Post-deadline Paper Session A     Room F4-F5

Chair: Antonio Mecozzi, University of l’Aquila, Italy

13:30      Th.PDP.A.1
10.16 Peta-bit/s Dense SDM/WDM transmission over Low-DMD 6-Mode 19-Core Fibre across C+L Band
Daiki Soma¹; Yuta Wakayama¹; Shohei Beppu¹; Seiya Sumita¹; Takehiro Tsuritani¹; Tetsuya Hayashi²; Takuji Nagashima²; Masato Suzuki²; Hidenori Takahashi¹; Koji Igarashi³; Itsuro Morita¹; Masatoshi Suzuki^1
1KDDI Research, Inc., Fujimino, Japan; ²Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Yokohama, Japan; ³Osaka University, Suita, Japan
Over 10 peta-bit/s transmission has been experimentally demonstrated for the first time using 11.3-km-length low-DMD 6-mode 19-core fibre across C+L band. Q-factors of all 84,246 SDM/WDM channels modulated with 12-Gbaud DP-64QAM/16QAM exceeded the assumed FEC limits.

13:45      Th.PDP.A.2
51.5 Tb/s Capacity over 17,107 km in C+L Bandwidth Using Single Mode Fibers and Nonlinearity Compensation
Jin-Xing Cai; Hussam Batshon; Matt Mazurczyk; Oleg Sinkin; Ding Wang; Milen Paskov; Carl Davidson; Will Patterson; Maxim Bolshtyansky; Dmitri Foursa
TE SubCom, 250 Industrial Way West, 250 Industrial Way West, Eatontown, USA
We use nonlinearity compensation and performance optimized modulation format with hybrid probabilis-tic and geometric constellation shaping to demonstrate 51.5Tb/s C+L-band transmission over 17,107 km. We achieve record SMF capacity-distance product of 881Pb/s-km.

14:00      Th.PDP.A.3
First 100-nm Continuous-Band WDM Transmission System with 115Tb/s Transport over 100km Using Novel Ultra-Wideband Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers 
Jeremie Renaudier¹; Alexis Carbo Meseguer¹; Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi¹; Patrice Tran¹; Rafael Rios Müller¹; Romain Brenot²; Agnès Verdier²; Fabrice Blache²; Karim Mekhazni²; Bernadette Duval²; Helene Debregeas²; Mohand Achouche²; Aurelien Boutin³; Frederic Morin³; Laurent Letteron⁴; Nicolas Fontaine⁵; Yann Frignac⁶; Gabriel Charlet^{1 1}Nokia Bell Labs, Paris-Saclay, France; ²III-V Lab, Palaiseau, France; ³Kylia, Paris, France; ⁴Egide, Bollène, France; ⁵Nokia Bell Labs, Holmdel, USA; ⁶Telecom SudParis, Evry, France
We demonstrate the first 115Tb/s lumped amplified transmission system based on novel ultra-wideband semiconductor optical amplifiers. We show the successful transmission of 250 channels carrying >400Gb/s each over a 100-km transmission link.

14:15      Th.PDP.A.4
138 Tbit/s Transmission over 650 km Graded-Index 6-Mode Fiber
John Van Weerdenburg¹; Roland Ryf²; Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias³; Roberto A. Alvarez-Aguirre⁴; Nicolas K. Fontaine²; Haoshuo Chen²; Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa⁵; Ton Koonen⁶; Chigo Okonkwo^6
1Nokia Bell Labs, Institute for Photonic Integration, Eindhoven University of Technology, Institute for Photonic Integration, Eindhoven University of Technology, Holmdel, USA; ²Nokia Bell Labs, Holmdel, USA; ³Nokia Bell Labs, CREOL, the University of Central Florida, CREOL, the University of Central Florida, Holmdel, USA; ⁴Nokia Bell Labs, CREOL, the University of Central Florida, CREOL, the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA; ⁵CREOL, the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA; ⁶Institute for Photonic Integration, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
We demonstrate 138 Tbit/s transmission over 6 spatial modes, 2 polarizations, and 120 wavelength channels carrying 16-QAM signals, over 650 km few-mode fiber, using low insertion and mode-dependent loss mode-selective photonic lanterns.

14:30      Th.PDP.A.5
Full C-band Low Mode Dependent and Flat Gain Amplifier using Cladding Pumped Randomly Coupled 12-core EDF
Masaki Wada; Taiji Sakamoto; Takashi Yamamoto; Shinichi Aozasa; Saki Nozoe; Yuto Sagae; Kyozo Tsujikawa; Kazuhide Nakajima, NTT Corporation, Ibaraki, Japan
We demonstrate a randomly-coupled 12-core EDF based cladding pumped optical amplifier for the first time. Flat gain of more than 17 dB with sufficiently low mode dependent gain of less than 1 dB over the full C-band is successfully realized.

14:45      Th.PDP.A.6   High Spatial Density Six-mode Seven-core Fibre for Repeated Dense SDM Transmission
Taiji Sakamoto¹; Kunimasa Saitoh²; Shota Saitoh³; Kohki Shibahara⁴; Masaki Wada¹; Yoshiteru Abe¹; Azusa Urushibara¹; Katsuhiro Takenaga³; Takayuki Mizuno⁴; Takashi Matsui¹; Kazuhiko Aikawa³; Yutaka Miyamoto⁴; Kazuhide Nakajima^{1 1}NTT Corporation, NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Tsukuba, Japan; ²Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technol, Sapporo, Japan; ³Fujikura Ltd., Advanced Technology Laboratory, Sakura, Japan; ⁴NTT Corporation, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Yokosuka, Japan
We reveal that a 6-mode 7-core fibre is suitable for realizing low mode-dependent loss and a relative-core-multiplicity factor of more than 50 simultaneously. Repeated transmissions exceeding 100 km over a 6-mode multi-core fibre are achieved for the first time.

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Post-deadline Paper Session B    Room F1

Chair: Antonella Bogoni, CNIT, Italy

13:30      Th.PDP.B.1
8x256Gbps Virtual-Carrier Assisted WDM Direct-Detection Transmission over a Single Span of 200km
Son Le¹; Karsten Schuh¹; Chagnon Mathieu¹; Fred Buchali¹; Dischler Roman¹; Vahid Aref¹; Henning Buelow¹; Klaus Engenhardt^{2 1}Nokia-Bell-Labs, Stuttgart, Lorenzstrasse 10, Lorenzstrasse 10, Stuttgart, Germany; ²Tektronix GmbH, Koln, Germany
We demonstrate 8x215Gbps net-data-rate WDM transmissions at 1550nm with virtual carriers over a record span length of 200km, in which each channel was detected by a single photodiode with either Kramers-Kronig detection or a low-complexity interference cancellation scheme.

13:45      Th.PDP.B.2
Constellation Shaped 66 GBd DP-1024QAM Transceiver with 400 km Transmission over Standard SMF
Robert Maher; Kevin Croussore; Matthias Lauermann; Ryan Going; Xian Xu; Jeff Rahn
Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, USA
A single wavelength 66GBd DP-1024QAM transceiver with a coded bit rate of 1.32Tb/s is demonstrated. Constellation shaping is employed to tailor the symbol distribution to achieve a net bit rate of 680Gb/s and spectral efficiency of 9.35b/s/Hz after 400km transmission.

14:00      Th.PDP.B.3
Experimental Demonstration of a 53 Tb/s Coherent SDM-TDM Add/Drop/Through Optical Network with Time-division Spatial Super-channels and High-speed Joint Switching System
Jose Manuel Delgado Mendinueta; Satoshi Shinada; Ruben Soares Luis; Yusuke Hirota; Hideaki Furukawa; Hiroaki Harai; Naoya Wada, National Institute of Communication and Information Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan
We experimentally demonstrate a 7-core 2×2 switching node for time-division spatial super-channels with a record data-rate of 53 Tb/s on SDM networks, full packet-granularity by nanosecond-fast electro-absorption gate array switching and network protection capabilities with 7-core microsecond-fast acousto-optical modulator switches.

14:15      Th.PDP.B.4
Field trial of Machine-Learning-assisted and SDN-based Optical Network Planning with Network-Scale Monitoring Database
Shuangyi Yan¹; N. Khan Khan²; Alex Mavromatis¹; Dimitrios Gkounis¹; Fan Qirui²; Foteini  Ntavou¹; Konstantinos  Nikolovgenis¹; Changjian Guo³; Fanchao Meng¹; Emilio Hugues Salas¹; Chao Lu³; Alan Pak Tau Lau²; Reza Nejabati¹; Dimitra Simeonidou^{1 1}High Performance Networks Group, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK; ²Photonics Research Center, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universit, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; ³Photonics Research Center, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polyt, Hong Kong, SAR
An SDN based network planning framework utilizing machine-learning techniques, network configuration and monitoring database is implemented over an optical field-trial testbed comprised of 436.4-km fibre. Adaption of the spectral efficiency utilising probabilistic-shaping BVT based on link performance prediction is demonstrated.

14:30      Th.PDP.B.5
First Demonstration of Single-Mode MCF Transport Network with Crosstalk-Aware In-Service Optical Channel Control
Klaus Pulverer¹; Takafumi Tanaka²; Ulrich Häbel¹; Carlos Castro³; Marc Bohn¹; Takayuki Mizuno²; Akira Isoda²; Kohki Shibahara²; Tetsuro Inui²; Yutaka Miyamoto²; Yusuke Sasaki⁴; Yoshimichi Amma⁴; Kazuhiko Aikawa⁴; Saurabh Jain⁵; Yongmin Jung⁵; Shaif-Ul Alam⁵; David Richardson⁵; Md Nooruzzaman⁶; Toshio Morioka^6
1Coriant R&D GmbH, Munich, Germany; ²NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Yokosuka, Japan; ³University of Kiel, Coriant R&D GmbH, Coriant R&D GmbH, Munich, Germany; ⁴Fujikura Ltd, Mutsuzaki, Japan; ⁵University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; ⁶Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
We demonstrate the first crosstalk-aware traffic engineering as a use case in a multicore fibre transport network. With the help of a software-defined network controller, modulation format and channel route are adaptively changed using programmable devices with XT monitors.

14:45      Th.PDP.B.6
1.032-Tb/s CPRI-Equivalent Data Rate Transmission using IF-over-Fiber System for High Capacity Mobile Fronthaul Links
Shota Ishimura; Abdelmoula Bekkali; Kazuki Tanaka; Kosuke Nishimura; Masatoshi Suzuki,
KDDI Research, Inc., Fujimino-shi, Japan
We demonstrate IF-over-Fiber transmission over 20-km SMF using a parallel IM/PM transmitter with 1.032-Tb/s CPRI-equivalent data rate, for the first time. Thanks to the transmitter, we can avoid dispersion-induced RF power fading without any sophisticated DSP.

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Post-deadline Paper Session C   Room F2

Chair: Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

13:30      Th.PDP.C.1
Four-Channel 784 Gbit/s Transmitter Module Enabled by Photonic Wire Bonding and Silicon-Organic Hybrid Modulators
Muhammad Billah¹; Sebastian Randel²; Wolfgang Freude²; Christian Koos^1
1Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Karlsruhe, Germany; ²Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Engesserstr. 5, Engesserstr. 5, Karlsruhe, Germany
We demonstrate a four-channel hybrid multi-chip module comprising InP lasers, silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) modulators, and single-mode fibers, all connected via photonic wire bonds. We transmit 56GBd QPSK and 16QAM signals at a total data rate of 784Gbit/s over 75km.

13:45      Th.PDP.C.2
Directly Reflectivity Modulated Laser
Po Dong¹; Anaelle Maho²; Romain Brenot²; Young-Kai Chen¹; Argishti Melikyan^1
1Nokia Bell Labs, Holmdel, USA; ²III-V Lab (a joint lab from Nokia, Thales & CEA), Palaiseau, France
We report a novel directly reflectivity modulated laser (DRML) allowing for phase and intensity modulation through a Michelson interferometric mirror. On-off keying at 25/40 Gb/s and binary phase-shift keying at 25 Gb/s are demonstrated. The wavelength tunability is >20 nm.

14:00      Th.PDP.C.3
Multi-channel InP-based Coherent PICs with Hybrid Integrated SiGe Electronics Operating up to 100GBd, 32QAM
Ryan Going; Matthias Lauermann; Robert Maher; Huan-Shang Tsai; Mingzhi Lu; Naksup Kim; Scott Corzine; Pavel Studenkov; Joseph Summers; Amir Hosseini; Jiaming Zhang; Babak Behnia; Jie Tang; Sanketh Buggaveeti; Thomas Vallaitis; John Osenbach; Matthias Kuntz; Xian Xu; Kevin Croussore; Vikrant Lal; Peter Evans; Jeff Rahn; Tim Butrie; Andrew Karanicolas; Kuang-Tsan Wu; Matthew Mitchell; Mehrdad Ziari; Dave Welch; Fred Kish, Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, USA
We report InP-based coherent transmitter PICs with hybrid integrated SiGe drivers operating at 100GBd, 32QAM back-to-back (1 Tb/wave capable), and at 100GBd, 16QAM over 1400km. Coherent Tx (Rx) PICs with hybrid integrated drivers (amplifiers) operate at 66GBd, 64QAM over 200km.

14:15      Th.PDP.C.4
Transfer Print Integration of 40Gbps Germanium Photodiodes onto Silicon Photonic ICs
Grigorij Muliuk¹; Nan Ye¹; Jing Zhang¹; Amin Abbasi¹; Chris Bower²; Antonio Jose Trindade³; Antonio Jose Trindade³; Dries Van Thourhout¹; Gunther Roelkens^1
1Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; ²X-Celeprint, North Carolina, USA; ³Tyndall, X-Celeprint, X-Celeprint, Cork, Ireland
We demonstrate the integration of germanium photodiodes on SOI waveguides by transfer printing. Devices were printed with better than 1µm alignment accuracy. A waveguide-referred responsivity of 0.66A/W was measured at 1550nm and operation at 40Gbps is demonstrated.

14:30      Th.PDP.C.5
DAC-less and DSP-free PAM-4 Transmitter at 112 Gb/s with Two Parallel GeSi Electro-Absorption Modulators
J. Verbist¹; J. Lambrecht²; M. Verplaetse²; J. Van Kerrebrouck²; S.A. Srinivasan³; P. De Heyn⁴; T. De Keulenaer`⁵; X. Yin²; J. Van Campenhout⁴; G. Roelkens⁶; J. Bauwelinck^{2 1}IDLab, Photonics Research Group, Ghent University – imec, Belgium; ²IDLab, Ghent University – imec, Ghent, Belgium; ³Photonics Research Group, Ghent University – imec, Leuven, Belgium; ⁴imec, Leuven, Belgium; ⁵BiFAST, Ghent, Belgium; ⁶Photonics Research Group, Ghent University – imec, Belgium
We present a novel integrated PAM-4 modulator based on the vector addition of 2 binary driven parallel GeSi electro-absorption modulators. Clear open eyes at 56 GBaud up to 2 km of SSMF without any DSP are demonstrated.

14:45      Th.PDP.C.6
Programmable Vector Mode Multiplexer
Nicolas Fontaine¹; Haoshuo Chen¹; Roland Ryf¹; David Neilson¹; Juan Carlos Alvarado²; John Van Weerdenburg³; Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa⁴; Chigo Okonkwo⁵; Joel Carpenter^6
1Nokia Bell Labs, Holmdel, USA; ²Nokia Bell Labs, CREOL, Holmdel, USA; ³Nokia Bell Labs, Eindhoven University of Technology, Holmdel, USA; ⁴CREOL, the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA; ⁵Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands; ⁶The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
We demonstrate a programmable vector mode multiplexer using a low-loss spatial light phase modulator that can multiplex 10 modes. It is reconfigured to generate modes for multi-mode fiber and modes with arbitrary polarization including linear, radial, and azimuthal.