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Category A Fibers and Propagation

Subcommittee Chair:

Karl Koch, Corning, USA

Misha Brodsky, AT&T Res. Labs, USA
John Fini, OFS, USA
Ekaterina Golovchenko, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Raman Kashyap, Ecole Polytechnic Montreal, Canada
Satoki Kawanishi, NTT, Japan
Pauli Kiiveri, Liekki, Finland
Tanya Monro, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia
Roger Stolen, Virginia Tech, USA
Mark Wegmuller, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland


Category B Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide

Subcommittee Chair:
Jeff Livas, Ciena Corp., USA

Dominique Bayart, Alcatel, France
Jake Bromage, OFS, USA
Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA
John Minelly, PriTel, Inc., USA
Shu Namiki, Furukawa, Japan
Stojan Radic, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Atul Srivastava, Onetta, USA
Koichi Tamura, Corlux, Japan
Paul Wysocki, Unopsys LLC, USA

Category C Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensating Devices and Sensors

Subcommittee Chair:
Christi Madsen, Texas A&M Univ., USA

Misha Boroditsky, AT&T Res. Labs, USA
Kin Chiang, City Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Jay Damask, Consultant, USA
Mark Froggatt, Luna Technologies, USA
Klaus Petermann, TU Berlin, Germany
James Sirkis, CyVera Corp., USA
David Weidman, Avanex, USA
Paul Westbrook, OFS Optics, USA
Andy Yun, Harvard Medical School, USA


Category D Switching, Wavelength-selective Filtering and Routing Devices

Subcommittee Chair:
Christopher Doerr, Lucent Technologies, USA

Roel Baets, Univ. of Ghent, Belguim
Francois Gothier, ITF Optical Technologies Inc., Canada
John Grade, Iolon, USA
G. Ronald Hadley, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA
Yoshinori Hibino, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan
Haifeng Li, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Robert Norwood, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Olav Solgaard, Stanford Univ., USA

Category E Optoelectronic Devices

Subcommittee Chair:

Leo Spiekman, Alphion Corp., USA

Gregory Fish, Agility Communications, USA
Kirk Giboney, Agilent Technologies, USA
Yasaka Hiroshi, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan
Ken Morito, Fujitsu Labs, Japan
Ed Murphy, JDS Uniphase, USA
Kristian Stubkjae
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Andreas Umbach, u2t Photonics AG, Germany
Bart Verbeek, Netherlands
Osamu Wada, Kobe Univ., Japan

Category F Digital Transmission Systems

Subcommittee Chair:
Carl Davidson, Tyco Telecommunications, USA

Rene-Jean Essiambre, Lucent Technologies, USA
Nicolas Gisin, Univ. of Geneve, Switzerland
Wilfried Idler, Alcatel Research and Innovation, Germany
Peter Krummrich, Siemens AG, Germany
Takashi Mizuochi, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan

Itsuro Morita, KDDI R&D Labs Inc., Japan
Torben Nielsen, Mahi Networks, Inc., USA
Harshad Sardesai, Ciena Corp., USA
Yanjun Zhu, Nortel Networks, UK

Category G Subsystems, Network Elements and Analog Systems

Subcommittee Chair:
Kim Roberts, Nortel Networks, Canada

John Cartledge, Queens Univ., Canada
Michel Chbat, Siemens Communications, USA
Thomas Darcie, Univ. of Victoria, Canada
Steven Frisken, Engana Pty Ltd., Australia
Rongqing Hui, Univ. of Kansas, USA
Reinhold Ludwig, Heinrch Hertz Inst., Germany
Dalma Novak, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Thomas Wood, Lucent Technologies, USA


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Category H Networks

Subcommittee Chair:

Mark Feuer, AT&T Res. Labs, USA

Neo Antoniades, CUNY, USA
Stefano Baroni, SETECS, Inc., USA
Paul Bonenfant, USA
Calvin CK Chan, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Ori Gerstel, Cisco Systems, USA
Biswanath Mukherjee, Univ. of California at Davis, USA
Michael O'Mahony, Univ. of Essex, UK
Chunming Qiao, State Univ. of New York, USA
Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Info. Technology Ctr. of Excellence, Greece

Category I Applications

Subcommittee Chair:
Olga Aparicio, Mitretek Systems, Inc., USA

Bert Basch, Verizon Labs, USA
Chengliang Zhang, China Telecom Res. Inst., China
Milorad Cvijetic, NEC Corp., USA
Hany Fahmy, BellSouth Telecommunications, USA
Hans-Martin Foisel, T-Systems Technology Ctr., Germany
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Inst. of Sci. and Technology, India
Dave Johnson, BtexaCT, UK
Cedric Lam, OpVista Inc., USA
David Piehler, Harmonic Inc., USA
Raghu Ranganathan, Ciena Corp., USA
Kathleen Tse, AT&T Res. Labs, USA


OFC Steering Committee

IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society

William Anderson, Tyco Telecommunications, USA, Chair
Neal Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Ronald Esman, Essex Corp., USA
Bruce Nyman, JDS Uniphase Corp., USA

IEEE/Communications Society

Thomas Afferton, AT&T, USA
Nim-Kwan Cheung, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA
Rajiv Ramaswami, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Adel A.M. Saleh, Kirana Networks, Inc., USA


Optical Society of America

Gary Bjorklund, Bjorklund Consulting, Inc., USA
Robert Tkach, Celion Networks, USA
Alan Willner, Univ. of Southern California, USA
John Zyskind, Optovia Corp., USA

Ex-Officio

Olga Aparicio, Mitretek Systems, Inc., USA
Douglas Baney, Agilent Labs, USA
Loudon Blair, Ciena Corp., USA
Joseph Ford, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
George Harvey, Tyco Submarine Systems, USA
Patrick Iannone, AT&T Labs, USA
Lynn Nelson, OFS Fitel Labs, USA
Thomas Strasser, Mahi Networks, Inc., USA