Sunday, March 4, 2012
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM

All-optical Signal Processing: Next-generation Materials

Event type: Workshop

Room number: 406 A&B

Organizer: Marco Presi, Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna, Italy; Guifang Li, Univ. of Central Florida, USA; Periklis Petropoulos, Univ. of Southampton, UK


Description: A large number of all-optical processing capabilities have been demonstrated in the laboratory but few have ventured out of the lab. Is there a future for all-optical signal processing in optical communication and networking? As baud rate and aggregate capacity increase in optical communication systems, can passive optical signal processing play a role in optical transport? Nonlinear all-optical signal processing including switching, wavelength conversion/regeneration and format conversion have been demonstrated on conventional platforms, such as highly nonlinear fibers and semiconductors-based devices. Does the deployment of all-optical signal processing function in optical networks depend on novel material platforms such as chalcogenides, silicon, PPLN, carbon-nanotubes, graphene, plasmonics and photonic crystals? This workshop will try to find answers to these questions.

Speakers: Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Juerg Leuthold, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Giampiero Contestabile, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Alan Willner, University of Southern California, USA
Masanori Takahashi, FITEL Photonics Laboratory, Japan
Mark Pelusi, University of Sidney, Australia