Short Course Schedule by Topic Category
OFC Categories
Category A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
Category C. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering and Signal Compensation
Category D. Optoelectronic Devices
Category E. Digital Transmission Systems
Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
Category H. Core Networks
Category I. Access Networks
Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications
NFOEC Categories
NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services
NFOEC 2: Network Technologies
Additional Short Course Category: Industry Best Practices
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Category A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
SC186 Hands-on Specialty Fiber Splicing, Clyde J. Troutman; 3SAE Technologies, USA
SC208 Optical Fiber Design for Telecommunications and Specialty Applications, David J. DiGiovanni; OFS Labs, 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
SC288 Fundamentals of Polarization, PMD and PDL in Lightwave Systems, Robert Jopson; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Category C. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering and Signal Compensation
SC265 Passive Optical Components and Filtering Technologies, Bruce Nyman¹, Christi Madsen²; ¹Consultant, USA, ²Texas A&M Univ., USA
Category D. Optoelectronic Devices
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
SC177 High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers and Modulators, John Bowers; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
SC178 Test and Measurement of High-Speed Communications Signals, Greg LeCheminant; Agilent Technologies, USA
SC182 Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Sensing, Thomas Huser; Univ. of California at Davis, USA
SC267 Silicon Microphotonics: Technology Elements and the Roadmap to Implementation, Lionel Kimerling; MIT, USA
SC325 Semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuits, Chris Doerr; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Category E. Digital Transmission Systems
SC102 WDM in Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Neal S. Bergano; Tyco Telecommunications, 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
SC205 Integrated Electronic Circuits for Fiber Optics, Y. K. Chen, Noriaki Kaneda; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
SC259 Electronic and Optical Impairment Mitigation, Chris Fludger¹, Seb Savory²; ¹CoreOptics GmbH, Germany, ²Univ. College London, UK
SC289 Basics of Optical Communication Systems and WDM, Gerd Keiser¹,²; ¹PhotonicsComm Solutions Inc., USA, ²Natl. Taiwan Univ. of Science and Technology, Taiwan
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
SC327 Modeling and Design of Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, Rene-Jean Essiambre; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
NEW! SC342 Digital Coherent Optical Communications, Maurice O'Sullivan; Nortel, Canada
Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
SC101 Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component Testing, Lorenz Cartellieri¹, Roger Rutz¹, Caroline Connolly², Richard Buerli²; ¹Experior Photonics, USA, ²OptoTest, USA
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
SC105 Modulation Formats and Receiver Concepts for Optical Transmission Systems, Peter Winzer, Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
SC141 Combating and Monitoring Data-Degrading Effects in Non-Static WDM Systems, Alan Willner; Univ. of Southern California, USA
SC239 Short-Reach Optical Interconnects, Brian E. Lemoff; West Virginia High Tech Foundation, USA
NEW! SC341 OFDM for Optical Communications, Sander L. Jansen; Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
SC160 Microwave Photonics, Keith Williams; NRL, USA
SC217 Hybrid Fiber Radio: The Application of Photonic Links in Wireless Communications, Dalma Novak; Pharad, USA
Category H. Core Networks
SC216 An Introduction to Optical Network Design and Planning, Jane M. Simmons; Monarch Network Architects, USA
SC243 Next Generation Transport Networks: The Evolution from Circuits to Packets, Ori A. Gerstel; Cisco Systems, USA
SC261 ROADM Technologies and Network Applications, Thomas Strasser; Nistica Inc., USA
Category I. Access Networks
SC114 Passive Optical Networks (PONs), Frank J. Effenberger; Huawei Technologies, USA
Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications
SC187 Hands-on Basic Fiber Optics for the Absolute Beginner, Dennis Horwitz; Micronor Inc., USA
SC291 Hands-on Fiber Optics for Engineers Designing for Military, Aerospace, Shipboard and Industrial Harsh Environmental Applications, Dennis Horwitz; Micronor Inc., USA
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NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services
SC171 Introduction to Optical Control Plane Concepts, Technologies and Practices, Greg Bernstein; Grotto Networking, USA
SC176 Metro Network: The Transition to Ethernet, Loudon Blair; Ciena Corp., USA
SC328 New Developments in Optical Transport Networking (OTN), Stephen Trowbridge; Alcatel-Lucent, USA
NFOEC 2: Network Technologies
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
SC264 Introduction to Ethernet Technologies, Jeffrey Cox; BT, USA
SC266 Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Information, Richard Hughes¹, Thomas Chapuran²; ¹Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA, ²Telcordia, USA
Additional Short Course Category: Industry Best Practices
NEW! SC347 Reliability and Qualification of Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack; Corning, USA
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