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 …

Fifty years of MIMO detection: The road to large-scale MIMOs

S Yang, L Hanzo - IEEE communications surveys & tutorials, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging massive/large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (LS-MIMO) systems that
rely on very large antenna arrays have become a hot topic of wireless communications …

From scaling disparities to integrated parallelism: A decathlon for a decade

PJ Winzer, DT Neilson - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres

DJ Richardson, JM Fini, LE Nelson - Nature photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Optical communication technology has been advancing rapidly for several decades,
supporting our increasingly information-driven society and economy. Much of this progress …

Terabit-scale orbital angular momentum mode division multiplexing in fibers

N Bozinovic, Y Yue, Y Ren, M Tur, P Kristensen… - science, 2013 - science.org
Internet data traffic capacity is rapidly reaching limits imposed by optical fiber nonlinear
effects. Having almost exhausted available degrees of freedom to orthogonally multiplex …

Massive individual orbital angular momentum channels for multiplexing enabled by Dammann gratings

T Lei, M Zhang, Y Li, P Jia, GN Liu, X Xu, Z Li… - Light: Science & …, 2015 - nature.com
Data transmission rates in optical communication systems are approaching the limits of
conventional multiplexing methods. Orbital angular momentum (OAM) in optical vortex …

On probabilistic shaping of quadrature amplitude modulation for the nonlinear fiber channel

T Fehenberger, A Alvarado… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Different aspects of probabilistic shaping for a multispan optical communication system are
studied. First, a numerical analysis of the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel …

Ultra-high-density spatial division multiplexing with a few-mode multicore fibre

RGH Van Uden, RA Correa, EA Lopez… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Single-mode fibres with low loss and a large transmission bandwidth are a key enabler for
long-haul high-speed optical communication and form the backbone of our information …

Making spatial multiplexing a reality

PJ Winzer - Nature Photonics, 2014 - nature.com
To avoid a'capacity crunch', future optical networks will need to simultaneously transmit
multiple spatial channels. For spatial multiplexing to be practical, the upgrade path from …

Efficient and mode selective spatial mode multiplexer based on multi-plane light conversion

G Labroille, B Denolle, P Jian, P Genevaux, N Treps… - Optics express, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We designed and built a new type of spatial mode multiplexer, based on Multi-Plane Light
Conversion (MPLC), with very low intrinsic loss and high mode selectivity. In this first …