IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

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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