Publications

Y. Gao*, Abdullah S Karar, John C Cartledge, S. S-H Yam, Maurice O'Sullivan, Charles Laperle, Andrzej Borowiec, Kim Roberts, “Joint pre-compensation and selective post-compensation for fiber nonlinearities”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 26 (17), 1746-1749 (2014).

Y. Gao*, Abdullah S Karar, John C Cartledge, S. S-H Yam, Maurice O'Sullivan, Charles Laperle, Andrzej Borowiec, Kim Roberts, “Joint pre-compensation and selective post-compensation for fiber nonlinearities”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 26 (17), 1746-1749 (2014).

Y. Gao*, J. H. Ke, J. C. Cartledge, K. P. Zhong, and S. S.-H. Yam, "Implication of Parameter Values on Low-Pass Filter Assisted Digital Back Propagation for DP 16-QAM," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 25, pp. 917-920 (2013)

Y. Gao*, J. C. Cartledge, J. D. Downie, J. E. Hurley, D. Pikula, and S. S.-H. Yam, "Nonlinearity Compensation of 224 Gb/s Dual Polarization 16-QAM Transmission Over 2700 km," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 25, pp. 14-17 (2013)

Y. Gao*, J. H. Ke, K. P. Zhong, J. C. Cartledge, and S. S.-H. Yam, "Assessment of Intra-Channel Nonlinear Compensation for 112 Gb/s Dual Polarization 16QAM Systems," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technologies, vol. 30, pp. 3902-3910 (2012)

W. Chen*, J. Saunders, J. A. Barnes, S. S.-H. Yam, H.-P Loock, “Real-time vapour uptake monitoring by refractive index and thickness measurement in thin films”, OSA Optics Letters, Vol. 38, pp., issue 3, 365-367, 2013.

Yuangang Lu, Cunlei Li, Xuping Zhang, and S. S-H. Yam, “Determination of thermal residual strain in cabled optical fiber with high spatial resolution by Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry”, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Vol. 49, No. 9-10, pp. 1111-1117, (2011)

Changjian Guo, M. Nix, S. S-H. Yam, and Sailing He, “Picosecond and Sub-picosecond Flat-top Pulse Shaping Using Abrupt Taper Interferometers”, IEEE/OSA JLT, Vol. 28, No. 6, pp. 876-881, (2010)

J. A. Barnes, K. Bescherer, S. Dias, G. Gagliardi, H.–P. Loock, N. R. Trefiak, H. Waechter, and S. S-H. Yam, “Measurement of Multi-Exponential Decays by Phase-Shift Cavity Ring-Down”, OSA Applied Physics B: Laser and Optics, Vol. 96, No. 1, pp. 193-200, (2009).

Z. Tian*, M. Nix*, and S. S-H. Yam, “In-line optical fiber interferometric bend sensor based on connector-offset attenuator”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp.161-163 (2009)

Z. Tian*, and S. S-H. Yam, “In-line optical fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometric strain sensor based on concatenating two abrupt tapers”,IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp.161-163 (2009)

Z. Tian*, and S. S-H. Yam, “In-Line Optical Fiber Interferometric Refractive Index Sensors”,IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technologies, Vol. 27, No. 13, pp. 2296-2306 (July 2009)

J. A. Barnes, B. Carver, J. Fraser, G. Gagliardi, H.-P. Loock, Z. Tian, M. Wilson, S. S-H. Yam, and O. Yastrubshak, “Loss determination in microsphere resonators by phase-shift cavity ring-down measurements”, OSA Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 17, pp. 13158-13167 August 2008.

Z. Tian*, S. S-H. Yam, and H-P. Loock , “Single Mode Fiber Refractive Index Sensor Based on Core-Offset Attenuators”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 20, No. 16, pp. 1387-1389,August 2008.

Z. Tian*, S. S-H. Yam, H-P. Loock , “Refractive index sensor based on an abrupt taper Michelson interferometer in a single mode fiber”, OSA Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 10, pp. 1105-1107, May 2008.

Z. Tian*, S. S-H. Yam, J. Barnes, W. Bock, P. Greig, J. M. Fraser, H-P. Loock, and R. D. Oleschuk, "Refractive Index Sensing with Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Based on Concatenating Two Single Mode Fiber Tapers", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 626-628, April 2008.

S. S-H. Yam, X. Gu, W. Mohammed, and P. W. Smith, "Multimode Fiber Bragg Grating Filter in a 10 Gb/s System", accepted by IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 584-586, April 2008.

S. S-H. Yam, and Frank Achten, “Towards 100 Gb/s Ethernet over 3.4 km broad wavelength window multimode fiber”, IEEE/ OSA Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 527-534, May 2007.

S. S-H. Yam, Luay Thomas, Lawrence R. Chen, and Frank Achten, “Multi-user OCDMA system over broad wavelength window multimode fiber”, IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 239-240, Feb 2007.

S. S-H. Yam, and Frank Achten, “Single wavelength 40 Gb/s transmission over 3.4 km broad wavelength window multimode fiber”, IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 42, No. 10, pp. 592-594, May 2006.

S. S-H. Yam, Jaedon Kim, and D. Gutierrez , and Frank Achten, “Optical access network using centralized light source, single mode fiber + broad wavelength window multimode fiber”, IEEE/ OSA Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 5, No. 8, pp. 604-610, August 2006.

S. S-H. Yam, and Frank Achten, “High speed data transmission over 1 km broad wavelength window multimode fiber”, OSA Optics Letters, Vol. 31, Issue 13, pp. 1954-1956, July 2006.

S. S-H. Yam, and Jaedon Kim, “Ground State Absorption in Thulium-doped Fiber Amplifier: Experiment and Modeling”, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 797-803, July/ August 2006..

S. S-H. Yam, Y. Akasaka, H Inoue, and Y. Kubota, “Hybrid doped fiber amplifier with 100-nm bandwidth for coarse wavelength division multiplexing”, Optics Communications, Vol 249/4-6 pp 539-542, 2005.

S. S-H. Yam, Y. Akasaka, H Inoue, Y. Kubota, and K. Parameswaran, “Novel pumping schemes for fluoride-based Thulium-doped fiber amplifier at 690 nm and 1050 nm (or 1400 nm)”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 17, No. 5, pp. 1001-1003, May 2005.

Jaedon Kim, S. S-H. Yam, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky, “Numerical modeling of the transient response in Thulium-doped fiber amplifiers”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 17, No. 5, pp. 998-1000, May 2005.

F.-T. An; K.S. Kim, D. Gutierrez; S. S-H. Yam, E. S. Hu, K. Shrikhande, and L. G. Kazovsky, “SUCCESS: A Next-Generation Hybrid WDM/TDM Optical Access Network Architecture”, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 22, No. 11, pp. 2557-2569, November, 2004.

S. S.-H. Yam, J. Kim, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky, " Gain dynamics of 14xx nm pumped Thulium-doped fiber amplifier," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 16, No. 7, pp. 1646-1648, July, 2004.

S. S.-H. Yam, Y. Akasaka, J. Pan, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky, " Gain-clamped Thulium-doped fiber amplifier with a single pump at 1050nm," IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 40, Issue 1, pp. 13-14, January 2004.

S. S.-H. Yam, M. E. Marhic, Y. Akasaka, Katsuhiro Shimizu, Nobuhiku Kikuchi, and L. G. Kazovsky, "Raman fiber oscillator as optical amplifier," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 16, No. 6, pp. 1456-1458, June, 2004.

S. S.-H. Yam, M. E. Marhic, Y. Akasaka, and L. G. Kazovsky, "Gain-clamped S-band discrete Raman amplifier," OSA Optics Letters, Vol. 29, Issue 7, pp. 757-759, April 2004.

S. S.-H. Yam, Y. Akasaka, Y. Kubota, R.Huang, D. L. Harris, and J. Pan, " Transient dynamics of fluoride-based high concentration Erbium/ Cerium co-doped fiber amplifier," IEEE Photonic Technologies Letter, Feb, 2004.

S. S.-H. Yam, M. E. Marhic, Y. Akasaka, Katsuhiro Shimizu, Nobuhiku Kikuchi, and L. G. Kazovsky, "20dB intra-cavity net gain with Raman fiber oscillator," OSA Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications, 2003 TOPS vol. 92, pp. 89-93, 2003.

N. Kikuchi, K. K. Y. Wong, K. Uesaka, K. Shimizu, S. S.-H. Yam, E. S. Hu, M. Marhic and L. G. Kazovsky, "Novel in-service wavelength-band upgrade scheme for fiber Raman amplifier," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 15, No. 1, pp. 27-29, January, 2003.

S. S.-H. Yam, E. S. Hu, T. Sakamoto, M. E. Marhic, K. Y. Wong and L. G. Kazovsky, "XPM cancellation in tellurite and silica EDFAs by complementary modulation of twin carrier," OSA Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications, 2001 TOPS vol. 60, pp. 256-258, OSA, 2001.

Y. Gao*, Abdullah Karar, John C Cartledge, S. S.-H. Yam, Maurice O'Sullivan, Charles Laperle, Andrzej Borowiec, Kim Roberts, “Perturbation-Based Pre-compensation for Intra-channel Fiber Nonlinearities”, OSA Signal Processing in Photonic Communications, SW2C. 4, 2014.

Y. Gao, A. S. Karar, J. C. Cartledge, S. S.-H. Yam, M. O'Sullivan, C. Laperle, A. Borowiec, and K. Roberts, "Simplified Nonlinearity Pre-compensation Using a Modified Summation Criteria and Non-Uniform Power Profile," accepted Optical Fiber Communication Conference, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 March 2014, paper Tu3A.6.

Y. Gao, J. C. Cartledge, A. S. Karar, and S. S.-H. Yam, "Reducing the Complexity of Nonlinearity Pre-compensation Using Symmetric EDC and Pulse Shaping," European Conference on Optical Communication, London, U.K., 22-26 September 2013 (postdeadline paper).

Y. Gao, J. H. Ke, J. C. Cartledge, and S. S.-H. Yam, "Method for Determining the Low-Pass Filter Bandwidth for the Low-Pass Filter Assisted Digital Back Propagation Algorithm," European Conference on Optical Communication, London, U.K., 22-26 September 2013.

Y. Gao, J. H. Ke, J. C. Cartledge, and S. S.-H. Yam, "Low-Pass Filter Assisted Digital Back Propagation Algorithm for 112 Gb/s DP 16-QAM," OSA Signal Processing for Photonic Communications, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, 14-17 July 2013.

Y. Gao, J. H. Ke, K. P. Zhong, J. C. Cartledge, and S. S.-H. Yam, "Intra-Channel Nonlinear Compensation for 112 Gb/s Dual Polarization 16QAM Systems," IEEE Photonics Conference, Burlingame, CA, 23-27 September 2012.

M. Nix, and S. S.-H. Yam, "Flat-Top Pulse Generation Using 3-dB Abrupt Taper Interferometeric Pulse Shaper", IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2009), San Diego, CA, OWN2, March 2009

S. S-H. Yam, C. Qian*, M. Nix*, L. Huff, and B. Kose,, “Dynamic temporal response characterization in multimode fiber under offset launch conditions”, Queen’s Biannual Symposium in Communications (QBSC 2008), Kingston, ON, Session 3C, Paper 3, June 2008

Mike Nix* and S. S-H. Yam, “Highly Efficient Dual Wavelength Pumping Scheme for Thulium-Doped Fiber Amplifier”, IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society Annual Conference (LEOS 2006), Montreal, QC, October 29 - November 2, 2006.

Jack Barnes, Olivia Chiu, James M. Fraser, Hans-Peter Loock, Richard D. Oleschuk, Chen Qian*, Mark Wilson, S. S-H. Yam, and Oksana Yastrubchak, “Biochemical Signal Detection in Miniaturized Fluidic Systems by Integrated Microresonator”, The 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS 2006), WeD01.3, New York City, New York, August 30 - September 3, 2006

S. S-H. Yam, Jaedon Kim, and D. Gutierrez, “Multimode Fiber for Optical Access Network Applicaitons”, Queen’s Biannual Symposium in Communications (QBSC 2006), Kingston, ON, Session 3C, Paper 1, May 2006

J. Kim, S. S.-H. Yam, D. Gutierrez, F. Achten, and L. G. Kazovsky, “BER performance on access network using centralized light source and single mode + multi mode fiber”, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2006), Anaheim, CA, OTuC7, March 2006

S. S-H. Yam, Y. Akasaka, H Inoue, Y. Kubota, and K. Parameswaran “Novel pumping scheme study for fluoride-based Thulium-doped fiber amplifier at 690 nm”, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2005), Anaheim, CA, OWF4, March 2005.

S. S-H. Yam, Y. Akasaka, H Inoue, and Y. Kubota, “100-nm hybrid doped fiber amplifier for coarse wavelength division multiplexing”, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2005), Anaheim, CA, JWA16, March 2005.

Jaedon Kim, S. S-H. Yam, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky, “Numerical modeling of the transient response in Thulium-doped fiber amplifiers”, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2005), Anaheim, CA, OTuN4, March 2005.

Y. Akasaka, H Inoue, S. S-H. Yam, and Y. Kubota, “Thulium doped fiber amplifier for the first window from 790nm to 850nm with 690nm/1400nm dual pumping”, IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2005), Anaheim, CA, OWF3, March 2005.

S. S.-H. Yam, F.-T. An, S. Sinha, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky, " 40 Gb/s transmission over 140 m 62.5 ?m multimode fiber using polarization controlled launch," IEEE/OSA Conference on Laser and Electro-optics (CLEO 2004), San Francisco, CA, CTuEE5, May 2004.

S. S-H. Yam, M. E. Marhic, Y. Akasaka, and L. G. Kazovsky, “Gain-clamped gain-flattened discrete Raman amplifier”, IEEE/OSA Conference on Laser and Electro-optics (CLEO 2004), San Francisco, CA, CTuK5, May 2004.

S. S-H. Yam, C-J. Chen, G. Kalogerakis, I. M. White, Y. Akasaka, A. K Srivastava, Y. Sun,Y-J. Cheng, R. Monnard, G. C. Wilson, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky, “Transient control study of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers for reconfigurable DWDM networks”, IEEE/OSA Conference on Laser and Electro-optics (CLEO 2004), San Francisco, CA, CTuV4, May 2004.

S. S.-H. Yam, J. Kim, M. E. Marhic, Y. Akasaka, and L. G. Kazovsky, " 14xx nm pumped Thulium-doped fiber amplifier for bursty traffic applications," IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2004), Los Angels, CA, ThJ1, Feb, 2004.

S. S.-H. Yam, F.-T. An, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky, "Polarization sensitivity of 40 Gb/s transmission over short-reach 62.5 ?m multimode fiber using single-mode transceivers," IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2004), Los Angels, CA, FA4, Feb, 2004.

S. S.-H. Yam, M. Rogge, J. Kim, E. Montgomery, and L. G. Kazovsky, “40Gbps/wavelength transmission over multimode fiber for optical backplane applications.”, IASTED International Conference on Communications, Internet and Information Technologies (CIIT’ 2003), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, Nov 2003.

S. S.-H. Yam, Y. Akasaka, Y. Kubota, R.Huang, D. L. Harris, and J. Pan, "Transient dynamics of fluoride-based high concentration Erbium/ Cerium co-doped fiber amplifier," OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), Shanghai, PRC, Oct, 2003.

S. S.-H. Yam, M. E. Marhic, Y. Akasaka, Katsuhiro Shimizu, Nobuhiku Kikuchi, and L. G. Kazovsky, "20dB intra-cavity net gain with Raman fiber oscillator," OSA Optical amplifiers and their applications (OAA 2003), Otaru, Japan, June, 2003.

S. S.-H. Yam, Y. Akasaka, G. Kalogerakis, M. E. Marhic, J. Pan and L. G. Kazovsky, " Frequency comb generation by CW laser diode," IEEE/OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics (CLEO 2003), Baltimore, MD, June, 2003.

S. S.-H. Yam, Y. Akasaka, J. Pan, F.-T. An, M. E. Marhic, and L. G. Kazovsky, "Gain-clamped Thulium-doped fiber amplifier with a single pump at 1050nm," IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2003), Atlanta, GA, March, 2003.

Y. Akasaka, R. Huang, D. L. Harris, S. S.-H. Yam and L. G. Kazovsky, "New pumping scheme on distributed Raman amplifier over novel transmission fiber aimed at 40Gb/s based terrestrial network," European Conference Optical Communications (ECOC 2002), Copenhagen, Denmark, p. 5.2.1, September, 2002.

S. S.-H. Yam, M. E. Marhic, T. Sakamoto, E. S.-T. Hu, Y. Akasaka and L. G. Kazovsky, "Comparison of four wave mixing and cross phase modulation in thulium doped fiber amplifier and S-band discrete Raman amplifier," OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), Yokohama, Japan, pp. 9D1-4, June, 2002.

S. S.-H. Yam, F.-T. An, E. S. Hu, Y. Akasaka, M. E. Marhic, T. Sakamoto and L. G. Kazovsky, "Gain-clamped S-band discrete Raman amplifier," IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2002), Anaheim, CA, p. ThB4, March, 2002.

Y. Akasaka and S. S.-H. Yam, "Gain bandwidth expansion to S-plus band using fiber OPA pumped by gain-clamping signal of a GS-TDFA," IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2002), Anaheim, CA, p. ThGG30, March, 2002.

E. S. Hu, T. Sakamoto, S. S.-H. Yam, F.-T. An, M. E. Marhic and L. G. Kazovsky, "Fast transient response of L-band Tellurite-based EDFAs and their optically gain-clamped behavior," IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2002), Anaheim, CA, p. ThR3, March, 2002.

S. S.-H. Yam, E. S. Hu, T. Sakamoto, M. E. Marhic, K. Y. Wong and L. G. Kazovsky, "XPM cancellation in tellurite and silica EDFAs by complementary modulation of twin carrier," OSA Optical amplifiers and their applications (OAA 2001), Stresa, Italy, pp. OMD4-1, June, 2001.

K. Shrikhande, I. M. White, M. Rogge, F.-T. An, E. S. Hu, S. S.-H. Yam and L. G. Kazovsky, "Performance Demonstration of a Fast-Tunable Transmitter and Burst-Mode Packet Receiver for HORNET," IEEE/OSA Optical Fiber Communications conference, Anaheim, CA, pp. ThG2-1, March, 2001.

Weijian Chen, John E. Saunders, Chris Brauer, Jack A. Barnes, Scott S.-H. Yam, and Hans-Peter Loock, " Real-Time Chemical Sensing by RI and Thickness Measurements of Polymer Films," Photonics North 2013, Ottawa

W. Chen, J. Saunders, C. Brauer, J. Barnes, S. Yam, H.-P. Loock , and D.-X. Xu, "Real-time Chemical Sensing on Miniaturized Resonators and Interferometers", The 28th Annual Symposium on Chemical Physics, Waterloo, November 2-4, 2012.

S. S-H. Yam, and M. Nix, “Time Domain Sensing in Abrupt Fiber Taper based Mach-Zehnder”, SPIE 2008 International Conference of Optical Instrumentation and Technology, Beijing, November 2008. (invited talk)

J. A. Barnes, B. Carver, J. Fraser, G. Gagliardi, H.-P. Loock, Z. Tian, M. Wilson, S. S-H. Yam, and O. Yastrubshak, “phase-shift measurements applied to loss determination in microsphere resonators”, SPIE Photonic North, Montreal, QC, Canda, paper OSD-3-3-4, June 2008

Z. Tian*, and S. S-H. Yam, “Abrupt Fiber Taper based Michelson Interferometric Deflection Sensor”, SPIE Photonic North, Montreal, QC, Canda, paper OSD-3-4-4, June 2008

M. Nix*, C. Qian*, S. S-H. Yam, L. Huff, and B. Kose, “Modal noise improvement in 10-Gb/s offset launch in multimode fiber link with multimode fiber taper”, SPIE Photonic North, Montreal, QC, Canda, paper OPTO-4-8-1, June 2008 (invited talk)

S. S.-H. Yam, C. Hnatovsky, R. Taylor, and F.-T. An, and S. Sinha “Impact of Refractive Index Profile Defects on Transmission Performance in Installed Multimode Fiber," SPIE Photonics North Symposium, Toronto, ON, Canada, paper 5970-64 September 12, 2005.