The proliferation of Internet-of-Things has promoted a wide variety of emerging applications
that require compact, lightweight, and low-cost optical spectrometers. While substantial …

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 …

The tremendous growth of data traffic has spurred a rapid evolution of optical
communications for a higher data transmission capacity. Next-generation fiber-optic …

We review the recent progress of information theory in optical communications, and describe
the current experimental results and associated advances in various individual technologies …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides a taxonomy of optical modulation formats along
with experimental techniques for realizing them. High-speed optical transmission systems …

Focus Issue on Orthogonal-Frequency-Division Multiplexed Communications Systems and
Networks We discuss the realization and performance of polarization-division-multiplexed …

We review and summarize several 100G per channel high-capacity transmission systems
enabled by advanced technologies such as multilevel modulation format, new low-loss and …

A record capacity distance product of 41.8 Petabit/s ⋅ km is demonstrated. A total of 164
channels are modulated at 100 Gbit/s with PDM-QPSK format, packed with 2 bit/s/Hz …

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JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, VOL. 26, NO. 1, JANUARY 1, 2008 79 25.6-Tb/s …

The 25 years since the founding of the Journal of Lightwave Technology have seen more
than three orders of magnitude increase in the capacity of optical transmission systems. This …