Guest Editorial Special Issue on Polarization Effects in Fiber-Optic Networks

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3872-3874 (2006)  View: PDF

Location of High PMD Sections of Installed System Fiber

S. V. Shatalin and A. J. Rogers

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3875-3881 (2006)  View: PDF

PMD Distribution Measurement by an OTDR With Polarimetry Considering Depolarization of Backscattered Waves

Takeshi Ozeki, Satoshi Seki, and Kimiaki Iwasaki

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3882-3888 (2006)  View: PDF

Efficient Pump Depolarizer Analysis for Distributed Raman Amplifier With Low Polarization Dependence of Gain

Toshiyuki Tokura, Taichi Kogure, Takashi Sugihara, Katsuhiro Shimizu, Takashi Mizuochi, and Kuniaki Motoshima

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3889-3896 (2006)  View: PDF

Frequency-Correlation Analysis of PMD Emulators With Symmetric Polarization Scrambling

Leigh Palmer, Peter M. Farrell, Sarah D. Dods, and Jamie S. Evans

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3897-3906 (2006)  View: PDF

Estimating Outages Due to Polarization Mode Dispersion Using Extreme Value Statistics

Seb Savory, Frank Payne, and Anagnostis Hadjifotiou

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3907-3913 (2006)  View: PDF

On-Spool PMD Estimation Method for Low-PMD Fibers With High Repeatability by Local-DGD Measurement Using POTDR

Ryuichiro Goto, Shoji Tanigawa, Shoichiro Matsuo, and Kuniharu Himeno

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3914-3919 (2006)  View: PDF

Polarization-Insensitive SOAs Using Strained Bulk Active Regions

C. Michie, A. E. Kelly, J. McGeough, I. Armstrong, Ivan Andonovic, and C. Tombling

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3920-3927 (2006)  View: PDF

Statistics of Polarization-Induced Loss Ripples

Julien Poirrier and Nicolas Brochier

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3928-3931 (2006)  View: PDF

Uniform Polarization Scattering With Fiber-Coil-Based Polarization Controllers

Nelson J. Muga, Armando Nolasco Pinto, Mário F. S. Ferreira, and José R. Ferreira da Rocha

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3932-3943 (2006)  View: PDF

The Effects of Polarization-Mode Dispersion on the Phase of the Recovered Clock

Yannis Benlachtar, Robert I. Killey, and Polina Bayvel

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3944-3952 (2006)  View: PDF

System Penalty From Second-Order PMD Approximation: Reference Frame Implication

William Shieh

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3953-3958 (2006)  View: PDF

Polarization-Dependent Gain in SOA-Based Optical Multistage Interconnection Networks

Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, Keren Bergman, Misha Boroditsky, and Misha Brodsky

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3959-3967 (2006)  View: PDF

Dynamic Performance and Speed Requirement of Polarization Mode Dispersion Compensators

Chongjin Xie, Dieter Werner, and Herbert F. Haunstein

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3968-3975 (2006)  View: PDF

Polarization Mode Dispersion Management Using Unidirectionally Spun Fibers

Andrea Galtarossa, Luca Palmieri, Anna Pizzinat, and Luca Schenato

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3976-3981 (2006)  View: PDF

A Complete Spectral Polarimeter Design for Lightwave Communication Systems

Shawn X. Wang and Andrew M. Weiner

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3982-3991 (2006)  View: PDF

Practical Solutions to Polarization-Mode-Dispersion Emulation and Compensation

Lianshan Yan, X. Steve Yao, M. C. Hauer, and A. E. Willner

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 3992-4005 (2006)  View: PDF

Automatic Maximum–Minimum Search Method for Accurate PDL and DOP Characterization

Yongqiang Shi, Lianshan Yan, and X. Steve Yao

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4006-4012 (2006)  View: PDF

Optical Equalization: System Modeling and Performance Evaluation

Marco Secondini

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4013-4021 (2006)  View: PDF

Long-Term PMD Characterization of a Metropolitan G.652 Fiber Plant

Pierluigi Poggiolini, Antonino Nespola, Silvio Abrate, Valter Ferrero, and C. Lezzi

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4022-4029 (2006)  View: PDF

Local Birefringence in Unidirectionally Spun Fibers

Silvia Maria Pietralunga, Maddalena Ferrario, Matteo Tacca, and Mario Martinelli

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4030-4038 (2006)  View: PDF

WDM-POLSK Transmission Systems by Using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

Ernesto Ciaramella, Antonio D'Errico, Roberto Proietti, and Giampiero Contestabile

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4039-4046 (2006)  View: PDF

Performance Comparison of MLSE and Iterative Equalization in FEC Systems for PMD Channels With Respect to Implementation Complexity

Herbert F. Haunstein, Torsten Schorr, Andreas Zottmann, Wolfgang Sauer-Greff, and Ralph Urbansky

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4047-4054 (2006)  View: PDF

Polarized Backward Raman Amplification in Randomly Birefringent Fibers

Andrea Galtarossa, Luca Palmieri, Marco Santagiustina, and Leonora Ursini

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4055-4063 (2006)  View: PDF

Theoretical Characterization and System Impact of the Hinge Model of PMD

Cristian Antonelli and Antonio Mecozzi

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4064-4074 (2006)  View: PDF

Polarization Properties of Spun Single-Mode Fibers

Luca Palmieri

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4075-4088 (2006)  View: PDF

Cross-Polarization Modulation: Theory and Measurement in Subcarrier-Modulated WDM Systems

Mary R. Phillips, Sheryl L. Woodward, and Robin L. Smith

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4089-4099 (2006)  View: PDF

Effect of Nonlinearities on PMD

Misha Boroditsky, Marianna Bourd, and Moshe Tur

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4100-4107 (2006)  View: PDF

Circular-Birefringence Fiber for Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing

Takuo Tanemura and Kazuro Kikuchi

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4108-4119 (2006)  View: PDF

PMD Tolerance Testing of a Commercial Communication System Using a Spectral Polarimeter

Shawn X. Wang, Andrew M. Weiner, Sik Heng Foo, David Bownass, Michael Moyer, Maurice O'Sullivan, Martin Birk, and Misha Boroditsky

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4120-4126 (2006)  View: PDF

Effects of Nonlinearities on PMD-Induced System Impairments

Magnus Karlsson and Henrik Sunnerud

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4127-4137 (2006)  View: PDF

Polarimetric Characterization of RF Spectra at the Output of Linear Optical Systems

Avi Zadok and Avishay Eyal

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4138-4148 (2006)  View: PDF

Characterization of Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Using High-Sensitivity Optical-Frequency-Domain Reflectometry

Mark E. Froggatt, Dawn K. Gifford, Steven Kreger, Matthew Wolfe, and Brian J. Soller

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4149-4154 (2006)  View: PDF

Experimental Determination of System Outage Probability Due to First-Order and Second-Order PMD

Henry H. Yaffe and Daniel L. Peterson, Jr.

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4155-4161 (2006)  View: PDF

A Review of the Polarization-Nulling Technique for Monitoring Optical-Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Dynamic WDM Networks

J. H. Lee, H. Y. Choi, S. K. Shin, and Y. C. Chung

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4162-4171 (2006)  View: PDF

Polarization Stabilization in Optical Communications Systems

Mario Martinelli, Paolo Martelli, and Silvia Maria Pietralunga

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4172-4183 (2006)  View: PDF

Statistical Errors in Biasing Monte Carlo Simulations With Applications to Polarization-Mode Dispersion Compensators

Curtis R. Menyuk

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4184-4196 (2006)  View: PDF

Signal Propagation Over Polarization-Maintaining Fibers: Problem and Solutions

Denis Penninckx, Nicolas Beck, Jean-François Gleyze, and Laurent Videau

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4197-4207 (2006)  View: PDF

Performance Fluctuations in Submarine WDM Systems

Alexei N. Pilipetskii and Ekaterina A. Golovchenko

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4208-4214 (2006)  View: PDF

Mitigation of Beat Noise in Time–Wavelength Optical Code-Division Multiple-Access Systems

Taher M. Bazan, David Harle, and Ivan Andonovic

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4215-4222 (2006)  View: PDF

Achieving Channel Capacity Using Asymmetric Signaling Control in Optical Code Division Multiple Access

Gil Paryanti, Dan Sadot, and Vladimir Lyandres

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4223-4227 (2006)  View: PDF

Experimental Investigation of Security Issues in O-CDMA

Zhi Jiang, Daniel E. Leaird, and Andrew M. Weiner

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4228-4234 (2006)  View: PDF

Performance of Simulated Annealing Algorithm in Equalized Multimode Fiber Links With Linear Equalizers

Petar K. Pepeljugoski, José A. Tierno, Aleksandar Risteski, Scott K. Reynolds, and Laurent Schares

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4235-4249 (2006)  View: PDF

Impact of the Combined Effect of RIN and Intermodulation Distortion on OSSB/SCM Systems

Paula Laurêncio, Sandra O. Simões, and Maria C. R. Medeiros

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4250-4262 (2006)  View: PDF

PLC-Based Pulse-Train Generators

Daniel E. Leaird, Akio Sugita, Takashi Saida, Katsunari Okamoto, and Andrew M. Weiner

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4263-4268 (2006)  View: PDF

Modeling and Analysis of the Contribution of Channel Walk-Off to Nondegenerate and Degenerate Four-Wave-Mixing Noise in RZ-OOK Optical Transmission Systems

Adnan Akhtar, Lacra Pavel, and Shiva Kumar

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4269-4285 (2006)  View: PDF

Groupcast in Wavelength-Routed WDM Networks

Yuan Cao and Oliver Yu

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4286-4295 (2006)  View: PDF

Wavelength-Routing Capability of Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexers in Dynamic Optical Networks

J. M. Tang and K. Alan Shore

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4296-4303 (2006)  View: PDF

A Fabrication Process for Microstructured Optical Fibers

Rosalind M. Wynne

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4304-4313 (2006)  View: PDF

All-Solid Single-Mode Bragg Fibers for Compact Fiber Devices

Takashi Katagiri, Yuji Matsuura, and Mitsunobu Miyagi

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4314-4318 (2006)  View: PDF

Modeling of Holey Fiber Tapers With Selective Transmission for Sensor Applications

Vladimir P. Minkovich, David Monzón-Hernández, Joel Villatoro, Alexander B. Sotsky, and Luidmila I. Sotskaya

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4319-4328 (2006)  View: PDF

Design of Humidity Sensors Based on Tapered Optical Fibers

Jesús M. Corres, Francisco J. Arregui, and Ignacio R. Matias

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4329-4336 (2006)  View: PDF

Tapered Waveguides Produced by Ion Exchange in Glass With a Nonuniform Electric Field

Robert Oven

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4337-4344 (2006)  View: PDF

Three-Dimensional Optical Circuits Consisting of Waveguide Films and Optical Z-Connections

Tetsuzo Yoshimura, Masayoshi Miyazaki, Yosuke Miyamoto, Noriyuki Shimoda, Akihide Hori, and Kunihiko Asama

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4345-4352 (2006)  View: PDF

Fast and Efficient Dynamic WDM Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Model

Walid Mathlouthi, Pascal Lemieux, Massimiliano Salsi, Armando Vannucci, Alberto Bononi, and Leslie A. Rusch

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4353-4365 (2006)  View: PDF

Wavelength-Tunable Short-Cavity DBR Laser Array With Active Distributed Bragg Reflector

Hideo Arimoto, Takeshi Kitatani, Tomonobu Tsuchiya, Kazunori Shinoda, Aki Takei, Hiroyuki Uchiyama, Masahiro Aoki, and Shinji Tsuji

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4366-4371 (2006)  View: PDF

Low-Actuation-Voltage MEMS for 2-D Optical Switches

Hsin-Ta Hsieh, Chen-Wei Chiu, Tom Tsao, Fukang Jiang, and Guo-Dung John Su

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4372-4379 (2006)  View: PDF

Mode Locking and Electrical Tuning of a Hybrid Laser Source Using a Connectorized Ultra-Short Fiber Bragg Grating

Ricardo M. Ribeiro, Irina A. Kostko, and Raman Kashyap

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4380-4390 (2006)  View: PDF

Thermally Activated Variable Attenuation of Long-Range Surface Plasmon-Polariton Waves

Guy Gagnon, Nancy Lahoud, Greg A. Mattiussi, and Pierre Berini

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4391-4402 (2006)  View: PDF

Quasi-Analytic Synthesis of Nonrecursive Optical Delay Line Filters for Reliable Compensation of Dispersion Effects

Thomas Duthel, Daniel Fritzsche, Falk Michael, Christian G. Schäffer, and Dirk Breuer

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4403-4410 (2006)  View: PDF

Robust Calculation of Chromatic Dispersion Coefficients of Optical Fibers From Numerically Determined Effective Indices Using Chebyshev–Lagrange Interpolation Polynomials

Po-Jui Chiang, Chin-Ping Yu, and Hung-Chun Chang

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4411-4416 (2006)  View: PDF

An Extended FDTD Method With Inclusion of Material Dispersion for the Full-Vectorial Analysis of Photonic Crystal Fibers

Wei Jiang, Linfang Shen, Daru Chen, and Hao Chi

J. Lightwave Technol. 24(11), 4417-4423 (2006)  View: PDF