Lightwave communications is a necessity for the information age. Optical links provide
enormous bandwidth, and the optical fiber is the only medium that can meet the modern …

Fiber-optic communication systems are nowadays facing serious challenges due to the fast
growing demand on capacity from various new applications and services. It is now well …

Several approximate non-linear fiber propagation models have been proposed over the
years. Recent re-consideration and extension of earlier modeling efforts has led to the …

Single-mode fibres with low loss and a large transmission bandwidth are a key enabler for
long-haul high-speed optical communication and form the backbone of our information …

Since the first deployments of fiber-optic communication systems three decades ago, the
capacity carried by a single-mode optical fiber has increased by a staggering 10 000 times …

In order to overcome the capacity limitations of current lightwave systems based on the
single-mode optical fiber, massively parallel transmission in the spatial domain [space …

Current optical fibre transmission systems rely on modulation, coding and multiplexing
techniques that were originally developed for linear communication channels. However …

Wide-bandwidth signal transmission with low latency is emerging as a key requirement in a
number of applications, including the development of future exaflop-scale supercomputers …

To support the development of intelligent optical networks, accurate modeling of the physical
layer is crucial. Digital twin (DT) modeling, which relies on continuous learning with real-time …

We report the first experimental realization and detailed characterization of thulium doped
fiber amplifiers (TDFAs) specifically designed for optical communications providing high …