Coherent free-space optical communications: Opportunities and challenges

FP Guiomar, MA Fernandes, JL Nascimento… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The ever-increasing data rate demand for wireless systems is pushing the physical limits of
standalone radio-frequency communications, thus fostering the blooming of novel high …

Devices and fibers for ultrawideband optical communications

J Renaudier, A Napoli, M Ionescu, C Calo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) has historically enabled the increase in the
capacity of optical systems by progressively populating the existing optical bandwidth of …

Ultrawideband systems and networks: Beyond C+ L-band

T Hoshida, V Curri, L Galdino, DT Neilson… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the evolution of optical networks, spectral efficiency (SE) enhancement has been the most
cost-efficient and thus the main driver for capacity increase for decades. As a result, the …

Point-to-multipoint optical networks using coherent digital subcarriers

D Welch, A Napoli, J Bäck, W Sande… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A paradigm shift in optical communication networks is proposed, with the introduction of a
new ecosystem of devices and components with the capability of transforming current point …

Digital subcarrier multiplexing: Enabling software-configurable optical networks

D Welch, A Napoli, J Bäck, S Buggaveeti… - Journal of lightwave …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The various topologies, traffic patterns and cost targets of optical networks have prevented
the deployment of end-to-end solutions across multi-domains, and the optimization of the …

Enabling optical network technologies for 5G and beyond

X Liu - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We review a series of innovative optical network technologies for 5G and beyond mobile
networks, enabling high-throughput mobile any-haul (x-haul) via wavelength-division …

Modulation format and digital signal processing for IM-DD optics at post-200G era

D Che, X Chen - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
200-Gb/s per lane intensity-modulation (IM) direct-detection (DD) optics are being
commercialized to support 800G and 1.6 T applications inside datacenters. Though IM-DD …

Fast-convergence digital signal processing for coherent PON using digital SCM

H Wang, J Zhou, Z Xing, Q Feng, K Zhang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
It is foreseeable that the 100 Gb/s/and beyond passive optical network (PON) will be
required in future optical access networks to meet the explosive growth of data traffic. The …

Deep neural network-based digital pre-distortion for high baudrate optical coherent transmission

V Bajaj, F Buchali, M Chagnon, S Wahls… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
High-symbol-rate coherentoptical transceivers suffer more from the critical responses of
transceiver components at high frequency, especially when applying a higher order …

Single-channel 1.61 Tb/s optical coherent transmission enabled by neural network-based digital pre-distortion

V Bajaj, F Buchali, M Chagnon… - … Conference on Optical …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel digital pre-distortion (DPD) based on neural networks for high-baudrate
optical coherent transmitters. We demonstrate experimentally that it outperforms an …