Short Course Schedule by Time

Sunday, March 21, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Sunday, March 21

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

SC105 Modulation Formats and Receiver Concepts for Optical Transmission Systems, Peter Winzer, Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
SC114 Passive Optical Networks (PONs), Frank J. Effenberger; Huawei Technologies, USA
SC171 Introduction to Optical Control Plane Concepts, Technologies and Practices, Greg Bernstein; Grotto Networking, USA
SC325 Semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuits, Chris Doerr; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
NEW! SC341 OFDM for Optical Communications, Sander L. Jansen; Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
NEW! SC342 Digital Coherent Optical Communications, Maurice O'Sullivan; Nortel, Canada

9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

SC239 Short-Reach Optical Interconnects, Brian E. Lemoff; West Virginia High Tech Foundation, USA
SC288 Fundamentals of Polarization, PMD and PDL in Lightwave Systems, Robert Jopson; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

SC177 High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers and Modulators, John Bowers; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
SC203 40/100 Gb/s Transmission Systems, Design and Design Trade-offs, Martin Birk¹, Benny Mikkelsen²; ¹AT&T Labs, Res., USA, ²Acacia Communications, USA
SC216 An Introduction to Optical Network Design and Planning, Jane M. Simmons; Monarch Network Architects, USA
SC267 Silicon Microphotonics: Technology Elements and the Roadmap to Implementation, Lionel Kimerling; MIT, USA
SC327 Modeling and Design of Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, Rene-Jean Essiambre; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
SC328 New Developments in Optical Transport Networking (OTN), Stephen Trowbridge; Alcatel-Lucent, USA

4:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

SC103 Dynamic ROADMs, Switches and Integrated Technologies and Techniques for Dynamically Reconfigurable and Packet Switched Optical Networks, Daniel Blumenthal; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
SC217 Hybrid Fiber Radio: The Application of Photonic Links in Wireless Communications, Dalma Novak; Pharad, USA
SC243 Next Generation Transport Networks: The Evolution from Circuits to Packets, Ori A. Gerstel; Cisco Systems, USA
SC259 Electronic and Optical Impairment Mitigation, Chris Fludger¹, Seb Savory²; ¹CoreOptics GmbH, Germany, ²Univ. College London, UK
SC265 Passive Optical Components and Filtering Technologies, Bruce Nyman¹, Christi Madsen²; ¹Consultant, USA, ²Texas A&M Univ., USA

Monday, March 22

8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

SC102 WDM in Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Neal S. Bergano; Tyco Telecommunications, USA
SC160 Microwave Photonics, Keith Williams; NRL, USA
SC186 Hands-on Specialty Fiber Splicing, Clyde J. Troutman; 3SAE Technologies, USA

8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

SC264 Introduction to Ethernet Technologies, Jeffrey Cox; BT, USA

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

SC141 Combating and Monitoring Data-Degrading Effects in Non-Static WDM Systems, Alan Willner; Univ. of Southern California, USA
SC175 Packaging of Optoelectronic, Photonic and MEMS Components, Tolga Tekin¹^,²; ¹Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany, ²Fraunhofer-Inst. fuer Zuverlaessigkeit und Mikrointegration (IZM) System Integration and Interconnection Technologies, Germany
SC178 Test and Measurement of High-Speed Communications Signals, Greg LeCheminant; Agilent Technologies, USA
SC208 Optical Fiber Design for Telecommunications and Specialty Applications, David J. DiGiovanni; OFS Labs, USA
SC261 ROADM Technologies and Network Applications, Thomas Strasser; Nistica Inc., USA

1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

SC176 Metro Network: The Transition to Ethernet, Loudon Blair; Ciena Corp., USA
SC205 Integrated Electronic Circuits for Fiber Optics, Y. K. Chen, Noriaki Kaneda; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
SC266 Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Information, Richard Hughes¹, Thomas Chapuran²; ¹Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA, ²Telcordia, USA
SC289 Basics of Optical Communication Systems and WDM, Gerd Keiser¹^,²; ¹PhotonicsComm Solutions Inc., USA, ²Natl. Taiwan Univ. of Science and Technology, Taiwan

1:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

SC101 Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component Testing, Lorenz Cartellieri¹, Roger Rutz¹, Caroline Connolly², Richard Buerli²; ¹Experior Photonics, USA, ²OptoTest, USA
SC182 Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Sensing, Thomas Huser; Univ. of California at Davis, USA
SC185 Hands-on Polishing, Inspection and Testing of Connectors, Cameron Karch¹, Steve Baldo², Neal Wagman³; ¹Light Brigade Inc., USA, ²Seikoh Giken Co. Ltd., USA, ³Norland Products, 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, Tasshi Dennis², Ivan T. Lima Jr.³, Paul Williams²; ¹Verizon Business, USA, ²NIST, USA, ³North Dakota State Univ., USA
NEW! SC347 Reliability and Qualification of Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack; Corning, USA

Tuesday, March 23

8:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

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

2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

SC314 Hands-on Fiber Characterization for the Engineering of Long Haul and Metro Deployments, Daniel Peterson¹, Christine Tremblay²; ¹Verizon, USA, ²École de Technologie Supérieure, Univ. du Québec, Canada