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Akihide Sano is affiliated with Ritsumeikan University in Japan. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a particular focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
  • PAPR reduction in OFDM
  • Optical Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics

Akihide Sano has contributed to multiple publications, frequently publishing in venues such as:

  • IEICE Communications Express
  • IEICE Transactions on Communications
  • 2022 27th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and 2022 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC)

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Akihide Sano include:

  • "Nonlinearity Mitigation of PDM-16QAM Signals Using Multiple CSI-OPCs in Ultra-Long-Haul Transmission without Excess Penalty," 2020, IEICE Transactions on Communications
  • "Pumping scheme for Ultra-Wideband WDM Transmission Using Distributed Raman Amplification," 2022, 2022 27th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and 2022 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC)
  • "Pumping scheme for ultra-wideband WDM transmission using distributed Raman amplification," 2023, IEICE Communications Express
  • "Polarization crosstalk canceller for forward-pumping distributed Raman amplification," 2020, IEICE Communications Express
  • "Long-haul transmission using counter-pumped distributed Raman ring laser amplification," 2020, IEICE Communications Express

Collaborations have occurred frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Yutaka Miyamoto
  • Kenta Nishikimi
  • Takeshi Umeki
  • Takayuki Kobayashi
  • Takuya Ikuta

Best Publications

  • 1.01-Pb/s (12 SDM/222 WDM/456 Gb/s) Crosstalk-managed Transmission with 91.4-b/s/Hz Aggregate Spectral Efficiency

    Hidehiko Takara;Akihide Sano;Takayuki Kobayashi;Hirokazu Kubota

  • Coherent Optical Single Carrier Transmission Using Overlap Frequency Domain Equalization for Long-Haul Optical Systems

    R. Kudo;T. Kobayashi;K. Ishihara;Y. Takatori

  • 102.3-Tb/s (224 × 548-Gb/s) C- and extended L-band all-Raman transmission over 240 km using PDM-64QAM single carrier FDM with digital pilot tone

    A. Sano;T. Kobayashi;S. Yamanaka;A. Matsuura

  • No-Guard-Interval Coherent Optical OFDM for 100-Gb/s Long-Haul WDM Transmission

    A. Sano;E. Yamada;H. Masuda;E. Yamazaki

  • 320 Gbit/s (8 × 40 Gbit/s) WDM transmission over 367 km with 120 km repeater spacing using carrier-suppressed return-to-zero format

    Y. Miyamoto;A. Hirano;K. Yonenaga;A. Sano

  • 69.1-Tb/s (432 × 171-Gb/s) C- and extended L-band transmission over 240 km Using PDM-16-QAM modulation and digital coherent detection

    A. Sano;H. Masuda;T. Kobayashi;M. Fujiwara

  • Dense Space-Division Multiplexed Transmission Systems Using Multi-Core and Multi-Mode Fiber

    Takayuki Mizuno;Hidehiko Takara;Akihide Sano;Yutaka Miyamoto

  • 12-core × 3-mode dense space division multiplexed transmission over 40 km employing multi-carrier signals with parallel MIMO equalization

    Takayuki Mizuno;Takayuki Kobayashi;Hidehiko Takara;Akihide Sano

  • Dense Space Division Multiplexed Transmission Over Multicore and Multimode Fiber for Long-haul Transport Systems

    Takayuki Mizuno;Hidehiko Takara;Kohki Shibahara;Akihide Sano

  • 2 × 344 Tb/s propagation-direction interleaved transmission over 1500-km MCF enhanced by multicarrier full electric-field digital back-propagation

    T. Kobayashi;H. Takara;A. Sano;T. Mizuno

  • Crosstalk-Managed High Capacity Long Haul Multicore Fiber Transmission With Propagation-Direction Interleaving

    Akihide Sano;Hidehiko Takara;Takayuki Kobayashi;Yutaka Miyamoto

  • 409-Tb/s + 409-Tb/s crosstalk suppressed bidirectional MCF transmission over 450 km using propagation-direction interleaving

    Akihide Sano;Hidehiko Takara;Takayuki Kobayashi;Hiroto Kawakami

  • 1-Pb/s (32 SDM/46 WDM/768 Gb/s) C-band dense SDM transmission over 205.6-km of single-mode heterogeneous multi-core fiber using 96-Gbaud PDM-16QAM channels

    T. Kobayashi;M. Nakamura;F. Hamaoka;K. Shibahara

  • 240-Gb/s polarization-multiplexed 64-QAM modulation and blind detection using PLC-LN hybrid integrated modulator and digital coherent receiver

    Akihide Sano;Takayuki Kobayashi;Koichi Ishihara;Hiroji Masuda

  • 20.4-Tb/s (204 × 111 Gb/s) Transmission over 240 km Using Bandwidth-Maximized Hybrid Raman/EDFAs

    Hiroji Masuda;Akihide Sano;Takayuki Kobayashi;Eiji Yoshida

  • 13.5-Tb/s (135 × 111-Gb/s/ch) no-guard-interval coherent OFDM transmission over 6,248 km using SNR maximized second-order DRA in the extended L-band

    H. Masuda;E. Yamazaki;A. Sano;T. Yoshimatsu

  • Ultra-High Capacity WDM Transmission Using Spectrally-Efficient PDM 16-QAM Modulation and C- and Extended L-Band Wideband Optical Amplification

    Akihide Sano;Hiroji Masuda;Takayuki Kobayashi;Masamichi Fujiwara

  • Very high-speed light-source module up to 40 Gb/s containing an MQW electroabsorption modulator integrated with a DFB laser

    H. Takeuchi;K. Tsuzuki;K. Sato;M. Yamamoto

  • 30 x 100-Gb/s all-optical OFDM transmission over 1300 km SMF with 10 ROADM nodes

    A. Sano;H. Masuda;E. Yoshida;T. Kobayashi

  • Frequency-domain equalisation without guard interval for optical transmission systems

    K. Ishihara;T. Kobayashi;R. Kudo;Y. Takatori

  • Dense SDM (12-core × 3-mode) transmission over 527 km with 33.2-ns mode-dispersion employing low-complexity parallel MIMO frequency-domain equalization

    K. Shibahara;T. Mizuno;H. Takara;A. Sano

Frequent Co-Authors

Yutaka Miyamoto
Yutaka Miyamoto Harvard University
Hidehiko Takara
Hidehiko Takara NTT (Japan)
Toshio Morioka
Toshio Morioka Technical University of Denmark
Shoichiro Matsuo
Shoichiro Matsuo Fujikura (Japan)
Kunimasa Saitoh
Kunimasa Saitoh Hokkaido University
Taiichi Otsuji
Taiichi Otsuji Tohoku University
Ken-ichi Sato
Ken-ichi Sato Nagoya University
Katsuhiro Takenaga
Katsuhiro Takenaga Fujikura (United States)
Takatomo Enoki
Takatomo Enoki NTT (Japan)
Masanori Koshiba
Masanori Koshiba Hokkaido University

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