European Training Network WON "Wideband Optical Networks"

European Training Network WON

H2020-MSCA-ITN-2018

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WON vision and ambitions
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Dissemination of WON Results
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WON training and research objectives are delivered through the following mechanisms.

The overall WON work plan consists of the 4 technical and 3 non-technical Work Packages.

Various dissemination activities to scientific and non-scientific audiences across the WON Consortium.

WON Summary

The annual global Internet traffic will 127-fold increase from 2005 to 2021, with a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 24% from 2016 – 2021. In the context of such extraordinary traffic growth, the Consortium of 14 academic and industrial highly qualified institutions created the Wideband Optical Networks (WON) European Training Network (ETN), to promote international, inter-sectorial and multi/inter-disciplinary research activities and career development for a generation of early stage researchers.

Solutions identified within WON will enable to overcome a possible traffic-crunch by achieving a 10-fold increase in the usable optical bandwidth of single-mode fibres.

WON is covering all topics and expertise from design and development of photonic components, novel digital signal processing algorithms and system modelling to network and control management.

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Project News

WON papers at ONDM 2023

March 15, 2023 Uncategorized

Some of the ETN WON project’s results will be presented at…

Bronze award in the Huawei PhD contest 2022

December 12, 2022 Announcement, Dissemination, ESR activities, events, Uncategorized

Emadreza Soltanian, the WON fellow and a PhD candidate of…

WON papers accepted at the OFC Conference 2023

December 07, 2022 ESR activities, OFC, WON Papers

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Publications

André Souza; Bruno Correia; Nelson Costa; Vittorio Curri; joão pedro; João Pires

Leveraging Raman Amplification to Improve and Equalize the Performance of a 20-THz Multi-band Optical System

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8163847

Andre Souza, Nelson Costa, João Pedro, and Joao Pires

Comparison of Fast Quality of Transmission Estimation Methods for Wideband Optical Systems

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/JOCN.486898

Rasoul Sadeghi; Bruno Correia; Elliot London; Antonio Napoli; Nelson Costa; João Pedro; Vittorio Curri

Performance Comparison of Optical Networks Exploiting Multiple and Extended Bands and Leveraging Reinforcement Learning

Gunther Roelkens; Jing Zhang; Laurens Bogaert; Maximilien Billet; Dongbo Wang; Biwei Pan; Clemens J. Kruckel etc

Micro-Transfer Printing for Heterogeneous Si Photonic Integrated Circuits

DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2022.3222686

Jing Zhang (UGent) , Clemens Krückel (UGent) etc. incl Gunther Roelkens

Lossless high-speed silicon photonic MZI switch with a micro-transfer-printed III-V amplifier

DOI: 10.1109/ECTC51906.2022.00077

Pratim Hazarika, Mingming Tan, Aleksandr Donodin, Mohammad Patel, Ian Phillips, Paul Harper, and Wladek Forysiak

Ultra-wideband discrete Raman amplifier optimization for single-span S-C-L-band coherent transmission systems

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.475246

Yu Wang; Rafael Kraemer; Nicola Calabretta

Ultra-wide band polarization insensitive photonic integrated filters and switches

DOI: 10.1109/SUM53465.2022.9858312

Rafael Kraemer; Henrique Santana; Shaojuan Zhang; Bitao Pan; Nicola Calabretta

Lossless SOA-based Multi-band OADM Nodes in Metro Networks

DOI: 10.23919/OECC/PSC53152.2022.9850111

Emadreza Soltanian

Micro-transfer-printed III-V-on-Si laser with 120nm tuning range

DOI: ECIO2022 : 23rd European Conference on Integrated Optics. p.282-284

Nicola Sambo; Bruno Correia; Antonio Napoli; Joao Pedro; Leily Kiani; Piero Castoldi; Vittorio Curri

Network upgrade exploiting multi band: S- or E-band?

DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.464386

Vittorio Curri

GNPy model of the physical layer for open and disaggregated optical networking [Invited]

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/JOCN.452868

Yu Wang and Nicola Calabretta

Polarization-insensitive 40-channel 100-GHz spacing fold-back planar echelle grating Mux/Demux for photonic integrated wavelength-selective switches

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7250148

Ihtesham Khan, Lorenzo Tunesi, Muhammad Umar Masood, Enrico Ghillino, Paolo Bardella, Andrea Carena, and Vittorio Curri

Optimized management of ultra-wideband photonics switching systems assisted by machine learning

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.442194

André Souza, Nelson Costa, João Pedro, and João Pires

Benefits of counterpropagating Raman amplification for multiband optical networks

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6782901

Gunther Roelkens, Jing Zhang, Laurens Bogaert, Maximilien Billet, Dongbo Wang, Biwei Pan, Clemens Kruckel, Emadreza Soltanian etc

Micro-transfer printing for heterogeneous Si photonic integrated circuits

DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2022.3222686

Pratim Hazarika, Mingming Tan, Aleksandr Donodin, Shabnam Noor, Ian Phillips, Paul Harper, Jeffery S. Stone, Ming Jun Li, and Wladek Forysiak

E-, S-, C- and L-band coherent transmission with a multistage discrete Raman amplifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.474327

Pratim Hazarika, Mingming Tan, Md Asif Iqbal, Ian Phillips, Paul Harper, Jeffery S. Stone, Ming Jun Li, and Wladek Forysiak

Performance evaluation of discrete Raman amplifiers in coherent transmission systems

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.473082

Yu Wang and Nicola Calabretta

Polarization-insensitive 40-channel 100-GHz spacing fold-back planar echelle grating Mux/Demux for photonic integrated wavelength-selective switches

DOI: https://zenodo.org/record/7250148#.Y1pkQ3bMKUn

Emadreza Soltanian, Grigorij Muliuk, Sarah Uvin, Dongbo Wang, Guy Lepage, Peter Verheyen, Joris Van Campenhout, Stefan Ertl, Johanna Rimböck, Nicolas Vaissiere, Delphine Néel, Joan Ramirez, Jean Decobert, Bart Kuyken, Jing Zhang, and Gunther Roelkens

Micro-transfer-printed narrow-linewidth III-V-on-Si double laser structure with a combined 110 nm tuning range

DOI: 10.1364/OE.470497

Aleksandr Donodin, Mingming Tan, Pratim Hazarika, Vladislav Dvoyrin, Ian Phillips, Paul Harper, Sergei K. Turitsyn, and Wladek Forysiak

30-GBaud DP 16-QAM transmission in the E-band enabled by bismuth-doped fiber amplifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.468796

Takeshi Hoshida; Vittorio Curri; Lidia Galdino; David T. Neilson; Wladek Forysiak; Johannes K. Fischer; Tomoyuki Kato; Pierluigi Poggiolini

Ultrawideband Systems and Networks: Beyond C+L -Band

DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2022.3202103

Matheus Sena; Pratim Hazarika; Caio Santos; Bruno Correia; Robert Emmerich; Behnam Shariati; Antonio Napoli; Vittorio Curri, Wladek Forysiak etc

Advanced DSP-based Monitoring for Spatially resolved and Wavelength-dependent Amplifier Gain Estimation and Fault Location in C+L-band Systems

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3208209

Vittorio Curri

GNPy model of the physical layer for open and disaggregated optical networking [Invited]

DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.452868

Andrea D’Amico; Bruno Correia; Elliot London; Emanuele Virgillito; Giacomo Borraccini; Antonio Napoli; Vittorio Curri

Scalable and Disaggregated GGN Approximation Applied to a C+L+S Optical Network

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3162134

Rasoul Sadeghi; Bruno Correia; Andre Souza; Nelson Manuel Simes da Costa; Joao Pedro; Antonio Napoli; Vittorio Curri

Transparent vs Translucent Multi-band Optical Networking: Capacity and Energy Analyses

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3167908

Yu Wang, Srivathsa Bhat, Netsanet Merawi Tessema, Rafael Kraemer, Antonio Napoli, Giovanni Delrosso, Nicola Calabretta

Ultrawide-band Low Polarization Sensitivity 3-μm SOI Arrayed Waveguide Gratings

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3167829

Elliot London, Andrea D’Amico, Emanuele Virgillito, Antonio Napoli, and Vittorio Curri

Modelling non-linear interference in non-periodic and disaggregated optical network segments

DOI: doi.org/10.1364/OPTCON.453253

Andrea D’Amico, Elliot London, Bertrand Le Guyader, Florian Frank, Esther Le Rouzic, Erwan Pincemin, Nicolas Brochier, Vittorio Curri

Experimental validation of GNPy in a multi-vendor flex-grid flex-rate WDM optical transport scenario

DOI: doi.org/10.1364/JOCN.442208

Matheus Ribeiro Sena, Robert Emmerich, Mohammad Behnam Shariati, Caio Santos, Antonio Napoli, Johannes Karl Fischer, Ronald Freund

DSP-based Link Tomography for Amplifier Gain Estimation and Anomaly Detection in C+L-band Systems

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3160101

Gabriele Di Rosa; Robert Emmerich; Matheus Ribeiro Sena; Johannes Karl Fischer; Colja Schubert; Ronald Freund; Andre Richter

Characterization, Monitoring, and Mitigation of the I/Q Imbalance in Standard C-Band Transceivers in Multi-band Systems

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2022.3154888

Gabriele Di Rosa; Robert Emmerich; Matheus Sena; Johannes K. Fischer; Colja Schubert; André Richter

Impact of Wavelength-Dependent I/Q Imbalances of Standard C-Band Transceivers in Rate-Adaptive Multiband Systems

DOI: 10.1109/ECOC52684.2021.9606117

Rasoul Sadeghi; Bruno Correia; Emanuele Virgillito; Antonio Napoli; Nelson Costa; Joao Pedro; Vittorio Curri

Comparison of Transceiver and C+L Band Upgrades: Network Traffic and Energy Assessment

DOI: 10.1109/icecce52056.2021.9514166

Rasoul Sadeghi; Bruno Correia; Emanuele Virgillito; Antonio Napoli; Nelson Costa; João Pedro; Vittorio Curri

C+L-band Network Upgrade: Capacity and Energy Analyses with Different Transceivers

DOI: 10.1109/sum48717.2021.9505822

Rasoul Sadeghi, Bruno Correia, Emanuele Virgillito, Antonio Napoli, Nelson Costa, João Pedro and Vittorio Curri

Performance Comparison of Translucent C-band and Transparent C+L-band Network

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2021.M3E.4

Andrea D’Amico, Stefano Straullu, Giacomo Borraccini, Elliot London, Stefano Bottacchi, Stefano Piciaccia, Alberto Tanzi, Antonino Nespola, Gabriele Galimberti, Scott Swail, Vittorio Curri

Enhancing Lightpath QoT Computation With Machine Learning in Partially Disaggregated Optical Networks Publisher: IEEE Cite This PDF

DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2021.3066913

Yu Wang, Jang-Uk Shin, Netsanet Tessema, Menno van den Hout, Sjoerd van der Heide, Chigo Okonkwo, Hyun-Do Jung, and Nicola Calabretta

Ultra-wide band (O to L) photonic integrated polymer cross-bar switch matrix

DOI: 10.1364/OL.437898

Robert Emmerich; Matheus Ribeiro Sena; Robert Elschner; Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst; Isaac Sackey; Colja Schubert; Ronald Freund etc

Enabling S-C-L-Band Systems with Standard C-Band Modulator and Coherent Receiver using Coherent System Identification and Nonlinear Predistortion

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2021.3123430

Egor Manuylovich, Aleksandr Donodin, and Sergei Turitsyn

Intensity-only-measurement mode decomposition in few-mode fibers

DOI: doi.org/10.1364/OE.437907

Pratim Hazarika, Mingming Tan, Md Asif Iqbal, Lukasz Krzczanowicz, Abdallah A. i. Ali, Ian Phillips, Paul Harper, and Wladek Forysiak

RIN induced penalties in G.654.E and G.652.D based distributed Raman amplifiers for coherent transmission systems

DOI: doi.org/10.1364/OE.439406

Gabriele Di Rosa; Andre Richter

Likelihood-based Selection Radius Directed Equalizer with Time-multiplexed Pilot Symbols for Probabilistically Shaped QAM

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2021.3098220

Rafael Kraemer; Fumi Nakamura; Menno Van den Hout; Sjoerd Van der Heide; Chigo M. Okonkwo; Hiroyuki Tsuda; Antonio Napoli; Nicola Calabretta

Multi-band Photonic Integrated Wavelength Selective Switch

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2021.3096045

Thyago Pinto, Uiara C. de Moura, Francesco Da Ros, Marko Krstić, Jasna V. Crnjanski, Antonio Napoli, Dejan M. Gvozdić, and Darko Zibar

Optimization of frequency combs spectral-flatness using evolutionary algorithm

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.430402

Matheus Ribeiro Sena; M. Sezer Erkilinc; Thomas Dippon; Mohammad Behnam Shariati; Robert Emmerich; Johannes Karl Fischer, Ronald Freund

Bayesian Optimization for Nonlinear System Identification and Pre-distortion in Cognitive Transmitters

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2021.3083676

Bruno Correia, Rasoul Sadeghi, Emanuele Virgillito, Antonio Napoli, Nelson Costa, João Pedro, and Vittorio Curri

Power control strategies and network performance assessment for C+L+S multiband optical transport

DOI: doi.org/10.1364/JOCN.419293

Bruno Correia; Rasoul Sadeghi; Emanuele Virgillito; Antonio Napoli; Nelson Costa; João Pedro; Vittorio Curri

Networking Performance of Power Optimized C+L+S Multiband Transmission

DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9322068

Aleksandr Donodin, Vladislav Dvoyrin, Egor Manuylovich, Lukasz Krzczanowicz, Wladek Forysiak, Mikhail Melkumov, Valery Mashinsky, and Sergei Turitsyn

Bismuth doped fibre amplifier operating in E- and S- optical bands

DOI: doi.org/10.1364/OME.411466

Alessio Ferrari, Antonio Napoli, Johannes K. Fischer, Nelson Costa, Andrea D’Amico, Joao Pedro, Wladek Forysiak, Erwan Pincemin, Andrew Lord, Alexandros Stavdas, Juan Pedro F.-P. Gimenez, Gunther Roelkens, Nicola Calabretta, Silvio Abrate, Bernd Sommerkorn-Krombholz, Vittorio Curri

Assessment on the Achievable Throughput of Multi-Band ITU-T G.652.D Fiber Transmission Systems

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2020.2989620

Andre Richter; Gabriele Di Rosa

Achievable Mitigation of Nonlinear Phase Noise through Optimized Blind Carrier Phase Recovery

DOI: 10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203148

Gabriele Di Rosa, André Richter

Low Complexity Blind Carrier Phase Recovery for Probabilistically Shaped QAM

DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2020.3012970

Aleksandr Donodin, Vasilii Voropaev, Daniil Batov, Dmitrii Vlasov, Vladimir Lazarev, Mikhail Tarabrin, Aleksandr Khegai & Mikhail Likhachev

Numerical model of hybrid mode-locked Tm-doped all-fibre laser

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74194-7

Elliot London, Emanuele Virgillito, Andrea D’Amico, Antonio Napoli, and Vittorio Curri

Simulative assessment of non-linear interference generation within disaggregated optical line systems

DOI: 10.1364/OSAC.410333

Uiara Celine De Moura, Md Asif Iqbal, Morteza Kamalian-Kopae, Lukasz Krzczanowicz, Francesco Da Ros, Ann Margareth Rosa Brusin, Andrea Carena, Wladek Forysiak,Sergei K. Turitsyn, Darko Zibar

Multi-band programmable gain Raman amplifier

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2020.3033768

Md Asif Iqbal, Gabriele Di Rosa, Lukasz Krzczanowicz, Ian Phillips, Paul Harper, André Richter, Wladek Forysiak

Impact of pump-signal overlap in S+C+L band discrete Raman amplifiers

DOI: 10.1364/oe.392258

Gabriele Di Rosa, Md Asif Iqbal, Andre ́ Richter and Wladek Forysiak3

Prediction of Performance Penalty due to Pump-Signal Overlap in Raman-amplified Systems

DOI: Aston University Open Access repository

Andrea D’Amico, Stefano Straullu, Antonino Nespola, Ihtesham Khan, Elliot London, Emanuele Virgillito, Stefano Piciaccia, Alberto Tanzi, Gabriele Galimberti, and Vittorio Curri

Using Machine-Learning in an Open Optical Line Systems Controller Machine Learning Photonics

DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.382557

Gabriele Di Rosa, Stefanos Dris, and Andre Richter

Statistical quantification of nonlinear interference noise components in coherent system

DOI: 10.1364/OE.386579

Nicola Sambo, Alessio Ferrari, Antonio Napoli, Nelson Costa, Joao Pedro, Bernd Sommerkohrn-Krombholz, Piero Castoldi, Vittorio Curri

Provisioning in multi-band optical networks: a C+L+S-Band use case

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2020.2983227

Alessio Ferrari, Antonio Napoli, Johannes K. Fischer, Nelson Costa, Joao Pedro, Nicola Sambo, Erwan Pincemin, Bernd Sommerkohrn-Krombholz, Vittorio Curri

Upgrade Capacity Scenarios Enabled by Multi-band Optical Systems

DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2019.8840550