Celebrating the 20^ th anniversary of Optics Express, this paper reviews the evolution of
optical fiber communication systems, and through a look at the previous 20 years attempts to …

Optical communication technology has been advancing rapidly for several decades,
supporting our increasingly information-driven society and economy. Much of this progress …

Planar lightwave circuits (PLCs) are waveguide devices that integrate fiber-matched optical
waveguides on silicon or glass substrate to provide an efficient means of interaction for the …

An introduction and comparative overview to the state of the art of two-dimensional spatial
light modulator technology is provided, touching on the basic operation and performance of …

We report a mode (de) multiplexer based on the structure of cascaded vertical waveguide
directional couplers, where the spatial modes of a few-mode core are coupled to various …

Publisher Summary Subsystem and system vendors are rapidly developing and producing
reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), and carriers are installing and …

We demonstrate the first all-fiber mode-group-selective photonic lantern using multimode
graded-index fibers. Mode selectivity for mode groups LP_01, LP_11 and LP_21+ LP_02 is …

Mode Selective 10-Mode Multiplexer based on Multi-Plane Light Conversion Page 1 Th3E.5.pdf
OFC 2016 © OSA 2016 Mode Selective 10-Mode Multiplexer based on Multi-Plane Light …

The first monolithically integrated InGaAsP/InP active-passive 8× 8 cross-connect is
designed, fabricated and demonstrated. The selection functionalities in the space and …