-4236, 2008.
"Variable Rate, Multi-Format Receiver Design for 10 to 40 Gb/s DPSK and OOK Formats"
L. Christen, Y. K. Lize, S. R. Nuccio, A. E. Willner, and L. Paraschis
Optics Express, vol. 16, pp. 3828-3833 2008.
"Variable Rate, Multi-Format Receiver Design for 10 to 40 Gb/s DPSK and OOK Formats"
L. Christen, Y. K. Lize, S. R. Nuccio, A. E. Willner, and L. Paraschis
Optics Express, vol. 16, pp. 3828-3833 2008.
"Data Quality Dependencies in Microring- Based DPSK Transmitters and Receivers"
L. Zhang, Y. Li, M. Song, R. G. Beausoleil and A. E. Willner
Optics Express, vol. 16, pp. 5739-5745, 2008.
"Experimental Demonstration of Reduced Complexity 43-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Rate-Tunable Receiver"
L. Christen, Y. K. Lize, S. R. Nuccio, L. Paraschis, and A. E. Willner
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 20, pp. 1166-1168, 2008.
"Experimental Demonstration of Reduced Complexity 43-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Rate-Tunable Receiver"
L. Christen, Y. K. Lize, S. R. Nuccio, L. Paraschis, and A. E. Willner
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 20, pp. 1166-1168, 2008.
"High Group Birefringence in Photonic Crystal Fibers with Both Positive and Negative Phase Birefringence"
L. Zhang, T. Luo, Y. Yue, and A. E. Willner
Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 10, no. 3. pp.035004-7, 2008.
"SOA-Assisted Data-Polarization-Insensitive Wavelength Conversion in a PPLN Waveguide"
I. Fazal, S. Kumar, L. Christen, Y. Li, O. F. Yilmaz and A. E. Willner, Carsten Langrock, R. Roussev, and Martin M. Fejer
To be published on IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2008.
"Spectrally-Efficient Slow Light using Multi-level Phase-Modulated Formats"
B. Zhang, L.-S. Yan, L. Zhang, S. Nuccio, L.C. Christen, T. Wu, and A. E. Willner
Submitted to the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Special Issue on Optical Fiber Communications, vol. 25, no. 1, 2008.
"Polarization Mode Dispersion Monitoring for Phase-Modulated Signals Using DGD-Generated Interferometric Filter"
J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, L. C. Christen, B. Zhang, S. Nuccio, X. Wu, L.-S. Yan, S. Yao, and A. E. Willner
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 20, no. 2. pp. 150-152, 2008.
"All Mirrors are not Created Equal"
A. E. Willner
Nature Photonics, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 87-88, 2007.
"Photosensitivity-Enabled Dispersion Controllability for Quasi-Phase-Matching in Photonic Crystal Fibers"
L. Zhang, T. Luo, Y. Yue, C. Yu and A. E. Willner
Optics Letters, vol. 32, no. 24, pp. 3498-3500, 2007.
"Data Pulse Distortion Induced by a Slow Light Tunable Delay Line in Optical Fiber"
C. Yu, T. Luo, L. Zhang, and A. E. Willner
Optics Letters, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 20-22, 2007.
"Experimental Demonstration of Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation using a MEMS-Actuated Bandwidth-Tunable Microdisk Resonator Filter"
B. Zhang, D. Leuenberger, M.-C. M Lee, A.E. Willner, and M.C. Wu
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, no. 19, pp. 1508-1510, 2007.
"Experimental Demonstration of an Interference Avoidance Protocol (Transmission Scheduling) in O-CDMA Networks"
P. Saghari, P. Kamath, V. R. Arbab, M. Haghi, A. E. Willner, J. A. Bannister, and J. D. Touch
Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 25, pp. 16442-16447, 2007.
"Tolerances and Receiver Sensitivity Penalties of Multibit Delay Differential-Phase-Shift-Keying Demodulation"
Y. K. Lize, L. Christen, M. Nazarathy, Y. Atzmon, S. Nuccio, P. Saghari, R. Gomma, J.-Y. Yang, R. Kashyap, A. E. Willner, and L. Paraschis
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, no. 23, pp. 1874-1876, 2007.
"Independent and Simultaneous Monitoring of Chromatic and Polarization-Mode Dispersion in OOK and DPSK Transmission"
Y. K. Lize, L. Christen, J.-Y. Yang, P. Saghari, S. Nuccio, A. E. Willner, and R. Kashyap
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 3-5, 2007.
"Microring-Based Modulation and Demodulation of DPSK Signals"
L. Zhang, J.-Y. Yang, M. Song, Y. Li, B. Zhang, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 18, pp. 11564- 11569, 2007.
"Optical Data Packet Synchronization and Multiplexing Using a Tunable Optical Delay Based on Wavelength Conversion and Inter-Channel Chromatic Dispersion"
I. Fazal, O. Yilmaz, S. Nuccio, B. Zhang, A. E. Willner, C. Langrock, and M. M. Fejer
Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 17, pp. 10492- 10497, 2007.
"Impact of Operational Parameters on Optimum Performance of SOA-Based Differential-Mode Wavelength Converters"
S. Kumar, B. Zhang and A. E. Willner
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, no. 19, pp. 1538-1540, 2007.
"Increasing the Bit Rate in OCDMA Systems Using Pulse Position Modulation Techniques"
V. R. Arbab, P. Saghari, M. Haghi, P. Ebrahimi, and A. E. Willner
Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 19, pp. 12252-12257, 2007.
"Self-Coherent Decision-Feedback-Directed 40-Gb/s DQPSK Receiver"
M. Nazarathy, X. Liu, L. Christen, Y. Lize, and A. Willner
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, pp. 828-830, 2007.
"Pattern Dependence of Data Distortion in Slow-Light Elements"
L. Zhang, T. Luo, C. Yu, W. Zhang, and A. E. Willner
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 25, pp. 1754- 1760, 2007.
"A 10-Gbit/s EML Link Using Detuned Narrowband Optical Filtering"
P. Ebrahimi, R. Jones, Y. Wang, L. Yan, T. Mader, M. Paniccia, A. E. Willner, L. Paraschis
Optics Express, vol. 15, pp. 10597-10606, 2007.
"Self-Coherent Multi- Symbol Detection of Optical Differential Phase-Shift-Keying"
M. Nazarathy, X. Liu, L. Christen, Y. K. Lize, and A. E. Willner
To be published on IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology.
"A Single Slow-Light Element for Independent Delay Control and Synchronization on Multiple Gb/s Data Channels"
B. Zhang, L.-S. Yan, J.-Y. Yang, I. Fazal, and A.E. Willner
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, pp. 1081-1083, 2007.
"Chromatic Dispersion and Polarization Mode Dispersion Monitoring for Multi-level Intensity and Phase Modulation Systems"
Y. Wang, S. Hu, L.-S. Yan, J.-Y. Yang, and A.E. Willner
Optics Express, vol. 15, pp. 14038-14043, 2007.
"Combination of Optical and Electronic Logic Gates for Error Correction in Multipath Differential Demodulation"
Y. Keith Lize, L. Christen, M. Nazarathy, S. Nuccio, X. Wu, A. E. Willner, R. Kashyap
Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 6831-6839, 2007.
"Continuously-Tunable, Bit-rate Variable OTDM using Broadband SBS Slow-Light Delay Line"
B. Zhang, L. Zhang, L.-S. Yan, I. Fazal, J.-Y. Yang, and A. E. Willner
Optics Express, vol. 15, pp. 8317-8322, 2007.
"44-ns Continuously-Tunable Dispersionless Optical Delay Element Using a PPLN Waveguide With a Two Pump Configuration, DCF, and a Dispersion Compensator"
Y. Wang, C. Yu, L.-S. Yan, A. E. Willner, R. Roussev, C. Langrock, M. M. Fejer, Y. Okawachi, J. E. Sharping, and A. L. Gaeta
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, pp. 861-863, 2007.
"All-Optic Scheme for Automatic Polarization Division Demultiplexing"
X. Steve Yao, L.-S. Yan, B. Zhang, A. E. Willner, and Junfeng Jiang
Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 7407-7414, 2007.
"Free Spectral Range Optimization of Return-to-Zero Differential Phase Shift Keyed Demodulation in the Presence of Chromatic Dispersion"
Y. K. Lize, L. Christen, X. Wu, J.-Y. Yang, S. Nuccio, T. Wu, A. E. Willner, R. Kashyap
Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 6817- 6822, 2007.
"Simultaneous Optical Digital Half-Subtraction and -Addition using SOAs and a PPLN Waveguide"
J. E. McGeehan, S. Kumar, and A. E. Willner
Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 5543-5549, 2007.
"Broadband SBS Slow Light in an Optical Fiber"
Z. Zhu, A. M. Dawes, D. J. Gauthier, L. Zhang, and A. E. Willner
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, Special Issue on 2006 Conference on Optical Fiber Communications, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 201-206, 2007.
"Slow Light on Gbit/s Differential-Phase-Shift-Keying Signals"
B. Zhang, L.-S. Yan, I. Fazal, L. Zhang, A. E. Willner, Z. Zhu, and D. J. Gauthier
Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 1878- 1883, 2007.
"Extinction Ratio Enhancement of SOAbased Delayed-Interference Signal Converter using Detuned Filtering"
B. Zhang, S. Kumar, L.-S. Yan, and A. E. Willner
Optics Communications, vol. 280, pp. 202-205, 2007.
"Beyond 40-GHz Return-to-Zero Optical Pulse Train Generation Using a Phase Modulator and Polarization-Maintaining Fiber"
C. Yu, Z. Pan, T. Luo, Y. Wang, L. Christen, and A.E. Willner
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, pp. 42-44, 2007.
"Fast All-Optical Polarization Scrambling Using Re-entrent Lefevre Controller"
Y. K. Lize, R. Gomma, R. Kashyap, L. Palmer, and A. E. Willner
Optics Communications, vol. 279, pp. 50-52, 2007.
"All-Optical Digital 3-Input AND Gate Using Sum- and Difference-Frequency Generation in a PPLN Waveguide"
J. E. McGeehan, M. Giltrelli, and A. E. Willner
Electronics Letters, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 409-410, 2007.
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Invited Papers
"A Broader-Bandwidth Optical Network"
A. E . Willner
Keynote Paper, 14th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), Hong Kong, July 13, 2009.
"Towards High-Performance and Reconfigurable Optical Communication Networks"
A. E . Willner
Invited Presentation, Distinguished Lecturer Series, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Universita' di Padova, Italy, 2009.
"Achieving Tunable Delays using Wavelength Conversion"
A. E . Willner
Invited Paper, Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Photonics West, Conference on Advances in Slow and Fast Light II (OPTO OE116), paper 7226-11, Jan. 2009, San Jose, CA (SPIE, Bellingham, Wash., 2009).
"Optical Communications: Innovations (and their Needs) Abound"
A. E . Willner
Invited Presentation, Colloquium Lecture Series, College of Optical Sciences, Univ. of Arizona, March 5, 2009.
"Optical Signal Processing using Tunable Delay Elements Based on Slow Light"
A. E . Willner, B. Zhang, L. Zhang, L.-S. Yan, and I. Fazal
Invited Paper, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Special Issue on Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing, vol. 14, 2008.
"Optical Communications: Innovations (and their Needs) Abound"
A. E . Willner
Invited Presentation, 100th Anniversary of Corning�s R&D, Corning�s Stookey Award Ceremony, Corning R&D Laboratories, Corning, NY, Oct. 2008.
"Optical Communications: Innovations (and their Needs) Abound"
A. E . Willner
Invited Presentation, 100th Anniversary of Corning�s R&D, Corning�s Stookey Award Ceremony, Corning R&D Laboratories, Corning, NY, Oct. 2008.
"Next Generation Optical Communication Systems"
A. E. Willner
Plenary Presentation, IEEE Photonics Global Singapore, 7th Int�l Conference on Optical Communications & Networks (ICOCN), Singapore, Dec. 2008.
"Targeted Optical Signal Processing for High-Performance Optical Networking"
A. E. Willner
Plenary Paper, CS/IEICE/IEEE Conference on Photonics in Switching, Saporro, Japan, Aug. 2008.
"Optical Performance Monitoring for Reconfigurable Optical Networks"
A. E. Willner
International Nano-Optoelectronic Workshop (iNOW), Japan, Aug. 2008.
"Combating and Monitoring Degradations in Optical Communication Systems"
A. E. Willner
Plenary Paper, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Summer Topical Meeting on Mitigating Channel Degrading Effects, Proceedings, Acapulco, Mexico, July 21-23, 2008 (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2008).
"High-Performance Gbit/s Data Transmission Through Slow Light Elements"
A. E. Willner
Invited Paper, Optical Society of America (OSA) Topical Meeting on Slow and Fast Light, Boston, July 2008 (OSA, D.C., 2008).
"Tunable Delay Lines using Slow Light for Gbit/s Data Signals"
A. E. Willner and B. Zhang
Invited Paper, Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Photonics West, Conference on Advances in Slow and Fast Light (OE21), paper 6904-09, Jan. 2008, San Jose, CA (SPIE, Bellingham, Wash., 2008).
"All-Optical Signal Processing in Next-Generation Communication Systems"
A. E. Willner
Invited Presentation, Workshop on All-Optical Signal Processing and Conditioning, Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008.
"Specialty Fibers to Realize Signal Processing Functions"
A. E. Willner
Invited Presentation, Workshop on "Is Optical Transmission Fiber a Commodity or is Further Innovation Required?," Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008.
"Optical Networking Perspectives vs. Optical Technologies Reality"
A. E. Willner
Keynote Presentation, ONDM Conference COST 291 Workshop, International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP), Athens, Greece, May 2007.
"Opportunities & Challenges in Optical Networking"
A. E. Willner
Plenary Presentation, 9th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Rome, Italy, July 2007.
"Robust and Reconfigurable Optical Communication Systems"
A. E. Willner
Invited Paper, IEEE Lasers and Electro- Optics Society Annual Meeting 2007, paper WFF1, Orlando, Oct. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2007).
"Stable and Reconfigurable Optical Networks"
A. E. Willner
Plenary Presentation, Workshop on Optical Communications, Advanced Communications Center, Tel Aviv University, Dec. 2007.
"Free Spectral Range and Optical Filtering Optimization in NRZ-, RZ- and CSRZ-DPSK Demodulation"
Yannick Keith Lize, Xiaoxia Wu, Louis Christen, Mathieu Faucher, and Alan E. Willner
Invited Paper, IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2007, paper MP1, Orlando, Oct. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2007).
"Advanced Techniques to Increase the Number of Users and Bit Rate in OCDMA Networks"
Alan E. Willner, Poorya Saghari, and Vahid R. Arbab
Invited Paper, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Special Issue on Optical Codes in Optical Communications and Networks, vol. 13, pp. 1403- 1414, 2007.
"Physical-Layer Challenges in Stable, High-Capacity Optical Communication Networks"
Alan E. Willner
Invited Presentation, Dept. of Applied Physics Seminar Series, Hebrew University, June 6, 2007.
"Tunable Optical Delay Lines for Switching and Processing"
Alan E. Willner
Invited Paper, IEEE Photonics in Switching Topical Meeting, San Francisco, Aug. 2007.
"Physical-Layer Challenges in Stable, High-Capacity Optical Communication Networks"
Alan E. Willner
Invited Colloquium, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, Feb. 2007.
"Monitoring and Channel Measurements to Enable Stable, High-Capacity Optical Networks"
Alan E. Willner
Invited Seminar, NIST, Boulder, Colorado, Feb. 2007.
"Leverage the Show Floor to Your Advantage"
Alan E. Willner
Invited Presentation, Student Activities Workshop, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2007 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2007).
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Refereed Conference Proceedings
"On Chip Dispersion Flattening Slot Waveguides"
L. Zhang, Y. Yue, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2009 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2009).
"Optically Concatenated 160-to-320-Gbit/s Multiplexing Using Supercontinuum Generation in Highly Nonlinear Fiber"
X. Wu, A. Bogoni, O. F. Yilmaz, S. R. Nuccio, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2009 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2009).
"Tunable N-Fold Multicasting and Pulsewidth of 40 Gb/s Channels by Variable Periodic Slicing of a Supercontinuum"
O. F. Yilmaz, S. R. Nuccio, X. Wu, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2009 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2009).
"Fine (<0.5 ps) and Course Tuning (>15 ps) of Optical Delays using Acousto-optic Mixing with a 1-pm Tunable Laser"
S. R. Nuccio, O. F. Yilmaz, X. Wu, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2009 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2009).
"Very Short Polarization Splitting/Combining using Two Horizontally-Slotted Waveguides"
Y. Yue, L. Zhang, R. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2009 (Optical Society of America, Wash., D.C., 2009).
"Tunable Optical Delay of 40 Gb/s RZ-OOK and RZ-DPSK using Additional Conversion for Increased Delay and Reduced Residual Dispersion"
S. R. Nuccio, O. F. Yilmaz, S. Khaleghi, L. Christen, I. Fazal, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"Optical Multiplexing of Two 21.5 Gb/s DPSK Signals into a Single 43 Gb/s DQPSK Channel with Simultaneous 7-Fold Multicasting in a Single PPLN Waveguide"
S. R. Nuccio, O. F. Yilmaz, S. Khaleghi, L. Christen, I. Fazal, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"On-Chip, High- Dispersion-Value and Coupled Strip/Slotted Waveguide Structure for Efficient Dispersion Compensation"
L. Zhang, Y. Yue, Y. Xiao Li, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"320 Gb/s Nonlinear Operations Based on PPLN Waveguide for Multiplexing Add/Drop and Wavelength Conversion"
A. Bogoni, X. Wu, I. Fazal, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"CD-Insensitive PMD Monitoring of an 80-Gb/s Polarization-Multiplexed RZ-DPSK Channel Using a Polarizer and a Low-Speed Detector"
J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, L. C. Christen, B. Zhang, J. Jackel, A. Anjali, L. Paraschis, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"Optically Concatenated 4-Fold 40-Gbit/s Multicasting, 4-Fold 40-to-160-Gbit/s Multiplexing, and 160-to-40-Gbit/s Demultiplexing Using Highly Nonlinear Fibers"
X. Wu, A. Bogoni, O. F. Yilmaz, S. R. Nuccio, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"On-Chip 90-degree Polarization Rotator using Wave Coupling through an Intermediate, Multimode, Uniform Waveguide"
Y. Yue, L. Zhang, M. Song, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"A High-Speed Silicon Modulator Based on an Embedded-Ring-Resonator Structure"
L. Zhang, M. Song, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"Analysis of Fiber Dispersion Effects on Phase Modulated Signals Using Constellation Diagram"
V. R. Arbab, X. Wu, L. C. Christen, J.-Y. Yang, T. Dennis, P. Williams, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"A 2X2 Optical Cross- Connect Switch Based on Dual-Drive Silicon Microring-Resonators with Reduced Timing Jitter and Driving Voltage"
M. Song, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, J.-Y. Yang, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"90-km Single-Mode Fiber Transmission of 10-Gb/s Multimode VCSELs under Optical Injection Locking"
D. Parekh, B. Zhang, X. Zhao, Y. Yue, W. Hofmann, M. C. Amann, A. E. Willner, and C. J. Chang-Hasnain
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"Optical Performance Monitoring Using Artificial Neural Networks Trained with Parameters Derived from Delay-Tap Asynchronous Sampling"
J. A. Jargon, X. Wu, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"All-Optical Time Domain 160 Gb/s ADD/ DROP Based on Pump Depletion and Nonlinearities in a Single PPLN Waveguide"
A. Bogoni, X. Wu, I. Fazal, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"Polarization-based Fast-Swept Optical Spectrum Analyzer"
B. Zhang, X. S. Yao, X. Chen, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"A Transmitter for Calibrating the Extinction Ratio of Optical Receivers"
J. A. Jargon, X. Wu, P. D. Hale, K. M. Engenhardt, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE/OSA Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC), San Diego, CA, Mar. 2009 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2009).
"Polarimeter-Based Optical Spectrum Analyzer"
X. S. Yao, B. Zhang, X. Chen, and A. E. Willner
OSA Frontiers in Optics (FiO) Annual Meeting, Post-Deadline Paper PDP-A4, Rochester, NY, Oct. 2008 (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2008).
"CD/PMDInsensitive Optical Performance Monitoring of OSNR Degradation in an 80-Gb/s Pol-Muxed RZ-DPSK System"
J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, Y. Yue, V. R. Arbab, A. Agarwal, L. Paraschis, and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2008, paper WP3, Newport Beach, CA, Nov. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2008).
"Training of Neural Networks to Perform Optical Performance Monitoring of a Combination of Accumulated Signal Nonlinearity, CD, PMD, and OSNR"
Xiaoxia Wu, Jeffrey Jargon, Louis Christen, and Alan Willner
accepted to the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2008, paper WP4, Newport Beach, CA, Nov. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2008).
"Optical Pseudo-Random Bit Sequence Generator using a Dual-Drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator as a Linear Feedback Shift Register"
L. Christen, O. F. Yilmaz, S. Nuccio, X. Wu, A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2008, paper TuP3, Newport Beach, CA, Nov. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2008).
"Generation of High-Modulation-Index RF Analog Signals using a Silicon Microring Resonator"
M. Song, L. Zhang, R. G. Beausoleil and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2008, paper MB2, Newport Beach, CA, Nov. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2008).
"Direct-Detected Polarization Division Multiplexed OFDM Systems with Self-Polarization Diversity"
Wei-Ren Peng, Kai-Ming Feng, and Alan E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2008, paper MH3, Newport Beach, CA, Nov. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2008).
"A Three-Ring-Resonator Electro-Optical Switch with Reduced Jitter and Enhanced Speed and Extinction Ratio"
M. Song, L. Zhang, L. Zou, J.-Y. Yang, R. G. Beausoleil and A. E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2008, paper WF2, Newport Beach, CA, Nov. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2008).
"The Limit of Transmission Distance for an Inter- Symbol-Interference-Free Optical OFDM System"
Wei-Ren Peng, Kai-Ming Feng, and Alan E. Willner
accepted to the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2008, paper MH2, Newport Beach, CA, Nov. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2008).
"Monitoring I/Q Data and Pulse Carving Misalignments in RZ-DQPSK Transmitters Using a Neural Network Approach"
X. Wu, J. Jargon, L. Christen, A. E. Willner, and L. Paraschis
accepted to the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2008, paper WP2, Newport Beach, CA, Nov. (IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2008).
"Experimental Demonstration of 1600 km SSMF Transmission of a Generalized Direct Detection Optical Virtual SSB-OFDM System"
W.-R. Peng, B. Zhang, X. Wu, K.-M. Feng, A. E. Willner and S. Chi
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), paper Mo.3.E.6, Brussels, Sept. 2008.
"Off-Line Monitoring of OSNR/CD/PMD Degradation Effects Using Neural-Network-Based Training Sequences"
X. Wu, J. Jargon, and A. E. Willner
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), paper We.3.D.6, Brussels, Sept. 2008.
"Experimental Demonstration of Compensating the I/Q Imbalance and Bias Deviation of the Mach-Zehnder Modulator for an RF Tone Assisted Optical OFDM System"
W.-R. Peng, B. Zhang, X. Wu, K.-M. Feng, A. E. Willner and S. Chi
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), paper Mo.4.D.3, Brussels, Sept. 2008.
"Generating Spectrally Efficient Duobinary Data Format from Silicon Ring Resonator Modulators"
L. Zhang, M. Song, J.-Y. Yang, W.-R. Peng, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), paper Tu.3.C.4, Brussels, Sept. 2008.
"Transmission of 40 Gb/s DPSK and OOK at 1.55 microns Through 100 m of Plastic Optical Fiber"
S. R. Nuccio, L. Christen, X. Wu, S. Khaleghi, O. Yilmaz, A. E. Willner, and Y. Koike
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), paper We.2.A.4, Brussels, Sept. 2008.
"Tunable Optical Wavelength Conversion of a 10 Gb/s OFDM Data Signal using a Periodically-Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguide"
X. Wu, W.-R. Peng, V. R. Arbab, and A. E. Willner
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), paper P.3.1, Brussels, Sept. 2008.
"Experimental Demonstration of Multicarrier-CDMA for Passive Optical Networks"
V. R. Arbab, W.-R. Peng, X. Wu, J.-Y. Yang, S. Khaleghi, Y. Yue, and A. E. Willner
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), paper We.1.F.1, Brussels, Sept. 2008.
"Experimental Demonstration of a High-Speed Optical Correlator for Phase-Modulated Packets"
R. Salem, S. Nuccio, V. R. Arbab, X. Wu, M. A. Foster, D. F. Geraghty, A. E. Willner, and A. L. Gaeta
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), paper P.3.15, Brussels, Sept. 2008.
"Performance Prospects of Compact Silicon Microring-Based Electro-Optic Modulator for Analog Optical Links"
M. Song, L. Zhang, J.-Y. Yang, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), paper P.2.5, Brussels, Sept. 2008.
"A Compact Chromatic Dispersion Compensator Using Unequal and Mutually-Coupled Microring Resonators"
L. Zhang, M. Song, J.-Y. Yang, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
OSA Summer Topical Meeting on Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA), paper IWA3, Boston, MA, July 2008 (OSA, D.C., 2008).
"Advanced Data Formats in Chip-Scale Optical Interconnects Using Microring Resonators"
L. Zhang, J.-Y. Yang, M. Song, Y. Li, R.G. Beausoleil, A. E. Willner
19th Annual IEEE Workshop on Interconnections within High Speed Digital Systems, Santa Fe, NM, May 2008 (IEEE, Piscataway, 2008).
"Advanced Data Formats in Chip-Scale Optical Interconnects Using Microring Resonators"
L. Zhang, J.-Y. Yang, M. Song, Y. Li, R.G. Beausoleil, A. E. Willner
19th Annual IEEE Workshop on Interconnections within High Speed Digital Systems, Santa Fe, NM, May 2008 (IEEE, Piscataway, 2008).
"Creating RZ Data Modulation Formats Using Parallel Silicon Microring Modulators for Pulse Carving in DPSK"
L. Zhang, Y. Li, J.-Y. Yang, R. G. Beausoleil, A E. Willner
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2008, Paper CWN4.
"Novel Filtering Function Using an Embedded Ring Resonator"
L. Zhang, Y. Li, M. Song, T. Wu, R. G. Beausoleil, A E. Willner
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2008, Paper CWP5.
"Data Inversion and Adjustable Chirp in 10-Gbps Directly-Modulated Injection-Locked 1.55-µm VCSELs"
X. Zhao, B. Zhang, L. Christen, D. Parekh, F. Koyama, W. Hofmann, M. C. Amann4, A. E. Willner, C. J. Chang-Hasnain
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2008, Paper CMW5.
"Ring Resonator Induced Data Timing Skew in On-Chip WDM Optical Interconnects"
Y. Li, L. Zhang, R. G. Beausoleil, A E. Willner
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2008, Paper JWA91.
"Bit Error Rate Calculation for a Single Sideband OFDM Signal with Direct Detection Optically Pre-Amplified Receivers"
W.-R. Peng, K.-M. Feng, S. Chi, and A E. Willner
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, May 2008, Paper CWN3.
"Tunable 105-ns Optical Delay for 80-Gbit/s RZ-DQPSK, 40-Gbit/s RZ-DPSK, and 40-Gbit/s RZ-OOK Signals using Wavelength Conversion and Chromatic Dispersion"
L. Christen, I. Fazal, O.F. Yilmaz, X. Wu, S. Nuccio, A. E. Willner, C. Langrock, and M. M. Fejer
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008, Paper OTuD1.
"Chromatic Dispersion Monitoring of 40-Gb/s RZ-DPSK and 80-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Data Using Cross-Phase Modulation in Highly-Nonlinear Fiber and a Simple Power Monitor"
J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, T. Wu, X. Wu, L. C. Christen, S. Nuccio, O. F. Yilmaz, W.-R. Peng, and A.E. Willner
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008, Pape OTuG5.
"Tunable Time-Slot-Interchange of 40-Gb/s Optical Packets using Conversion/Dispersion-Based Tunable 100-ns Delays"
L. Christen, O. F. Yilmaz, S. Nuccio, X. Wu, I. Fazal, A. E. Willner
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008, Pape OThA4.
"Experimental Synchronization Monitoring of I/Q Data and Pulse-Carving Temporal Misalignment for a Serial-Type 80-Gbit/s RZ-DQPSK Transmitter"
X. Wu, L. Christen, S. Nuccio, O. F. Yilmaz, L. Paraschis, Y. K. Lize, and Alan E. Willner
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008, Pape OTuG2.
"Adjustable Chirp Injection-Locked 1.55-micrometer VCSELs for Enhanced Chromatic Dispersion Compensation at 10-Gbit/s"
B. Zhang, X. Zhao, L. Christen, D. Parekh, W. Hoffman, M. C. Wu, M. C. Amann, C. J. Chang-Hasnain, and A. E. Willner
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008, Pape OWT7.
"Silicon Microring- Resonator-Based Modulation and Demodulation of DQPSK Signals"
L. Zhang, J.-Y. Yang, Y. Li, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008, Pape OWL5.
"Experimental Demonstration of 340 km SSMF Transmission Using a Virtual Single Sideband OFDM Signal that Employs Carrier Suppressed and Iterative Detection Techniques"
W.-R. Peng, X. Wu, V. R. Arbab, B. Shamee, J.-Y. Yang, L. C. Christen, K.- M. Feng, A. E. Willner and Sien Chi
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008, Pape OMU1.
"DPSK Data Quality Dependencies in Microring-Based Transmitter and Receiver"
L. Zhang, Y. Li, M. Song, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008, Pape JThA19.
"Experimental Demonstration of a Coherently Modulated and Directly Detected Optical OFDM System Using an RF-Tone Insertion"
W.-R. Peng, X. Wu, V. R. Arbab, B. Shamee, L. C. Christen, J.-Y. Yang, K.- M. Feng, A. E. Willner, and S. Chi
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008, Pape OMU2.
"Enhanced Performance and Flexibility in Silicon Modulators Based on a Coupled-Ring-Resonator Structure"
Y. Li, L. Zhang, M. Song, Y. Yue, R.G. Beausoleil, and A. E. W
Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) '08, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2008, Pape JThA35.
"40- GHz CSRZ Optical Pulse Generation Using a 10-GHz Mach-Zehnder Modulator and a 25-ps Delay Line Interferometer"
X. Wu, L. Christen, J.-Y. Yang, S. Nuccio, A. E. Willner, and L. Paraschis
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2007, paper ThX3, Orlando, Oct. 2007.
"Ultra Small Modulator and Demodulator for Differential Phase-Shift-Keying Data Format Based on Silicon Microrings"
L. Zhang, J.-Y. Yang, M. Song, Y. Li, B. Zhang, R. G. Beausoleil, and A. E. Willner
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting 2007, paper ThU5, Orlando, Oct.2007.
"Experimental Demonstration of Reduced Complexity 43-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Rate-Tunable Receiver"
L. Christen, S. Nuccio, X. Wu, A. E. Willner, and L. Paraschis
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2007, Paper 9.3.3.
"Variable-Bit-Rate, Continuously- Controllable Optical TDM using SBS-Based Slow Light Tunable Delay Line"
B. Zhang, L. Zhang, L.-S. Yan, I. Fazal, J.-Y. Yang, and A.E. Willner
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2007, Paper 8.2.4.
"Chromatic-Dispersion-Insensitive PMD Monitoring of 20-Gb/s DQPSK and 10-Gb/s DPSK Using DGDGenerated Polarization-Based Interferometer Filter"
J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, L.C. Christen, B. Zhang, S. Nuccio, X. Wu, L.-S. Yan, S. Yao and A. E. Willner
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2007, Paper 3.5.3.
"Experimental Demonstration of Slow Light on RZ-DQPSK Signals"
B. Zhang, L.-S. Yan, L. Zhang, S. Nuccio, L. Christen, T. Wu, and A.E. Willner
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2007, Paper 9.4.4.
"Experimental Synchronization Monitoring of I/Q Misalignment and Pulse Carving Misalignment in 20-Gbit/s RZ-DQPSK Data Generation"
X. Wu, L. Christen, B. Zhang, J.-Y. Yang, L. Zhang, S. Nuccio, A. E. Willner
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2007, Paper 3.5.5.
"Experimental Time-Slot-Interchange Data Packet Switching using a Reconfigurable and Continuously- Tunable Optical 24-ns Delay Based on Wavelength Conversion and Inter-channel Chromatic Dispersion"
I. Fazal, O. F. Yilmaz, S. Nuccio, B. Zhang, C. Langrock, M. Fejer and A. E. Willner
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2007, Paper P066.
"Broadband SBS Slow Light using Simple Spectrally-Sliced Pumping"
B. Zhang, L.-S. Yan, L. Zhang, A. E. Willner, Z. Zhu, and D.J. Gauthier
European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), Berlin, Germany, Sept. 2007, Paper P025.
"Simultaneous Balanced DPSK Demodulation of Multiple 40 Gbit/s WDM Channels using a Single Periodic FBG"
L. Christen, S. Nuccio, Y.K. Lize, A.E. Willner, and L. Paraschis
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2007, Paper CMJJ3.
"Low-Loss S-, C- and L-band Differential Phase Shift Keying Demodulator"
Y. Keith Lize, M. Faucher, E. Jarry, P. Ouellette, A. Wetter, R. Kashyap, A. E. Willner
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2007,Paper CMJJ4.
"Polarization-Based 43 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK Receiver Design Employing a Single Delay-Line Interferometer"
L. Christen, S. Nuccio, X. Wu, A.E. Willner
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2007, Paper CMJJ6.
"Independent Delay Control and Synchronization of Multiple 2.5-Gb/s Channels within a Single SBS Slow-Light Medium"
B. Zhang, L.-S. Yan, J.-Y. Yang, I. Fazal, A.E. Willner
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2007, Paper CTuB4.
"Stabilization of a 40 Gb/s DPSK Delay-Line Interferometer using Half Bit-Rate AM Pilot Tone Monitoring"
L. Christen, S. Nuccio, Y.K. Lize, N. Jayachandran, A. E. Willner, L. Paraschis
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2007, Paper CMJJ2.
"Optical Error Correction using Passive Optical Logic Gates Demodulators in Differential Demodulation"
Y. K. Lize, L. Christen, S. Nuccio, X. Wu, A. E. Willner, R. Kashyap, and M. Faucher
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2007.
"Automatic All-Optical Detection in Polarization-Division-Multiplexing System Using Power Unbalanced Transmission"
L.-S. Yan, B. Zhang, A. Belisle, A.E. Willner, and X. Steve Yao
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Baltimore, MD, May 2007, Paper CMJJ5.
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