1. En hommage à Jean-Claude Bic

   Announcement Pages: 1542 - 1543

2. Forewords

   • Yves Jaouën
   • Michel Joindot

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1544 - 1546

3. Éditorial

   • Yves Jaouën
   • Michel Joindot

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1547 - 1549

4. Europeanist-programme roadmap for optical communications generated by theoptimist thematic network

   • Ann Ackaert
   • Piet Demeester
   • Didier Erasme

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1550 - 1585

5. Optical communication and fiber design

   • Pascale Nouchi
   • Bruno Dany
   • Alain Bertaina

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1586 - 1602

6. Optical fiber amplification technology

   • Dominique Bayart

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1603 - 1639

7. High power cladding-pumped Er³⁺/Yb³⁺ fiber amplifiers: technologies, performances and impact of nonlinear effects

   • Yves Jaouën
   • Sylvain Bordais
   • Jean -Yves Allain

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1640 - 1666

8. Ultra-fast quantum-well saturable absorber devices and their application to all-optical regeneration of telecommunication optical signals

   • Jean -Louis Oudar
   • Guy Aubin
   • Olivier Leclerc

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1667 - 1707

9. All-optical regeneration techniques

   • Jean -Claude Simon
   • Laurent Bramerie
   • Marie -Laure Chares

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1708 - 1724

10. State of the art and future ofWDM transmission

    • Michel Joindot

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1725 - 1756

11. Design of multi-terabit/s terrestrial transmission systems facilitated by simple analytical tools

    • Sébastien Bigo
    • Yann Frignac
    • Gabriel Charlet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1757 - 1784

12. On the designing of densely dispersion-managed optical fiber systems for ultrafast optical communication

    • Patrice Tchofo Dinda
    • Alexis Labruyere
    • Guy Millot

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1785 - 1808

13. Optics: finding the best fit in telecom transport networks

    • Amaury Jourdan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1809 - 1828

14. Optical networking in CESNET2 gigabit network

    • Jan Radil
    • Leoš Boháč
    • Miroslav Karásek

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1829 - 1848

15. Space applications of optical communications

    • Emmanuel Sein
    • Gilles Planche
    • Toni Tolker-Nielsen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1849 - 1872

16. Direct-sequence code division multiple access: From radio communications to optical networks

    • Mounia Lourdiane
    • Philippe Gallion
    • Robert Vallet

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1873 - 1897

17. Note d’information

    • Philippe Gallion
    • Jean -Louis Oudar
    • Jean -Claude Simon

    Announcement Pages: 1898 - 1899

18. Résumés de thèse

    Abstract Pages: 1900 - 1900