IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology

Table of Contents

Page...Title

Authors

1477... An 8-Gb/s Optical Backplane Bus Based on Microchannel Interconnects: Design, Fabrication, and Performance Measurements

Gicherl Kim, Xuliang Han and Ray T. Chen Senior Member, IEEE

1487... Optical Interconnection Using VCSELs and Polymeric Waveguide Circuits

Takashi Sakamoto, Hiroyuki Tsuda, Member, IEEE, Member, OSA Makoto Hikita, Member, IEEE Toshiaki Kagawa, Member, IEEE Kouta Tateno and Chikara Amano Member, IEEE, Member, OSA

1493... Evaluating the Error Probability in Lightwave Systems with Chromatic Dispersion, Arbitrary Pulse Shape and Pre-and Postdetection Filtering

Enrico Forestieri Member, IEEE

1504... Optimization of the Average-Dispersion Range for Long-Haul Dispersion-Managed Soliton Systems

T. I. Lakoba and G. P. Agrawal Fellow, IEEE

1513... Bit Error Rate Analysis of OTDM System Based on Moment Generation Function

Jianfeng Zhang, Minyu Yao, Xingzhong Chen, Lei Xu, Minghua Chen and Yizhi Gao

1519... A 40-Gb/s/ch WDM Transmission with SPM/XPM Suppression Through Prechirping and Dispersion Management

Akihide Sano, Yutaka Miyamoto, Member, IEEE Shoichiro Kuwahara and Hiromu Toba Member, IEEE

1528... Rayleigh Scattering Reduction Method for Silica-Based Optical Fiber

Kyozo Tsujikawa, Katsusuke Tajima and Masaharu Ohashi Senior Member, IEEE

1533... Model of Temperature Dependence for Gain Shape of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

Maxim Bolshtyansky, Paul Wysocki and Nicholas Conti

1541... A 1.3/1.55-µm Wavelength-Division Multiplexing Optical Module Using a Planar Lightwave Circuit for Full Duplex Operation

Toshikazu Hashimoto, Takeshi Kurosaki, Masahiro Yanagisawa, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Member, IEEE Yuji Akahori, Yasuyuki Inoue, Member, IEEE Yuichi Tohmori, Member, IEEE Kazutoshi Kato, Member, IEEE Yasufumi Yamada, Noboru Ishihara and Kuniharu Kato Member, IEEE

1548... Monolithically Integrated Multichannel SiGe/Si p-i-n-HBT Photoreceiver Arrays

Omar Qasaimeh, Zhenqiang Ma, Student Member, IEEE Pallab Bhattacharya, Fellow, IEEE and Edward T. Croke

1554... Properties of the Slab Modes in Photonic Crystal Optical Waveguides

Ali Adibi, Yong Xu, Reginald K. Lee, Amnon Yariv, Life Fellow, IEEE and Axel Scherer

1565... Theoretical and Experimental Study of Harmonically Modelocked Fiber Lasers for Optical Communication Systems

Moshe Horowitz, Curtis R. Menyuk, Thomas F. Carruthers and Irl N. DulingIII

1575... Fiber Fabry-Perot Interferometer with Mode-Converting Bragg Gratings

Dietmar Johlen, Peter Klose, Hagen Renner and Ernst Brinkmeyer

1583... Suppression of Cladding Mode Coupling Loss in Fiber Bragg Gratings

Liang Dong, Gang Qi, Marlene Marro, Vikram Bhatia, Lisa L. Hepburn, Martin Swan, Adam Collier and David L. Weidman