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Optical fiber is the required technology for Radio Access Network (RAN) backhaul and fronthaul. We report the evolution of RAN equipment including the advent of virtualization and an investigation of the required architecture and optical access technologies.

This paper investigates the performance of a Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier in a bidirectional wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network at 2.5 and 5 Gbit/s over 20 and 15 dB link budget.

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We experimentally demonstrate the use of AMOOFDM format for remote modulation of low-bandwidth RSOA as a cost effective solution for 10 Gbit/s upstream transmission in 20 km single fiber WDM-PON architecture.

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Quantum based technologies have been fundamental in our world. After producing the laser and the transistor, the devices that have shaped our modern information society, the possibilities enabled by the ability to create and manipulate individual quantum states opens the door to a second quantum revolution. In this paper we explore the possibilities that these new technologies bring to the Telecommunications industry.

International audienceWe report on a simple and fast method to estimate the fiber dispersion and laser chirp parameters on a dispersive Intensity Modulation and Direct Detection (IM/DD) optical channel. Based on the general IM/DD small-signal frequency response, we use the Downhill-Simplex algorithm to fit the channel measurement retrieved with a network analyzer to a general mathematical model. The method is proven to be quite efficient for light sources of different natures and with different adiabatic and transient chirp characteristics, including a Distributed Feedback (DFB) laser, an Electroabsorption modulator (EAM) and even a Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier with fiber-Bragg grating (RSOA-FBG)