About author:Wei-Ren Peng (pe-weiren@kddilabs.jp) received his BSEE degree from National Taiwan University in 2001 and his MS and PhD degrees in electro-optical engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2003 and 2008. In 2007, he was a visiting researcher at the Optical Communications Laboratory at the University of Southern California. There he conducted experiments on optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (O-OFDM) under the supervision of professor Alan Willner. In 2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and focused on analyzing the perfonmance of optical OFDM transmission. He joined KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc. in Feb, 2010 and worked as an associate researcher. Dr. Peng has authored or coauthored more than 80 papers in prestigious journals. He is a peer reviewer for the IEEE and OSA. His research interests include digital impairment compensation for single-carrier and multicarrier transmission.
Itsuro Morita (M’08) (morita@kddilabs.jp) received his BE, ME, and PhD degrees in electronic engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology 1990, 1992, and 2005. He joined Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD) Company Ltd. (now KDDI Corporation), Tokyo, in 1992 and has worked in the research and development laboratories there since 1994. He has conducted research on long-distance and high-speed optical communication systems. In 1998, he was on leave at Stanford University, CA.
Hidenori Takahashi (M’08) (takahashi@kddilabs.jp) received his BE and ME degrees in electronic engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1998 and 2000. He became a member of KDD R&D Laboratories Inc. (now KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.) in 2000. From 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting researcher and a fellow of Advanced Study Program (ASP) of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is involved in the research and development of silica-based planar waveguide devices, especially the tunable chromatic dispersion compensator. He also researches optical coherent OFDM transmission technologies. Dr. Takahashi is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers of Japan (IEICE). He received the best paper award of the 7th International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN ’08).
Takehiro Tsuritani (tsuri@kddilabs.jp) received his ME and PhD degrees in electronics engineering from Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan, in 1997 and 2006. He joined Kokusai Denshin Denwa (KDD) Company, Limited (now KDDI Corporation), Tokyo, Japan, in 1997. Since 1998, he has been working at KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., conducting research on long-haul wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) transmission systems and designing and modeling photonic networks.
