Schedule
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Sunday, March 5
12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
SC105 Modulation Formats and Receiver Concepts for Optical Transmission Systems, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar, Peter Winzer, Lucent Technologies, USA.
SC132 Guided Wave Integrated Optic Devices and Circuits, Leon McCaughan, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA.
SC171 Introduction to Optical Control Plane Standards and Technology: OIF UNI, GMPLS, G.ASON and All That! 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.
SC208 Specialty Optical Fiber Design and Applications, David J. DiGiovanni, OFS Labs, USA.
SC218 Broadband HFC and Gigabit Ethernet Optical Networks, Winston Way, OpVista Inc., USA.
SC243 Next Generation SONET: How SONET is Evolving to Support Packets and Wavelengths, Ori A. Gerstel, Cisco Systems, USA.
NEW! SC260 Biomedical Diagnostic Applications of Communications Technologies, Brett E. Bouma, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.
NEW! SC262 Alternate Broadband Access: Wired and Wireless Technologies for the Last Mile, Paul S. Henry, AT&T Labs - Res., USA.
NEW! SC266 Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Information, Matthew Goodman, Telcordia Technologies, USA; Richard Hughes, Los Alamos Natl. Labs, USA.
4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
SC120 Lightwave Component Measurements, Dennis Derickson, Cierra Photonics, USA.
SC133 Reliability Methodologies for Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack, JDS Uniphase, USA.
SC137 PMD: Causes, Characteristics, Measurement, Emulation and Mitigation, Paul Hernday, Fiberoptic Measurement Training and Consulting, USA.
SC177 High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers and Modulators, John Bowers, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
SC215 Nanofabricated Lasers, Waveguides, and Dispersive Elements, Axel Scherer, Caltech, USA.
SC216 An Introduction to Optical Network Design and Planning, Jane M. Simmons, Monarch Network Architects, USA.
SC217 Hybrid Fiber Radio - The Application of Photonic Links in Wireless Communication Systems, Dalma Novak, Pharad, LLC, USA.
SC239 Short-Reach Optical Interconnects, Brian E. Lemoff, Inst. for Scientific Res., Inc., USA.
SC264 Optical Ethernet and Data Networking for Large Enterprises, Jeffrey L. Cox, Xtera Communications, USA.
NEW! SC265 Passive Optical Components and Filtering Technologies, Bruce Nyman, Princeton Lightwave, USA; Christi Madsen, Texas A&M Univ., USA.
Monday, March 6
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
SC210 Hands-on Polarization-Related Measurements Workshop, Paul Hernday, Fiberoptic Measurement Training and Consulting, USA; Rance Fortenberry, Bookham Technology PLC, USA; Daniel Peterson, MCI, USA; Ivan T. Lima, North Dakota State Univ., USA.
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
SC114 Passive Optical Networks and FTTX, Paul Shumate, IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society, USA.
SC123 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Raman Fiber Amplifiers, John Zyskind, Optovia Inc., USA.
SC141 Combating Degrading Effects in Non-Static and Reconfigurable WDM Systems, Alan Willner, Univ. of Southern California, USA.
SC175 Packaging of Optoelectronic, Photonic, and MEMS Components, Paul Haugsjaa, Polycision, Inc., USA.
SC178 Test and Measurement of High-Speed Communications Signals, Greg Lecheminant, Agilent Technologies, USA.
SC241 DWDM Technology: How It Works in Communication Systems, Stamatios Kartalopoulos, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA.
SC259 Electronic and Optical Impairment Mitigation, Chris Fludger, CoreOptics GmbH, Germany.
NEW! SC261 ROADM Technologies and Network Applications, Thomas Strasser, Nistica, Inc., USA.
NEW! SC263 Installation and Maintenance of FTTP Networks, Gerd Keiser, PhotonicsComm Solutions, Inc., USA.
1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
SOLD OUT - SC101 Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component Testing, Lorenz Cartellieri, John Kim, Experior Photonics, USA; Peter Schweiger, Agilent Technologies, Canada; Karl Merkel, Agilent Technologies, USA; Michael Kelly, Agilent Technologies GmbH, Germany; Caroline Connolly, Richard Buerli, OptoTest, USA.
NEW! SC268 Hands-on Workshop on Outside Plant Splicing, Testing and Troubleshooting for FTTX Networks, Larry Johnson, The Light Brigade, Inc., USA.
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
SC102 WDM in Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Neal S. Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA.
SC103 Fast Reconfigurable WDM Optical Networks, Daniel Blumenthal, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
SC125 Tunable Lasers, Jens Buus, Gayton Photonics Ltd., UK.
SC144 WDM Networking Elements and Their Enabling Technologies, Rod Alferness, Lucent Technologies, USA.
SC160 Microwave Photonics, Keith Williams, NRL, USA.
SC176 Metro Network Architectures, Today and Tomorrow, Joseph Berthold, Ciena Corp., USA.
SC184 Introduction to Modeling High Data Rate Optical Fiber Communications Systems, Curtis Menyuk, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.
SC205 Integrated Electronic Circuits for Fiber Optics, Y.K. Chen, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA.
NEW! SC267 Silicon Microphotonics: Technology Elements and the Roadmap to Implementation, Lionel Kimerling, MIT, USA.
Tuesday, March 7
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
SC185 Hands-on Polishing, Inspection and Testing of Connectors, The Light Brigade, Inc., USA; Seikoh Giken, USA; Norland Products, USA.
SOLD OUT - SC187 Hands-on Basic Fiber Optics for the Absolute Beginner, Dennis Horwitz, Micronor Inc., USA.
2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
SOLD OUT - SC186 Hands-on Specialty Fiber Splicing, Clyde J. Troutman, 3SAE Technologies, USA.
NEW! SC269 Outside Plant Hands-on Testing and Troubleshooting, Larry Johnson, The Light Brigade, Inc., USA.
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Prior Attendee Comments
Here are just a few of the many positive comments received from last year’s Short Course attendees.
“Excellent overview of the current technology!”
Attendee from SC217 Integrated Optical Networks taught by Dalma Novak
“One of the best courses and instructors yet!”
Attendee from SC160 Microwave Photonics taught by Keith Williams
“Excellent insight to real world methods.”
Attendee from SC133 Reliability Methodologies for Fiber-Optic Components taught by David Maack
“This was a well organized and well presented introduction. Thanks!”
Attendee from SC114 Passive Optical Networks and FTTX taught by Paul Shumate
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