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Silicon is a nonlinear material and optics based on silicon makes use of these nonlinearities to realize various functionalities required for on-chip communications. This article describes foundations of these nonlinearities in silicon at…

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It is well known that temperature variations and acoustic noise affect ultrastable frequency dissemination along optical fiber. Active stabilization techniques are in general adopted to compensate for the fiber-induced phase noise. However,…

Many components used in signal processing and communication applications, such as power amplifiers and analog-to-digital converters, are nonlinear and have a finite dynamic range. The nonlinearity associated with these devices distorts the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-29 Kai Ying , Zhenhua Yu , Robert J. Baxley , G. Tong Zhou

Advancements in quantum communication and sensing require improved optical transmission that ensures excellent state purity and reduced losses. While free-space optical communication is often preferred, its use becomes challenging over long…

In this paper we consider the problem of communication scheduling in wireless networks with respect to the SINR(Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio) constraint in metric spaces. The nodes are assigned linear powers, i.e. for each sender…

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Laser beams with high optical power propagating in a Kerr medium can undergo self-focusing when their power exceeds a critical power determined by the optical properties of the medium. The highly concentrated energy close to the in the…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-22 Jiaqi Wang , Yang Xu , Saumya Choudhary , Omid Mozafar , Robert Boyd

Polarization maintaining (PM) fibers are meant to maintain linear polarization along a preferred axis. A PM fiber can be seen as the fiber version of a very high order waveplate, designed with different refractive indices along two…

Any physical channel of communication offers two potential reasons why its capacity (the number of bits it can transmit in a unit of time) might be unbounded: (1) Infinitely many choices of signal strength at any given instant of time, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-18 Sanjeev Khanna , Madhu Sudan

Terahertz inter-satellite links (THz-ISL) offer unprecedented bandwidth for future space networks but face fundamental constraints from onboard power and thermal budgets. This paper establishes theoretical performance limits for MIMO…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Haofan Dong , Ozgur B. Akan

Multi-mode fibers (MMFs) and single-mode fibers (SMFs) are widely used in optical communication networks. MMFs are the practical choice in terms of cost in applications that require short distances. Beyond that, SMFs are necessary because…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-22 Oussama Korichi , Markus Hiekkamäki , Robert Fickler

We consider network coding for networks experiencing worst-case bit-flip errors, and argue that this is a reasonable model for highly dynamic wireless network transmissions. We demonstrate that in this setup prior network error-correcting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-08-16 Qiwen Wang , Sidharth Jaggi , Shuo-Yen Robert Li

Topological states enable robust transport within disorder-rich media through integer invariants inextricably tied to the transmission of light, sound, or electrons. However, the challenge remains to exploit topological protection in a…

Regular perturbation is applied to the Manakov equation and motivates a generalized correlated phase-and-additive noise model for wavelength-division multiplexing over dual-polarization optical fiber channels. The model includes three…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Francisco Javier Garcia-Gomez , Gerhard Kramer

Improved bounds on the blocklength required to communicate over binary-input channels using polar codes, below some given error probability, are derived. For that purpose, an improved bound on the number of non-polarizing channels is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-23 Dina Goldin , David Burshtein

This paper investigates the limits of information transfer over a fast Rayleigh fading MIMO channel, where neither the transmitter nor the receiver has the knowledge of the channel state information (CSI) except the fading statistics. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Rasika R Perera , Tony S Pollock , Thushara D Abhayapala

We propose digital signal processing techniques for nonlinearity mitigation in high power optical amplifiers used in satellite communications. The acceptable link loss increases by 6dB with negligible complexity.

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Stella Civelli , Marco Secondini , Luca Potì

Power induced wave collapse is one of the most fascinating phenomena in optics as it provides extremely high intensities, thus stimulating a range of nonlinear processes. For low power levels, propagation of beams in bulk media is dominated…

Linear quantum amplifiers are indispensable tools for quantum technologies, yet their performance is fundamentally limited by quantum noise, precluding any signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) enhancement unless supplemented by post-selection or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Ya-Long Ren , Rong-Teng Cao , Sheng-Li Ma , Ren Zhang , Fu-Li Li , Franco Nori , Peng-Bo Li

Few-mode multi-core fiber (FM-MCF) based Space-Division Multiplexing (SDM) systems possess the potential to maximize the number of multiplexed spatial channels per fiber by harnessing both the space (fiber cores) and mode (optical mode per…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Junyi Liu , Zengquan Xu , Shuqi Mo , Yuming Huang , Yining Huang , Zhenhua Li , Yuying Guo , Lei Shen , Shuo Xu , Ran Gao , Cheng Du , Qian Feng , Jie Luo , Jie Liu , Siyuan Yu

Free Space Optics (FSO) communication provides attractive bandwidth enhancement with unlicensed bands worldwide spectrum. However, the link capacity and availability are the major concern in the different atmospheric conditions. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-23 Gebrehiwet Gebrekrstos Lema