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s Guest Editors for this Special Issue of the JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, we are pleased to present 28 representative papers that highlight the technical program of the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference held in Los Angeles, CA, in March 2004. This is the second consecutive year this issue has been published after a hiatus from early OFC tradition. It is our intention that this body of work provides both a historical record of progress in optical fiber technology as well as an archival resource to document highlighted papers with substantially more information than can be presented within the limited OFC publication format. Similar to last year, the content of this Special Issue was based on responses to an invitation to submit provided by the Guest Editors. The editors assembled the invitation list from all postdeadline papers, tutorial presentations, and workshops in an effort to highlight a broad range of technologies with minimal individual bias. Authors were encouraged to submit additional content to the OFC presentation material, and their submissions were subjected to the standard JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY review process. The 28 papers in the Special Issue section represent a broad overview of the conference, with at least two papers from each of the nine topical subcommittees. Traditional OFC presentations at the forefront of optical communications are well represented, including papers on improving very high speed transmission technology (e.g., 160 Gb/s), transmission through experimental photonic crystal fiber, and new erbium amplification host materials. The contents of this issue also represent a recent trend in the conference toward embracing more practical technologies with lower cost and/or greater flexibility for real-world applications. Examples of this trend include coarse-wavelength-division-multiplexed components and system results, channel agnostic reconfigurable optical add–drop multiplexers (ROADMs), and the use of new modulation formats to improve not only spectral efficiency, but also transmission robustness to nonideal transmission (e.g., nonlinearities, dispersion slope, and polarization-mode dispersion). Some of the unusual contents include papers summarizing the presentations at three
workshops and two tutorials. While they are not conventional topics, we as editors feel these papers add significantly to the record of information exchange that occurred during the conference. This Special Issue was made possible through the leadership of Dr. Alan Willner, Editor-in-Chief of the JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY, and through the organization of Douglas Hargis, the Publications Coordinator. Finally, we would like to thank the authors and reviewers of these submissions and, in particular, their significant efforts in maintaining the high standard of this publication while adhering to the tight production schedule required for this Special Issue. We hope that this Special Issue provides a useful and in-depth archival reference for those interested in the state of technology and information presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in 2004.
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PATRICK IANNONE, Guest Editor AT&T Labs—Research Broadband Access Research Department Middletown, NJ 21090-2932 USA e-mail:
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Patrick Iannone (S’92–M’93) received the B.S. degree in applied physics from Columbia University, New York, in 1984 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1994. He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1985, where he conducted research on multibeam microwave antennas, semiconductor laser nonlinearities, subcarrier-multiplexed lightwave communication systems, and dense-wavelength-division-multiplexed (DWDM) systems. He is currently with AT&T Laboratories—Research, Middletown, NJ. Over the past several years, he has worked on wavelength-division-multiplexed optical networks and subsystems for metro transport and business access. He has authored or coauthored over 100 journal and conference publications and holds 14 patents. Dr. Iannone is an elected Member of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Board of Governors. He has served as Meetings Chairman for the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) and has chaired technical subcommittees for both the IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting and the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC). He served as OFC Technical Program Chair in 2004.
Thomas Strasser received the Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, designing periodic guided-wave devices. He worked for three years at Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories and seven years at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. At Bell Laboratories, his group invented and developed manufacturing for enabling technologies in the next-generation transmission platforms of AT&T and Lucent Technologies. He then served for five years as Chief Technologist for the next-generation networking startup Photuris and its subsequent acquirer Mahi Networks. In this role, he defined the optical architecture of a transport product that integrates electrical and optical switching with native support for virtually any mixture of time-division multiplexing or data services. He is currently co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Nistica, Inc., Piscataway, NJ. His experience in next-generation optical communication technology also includes teaching several short courses. He has contributed 37 patents and over 100 presentations and publications in the field of optics and communication devices. Dr. Strasser served as the Optical Fiber Communication Conference Technical Program Co-Chair in 2004 and will be a General Co-Chair of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optical Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) in 2006.
Turan Erdogan was a tenured Associate Professor at the Institute of Optics of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, where he led a successful research group developing new technologies ranging from optical materials to measurement techniques to optical components. He was then with Bell Laboratories (then part of AT&T) studying and developing applications for fiber grating technology in wavelength-division-multiplexing optical communications systems. He is the co-founder of Semrock, Inc., Rochester, NY, where he currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer. He has authored or coauthored over 50 scientific publications and over 50 major conference talks and holds more than 15 patents or patents pending. Dr. Erdogan is General Co-Chair of the 2004 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and a Fellow and Lomb Medallist of the Optical Society of America (OSA).
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Ronald Esman (S’82–M’85–SM’95–F’01) received the B.A. degree (magna cum laude) in physics and mathematics from Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, in 1981 and the M.S. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, MO, in 1983 and 1986, respectively. He was with Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC, from 1986 to 2000, first as a Staff Researcher and eventually as Head of the Photonics Technology Branch. While at NRL he led fundamental, applied, system, and field studies in the areas of optical devices, optoelectronic devices, and photonic processing microwave signals (100 MHz to 100 GHz), which typically addressed the Navy’s needs for platform self-defense, surveillance, and communications. In 2000 and 2001, he was Managing Director of Submarine Line Terminating Equipment at Dorsal Networks, which included the development of long-reach transmitters, wavelength-division-multiplexing equipment, and network management. Upon the Corvis acquisition of Dorsal in 2002, he became an Executive Engineer, where he oversaw optical telecommunication transmission technologies throughout all of Corvis and was a member of its Technical Advisory Board. In 2004, he joined Essex Corporation, Columbia, MD, as Vice President of Optical Products Development, where he is responsible for an optical processing technology base for U.S. Government clients and leads the optical product development effort for Department of Defense and intelligence community customers as well as for the telecommunication industry. Dr. Esman is a Member of Sigma Xi, the Optical Society of America (OSA), and Phi Beta Kappa. He served on numerous IEEE/OSA conferences, as the Technical Program Committee Chair for the 1999 Microwave Photonics Conference, and as the General Chair for the 2004 Optical Fiber Communication Conference.
Loudon Blair (M’96) received the B.Sc. degree (first class) in electronics from the University of Dundee, Scotland, U.K., in 1986 and a D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., in 1989, with a thesis focusing on the recording of holographic optical elements in dichromated gelatin. He was at Hitachi Central Research Laboratory in Japan from 1990 to 1991, where he investigated erbium-doped fiber amplifiers in 10-Gb/s wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) transmission systems. He worked for BT in the United Kingdom from 1991 to 1995, where he researched novel network architectures, including the application of fiber gratings to WDM networks. He then worked for Gorca Systems, Ltd., from 1995 to 1997, where he managed a system engineering team focused on the development of the Iridium low earth orbit satellite system at Motorola Satellite Communications. He then joined Ciena Corporation, Linthicum, MD, where has been technically responsible for system engineering activities and has performed several roles in the development of Ciena’s optical networking products. He is currently Senior Director of Network Architecture. Dr. Blair is a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). He has served on the Technical Program Committee of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference for the past three years and will be Technical Program Co-Chair for the Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optical Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) in 2006.
