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 …

Lightwave communications is a necessity for the information age. Optical links provide
enormous bandwidth, and the optical fiber is the only medium that can meet the modern …

Due to its absorption properties in atmosphere, the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region has gained
interest for its potential to provide high data capacity in free-space optical (FSO) …

Based on a variety of long-term network traffic data from different geographies and
applications, in addition to long-term scaling trends of key information and communication …

Digital coherent transceivers have revolutionized optical fiber communications due to their
superior performance offered compared to intensity modulation and direct detection based …

In order to overcome the capacity limitations of current lightwave systems based on the
single-mode optical fiber, massively parallel transmission in the spatial domain [space …

Bandwidth fragmentation, a serious issue in elastic optical networks (EONs), can be
suppressed by proper management in order to enhance the accommodated traffic demands …

This paper reviews optical injection locking (OIL) of semiconductor lasers and its application
in optical communications and signal processing. Despite complex OIL dynamics, we …

The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

Predicting the quality of transmission (QoT) of a lightpath prior to its deployment is a step of
capital importance for an optimized design of optical networks. Due to the continuous …