Fiber-optic transmission and networking: the previous 20 and the next 20 years

PJ Winzer, DT Neilson, AR Chraplyvy - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Survey of resource allocation schemes and algorithms in spectrally-spatially flexible optical networking

M Klinkowski, P Lechowicz, K Walkowiak - Optical Switching and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Space division multiplexing (SDM) is a promising optical network solution with the
scaling potential to overcome the possible capacity crunch problem in backbone networks …

Space-division multiplexing for optical fiber communications

BJ Puttnam, G Rademacher, RS Luís - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Challenges and enabling technologies for multi-band WDM optical networks

N Deng, L Zong, H Jiang, Y Duan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The ever increasing capacity demand on optical networks and the slowdown of improving
spectral efficiency lead to the solution of utilizing more wavelength band in existing optical …

Optical switching in future fiber-optic networks utilizing spectral and spatial degrees of freedom

DM Marom, Y Miyamoto, DT Neilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Forthcoming capacity scaling requirements of optical networks and advances in optical fiber
communications beyond the omnipresent single-mode fiber operating over the conventional …

A survey of reconfigurable optical networks

MN Hall, KT Foerster, S Schmid, R Durairajan - Optical Switching and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Reconfigurable optical networks have emerged as a promising technology to efficiently
serve the fast-growing traffic produced by the digital society. This paper provides a survey of …

Beyond the display: phase-only liquid crystal on silicon devices and their applications in photonics

G Lazarev, PJ Chen, J Strauss, N Fontaine… - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Existing for almost four decades, liquid crystal on Silicon (LCOS) technology is rapidly
growing into photonic applications. We review the basics of the technology, from the wafer to …

Prospects and challenges of photonic switching in data centers and computing systems

SJB Yoo - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This Tutorial will discuss the motivation, benefits, and challenges of photonic switching in
data centers and cover prospects of future data centers involving emerging new …

Routing, spectrum, and core assignment in SDM-EONS with MCF: node-arc ILP/MILP methods and an efficient XT-aware heuristic algorithm

M Yang, Y Zhang, Q Wu - Journal of Optical Communications and …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we focus on the static routing, spectrum, and core assignment (RSCA) problem
in space-division multiplexing (SDM)-based elastic optical networks (EONs) with multi-core …

All-optical signal processing techniques for flexible networks

AE Willner, A Fallahpour, F Alishahi… - Journal of lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This tutorial highlights challenges and opportunities in achieving efficient flexible optical
networks. Optical signal processing may potentially increase network flexibility because of …