Short Courses

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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

SC103 Fast Reconfigurable WDM Optical Networks, Daniel Blumenthal; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

SC105 Modulation Formats and Receiver Concepts for Optical Transmission Systems, Peter J. Winzer, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

SC114 Passive Optical Networks (PONs), Paul W. Shumate; IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society, USA.

SC203 40 Gb/s Transmission Systems, Design and Design Trade-offs, Martin Birk¹, Benny Mikkelsen²; ¹AT&T Labs - Res., USA, ²Mintera, USA.

SC259 Electronic and Optical Impairment Mitigation, Chris Fludger; CoreOptics GmbH, Germany.

SC267 Silicon Microphotonics: Technology Elements and the Roadmap to Implementation, Lionel Kimerling; MIT, USA.

SC290 High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Johan Nilsson; Univ. of Southampton, United Kingdom.

 

9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

SC264 Optical Ethernet and Data Networking for Large Enterprises, Jeffrey L. Cox; JP Morgan Chase, USA.  

 

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

SC171 Introduction to Optical Control Plane Standards and Technology: OIF UNI, GMPLS, G.ASON and All That! Greg Bernstein; Grotto Networking, USA.

SC175 Packaging of Optoelectronic, Photonic and MEMS Components, Paul Haugsjaa; Polycision Inc., USA.

SC176 Metro Network Architectures, Today and Tomorrow, Joseph Berthold; Ciena Corp., USA.

SC216 An Introduction to Optical Network Design and Planning, Jane Simmons; Monarch Network Architects, USA.

SC239 Short-Reach Optical Interconnects, Brian E. Lemoff; Scientific Res. Group, West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, USA.

SC260 Biomedical Diagnostic Applications of Communications Technologies, Brett E. Bouma; Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

SC262 Alternative Broadband Access: Wired and Wireless Technologies for the Last Mile, Paul S. Henry; AT&T Labs -- Res., USA.

SC288 Fundamentals of Polarization, PMD and PDL in Lightwave Systems, Robert Jopson; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

SC293 Introduction to Fiber Sensors, Michel Digonnet; Stanford Univ., USA.

 

4:30 p.m.– 7:30 p.m.

SC125 Tunable Lasers, Jens Buus; Gayton Photonics Ltd., United Kingdom.

SC133 Reliability Methodologies for Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack; Intel Corporation, USA.

SC177 High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers and Modulators, John Bowers; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

SC215 Nanofabricated Lasers, Waveguides and Dispersive Elements, Axel Scherer; Caltech, USA.

SC217 Hybrid Fiber Radio: The Application of Photonic Links in Wireless Communications, Dalma Novak; Pharad, LLC, USA.

SC265 Passive Optical Components and Filtering Technologies, Bruce Nyman¹, Christi Madsen²; ¹Princeton Lightwave, USA, ²Texas A&M Univ., USA.

SC292 Planar Integrated Optics, Christopher R. Doerr; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

NEW! SC312 Parametric Optical Processing and Systems, Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.

NEW! SC313 OTN/G.709 Technology Overview and Role in the “New Transport” Network, Frank Ferrara; JDSU, USA.

 

Monday, February 25, 2008

8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

SC101A Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component Testing, Lorenz Cartellieri1, Peter Schweiger2, John Kim1, Karl Merkel3, Michael Kelly4, Caroline Connolly5, Richard Buerli5; 1Experior Photonics Inc., USA, 2Agilent Technologies, Canada, 3Agilent Technologies, USA, 4Agilent Technologies GmbH, Germany, 5OptoTest, USA.

SC102 WDM in Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Neal S. Bergano; Tyco Telecommunications, USA.

SC187 Hands-on Basic Fiber Optics for the Absolute Beginner, Dennis Horwitz; Micronor Inc., USA.

SC210 Hands-on Polarization-Related Measurements Workshop, Danny Peterson¹, Kent Rochford², Ivan T. Lima³, Paul Williams²; ¹Verizon Business, USA, ²NIST, USA, ³North Dakota State Univ., USA.

 

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

SC178 Test and Measurement of High-Speed Communications Signals, Greg D. Le Cheminant; Agilent Technologies, USA.

SC184 Introduction to Modeling High Data Rate Optical Fiber Communications Systems, Curtis R. Menyuk; Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.

SC205 Integrated Electronic Circuits for Fiber Optics, Y. K. Chen; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

SC208 Specialty Optical Fiber Design and Applications, David DiGiovanni; OFS Labs, USA.

SC261 ROADM Technologies and Network Applications, Thomas Strasser; Nistica Inc., USA.

SC266 Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Information, Richard Hughes¹, Tom Chapuran²; ¹Los Alamos Natl. Labs, USA, ²Telcordia, USA.

SC294 Qualification Programs for Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack; Intel Corporation, USA.

 

1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

SC141 Combating and Monitoring Data-Degrading Effects in Non-Static WDM Systems, Alan Willner; Univ. of Southern California, USA.

SC243 Next Generation Transport Networks: The Evolution from Circuits to Packets, Ori Gerstel; Cisco Systems, USA.

SC289 Basics of Optical Communication Systems and WDM, Gerd Keiser; Natl. Taiwan Univ. of Science & Technology, Taiwan.

 

1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

SC101B Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component Testing, Lorenz Cartellieri1, Peter Schweiger2, John Kim1, Karl Merkel3, Michael Kelly4, Caroline Connolly5, Richard Buerli5; 1Experior Photonics Inc., USA, 2Agilent Technologies, Canada, 3Agilent Technologies, USA, 4Agilent Technologies GmbH, Germany, 5OptoTest, USA.

SC123 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Raman Fiber Amplifiers, John Zyskind; JDSU, USA.

SC160 Microwave Photonics , Keith J. Williams; NRL, USA.

SC268 Hands-on Workshop on Outside Plant Splicing, Testing and Troubleshooting for FTTx Networks, Larry Johnson; Light Brigade, Inc., USA.

NEW! SC315 Recent Advances in Polymer Waveguides, Paul Ashley; U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, USA.

 

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

SC185 Hands-on Polishing, Inspection and Testing of Connectors, Jason Sloan¹, Steve Baldo², Neal Wagman³; ¹Light Brigade Inc., USA, ²Seikoh Giken USA, USA, ³Norland Products, USA.

SC291 Hands-on Fiber Optics for Engineers Designing for Military, Aerospace, Shipboard and Industrial Harsh Environmental Applications, Dennis Horwitz; Micronor Inc., USA.

NEW! SC314 Hands-on Fiber Characterization for the Engineering of Long Haul and Metro Deployments, Danny Peterson¹, Joachim Peerlings²; ¹Verizon Business, USA, ²Agilent Technologies, Germany.

 

2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

SC186 Hands-on Specialty Fiber Splicing, Clyde J. Troutman; 3SAE Technologies, USA.

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