4 and 8 dimensional

M3A.4 Ciena
modulation formats

100G using
<40km Th1G.2 Inphi
25Gbaud optics
PAM-4
Modulation 56Gbps 4-D PAM-4
400G data centre Th1G.4 Huawei
trellis coded modulation

DP-128QAM,
400G single carrier Adaptive digital pre-distortion Th3A.3 Coriant
328km fibre

Next generation terabit transponder Sliceable bandwidth-variable transponder W4B.4 Ericsson

100G-and beyond
Single-chip silicon PIC Th1B.4 Acacia
coherent transmission

Ring modulator
50Gbps Th1F.4 Imec
and driver
Silicon Photonics
25G germanium on silicon APD TU2D.2 SiFotonics Technologies

Multi-port optical switch 8x8, 32x32 W1E.6 AIST, Japan

Switch test bed Stacked silicon photonic switches,

W3J.4 Huawei
for the data center Time-slot based

2D and 3D heterogenous PICs Chip-scale microsystems Th1C.5 Univ of California, Davis

Hybrid integration 3D photonic integration, Fraunhofer Heinrich-
PolyBoard platform Th3F.3
one terabit links Hertz Institute

IEEE 100 Gigabit PON Th1I.6 CableLabs

OFC 2016 Access PAM-4, electrical/ optical ADVA Optical Networking,
Summary of over 20 NG-PON 40G-per-lane Tu3C.5
duobinary and equalisation University of Sydney
selected papers
Short WDM strategies to improve VCSEL SWDM4: 4x28Gbps
Tu2G.1 Finisar
Client side performance over multi mode over 200 and 300m

Board mounted client optics Requirements, design issues and challenges W1K.3 Avago (Broadcom)

Information The Limits of the Nonlinear

Th3D.1 TeCIP Institute
theory Shannon Limit

Need for a transport API in 5G networks Th3K.4 Telefonica

Hundreds of multi--petabit data stores

Software defined Global system supporting
networking huge physics programmes Petascale computing facilities
such as LHC linked with 100G networks, Th3I.6 Caltech
Leading to Exascale

Space division 105.1 Terabit

12-core fibre Th4C.1 TE SubCom
multiplexing 14,350km

Server-on-a-chip
Systems Microserver Th4D.1 IBM Research
optical interconnect

Eindhoven University of
Data centres Optical solutions for mega-sized data centres Trends and thoughts WIJ.4
Technology