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OFC/NFOEC Short Courses 2005

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Short Courses cover a broad range of topic areas at a variety of educational levels. The courses
are taught by highly regarded industry experts on subjects such as free space optics, next-generation
SONET, optical Ethernet, packaging and many more.

Short Course Schedule

Courses with a letter designation are offered multiple times.

Sunday, March 6, 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

SC103 Fast Reconfigurable WDM Optical Networks, Daniel J. Blumenthal, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
SC109 Signal Processing with Optical Filters: Theory, Technologies and Applications, Christi K. Madsen, Texas A&M Univ., USA
SC114 Passive Optical Networks and FTTX, Paul Shumate, IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society, USA
SC177 High-speed Semiconductor Lasers and Modulators, John Bowers, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
SC201 Storage Networking Solutions and Technologies, Howard Goldstein, Howard Goldstein Associates, Inc., USA
SC202 NEW! Free Space Optical Networks, Anthony Acampora, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA
SC204 Optical and Electronic Impairment Mitigation, Henning Bülow, Alcatel SEL AG, Germany
SC207 An Introduction to Fiber Sensors, Principles, Applications, and Prospects, Brian Culshaw, Strathclyde Univ., UK
SC212 Forward Error Correction, Frank Kerfoot, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
SC215 Photonic Crystal Devices: Lasers, Waveguides, and Superdispersive Elements, Axel Scherer, Caltech, USA
SC218 Broadband HFC and Gigabit Ethernet Optical Networks, Winston Way, OpVista Inc., USA
SC239 NEW! Short-Reach Optical Interconnects, Brian E. Lemoff, Agilent Labs, USA
SC240 NEW! Enabling Technologies for Optical Fiber Communications, Gerd Keiser, PhotonicsComm Solutions, Inc., USA

Sunday, March 6, 4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

SC104 System Impact of Fiber Nonlinearities, Andrew R. Chraplyvy, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
SC108 Introduction to Optoelectronic Devices, Joe Campbell, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
SC120 Lightwave Component Measurements, Dennis Derickson, Cierra Photonics, USA
SC128 Optical Fiber Connectors and Splices, Otto Szentesi, Corning Cable Systems, USA
SC137 Measurement of Polarization-Mode Dispersion (PMD), Paul Hernday, Fiberoptic Measurement Training and Consulting, USA
SC171 Introduction to Optical Control Plane Standards and Technology: OIF UNI, GMPLS, G.ASON, and All That! Bala Rajagopalan, Tellium Inc., USA; Greg Bernstein, Grotto Networking, USA
SC203 40 Gb/s Transmission Systems, Design and Design Trade-offs, Martin Birk, AT&T Labs – Res., USA; Benny Mikkelsen,Mintera Corp., USA
SC216 An Introduction to Optical Network Design and Planning, Jane M. Simmons, Monarch Network Architects, USA
SC217 Integrated Optical and Wireless Networks, Dalma Novak, Pharad, USA
SC242 Cancelled Next-Generation Internet Protocols for Optical Network Environments, Torsten Braun, Univ. Bern, Germany

Sunday, March 6, 4:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m

SC123 Optical Amplifiers in Optical Networks, John Zyskind, Optovia Inc., USA

Monday, March 7, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

SC101-A Hands-on Photonics Workshop, Dennis Horwitz, Micronor Inc., USA; Peter Schweiger, Agilent Technologies, Canada; Lorenz Cartellieri, John Kim, Experior Photonics, USA; Karl Merkel, Agilent Technologies, USA; Andreas Gerster, Michael Kelly, Agilent Technologies GmbH, Germany
SC210-A Hands-on Polarization Measurement Workshop, Paul Hernday, Fiberoptic Measurement Training and Consulting, USA; Rance Fortenberry, Bookham Technology PLC, USA; Daniel Peterson, Jr., MCI, USA; Ivan T. Lima, Jr., North Dakota State Univ., USA

Monday, March 7, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

SC105 Modulation Formats and Receiver Concepts for Optical Transmission Systems, Peter Winzer, S. Chandrasekhar, Lucent Technologies, USA
SC111 Passive Components for WDM Networks, Bruce Nyman, JDS Uniphase, USA
SC125 Tunable Lasers, Jens Buus, Gayton Photonics Ltd., UK
SC133 Reliability Methodologies for Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack, JDS Uniphase, USA
SC144 WDM Networking Elements and Their Enabling Technologies, Rod Alferness, Lucent Technologies, USA
SC178 Test and Measurement of High-Speed Communications Signals, Greg LeCheminant, Agilent Technologies, USA
SC184 Introduction to Modeling High Data Rate Optical Fiber Communications Systems, Curtis Menyuk, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
SC205 NEW! Integrated Circuits for Fiber Optics, Y.-K. Chen, Lucent Technologies, USA
SC214 Physical Layer, Line Card and Intersystem Interfaces, Tom Palkert, Xilinx, USA
SC243 NEW! Next Generation SONET: Packet-over-SONET, Data-over-SONET, and SONET-over-DWDM, Stamatios Kartalopoulos, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA
SC244 NEW! Broadband Optical Access over Cable TV's HFC Networks, Chinlon Lin, Ctr. for Advanced Res. in Photonics, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China

Monday, March 7, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

SC101-B Hands-on Photonics Workshop, Dennis Horwitz, Micronor Inc., USA; Peter Schweiger, Agilent Technologies, Canada; Lorenz Cartellieri, John Kim, Experior Photonics, USA; Karl Merkel, Agilent Technologies, USA; Andreas Gerster, Michael Kelly, Agilent Technologies GmbH, Germany
SC210-B Hands-on Polarization Measurement Workshop, Paul Hernday, Fiberoptic Measurement Training and Consulting, USA; Rance Fortenberry, Bookham Technology PLC, USA; Daniel Peterson, Jr.,MCI, USA; Ivan T. Lima, Jr., North Dakota State Univ., USA

Monday, March 7, 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

SC102 WDM in Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Neal S. Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
SC129 The Internet-Driven Convergence of Ethernet LANs, SONET and Packet-Based MANs at 10 Gb/s, Del Hanson, Infinera, USA
SC132 Integrated Optics, Leon McCaughan, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
SC134 Optical Ethernet, Cedric F. Lam, Opvista Inc., USA
SC141 Combating Degrading Effects in Non-Static and Reconfigurable WDM Systems, Alan E. Willner, Univ. of Southern California, USA
SC145 NEW! Photonics for Electrical Engineers, Alfred Ducharme, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
SC160 Microwave Photonics, Keith Williams, NRL, USA
SC175 Packaging of Optoelectronic, Photonic and MEMS Components, Paul Haugsjaa, Polycision, Inc., USA
SC176 Metro Network Architectures, Today and Tomorrow, Joseph Berthold, Ciena Corp., USA
SC208 Specialty Optical Fiber Design and Applications, David J. DiGiovanni, OFS Labs, USA
SC211 Photonics Packaging: Critical Component Assembly Process, Randy Heyler, Newport Corp., USA

Tuesday, March 8, 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

SC187-A Hands-On Basic Fiber Optics for the Absolute Beginner, Dennis Horwitz, Micronor Inc., USA

Tuesday, March 8, 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

SC241 NEW! DWDM Technology: How It Works in Communication Systems, Stamatios Kartalopoulos, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA

Tuesday, March 8, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

SC185 Hands-On Polishing, Inspection, and Testing of Connectors, The Light Brigade, USA; Seikoh Giken, USA; Norland Products, USA

Wednesday, March 9, 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

SC187-B Hands-On Basic Fiber Optics for the Absolute Beginner, Dennis Horwitz, Micronor Inc., USA

Wednesday, March 9, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

SC186 Specialty Fiber Splicing: Hands-On Course, The Light Brigade, USA; AFL Telecommunications, USA