The growing demand for ubiquitous broadband connectivity in 5G/6G Radio Access Networks (RANs) has turned Centralized RAN (C-RAN) and reconfigurable Point-to-MultiPoint (PtMP) network topologies in…
We report for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the experimental demonstration of a complete all-optical 2-bit Address Look-Up (AL) table that performs address matching and forwarding a…
During the past years, the limited access-times and memory bandwidth in electronic random-access memory (RAM) has triggered a concerted research effort towards deploying optical memory circuitry fo…
Towards enabling bandwidth-hungry 5G applications, a Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) mobile fronthaul architecture is experimentally presented supporting the co-existence of spectrally efficient analog trans…
Duringthe past years, incorporating Οptical Circuit Switches (OCS) in high-bandwidth optical interconnects has outlined the critical challenges of achieving ultra-low fiber-to-fiber losses (FtF) a…
The increasing need for more efficient communication networks has been the main driving force for the development of complex photonic integration circuits combining active and passive building bloc…
During the past years, optical memories have emerged as the main way to enable fast access times and increased memory bandwidth in synergy with optical interconnections. The migration, however, to …
Towards relieving the bandwidth limitations in 5G mobile fronthaul networks, a Fiber Wireless (FiWi) small cell architecture is presented, relying on spectrally efficient analog transport on interm…
We experimentally demonstrate a multi-user Fiber Wireless IFoF/mmWave uplink comprising a 32-element 60 GHz Phased Array Antenna (PAA) and 10 km of fiber for 5G fronthaul networks, supporting beams…
This article presents a theoretical and experimental analysis of an all optical Burst Mode Wavelength Converter (BMWC), exploiting a deeply saturated differentially biased Semiconductor Optical Amp…