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CFP14485-POD 978-1-4799-5602-9
2014 16th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2014)
Graz, Austria 6-10 July 2014
Pages 1-882
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DYNAMIC CLOUDS OF PEOPLE AND THINGS........................................................................................................... 1Cochrane, Peter
CHALLENGES IN OPEN SPECTRUM SYSTEMS.......................................................................................................... 5Perez-Neira, Ana I.
ULTRANARROW-LINEWIDTH LASERS ON A SILICON CHIP AND THEIR APPLICATIONS .......................... 6Pollnau, Markus
LASER COMMUNICATIONS: FROM TERRESTRIAL BROADBAND TO DEEP-SPACE.................................... 10Hemmati, Hamid
OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS — AN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY ............................................... 13Uysal, Murat ; Nouri, Hatef
A COMPARISON OF ELASTIC AND MULTI-RATE OPTICAL NETWORKS PERFORMANCE ....................... 20Khodashenas, P.S. ; Pomares, D. ; Perello, J. ; Spadaro, S. ; Comellas, J.
FLEXIBILITY OF SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY BY MEANS OF POWER-EFFICIENT MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONSTELLATIONS ............................................................................................................... 24
Leibrich, Jochen ; Rosenkranz, Werner
FLEXIBLE FEC CODES FOR NEXT-GENERATION SOFTWARE-DEFINED OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS ................................................................................................................................................................ 28
Kachris, Christoforos ; Tzimpragos, George ; Borriello, Guido ; Zakynthinos, Panagiotis ; Tomkos, Ioannis
EXPLOITING DIFFERENTIATED FILTER CONFIGURATION IN FIXED AND FLEX-GRID OPTICAL NETWORKS..................................................................................................................................................... 32
Castoldi, Piero ; Sambo, Nicola ; Paolucci, Francesco ; Meloni, Gianluca ; Fresi, Francesco ; Secondini, Marco ; Poti, Luca ; Cugini, Filippo
EVALUATING ADD/DROP CONTENTION BLOCKING IN NON-CONTENTIONLESS ROADMS .................... 36Izquierdo-Zaragoza, Jose-Luis ; Bueno-Delgado, Maria-Victoria ; Pavon-Marino, Pablo
ON THE PERFORMANCE OF DYNAMIC SOURCE AGGREGATION OF SUB-WAVELENGTH CONNECTIONS IN EONS ................................................................................................................................................ 40
Khodashenas, Pouria Sayyad ; Comellas, Jaume ; Perello, Jordi ; Spadaro, Salvatore ; Junyent, Gabriel
CURRENT COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS OF SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS....................... 44Spiekman, Leo
IMPROVING BEAM QUALITY IN BROAD AREA SEMICONDUCTOR AMPLIFIERS ....................................... 45Herrero, R. ; Kumar, S. ; Radziunas, M. ; Botey, M. ; Staliunas, K.
OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING: APPLICATIONS IN PHASE-MODULATED OPTICAL OFDM SUPERCHANNELS ............................................................................................................................................... 48
Power, Mark J. ; Jia, Wei ; Webb, Roderick P. ; Manning, Robert J. ; Gunning, Fatima C.Garcia
UNDERSTANDING BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT OF ALL-OPTICAL TURBO-SWITCH.............................. 52Yang, Xuelin ; Zhou, Peng ; Hu, Xiaonan ; Hu, Weisheng ; Liu, Yong
INVESTIGATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER DIRECT MODULATION SPEED .................................................................................................................................................................................. 56
Udvary, Eszter
LOW COST COHERENT RECEIVERS FOR UD-WDM NRZ SYSTEMS IN ACCESS NETWORKS ................... 60Presi, M. ; Bottoni, F. ; Corsini, R. ; Cossu, G. ; Ciaramella, E.
LONG REACH UDWDM PON WITH DIRECT AND COHERENT DETECTION ................................................... 64Anandarajah, Prince M. ; Zhou, Rui ; Vujicic, Vidak ; Deseada Gutierrez Pascual, M. ; Maher, Robert ; Lavery, Domanic ; Paskov, Milen ; Thomsen, Benn ; Savory, Seb ; Barry, Liam P.
DIRECT PHASE MODULATION OF A DFB LASER FOR UDWDM-PON............................................................... 65Cano, Ivan N. ; Lerin, Adolfo ; Polo, Victor ; Prat, Josep
LOW COST SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTING ULTRA-DENSE-WDM IN ACCESS ................................................. 69Prat, Josep ; Ciaramella, Ernesto
HALF-DUPLEX TRANSMISSION AVOIDING RAYLEIGH BACKSCATTERING CROSSTALK IN UDWDM-PON WITH COHERENT RECEIVERS .................................................................................................... 71
Segarra, Josep ; Sales, Vicent ; Polo, V. ; Prat, Josep
CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR A COHERENT ULTRA-DENSE WDM PON FOR LAMBDA TO THE USER ACCESS NETWORKS ...................................................................................... 76
Ververidis, Christopher N. ; Tomkos, Ioannis ; Klonidis, Dimitrios ; Rafel, Albert ; Parkin, Neil ; Urban, Patryk ; Prat, Josep ; Segarra, Josep
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO EXACT, APPROXIMATION, AND HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS FOR SOLVING HARD COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS ............................................................ 80
Festa, P.
THE IMPACT OF SOFTWARE-DEFINED OPTICAL NETWORKS ON DATA CENTRE OPTIMIZATION .............................................................................................................................................................. 100
Azodolmolky, Siamak ; Wieder, Philipp ; Yahyapour, Ramin
TIME-VARYING RESILIENT VIRTUAL NETWORK MAPPING FOR MULTI-LOCATION CLOUD DATA CENTERS............................................................................................................................................... 104
Bui, Minh ; Wang, Ting ; Jaumard, Brigitte ; Medhi, Deep ; Develder, Chris
DATA CENTER SELECTION: A PROBABILITY BASED APPROACH ................................................................. 112Yan, Shuyi ; Wang, Xue ; Razo, Miguel ; Tacca, Marco ; Fumagalli, Andrea
DESIGNING VIRTUAL TOPOLOGIES IN FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS .................................................. 117Fernandez, Natalia ; Duran, Ramon J. ; de Miguel, Ignacio ; Merayo, Noemi ; Aguado, Juan Carlos ; Fernandez, Patricia ; Lorenzo, Ruben M. ; Abril, Evaristo J.
VALID INEQUALITIES FOR THE ROUTING AND SPECTRUM ALLOCATION PROBLEM IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS ................................................................................................................................ 121
Klinkowski, Miroslaw ; Pioaro, Michal ; Zotkiewicz, Mateusz ; Ruiz, Marc ; Velasco, Luis
LASER-INDUCED PERIODIC STRUCTURES ON POLYMERS FOR THE FORMATION OF GOLD OR SILVER NANOWIRES SHOWING PRONOUNCED PLASMON RESONANCES .............................. 126
Heitz, Johannes ; Barb, Ruxandra-Aida ; Hrelescu, Calin ; Siegel, Jakub ; Slepicka, Petr ; Vosmanska, Vladimira ; Svorcik, Vaclav ; Magnus, Birte ; Marksteiner, Rainer
INTEGRATED PLANAR WAVEGUIDE DEVICES FOR EVANESCENT FIELD SENSING AND SPECTROSCOPY............................................................................................................................................................. 130
Cheben, P. ; Janz, S. ; Sabourin, N. ; Xu, D.-X. ; Ding, H. ; Wang, S. ; Schmid, J.H. ; Delage, A. ; Lapointe, J. ; Sinclair, W. ; Ma, R. ; Logan, S. ; MacKenzie, R. ; Liu, Q.Y. ; Gilmour, M. ; Halir, R. ; Ramos, C.Alonso ; Wanguemert-Perez, G. ; Ortega-Monux, A. ; Fernandez, I.Molina ; Le Roux, X. ; Laurent, L. ; Velasco, A.Villafranca ; Calvo, M.L.
PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGIES FOR OPTOGENETICS ............................................................................................ 132Pisanello, Marco ; Pisanello, Ferruccio ; Sileo, Leonardo ; De Vittorio, Massimo
EMPLOYING A DUAL POLARISATION MICRORING TO DETERMINE REFRACTIVE INDEX AND THICKNESS OF A THIN POLYMER LAYER ................................................................................................... 136
Hoste, Jan-Willem ; De Geest, Bruno G. ; Bienstman, Peter
PROGRESS ON THE ANALYSIS OF LASER-BASED PHOTONIC NEURONS..................................................... 140Hurtado, Antonio
GIANT EFFICIENCY ENHANCEMENT OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING SCINTILLATION MATERIALS USING BIO INSPIRED INTEGRATED NANOSTRUCTURES......................................................... 141
Yi, Y. ; Pignalosa, P. ; Liu, B. ; Chen, H.
ACCELERATED RADIATIVE EMISSION FROM METALLIC NANOCAVITY-EMBEDDED ATOM................................................................................................................................................................................. 146
Song, Jung-Hwan ; Lee, Yong-Hee
FOCUSED FEMTOSECOND LASER PULSES: A VERSATILE TOOL FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL WRITING OF MICRO-NANO DEVICES........................................................................................ 148
Eaton, Shane M. ; Criante, Luigino ; Turco, Sara Lo ; Guduru, Surya S.K. ; Ramponi, Roberta
ADDING SALT TO COUPLED MICROCAVITIES THE MAKING OF ACTIVE PHOTONIC MOLECULE LASERS ..................................................................................................................................................... 152
Gagnon, Denis ; Dumont, Joey ; Deziel, Jean-Luc ; Dube, Louis J.
THE INFLUENCE OF AN OPTICAL WELL IN CONTROLLING THE MODE SPLITTING IN A PHOTONIC MOLECULE ............................................................................................................................................... 156
Brossard, Frederic S.F. ; Taylor, Robert A. ; Reid, Ben P.L. ; Williams, David A. ; Spencer, Peter D. ; Murray, Ray
PRACTICAL AND PROSPECTIVE SLOW LIGHT SURFACE NANOSCALE AXIAL PHOTONICS (SNAP) DEVICES..................................................................................................................................... 160
Sumetsky, M.
ARTIFICIAL ATOMS FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING.............................................................. 163Thijssen, Arthur ; Carswell, Stewart ; Androvitsaneas, Petros ; Young, Andrew ; Harbord, Edmund ; Lopez-Garcia, Martin ; Beggs, D.M. ; Lindberg, Jari ; Hu, Chengyong ; Rarity, John ; Oulton, R.
SECURITY REQUIREMENTS IN COMMUNICATION NETWORKS FOR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 165
Kastell, Kira
PERFORMANCE OF NAMED DATA NETWORKING IN URBAN VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS ...................................................................................................................................................... 169
Contoli, Chiara ; Cerroni, Walter ; Callegati, Franco ; Pau, Giovanni
POSITION-BASED MAC FORWARDING METHODS FOR VEHICULAR NETWORKS.................................... 173Garcia-Costa, Carolina ; Egea-Lopez, Esteban ; Garcia-Haro, Joan
INFLUENCE OF TERMINATION ON CONNECTOR LOSS FOR PLASTIC OPTICAL FIBRES....................... 177Losada, M.A. ; Dominguez-Chapman, F.A. ; Mateo, J. ; Lopez, A. ; Zubia, J.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DESIGN OF AN OPTICAL SENSOR FOR TIP-CLEARANCE MEASUREMENTS IN TURBINES ................................................................................................................................ 181
Zubia, Joseba ; Garcia, Iker ; Berganza, Amaia ; Beloki, Josu ; Arrue, Jon ; Mateo, Javier
HYBRID MODULATION FORMATS FOR ADVANCED DATACOMMUNICATIONS........................................ 185Ingham, J.D. ; Wei, J.L. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.
CHALLENGES IN DIGITAL DATA BACKHAUL NETWORKS FOR SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY RADIO TELESCOPE........................................................................................................................................ 187
Monteiro, Paulo P. ; Oberland, Richard ; Almeida, Hugo ; Ribeiro, Rui S. ; Alachkar, Bassem
INTEGRATED DATA FLOW DELIVERY WITH BUILT-IN MASS STORAGE .................................................... 191Sun, Weiqiang ; Hu, Weisheng
OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER TECHNOLOGIES FOR INTER-DATA CENTER CONNECTIVITY ....................... 195Moreolo, Michela Svaluto ; Fabrega, Josep M. ; Nadal, Laia ; Vilchez, F.Javier
PARTIAL DEFRAGMENTATION IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS.............................................................. 199Luo, Jie ; Zhang, Zitian ; Sun, Weiqiang ; Hu, Weisheng
LARGE PORT COUNT OPTICAL ROUTER USING HYBRID MZI-SOA SWITCHES ........................................ 203White, I.H. ; Cheng, Q. ; Wonfor, A. ; Penty, R.V.
EFFICIENT ULTRA-FAST ALL-OPTICAL WAVELENGTH CONVERTERS WITH TI:PPLN WAVEGUIDES ................................................................................................................................................................. 208
Nouroozi, Rahman ; Suche, Hubertus ; Hu, Hao ; Richter, Thomas ; Babazadeh, A. ; Schubert, Colja ; Sohler, Wolfgang
TOWARDS EFFICIENT DENSELY INTEGRATED LASERS .................................................................................. 212Heiss, Dominik ; Higuera-Rodriguez, Aura ; Dolores-Calzadilla, Victor ; Fiore, Andrea ; Smit, Meint
WIDELY TUNABLE MONOLITHICALLY INTEGRATED LASERS USING INTRACAVITY MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS .................................................................................................................. 216
Bente, Erwin ; Latkowski, Sylwester ; de Vries, Tjibbe ; Smit, Meint
DIRECT ARF EXCIMER LASER MICROFABRICATION METHODS FOR POLYMER PHOTONICS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 220
Vasileiadis, Miltiadis ; Athanasekos, Loukas ; Alexandropoulos, Dimitris ; Kehagias, Nikolaos ; Vainos, Nikolaos
MINIMIZING ENERGY COSTS IN FEDERATED DATACENTERS UNDER UNCERTAIN GREEN ENERGY AVAILABILITY............................................................................................................................... 224
Ruiz, M. ; Asensio, A. ; Velasco, L.
AN IN-OPERATION PLANNING TOOL ARCHITECTURE FOR FLEXGRID NETWORK RE-OPTIMIZATION .............................................................................................................................................................. 228
Gifre, Lluis ; Castro, Alberto ; Ruiz, Marc ; Navarro, Nacho ; Velasco, Luis
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF NOVEL RESOURCE ALLOCATION ALGORITHMS FOR VIRTUAL ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS ............................................................................................................. 232
Vilalta, Ricard ; Munoz, Raul ; Casellas, Ramon ; Martinez, Ricardo
PLASMONIC AND SILICON-ON-INSULATOR NANOSTRUCTURES FOR OPTICAL BIOSENSING .................................................................................................................................................................... 236
Petruskevicius, R. ; Urbonas, D. ; Gabalis, M. ; Vaskevicius, K. ; Balcytis, A.
MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBERS FOR CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS........................ 240Candiani, Alessandro ; Cucinotta, Annamaria ; Selleri, Stefano
HYDROXYAPATITE SURFACE CHARGE INVESTIGATED BY SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY ................................................................................................................................................................. 244
Hristu, Radu ; Tofail, Syed A.M. ; Stanciu, Stefan G. ; Tranca, Denis E. ; Stanciu, George A.
INVESTIGATIONS ON ORGANIC FLUOROPHORE DOPED SILICA NANOPARTICLES BY APERTURELESS SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY............................................................... 248
Stanciu, Stefan G. ; Tranca, Denis E. ; Tarpani, Luigi ; Stanciu, George A. ; Hristu, Radu ; Latterini, Loredana
COMPOSITE POLYMERIC-INORGANIC WAVEGUIDE FABRICATED BY INJECTION MOLDING FOR BIOSENSING APPLICATIONS ....................................................................................................... 252
Dortu, Fabian ; Bernier, Damien ; Cestier, Isabelle ; Vandormael, Denis ; Emmerechts, Carl ; Fissi, Lamia E ; Francis, Laurent ; Nittler, Laurent ; Houssiau, Laurent ; Fodor, Balint ; Agocs, Emil ; Petrik, Peter ; Fried, Miklos
RESONANT OPTICAL FORCES ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXCITATION OF WHISPERING GALLERY MODES IN MICROPARTICLES ............................................................................................................... 256
Maslov, Alexey V. ; Bakunov, Michael I. ; Li, Yangcheng ; Astratov, Vasily N.
IN-FIBRE WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATORS: FROM ISOLATED MICROSPHERES TO COUPLED SYSTEMS .............................................................................................................. 260
Kosma, K. ; Schuster, K. ; Kobelke, J. ; Pissadakis, S.
GENERATION OF TIME-ENERGY ENTANGLED PHOTONS ON A SILICON CHIP ........................................ 264Grassani, Davide ; Azzini, Stefano ; Galli, Matteo ; Liscidini, Marco ; Strain, Michael J. ; Sorel, Marc ; Sipe, John ; Bajoni, Daniele
THE CARTESIAN OVAL AS A PLANAR ELLIPTICAL SOLID IMMERSION LENS.......................................... 268McCloskey, David ; Donegan, John F.
SELF-PULSING AND CHAOS IN KERR-NONLINEAR COUPLED RING RESONATORS................................. 273Eksioglu, Yasa ; Petracek, Jiff
WORKFLOW OF TOPOLOGY SIMULATION IN AUTOMOTIVE COMMUNICATION FOCUSED ON FREQUENCY DEPENDENT CABLE MODELLING PROCEDURES ........................................... 277
Minuth, Jurgen ; Feldhues, Katharina ; Frei, Stephan
SYSTEM RADIOVISION FOR MOVEMENT AUTOMATION OF THE VEHICLES COLUMN ......................... 284Ananenkov, A.E. ; Nuzhdin, V.M. ; Rastorguev, V.V. ; Sokolov, P.V. ; Schneider, V.B.
DIGITAL TRANSCEIVER MODULE FOR ON-BOARD COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ..................................... 290Dobychina, E. ; Malakhov, R. ; Snastin, M.
EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF AUTOMATIC LIGHTPATH ESTABLISHMENT INTEGRATING OPENDAYLIGHT SDN CONTROLLER AND ACTIVE STATEFUL PCE WITHIN THE ADRENALINE TESTBED ..................................................................................................................... 294
Mayoral, A. ; Vilalta, R. ; Munoz, R. ; Casellas, R. ; Martinez, R.
ON THE VALUE PROPOSITION OF THE CONTENTIONLESS ADD/DROP ROADM PROPERTY IN DWDM TRANSPORT NETWORKS .................................................................................................. 298
Pedro, Joao ; Pato, Silvia
VULNERABILITY MODELLING FOR PERIODICAL FLEXGRID NETWORK PLANNING ............................ 304Ruiz, M. ; Velasco, L.
CARRIER SDN FOR FLEXGRID-BASED INTER-DATACENTER CONNECTIVITY ......................................... 308Asensio, A. ; Gifre, L. ; Ruiz, M. ; Velasco, L.
ELASTIC MULTI-LAYER RESILIENT IP-OVER-FLEXGRID NETWORKING: DETAILED COST ANALYSIS WITH BANDWIDTH-VARIABLE TRANSPONDERS ............................................................... 312
Pioro, Michal ; Tomaszewski, Artur ; Zotkiewicz, Mateusz ; Klinkowski, Miroslaw ; Jaworski, Marek ; Gunkel, Matthias
1.55-µM VCSEL WITH POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT HIGH-INDEX-CONTRAST SUBWAVELENGTH GRATING MIRROR ON SOI.................................................................................................... 317
Kawaguchi, Hitoshi
ULTRA-HIGH-BANDWIDTH MONOLITHIC VCSEL ARRAYS FOR HIGH-SPEED METRO NETWORKS...................................................................................................................................................................... 321
Spiga, Silvia ; Xie, Chongjin ; Dong, Po ; Amann, Markus-Christian ; Winzer, Peter
ENERGY-EFFICIENT, TEMPERATURE STABLE, HIGH DATA RATE VCSELS FOR OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 325
Bimberg, Dieter ; Larisch, Gunter ; Moser, Philip ; Wolf, Philip ; Li, Hui ; Lott, James A.
NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF 1.3-µM VERTICAL-EXTERNAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS ........................................................................................................................................................ 329
Nakwaski, Wlodzimierz ; Sarzala, Robert P. ; Sokol, Adam K.
TECHNOLOGIES OF OXIDE CONFINEMENT AND HIGH CONTRAST GRATING MIRRORS FOR MID-INFRARED VCSELS ..................................................................................................................................... 333
Almuneau, Guilhem ; Laaroussi, Youness ; Chevallier, Christyves ; Genty, Frederic ; Fressengeas, Nicolas ; Cerutti, Laurent ; Taliercio, Thierry ; Gauthier-Lafaye, Olivier ; Calmon, Pierre-Francois ; Reig, Benjamin ; Jacquet, Joel
SYSTEM ASPECTS OF THE FDMA PON CONCEIVED WITHIN THE FABULOUS EUROPEAN PROJECT .......................................................................................................................................................................... 337
Straullu, S. ; Nespola, A. ; Savio, P. ; Chang, J. ; Ferrero, V. ; Lebreton, A. ; Le Masson, J. ; Dong, R. ; Chanclou, P. ; Charbonnier, B. ; Abrate, S. ; Gaudino, R.
FIELD TRIAL OF AN OFDMA-PON SYSTEM ........................................................................................................... 341Ruprecht, Christian ; Chen, Yingkan ; Fritzsche, Daniel ; von Hoyningen-Huene, Johannes ; Hanik, Norbert ; Weis, Erik ; Breuer, Dirk ; Rosenkranz, Werner
POWER BUDGET IMPROVEMENT FOR COHERENT OPTICAL — OFDM ACCESS UPSTREAM TRANSMISSION USING TCM WITH CONSTELLATION SHAPING ............................................. 345
Chen, Yingkan ; Ruprecht, Christian ; Rosenkranz, Werner ; Hanik, Norbert
IMPACT OF THE BAND SELECTOR DETUNING ON DD MULTI-BAND OFDM VIRTUAL-CARRIER ASSISTED METRO NETWORK PERFORMANCE ................................................................................ 349
Mendes, Luis M.M. ; Cruz, Pedro E.D. ; Alves, Tiago M.F. ; Cartaxo, Adolfo V.T.
IMPACT OF IN-BAND CROSSTALK DUE TO MIXED MODULATION FORMATS WITH MULTIPLE LINE RATES ON DIRECT-DETECTION OFDM OPTICAL NETWORKS PERFORMANCE.............................................................................................................................................................. 353
Rebola, Joao L. ; Cartaxo, Adolfo V.T.
LASER LINEWIDTH REQUIREMENTS FOR REMOTE HETERODYNE OFDM BASED PON SCENARIO ........................................................................................................................................................................ 357
Escayola, X. ; Cano, I. ; Santos, M. ; Prat, J.
A TECHNO-ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR FRONT-/BACK-HAULING OF MOBILE TRAFFIC: WIRELESS VERSUS FIBER BASED SOLUTIONS ..................................... 361
Kolydakis, Nikolaos ; Tomkos, I.
BACKHAULING SOLUTIONS FOR LTE NETWORKS ............................................................................................ 365Lometti, Alberto ; Addeo, Christian ; Busi, Italo ; Sestito, Vincenzo
FTTH-ENABLED DIGITAL HOME CARE — A STUDY OF ECONOMIC GAINS ............................................... 371Forzati, Marco ; Mattsson, Crister
FDMA-PON AND NG-PON2: PERFORMANCE AND COST COMPARISON ........................................................ 378Abrate, Silvio ; Gaudino, Roberto ; Charbonnier, Benoit ; Menezo, Sylvie ; Temporiti, Enrico ; Duan, Guang-Hua ; O'Brian, Peter
COST SENSITIVITY EVALUATION OF FIXED/FLEXIBLE RATE LINE-CARDS AND TRANSCEIVERS UNDER INCREMENTAL TRAFFIC ............................................................................................. 382
Eira, Antonio ; Pedro, Joao ; Pires, Joao
ON THE IMPACT OF CLIENT TO LINE PORT BLOCKING IN THE LINE INTERFACE COUNT AND FOOTPRINT OF TRANSPORT NETWORKS.................................................................................................... 388
Morais, Rui Manuel ; Pedro, Joao ; Monteiro, Paulo ; Pinto, Armando Nolasco
ALTERNATIVES FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY TO BECOME AN MVNO ........................................... 393Machuca, C.Mas ; Krauss, T. ; Basta, A. ; Grigoreva, E. ; Kellerer, W.
MAGNETIC LIGHT AND ALL-DIELECTRIC NANOPHOTONICS........................................................................ 397Kivshar, Yuri ; Miroshnichenko, Andrey ; Kuznetsov, Arseny ; Lukyanchuk, Boris
A NOVEL LEFT-HANDED METAMATERIAL BASED ON CIRCULAR RESONATOR AND WIRE STRIP FOR WAVEGUIDE APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................... 398
Gunduz, Ozan T. ; Sabah, Cumali
PROGRESS IN METAMATERIAL FISHNET FORMED BY NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY AND ASYMMETRIC SPLIT RING RESONATORS (A-SRRS) FOR SENSING ...................................................... 402
Johnson, Nigel P. ; Sharp, Graham J. ; Khan, Saima Ishfaque ; Mbonson, Ifeoma ; McMeekin, Scott G. ; Lahiri, Basudev ; De la Rue, Richard M.
SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS AND NEGATIVE REFRACTION IN FISHNET METAMATERIAL ........................................................................................................................................................... 405
Dastmalchi, Babak ; Isic, Goran ; Jakovljevic, Milka ; Bergmair, Iris ; Hingerl, Kurt ; Soukoulis, Costas M.
INFLUENCE OF MG AND/OR BE CONTENT ON NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF A2B6 CRYSTALS ............................................................................................................................................................. 406
Derkowska-Zielinska, Beata
METASURFACES FOR COLOUR PRINTING ............................................................................................................ 410Zapata-Rodriguez, Carlos J. ; Miret, Juan J. ; Rodriguez-Canto, Pedro ; Munoz-Matutano, Guillermo ; Martinez-Pastor, Juan P. ; Abargues, Rafael ; Pastor, David ; Kaiser, Michael ; Hohle, Christoph
PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE BASED NANOBIOSENSORS AND NANOPHOTODETECTORS ................... 414Cinel, Neval A. ; Butun, Serkan ; Ozbay, Ekmel
SINGLE MOLECULE DETECTION WITH HIGH-Q PLASMONIC-PHOTONIC BIOSENSORS....................... 419Baaske, Martin ; Foreman, Matthew ; Vollmer, Frank
IMAGING THE VACUUM FIELD IN A HIGH-Q CAVITY WITH SINGLE ATOMS AS A NANOSCOPIC PROBE.................................................................................................................................................... 420
An, Kyungwon
PHOTONIC-PLASMONIC MODE ENGINEERING IN METALLO-DIELECTRIC NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS ........................................................................................................................................... 421
Hong, Yan ; Ahn, Wonmi ; Reinhard, Bjorn M.
FIBER COUPLED ERBIUM DOPED MICROSPHERE: NIR AND MID-IR WAVELENGTH RANGES ............................................................................................................................................................................ 424
Palma, G. ; De Palma, L. ; Yano, T. ; Nazabal, V. ; Kishi, T. ; Moreac, A. ; Ferrari, M. ; Ristic, D. ; Lukowiak, A. ; Righini, G.C. ; Conti, G.Nunzi ; Prudenzano, F.
OPTICAL KERR FREQUENCY COMBS: MODELLING AND APPLICATIONS ................................................. 429Coillet, Aurelien ; Balakireva, Irina ; Saleh, Khaldoun ; Lin, Guoping ; Henriet, Remi ; Martinenghi, Romain ; Diallo, Souleymane ; Chembo, Yanne K.
TOWARDS A SMOOTH INTEGRATION OF QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION IN METRO NETWORKS...................................................................................................................................................................... 432
Aleksic, Slavisa ; Winkler, Dominic ; Hipp, Florian ; Poppe, Andreas ; Franzl, Gerald ; Schrenk, Bernhard
PHOTON ANGULAR MOMENTUM BASED MULTIDIMENSIONAL QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION................................................................................................................................................................ 436
Djordjevic, Ivan B. ; Zhang, Yequn
OPTICAL CODE BASED MODULATION SCHEMES ............................................................................................... 440Wang, Xu
ALL-OPTICAL PHASE AND DELAY SPECTRAL ENCODING OF SIGNALS WITH ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS ............................................................................................................................................ 441
Abbade, Marcelo L.F. ; Assis, Gustavo H. ; Alves, Cleiton J. ; Messani, Carlos A. ; Fagotto, Eric A.M. ; Cvijetic, Milorad
GENERALIZED PPM-BASED BB84 QKD PROTOCOL ............................................................................................ 445Zhang, Yequn ; Djordjevic, Ivan B.
DYNAMIC METHOD FOR STOKES SPACE BASED POLARIZATION DEMULTIPLEXING OF ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS .................................................................................................................... 449
Muga, Nelson J. ; Pinto, Armando N.
PROPOSAL OF A HYBRID QAM-MPPM TECHNIQUE FOR OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 453
Khallaf, Haitham S. ; Shalaby, Hossam M.H.
NANOPHOTONICS AND QUANTUM OPTICS .......................................................................................................... 457Agio, Mario
INVESTIGATIONS ON PHOTOCURRENT BI-STABILITY OF A TWO-COLOR MODE-LOCKED QUANTUM DOT LASER .............................................................................................................................. 461
Breuer, Stefan ; Rossetti, Mattia ; Drzewietzki, Lukas ; Montrosset, Ivo ; Krakowski, Michel ; Hopkinson, Mark ; Elsaser, Wolfgang
MODELLING OF INTERMEDIATE BAND SOLAR CELLS: QUANTUM DOT OR IMPURITY BAND — THE EFFECT OF INHOMOGENEOUS BROADENING........................................................................... 465
Rorison, Judy ; Wang, Joey
DISSIPATIVE VECTORIAL SOLITONS AND MOLECULES IN VCSELS WITH DELAYS ............................... 466Javaloyes, J. ; Marconi, M. ; Barland, S. ; Balle, S. ; Giudici, M.
HOW LASER LOCALIZED STRUCTURES EVOLVE OUT OF PASSIVE MODE-LOCKING ........................... 470Marconi, M. ; Javaloyes, J. ; Balle, S. ; Giudici, M.
FLEXIBLE ACCESS NETWORKS ................................................................................................................................ 472Teixeira, Antonio ; Shahpari, Ali ; Reis, Jacklyn D. ; Ferreira, Ricardo
FLEXIBLE PON KEY TECHNOLOGIES: DIGITAL ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS AND DEVICES.................................................................................................................................................................. 475
Lazaro, J.A. ; Altabas, J.A. ; Vairavel, S. ; Karthikeyan, S. ; Sridharan, M. ; Garces, I. ; Junyent, G.
AN SDN-DRIVEN APPROACH TO A FLAT LAYER-2 TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK...................... 480Slyne, Frank ; Ruffini, Marco
A NATION-WIDE OPTIMIZATION STUDY ON THE CONSOLIDATION OF LOCAL EXCHANGES USING LONG-REACH PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS ............................................................. 484
Wessaly, Roland ; Raack, Christian ; Ascheuer, Norbert
SPLIT EXTENSION BEYOND 1:1000 FOR FULLY-PASSIVE COHERENT PONS WITH INFRASTRUCTURE-DEFINED SELF-AMPLIFICATION ........................................................................................ 489
Schrenk, Bernhard ; Stierle, Martin
LAYER 2 REDESIGN FOR METRO-ACCESS NEXT GENERATION PON ........................................................... 493Lopez, Eduardo Tommy ; Polo, Victor ; Lazaro, J.A. ; Prat, Josep
OPTICAL INTER-DATA-CENTER NETWORK DESIGN UNDER RESILIENCE REQUIREMENTS AND DYNAMIC ELECTRICITY PRICING................................................................................ 497
Mouftah, Hussein T. ; Kantarci, Burak
OPTICAL NETWORKS FOR ENERGY-EFFICIENT DATA CENTERS................................................................. 501Fiorani, Matteo ; Chen, Jiajia ; Wosinska, Lena
HIGH CAPACITY AND ENERGY EFFICIENT OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS AT TOP OF THE RACK IN DATACENTRES ............................................................................................................................................. 502
Chen, Jiajia ; Gong, Yu ; Fiorani, Matteo
TUNABLE FLAT LENSES IN THE INFRARED.......................................................................................................... 503Pugh, Jonathan R. ; Stokes, Jamie L. ; Lopez-Garcia, Martin ; Gan, Choon-How ; Nash, Geoff R. ; Rarity, John G. ; Cryan, Martin J.
COOPERATIVE CYCLIC SLEEP AND DOZE MODE SELECTION FOR NG-PONS .......................................... 507Fernando, D.Nauka V. ; Milosavljevic, Milos ; Kourtessis, Pandelis ; Senior, John M.
ULTRAFAST CONTROL OF SPONTANEOUS EMISSION USING ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING OF MICROPILLAR CAVITIES ..................................................................................................................................... 511
Thyrrestrup, Henri
ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS OF FERROMAGNETIC/PARAMAGNETIC NANOWIRES IN MNAS THIN FILMS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 512
Dean, Jesse J. ; van Driel, Henry M.
DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOR OF OPTOMECHANICAL INDUCED TRANSPARENCY IN A SILICA MICRORESONATOR...................................................................................................................................................... 513
Dong, Chunhua
TOWARDS HIGH REPETITION RATE OPERATIONAL QUANTUM RELAY AT TELECOM WAVELENGTH................................................................................................................................................................ 518
Ngah, Lutfi A. ; D'Auria, Virginia ; Labonte, Laurent ; Alibart, Olivier ; Tanzilli, Sebastien
FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING OF ALLOYS ............................................................................................. 521Lenzner, Matthias ; Sun, Zhanliang ; Rudolph, Wolfgang
SURFACE PLASMONS AND STRONG LIGHT-MATTER COUPLING IN METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURES....................................................................................................................................................... 522
Alpeggiani, Filippo ; D'Agostino, Stefania ; Andreani, Lucio Claudio
STOPPED-LIGHT NANOLASING IN HYBRID PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES ..................................................... 526Pickering, Tim ; Hamm, Joachim M. ; Page, A.Freddie ; Wuestner, Sebastian ; Hess, Ortwin
COUPLING EFFECT IN HYBRID SYSTEM OF PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES AND J-AGGREGATES YIELDS DOUBLE RABI SPLITTING .............................................................................................. 529
Melnikau, Dzmitry ; Savateeva, Diana ; Rakovich, Yury P.
HYBRID PLASMONIC BOTTLE MICRORESONATORS ........................................................................................ 533Zervas, M.N. ; Nasir, M.N.Mohd ; Ding, M. ; Murugan, G.S.
HYBRID PHOTONIC-PLASMONIC MICROCAVITIES FOR Q/V RATIO ENHANCEMENT ........................... 538Ciminelli, C. ; Dell'Olio, F. ; Conteduca, D. ; Krauss, T.F. ; Armenise, M.N.
SPECTRAL FINGER-PRINTS OF PHOTONIC MOLECULES ................................................................................ 542Li, Yangcheng ; Allen, Kenneth W. ; Abolmaali, Farzaneh ; Maslov, Alexey V. ; Astratov, Vasily N.
OPTICAL PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN FIBER TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS BASED ON ELECTRICAL SAMPLING TECHNIQUE ................................................................................................................... 546
Yu, Changyuan ; Yu, Yi
OPTIMAL SIGNAL CONSTELLATION DESIGN FOR COHERENT OPTICAL CHANNELS DOMINATED BY THE NONLINEAR PHASE NOISE................................................................................................ 550
Liu, Tao ; Djordjevic, Ivan B. ; Zhang, Yequn ; Zou, Ding
IQ IMBALANCE COMPENSATION BASED ON MAXIMUM SNR ESTIMATION IN COHERENT QPSK SYSTEMS............................................................................................................................................................... 554
Nguyen, Trung-Hien ; Gomez-Agis, Fausto ; Gay, Mathilde ; Anet-Neto, Luiz ; Scalart, Pascal ; Peucheret, Christophe ; Joindot, Michel ; Sentieys, Olivier ; Simon, Jean-Claude ; Bramerie, Laurent
IMPROVED DECISION DIRECTED CARRIER PHASE ESTIMATION FOR NONLINEARITY MITIGATION IN 16-QAM SYSTEMS........................................................................................................................... 558
Pakala, Lalitha ; Schmauss, Bernhard
SIMULATION OF SILICON PHOTONIC COHERENT PM-QPSK TRANSCEIVERS USING MICRORING MODULATORS....................................................................................................................................... 562
Ghillino, Enrico ; Mena, Pablo ; Curri, Vittorio ; Carena, Andrea ; Patel, Jigesh ; Richards, Dwight ; Scarmozzino, Rob
OSNR SYSTEM MARGIN MONITORING TECHNIQUE FOR COHERENT TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS................................................................................................................................................... 566
Dahan, David ; Mahlab, Uri
TRANSMISSION COMPARISON OF ULTRA-LONG RAMAN FIBRE LASER BASED AMPLIFICATION WITH FIRST AND DUAL ORDER RAMAN AMPLIFICATION USING 10×118 GBIT/S DP-QPSK ............................................................................................................................................................. 570
Tan, Mingming ; Rosa, Pawel ; Phillips, Ian.D. ; Stephens, M.F.C. ; Sygletos, Stylianos ; Ellis, Andrew ; Harper, Paul
LOW POWER NANOPHOTONICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN DATA CENTERS .......................................... 574Thylen, Lars ; Holmstrom, Petter ; Wosinski, Lech
HOW PHOTONIC NETWORKING CAN HELP DATA CENTRES.......................................................................... 577Glesk, Ivan ; Buis, Adrianus ; Davidson, Alan
ULTRALOW-POWER AND INTEGRATED OPERATION OF ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHES/MEMORIES IN A PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CHIP .................................................................................. 581
Nozaki, Kengo ; Kuramochi, Eiichi ; Shinya, Akihiko ; Matsuo, Shinji ; Sato, Tomonari ; Notomi, Masaya
TRANSMISSION OF CHAOTICALLY ENCRYPTED SIGNALS OVER AN OPTICAL CHANNEL .................. 585Lembrikov, B.I. ; Ben-Ezra, Y. ; Yurchenko, Yu.
STRONGLY ASYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDE SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS FOR PICOSECOND PULSE GENERATION BY GAIN- AND Q-SWITCHING .......................................................................................... 586
Ryvkin, B.S. ; Avrutin, E.A. ; Lanz, B. ; Kostamovaara, J.T.
COST EVALUATION OF INNOVATIVE OFFERS USING DETAILED EQUIPMENT, PROCESS AND NETWORK MODELING LANGUAGES ............................................................................................................. 590
Casier, Koen ; Van der Wee, Marlies ; Verbrugge, Sofie
COST SAVINGS DEPENDENCE ON BASE STATION INTER-DISTANCE IN CONVERGED ACCESS NETWORK PLANNING OF DENSE POPULATED AREAS ..................................................................... 594
Machuca, C.Mas ; Rahman, M. ; Grobe, K. ; Kellerer, W.
DESIGN OF A NOVEL WAVELENGTH SCHEME FOR DWDM-PON COEXISTING WITH CURRENT PON TECHNOLOGIES AND PROTECTED AGAINST SIGNAL INTERFERENCE ........................ 598
Scholtz, Lubomir ; Korcek, Dusan ; Mullerova, Jarmila
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PON TECHNOLOGIES ................................................................................. 602Logothetis, M.D. ; Vardakas, J.S. ; Moscholios, I.D.
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A DYNAMIC WAVELENGTH ALLOCATION PROTOCOL IN WDM-TDM PONS SERVICING PARETO ON-OFF TRAFFIC ........................................................................... 606
Logothetis, M.D. ; Vardakas, J.S. ; Moscholios, I.D.
ENERGY-EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS FOR TRANSLUCENT WDM OPTICAL NETWORKS.......................... 610Manousakis, Konstantinos ; Ellinas, Georgios ; Varvarigos, Emmanouel Manos
GREEN VIRTUAL NETWORK EMBEDDING IN OPTICAL OFDM CLOUD NETWORKS ............................... 614Nonde, Leonard ; El-Gorashi, Taisir E.H. ; Elmirghani, Jaafar M.H.
ENERGY SAVINGS IN WDM NETWORKS USING REFLECTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS ................................................................................................................................................. 619
Murphy, Eoin ; Michie, Craig ; White, Henry ; Johnstone, Walter ; Kelly, Anthony ; Andonovic, Ivan
EMBODIED AND OPERATIONAL ENERGY OPTIMIZATION FOR IMPROVED ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN TRANSPORT NETWORKS ............................................................................................................. 623
Mata, Javier ; Ye, Yabin ; Vizcaino, Jorge Lopez
POWER TRANSMISSION OVER OPTICAL FIBER NETWORKS.......................................................................... 627Andre, P.S. ; Lima, M.J. ; Teixeira, A.L.J. ; Nogueira, R.N. ; Chang, Lan ; Kai, Wang ; Xiang-Jun, Xin
OBSERVATION OF QUANTUM INTERFERENCE IN THE PLASMONIC HONG-OU-MANDEL EFFECT ............................................................................................................................................................................. 629
Sonnefraud, Y. ; Di Martino, G. ; Tame, M. ; Kena-Cohen, S. ; Dieleman, F. ; Ozdemir, S.K. ; Kim, M.S. ; Maier, S.A.
PLASMONIC NETWORKS BASED ON METALLIC NANOWIRES ....................................................................... 630Ciszak, Kamil ; Piatkowski, Dawid ; Mackowski, Sebastian
A SURFACE PLASMON POLARITON ANALOGUE OF A WANNIER-STARK LADDER.................................. 634Kuzmiak, Vladimir ; Maradudin, Alexei A. ; Mendez, Eugenio R.
PLASMONIC ENHANCED PHOTOTHERMAL EFFECTS AND ITS APPLICATIONS ....................................... 638Qiu, Min ; Chen, Xi ; Shi, Yuechun ; Chen, Yiting ; Gong, Hanmo ; Zhao, Ding ; Chen, Xingxing ; Yang, Yuanqing ; Yan, Min ; Li, Qiang
PHOTON PLASMON COUPLING IN NANOCOMPOSITE PLASMONIC WAVEGUIDES ................................. 640Suarez, I. ; Fitrakis, E.P. ; Rodriguez-Canto, P. ; Abargues, R. ; Tomkos, I. ; Martinez-Pastor, J.P.
DEVELOPMENT OF PRASEODYMIUM-DOPED, SELENIDE CHALCOGENIDE GLASS, STEP-INDEX FIBRE TOWARDS MID-INFRARED FIBRE LASERS ................................................................................. 644
Furniss, D. ; Sakr, H. ; Tang, Z. ; Sojka, L. ; Sujecki, S. ; Barney, E. ; Benson, T.M. ; Seddon, A.B.
MID-INFRARED PHOTONICS FOR EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS ..................................................................... 648Seddon, A.B.
ACTIVE MID-IR EMISSIONS FROM RARE-EARTH DOPED TELLURITE GLASS CERAMICS FOR BIO APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................. 652
Morea, R. ; Fernandez, T.T. ; Miguel, A. ; Hernandez, M. ; Ulloa, J.M. ; Fernandez, J. ; Balda, R. ; Solis, J. ; Gonzalo, J.
BURIED CHANNEL WAVEGUIDES FOR NULLING INTERFEROMETRY IN 6–20 µM SPECTRAL RANGE: FABRICATION AND PRELIMINARY TESTING ................................................................ 655
Vigreux, Caroline ; Escalier, Raphael ; Pradel, Annie ; Bastard, Lionel ; Broquin, Jean-Emmanuel ; Parent, Gilles ; Zhang, Xianghua ; Billeton, Thierry ; Barillot, Marc
PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MODELLING OF LANTHANIDE DOPED, LOW PHONON ENERGY GLASSES ........................................................................................................................................................................... 659
Oladeji, A. ; Sakr, H. ; Furniss, D. ; Tang, Z. ; Phillips, A. ; Benson, T.M. ; Seddon, A.B. ; Sujecki, S.
CONSTELLATION EXPANSION: THEORETICAL LIMITS AND PRACTICAL EXAMPLES .......................... 664Leoni, Paolo ; Sleiffer, Vincent ; Calabro, Stefano ; Lankl, Berthold
TOWARDS HIGHEST SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY: OPTICAL SINC-SHAPED NYQUIST PULSES GENERATION FROM RECTANGULAR FREQUENCY COMB.............................................................................. 668
Bres, Camille-Sophie ; Soto, Marcelo A. ; Alem, Mehdi ; Shoaie, Mohammad Amin ; Vedadi, Armand ; Schneider, Thomas ; Thevenaz, Luc
EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERISATION OF DIGITAL NYQUIST PULSE-SHAPED DUAL-POLARISATION 16QAM WDM TRANSMISSION AND COMPARISON WITH THE GAUSSIAN NOISE MODEL OF NONLINEAR PROPAGATION .................................................................................................. 672
Killey, Robert I. ; Maher, Robert ; Xu, Tianhua ; Galdino, Lidia ; Sato, Masaki ; Kilmurray, Sean ; Thomsen, Benn C. ; Bayvel, Polina
REAL TIME 100 GBIT/S ELECTRICAL NYQUIST WDM TRANSMITTER ......................................................... 676Ellis, A.D. ; McCarthy, M.E. ; Lavery, D. ; Suibhne, N.Mac ; Sygletos, S. ; Savory, S. ; Thomsen, B. ; Killey, R. ; Bayvel, P. ; Harper, P.
NYQUIST-WDM PDM-QPSK TRANSMISSION OVER SMF-28 FIBRE USING URFL AMPLIFICATION ............................................................................................................................................................ 680
Rosa, P. ; Erkilinc, M.S. ; Maher, R. ; Paskov, M. ; Kilmurray, S. ; Tan, M. ; Harper, P. ; Philips, I.D. ; Ellis, A.D. ; Ania-Castanon, J-D. ; Thomsen, B.C. ; Savory, S.J. ; Killey, R.I. ; Bayvel, P.
RE-INVENTING ELECTRONIC AND OPTO-ELECTRONIC CO-INTEGRATION TO DELIVER THE NEXT GENERATION OF PARALLEL OPTICS INTERCONNECTS............................................................. 683
Raz, O. ; Duan, P. ; Dorren, H.J.S.
ON-OPCB INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS.......................................................................................................... 687Siokis, Apostolos ; Christodoulopoulos, Konstantinos ; Varvarigos, Emmanouel
SYSTEM LEVEL EVALUATION OF OPTICAL RAM CIRCUITS BASED ON CROSS COUPLED SOAS AND SOA-MZIS IN THE TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAIN ..................................................................... 691
Vyrsokinos, K. ; Vagionas, C. ; Fitsios, D. ; Miliou, A.
GRAPHENE OXIDE MULTILAYER STRUCTURES FOR POLARISATION SELECTION AND OTHER FUNCTIONALITIES IN PLANAR WAVEGUIDE BASED INTEGRATED PHOTONICS ..................... 695
De La Rue, R.M. ; Lim, W.H. ; Yap, Y.K. ; Chong, W.Y. ; Pua, C.H. ; Huang, N.M. ; Ahmad, H.
POLARIZATION STATE CONTROL USING THERMO-OPTIC EFFECT IN ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRIDS WAVEGUIDES ...................................................................................................................... 698
Vicente, C.M.S. ; Lima, P.P. ; de Zea Bermudez, V. ; Carlos, L.D. ; Andre, P.S. ; Ferreira, R.A.S.
RESILIENT OPTICAL INTER-DATA-CENTER NETWORK DESIGN .................................................................. 702Kantarci, Burak ; Mouftah, Hussein T.
AVAILABILITY ASPECTS OF SELF-HEALING OPTICAL NODES DESIGNED BY ARCHITECTURE ON DEMAND ................................................................................................................................... 706
Mikac, Branko ; Dzanko, Matija ; Furdek, Marija ; Hugues-Salas, Emilio ; Zervas, Georgios ; Simeonidou, Dimitra
SOFT PROTECTION IN OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH VARIABLE-CODE-RATE TRANSCEIVERS .............................................................................................................................................................. 710
Mello, D.A.A. ; Lima, T.C. ; Rozental, V.N. ; Barreto, A.N.
PROACTIVE RESTORATION OF SLOW-FAILURES IN OPTICAL NETWORKS .............................................. 714Siracusa, Domenico ; Pederzolli, Federico ; Salvadori, Elio ; Cigno, Renato Lo ; Monroy, Idelfonso Tafur
VULNERABILITIES AND SECURITY ISSUES IN OPTICAL NETWORKS .......................................................... 718Furdek, Marija ; Skorin-Kapov, Nina ; Zsigmond, Szilard ; Wosinska, Lena
RESTORING OPTICAL CLOUD SERVICES USING RELOCATION..................................................................... 722Monti, Paolo ; Natalino, Carlos ; Ahmed, Jawwad ; Wosinska, Lena ; Frances, Renato
INVESTIGATION OF A ROBUST REMOTE HETERODYNE ENVELOPE DETECTOR SCHEME FOR COST-EFFICIENT E-PON / 60 GHZ WIRELESS INTEGRATION................................................................. 723
Mikroulis, Spiros ; Thakur, Manoj P. ; Mitchell, John E.
DWDM-PON/MM-WAVE WIRELESS CONVERGED NEXT GENERATION ACCESS TOPOLOGY USING COHERENT HETERODYNE DETECTION ........................................................................... 727
Thakur, M.P. ; Mikroulis, S. ; Renaud, C.C. ; Mitchell, J.E. ; Stohr, A.
HETEROGENEOUS 60 GHZ / 5 GHZ BROADBAND OPTICAL WIRELESS SYSTEMS SUPPORTING DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION ........................................................................................ 730
Miliou, Amalia ; Tsiokos, Dimitris ; Mitsolidou, Charoula ; Kalfas, George ; Pleros, Nikos
TWO SUB-CARRIERS MULTIPLEXED MILLIMETER WAVE GENERATION USING MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATORS............................................................................................................................................ 734
Niknamfar, M. ; Shadaram, M.
LTE SIGNALS TRANSMISSION WITH MODULATION EFFICIENCY AND ROBUSTNESS AGAINST CHROMATIC DISPERSION IMPROVED BASED ON DEMZM MODULATION IN CLOUD-ROF ACCESS NETWORKS ............................................................................................................................ 738
Almeida, Paulo ; Silva, Henrique
NANOWIRES INSIDE OPTICAL FIBERS — A NEW BASE FOR NANOPHOTONICS ....................................... 742Schmidt, M.A.
SPECTRAL OVERLAP DEPENDENCE OF ENHANCED ENERGY TRANSFER NEAR SMALL AU NANOPARTICLES .................................................................................................................................................... 745
Marocico, Cristian A. ; Zhang, Xia ; Bradley, A.Louise
PHYSICS AND ADVANCED SIMULATIONS OF PHOTONIC AND PLASMONIC STRUCTURES .................. 749Richter, Ivan ; Kwiecien, Pavel ; Fiala, Jan ; PetraCek, Jifi ; Eksioglu, Yasa ; Kuzmiak, Vladimir ; Ctyroky, Jifi
POLARIZED METAL/SEMICONDUCTOR SOURCES BASED ON CONFINED TAMM PLASMONS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 758
Symonds, C. ; Lheureux, G. ; Azzini, S. ; Lemaitre, A. ; Senellart, P. ; Bellessa, J.
BIOFUNCTIONALIZED SURFACE-PLASMON OPTICAL FIBER GRATING SENSORS .................................. 759Voisin, Valerie ; Megret, Patrice ; Caucheteur, Christophe
DEVELOPMENT OF HYBRID SOLID AND HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER WITH SOFT GLASS DEPOSITION FOR INFRARED LIGHT MANIPULATION................................................. 763
Vlachos, K. ; Vasileiadis, T. ; Dracopoulos, V. ; Markos, C. ; Kakarantzas, G. ; Yannopoulos, S.N.
SINGLE-MODE POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS ......................................................................................................... 769Caspary, Reinhard ; Zaremba, Daniel ; Evert, Robert ; Schutz, Simon ; Mohl, Sophia ; Cichosch, Alexander ; Johannes, Hans-Hermann ; Kowalsky, Wolfgang
FEMTOSECOND PULSED LASER FABRICATED NANOCOMPOSITE PHOTONIC MATERIALS ON SILICON ............................................................................................................................................ 773
Murray, Matthew ; Jayakrishnan, C. ; Kakkar, T. ; Richards, B. ; Jha, A. ; Jose, G.
PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDE ENGINEERING USING PULSED LASERS — A NOVEL APPROACH FOR NON-CLEAN ROOM FABRICATION!................................................................................................................ 776
Jha, A. ; Jose, G. ; Murray, M. ; Irannejad, M. ; Zhao, Z. ; Fernandez, T.T. ; Hogg, R.A. ; Zhang, Z.Y. ; Bamiedakis, N. ; Plenty, R.V. ; White, I.H.
LINEAR AND NONLINEAR PROPERTIES OF CHALCOGENIDE GLASSES IN THE TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY .......................................................................................................................................... 780
Zalkovskij, M. ; Malureanu, R. ; Popescu, A. ; Strikwerda, A.C. ; Iwaszczuk, K. ; Savastru, D. ; Lavrinenko, A.V. ; Jepsen, P.U.
SIMRSA: AN EDUCATION TOOL FOR NETWORK PLANNING IN SPECTRUM-SLICED ELASTIC OPTICAL PATH NETWORKS .................................................................................................................... 782
Santos, A.F. ; Couto, G.S. ; Manicoba, R.H.C. ; Assis, K.D.R. ; Almeida, R.C.
A TABU SEARCH ALGORITHM FOR ROUTING AND SPECTRUM ALLOCATION IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS ................................................................................................................................ 786
Goscien, Roza ; Klinkowski, Miroslaw ; Walkowiak, Krzysztof
INFLUENCE OF TOPOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY FOR TRANSPORT IN OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH AMPLIFIED PHOTONIC SWITCHES ..................................................................................... 790
Martins, Y. ; Barbosa, F.Rudge ; Martins, I.B. ; Moschim, E.
HYBRID SWITCHING IN MODULAR DATA VORTEX OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION NETWORK........................................................................................................................................................................ 794
Yang, Qimin
MITIGATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE VARIATION EFFECTS USING FUZZY SYSTEMS AND SOURCE-MATCHED SPREADING CODES FOR OCDMA NETWORKS................................. 798
dos Reis, Jose V. ; Raddo, Thiago R. ; Sanches, Anderson L. ; Borges, Ben-Hur V.
SIMULATION OF MODULATION FORMATS FOR OPTICAL ACCESS NETWORK BASED ON WDM-PON......................................................................................................................................................................... 802
Latal, Jan ; Vitasek, Jan ; Koudelka, Petr ; Siska, Petr ; Poboril, Radek ; Hajek, Lukas ; Vanderka, Ales ; Vasinek, Vladimir
HARDWARE COST AND CAPACITY ANALYSIS OF FUTURE TDM- AND WDM-PON ACCESS NETWORKS...................................................................................................................................................................... 809
Czekus, Jozsef ; Megyesi, Peter ; Mitcsenkov, Attila ; Mazroa, Daniel
EFFICIENT INTER-ONU COMMUNICATION IN RING-BASED WDM-PONS .................................................... 813Monoyios, Demetris ; Hadjiantonis, Antonis ; Vlachos, Kyriakos ; Ellinas, Georgios
THROUGHPUT EVALUATION OF MULTIRATE, MULTISERVICE 2-D OCDMA PACKET NETWORKS...................................................................................................................................................................... 817
Raddo, Thiago R. ; Sanches, Anderson L. ; dos Reis, Jose V. ; Borges, Ben-Hur V.
HIGHLY EFFICIENT FFH-OCDMA PACKET NETWORK WITH COHERENT ADVANCED MODULATION FORMATS ............................................................................................................................................ 821
Sanches, Anderson L. ; Raddo, Thiago R. ; dos Reis, Jose V. ; Borges, Ben-Hur V.
REVIEW OF SELECTED ALGORITHMS IN THE METHOD ENERGY EVENING ALGORITHM IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK ............................................................................................................................ 825
Boniewicz, Miroslaw ; Kozlowska, Anna ; Zawadzka, Anna ; Lukasiak, Zbigniew ; Zielinski, Marek
HIGH SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY MULTI-BAND RADIO OVER FIBER SYSTEM FOR NEXT GENERATION NETWORK ............................................................................................................................................ 829
Rebhi, Sarra ; Barrak, Rim ; Hraghi, Abir ; Menif, Mourad
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON DVB-T OVER CATV-ROF CONSTRAINTS IN LONG HAUL PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS..................................................................................................................... 833
Tripaldi, Giuseppe ; Di Bartolo, Silvia ; Betti, Silvello ; Pizzoleo, Angelo ; Matera, Francesco
DETERMINATION OF POSSIBILITIES OF SI PLASTIC FIBER APPLICATION IN PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK..................................................................................................................................................... 837
Beres-Pawlik, E. ; Sliwa, M. ; Pajewski, L. ; Budzyn, G.
ADAPTIVE CHANNEL IDENTIFICATION IN OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS................... 840Glentis, George-Othon ; Georgoulakis, Kristina ; Angellopoulos, Kostas
OPTIMIZATION OF OPTICAL FLAT COMB SOURCE BASED ON DUAL-ARM MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATOR FOR FLEXGRID TERABIT SUPERCHANNEL WDM-NYQUIST SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 844
Hraghi, Abir ; Menif, Mourad ; Ben Abid, Samir
ENHANCING BPSK AND OOK MODULATIONS USING HYBRID 2BPSK-OOK TECHNIQUE FOR OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ......................................................................................... 848
Selmy, Hossam ; Ismail, Tawfik ; Shalaby, Hossam M.H.
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HYBRID TDFA-EDFA AND HYBRID EDFA-TDFA CONFIGURATIONS FOR 96 CHANNELS DWDM SYSTEM FOR S+C BANDS ................................................... 853
Kaur, Inderpreet ; Gupta, Neena
IMPACT OF SPECTRAL WIDTH ON SIGNAL TRANSMISSION DISTANCE IN ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORK..................................................................................................................................................... 857
Martins, I.B. ; Castanon, Gerardo ; Lezama, Fernando ; Aldaya, Ivan
TOWARDS 1 TBIT/S SOA BASED 1310 NM TRANSMISSION FOR LAN/DATA CENTER APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 860
Mazurek, Pawel ; de Waardt, Huug ; Turkiewicz, Jaroslaw Piotr
PRECISE TIME TRANSFER INFRASTRUCTURE OVER HETEROGENEOUS FIBRE ENVIRONMENT .............................................................................................................................................................. 864
Vojtech, Josef ; Smotlacha, Vladimir
PERFORMANCE OF NONLINEAR AMPLITUDE REGENERATORS IN OPTICAL NETWORKS .................. 867Marhic, Michel ; Namiki, Shu
USE OF THE RGBY MODEL FOR INDOOR MOBILE VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION ......................... 871Hejduk, Stanislav ; Witas, Karel ; Latal, Jan ; Vitasek, Jan ; Bocheza, Jiri
HYBRID UNDERWATER OPTICAL/ACOUSTIC LINK DESIGN ........................................................................... 875Johnson, Laura J. ; Green, Roger J. ; Leeson, Mark S.
PACKET LOSS RECOVERY IN AN INDOOR FREE SPACE OPTICS LINK USING RATELESS CODES ............................................................................................................................................................................... 879
Pernice, R. ; Ando, A. ; Musso, D. ; Parisi, A. ; Mangione, S. ; Curcio, L. ; Stivala, S. ; Busacca, A.C.
VOLUME 2
CHANNEL MODELS FOR RADIO ON VISIBLE LIGHT (ROVL) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM .................... 883
Vijay, Arnesh ; Green, Roger J.
MISALIGNMENT LOSS OF FREE SPACE OPTIC LINK ......................................................................................... 887Vitasek, Jan ; Leitgeb, Erich ; David, Tomas ; Latal, Jan ; Hejduk, Stanislav
OPTIMUM CSPR EVALUATION OF HETERODYNE ENVELOPE RECEIVERS IN OFDM-PONS ................. 892Behnam Shariati, M. ; Cano, Ivan N. ; Santos, Maria C.
42.8 GB/S SSB DD MB-OFDM METRO NETWORKS ASSISTED BY VIRTUAL CARRIERS: SYSTEM PARAMETERS OPTIMIZATION ................................................................................................................ 896
Cartaxo, Adolfo V.T. ; Alves, Tiago M.F. ; Mendes, Luis M.M.
DESIGN OF AWG-BASED ARBITRARILY SHAPED MULTIPLEXERS ............................................................... 900Cincotti, Gabriella
ON THE PERFORMANCE OF BLOCK TRANSMISSION SCHEMES IN OPTICAL CHANNELS WITH A GAUSSIAN PROFILE ...................................................................................................................................... 904
Wolf, Mike ; Cheema, Sher Ali ; Haardt, Martin ; Grobe, Liane
HIGH SPECTRAL EFFICIENCY OFDM BASED ON COMPLEX WAVELET PACKETS .................................. 912Ben-Ezra, Y. ; Brodeski, D. ; Lembrikov, B.I.
ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING OF OTDM AND OFDM SIGNALS BASED ON TIME-DOMAIN OPTICAL FOURIER TRANSFORMATION .............................................................................................. 915
Clausen, A.T. ; Guan, P. ; Mulvad, H.C.Hansen ; Galili, K.M.Roge M. ; Oxenlowe, L.K.
ANALYTICAL MODELLING FOR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF DISTORTION-IMPAIRED DIRECT-DETECTION SINGLE-SIDEBAND OPTICAL OFDM SYSTEMS EMPLOYING VIRTUAL-CARRIERS ........................................................................................................................... 919
Cruz, Pedro E.D. ; Alves, Tiago M.F. ; Cartaxo, Adolfo V.T.
TOWARDS SILICON ALL-OPTICAL NANOPHOTONIC CIRCUITRY ................................................................ 923Andonegui, Imanol ; Calvo, Isidro ; Garcia-Adeva, Angel J.
FABRICATION OF NOVEL INTEGRATED COMPONENTS FOR NEXT-GENERATION OPTICAL NETWORKS USING THE FEMTOSECOND-LASER DIRECT-WRITE TECHNIQUE ..................... 927
Fuerbach, A. ; Gross, S. ; Riesen, N. ; An, H. ; Flemming, S. ; Arriola, A. ; Love, J. ; Withford, M.J.
SCALABILITY OF SILICON PHOTONIC MICRORING BASED SWITCH .......................................................... 931Nikolova, Dessislava ; Hendry, Robert ; Rumley, Sebastien ; Bergman, Keren
SILICON CMOS COMPATIBLE TRANSITION METAL DIOXIDE TECHNOLOGY FOR BOOSTING HIGHLY INTEGRATED PHOTONIC DEVICES WITH DISRUPTIVE PERFORMANCE.............................................................................................................................................................. 935
Sanchis, P. ; Sanchez, L. ; Castera, P. ; Rosa, A. ; Gutierrez, A.M. ; Brimont, A. ; Saint-Girons, G. ; Orobtchouk, R. ; Cueff, S. ; Rojo-Romeo, P. ; Bachelet, R. ; Regreny, P. ; Vilquin, B. ; Dubourdieu, C. ; Letartre, X. ; Grenet, G. ; Penuelas, J. ; Hu, X. ; Louahadj, L. ; Locquet, J.-P. ; Zimmermann, L. ; Marchiori, C. ; Abel, S. ; Fompeyrine, J. ; Hakansson, A.
SILICON PHOTONIC INTEGRATION WITH SUBWAVELENGTH GRATINGS ................................................ 939Schmid, J.H. ; Cheben, P. ; Lapointe, J. ; Xu, D.-X. ; Janz, S. ; Vachon, M. ; Wang, S. ; Bock, P. ; Benedikovic, D. ; Halir, R. ; Ortega-Monux, A. ; Ramos, C.Alonso ; Perez, J.G.Wanguemert ; Molina-Fernandez, I.
NEW RESEARCH AREAS IN THE FIELD OF TERRESTRIAL OPTICAL WIRELESS LINKS......................... 941Wilfert, Otakar ; Poliak, Juraj
OPTICAL NETWORK ARCHITECTURE FOR “ELEPHANT” TRAFFIC ............................................................. 945Chan, Vincent W.S. ; Zheng, Lei ; Huang, Henna ; Zhang, Anny
A CRITICAL REVIEW OF OPENFLOW/SDN-BASED NETWORKS...................................................................... 949de Almeida Amazonas, Jose Roberto ; Santos-Boada, German ; Sole-Pareta, Josep
A STUDY IN CURRENT DYNAMIC FRAGMENTATION-AWARE RSA ALGORITHMS .................................. 954Socrates-Dantas, Joana ; Silveira, Regina Melo ; Careglio, Davide ; Amazonas, Jose Roberto ; Sole-Pareta, Josep ; Ruggiero, Wilson Vicente
OPTICAL PACKET AND CIRCUIT INTEGRATED RING NETWORK WITH WAVELENGTH RESOURCES BOUNDARY CONTROL ........................................................................................................................ 958
Wada, Naoya ; Furukawa, Hideaki ; Miyazawa, Takaya ; Harai, Hiroaki
IMPROVING OBS EFFICIENCY .................................................................................................................................. 962Li, S. ; Wang, M. ; Wong, E.W.M. ; Zukerman, M.
HEURISTICS FOR PON-BASED 5G BACKHAUL DESIGN ..................................................................................... 966Larrabeiti, David ; Umar, Muhammad ; Sanchez, Rafael ; Hernandez, Jose A.
COOPERATIVE 5G SWITCHED AND ADAPTIVE RECEIVER BEAMFORMING FOR FIBRE WIRELESS NETWORKS ................................................................................................................................................ 968
Pitakandage, Tinith ; Milosavljevic, Milos ; Kourtessis, Pandelis ; Senior, John M.
A NOVEL PROTECTION DESIGN FOR OPENFLOW-BASED NETWORKS ....................................................... 972Kitsuwan, Nattapong ; Payne, David B. ; Ruffini, Marco
MICROWAVE BACKHAUL TOPOLOGY PLANNING FOR WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS ..................... 977Li, Yongcheng ; Qiao, Guangyi ; Cai, Anliang ; Shi, Lei ; Zhao, Heming ; Shen, Gangxiang
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS IN A NEXT GENERATION OPTICAL MOBILE BACKHAUL NETWORK........................................................................................................................................................................ 981
Benzaoui, N. ; Pointurier, Y. ; Bonald, T. ; Antona, J.-C. ; Wei, Q. ; Lott, M.
A COMPARISON OF SUBWAVELENGTH OPTICAL SWITCHING NETWORKS FOR LTE MOBILE BACKHAULING ............................................................................................................................................. 985
Pointurier, Yvan ; Uscumlic, Bogdan ; Popescu, Ion ; Gravey, Annie ; Wei, Qing ; Lott, Matthias
RARE-EARTH PHOSPHORS FOR THE CONTROL OF WLED'S COLOUR OUTPUT: STATE OF THE ART ........................................................................................................................................................................... 989
Righini, Giancarlo C. ; Caldino, Ulises ; Falcony, Ciro ; Ferrari, Maurizio ; Pelli, Stefano
PHOTO-SWITCHING DYNAMICS OF AZO-PHENYLCARBAZOLES IN POLYCARBONATE AROUND ß TRANSITION TEMPERATURE............................................................................................................... 993
Seniutinas, G. ; Balcytis, A. ; Tomasiunas, R ; Petruskevicius, R ; Urnikaite, S. ; Getautis, V.
DNA-CTMA COMPLEX FOR APPLICATIONS IN ORGANIC ELECTRONICS: THERMAL ANNEALING PHENOMENA.......................................................................................................................................... 997
Niziol, Jacek ; Sniechowski, Maciek
STUDY OF SMALL-MOLECULE THIN ORGANIC FILMS DEPOSITED ON POROUS SILICON SUBSTRATES ................................................................................................................................................................. 1001
Lukasiak, Zbigniew ; Korcala, Andrzej ; Plociennik, Przemyslaw ; Zawadzka, Anna
NOVEL BENZOFULVENES-BASED POLYMERS: CHARACTERIZATION AND EMPLOYMENT IN FLEXIBLE ELECTROCHROMIC DEVICES......................................................................... 1005
Figa, Viviana ; Oliverio, Valentino ; Principato, Fabio ; Talamo, Maurizio Mastropasqua ; Pinto, Vita ; Martinelli, Carmela ; Cardone, Antonio ; Farinola, Gianluca M. ; Pignataro, Bruno
NLO INVESTIGATIONS OF SELF-ASSEMBLED ORGANOMETALLIC THIN FILMS ................................... 1007Zawadzka, A. ; Karakas, A. ; Plociennik, P. ; Lukasiak, Z. ; Sahraoui, B.
THERMO-OPTICAL EFFECTS IN LARGE MODE AREA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS ........................... 1011Cucinotta, Annamaria ; Coscelli, Enrico ; Poli, Federica ; Selleri, Stefano
DEVELOPMENT OF LARGE CORE HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBRES FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................... 1015
Petrovich, M.N. ; Baddela, N.K. ; Sandoghchi, S.R. ; Wheeler, N.V. ; Hayes, J.R. ; Jung, Y. ; Fokoua, E.Numkam ; Poletti, F. ; Richardson, D.J.
PULSE COMPRESSION WITH LARGE-MODE-AREA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRES ................................. 1019Dombi, Peter
ULTRAFAST SOLITONIC NONLINEAR DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS UTILIZING MULTICOMPONENT GLASS DUAL-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRES ................................................... 1021
Stajanca, P. ; Buczynski, R. ; Andriukaitis, G. ; Balciunas, T. ; Fan, G. ; Baltuska, A. ; Bugar, I.
SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS MADE OF HEAVY METAL OXIDE GLASS................................................................................................................................................. 1025
Buczynski, Ryszard ; Klimczak, Mariusz ; Pysz, Dariusz ; Stepniewski, Grzegorz ; Siwicki, Bartlomiej ; Cimek, Jaroslaw ; Kujawa, Ireneusz ; Stepien, Ryszard
SCHEDULING AND PERFORMANCE OF HYBRID TRAFFIC IN A DATA CENTER OPTICAL CORE SWITCH .............................................................................................................................................................. 1029
Raffaelli, Carla ; Veisllari, Raimena
ALL OPTICAL SWITCHING CONTROL .................................................................................................................. 1033Boudriga, Noureddine ; Sliti, Maha
IMPLEMENTING MISSION CRITICAL SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS ON TOP OF HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS .............................................................................................................................. 1039
Sedlar, Urban ; Sterle, Janez ; Volk, Mojca ; Kos, Andrej ; Bester, Janez
HOW TO CREATE LARGE SCALE OXCS/ROADMS FOR FUTURE NETWORKS .......................................... 1043Sato, Ken-ichi
IMPACT OF OPTICAL FLEXIBILITY AND SUB-BAND SWITCHING ON MULTI-LAYER TRANSPORT NETWORK ARCHITECTURES ......................................................................................................... 1047
Betoule, Christophe ; Thouenon, Gilles ; Pincemin, Erwan ; Song, Mengdi ; Klonidis, Dimitrios ; Tomkos, Ioannis
CONSTANT ENVELOPE COHERENT OPTICAL OFDM TRANSCEIVER FOR ELASTIC UPGRADE OF TRANSPORT NETWORK ................................................................................................................. 1055
Fabrega, Josep M. ; Moreolo, Michela Svaluto ; Jimenez, Felipe ; Chochol, Marcin ; Junyent, Gabriel
HIGH SPEED SILICON-BASED OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES ON 300MM PLATFORM ............................ 1059Vivien, L. ; Marris-Morini, D. ; Virot, L. ; Perez-Galacho, D. ; Rasigade, G. ; Hartmann, J-M. ; Cassan, E. ; Crozat, P. ; Olivier, S. ; Baudot, C. ; Boeuf, F. ; Fedeli, J-M.
SILICON- AND PLASMONICS-BASED NANOPHOTONICS FOR TELECOM AND INTERCONNECTS ........................................................................................................................................................ 1063
Wosinski, Lech ; Lou, Fei ; Thylen, Lars
SILICON PHOTODETECTORS BASED ON INTERNAL PHOTOEMISSION EFFECT: THE CHALLENGE OF DETECTING NEAR INFRARED LIGHT................................................................................... 1064
Casalino, Maurizio ; Coppola, G. ; Iodice, M. ; Rendina, I. ; Sassi, U. ; Lombardo, A. ; Milana, S. ; Sundaram, R.S. ; Ferrari, A.C. ; Sirleto, L.
RECENT RESEARCH PROGRESS ON CAVITY-RESONATOR-INTEGRATED GUIDED-MODE RESONANCE DEVICES................................................................................................................................................ 1068
Ura, Shogo ; Inoue, Junichi ; Kintaka, Kenji
PASSIVE AND ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMER PHOTONICS AND INP ELECTRONICS INTEGRATION FOR MULTI-FLOW TERABIT TRANSCEIVERS AT EDGE SDN SWITCHES AND DATA-CENTER GATEWAYS ............................................................................................................................ 1072
Avramopoulos, H. ; Katopodis, V. ; Groumas, P. ; Gounaridis, L. ; Konczykowska, A. ; Zhang, Z. ; De Valicourt, G. ; Dinu, R. ; Vannucci, A. ; Johansen, T.K. ; Pagano, A. ; Kouloumentas, Ch.
IN-BAND OSNR MONITORING WITH A HIGH SENSITIVITY SILICON PHOTONICS SYSTEM-ON-CHIP ........................................................................................................................................................ 1076
Annoni, A. ; Melloni, A. ; Strain, M.J. ; Sorel, M. ; Morichetti, F.
STRATEGIES FOR THE INTERCONNECTION OF HETEROGENEOUS OPTICAL NETWORKS ............... 1080de Miguel, Ignacio ; Prieto, Iria ; Duran, Ramon J. ; de Dios, Oscar Gonzalez ; Garcia-Jimenez, Santiago ; Magana, Eduardo ; Ferrero, Antonio ; Izal, Mikel ; Merayo, Noemi ; Morato, Daniel ; Lorenzo, Ruben M.
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AN ALL-OPTICAL OCS/OPS-BASED NETWORK FOR INTRA-DATA CENTER CONNECTIVITY SERVICES ........................................................................................... 1084
Pages, Albert ; Jimenez, Sergio ; Perello, Jordi ; Spadaro, Salvatore
TRENDS IN OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES .................................. 1088Sabella, Roberto ; Bianchi, Alberto ; Bottari, Giulio ; Cavaliere, Fabio ; Iovanna, Paola ; Testa, Francesco
EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF A SCALABLE AND FLOW-CONTROLLED OPTICAL SWITCH SYSTEM FOR FLAT DATACENTER NETWORKS................................................................................ 1092
Calabretta, Nicola ; Miao, Wang ; Luo, Jun ; Di Lucente, Stefano ; Dorren, Harm
ENERGY-EFFICIENT OPTICAL PACKET SWITCH WITH RECIRCULATING FIBER DELAY LINE BUFFERS FOR DATA CENTER INTERCONNECTS .................................................................................... 1096
Wang, Jingyan ; McArdle, Conor ; Barry, Liam P.
BLOCKING PERFORMANCE OF METROPOLITAN OPTICAL NETWORKS EQUIPPED WITH LOW COMPLEXITY INTEGRATED OTN/WDM SWITCHES .............................................................................. 1100
Eramo, V. ; Listanti, M. ; Lavacca, F.G. ; Testa, F. ; Sabella, R.
GREEN OPTICAL/WIRELESS IN-BUILDING NETWORKS: THE PHYSICS OF DESIGN .............................. 1104Kazovsky, Leonid ; Gowda, Apurva S. ; Dhaini, Ahmad R. ; Yang, Hejie ; Abraha, Solomon T. ; Ng'oma, Anthony
HYBRID FIBRE INFRASTRUCTURES FOR CLOUD RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS ...................................... 1111Monteiro, Paulo P. ; Gameiro, Atilio
TECHNO-ECONOMICS AND PERFORMANCE OF CONVERGENT RADIO AND FIBRE ARCHITECTURES ........................................................................................................................................................ 1115
Bock, Carlos ; Ferrer, Jordi ; Parker, Michael C. ; Walker, Stuart D. ; Mendes, Tiago ; Marques, Victor ; Jungnickel, Volker ; Habel, Kai ; Levi, David
SOFTWARE-DEFINED OPEN ARCHITECTURE FOR FRONT- AND BACKHAUL IN 5G MOBILE NETWORKS .................................................................................................................................................. 1119
Jungnickel, Volker ; Habel, Kai ; Parker, Michael ; Walker, Stuart ; Bock, Carlos ; Riera, Jordi Ferrer ; Marques, Victor ; Levi, David
INSIDE SMART FIWI-HETNETS AND THE EXPLOSION OF MOBILE DATA TRAFFIC .............................. 1123Maier, Martin ; Verikoukis, Christos
MULTICORE FIBER OPPORTUNITIES FOR CENTRALIZED RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS ..................... 1127Gasulla, Ivana ; Perez, Joaquin
EFFECT OF METAL COMPLEXATION ON THE NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE IN CONJUGATED LIGANDS ............................................................................................................................................ 1131
Sahraoui, Bouchta ; Kerasidou, Ariadne P. ; Khammar, Farida ; Iliopoulos, Konstantinos ; Ayadi, Awatef ; El-Ghayoury, Abdelkrim
THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS OF SECOND AND THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITIES AND THEIR CORRESPONDING HYPERPOLARIZABILITIES OF A STYRYLQUINOLINIUM DYE ..................................................................................................................................... 1133
Karakas, A. ; Ceylan, Y. ; Bakalska, R. ; Todorova, M. ; Sofiani, Z. ; Sahraoui, B.
THIRD- AND FIFTH-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES CHARACTERIZATION USING THE D4S-Z-SCAN METHOD........................................................................................................................................ 1137
Besse, Valentin ; Cassagne, Christophe ; Leblond, Herve ; Boudebs, Georges
GRAPHENE-BASED PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES FOR LINEAR AND NONLINEAR DEVICES ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1141
Grande, M. ; Vincenti, M.A. ; Stomeo, T. ; Bianco, G.V. ; de Ceglia, D. ; Magno, G. ; Petruzzelli, V. ; Bruno, G. ; De Vittorio, M. ; Scalora, M. ; D'Orazio, A.
NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE OF GRAPHENE DERIVATIVES................................................................ 1145Couris, S. ; Liaros, N.
TWIN-BEAM PARAMETRIC PROCESSES IN NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS ................................... 1149Gallo, Katia ; Stensson, Katarina ; Levenius, Martin ; Swillo, Marcin ; Bjork, Gunnar ; Conforti, Matteo
ENHANCEMENT OF SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION IN SELF-SUSPENDED LITHIUM NIOBATE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES .......................................................................................................... 1153
Diziain, Severine ; Geiss, Reinhard ; Zilk, Matthias ; Schrempel, Frank ; Kley, Ernst-Bernhard ; Tunnermann, Andreas ; Pertsch, Thomas
SELF-COLLIMATION IN MESOSCOPIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS: FROM REFLECTIVITY MANAGEMENT TO STABLE PLANAR CAVITIES ................................................................................................ 1157
Magno, G. ; Monmayrant, A. ; Grande, M. ; Calo, G. ; Petruzelli, V. ; Gauthier-Lafaye, O.
DYNAMIC CONTROL OF SLOW LIGHT PULSES IN PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES ..................... 1161Baba, T. ; Kondo, K.
SILICON PHOTONICS FOR OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS.................................................................................. 1165Gardes, Frederic ; Debnath, Kapil ; O'Faolain, Liam
ON THE COMPLEX SCHEDULING FORMULATION OF VIRTUAL NETWORK FUNCTIONS OVER OPTICAL NETWORKS .................................................................................................................................... 1168
Riera, Jordi Ferrer ; Hesselbach, Xavier ; Escalona, Eduard ; Garcia-Espin, Joan A. ; Grasa, Eduard
DEADLOCK AVOIDANCE UNDER INCREMENTAL TRAFFIC IN THE ELASTIC SINGLE LINK................................................................................................................................................................................. 1173
Waldman, H. ; Almeida, R.C. ; Bortoletto, R.C. ; Assis, K.D.R.
CAN SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS TURN IMPRACTICAL OPTICAL FUNCTIONALITIES INTO NETWORK-SAVERS? .................................................................................................. 1177
Ware, Cedric ; Lourdiane, Mounia ; Samoud, Wiem
HYBRID RESOURCE RESERVATION SCHEME FOR TRANSPARENT INTEGRATION OF ACCESS AND CORE OPTICAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS................................................................................. 1181
Orphanoudakis, Theofanis G. ; Kosmatos, Evangelos A. ; Matrakidis, Chris ; Stavdas, Alexandros ; Leligou, Helen-Catherine
COST-EFFECTIVE ADAPTIVE OPTICAL NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES FOR METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS...................................................................................................................... 1185
Glentis, George-Othon ; Politi, Christina Tanya ; Matrakidis, Chris ; Nanou, Maki ; Uzunidis, Dimitrios ; Georgoulakis, Kristina ; Stavdas, Alexandros
FEMTOJOULE MODULATION AND FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION IN SILICON-ORGANIC HYBRID (SOH) DEVICES ........................................................................................................................ 1189
Koos, C. ; Leuthold, J. ; Freude, W. ; Dalton, L.R. ; Koeber, S. ; Palmer, R. ; Weimann, C. ; Elder, D.L. ; Heni, W. ; Korn, D. ; Pfeifle, J. ; Wolf, S. ; Bekele, D. ; Woessner, M. ; Alloatti, L. ; Schindler, P.C. ; Koenig, S.
DESIGN AND LENGTH OPTIMIZATION OF AN ADIABATIC COUPLER FOR ON-CHIP VERTICAL INTEGRATION OF RARE-EARTH-DOPED DOUBLE TUNGSTATE WAVEGUIDE AMPLIFIERS .................................................................................................................................................................. 1193
Mu, Jinfeng ; Sefunc, Mustafa A. ; Garcia-Blanco, Sonia M.
APPLICATIONS AND LOW COST PROCESSING OF ERBIUM QUINOLINOLATES FOR ACTIVE INTEGRATED PHOTONIC DEVICES ....................................................................................................... 1197
Penna, Stefano ; Mattiello, Leonardo ; Di Bartolo, Silvia ; Pizzoleo, Angelo ; Beleffi, Giorgio Maria Tosi
OPTOELECTRONIC GYROSCOPE BASED ON A HIGH-Q INGAASP/INP RING RESONATOR: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE SYSTEM TEST ............................................................................................... 1201
Dell'Olio, F. ; Indiveri, F. ; Ciminelli, C. ; Armenise, M.N.
INTEGRATED TUNABLE SEMICONDUCTOR RING LASER WITH FAST WAVELENGTH SWITCHING USING FILTERED OPTICAL FEEDBACK....................................................................................... 1205
Khoder, Mulham ; Nguimdo, Romain Modeste ; Leijtens, Xaveer ; Bolk, Jeroen ; Danckaert, Jan ; Verschaffelt, Guy
INDOOR HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS.......................................................................................................................................................... 1209
Cossu, Giulio ; Corsini, Raffaele ; Ciaramella, Ernesto
COHERENT OPTICAL WIRELESS: AN ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR BROADBAND INDOOR COMMUNICATIONS ................................................................................................................................... 1213
Margariti, Katerina ; Kamalakis, Thomas
INDOOR CHANNEL MODELLING AND CHARACTERIZATION FOR VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 1217
Sarbazi, Elham ; Uysal, Murat ; Abdallah, Mohamed ; Qaraqe, Khalid
PRISM ARRAY-BASED RECEIVER WITH APPLICATION IN MIMO INDOOR OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS............................................................................................................................... 1221
Wang, Thomas Q. ; Green, Roger J. ; Armstrong, Jean
POWER DISTRIBUTION OF SHORT FREE SPACE OPTICAL PROPAGATION.............................................. 1225Pezzei, Pirmin ; Wurster, Clemens ; Wollitzer, Michael ; Fuchs, Martin ; Leitgeb, Erich
CAPACITY OF HYBRID WIRED-WIRELESS OFDM LR-PONS LIMITED BY CROSS-PHASE MODULATION............................................................................................................................................................... 1229
Alves, Tiago M.F. ; Cartaxo, Adolfo V.T.
W-BAND OFDM-ROF SYSTEM EMPLOYING OPTICAL UP-CONVERSION ................................................... 1233Lopes, V. ; Laurencio, P. ; Medeiros, M.C.R.
EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF A MULTICARRIER DIGITISED ROF SYSTEM: ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF PRE-DISTORTION TECHNIQUES .......................................... 1237
Oliveira, J.M.B. ; Rodrigues, P.F. ; Salgado, H.M.
DIGITISED RADIO TECHNIQUES FOR FIBRE-WIRELESS APPLICATIONS ................................................. 1241Oliveira, J.M.B. ; Pessoa, L.M. ; Coelho, D. ; Tavares, J.S. ; Salgado, H.M.
DESIGN OF AN ANALOGISER FOR OPTICALLY DIGITISED RADIO-OVER-FIBRE SIGNALS ................. 1245Ribeiro, Ricardo M. ; Silva, Vinicius N.H. ; Barbero, Andres P.L. ; Lucarz, Frederic ; Fracasso, Bruno
GLASS-CERAMICS FOR PHOTONICS: ADVANCES AND PERSPECTIVES .................................................... 1249Lukowiak, Anna ; Vasilchenko, Iustyna ; Normani, Simone ; Chiappini, Andrea ; Chiasera, Alessandro ; Armellini, Cristina ; Duverger, Claire Arfuso ; Boulard, Brigitte ; Wiglusz, Rafal J. ; Pelli, Stefano ; Battisha, Inas K. ; Prudenzano, Francesco ; Righini, Giancarlo C. ; Marciniak, Marian ; Ferrari, Maurizio
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF MICRO-STRUCTURED WAVEGUIDES IN LITHIUM NIOBATE......................................................................................................................................................................... 1253
Dubov, Mykhaylo ; Boscolo, Sonia
PHOTOLUMINESCENCE OF NANOSTRUCTURES WITH INDIRECT BAND GAP ........................................ 1257Kral, Karel ; Mensi, Miroslav
NOVEL DILUTE INPBI FOR IR EMITTERS ............................................................................................................ 1261Wang, Shumin ; Wang, Kai ; Gu, Yi ; Pan, Wenwu ; Wu, Xiaoyan ; Zhang, Liyao ; Li, Yaoyao ; Gong, Qian
AB INITIO SIMULATIONS OF OPTICAL MATERIALS........................................................................................ 1265Quandt, Alexander ; Warmbier, Robert
BROADBAND DIRECTIONAL CLOAKING USING GRADED INDEX STRUCTURES .................................... 1269Oner, B.B. ; Can, M.G. ; Kurt, H.
ON 2D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS AND THE SHAPING OF RADIATION DIAGRAMS ....................................... 1273Ceccuzzi, Silvio ; Pajewski, Lara ; Ponti, Cristina ; Schettini, Giuseppe
DESIGN OF SELF-ASSEMBLED PHOTONIC CRYSTALS FOR CHEMICAL SENSING ................................. 1277Hong, Phan Ngoc ; Bourdillon, C. ; Benalloul, P. ; Coolen, L. ; Maitre, A. ; Guennouni-Assimi, Z. ; Farha, R. ; Faure, M-C. ; Goldmann, M. ; Griffete, N. ; Mangeney, C. ; Schwob, C.
PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MEMBRANE RESONATORS: A WEALTH OF NEW PHOTONIC FUNCTIONALITY ......................................................................................................................................................... 1280
Viktorovitch, Pierre ; Letartre, Xavier ; Ben Bakir, Badhise ; Menezo, Sylvie
WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCY OF OUTCOUPLING PEAK INTENSITIES FOR EMISSION LAYERS WITH MULTI-PERIODIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS............................................................................... 1286
Kluge, Christian ; Neustock, Lars Thorben ; Adam, Jost ; Gerken, Martina
LIGHT ABSORPTION AND CARRIER COLLECTION IN THIN-FILM CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS WITH LIGHT TRAPPING .............................................................................................. 1290
Bozzola, Angelo ; Kowalczewski, Piotr ; Liscidini, Marco ; Andreani, Lucio Claudio
DIGITAL EQUALIZATION OF OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES IN VERY HIGH-SPEED OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................ 1294
Pinto, Armando N. ; Guiomar, Fernando P. ; Amado, Sofia B. ; Ziaie, Somayeh ; Shahpari, Ali ; Ferreira, Ricardo ; Muga, Nelson J. ; Teixeira, Antonio L.
NONLINEAR INTERFERENCE NOISE IN FIBRE-OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS ............................................. 1299Shtaif, Mark ; Dar, Ronen ; Feder, Meir ; Mecozzi, Antonio
EFFICIENCY OF REGENERATIVE SCHEMES ...................................................................................................... 1302Sorokina, Mariia ; Turitsyn, Sergei
PARALLEL SIMULATIONS OF OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ...................................................... 1306Karelin, Nikolay ; Shkred, Gena ; Simonov, Alexander ; Mingaleev, Sergei ; Koltchanov, Igor ; Richter, Andre
ENABLING TRANSPARENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHLY GRANULAR FLEXIBLE OPTICAL CROSS-CONNECTS....................................................................................... 1310
Klonidis, D. ; Sygletos, S. ; Marom, D.M. ; Fabbri, S. ; Ellis, A. ; Pincemin, E. ; Betoule, C. ; Thouenon, G. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Baeuerle, B. ; Josten, A. ; Leuthold, J. ; Zhao, J. ; Ben-Ezra, S. ; Ferran, J.F. ; Angelou, M. ; Papastergiou, G. ; Zakynthinos, P. ; Tomkos, I.
DESIGN OF A RELIABLE WDM-PON SYSTEM WITH TRANSMITTER POWERED BY A RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE .............................................................................................................................. 1316
Chandy, Rebecca
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ON THZ CARRIERS TAKES SHAPE ............................................................ 1319Freude, W. ; Koenig, S. ; Lopez-Diaz, D. ; Antes, J. ; Boes, F. ; Henneberger, R. ; Leuther, A. ; Tessmann, A. ; Schmogrow, R. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Palmer, R. ; Zwick, T. ; Koos, C. ; Ambacher, O. ; Leuthold, J. ; Kallfass, I.
ANALYSIS OF THE POLARIZATION DEPENDENCE OF NON-LINEAR EFFECTS USING HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTRALLY-RESOLVED POLARIMETRY ................................................................... 1323
Sevillano, Pascual ; Villafranca, Asier ; Subias, Jesus ; Pelayo, Javier ; Heras, Carlos D.
PASSIVE NONLINEAR PULSE RESHAPING IN OPTICAL FIBERS ................................................................... 1327Sukhoivanov, Igor A. ; Shulika, Oleksiy V. ; Iakushev, Sergii O. ; Lucio, Jose A.Andrade ; Ortiz, Gabriel Ramos
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF RING-RESONATOR BASED OPTICAL BACKPLANE FOR DPSK TRANSMISSION AT 10 GB/S ........................................................................................................................... 1330
Magarini, Maurizio ; Maier, Guido ; Alam, Mehmood
INSTABILITIES AND ROGUE WAVES IN NON-LINEAR FIBER OPTICS ........................................................ 1334Lacourt, Pierre-Ambroise ; Wetzel, Benjamin ; Genty, Goery ; Dias, Frederic ; Dudley, John
LARGE MODE AREA OPTICAL FIBRES REFRACTIVE INDEX RECONSTRUCTION FROM TOP-HAT MODE NEAR FIELD .................................................................................................................................. 1335
Thraskias, Christos A. ; Boucouvalas, Anthony C.
BEYOND 1MB/S FREE-SPACE OPTICAL QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION ................................................... 1339Cvijetic, Milorad ; Takashima, Yuzuru
LAW SITUATION OF LICENSE EXEMPT FREE SPACE OPTIC BEAMS INFLUENCING PRIVATE PROPERTIES ............................................................................................................................................... 1343
Mandl, P. ; Unterhuber, P. ; Wagner, E. ; Leitgeb, E.
RELIABLE ROUTING AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION SCHEME FOR HYBRID RF/FSO NETWORKS.................................................................................................................................................................... 1348
Rak, Jacek ; Molisz, Wojciech
ORGANIC VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS: RECENT PROGRESS ........................................................ 1352Haigh, Paul Anthony ; Ghassemlooy, Zabih ; Bausi, Francesco ; Papakonstantinou, Ioannis ; Le Minh, Hoa ; Tedde, Sandro Francesco ; Hayden, Oliver ; Cacialli, Franco
OUTAGE PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF MTH BEST PATH SELECTION PROTOCOL IN FSO COMMUNICATIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 1357
Zhalehpour, Sasan ; Uysal, Murat
FLEXIBLE HIGH POWER FREE SPACE OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR AIRCRAFT TO GROUND COMMUNICATIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 1361
Hatziefremidis, Antonis ; Zarganis, Konstantinos E. ; Zoiros, Kyriakos E.
ELECTRO-OPTIC DEVICES FOR IMAGING SYSTEMS USING RADIO-OVER-FIBRE ................................. 1365Kawanishi, Tetsuya ; Yamamoto, Naokatsu ; Umezawa, Toshimasa ; Akahane, Kouichi ; Kanno, Atsushi ; Dat, Pham Tien
OPTICAL INJECTION IN SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS FOR RF SIGNAL GENERATION............................ 1369Hurtado, Antonio
TRANSPARENT WIRELESS ACCESS TO OPTICAL WDM NETWORKS USING A NOVEL COHERENT RADIO-OVER-FIBER (CROF) APPROACH ...................................................................................... 1370
Stohr, Andreas ; Mitchell, John E. ; Leiba, Yigal
ROF USING OPTICALLY EQUALIZED RSOA WDM-PON ARCHITECTURE.................................................. 1372Hailay, Abraham ; Bottoni, Fabio ; Ciaramella, Ernesto
SIMULTANEOUS GENERATION OF WDM PON AND ROF SIGNALS USING A HYBRID MODE-LOCKED LASER .............................................................................................................................................. 1376
Aldaya, Ivan ; Campuzano, Gabriel ; Gosset, Christophe ; Castanon, Gerardo
HYBRID SILICON PHOTONICS USING OXIDE-FREE BONDING AND NANOSTRUCTURED EFFECTIVE MATERIALS ........................................................................................................................................... 1380
Benisty, Henri ; Bougot-Robin, K. ; Hugonin, J.-P ; Besbes, M. ; Pang, C. ; Talneau, A.
PLASMON EXCITATION AND INDUCED EMISSION WITH A PLASMONIC SELF-ORGANIZED CRYSTAL............................................................................................................................................... 1384
Frederich, Hugo ; Lethiec, Clotilde ; Wen, Fangfang ; Laverdant, Julien ; Schwob, Catherine ; Popescu, Traian ; Douillard, Ludovic ; Coolen, Laurent ; Maitre, Agnes
PULSED LASER DEPOSITION (PLD) OF HAFNIUM OXIDE THIN FILMS....................................................... 1388Plociennik, Przemyslaw ; Zawadzka, Anna ; Strzelecki, Janusz ; Lukasiak, Zbigniew ; Korcala, Andrzej
ASYMMETRIC TRANSMISSION FROM A 2D PT-SYMMETRIC HONEYCOMB NANOSTRUCTURE ....................................................................................................................................................... 1391
Botey, M. ; Herrero, R. ; Turduev, M. ; Zhao, D. ; Giden, I. ; Kurt, H. ; Staliunas, K.
OPTICAL ANTENNAS AT THE MESOSCOPIC SCALE......................................................................................... 1395Degiron, Aloyse ; Teperik, Tatiana V. ; Le-Van, Quynh ; Le Roux, Xavier
BIOMIMETIC OPTIC DESIGNS FOR ADVANCED OPTOELECTRONICS ....................................................... 1397Song, Young Min
ROOM TEMPERATURE BLOCH SURFACE WAVE POLARITONS ................................................................... 1401Liscidini, Marco ; Pirotta, Stefano ; Patrini, Maddalena ; Galli, Matteo ; Dacarro, Giacomo ; Canazza, Giancarlo ; Guizzetti, Giorgio ; Comoretto, Davide ; Bajoni, Daniele
FLOQUET MULTIPLIERS FOR BLOCH WAVES IN ABSORPTIVE AND NON-ABSORPTIVE PHOTONIC CRYSTALS ............................................................................................................................................... 1405
Morozov, G.V. ; Sprung, D.W.L.
PHOTONIC-MAGNONIC STRUCTURES.................................................................................................................. 1409Klos, J.W. ; Krawczyk, M. ; Dadoenkova, Yu.S. ; Dadoenkova, N.N. ; Lyubchanskii, I.L.
A PHOXONIC CRYSTAL: PHOTONIC AND PHONONIC BANDGAPS IN A 1D OPTOMECHANICAL CRYSTAL ................................................................................................................................ 1410
Gomis-Bresco, Jordi ; Navarro-Urrios, Daniel ; Oudich, Mourad ; El-Jallal, Said ; Griol, Amadeu ; Puerto, Daniel ; Chavez, Emigdio ; Pennec, Yan ; Djafari-Rouhani, Bahram ; Alzina, Francesc ; Martinez, Alejandro ; Torres, C.M.Sotomayor
GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF ULTRAHIGH-Q H0 PHOTONIC CRYSTAL NANOCAVITY IN SILICON .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1414
Houdre, R. ; Dharanipathy, U. ; Minkov, M. ; Tonin, M. ; Savona, V.
BAND STRUCTURE OF PHOTONIC CRYSTALS AND OPTICAL BLOCH OSCILLATIONS......................... 1417Gozman, Michael ; Polishchuk, Ilya
DESIGN OF REFRACTION BEAM SHAPER FOR FSO TRANSMITTER ........................................................... 1421Barcik, Peter ; Leitgeb, Erich ; Wilfert, Otakar
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF SAGNAC LOOP INCORPORATING A SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER TO SUPPRESS THE UNMODULATED OPTICAL CARRIER IN THE TIME DOMAIN .............................................................................................................................................................. 1425
Ribeiro, Ricardo M. ; Silva, Vinicius N.H. ; Barbero, Andres P.L. ; Lucarz, Frederic ; Fracasso, Bruno
SENSING CAPABILITY OF MULTICORE FIBRE .................................................................................................. 1429Sojka, L. ; Pajewski, L. ; Sliwa, M. ; Mergo, P. ; Benson, T.M. ; Sujecki, S. ; Beres-Pawlik, E.
SENSOR MONITORING SYSTEM WITH EMBEDDED FBGS .............................................................................. 1432Madry, Mateusz ; Markowski, Konrad ; Jedrzejewski, Kazimierz ; Beres-Pawlik, Elzbieta
CW CLADDING PUMPED PHOSPHATE GLASS FIBRE LASER OPERATING AT 1.054 µM ......................... 1436Boetti, Nadia Giovanna ; Lousteau, Joris ; Mura, Emanuele ; Abrate, Silvio ; Milanese, Daniel
REDUCTION OF STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING IN A FIBER DUE TO FOUR-WAVE MIXING BETWEEN TWO CLOSELY-SPACED PUMPS ........................................................................... 1440
Lei, Gordon K.P. ; Marhic, M.E.
REPETITIVELY ACTIVELY GAIN-SWITCHED STRONGLY ASYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDE LASER DIODE FOR HIGH BRIGHTNESS PICOSECOND PULSE GENERATION ........................................... 1444
Avrutin, E.A. ; Ryvkin, B.S. ; Kostamovaara, J.T.
INTEGRATED ALL-OPTICAL 2-BIT DECODER BASED ON SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS .................................................................................................................................................................. 1448
Cabezon, Miguel ; Sotelo, Felix ; Altabas, Jose Antonio ; Garces, Juan Ignacio ; Villafranca, Asier
A POSSIBILITY TO ACHIEVE EMISSION IN THE MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTH RANGE FROM SEMICONDUCTOR LASER ACTIVE REGIONS ........................................................................................ 1452
Piskorski, Lukasz ; Frasunkiewicz, Leszek ; Sokol, Adam K. ; Sarzala, Robert P.
OPTIMIZATION OF GLASS PROPERTIES FOR ALL SOLID PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS .................... 1456Cimek, Jaroslaw ; Stepien, Ryszard ; Stepniewski, Grzegorz ; Pietrzyk, Izabela ; Klimczak, Mariusz ; Buczynska, Ryszard
INFLUENCE OF THE METAL ATOM AND THE SUBSTITUENTS ON THE THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE OF SOME METAL DITHIOLENES........................................................... 1460
Aloukos, P. ; Papagiannouli, I. ; Liaros, N. ; Couris, S.
NEAR-INFRARED NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE OF SOME CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIALS ....................................................................................................................................................... 1464
Papagiannouli, Irene ; Aloukos, Panagiotis ; Akriotou, M. ; Couris, Stelios
NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE OF POLYMER/PD NANOPARTICLE SYSTEMS ................................... 1468Papagiannouli, Irene ; Aloukos, Panagiotis ; Couris, Stelios
THIRD-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF SOME NOVEL BODIPYS ................................... 1471Potamianos, D. ; Giannakopoulou, P. ; Kaloudi-Chantzea, A. ; Pistolis, G. ; Couris, S.
NUMERICAL CALCULATION OF NONLINEAR-OPTICAL INTERACTION OF GOLD NANOPARTICLE AND ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY PROBE ...................................................................... 1474
Ilin, Nikolay V. ; Yashunin, Dmitry A. ; Stepanov, Andrey N. ; Smirnov, Alexander I.
Z-SCAN DETERMINATION AND AB-INITIO COMPUTATIONS ON THIRD-ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES OF A STYRYLQUINOLINIUM DYE ....................................................................................... 1477
Karakas, A. ; Sofiani, Z. ; Ceylan, Y. ; Taser, M. ; Bakalska, R. ; Todorova, M. ; Sahraoui, B.
ADMITTANCE SPECTROSCOPY FOR PLANAR AND ACROSS MEASURE CONFIGURATION OF METAL/POROUS SILICON/SI STRUCTURES .................................................................................................. 1481
Korcala, Andrzej ; Lukasiak, Zbigniew ; Zawadzka, Anna ; Plociennik, Przemyslaw ; Bala, Waclaw ; Boniewiez, Miroslaw
NOVEL PROSPECTS IN HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS: DYAKONOV-LIKE SURFACE WAVES ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1484
Zapata-Rodriguez, Carlos J. ; Sorni, J.Aitor ; Vukovic, Slobodan ; Martinez, Luis E. ; Caballero, Maria T. ; Miret, Juan J.
NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SHORT AU NANORODS................................... 1488Diaz, Carlos ; Zapata-Rodriguez, Carlos J. ; Miret, Juan J. ; Abargues, Rafael ; Martinez-Marco, Mar Luz ; Rodriguez-Canto, Pedro ; Martinez, Juan P.
WAVEGUIDE MODULATED PHOTONIC MOLECULES WITH METALLIC CONFINEMENT .................... 1491Che, Kai-Jun
DETECTING ORGANIC MOLECULES USING AU NANOPARTICLE DIMERS WITH SUPRAMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS .................................................................................................................... 1494
Fraire, Juan C. ; Ocello, Valeria N.Sueldo ; Allende, Leandro ; Veglia, Alicia V. ; Coronado, Eduardo A.
COUPLED GUIDED MODES LASING IN HOLLOW HEXAGONAL CAVITIES WITH AN INTERNAL HEXAGON................................................................................................................................................. 1497
Moon, Hee-Jong ; Hyun, Kyung-Sook
ENHANCED CHIROPTICAL PROPERTIES OF A HYBRID MATERIAL CONSISTING OF J-AGGREGATES AND SILVER NANOPARTICLES................................................................................................... 1501
Melnikau, D. ; Savateeva, D. ; Gun'ko, Y.K. ; Rakovich, Y.P.
OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF HOLLOW POLYMER MICROSPHERES LOADED WITH SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS ..................................................................................................................... 1505
Savateeva, D. ; Melnikau, D. ; McCarthy, J.E. ; Purcell-Milton, F. ; Gerard, V. ; McCloskey, D. ; Donegan, J. ; Gun'ko, Y.K. ; Chugunov, S. ; Rusakov, K.I. ; Rakovich, Y.P.
THE RELEVANCE OF DEPHASING IN THZ INTERVALENCE BAND ANTIPOLARITON DISPERSION RELATIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 1508
Faragai, Inuwa A. ; Pereira, Mauro F.
MICROSCOPIC THEORY FOR THE LUMINESCENCE OF MID INFRARED SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS .............................................................................................................................. 1511
Pereira, Mauro F. ; Oriaku, Chijioke I.
THE ECSA PROJECT.................................................................................................................................................... 1513Sporea, Dan ; Sporea, Adelina ; Mihai, Laura ; Stancalie, Andrei
STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF DNA COMPLEXES WITH NEW CATIONIC SURFACTANTS.................. 1517Sniechowski, Maciej ; Niziol, Jacek ; Hebda, Edyta
INFLUENCE OF SILVER THICKNESS ON OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF METAL ISLAND FILMS FABRICATED BY PHYSICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION............................................................................ 1518
Liszewska, Malwina ; Stefaniak, Marek ; Firak, Jozef ; Bartosewicz, Bartosz ; Budner, Bogdan ; Wojciechowski, Tomasz ; Jankiewicz, Bartlomiej J. ; Nyga, Piotr
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS ON THE GENERATION AND AMPLIFICATION OF HIGH POWER SHORT PULSES BY A QUANTUM DOT LASER AND AMPLIFIER......................................... 1521
Weber, C. ; Drzewietzki, L. ; Montrosset, I. ; Syvridis, D. ; Krakowski, M. ; Krestnikov, I. ; Livshits, D. ; Rafailov, E.U. ; Elsaser, W. ; Breuer, S.
ALL-OPTICAL IMAGE PROCESSING BASED ON INTEGRATED OPTICS...................................................... 1524Almeida, L. ; Kumar, N. ; Parca, G. ; Tavares, A. ; Lopes, A. ; Teixeira, A.
ENHANCING SPECTRAL RESPONSE OF ORGANIC PHOTODETECTORS THROUGH SURFACE MODIFICATION OF METAL OXIDE ELECTRODES ........................................................................ 1529
Vasilopoulou, M. ; Georgiadou, D.G. ; Soultati, A. ; Papadimitropoulos, G. ; Argitis, P. ; Alexandropoulos, D. ; Vainos, N. ; Politi, C.T. ; Kamalakis, T. ; Davazoglou, D.
FUNDING YOUR PHOTONIC RESEARCH VIA HORIZON 2020 ......................................................................... 1533Pozo, J. ; van den Dobbelsteen, M.
SUBMARINE OPTICAL NETWORKS: HOW TO MAKE THEM GREENER...................................................... 1535Jurdana, Irena ; Sucic, Victor
FEW-MODE OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS IN THE VISIBLE BAND................................................... 1539Llorente, Roberto ; Morant, Maria ; Garcia-Rodriguez, David ; Medina, Pau ; Corral, Juan Luis ; Almenar, Vicenc
SIMULATIONS OF AIR-GAP MODE FILTERING TECHNIQUE FOR RADIO OVER MULTIMODE FIBER SYSTEM ................................................................................................................................... 1543
Cseh, Tamas ; Meszaros, Gergely ; Fekete, Gabor ; Berceli, Tibor
PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF FREE SPACE OPTICAL MESH NETWORKING WITH AUTO-ORIENTING TRANSCEIVERS ....................................................................................................................... 1546
Ghimire, Rabindra ; Mohan, Seshadri
FIRST EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF REAL-TIME ORCHESTRATION IN A MULTI-HEAD METRO NETWORK........................................................................................................................... 1549
Sadeghioon, Lida ; Gavignet, Paulette ; Triki, Ahmed ; Barbey, Jean-Luc ; Le Rouzic, Esther ; Bramerie, Laurent ; Alaiwan, Vincent ; Borgne, Eric ; Betoule, Christophe ; Arzur, Bernard ; Carer, Arnaud
VECTOR SOLITONS IN MODE LOCKED FIBRE LASERS................................................................................... 1553Sergeyev, Sergey V. ; Mou, Chengbo ; Habruseva, Tatiana ; Tsatourian, Veronika ; Jacobsen, Gunnar ; Popov, Sergei ; Turitsyn, Sergei K.
CONTROL OF HARMONIC MODE-LOCKING IN A FIBER LASER BY CONTINUOUS EXTERNAL OPTICAL INJECTION ........................................................................................................................... 1556
Niang, Alioune ; Amrani, Foued ; Salhi, Mohamed ; Leblond, Herve ; Komarov, Andrey ; Sanchez, Francois
FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMIZATION OF CHARACTERISTICS OF OPTICAL FIBERS SUPPORTING SPATIAL DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ........................................................................................... 1560
Cvijetic, Milorad ; Djordjevic, Ivan B.
MECHANICAL ACTUATION OF RECONFIGURABLE OPTICAL FIBRES ...................................................... 1564Horak, Peter ; Podoliak, Nina ; Lian, Zhenggang ; Segura, Martha ; Feng, Xian ; Loh, Wei H.
MULTI-ELEMENT FIBER FOR SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLEXED OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEM ..................................................................................................................................... 1568
Jain, S. ; Rancano, V.J.F. ; May-Smith, T.C. ; Petropoulos, P. ; Sahu, J.K. ; Richardson, D.J.
UNDERWATER WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RECENT ADVANCES AND REMAINING CHALLENGES....................................................................................................................................... 1572
Khalighi, Mohammad-Ali ; Gabriel, Chadi ; Hamza, Tasnim ; Bourennane, Salah ; Leon, Pierre ; Rigaud, Vincent
OPTICAL PROPAGATION MODELLING USING RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION (RTE)................... 1576Muhammad, S.Sheikh ; Malik, M.Zaman ; Kandus, G.
THE PROSPECTS OF ULTRA-BROADBAND THZ WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS.................................... 1580Yu, Xianbin ; Chen, Ying ; Galili, Michael ; Morioka, Toshio ; Jepsen, Peter Uhd ; Oxenlowe, Leif K.
ON THE PERFORMANCE OF DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION IN THE OPTICAL DOMAIN .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1584
Dobesch, Ales ; Alves, Luis Nero ; Wilfert, Otakar
ATTOSECOND PULSE MEASUREMENTS AND TIME DELAY IN THE IONIZATION OF COULOMB SYSTEMS................................................................................................................................................... 1588
Derbov, Vladimir L. ; Serov, Vladislav V. ; Sergeeva, Tatjana A.
NEAR-FIELD SUBSURFACE ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY AND HOLOGRAPHY ...................... 1595Gaikovich, Konstantin P.
NONLINEAR MICROSCOPY OF METAL NANO-OBJECTS WITH UNCONVENTIONAL POLARIZATIONS.......................................................................................................................................................... 1599
Bautista, Godofredo ; Huttunen, Mikko J. ; Makitalo, Jouni ; Kauranen, Martti
OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY WITH 1310 NM WAVELENGTH WAFER-FUSED VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE-EMITTING LASERS ........................................................................................... 1601
Civis, Svatopluk ; Zelinger, Zdenek ; Ferus, Martin ; Iakovlev, Vladimir ; Sirbu, Alexei ; Kapon, Eli
LAYERED AND CORE-SHELL UNIAXIAL ABSORBERS ..................................................................................... 1604Kotynski, Rafal ; Antosiewicz, Tomasz J. ; Stolarek, Marcin ; Pastuszczak, Anna
STABLE SEQUENTIAL KUHN-TUCKER THEOREM IN ONE-DIMENSIONAL INVERSE PROBLEMS OF DIELECTRIC REFLECTOMETRY ............................................................................................... 1606
Gaikovich, Konstantin P. ; Gaikovich, Petr K. ; Sumin, Mikhail I.
ELECTRICAL DETECTION OF GUIDED LIGHT THOUGH AN OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE BY A SINGLE METALLIC CONTACT................................................................................................................................. 1610
Ishii, Satoshi ; Inoue, Shin-ichiro ; Otomo, Akira
GUIDING OF AIRY BEAMS WITH OPTICALLY INDUCED WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS IN THE NONLINEAR CRYSTAL ............................................................................................................................................... 1612
Lucic, N.M. ; Bokic, B.M. ; Grujic, D. ; Pantelic, D. ; Jelenkovic, B.M. ; Piper, A. ; Jovic, D.M. ; Timotijevic, D.V.
SATURABLE AND DISPERSIVE PARITY-TIME SYMMETRIC DIRECTIONAL COUPLER: A TRANSMISSION-LINE MODELLING STUDY ......................................................................................................... 1615
Phang, Sendy ; Vukovic, Ana ; Benson, Trevor M. ; Creagh, Stephen ; Sewell, Phillip ; Gradoni, Gabriele
LAYERED AND CORE-SHELL UNIAXIAL ABSORBERS ..................................................................................... 1621Kotynski, Rafal ; Antosiewicz, Tomasz J. ; Stolarek, Marcin ; Pastuszczak, Anna
BEAM FOCUSING IN CHIRPED MIRROR WITH A DEFECT.............................................................................. 1623Cheng, Y.C. ; Staliunas, K.
GENERATION OF ACCELERATING BEAMS USING NANO-SCALE METALLIC CIRCULAR GRATINGS...................................................................................................................................................................... 1626
Naserpour, Mahin ; Zapata-Rodriguez, Carlos J. ; Miret, Juan J. ; Zakery, Abdolnaser
PHOTODARKENING IN YB-DOPED AL-SILICATE FIBERS: INVESTIGATION, MODELLING AND MITIGATION ........................................................................................................................................................ 1630
Taccheo, Stefano ; Gebavi, Hrvoje ; Piccoli, Riccardo ; Robin, Thierry ; Lablonde, Laurant ; Cadier, Benoit ; Monteville, Achille ; Mechin, David ; Milanese, Daniel ; Brand, Thomas ; Klotzback, Udo
THERMAL PERFORMANCE OF PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDING DEVICES BASED ON GAINNAS/GAINAS QUANTUM-WELLS ............................................................................................................ 1634
Calo, Giovanna ; Alexandropoulos, Dimitris ; Petruzzelli, Vincenzo
ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING USING INP PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL NANOCAVITY SWITCHES...................................................................................................................................................................... 1638
Yu, Yi ; Vukovic, Dragana ; Palushani, Evarist ; Heuck, Mikkel ; Peucheret, Christophe ; Oxenlowe, Leif Katsuo ; Yvind, Kresten ; Mork, Jesper
THE MARVELS OF THE III-V SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTONIC CRYSTALS ON SOI HYBRID NANOPHOTONICS PLATFORM ................................................................................................................................ 1642
Raineri, Fabrice ; Bazin, Alexandre ; Monnier, Paul ; Lengle, Kevin ; Gay, Mathilde ; Raj, Rama
AN EFFICIENT ALL-OPTICAL GATE BASED ON PHOTONIC CRYSTALS CAVITIES AND APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1643
Combrie, S. ; Martin, A. ; Moille, G. ; Lehoucq, G. ; De Rossi, A. ; Reithmaier, J.-P. ; Bramerie, L. ; Gay, M.
POLARISATION SINGULARITIES IN PHOTONIC CRYSTALS FOR AN ON-CHIP SPIN-PHOTON INTERFACE ................................................................................................................................................. 1647
Beggs, D.M. ; Young, A.B. ; Thijssen, A.C.T. ; Kuipers, K. ; Oulton, R.
RECENT ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS OF SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT................................................ 1651Ludvigsen, Hanne
DESIGN OF FEW-MODE FIBERS WITH UP TO 12 MODES AND LOW DIFFERENTIAL MODE DELAY ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1655
Ferreira, Filipe ; Fonseca, Daniel ; Silva, Henrique
PT SYMMETRY BASED FUNCTIONAL DEVICES FOR INTEGRATED OPTICS............................................. 1659Lupu, Anatole ; Benisty, Henri ; Degiron, Aloyse
CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMAL EFFECTS IN FIBER COMPONENTS USING WHISPERING-GALLERY MODES RESONANCES ................................................................................................ 1664
Delgado-Pinar, M. ; Villegas, I. ; Diez, A. ; Cruz, J.L. ; Andres, M.V.
OPTIMAL SIMULATION AND DESIGN OF ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS FOR NEXT GENERATION PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK ..................................................................................................... 1668
Zhang, Yaping ; Gao, Weijie
FAST POLARIZATION SCRAMBLERS BASED ON FORWARD AND BACKWARD NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS IN OPTICAL FIBERS............................................................................................ 1672
Guasoni, M. ; Bony, P.-Y. ; Pitois, S. ; Sugny, D. ; Picozzi, A. ; Jauslin, H.-R. ; Wabnitz, S. ; Fatome, J.
CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPING NON-LINEAR DEVICES TO ACHIEVE THE LINEAR SHANNON LIMIT .......................................................................................................................................................... 1676
McCarthy, M.E. ; Sygletos, S. ; Suibhne, N.Mac ; Tan, M. ; Stephens, M. ; Phillips, I.D. ; Harper, P. ; Doran, N.J. ; Ellis, A.D.
OPTICAL PULSE RULER FOR ADVANCED OPTICAL PULSE SIGNAL PROFILING ................................... 1682Konishi, Tsuyoshi ; Nagashima, Tomotaka ; Murakawa, Takuya
HYBRID FIBER OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS FOR BROADBAND OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................... 1686
Marhic, M.E. ; Lei, Gordon K.P.
OPTICAL COMPONENTS BASED ON FIBER PHASE SENSITIVE AMPLIFICATION ................................... 1690Gershikov, Alexander ; Eisenstein, Gad
SAGNAC LOOP INCORPORATING A SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER WITHOUT BIAS CURRENT TO RECEIVE/MODULATE WEAK RF SIGNALS ..................................................................... 1694
Ribeiro, Ricardo M. ; Silva, Vinicius N.H. ; Barbero, Andres P.L. ; Lucarz, Frederic ; Fracasso, Bruno
DYNAMIC ROUTING OF MANY-TO-MANY TRAFFIC IN WDM NETWORKS ............................................... 1698Bulira, Damian ; Walkowiak, Krzysztof
BLOCKING PROBABILITY AND FAIRNESS IN TWO-RATE ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS................. 1702Wang, Xue ; Kim, Joobum ; Yan, Shuyi ; Razo, Miguel ; Tacca, Marco ; Fumagalli, Andrea
ROUTING ISSUES ON SPECTRUM SHARING AND PARTITIONING FOR FLEXIBLE OPTICAL NETWORKS................................................................................................................................................. 1706
Bonani, Luiz Henrique ; dos Santos Tozetti, Alexandre ; Callegati, Franco ; Cerroni, Walter
VIRTUAL NETWORK PROVISIONING OVER MULTI-LINE RATE NETWORKS WITH FIXED OR FLEXIBLE GRID..................................................................................................................................................... 1710
Barra, E. ; Salinas, R. ; Mora, F. ; Tarifeno, M. ; Beghelli, A. ; Sambo, N. ; Castoldi, P.
ROUTING AND SPECTRUM ALLOCATION IN FLEXGRID OPTICAL NETWORKS USING DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION OPTIMIZATION .................................................................................................... 1714
Lezama, Fernando ; Castanon, Gerardo ; Sarmiento, Ana Maria ; Martins, Indayara B.
SIMULATED ANNEALING ALGORITHM FOR OPTIMIZATION OF ELASTIC OPTICAL NETWORKS WITH UNICAST AND ANYCAST TRAFFIC..................................................................................... 1718
Aibin, Michal ; Walkowiak, Krzysztof
LABOUR OF LIGHT IN EVERYDAY LIFE............................................................................................................... 1722Grigorescu, C.E.A. ; Savastru, R.
METAL-DIELECTRIC LAYERED STRUCTURE SUPPORTING SURFACE PLASMONS: NUMERICAL MODELLING BY THE METHOD OF SINGLE EXPRESSION..................................................... 1723
Baghdasaryan, Hovik V. ; Knyazyan, Tamara M. ; Hovhannisyan, Tamara T. ; Marciniak, Marian
PULSE MIXING BY FIBONACCI AND THUE-MORSE ORDERED SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERS ............... 1728Shramkova, O.V. ; Schuchinsky, A.G.
TUNABLE FLAT LENSES IN THE INFRARED........................................................................................................ 1732Pugh, Jonathan R. ; Stokes, Jamie L. ; Lopez-Garcia, Martin ; Gan, Choon-How ; Nash, Geoff R. ; Rarity, John G. ; Cryan, Martin J.
DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS: MORPHOLOGY OF CELLULOSE ACETATE AND POLYSTYRENE MULTILAYERS ............................................................................................................................... 1736
Linger, Katrin ; Resel, Roland ; Czibula, Caterina ; Ganser, Christian ; Teichert, Christian ; Jakopic, Georg ; Canazza, Giancario ; Gazzo, Serena ; Comoretto, Davide
EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION OF DISPERSION-FREE INTENSITY OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY................................................................................................................................... 1740
Ryczkowski, Piotr ; Turunen, Jari ; Shirai, Tomohiro ; Friberg, Ari ; Genty, Goery
ON NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF CHIRAL MATERIALS .............................................................. 1742Sibilia, Concita ; Belardini, Alessandro ; Bovino, Fabio Antonio
CHIRAL METAMATERIALS: A TOOL FOR THZ POLARIZATION CONTROL ............................................. 1746Kafesaki, M. ; Kenanakis, G. ; Economou, E.N. ; Soukoulis, C.M.
THZ AND MID INFRARED (TERA-MIR) SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS: FROM MICROSCOPIC THEORY TO INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS............................................................................. 1747
Pereira, Mauro F.
THZ-TDS OF CHEMICALLY MODIFIED NATURAL OR SYNTHETIC LAYERED CLAY SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1749
Janek, M. ; Zich, D. ; Zacher, T. ; Naftaly, M.
TERAHERTZ WAVE SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION BY AN INFINITE GRATING OF GRAPHENE STRIPS IN FREE SPACE: ANALYTICAL REGULARIZATION ANALYSIS ............................... 1753
Zinenko, Tatiana L.
WIDEBAND MICROWAVE PHOTONIC DOWNCONVERTERS WITH HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE AND HIGH CONVERSION EFFICIENCY .................................................................................................. 1758
Altaqui, A. ; Chan, E.H.W. ; Minasian, R.A.
SILICON GRAPHENE PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS FOR MICROWAVE PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1762
Capmany, Jose ; Domenech, David ; Munoz, Pascual
INTEGRATED MICROWAVE PHOTONICS: STATE OF THE ART AND FUTURE TRENDS ........................ 1766Munoz, Pascual ; Capmany, Jose ; Perez, Daniel ; den Besten, Jan Hendrik ; Fandino, Javier S. ; David Domenech, Jose
MICROWAVE PHOTONIC DEVICES BASED ON MULTICORE FIBERS ......................................................... 1770Gasulla, Ivana ; Barrera, David ; Sales, Salvador
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