Topic Categories

• Spectrally efficient modulation formats and detection schemes

• Channel equalization and compensation

• Polarization, clock, carrier, and phase recovery in coherent receivers

• Channel estimation, distortion identification, and performance monitoring

• Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)

• Nyquist and near-Nyquist signaling

• Signal processing for space-division multiplexing

• MIMO algorithms and implementations

• Forward error correction

• DAC, ADC and DSP technologies

• DSP complexity and power consumption

• DSP for integrated active components characterization

• All-optical techniques for wavelength conversion and translation, regeneration, correlation, and mitigation of transmission impairments

• Real-time demonstration of high-speed electronic circuits and subsystems

• Applications to access, metro, regional, long haul and ultra-long-haul networks

• Applications to short-reach systems using single- and multi-mode fiber

• Applications to free space optical communication systems