Sunday, March 4, 2012
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Is Spatial-Division Multiplexing the Way for Future Optical Networks?
Event type: Workshop
Room number: 408B
Organizer: Anping Liu,
Corning, USA; Andrew Ellis,
Tyndall Inst., Ireland; Xiang Liu,
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Description: Exponential growth of internet data services requires a drastic upgrade of fiber networks. Design of the next generation fiber networks has become increasingly urgent. Although it is not yet clear what the next generation fiber networks would be, it is certain that the fiber networks need to sustain the capacity growth without compromising cost and energy efficiency. Recently, spatial-division multiplexing (SDM) based on both multimode and multicore fibers have demonstrated great potential, but many technical challenges remain to be addressed. In this workshop, we will review and discuss promising fiber designs, MIMO signal processing, special network elements, and transmission system designs for realizing such SDM-based optical networks, and debate the pros and cons of various implementation approaches.
Speakers:
Guifang Li,
CREOL, USA
Marianne Bigot-Astruc,
Draka Communications, France
Francesco Poletti ,
ORC, UK
Tetsuya Hayashi,
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Japan
William Shieh ,
Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Ezra Ip,
NEC Labs, USA
Tetsuya Kawanishi,
NICT, Japan
Ton Koonen,
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands
Henning Buelow,
Alcatel Lucent, Germany
John Fini,
OFS Optics, USA
Roland Ryf,
Alcatel Lucent, USA
Ming-jun Li,
Corning, USA