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 …

Research on space-division multiplexing (SDM) came to prominence in early 2010 being
primarily proposed as a means of multiplying the information-carrying capacity of optical …

We review the use of optical frequency combs in wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM)
fiber optic communication systems. In particular, we focus on the unique possibilities that are …

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 …

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

We use a wideband optical comb source with 10THz bandwidth for 2.15 Pb/s transmission
over 31km of a new, homogeneous 22-core single-mode multi-core fiber using 399× 25GHz …

As traffic volumes carried by optical networks continue to grow by tens of percent year over
year, we are rapidly approaching the capacity limit of the conventional communication band …

Forthcoming capacity scaling requirements of optical networks and advances in optical fiber
communications beyond the omnipresent single-mode fiber operating over the conventional …

Fiber-optical networks are a crucial telecommunication infrastructure in society. Wavelength
division multiplexing allows for transmitting parallel data streams over the fiber bandwidth …

Space division multiplexing (SDM) is mainly seen as a means to increase data throughput
and handle exponential traffic growth in future optical networks. But its role is certainly more …