Special Symposia
Enabling Technologies for Fiber Capacities Beyond 100 Terabits/second
Organizers: Stojan Radic, Univ. of California San Diego, USA; Robert Tkach, Alcatel-Lucent, USA; Masatoshi Suzuki, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan; Toshio Morioka, DTU Fotonik, Denmark; Lars Gruner-Nielson, OFS Fitel Denmark, Denmark; Sander Jansen, Nokia Siemens Network, Germany
Schedule:
Tuesday, March 6, 2:00 PM--4:00 PM
Tuesday, March 6, 4:30 PM--6:30 PM
Wednesday, March 7, 8:00 AM--10:00 AM
Wednesday, March 7, 1:00 PM--3:00 PM
Room 408A
Just recently, fiber capacity demonstrations have reached the milestone of 100 Tb/s over a single mode fiber. Achieving this remarkable result required heroic efforts in the constellation size and consequently allowed transmission over only a few short Raman-amplified spans. With constant optical bandwidth, further increases in capacity come with significant reductions in performance. While we can anticipate further incremental improvements in error-correcting codes, fiber loss and core area, and perhaps usable bandwidth, all of these together are unlikely to result in a factor if ten increase in capacity. Yet traffic growth trends indicate that a factor of 10 increase will be needed in 5-10 years. This symposium will consider technologies and techniques that may allow fiber capacity to break out of the box described above. Both invited and contributed talks that address the question will be presented.
Topics will include those mentioned below but submissions of new ideas are especially encouraged:
- Multimode fibers for spatial multiplexing
- MIMO processing for mode multiplexed transmission
- Mode coupling in multimode fibers
- Multicore fibers for spatial multiplexing
- Crosstalk in multicore fibers
- Nonlinear effects in multimode and multicore fibers
- Amplification in multimode and multicore fibers
- Integrated photonics for spatial multiplexing and high capacity systems
- Techniques for transmission outside the C and L band
- Techniques for achieving high spectral efficiency
- Fiber capacity calculations and limitations
Invited Speakers
Tuesday, March 6, 3:30 PM--4:00 PM
Characterisation of MC Fibers: New Techniques and Challenges, Katsuhiro Takenaga; Fujikura Ltd, Japan
Katsuhiro Takenaga received the B.S. degree in physics from Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan, in 1999. He received the M.S. degree in physics from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 2001. Since 2001, he joined the Optics and Electronics Laboratory, Fujikura Ltd., where he has been engaged in research and development of optical fibers. Mr. Takenaga is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan.
Wednesday, March 7, 8:00 AM--8:30 AM
Optical Amplifiers for Multimode/Multi-core Transmission, Peter Krummrich; Dortmund Univ. of Technlogy, Germany
Peter. M. Krummrich received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in Electrical Engineering from TU Braunschweig, Germany, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, where he worked on tunable laser diodes and Praseodymium-doped fiber amplifiers. In 1995 he joined Siemens AG where his research interest focused on technologies for ultra high capacity DWDM transmission systems with an emphasis on more robust transmission and enhanced reach such as distributed Erbium-doped fiber and Raman amplification, advanced modulation formats, adaptive equalizers, and PMD compensation. Since 2007, he is working as a university professor at Technische Universitaet Dortmund, heading the chair for high frequency technology. He is a member of IEEE and VDE/ITG.
Wednesday, March 7, 2:30 PM--3:00 PM
Adaptive MIMO Signal Processing for Mode-division Multiplexing, Sebastian Randel; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Sebastian Randel is a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent in Holmdel, New Jersey. He is currently engaged in research on ultra-high capacity optical transmission systems. For his work on nonlinear OTDM transmission, he received the Ph.D. degree (with highest honors) in electrical engineering from TU Berlin, Germany, in 2005. From 2005 to 2010 he was a Research Scientist at Siemens AG in Munich, Germany, working on physical layer aspects of optical access, in-house, automotive, and industrial networks.
Dr. Randel was a founding chairman of the DKE Working Group Polymer Optical Fiber and is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the VDE.
Wednesday, March 7, 1:45 PM--2:15 PM
Mode-coupling Effects in Multi-mode Fibers, Joseph M. Kahn; Stanford Univ, USA
Joseph M. Kahn is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His current research interests include rate-adaptive and spectrally efficient modulation and coding methods, coherent detection and associated signal processing algorithms, and multimode fiber transmission. He received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1981 and 1986. From 1987-1990, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, in Holmdel, NJ. From 1990-2003, he was on the Electrical Engineering faculty at U.C. Berkeley. In 2000, he co-founded StrataLight Communications (now Opnext Subsystems). He received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Tuesday, March 6, 5:45 PM--6:15 PM
Mode Division Multiplexed Transmission with a Weakly-coupled Few-Mode Fiber, Sébastian Bigo; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Sébastien Bigo received an engineering diploma from the Institut d’Optique Graduate School, then a PhD degree, for his work on all-optical soliton processing, while with Alcatel Research & Innovation, France (now Bell Labs). In 1997, he started conducting large-scale demonstration experiments, at 10 Gbit/s, 40 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s data rates. He is now leading the WDM Dynamic Networks Department of Bell Labs, in France. He has authored and co-authored more than 220 journal and conference papers, and 32 patents. He has served as Member of the Committees of several conferences. He also teaches optical communications at the university.
Tuesday, March 6, 2:00 PM--2:30PM
Extremely Advanced Transmission with 3m Technologies (multi-level modulation, multi-core & multi-mode), Masataka Nakazawa; Tohoku Univ., Japan
M. Nakazawa received his Ph. D. degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1980. Then, he joined the Ibaraki Electrical Communication Laboratory of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone public corporation (NTT), where he was engaged in research on EDFAs, soliton transmission, Terabit/s OTDM transmission, and fiber lasers. He was a visiting scientist at MIT in 1984-1985. He became the first NTT distinguished researcher in 1994 and an R&D Fellow in 1999. In 2001, he became a professor of the Research Institute of Electrical Communication at Tohoku University and was promoted to a Distinguished Professor. He is now the director of the Institute. At the Institute, he has been intensively working on ultrahigh-speed transmission, multi-level coherent transmission, and new fiber lasers. He published more than 400 papers and presented 230 international conference presentations. He was the president of Electronics Society of the IEICE and is now the Board member of Optical Society of America. Dr. Nakazawa received many awards including the IEE Electronics Letters Premium Award, IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award/Quantum Electronics Award, OSA R. W. Wood Prize, and Thomson Scientific Laureate. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, IEICE, and JSAP.
Wednesday, March 7, 9:30 AM--10:00 AM
Recent Progress in Transmission Fibers for Capacity beyond 100-Tbit/s, Benyuan Zhu; OFS Labs, USA
Benyuan Zhu joined Bell Laboratories at Holmdel, NJ in 1999, and he is currently a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in OFS Laboratories, Somerset NJ. He has been primarily working on high-speed DWDM transmission systems, and his current interests include 100G & above optical coherence transmission system, novel fiber and advanced optical amplifier technologies. He has authored/ coauthored more than 100 journal and conference papers, and one book chapter in the field of optical fiber communications. Benyuan Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Bath University, Bath, UK, in 1996.
Wednesday, March 7, 9:00 AM--9:30 AM
Mode-division Multiplexed Transmission with Fiber Mode Couplers, Nobutomo Hanzawa; NTT Labs, Japan
Nobutomo Hanzawa received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. Since 2007, he joined the NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, Tsukuba, Japan. He has been engaged in research on optical fiber design. Mr. Hanzawa is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan.
Tuesday, March 6, 3:00 PM--3:30 PM
Multicore Fibers for High Capacity Transmission, Tetsuya Hayashi; Sumitomo, Japan
Tetsuya Hayashi was born in Tochigi, Japan, in 1981. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2004 and 2006, respectively. In 2006, he joined Optical Communications R&D Laboratories, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. He has been engaged in research on fiber optic sensing, and on design and evaluation of optical fibers.His current research interests include fibers for spatial multiplexing and other advanced fibers.
Wednesday, March 7, 1:00 PM--1:30 PM
Capacity Limits in Single Mode Fiber and Scaling for Spatial Multiplexing, René-Jean Essiambre, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
René-Jean Essiambre is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent. He received his Ph.D. from Université Laval and studied at the University of Rochester before joining Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel-Lucent) in 1997. Dr. Essiambre's interests include optical fiber nonlinearity, modulation formats, information theory applied to fibre-optic communication systems, detection and optimization techniques for the design of optically routed networks to increase capacity, optical transparency and functionality of wavelength-division multiplexed communication systems. He has served on many conference committees including OFC, ECOC, CLEO and LEOS. He is a recipient of the 2005 Engineering Excellence Award from OSA, where he is a Fellow.
Tuesday, March 6, 4:30 PM--5:00 PM
Spectrally Efficient Four-dimensional Modulation, Magnus Karlsson; Chalmers Univ. of Tech., Sweden
Magnus Karlsson received his Ph.D. in 1994 and is since 2003 Professor in photonics at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He has authored or co-authored around 200 scientific journal and conference contributions, served as guest editor for the Journal of Lightwave Technology, and is currently associate editor of Optics Express. He has served in the technical program committee for the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), and is currently active in the TPCs for the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) and the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC).
Plasmonics for Optical Interconnects
Organizers: Nikos Pleros, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece; Jeurg Leuthold, Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech. (KIT), Germany; Harry Atwater, California Inst. of Tech., USA.
Schedule:
Tuesday, March 6, 4:30 PM--6:00 PM
Wednesday, March 7, 8:00 AM--9:45 AM
Wednesday, March 7, 1:00 PM--3:00 PM
Room 408B
Plasmonics is emerging as a promising technology platform towards enabling the deployment of small-footprint and low-energy integrated circuitry, holding a great promise for chip-scale and high integration density optical interconnects. This new discipline relies on the propagation of electromagnetic waves along a metal-dielectric interface, yielding in this way strong mode confinement factors while seamlessly interfacing photonics and electronics. Its credentials to drive next-generation optical interconnects into new performance metrics have led to intense research during the last years for bringing plasmonics from proof-of-principle demonstrations into system-qualified device development concepts. The goal of this Symposium is to collect the latest achievements in the field of plasmonics for optical interconnects, bringing together all relevant concepts, fabrication techniques, waveguide technologies, components, devices and systems that could in principle be utilized in the areas of datacom and computercom. This Symposium aims at introducing this new powerful technology in the OFC community, stimulating plasmonic research along a well-defined application domain like Optical Interconnects. As such, this Symposium welcomes but not limits contributed submissions on the following list of research topics:
- Plasmonic waveguides
- CMOS-compatible plasmonics
- Silicon-plasmonics
- Optical gain in plasmonics and plasmonic amplification
- Active plasmonics: thermo-optic, electro-optic and all-optical components / devices / systems
- Plasmonic switches
- Plasmonic modulators
- Plasmonic lasers
- Passive plasmonic circuitry (filters, couplers, multiplexers, etc.)
- Plasmonic or plasmonic-enhanced photodetectors
- Plasmonic interconnects
- Novel applications of plasmonics in datacom and computercom
Invited Speakers
Wednesday, March 7, 8:00 AM--9:00 AM (Now a Tutorial)
Plasmonic Waveguides: Challenges and Opportunities; Sergey Bozhevolnyi, Univ. of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1978 and 1981, respectively, and the Dr.Scient. degree from Århus University, Denmark, in 1998. He has been doing research in Denmark since 1991, and, in 2008, he started as Professor in Nano-Optics at the University of Southern Denmark. During 2001–2004, he was also the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Micro Managed Photons A/S set up to commercialize plasmonic waveguides. His current research interests include linear and nonlinear nano-optics, surface plasmon polaritons, plasmonic waveguides and circuits, as well as integrated and fiber optics.
Wednesday, March 7, 1:00 PM--1:30 PM
Active Plasmonics for Optical Interconnects, Anatolyi Zayats, King's College London, UK
Professor Anatoly V. Zayats is the head of the Experimental Biophysics and Nanotechnology Group at the Department of Physics, King’s College London, where he also leads Nano-optics and Near-field Spectroscopy Laboratory (www.nano-optics.org.uk). He is also a visiting professor at Sogang University in Seoul (South Korea). His current research interests are in the areas of nano-optics, scanning probe microscopy, nanophotonics and plasmonics, nonlinear optics and spectroscopy, surface plasmons and polaritons, and optical properties of surfaces, thin films, semiconductors and low-dimensional structures. He is the director of the UK research programme on Nanoplasmonics. He is a Fellow of Institute of Physics and Optical Society of America.
Wednesday, March 7, 2:30 PM--3:00 PM
Data Transfer for Optical Interconnects using Long Range-SPP Transmission Lines, Jung Jin Ju, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea
Jung Jin Ju, He received his Ph.D. degree from Pusan National University, Korea in 1997. Since August 2000, he has been with Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute as a Member of Technical Staff. Since 2009, he has been a team leader of the Next Generation Photonic Devices Team. His current research interest is in high speed optical devices, LED and plasmonic devices. Dr. Ju has contributed to more than 90 technical papers and fifteen patents in the field of polymeric optical devices, plasmonic optical interconnectors, and LED devices. He is a topical editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of Korea and the Journal of Korea LED Lighting.
Tuesday, March 6, 5:30 PM--6:00 PM
Plasmonics for Optical Interconnection, Mark Brongersma, Stanford Univ., USA
Mark Brongersma is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. His research is directed towards nanoscale electronic and photonic devices. He has authored\co-authored over 100 publications, including papers in Science, Nature Photonics, Nature Materials, and Nature Nanotechnology. He received the International Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences (Physics) for his work on plasmonics, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and the SPIE. Brongersma received his PhD from the FOM Institute in Amsterdam and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the California Institute of Technology.