2007 Invited Speakers

1. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
2. Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide
3. Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensating Devices and Sensors
4. Switching, Wavelength-Selective Filtering and Routing Devices
5. Optoelectronic Devices
6. Digital Transmission Systems
7. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
8. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
9. Networks
10. Emerging Applications and Access Solutions
NFOEC A: Network Systems
NFOEC B: Network Technologies

1. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects

Entanglement Generation with Fiber Nonlinearity for Quantum Communication in the Telecom Band, Prem Kumar, Northwestern Univ., USA.
Practical Considerations for the Application of Highly Nonlinear Fibers, Toshiaki Okuno, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan.
Novel Fibers for Ultra-Short and High-Power Pulse Generation and Propagation, Siddharth Ramachandran, OFS Labs, USA.
Optical Materials for Fiber Applications: Past, Present and Future, Kathleen Richardson, Clemson Univ., USA.
Progress in Active Fibers, Jayanta Sahu, Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., UK.
Progress on Chalcogenide Glass Fibers, Jasbinder Sanghera, NRL, USA.

2. Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide

Silicon Evanescent Laser in a Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguide, John Bowers, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
Novel Dopants for Silica-Based Fiber Amplifiers, Bernard Dussardier, Univ. of Nice, France.
High Power Optical Amplifiers for Free-Space Communication Systems, Douglas Holcomb, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs, USA.
High Power Mid-IR Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Ravi Jain, Univ. of New Mexico, USA.
Fiber Technologies for Terawatt Lasers, John Marciante, Univ. of Rochester, USA.
Advances in Femtosecond Fiber Lasers, Jeff Nicholson, OFS Labs, USA.
Tunable Lasers Based on Silica Waveguide Ring Resonators, Morio Takahashi, System Platforms Res. Labs, Japan.
Ultrafast Wavelength-Swept Lasers, Seok-Hyun (Andy) Yun, Harvard Medical School and Wellman Labs of Photomedicine, MGH, USA.

3. Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensating Devices and Sensors

High Resolution Optical Waveform and Eye Diagram Monitoring, Peter Andrekson, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden.
Chalcogenide Glass Waveguides and Grating Devices for All-Optical Signal Conditioning, Benjamin Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia.
Distributed Acoustic and Seismic Sensors, Clay Kirkendall, NRL, USA.
Outage Probabilities Revisited, Herwig Kogelnik, Lucent Technologies, USA.
Advances in 40G Electronic Equalizers, Makoto Nakamura, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan.
Recent Progress on FBG-Based Tunable Dispersion Compensators, Yves Painchaud, TeraXion, Canada.
Strategies for Fabricating Strong-Confinement Microring Filters and Circuits, Henry Smith, MIT, USA.
Microfiber Photonics, Misha Sumetsky, OFS Labs, USA.

4. Switching, Wavelength-Selective Filtering and Routing Devices

SOI Photonic Wire Waveguides with Compact Grating Couplers, Roel Baets, Univ. of Ghent, IMEC, Belgium.
Different Aspects and Design Considerations of AWG in ROADM, Ray Chen, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.
High Performance WSS Technology Based on MEMS, Thomas Ducellier, Metconnex, USA.
LCoS Based Wavelength Selective Switch, Steven Frisken, Engana Pty Ltd., Australia.
Self-Organized Polymer Waveguides, Manabu Kagami, Toyota Central Labs, Japan.
Photonic Crystal Inside-Autocloned PhC's Enable Various Key Functions, Shojiro Kawakami, Touhoku Univ., Japan.
Telecommunication Application of Si-Based Photonic Crystals, Masaya Notomi, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan.
Highly Integrated PLC-Type Devices with Surface-Mounted Monitor PDs for ROAMD, Ikuo Ogawa, NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.

5. Optoelectronic Devices

Semiconductor: Based Optical Demultiplexing and Wavelength Conversion at 320 Gbit/s, H. J. S. Dorren, Eindhoven Univ. of Tech., Netherlands.
Do Quantum Dots or Quantum Wire Based Devices Offer a Practical Advantage in Producing Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers over Conventional 2-D Active Media? Gadi Eisenstein, Technion, Israel.
CMOS Based Photonic Integration For Optical Interconnects, Cary Gunn, Luxtera, USA.
80-Gb/s DQPSK Modulator, Tetsuya Kawanishi, Communications Res. Lab, Japan.
Ultra-High-Capacity WDM Photonic Integrated Circuits, Fred Kish, Infinera, USA.
THz Applications and Techniques, Martin Koch, TU Braunschweig, Germany.
PMD Compensation Using Electronic Equalizers, Theodor Kupfer, CoreOpticsGmbH, Germany.
InP-Based 1.3 and 1.55 µm VCSELs for 10 Gbits/s Applications, Nobuhiko Nishiyama, Corning Inc., USA.
Recent Advances in AlInAs Avalanche Photodiodes, Eiji Yagyu, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan.

6. Digital Transmission Systems

Network Upgrade from Telecom Operators View, Dirk Breuer, Deutsche Telekom T-Systems, Germany.
Dirrential-Phase-Shift Quantum Key Distribution Using Single-Photon Detectors, Kyo Inoue, Osaka Univ., Japan.
Compensating Multimode Fiber Dispersion Using Adaptive Optics, Joseph Kahn, Stanford Univ., USA.
Modulation/Demodulation Schemes for Optical Multi-Level Transmission, Nobuhiko Kikuchi, Central Res. Lab, Hitachi Ltd., Japan.
Challenges for 100Gbit/s ETDM Transmission and Implementation, Eugen Lach, Alcatel, Germany.
All-Channel PMD Mitigation Using Distributed Fast Polarization Scrambling in WDM Systems with FEC, Xiang Liu, Lucent Technologies, USA.
Coherent Detection for Optical Communications Using Digital Signal Processing, Michael Taylor, Univ. College London, UK.
Coherent Receivers for Phase-Shift Keyed Transmission, Christoph Wree, Discovery Semiconductors, Inc., USA.

7. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

Status of Optical Modules and Sub-Systems Standards, Peter Anslow, Nortel, UK.
Asynchronous Sampling for Optical Performance Monitoring, Sarah Dods, Natl. ICT Australia Ltd, Australia.
100GbE Transmission Techniques, Gottfried Lehmann, Siemens AG, Germany.
Coherent Detection with Digital Phase Locking, Andreas Leven, Lucent Technologies, USA.
OFDM for Dispersion Compensation, Arthur Lowery, Monash Univ., Australia.
Multi-Granularity OXC Architecture, Atsushi Takada, NTT Corp., Japan.
Monitors to Ensure the Performance of Photonic Networks, Sheryl Woodward, AT&T Labs-Res., USA.

8. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

Techniques for Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation of Microwave Signals, Wm. Randall Babbitt, Montana State Univ., USA.
Technologies for Fiber Fed 60 GHz Wireless Systems, Woo-Young Choi, Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea.
All Optical Tunable Wavelength Conversion at > 160 Gb/s, Hideaki Furukawa, Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.
RF-over-Fiber and Optical Processing for Navy Applications, Everett Jacobs, SSC San Diego, USA.
Optical Signal Processing Based on All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion, Akihiro Maruta, Osaka Univ., Japan.
Photonic Technologies in the NEDO Project, Yoshiaki Nakano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.
Optical Switching Technologies for Data Networking, David Neilson, Bell Lab, Lucent Technologies, USA.
Integrated Optics in Lithium Niobate: New Devices, Circuits and Applications, Wolfgang Sohler, Univ. of Paderborn, Germany.

9. Networks

Technologies for Building Fast Reconfigurable WDM Optical Networks, Daniel Blumenthal, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
Has Optics Changed the Networking Paradigm? Andreas Gladisch, Deutsche Telekom, Germany.
Service Availability in Optical Network Design, Monika Jaeger, Deutsche Telekom, Germany.
Burst-Switched Metro and Access Networks, Leonid Kazovsky, Stanford Univ., USA.
Carrier-Grade Ethernet for Core Networks, Andreas Kirstaedter, Siemens AG, Germany.
Techno-Economic Issues in Future Telecom Networks, Andrew Lord, British Telecom, UK.
HOPI Testbed, Rick Summerhill, Internet 2, USA.
Impairment Aware Routing, Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology, Greece.

10. Emerging Applications and Access Solutions

Hybrid Optical-Wireless Networks, Sudhir Dixit, Nokia Res., USA.
Comparative Analysis of PON-Based Architectures PON: Lessons Learned, Junichi Nakagawa, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan.
Recent Research Activities of WDM-PON in Korea, Hyung-Jin Park, Korea Telecom, Republic of Korea.
WDM-PON with Colorless ONUs, Franck Payoux, France Telecom, France.
Waveguides in PCB, Petar Pepeljugoski, IBM Res., USA.
GRID and Optical Networks: How to Bridge the Gap? Nageswara, S. V. Rao, Oak Ridge Natl. Lab, USA.
Optical VPN or Inter-Provider Optical VPN, Tomonori Takeda, NTT, Japan.
OCDMA Access Systems Using Ultra-Long Super-Structured En/Decoder, Xu Wang, Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.
Short Distance Optical Connections for Home Networks, Sensing and Mobile Systems, Olaf Ziemann, POF-AC Polymer Optical Fiber Application Ctr., Germany.

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NFOEC A: Network Systems

Optical/Wireless Access Architecture and Field Trials, Peter Magill, AT&T, USA.
Optical Meshed Networks: From Concept to Deployment, Hans-Juergen Schmidtke, Siemens Communications, USA.

NFOEC B: Network Technologies

ROADM Deployment, Challenges and Applications, Ron Bernhey, Verizon, USA.
OA&M in Packet Transport Networks, Leon Bruckman, Corrigent Systems, USA.
Falling Boundaries from Metro to ULH Optical Transport Equipment, Michel Chbat, Siemens Communications, Inc., USA.
Applications of Liquid Crystal Technology to Telecommunication Devices, Jack Kelly, CoAdna Photonics, USA.
Design and Implementation of an Optical Dynamic Core Network: Engineering Considerations, Kim Papakos, Tellabs, USA.
Massively-Regenerator Based DWDM Systems, David Welch, Infinera Corp., USA.