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Program Committee
Category A: Fibers and Propogation
Category B: Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide
Category C: Resonant Devices and Signal Conditioning
Category D: Optical Switching and Wavelength Routing Devices
Category E: Optoelectronic Devices
Category F: Digital Transmission Systems
Category G: Subsystems, Network Elements and Analog Systems
Category H: Networks
Category I: Applications
OFC Steering Committee

IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society

Commitee Chair: William T. Anderson, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Neal S. Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Steven K. Korotky, Lucent Technologies, USA
Bruce Nyman, JDS Uniphase Corporation, USA

IEEE/Communications Society

Thomas S. Afferton, AT&T, USA
Stewart D. Personick, USA
Rajiv Ramaswami, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Adel A.M. Saleh, Kirana Networksd, Inc., USA

Optical Society of America

Gary C. Bjorklund, Bjorklund Consulting, Inc., USA
Jay M. Wiesenfeld, Celion Networks, USA
Alan E. Willner, University of Southern California, USA

Ex-Officio

Douglas M. Baney, Agilent Labs, USA
Loudon T. Blair, CIENA Corporation, USA
Turan Erdogan, Semrock, Inc., USA
Ronald D. Esman, Corvis Corporation, USA
George T. Harvey, Tyco Submarine Systems, USA
Patrick Iannone, AT&T Labs, USA
Lynn Nelson, OFS Fitel Labs, USA
Thomas A. Strasser, Photuris, Inc., USA

General Chairs

Turan Erdogan, Semrock, Inc., USA
Ronald Esman, Corvis Corp., USA


Technical Program Committee Chairs
Patrick Iannone, AT&T, USA
Thomas Strasser, Photuris, Inc., USA

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International Liaisons Asia/Pacific Rim
Thas A Nirmalathas, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Shoichi Sudo, NTT, Japan

International Liaisons Europe

Massimo Artiglia, Pirelli, Italy
Lars Thylen, Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden

Category A Fibers and Propagation

Subcommittee Chair:
William Reed, Photons Work LLC, USA

Anders Bjarklev, Tech. Univ., Denmark
Henning Bulow, Alcatel, Germany
John Fini, OFS Labs., USA
Ekatarina Golovchenko, Tycom, USA
Brian Heffner, JDS Uniphase, USA
Raman Kashyap, Ecole Polytechnic Montreal, Canada
Karl Koch, Corning, USA
Masataka Nakazawa, Tohoku Univ, Japan
Joshua Rothenberg, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA


Category B Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide

Subcommittee Chair:
Andrew Stentz, Photuris Inc., USA

Dominique Bayart, Alcatel, France
Jean-Marc Delavaux, Keopsys, Inc., USA
Martin Fermann, IMRA America, USA
Paul Gavrilovic, Xtera Communications, Inc., ISA
Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA
Jeff Livas, Ciena Corp., USA
John Minelly, Pritel, USA
Stojan Radic, Duke Univ., USA
William Shieh, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Category C Resonant Devices and Signal Conditioning

Subcommittee Chair:
Peter Krug, LNL Optenia, Canada

Kin Seng Chiang, City Univ. Hong Kong, China
Mark Froggatt, Luna Technologies, USA
Jorg Hubner, COM Center/Tech. Univ., Denmark
Sophie LaRochelle, Univ. of Laval, Canada
Christi Madsen, Lucent Tech., USA
Masaya Notomi, NTT, Japan
David Weidman, Avanex, USA
Paul Westbrook, OFS Fitel Labs., USA
Andy Yun, Harvard Medical School, USA


Category D Optical Switching and Wavelength Routing Devices

Subcommittee Chair:
Joseph Ford, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA

Jay Damask, Consultant, USA
Christopher Doerr, Lucent Tech., Bell Labs., USA
Randy Giles, Lucent Tech., Bell Labs., USA
Francois Gonthier, ITF Optical Tech., Canada
John Grade, Iolon, USA
Yoshi Hibino, NTT, Japan
Haifeng Li, Tyco, USA
Karen Markus, JDS Uniphase, USA
Robert Norwood, Photon-X, USA
Brian Sullivan, Iridian Spectral Tech., Canada

Category E Optoelectronic Devices

Subcommittee Chair:
Yoshiaki Nakano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

William Burns, Covega, USA
Gregory Fish, Agility Communications, Inc., USA
Kirk S. Giboney, Agilent Tech., USA
Leo Spiekman, Consultant, Denmark
Kristian Stubkjaer, Technical Univ. of Denmark
Yuichi Tohmori, NTT, Japan
Andreas Umbach, U2T Photonics AG, Germany
Bart Verbeek, JDS Uniphase, USA
Osamu Wada, Kobe Univ., Japan

Category F Digital Transmission Systems

Subcommittee Chair:
Alan Gnauck, Lucent Tech., Bell Labs., USA

Gary Carter, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Carl Davidson, Tyco, USA
Michael Dennis, Corvis Corp., USA
Jean-Pierre Hamaide, Alcatel, France
Peter Krummrich, Siemens AG, Germany
Takashi Mizuochi, Mitsubishi Electronic Corp., Japan
Itsuro Morita, KDDI, Japan
Torben Nielsen, Photuris Inc., USA
Yanjun Zhu, Nortel Networks, UK

Category G Subsystems, Network Elements, and Analog Systems

Subcommittee Chair:
Benny Mikkelsen, Mintera Corp., USA

Michel Chbat, Xtera, USA
Amaury Jourdan, Alcatel, France
Reinhold Ludwig, Heinrich Hertz Inst., Germany
Jonathan Nagel, AKA Tech. Solutions, USA
Graeme Pendock, University of Melbourne, Australia
Kim Roberts, Nortel Networks, Canada
Shane Strutz, Naval Res. Lab., USA
Thomas Wood, Lucent Tech., Bell Labs., USA
Sheryl Woodward, AT&T, USA


Category H Networks

Subcommittee Chair:
George Ellinas, City College New York, USA

Neophytos Antoniades, The City University of New York, USA
Stefano Baroni, NuPhoenix, USA
Paul Bonenfant, Photuris Inc., USA
Mark Feuer, AT&T, USA
Ori Gerstel, Cisco Systems, USA
Galen Sasaki, Univ. of Hawaii, USA
Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Info. Tech., Greece
Gordon Wilson, Onetta Inc., USA


Category I Applications
Subcommittee Chair:
Loudon Blair, Ciena Corp., USA

Olga Aparicio, Mitretek, USA
Hector Escobar, Lightbit, USA
Hany Fahmy, BellSouth, USA
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT, India
Dave Johnson, BTexact Tech., UK
Cedric Lam, OpVista, USA
Bruce Miller, Alcatel, USA
David Piehler, Harmonic, Inc., USA
Kathleen Tse, AT&T, USA