FY 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.




Invited
[19]

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
[18]

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
[17]

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
[16]

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
[15]

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.

[14]

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
[13]

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
[12]

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
[11]

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.

Invited
[10]

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
[9]

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.

[8]

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.

[7]

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.

[6]

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
[5]

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.

[4]

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.

[3]

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

[2]

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.

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.