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A. Et-À-la-conclusion-de-cette-aventure-scientifique, je tiens également à remercier vivement Yves Jaouen, qui m'a tout d'abord aiguillé vers les laboratoires d'Alcatel en 1999 alors que j'étais à la recherche d'un stage sur les solitons, et qui, « quelques » années plus tard, a accepté d'être mon directeur de thèse, J'ai particulièrement apprécié les discussions que nous avons eues pour transformer une vaste quantité d'informations accumulée sur 10 ans en un manuscrit qui devienne véritablement « lisible

C. Je-tiens-Également-À-remercier-vivement-michel-joindot and . Finot, Badr-Eddine Benkelfat, Erwan Pincemin et Alberto Bononi qui m'ont fait l'honneur de constituer

. Dans-le-même-temps, les travaux que nous avons pu mener ont été constamment enrichis de discussions avancées et passionnées avec des représentants éminents de l'Université de Parme, grands spécialistes des effets non-linéaires dans les systèmes de transmissions optiques

. Et-pour-finir, je tiens à remercier ceux qui m'ont supporté (à tous les sens du terme) ces derniers temps lors de la réalisation de ces travaux et pendant le long processus de maturation du manuscrit, c'est à dire les membres du groupe Réseaux Optiques Dynamiques

P. Pecci, S. Lanne, Y. Frignac, J. Antona, G. Charlet et al., Tolerance to dispersion compensation parameters of six modulation formats in systems operating at 43Gbit/s, Electronics Letters, vol.39, issue.25, 2003.

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S. Bigo, Y. Frignac, J. Antona, and G. Charlet, Design of multi-terabit/s terrestrial transmission systems facilitated by simple analytical tools, Annales des Télécommunications, 2003.

D. Penninckx, G. Charlet, J. Antona, and L. Noirie, Simple engineering rules for a transparent waveband-based optical backbone network, Journal of Optical Networking, vol.2, issue.2, pp.38-45, 2003.
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J. Livas, J. Antona, M. Bortz, R. Dodd, P. Peloso et al., Optical transmission evolution: From digital to analog to? Network tradeoffs between optical transparency and reduced regeneration cost, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol.23, issue.1, 2005.
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M. Lefrançois, E. Barnasson, G. Charlet, J. Antona, and S. Bigo, Numerical discrimination of intrachannel cross-phase modulation and intrachannel four-wave mixing and their respective effect on 40Gb/s transmissions, Optics Letters, vol.31, issue.4, 2006.

J. Antona and S. Bigo, Physical design and performance estimation of heterogeneous optical transmission systems, Comptes Rendus Physique, vol.9, issue.9-10, 2008.
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A. Morea, F. Leplingard, J. Antona, P. Henri, T. Zami et al., Advanced Testbeds to Validate Physical Estimators in Heterogeneous Long Haul Transparent Optical Networks, Journal Of Networks, pp.1335-1342, 2010.

F. Vacondio, O. Rival, C. Simonneau, L. Lorcy, E. Grellier et al., On nonlinear distortions of coherent systems Conferences 13 Enhanced Phase-Shaped Binary Transmission Modulation Format for Dispersion-Managed WDM Systems, Proc. of ECOC'00 (European Conf. on Optical Communications), pp.1022-1032, 2000.

Y. Frignac, J. Antona, S. Bigo, and J. Hamaide, Numerical optimization of preand inline-dispersion compensation in dispersion-managed systems at 40Gb/s, Proc, 2002.

D. Penninckx, G. Charlet, J. Antona, and L. Noirie, Experimental validation of a transparent waveband-based optical backbone network, Proc. of ECOC'02, paper 6.4, 2002.
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S. Hamaide and . Bigo, 6.4Tb/s (159x42.7Gb/s) Capacity over 21x100km using Bandwidth-Limited Phase-Shaped Binary Transmission, Proc. of ECOC'02, 2002.

W. Idler and J. Antona, Record Spectral efficiencies and transmission capacities based on Nx43Gb/s systems, IEEE LEOS annual meeting, 2002.

C. Martinelli, G. Charlet, L. Pierre, J. Antona, and D. Bayart, System impairment of double-Rayleigh scattering and dependence on modulation format, OFC 2003 Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003., 2003.
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G. Charlet, J. Antona, S. Lanne, and S. Bigo, From 2100 to 2700km distance using Bandwidth-Limited Phase-Shaped Binary Transmission at 6.3Tb/s capacity, Proc. of OFC'2003, paper WE3, 2003.
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G. Charlet, S. Lanne, L. Pierre, C. Simonneau, P. Tran et al., Cost- Optimized 6.3Tbit/s-capacity terrestrial link over 17x100km using Phase-Shaped Binary Transmission in a conventional all-EDFA SMF-based system, 2003.

G. Charlet, J. Thiery, P. Tran, H. Mardoyan, J. Antona et al., 80x10.7Gbit/s with NRZ, RZ and RZ-DPSK formats over sixty 100-km long terrestrial (non dispersion managed) fibre spans with all-Raman amplification, OAA'03 post-deadline PD1, 2003.

P. Serena, J. Antona, S. Bigo, and A. Bononi, PARAMETRIC GAIN IMPAIRMENTS IN 10 Gb/s CODED OPTICAL SYSTEMS WORKING AT LOW SIGNAL-TO- NOISE RATIOS, Proc. ECOC'2003, paper Tu4.2.6, 2003.

P. Pecci, S. Lanne, Y. Frignac, J. Antona, G. Charlet et al., Tolerance to dispersion compensation parameters of six modulation formats in systems operating at 43Gb/s, 2003.

Y. Frignac, J. Antona, and S. Bigo, Enhanced analytical engineering rule for fast optimization of dispersion maps in 40 Gbit/s-based transmission systems, 2004.

P. Sillard, B. Dany, A. Bertaina, L. Curinckx, C. Bastide et al., Simple criterion of quality to evaluate DCM impact on WDM system performance, 2004.

P. Peloso, D. Penninckx, M. Prunaire, and J. Antona, Relevant pre and/or post compensation strategies for implementing transparency in heterogeneous backbone networks, 2004.

T. Zami, J. Antona, P. Peloso, E. Le-rouzic, A. Morea et al., Dimensioning of WDM transparent networks based on the Quality of Transmission in the framework of the french RYTHME project

A. Bononi, P. Serena, J. Antona, and S. Bigo, Revisiting nonlinear interactions between signal and noise in presence of FEC, The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEELasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004., 2004.
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P. Sillard, P. Nouchi, J. C. Antona, and S. Bigo, Modeling the non-linear index of optical fibres, OFC'05, p.4, 2005.

A. Bononi, P. Serena, J. Antona, and S. Bigo, Implications of Nonlinear Interaction of Signal and Noise in Low-OSNR Transmission Systems with FEC, OFC'05, Invited Paper OThW5, 2005.

L. A. De-montmorillon, P. Sillard, M. Astruc-bigot, B. Dany, P. Nouchi et al., Transmission fibre optimized for metro optical network, pp.5-6, 2005.

M. Lefrançois, E. Barnasson, G. Charlet, J. Antona, and S. Bigo, Relative Impact of the Different Intrachannel Nonlinear Effects over 43 Gb/s Transmissions with Varying Fibre Dispersion, Ecoc'05, 2005.

J. Antona, S. Bigo, and A. S. Jehanno, Performance Evaluation of WDM Transparent Networks Incorporating Various Fibre Types, 2006 European Conference on Optical Communications, 2006.
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E. Seve, J. Antona, and T. Zami, Do's and Don'ts for the Emulation of Four-Wave Mixing in 10Gb/s WDM Systems Based on Low-Dispersion Fibre, p.96, 2007.

J. Antona, G. Charlet, and S. Bigo, Next Generation Terabit/s-class transmission systems, SPIE APOC'07 (Asia-Pacific Optical Communication conference), 2007.
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J. Antona, E. Sève, A. Pitilakis, P. Ramantanis, and S. Bigo, Design and Performance Prediction in Meshed Networks with Mixed Fibre Types, OFC'08, paper JThA49

P. Sillard, J. C. Antona, and S. Bigo, Optimized Chromatic Dispersion of DCMs in WDM Transmission Systems at 40Gbps " , OFC'08, paper JWA13

E. Grellier, J. Antona, S. Bigo, and A. Bononi, Revisiting Binary Sequence Length Requirements for the Accurate Emulation of Highly Dispersive Optical Transmission Systems, SPIE Proc. APOC 2008, Asia-Pacific conference on Optical Commnications, 2008.

J. Antona, G. Charlet, and S. Bigo, Long-haul 100Gb/s coherent transmission experiments, Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems VI, 2008.
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E. Grellier, J. Antona, and S. Bigo, Revisiting the evaluation of non-linear propagation impairments in highly dispersive systems, Proc. ECOC'09, 2009.

J. Antona, Key technologies for current and future optical networks " , plenary talk at TWEPP'09 (Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics), 2009.

J. Antona, T. Zami, F. Leplingard, and . Morea, Physical impairment-aware transparent optical networks, SPIE Proc. APOC 2009, Asia-Pacific conference on Optical Commnications
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P. Henri, C. Simonneau, F. Leplingard, and J. Antona, Experimental investigation of the quality of transmission in transparent mesh networks with mixed fibre types, Proc. OFC 2010, JThA1, 2010.

F. Vacondio, C. Simonneau, L. Lorcy, J. Antona, A. Bononi et al., Experimental characterization of Gaussian-distributed nonlinear distortions Switzerland Active Patents 6 active patents Ctry Title Inventor(s) File Date Issue Date Expiry Date Patent No US Adaptive Pre, Proc. ECOC 2011, 2011.

C. , G. ;. Antona, and . Jean-christophe, FR Optical network with self learning of its quality, p.8, 2008.