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Category A  Fibers and Propogation
Category B Amplifiers and Lasers, Fiber or Waveguide
Category C Grating, Photonic Band Gap and Signal Conditioning Device
Category D Optical Switching, Wavelength Separation and Planar Waveguide Device
Category E Optoelectronic Device
Category F Digital Transmission Systems
Category G Subsystems, Network Elements and Analog Systems
Category H Networks
Category I Applications
General Chairs
Joseph E. Berthold  
CIENA Corp.
USA
Bruce Nyman
JDS Uniphase Corp.
USA

Technical Program Committee Chairs
Thomas S. Afferton  
AT&T
USA
Douglas M. Baney
Agilent Labs.
USA

International Liaisons Asia/Pacific Rim
Yuzo Yoshikuni   
NTT
JAPAN
Thas A Nirmalathas
Univ. of Melbourne
AUSTRALIA

International Liaisons Europe
Piet Demeester  
Ghent Univ. - IMEC    
BELGIUM
Kristian E. Stubkjaer
Tech. Univ. of Denmark.
DENMARK

Category A Fibers and Propagation
Roger H. Stolen - Chair
Virginia Tech.
USA

  • Anders O. Bjarklev
    Tech. Univ. of Denmark
    DENMARK
  • H. Bulow
    Alcatel SEL AG
    GERMANY
  • Brian Heffner
    JDS Uniphase
    USA
  • Raman Kashyap
    CANADA
  • Karl W. Koch
    Corning, Inc.
    USA
  • Theodore F. Morse
    Boston Univ.
    USA
  • Masataka Nakazawa
    Tohoku Univ.
    JAPAN
  • William A. Reed
    OFS
    USA
  • Joshua E. Rothenberg
    Phaethon Comm.
    USA

Category B Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide
Alan F. Evans - Chair
Corning, Inc.
USA

  • Jean-Marc P. Delavaux
    Keopsys Inc.
    USA
  • Martin E. Fermann
    IMRA America
    USA
  • Chris R.S. Fludger
    Nortel Networks
    UNITED KINGDOM
  • Paul Gavrilovic
    Xtera Comm.
    USA
  • Prem Kumar Northwestern Univ. USA
  • Jeff C. Livas
    CIENA Corp.
    USA
  • Stojan Radic
    Bell Labs. 
    USA
  • William Shieh
    Corvis Corp.
    USA
  • Andrew J. Stentz
    Photuris Inc.
    USA

Category C Grating, Photonic Band Gap and Signal Conditioning Devices
Benjamin J. Eggleton - Chair
Univ. of Sydney

  • Mark E. Froggatt
    Luna Tech.
    USA
  • Jorg Hubner
    Sparkolor
    USA
  • Peter A. Krug
    LNL Optenia
    CANADA
  • Sophie LaRochelle
    Univ. Laval
    CANADA
  • Gadi Lenz
    Kodeos Comm.
    USA
  • Christi K. Madsen
    Lucent Tech.
    USA
  • Heather J. Patrick
    Optinel Systems
    USA
  • David L. Weidman
    Corning, Inc.
    USA
  • Seok-Hyun Andy Yun
    Novera Optics
    USA

Category D Optical Switching, Wavelength Separation and Planar Waveguide Devices
George T. Harvey - Chair
Tyco Submarine Systems
USA

  • Jay N. Damask
    Consultant
    USA
  • Christopher R. Doerr
    Lucent Tech.
    USA
  • Joseph E. Ford
    Univ. of California, San Diego
    USA
  • Randy C. Giles
    Lucent Tech.
    USA
  • Francois Gonthier
    ITF Optical Tech.
    CANADA
  • John Grade
    iolon
    USA
  • Karen W. Markus
    JDS Uniphase
    USA
  • Robert A. Norwood
    Photon-X Inc
    USA
  • Katsunari Okamoto
    NEL
    JAPAN
  • Tiziana Tambosso
    Telecom Italia Lab
    ITALY
  • Stan West
    Naval Research Lab.
    USA

Category E Optoelectronic Devices
Tirumala R. Ranganath - Chair
Agilent Laboratories
USA

  • William K. Burns
    CODEON Corp.
    USA
  • Gregory Fish
    Agility Communications, Inc. USA
  • Robert A. Marsland 
    New Focus 
    USA
  • Graeme Douglas Maxwell
    Corning Research Centre
    UNITED KINGDOM
  • Yoshiaki Nakano
    Univ. of Tokyo
    JAPAN
  • Leo H. Spiekman
    THE NETHERLANDS
  • Yuichi Tohmori
    NTT Photonics Lab 
    JAPAN
  • Andreas Umbach
    U2T Innovative Optoelectronic Comp. GmbH
    GERMANY

Category F Digital Transmission Systems
Lynn E. Nelson - Chair
OFS Fitel Labs.
USA

  • Gary M. Carter
    Univ. of Maryland Baltimore Campus
    USA
  • Carl R. Davidson
    Tyco Telecommunications
    USA
  • Michael L. Dennis
    Corvis Corp.
    USA
  • Noboru Edagawa
    KDDI R&D Labs.
    JAPAN
  • Fabrizio Forghieri
    Cisco Photonics
    ITALY
  • Michael Frankel
    CIENA Corp.
    USA
  • Harald Geiger
    Marconi ONDATA
    GERMANY
  • Alan H. Gnauck
    Lucent Tech.
    USA
  • Jean-Pierre Hamaide
    Alcatel Corp. Research Ctr.
    FRANCE
  • Yanjun Zhu
    Nortel Networks 
    UNITED KINGDOM

Category G Subsystems, Network Elements, and Analog Systems
Monique Renaud - Chair
Alcatel CIT
FRANCE

  • Yun C. Chung
    KAIST
    KOREA
  • Antonio Mecozzi
    Univ. Degli Studi Dell'Aquila
    ITALY
  • Benny Mikkelsen
    Mintera Corp.
    USA
  • Jonathan A. Nagel
    AKA Techn. Solutions
    USA
  • Graeme J. Pendock
    Tegwan Tech. 
    USA
  • Kim Roberts
    Nortel Networks
    CANADA
  • Shane Strutz
    Naval Research Lab.
    USA
  • Thomas H. Wood
    Lucent Tech.
    USA
  • Sheryl L. Woodward
    AT&T
    USA

Category H Networks
Jane M. Simmons - Chair
Corvis Corp.
USA

  • P. A. Bonenfant
    Photuris Inc.
    USA
  • Alberto Bononi
    Univ. di Parma
    ITALY
  • George Ellinas
    City College of the City Univ. of NY
    USA
  • Mark D. Feuer
    AT&T Labs Research USA
  • Galen Sasaki
    Univ. of Hawaii
    USA
  • Ioannis Tomkos 
    Athens Info Technology- Center of Excellence for Research 
    GREECE
  • Gordon C. Wilson
    Onetta, Inc.
    USA

Category I Applications
Philippe Perrier - Chair
Xtera Comm., Inc.
USA

  • Olga L. Aparicio
    Cable & Wireless
    USA
  • Loudon T. Blair
    CIENA Corp.
    USA
  • Hector E. Escobar
    Lightbit Corp.
    USA
  • Ron Fang
    Tellabs
    USA
  • Joseph Gajewski
    Lucent/Bell Labs.
    USA
  • Andrew Lord
    BT exact Tech.
    UNITED KINGDOM
  • Manish Sharma
    Corning, Inc.
    USA
  • Kathleen Tse
    AT&T
    USA