[7]

Stefano Gaiani, Ruben S. Luís, Besma Kalla, Daniele Orsuti, Menno van den Hout, Haoshuo Chen, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Roland Ryf, Pierre Sillard, Georg Rademacher, Thomas Bradley, Chigo Okonkwo, Alessandro Gagliano, Marco Fasano, Paolo Martelli, Alberto Gatto, Paola Parolari, Pierpaolo Boffi, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Partial- and Joint-MIMO Processing Schemes for Space Division Multiplexed Transmission over Different Multi-Mode Fibers," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 44, no. 17, pp. 7381-7390, Sep. 2026.

Invited
[6]

Besma Kalla, Ruben S. Luís, Menno van den Hout, Stefano Gaiani, Daniele Orsuti, Yuta Goto, Georg Rademacher, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Ayumi Inoue, Takuji Nagashima, Tetsuya Hayashi, Alberto Gatto, Paola Parolari, Pierpaolo Boffi, Thomas Bradley, Chigo Okonkwo, and Hideaki Furukawa, "3.74 Exabit/s·km Transatlantic-Class C+L-Band SDM Transmission Over 8, 610 km in a 19-Core Randomly-Coupled Multicore Fiber," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 44, no. 16, pp. 7047-7056, Aug. 2026.

Invited
[5]

Nicolas Braig-Christophersen, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Robert Elschner, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Menno van den Hout, Ruben S. Luis, Pierre Sillard, Cristian Antonelli, Chigo M. Okonkwo, Hideaki Furukawa, Georg Rademacher, Colja Schubert, and Ronald Freund, "Five-Fold Partitioned 30 × 30 MIMO Equalization Using Mode-Group Specific Interface Quantization in 15-Mode Fiber SDM Transmission," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 44, no. 16, pp. 6942-6948, Aug. 2026.

Invited
[4]

Giammarco Di Sciullo, Ruben S. Luís, Menno van den Hout, Robert Emmerich, Nicolas Braig-Christophersen, Qi Wu, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Divya A. Shaji, Andrea Marotta, Fabio Graziosi, Antonio Mecozzi, Colja Schubert, Tetsuya Hayashi, Takuji Nagashima, Chigo Okonkwo, Georg Rademacher, Chiara Lasagni, Paolo Serena, Antonino Nespola, Hideaki Furukawa, and Cristian Antonell, "19.2 THz S+C+L Transmission Over Field-Deployed Coupled-Core Multi-Core Fiber Enabled by Distributed Raman Amplification," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 44, no. 16, pp. 7064-7072, Aug. 2026.

Invited
[3]

Ibrahim Mohamed Ramadan, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Qi Wu, Domenico Ribezzo, Divya Ann Shaji, Lucas Alves Zischler, Ruben S. Luis, Paolo Serena, Chiara Lasagni, Alberto Bononi, Tetsuya Hayashi, Alessandro Gagliano, Paolo Martelli, Alberto Gatto, Paola Parolari, Pierpaolo Boffi, Andrea Marotta, Carlo Centofanti, Fabio Graziosi , Antonio Mecozzi, and Cristian Antonell, "Coexisting QKD and Real-Time Encrypted High-Speed Fiber-Optic Communication in Field-Deployed Multi-Core Fibers," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 44, no. 16, pp. 6894-6903, Aug. 2026.

[2]

Yuya Seki, Yosuke Tanigawa, Yusuke Hirota, and Hideki Tode, "Network-oriented metric for core pitch optimization in bidirectional multi-core fiber networks," Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 454-469, Apr. 2026.

[1]

D. A. Shaji, R. S. Luis, J. Puttnam, D. Orsuti, M. S. Neves, B. Boriboon, G. Di Sciullo, Qi Wu, S. Gross, A. Ross-Adams, M. J. Withford, S. Shinada, F. P. Guiomar, P. P. Monteiro, L. PalmieriI, A. Marotta, A. Mecozzi, C. Antonelli, and H. Furukawa, "Experimental Demonstration of a Low-Cost Petabit-per-Second SDM Network Node," OPTICS EXPRESS, vol. 8, no. 20, pp. 13894-13902, Apr. 2026.

[55]

Ryosuke Takagi, Takumi Motomura, Shoichiro Oda, Yuki Yoshida, Hideaki Furukawa, Akihiro Maruta, and Ken Mishina, "Localization of Heterogeneous Fiber Type Using Inverse Scattering Transform," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We1-G4, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[54]

S. Gaiani, R. S. Luís, J. Schneck, D. Orsuti, K. Sakaime, H. Chen, R. Ryf, N. K. Fontaine, D. Chung, R. Man, G. Rademacher, P. Boffi, and H. Furukawa, "10.33 Pb/s GMI Data-Rate S+C+L Transmission over a Standard-250 µm Coating Diameter, 6-Mode, 7-Core Fiber," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[53]

Jun Sakaguchi and Hideaki Furukawa, "Inter-core Spontaneous Raman Scattering in a 39-core 3-mode/1-mode Heterogeneous Multi-core Fiber System," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We4-P, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

Invited
[52]

Ruben S. Luis, Benjamin Puttnam, and Georg Rademacher, "Laboratory and Field Experiences Implementing and Evaluating Ultra-Wideband, Petabit per Second, Spatial-Division Multiplexing Systems - Recent Years and Future Prospects," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We1-A1, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[51]

Ruben S. Luis, Besma Kalla, Daniele Orsuti, Chiara Lasagni, Cristian Antonelli, Michihiro Nakanishi, Shigehiro Takasaka, Junji Yoshida, Shuhei Tomina, Hirotaka Sakuma, Takemi Hasegawa, Tetsuya Hayashi, Thomas Bradley, Chigo Okonkwo, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Unrepeatered 312.5 km Transmission Over a Randomly-Coupled Multicore Fiber With Bidirectional Raman Amplification," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We5-H4, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[50]

Romulo Aparecido, Jiaqian Yang, Eric Sillekens, Ronit Sohanpal, Mindaugas Jarmolovicius, Ruben S. Luís, Hideaki Furukawa, Zelin Gan, Vitaly Mikhailov, Jiawei Luo, David J. DiGiovanni, John D. Downie, Lidia Galdino, Robert I. Killey, and Polina Bayvel, "Evaluating the Viability of O-Band Transmission on G.654.C Fibre for Long-Haul Systems," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We4-P63, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[49]

Romulo Aparecido, Jiaqian Yang, Ronit Sohanpal, Cristóbal Melo, Mindaugas Jarmolovicius, Zelin Gan, Yang Hong, Morteza Kamalian-Kopae, Baset Gholizadeh, Vitaly Mikhailov, Jiawei Luo, David J. DiGiovanni, Gabriel Saavedra, Daniel J. Elson, Yuta Wakayama, Ruben S. Luís, Hideaki Furukawa, Jamie Gaudette, David J. Richardson, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Eric Sillekens, Robert I. Killey, and Polina Bayvel, "15 THz, Long-Haul, O-band, Hollow Core Fibre Transmission Supported by Wideband BDFAs," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We3-H3, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[48]

Nikolaos-Panteleimon Diamantopoulos, Ruben S. Luis, Satoshi Shinada, Daniele Orsuti, Takuro Fujii, Hidetaka Nishi, Tomonari Sato, Hideaki Furukawa, and Shinji Matsuo, "2.4 Tb/s OCS-based Intra-to-Inter Datacentre IM/DD Links Over 54-km MCF Using Sub-pJ/bit Membrane DML Arrays," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We3-E4, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[47]

J. Yang, R. Aparecido, E. Sillekens, R. Sohanpal, M. Jarmolovicius, Z. Gan, Y. Hong, M. Kamalian-Kopae, A. Ali, S. Bakhtiari Gorajoobi, R. S. Luís, D. Orsuti, A. Donodin, V. Mikhailov, J. Luo, D. J. DiGiovanni, N. Fontaine, L. Dallachiesa, M. Mazur, R. Ryf, H. Chen, D. Neilson, I. D. Phillips, W. Forysiak, S. K. Turitsyn, H. Furukawa, J. Gaudette, D. J. Richardson, B. J. Puttnam, R. I. Killey, and P. Bayvel, "423.7 + 426.5 Tb/s GMI Bi-Directional HCF Transmission," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We2-D1, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[46]

Eric Sillekens, Ruben S. Luis, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Robert Emmerich, Carlo Centofanti, Daniele Orsuti, Robson A. Colares, Mindaugas Jarmolovicius, Ronit Sohanpal, Darli A. A. Melo, Luca Palmieri, Colja Schubert, Ronald Freund, Cristian Antonelli, Robert I. Killey, Polina Bayvel, and Hideaki Furukawa, "One Terahertz Full-Field Digital Back-Propagation over 3000 km," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We4-P62, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

Invited
[45]

Chigo Okonkwo, Menno van den Hout, Besma Kalla, Ruben S. Luís, Georg Rademacher, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Stefano Gaiani, Daniele Orsuti, Ayumi Inoue, Takuji Nagashima, Tetsuya Hayashi, Simon Gross, Andrew Ross-Adams, Michael J. Withford, Lauren Dallachiesa, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Roland Ryf, Mikael Mazur, Haoshuo Chen, Pierpaolo Boffi, Cristian Antonelli, Thomas Bradley, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Space Division Multiplexing for Ultra-High Capacity Optical Communications," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We2-H1, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[44]

Aleksandr Donodin, Lou Kanger, Daniel J. Elson, Vitaly Mikhailov, Robert Emmerich, Dmitrii Stoliarov, Mustafa Kangül, Jean-Etienne Tremblay, Eline Cavadore, Sergey Koptyaev, Jiawei Luo, Ruben S. Luis, Hideaki Furukawa, Colja Schubert, Ronald Freund, David J. DiGiovanni, Yuta Wakayama, Takehiro Tsuritani, John D. Jost, Maxim Karpov, and Sergei K. Turitsyn, "O-band 3.2 Tb/s Kerr Microcomb Coherent Transmission for Short-Reach DCI Links," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), We4-P61, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[43]

Hassan Akbari, Angela Mitrovska, Yusuke Hirota, Sugang Xu, Taiga Suzuki, Agastya Raj, Claudio Crognale, Behnam Shariati, Pooyan Safari, Yuki Yoshida, Marco Ruffini, Pietro Invernizzi, Satoshi Shinada, Hideaki Furukawa, Yoshinari Awaji, Mattia Pasti, Sara Corti, Silvia Turolla, Johannes K. Fischer, and Ronald Freund, "Demonstration of Digital Twin Development and Validation Workflows in Heterogeneous Multi-Party Environments using OTDS," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), Tu2-Ex7, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[42]

Anthony Brasi, Yusuke Hirota, Shoichiro Oda, Hideaki Kotake, Satoshi Shinada, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Inter-Satellite All-Optical Networks (ISAON): Hands-on Demonstration of Orbit-Aware Routing Design and WDM Ground-Emulator Control," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), Tu2-Ex4, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[41]

Ibrahim M. Ramadan, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Qi Wu, Domenico Ribezzo, Divya A. Shaji, Lucas A. Zischler, Ruben S. Luís, Paolo Serena, Chiara Lasagni, Alberto Bononi, Tetsuya Hayashi, Alessandro Gagliano, Paolo Martelli, Alberto Gatto, Paola Parolari, Pierpaolo Boffi, Andrea Marotta, Carlo Centofanti, Fabio Graziosi, Antonio Mecozzi, and Cristian Antonelli, "Field Demonstration of QKD–Classical Coexistence with Real-Time Encryption over Multi-Core Fiber," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), Tu4-D3, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[40]

Besma Kalla, Ruben S. Luís, Stefano Gaiani, Daniele Orsuti, Patrick Blown, Menno van den Hout, Robson A. Colares, Darli A. A. Mello, Pierpaolo Boffi , Thomas Bradley, Chigo Okonkwo, and Hideaki Furukawa, "MIMO Channel Memory Requirements for Randomly-Coupled Multicore Fiber Networks," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), Tu1-B2, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[39]

Aleksandr Donodin, Shekhar Saxena, Daniel J. Elson, Vitaly Mikhailov, Robert Emmerich, Dmitrii Stoliarov, Ruben S. Luis, Jiawei Luo, Hideaki Furukawa, Colja Schubert, Ronald Freund, David J. DiGiovanni, Yuta Wakayama, Takehiro Tsuritani, Ian Phillips, and Sergei K. Turitsyn, "172 Tb/s GMI, O-band Coherent Transmission with OSNR Optimization," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), Tu1-G5, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[38]

Shoichiro Oda, Anthony Brasi, Yusuke Hirota, Hideaki Kotake, Satoshi Shinada, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Demonstration of WDM, QoT-Aware Rate Adaptation and Add/Drop Operation in Inter-satellite All-optical Networks," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), 317, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[37]

Munira B. Mostafa, Shekhar Saxena, Maria Bastamova, Daniel J. Elson, Mikhailov Vitaly, Robert Emmerich, Ruben S. Luis, Jiawei Luo, Hideaki Furukawa, Colja Schubert, Ronald Freund, David J. DiGiovanni, Yuta Wakayama, Ian Phillips, Aleksandr Donodin, Andrew D. Ellis, and Vladimir Gordienko, "Two-Pump Distributed Parametric Amplification of 25x 32Gbaud 16-QAM Channels over 25 km SSMF with ~20dB Gain," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), Mo4-P2, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[36]

Julian Schneck, Ruben S. Luis, Daniele Orsuti, Stefano Gaiani, Wolfgang Vogel, Pierpaolo Boffi, Georg Rademacher, and Hideaki Furukawa, "375 km, Unrepeatered Transmission Using a Erbium-Doped, Tellurite Fiber Based, 69 nm bandwidth, ROPA," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), Mo4-P58, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[35]

D. Orsuti, L. Palmieri, R. S. Luís, R. A. Colares, J. Sakaguchi, M. Cappelletti, L. Schenato, M. Santagiustina, D. A. A. Mello, A. Galtarossa, and H. Furukawa, "Rayleigh Fingerprint-Based DAS over a 688-km Repeatered Link with Co-Propagating 15-Tb/s WDM Transmission," European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC2026), Mo5-A2, Malaga, Sep. 2026.

[34]

Kota Kurome, Shoichiro Oda, Satoshi Shinada, and Ken Mishina, "Nonlinear Pre-Compensation for High-Power WDM Transmission in Ground-to-GEO Satellite Optical Communications," Photonics in Switching and Computing, ThP1-A1.3, Valencia, Sep. 2026.

[33]

Lucas Alves Zischler, Divya Ann Shaji, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Julian Schneck, Georg Rademacher, Ruben S. Luís, Pierre Sillard, Luca Palmieri, Antonio Mecozzi, and Cristian Antonelli, "Evaluation of Mode-Dependent Raman Gain in Field-Deployed Multi-Mode Fibers with Distributed Amplification," Photonics in Switching and Computing, ThP1-A2.5, Valencia, Sep. 2026.

[32]

Takumi Motomura, Hideaki Shimpo, Kaito Geshi, Kojiro Nakagawa, Akihiro Maruta, Hideaki Furukawa, and Ken Mishina, "In-Service EDFA Anomaly Localization Using 256-Ary B-Modulation," Photonics in Switching and Computing, Valencia, Sep. 2026.

[31]

Budsara Boriboon, Ruben S. Luis, Duang-rudee Worasusheep, Dini Pratiwi, Mingming Tan, Hideaki Furukawa, and Naoya Wada, "316 Gb/s, DML-Based, Raman-Amplified, Short-Reach O-Band Optical Interconnect," Photonics in Switching and Computing, WeP1-B1.3, Valencia, Sep. 2026.

Invited
[30]

Besma Kalla, Ruben S. Luís, Menno van den Hout, Stefano Gaiani, Daniele Orsuti, Thomas Bradley, Chigo Okonkwo, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Ultra-High-Capacity SDM Transmission and Switching based on Randomly-Coupled Multicore Fibers," Photonics in Switching and Computing, WeP1-A2.1 , Valencia, Sep. 2026.

Invited
[29]

Stefano Gaiani, "Is Ultra-Wideband Transmission the Right Answer for AI-Driven Optical Networks?," Photonics in Switching and Computing, Valencia, Sep. 2026.

Invited
[28]

Sugang Xu, Subhadeep Sahoo, Angela Mitrovska, Taiga Suzuki, Behnam Shariati, Yuki Yoshida, Pooyan Safari, Johannes K. Fischer, Ronald Freund, Hideaki Furukawa, Kouichi Akahane, Sifat Ferdousi, Massimo Tornatore, Biswanath Mukherjee, and Yoshinari Awaji, "Resilience Enhancement Strategies of Optical Networks-Cloud Ecosystems via Cooperation," APNOMS2026 Special Session, SS1-2, Kumamoto, Sep. 2026.

[27]

Katsuyoshi Sakaime and Ryo Nagase, "Attenuation and return loss of random mated single-mode weakly coupled 4-core rectangular ferrule multi-fibre connectors," International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), Aug. 2026.

Post Deadline
[26]

R. Aparecido, R. S. Luis, V. Mikhailov, J. Schneck, H. Ibrahim, M. Jarmolovicius, S. Gross, L. Anderson, M. J. Withford, N. Fontaine, S. Erkilinc, K. W. Kim, A. Aimon, G. Rademacher, J. W. Nicholson, R. I. Killey, P. Bayvel, and H. Furukawa, "First Coherent Mode-Division Multiplexed Transmission at 1 μm Over Standard G.652 Fibre," Advanced Photonics Congress, JTh3A.3, Long Beach, Jul. 2026.

Invited
[25]

Giammarco Di Sciullo, Lucas A. Zischler, Menno van den Hout, Ruben S. Luís, Nicolas Braig-Christophersen, Robert Emmerich, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Georg Rademacher, Chiara Lasagni, Paolo Serena, Alberto Bononi, Tetsuya Hayashi, Takuji Nagashima, Colja Schubert, Chigo Okonkwo, Roland Ryf, Luca Palmieri, Mark Shtaif, Divya A. Shaji, Andrea Marotta, Antonio Mecozzi, Fabio Graziosi, Antonino Nespola, Hideaki Furukawa, and Cristian Antonelli, "SRS in deployed coupled.core multi-core fibers: Characterization and transmission," International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2026), Th.A4.3, Prague, Jul. 2026.

Invited
[24]

Menno van den Hout, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Ruben Luis, Benjamin Puttnam, Hideaki Furukawa, Cristian Antonelli, Georg Rademacher, and Chigo Okonkwo, "Long Haul Transmission Using High Mode-count FMFs," IEEE Summer Topicals, WB1.2, Tulum, Jul. 2026.

Invited
[23]

Daniele Orsuti, Ruben S. Luıs, Benjamin J. Puttnam, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Phase-coherent transmission of wavelength- and space-division multiplexed channels with CW-seeded parametric optical frequency combs," IEEE Summer Topicals, WB2.1, Tulum, Jul. 2026.

Invited
[22]

Lucas Alves Zischler, Divya Ann Shaji, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Julian Schneck, Georg Rademacher, Ruben S. Luıs, Pierre Sillard, Luca Palmieri, Antonio Mecozzi, and Cristian Antonelli, "Characterization of Stimulated and Spontaneous Raman Scattering in Deployed Multi-Mode Fibers," IEEE Summer Topicals, TuB1.3, Tulum, Jul. 2026.

Invited
[21]

B. Kalla, R. S. Luıs, M. van den Hout, S. Gaiani, D. Orsuti, Y. Goto, G. Rademacher, B. J. Puttnam, A. Inoue, T. Nagashima, T. Hayashi, P. Boffi, T. Bradley, C. Okonkwo, and H. Furukawa, "Ultra-High-Capacity Long-Distance Transmission in a 19-Core Randomly-Coupled Multicore Fiber," IEEE Summer Topicals, TuB1.2, Jul. 2026.

[20]

D. Orsuti, R. A. Colares, R. S. Luıs, J. Sakaguchi, M. Cappelletti, L. Schenato, D. A. A. Mello, A. Galtarossa, M. Santagiustina, L. Palmieri, and H. Furukawa, "Distributed Fiber-Optic Acoustic Sensing in a 14-span, 688-km Link with EDFA-Based Bidirectional Repeaters," IEEE Summer Topicals, TuG2.3, Tulum, Jul. 2026.

Invited
[19]

Robert Emmerich, Antonia Schaller, Shekhar Saxen, Aleksandr Donodin, Mingming Tan, Ruben S. Luis, Wladek Forysiak, Ian Phillips, Colja Schubert, Sergei Turitsyn, and Ronald Freund, "Characterization and Comparison of Lithium Niobate Dual-Polarization In-Phase Quadrature Modulators for Transmission Systems from O- to U-Band," IEEE Summer Topicals, TuB1.4, Tulum, Jul. 2026.

Invited
[18]

Robert Emmerich, Antonia Schaller, Shekhar Saxen, Aleksandr Donodin, Mingming Tan, Ruben S. Luis, Wladek Forysiak, Ian Phillips, Colja Schubert, Sergei Turitsyn, and Ronald Freund, "Characterization and Comparison of Lithium Niobate Dual-Polarization In-Phase Quadrature Modulators for Transmission Systems from O- to U-Band," IEEE Summer Topicals, TuB1.4, Tulum, Jul. 2026.

[17]

Shoichiro Oda, Anthony Brasi, Yusuke Hirota, Hideaki Kotake, Satoshi Shinada, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Analysis on Benefit of Introducing WDM into Inter-satellite All-optical Networks," Opto-electronics and Communications Conference (OECC2026), We2C-1, Busan, Jul. 2026.

[16]

Anthony Brasi, Shoichiro Oda, Yusuke Hirota, Hideaki Kotake, Satoshi Shinada, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Demonstration of Rate-Adaptive, Multi-Rate Quality-of-Transmission Estimation in Inter Satellite All Optical Networks," Opto-electronics and Communications Conference (OECC2026), We2C-3, Busan, Jul. 2026.

[15]

Katsuyoshi Sakaime, Ryo Nagase, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Optical Characteristics of SC-Type End-Capped Hollow-Core Fiber Connector," Opto-electronics and Communications Conference (OECC2026), Busan, Jul. 2026.

[14]

Jun Sakaguchi and Hideaki Furukawa, "Inter-core Spontaneous Raman Scattering in Multi-band Multi-core Fiber Optical Systems," Opto-electronics and Communications Conference (OECC2026), Tu3B-3, Busan, Jun. 2026.

Invited
[13]

Sugang Xu, Yusuke Hirota, Subhadeep Sahoo, Noboru Yoshikane, Xiaocheng Zhang, Angela Mitrovska, Behnam Shariati, Yuki Yoshida, Taiga Suzuki, Masaki Shiraiwa, Sifat Ferdousi, Takehiro Tsuritani, Shigenari Suzuki, Pooyan Safari, Johannes K. Fischer, Ronald Freund, Massimo Tornatore, Biswanath Mukherjee, and Yoshinari Awaji, "Resilience Enhancement of Optical Networks via Collaborative Resource and Data Sharing," Opto-electronics and Communications Conference (OECC2026), Tu1C-3, Busan, Jun. 2026.

[12]

Kota Kurome, Shoichiro Oda, Satoshi Shinada, and Ken Mishina, "Nonlinear Distortion Compensation in Optical Fibers for Inter-satellite All-optical Networks," Opto-electronics and Communications Conference (OECC2026), P1-53, Busan, Jun. 2026.

Invited
[11]

Daniele Orsuti, Luca Palmieri, Ruben S. Luıs, Martina Cappelletti, Marco Santagiustina, Luca Schenato, Andrea Galtarossa, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Distributed Acoustic Sensing and High-Capacity Transmission over EDFA-Repeatered Links," Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics (ICOP2026), W1A.1, L'Aquila, Jun. 2026.

Invited
[10]

G. Di Sciullo, R. S. Luis, M. van den Hout, R. Emmerich, N. Braig-Christophersen, Q. Wu, B. J. Puttnam, D. A. Shaji, A. Marotta, F. Graziosi, A. Mecozzi, C. Schubert, T. Hayashi, T. Nagashima, C. Okonkwo, G. Rademacher, M. Shtaif, C. Lasagni, P. Serena, A. Nespola, H. Furukawa, and C. Antonelli, "S+C+L-Band Transmission over a Field-Deployed Coupled-Core Multi-Core Fiber," Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics (ICOP2026), T2C.2, L'Aquila, Jun. 2026.

[9]

S. Gaiani, R. S. Luis, B. Kalla, D. Orsuti, M. v. d. Hout, H. Che, N. K. Fontaine, R. Ryf, P. Sillard, G. Rademacher, T. Bradley, C. Okonkwo, A. Gatto, P. Parolari, P. Boffi, and H. Furukawa, "High-Capacity Transmission over Flexible Heterogeneous Multimode Systems Enabled by Simplified MIMO Approaches," Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics (ICOP2026), T2C.3, L'Aquila, Jun. 2026.

[8]

D. Shaji, M. van den Hout, Q. Moonen, V. van Vliet, G. Di Sciullo, L. A. Zischler, J. Schneck, R. Luis, H. Furukawa, G. Rademacher, C. Okonkwo, A. Mecozzi, and C. Antonelli, "Mode-Resolved Raman Gain Profiling of a Multimode Fiber," Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics (ICOP2026), T2C.4, L'Aquila, Jun. 2026.

[7]

Ibrahim Mohamed Ramadan, Giammarco Di Sciullo, Qi Wu, Domenico Ribezzo, Divya Ann Shaji, Lucas Alves Zischler, Ruben S. Luis, Paolo Serena, Chiara Lasagni, Alberto Bononi, Tetsuya Hayashi, Alessandro Gagliano, Paolo Martelli, Alberto Gatto, Paola Parolari, Pierpaolo Boffi, Andrea Marotta, Carlo Centofanti, Fabio Graziosi, Antonio Mecozzi, and Cristian Antonelli, "Field Demonstration of Real-time Encryption Coexisting with QKD-Classical over Multi-Core Fiber," Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics (ICOP2026), T3B.25, L'Aquila, Jun. 2026.

Invited
[6]

R. Emmerich, S. Saxena, A. Donodin, M. Tan, R. S. Luis, W. Forysiak, I. Phillips, C. Schubert, S. Turitsyn, and R. Freund, "400 nm O- to U-band characterization of dual-polarization lithium-niobate in-phase quadrature modulators," Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics (ICOP2026), T1C.1, L'Aauila, Jun. 2026.

[5]

Werner Klaus, Masanori Koshiba, Peter J. Winzer, and Hideaki Furukawa, "Multicore Fiber Crosstalk with Longitudinally Varying Mode Coupling Coefficient," Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics (ICOP2026), L'Aquila, Jun. 2026.

[4]

R. S. Luis, "A quest for capacity: SDM and beyond," Italian Conference on Optics and Photonics (ICOP2026), L'Aquila, Jun. 2026.

[3]

Ruben S. Luis and Hideaki Furukawa, "On the Spectral Efficiency of Spatial Division Multiplexing Systems Beyond the C and L Bands," IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, pp. PS1-20, Sao Miguel, May 2026.

[2]

Kota Kurome, Shoichio Oda, Satoshi Shinada, and Ken Mishina, "Effects of Nonlinear Distortion in Optical Fibers for All-Optical Inter-Satellite Networks," All Photonic Network Workshop 2026, Taipei, May 2026.

Keynote
[1]

Ruben S. Luis, "The Role of Ultra-Wideband and Spatial Division Multiplexing in Evolving Fiber Networks," International Conference on Optical Network Design and Modelling, Munich, May 2026.