2006 Committees


OFC/NFOEC Technical Program Committee

OFC/NFOEC General Chairs
Patrick Iannone, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Thomas Strasser, Nistica, Inc., USA

Program Chairs
Loudon Blair, Ciena Corp., USA
Joseph Ford, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Rolf Frantz, Consultant, USA



OFC Subcommittees

Highlights

OFC/NFOEC Technical
Program Committee

OFC Subcommittees

NFOEC Subcommittees

Steering Committee

Category A – Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
Ekaterina Golovchenko, Tyco Telecommunications, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Misha Brodsky, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
John Fini, OFS Labs, USA
Scott Hamilton, MIT, USA
Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden
Satoki Kawanishi, NTT Innovation Labs, Japan
Pauli Kiiveri, Helsinki Univ. of Technology, Finland
Ming-Jun Li, Corning Inc., USA
Pavel Mamyshev, Mintera Corp., USA
Tanya Monro, Univ. of Adelaide, Australia

Category B – Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide
Stojan Radic, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Dominique Bayart, Alcatel, France
Jake Bromage, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Colin McKinstrie, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
John Minelly, Aculight Corp., USA
Shu Namiki, AIST Ctrl. Lab, Japan
Johan Nilsson, Southampton Univ., UK
Atul Srivastava, Bookham Technology, USA
Kohichi Tamura, Arasor Corp., Japan
Paul Wysocki, Lucent Technologies, USA

Category C – Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensating Devices and Sensors
David Weidman, Avanex Corp., USA , Subcommittee Chair
Misha Boroditsky, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Kin Chiang, City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Brian Culshaw , Univ. of Strathclyde, UK
Mark Froggatt, Luna Technologies, USA
Brent Little, Little Optics Division, Nomadics, Inc., USA
Klaus Petermann, Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany
Paul Westbrook, OFS Labs, USA

Category D – Switching, Wavelength-Selective Filtering, and Routing Devices
Robert Norwood, Univ. of Arizona, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Roel Baets, Univ. of Ghent, Belgium
Paul Colbourne, JDS Uniphase Corp., Canada
G. Ronald Hadley, Sandia Natl. Labs , USA
Yoshinori Hibino, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan
Garo Khanarian, Rohm & Haas Co., USA
Haifeng Li, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Dan Marom, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
Olav Solgaard, Stanford Univ., USA

Category E – Optoelectronic Devices
Gregory Fish, Agility Communications, Inc., USA,
Subcommittee Chair
Heinz-Gunter Bach, Heinrich-Hertz Inst., Germany
Joe Campbell, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
Kirk Giboney, Inventor Partners, USA
Ken Morito, Fujitsu Labs, Japan
Ed Murphy, JDS Uniphase Corp., USA
Kristian Stubkjaer, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Bart Verbeek, ASIP Inc., Netherlands
Osamu Wada, Kobe Univ., Japan
Hiroshi Yasaka, NTT, Japan

Category F – Digital Transmission Systems
Peter Krummrich, Siemens AG, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Martin Birk, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Jin-Xing Cai, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Rene Essiambre, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
Matthew Goodman, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Winfried Idler, Alcatel, Germany
Takashi Mizuochi, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan
Itsuro Morita, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan
Torben Nielsen, Mahi Networks, Inc., USA
Harshad Sardesai, Ciena Corp., USA
Paul Townsend, Univ. College Cork, Ireland

Category G – Subsystems, Network Elements and Analog Systems
John Cartledge, Queen's Univ., Canada, Subcommittee
Chair
Giuseppe Bordogna, Nortel Networks Ltd., Canada
Michel Chbat, Siemens Communications, USA
Yun Chung, KAIST, South Korea
Ted Darcie, Univ. of Victoria, Canada
Steven Frisken, Engana Pty. Ltd., Australia
Herbert Haunstein, Univ. of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany
Rongqing Hui, Univ. of Kansas, USA
Rheinhold Ludwig, Heinrich-Hertz Inst., Germany
Dalma Novak, Pharad, USA
Masashi Usami, KDDI Labs, Japan

Category H – Networks
Paul Bonenfant, Morgan Keegan & Co., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Neophytos Antoniades, CUNY, USA
Stefano Baroni, SETECS Inc., USA
Calvin CK Chan, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ori Gerstel, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA
Wayne Grover, Univ. of Alberta, Canada
Biswanath Mukherjee, Univ. of California at Davis, USA
Michael O'Mahony, Univ. of Essex, UK
Chunming Qiao, SUNY, USA
John Wei, USA

Category I – Emerging Applications and Access Solutions
Kathy Tse, AT&T Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Milorad Cvijetic, NEC Corp., USA
Hany Fahmy, BellSouth Telecommunications, USA
Hans-Martin Foisel, T-Systems Technology Ctr., Germany
Dave Johnson, BT Exact, UK
John Labourdette, Verizon, USA
Cedric Lam, OpVista Inc., USA
David Piehler, Harmonic Inc., USA
Raghu Ranganathan, Ciena Corp., USA
Glenn Wellbrock, MCI Inc., USA
Yong Xue, DISA, USA

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NFOEC Subcommittees

Category 1 – Network Systems
Ann Von Lehman, Telcordia Technologies, USA,
Subcommittee Chair
Mehran Esfandiari, SBC Communications, USA
Claudio Lima, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, USA
Ramesh Nagarajan, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
Petar Pepeljugoski, IBM Res., USA
Christoph Pfistner, NEOPhotonics, USA
Kenneth Stephens, BellSouth Telecommunications, USA

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Steering Committee

Category 2 – Network Technologies
Bert Basch, Verizon Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
David Chen, MCI Inc., USA
Louay Eldada, DuPont Photonics Technologies, USA
Andre Girard, EXFO, Canada
Jin Hong, Oplink Communications, USA
Rudi Schubert, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Thomas Wood , Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA

IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
Ronald Esman, Essex Corp., USA
George Harvey, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Patrick Iannone, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Bruce Nyman, Princeton Lightwave, USA

IEEE/Communications Society
Thomas Afferton, Northrup Grumman Corp., USA
Nim-Kwan Cheung, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA
Stewart Personick, USA
Adel Saleh, DARPA, USA



Optical Society of America
Douglas Baney, Agilent Labs, USA
Andrew Chraplyvy, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
Robert Tkach, USA, Chair
John Zyskind, Optovia Corp., USA

Ex-Officio
Neal Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Loudon Blair, Ciena Corp., USA
Mark Feuer, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Joseph Ford, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Rolf Frantz, Consultant, USA
Lynn Nelson, OFS Labs, USA
Leo Spiekman, Alphion Corp., USA
Thomas Strasser, Nistica, Inc., USA

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