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 …

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

The introduction of millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequency bands for cellular communications
with significantly larger bandwidths compared to their sub-6 GHz counterparts, the resulting …

Adopting mode division multiplex (MDM) technology as the next frontier for optical fiber
communication and on-chip optical interconnection systems is becoming very promising …

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 …

The rapid growth of traffic inside data centers caused by the increasing adoption of cloud
services necessitates a scalable and cost-efficient networking infrastructure. Space-division …

With the continuously growing popularity of cloud services, the traffic volume inside the data
centers is dramatically increasing. As a result, a scalable and efficient infrastructure for data …

Space division multiplexing (SDM) and elastic optical networking (EON) have been
proposed to increase the transmission capacity and flexibility of optical transport networks …

Great strides have been made over the past decade to establish femtosecond lasers in
advanced manufacturing systems for enabling new forms of non-contact processing of …

A theoretical model for the stochastic time evolution of the intercore crosstalk (ICXT) in
homogeneous weakly-coupled multicore fibers (MCF) with multiple interfering cores is …