Invited Speakers
OFC/NFOEC invited speakers are chosen through a highly selective nominations process to keep attendees at the forefront of optical communications. This year’s exciting lineup of speakers will cover various topics in the categories below. Check back often; speakers are still being confirmed.
1. Optical Network Applications and Services
2. Network Technologies and Applications
3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment and Applications
5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
6. Fiber and Waveguide Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors
7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Interconnects
8. Optoelectronic Devices
9. Digital Transmission Systems
10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
12. Core Networks
13. Access Networks
14. Optical Networking, Technologies, and Applications for Datacom and Computercom
Also, see the Plenary, Symposia, Market Watch, Service Provider Summit, Short Courses and other Show Floor Activities pages for additional speakers!
Category 1. Optical Network Applications and Services (Invited)
Watch Kathy Tse, AT&T, USA, Discusses Highlights of This Year's Category 1 - Optical Network Applications and Services Technical Program
Bandwidth for Next Generation IP MPLS Backbones, Sherry McCaughan;
AT&T, USA
Developments on a Submarine Neutrino Sensor-Based Network, Claude Vallee ;
CPPM IN2P3, France
Optical Network Evolving towards Smart Network in Korea, Hyungjin Park;
Korea Telecomm, S. Korea
Studies On the Application of OTN in China Telecom, Ruiquan Jing;
China Telecom Beijing Research Inst., China
The Telefonica International Wholesale Services (TIWS) Network, Guillermo Cañete ;
Telefonica, Spain
World-wide Networking for LHC Data Processing, Artur Barczyk ;
California Inst. of Tech., USA
Category 1 Workshops and Panels |
Category 1 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 1 Short Courses
Category 2. Network Technologies and Applications (Invited)
100G OTN Technology and Deployment for Carrier Networks, Fei Zhu;
Huawei Tech., USA
Advanced ROADM Networks, Mark D. Feuer ;
AT&T Labs, USA
DSP Aspects for Deployment of 100G-DWDM Systems in Carrier Networks, Masahito Tomizawa;
NTT, Japan
MPLS-TP: Where are we?, Andrew G. Malis;
Verizon Communications, Inc. , USA
Next Generation CFP Modules, Chris Cole;
Finisar, USA
Overview of the Common Electrical Interface (CEI) Specification for Next Generation 25 Gb/s Serial Interfaces, David Stauffer;
IBM, USA
The Challenge for the Next Generation OTN Based on 400Gbps and Beyond, Yutaka Miyamoto;
NTT, Japan
Category 2 Workshops and Panels |
Category 2 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 2 Short Courses
Category 3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment and Applications (Invited)
A Perspective from Europe on In-Home Networking, A.M.J. (Ton) Koonen;
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
Enabling Broadband Communication, Deutsche Telekom FTTH Deployment, Frank Escher;
Deutsche Telecom (DT), Germany
Fiber Deployment in Latin America, Keith Russell;
Alcatel-Lucent, USA
FTTx in Africa: it's Not Just Technology, Marius Mostert;
MCorp Communications, South Africa
G-PON Interoperability Since 2006 until Today, Regis Coat;
FT-Orange Group, France
High Performance, Low Cost, Colorless ONU for WDM-PON, Ryohei Urata;
Google, USA
In-Home Networking using Optical Fiber, Sergey Ten;
Corning, USA
Mobile Backhaul for PON: A Case Study, Ed Mallette;
BrightHouseNetworks, USA
New Avenues of Revenues: Open Access and Infrastructure Virtualization, Thomas Pfeiffer;
Alcatel-Lucent, Germany
NGPON2- Where are the Standards Going? , Fabrice Bourgart;
FT-Orange Labs, France
PICs in PONs, David Piehler;
Neophotonics, USA
Category 3 Workshops and Panels |
Category 3 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 3 Short Courses
Category 5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects (Invited)
Advances in Solid Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber Amplifiers, Thomas Alkeskjold;
NKT Photonics, Denmark
Differential Mode Delay Managed Transmission Line for Wide-band WDM-MIMO System, Taiji Sakamoto; NTT, Japan;
Fiber Luminescent Solar Concentrator Fabrics, Ayman Abouraddy;
CREOL, USA
Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap fibers for Telecommunications: Opportunities and Potential Issues, Francesco Poletti;
ORC, UK
Low-loss Mid-IR Microstructured Optical Fibers, Jean-Luc Adam;
Université de Rennes, France
Partially Self-pumped Fiber Fuse Propagation through a White Tight-buffered Single-mode Optical Fiber, Shin-Ichi Todoroki;
National Inst. for Materials Science, Japan
Realizing Large Effective Area Fibers, Marianne Bigot-Astruc; Draka Communications, France;
Category 5 Workshops and Panels |
Category 5 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 5 Short Courses
Category 6. Fiber and Waveguide Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors (Invited)
0.2-dB Gain Excursion AGC-EDFA with a High Speed VOA for 100-Channel Add/Drop Equivalent Operation, Yoichi Oikawa;
TriMatiz, Japan
Advances in Attosecond Photonics, Amir Nejadmalayeri;
MIT ; USA
Agile Optical Frequency Synthesis in Dispersion-Engineered Parametric Mixers, Bill Kuo;
Univ. of California San Diego, USA
Distributed and Multiplexed Optical Sensing by Synthesis of Optical Coherence Function, Kazuo Hotate;
Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Cascaded Parametric Amplifiers, but Were Afraid to Ask , Colin McKinstrie ;
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Higher Order Mode Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers, Jeff Nicholson;
OFS Labs, USA
kW Fiber Lasers, Dahv Kliner;
JDSU, USA
Novel Trends in Performance Monitoring, Fabian Hauske;
Huawei; Germany
Practical Issues and Some Lessons Learned from Realization of Phase Sensitive Parametric Regenerators, Radan Slavik;
ORC, UK
Category 6 Workshops and Panels |
Category 6 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 6 Short Courses
Category 7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Interconnects (Invited)
CMOS Photonics for Optical Engines and Interconnects, Gianlorenzo Masini;
Luxtera, USA
Flexible Format Modulator using PLC LN Hybrid Technology, Takashi Goh;
NTT, Japan
Graphene-based Optical Modulators, Ming Liu; UC Berkeley, USA;
Gridless ROADMS, Tom Strasser;
NISTICA, USA
Latest Developments of 40G Silicon Photonics Active Devices, Jean-Marc Fedeli;
LETI, France
Nonlinear Optical Functions in Crystalline and Amorphous Silicon-on-Insulator Nanowires, Roel Baets;
Ghent Univ., Belgium
Silica-based PLC Transponder Aggregators for Color-less, Direction-less, and Contention-less ROADM,, Toshio Watanabe;
NTT, Japan
Small Form Factor Thin Film Polymer Modulators for Telecom Applications, Raluca Dinu;
GigOptix, USA
Category 7 Workshops and Panels |
Category 7 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 7 Short Courses
Category 8. Optoelectronic Devices (Invited)
A Generic Foundry Model for InP-based Photonic ICs, Meint Smit; Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands;
A Silicon Platform for High-Speed Photonics Systems, Ran Ding; Univ. of Washington, USA;
CMOS Photonic Integrated Circuits, Rajeev Ram;
MIT, USA
Electro-optic Polymer Modulators, Alan Willner;
Univ. of Southern California, USA
Energy-Efficient High-Speed Short-Cavity VCSELs , Markus-Christian Amann;
Technical Univ. Munich, Germany
High-Power Near-Ballistic Uni-Traveling Carrier Photodiode with Ultra-Fast Switching Characteristic for Millimeter-Wave over Fiber Wireless Communication, Jin-Wei Shi;
National Central Univ., Taiwan
Hybrid Silicon Micro-cavity Light Source on Silicon-on-Diamond Substrate, Di Liang;
Hewlett Packard, USA
Metal-cavity Nano Lasers, Shun Lien Chuang;
Univ. of Illinois, USA
Nanolasers Grown on Silicon, Constance J. Chang-Hasnain;
UC Berkely, USA
Photonics-Electronics Convergence: Key Technology for WDM, Kazumi Wada;
Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Power-Efficient Transceivers for High-Bandwidth, Short-Reach Interconnects, Clint Schow;
IBM, USA
Category 8 Workshops and Panels |
Category 8 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 8 Short Courses
Category 9. Digital Transmission Systems (Invited)
8 x 320-Gb/s Transmission over 5600 km Using All-ETDM 80-Gbaud Polarization Multiplexed QPSK Transmitter and Coherent Receiver, Gregory Raybon; Alcatel-Lucent, USA;
Evolution and Status of Forward Error Correction, , Takashi Mizuochi;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan
High-Order QAM Transmission for Spectrally-efficient and High-capacity Transport, Takayuki Kobayashi;
NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan
Limitless Range Quantum Communications: Steps Towards a Solid State Quantum Repeater, John Rarity;
Univ. of Bristol, UK
Optical Communications through Turbulent Media, Sam Dolinar, Bruce Moision, Baris I. Erkmen;
Jet Propulsion Lab., USA
Parametric Preprocessing in High-Capacity Transmission Links, Stojan Radic;
UCSD, USA
Polarization Effects in Coherent Systems, Lynn Nelson;
AT&T, USA
Reconfigurable Coherent Transceivers for Optical Transmission Capacity and Reach Optimization, Doug McGhan;
Ciena, Canada
Category 9 Workshops and Panels |
Category 9 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 9 Short Courses
Category 10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements (Invited)
A 400G/1T High Spectral Efficiency Technology and Some Enabling Subsystems, Maurice O'Sullivan;
Ciena, Canada
Clock Recovery and Jitter Sources in Coherent Transmission Systems, Han Sun;
Infinera, USA
Digital Signal Processing for Coherent Systems, Seb Savory;
Univ. College London, UK
High Sensitivity Modulation Formats, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar;
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Optical Networking in Smarter Data Centers: 2015 and Beyond, Casimir DeCusatis;
IBM, USA
Phase Estimation in Coherent Optical Fiber Communication Systems with Advanced Modulation Formats, Changyuan Yu;
Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
Spectral Shaping in Ultra-Dense WDM Systems: Optical vs. Electrical Approaches, Gabriella Bosco;
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Techniques in carrier recovery for optical coherent systems, Kuang-Tsan Wu, Infinera, USA;
Category 10 Workshops and Panels |
Category 10 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 10 Short Courses
Category 11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems (Invited)
All-Optical Processing of Multi-level Phase Shift Keyed Signals , Joseph Kakande;
Univ. of Southhampton, UK
Applications of Phase-sensitive Parametric Amplification, Peter Andrekson;
Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden
Broadband Optical Processing Techniques for Ultrabroadband RF, Andrew Weiner;
Purdue Univ., USA
Low-latency Photonic Packet Switches with a Large Number of Ports, H. J. S. (Harm) Dorren;
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing, Alex Gaeta;
Cornell Univ. USA
Nonlinear Optics on the Silicon Platform, Wolfgang Freude;
Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech., Germany
Photonic Generation of Millimeter Waves and its Applications, Tadao Nagatsuma;
Osaka Univ., Japan
Quantum Information Processing at Telecom Waveband, Prem Kumar;
Northwestern Univ., USA
Ultrafast Nonlinear Signal Processing in Silicon Waveguides, Leif Oxenløwe;
DTU Fotonik, Denmark
Ultra-fast Optical Signal Processors Based on Fiber Grating Devices for Applications in Telecommunication Systems, José Azana;
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada
Wideband Photonic Compressive Sampling , Thomas Clark;
Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab., USA
Category 11 Workshops and Panels |
Category 11 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 11 Short Courses
Category 12. Core Networks (Invited)
A New Teletraffic Approach for Network Planning and Evolution Prediction, Moshe Zukerman;
City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Directions of Next Generation Transport Network Development, Andreas Gladisch;
Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs., Germany
DWDM Optical Line-side Interoperability, Hans-Jeurgen Schmidtke;
Juniper Networks, USA
Lambda Switched Future Photonic Network Development, Marco Schiano;
Telecom Italia, Italy
Physical Impairment Aware Planning of Next Generation WDM Backbone Networks, Thierry Zami;
Alcatel Lucent, France
Spectrally-efficient Elastic Optical Path Networks Toward 1 Tbps Era, Hidehiko Takara;
NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Traffic Trends: Drivers and Measures of Cost-Effective and Energy-Efficient Technologies and Architectures for Backbone Optical Networks, Steven Korotky;
Alcatel-Lucent USA
Category 12 Workshops and Panels |
Category 12 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 12 Short Courses
Category 13. Access Networks (Invited)
Watch Naoto Yoshimoto, NTT, Japan, Discusses Category 13 Access Networks
Advanced Optical Monitoring Technologies for Passive Optical Network Architecture and the Future , Nazuki Honda;
NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Japan
Economical Solutions of WDM-PON Using Digital Signal Processing, Yukio Horiuchi;
KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan
High-Speed Visible Light Communications: State-of-the-Art , Jelena Vucic;
Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommunications Heinrich-Herz Institut, Germany
Hybrid DWDM-TDMA PONs for Next Generation Access , Peter Ossieur;
Tyndall Nat. Inst., Univ. College Cork, Ireland
Novel Cellular Optical Access Network and Convergence with FTTH, Wolfgang Kellerer;
Docomo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany
PICs for Next-generation Optical Access Systems, Michael Wale;
Oclaro Technology Ltd., UK
Power Efficiency in Passive Optical Networks, Chang-Joon Chae;
National ICT Australia, Australia
Technology Progress of High-speed Burst-mode 3R Transceiver for PON Applications, Masaki Noda;
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Information Technology R&D Center, Japan
Category 13 Workshops and Panels |
Category 13 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 13 Short Courses
Category 14. Optical Networking, Technologies, and Applications for Datacom and Computercom (Invited)
Watch Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA, Subcommittee Chair discuss Why Datacom is Now a Part of OFC and OFC/NFOEC-The Datacom Solutions You Need
Cost-effective Transceiver Technologies for High-bandwidth Optical Interconnection in High-end Server Systems, Tanaka Kazuhiro;
Fujitsu Labs., Ltd., Japan
Design Principles in the Open Compute Project, Eitan Frachtenberg;
Facebook, USA
Efficiency and Scalability of Multi-plane Optical Interconnection Networks for Computing Platforms and Data Centers, Piero Castoldi;
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento (SSSUP), Italy
Future Computing Architectures Enabled by Optical and Nanophotonic Interconnects, Moray McLaren;
HP, USA
Large Scale Data Centers and the Evolution to 100G Ethernet, Nick Illyadis;
Broadcom, USA
Optical Networking for Data Centers Across Wide Area Networks, Joe Berthold;
Ciena, USA
Optically Interconnected Data Centers, Lei Xu;
NEC Labs America, USA
Category 14 Workshops and Panels |
Category 14 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 14 Short Courses