2008 Committees

Technical Program Chairs
OFC Committees
NFOEC Committees
Steering Committee

OFC/NFOEC Technical Program Chairs

Loudon Blair, Ciena Corp., USA, General Chair
Joseph E. Ford, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA, General Chair
Ann VonLehmen, Telcordia Technologies, USA, General Chair
John Cartledge, Queen’s Univ., Canada, OFC Program Chair
Ekaterina Golovchenko, Tyco Telecommunications, USA, OFC Program Chair
E. Bert Basch, Verizon, USA, NFOEC Program Chair

OFC Committees
Category 1. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects	Category 2. Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide
Scott Hamilton, MIT, USA, Subcommittee Chair Tomoharu Hasegawa, Asahi Glass Co., Japan Magnus Karlsson, Univ. of Chalmers, Sweden Ming-Jun Li, Corning Inc.,USA Pavel Mamyshev, Mintera Corp., USA Georg Mohs, Tyco Telecommunications, USA Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Germany Terence Shepherd, QinetiQ, UK Akira Shirakawa, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan Andrew Yablon, OFS Labs, USA	Paul Wysocki, LGS Innovations, USA, Subcommittee Chair Maxim Bolshtyansky, JDSU, USA Almantas Galvanauskas, Univ. of Michigan, USA Weisheng Hu, Shanghai Jiao-Tong Univ., China Dug-Young Kim, Gwangju Inst. Republic of Korea Ansheng Liu, Intel, USA Colin McKinstrie, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Jeff Nicholson, OFS Labs USA Johan Nilsson, Southampton Univ. UK Namkyoo Park, Seoul Natl. Univ., Republic of Korea

Category 3. Signal Measurement Distortion Compensation Devices and Sensors	Category 4. Switching Wavelength-Selective Filtering and Routing Devices
David Moss, Univ. of Quebec, Canada, Subcommittee Chair Ben Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia E. J. Friebele, NRL, USA Martin Guy, Teraxion, Canada Morten Ibsen, Univ. of Southamption, UK Martin Kristensen, Aarhaus Univ., Denmark Siddharth Ramachandran, OFS Labs, USA Martin Rochette, McGill Univ., Canada David Sampson, Univ. Western Australia, Australia Peter Winzer, Alcatel-Lucent, USA	Haifeng Li, Tyco Telecommunications, USA, Subcommittee Chair Paul Colbourne, JDSU, Canada Rance Fortenberry, Sirrus Technology Inc., USA Garo Khanarian, Rohm & Haas, USA Dan Marom, Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem, Israel Myo Ohn, Avanex, USA Olav Solgaard, Stanford Univ., USA Michael J. Steel, Macquarie Univ., Australia Hiroshi Takahashi, NTT Photonics Labs, Japan Yurii Vlasov, IBM, USA

Category 5. Optoelectronic Devices	Category 6. Digital Transmission Systems
Joe Campbell, Univ. of Virginia, USA, Subcommittee Chair Masahiro Aoki, Hitachi, Japan Heinz-Gunter Bach, Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Germany Liam Barry, Dublin City Univ., Ireland Kent Choquette, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Chuck Joyner, Infinera, USA Karl Kissa, JDSU, USA Paul Morton, Morton Photonics, USA Bryan Robinson, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA Clint Schow, IBM, USA Hiroshi Yasaka, NTT, Japan	Rene-Jean Essiambre, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Subcommittee Chair Peter Andrekson, Univ. of Chalmers, Sweden Martin Birk, AT&T Res. Lab, USA Jin-Xing Cai, Tyco Telecommunications, USA Hoon Kim, Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea Shiva Kumar, McMaster Univ., Canada Yutaka Miyamoto, NTT, Japan Tetsuya Miyazaki, NICT, Japan Werner Rosenkranz, Univ. of Kiel, Germany Paul Toliver, Telcordia Technologies, USA Paul Townsend, Univ. College Cork, Ireland

Category 7. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements	Category 8. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
Herbert Haunstein, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany, Subcommittee Chair Dave Atkinson, JDSU, Canada Giuseppe Bordogna, Nortel, Canada Fred Buchali, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany Y. C. Chung, KAIST, Republic of Korea Sarah Dods, NICTA, Australia Erwan Pincemin, France Telecom, France Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka Univ., Japan Arthur Lowery, Monash Univ., Australia Loukas Paraschis, Cisco Systems, USA	David Boertjes, Nortel, Canada, Subcommittee Chair Tom Clark, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA Greg Abbas, Eospace, USA Luc Boivin, Verizon Communications, Inc., USA Ernesto Ciaramella, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy Alexandre Shen, III-IV Res. Lab, Alcatel-Lucent, France Chester Shu, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China Stefan Spälter, Siemens, Germany Masashi Usami, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan Ian White, Cambridge Univ., UK

Category 9. Networks	Category 10. Access Solutions, Demonstrations and Non-Telecom Applications
Chunming Qiao, SUNY, USA, Subcommittee Chair Vincent Chan, MIT, USA Piet Demeester, Broadband Communication Networks (IBCN), Belgium Nasir Ghani, Tennessee Technological Univ., USA Junqiang Hu, NEC, USA Admela Jukan, Univ. du Québec, Canada Iraj Saniee, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington Univ., USA Alex Vukovic, Communications Res. Ctr. (CRC), Canada Jennifer Yates AT&T Labs–Res., USA	Glenn Wellbrock, MCI, USA, Subcommittee Chair Philippe Becker, Wasserstein, USA Nikolaus Gieschen, T-Systems, Germany Christoph Glingener, Marconi Corporation plc, Germany Shoichi Hanatani, Hitachi Communication Technologies, Ltd. Japan John Jacob, BBN Technologies, USA Glen Kramer, TEKNOVUS, USA Ashok Krishnamoorthy, Sun Microsystems SSG Physical Sciences Ctr., USA Soo Jin Park, KT Advanced Technology Lab, Republic of Korea Paul Prucnal, Princeton Univ., USA Niall Robinson, Mintera Corp., USA Vik Saxena, Comcast, USA Ting Wang, NEC, USA Yong Xue, DISA, USA

NFOEC Committees
Category A. Optical Networks and Services	Category B. Network Technologies
Mehran Esfandiari, AT&T, USA, Subcommittee Chair Mark Allen, Infinera, USA Frank Effenberger, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., USA Peter Hofmann, Verizon Business, USA Claus Popp Larsen, Acreo, Germany Monica Lazer, AT&T, USA Petar Pepeljugoski, IBM Res., USA Stevan Plote, StrataLight Communications, USA George Rouskas, North Carolina State Univ., USA Kenneth Stephens, BellSouth Telecommunications, USA	Vishnu Shukla, Verizon Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair Mark Boduch, Tellabs, USA Paul Bonenfant, Morgan Keegan, USA Michel Chbat, Nokia Siemens Networks, USA Mei Du, OFS Labs, USA Louay Eldada, DuPont Photonics Technologies, USA Hans-Martin Foisel, T-Systems, Germany Alysha Godin, Nortel, Canada Yoshinori Hibino, NTT, Japan Jin Hong, StrataLight Communications, USA Lev Levitin, Boston Univ., USA Paparao (Rao) Palacharla, Fujitsu, USA Daniel Peterson, Verizon, USA John Spencer, Optelian, USA Thomas Wood, Lucent Technologies, USA

Category C. Service Provider Summit & Market Watch
Christoph Pfistner, NeoPhotonics, USA, Subcommittee Chair Karen Liu, Ovum RHK Inc., USA, Market Watch Serge Melle, Infinera, USA, Service Provider Summit

OFC/NFOEC Steering Committee
IEEE/Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Neal Bergano, Tyco Telecommunications, USA George Harvey, Tyco Telecommunications, USA Patrick Iannone, AT&T Labs - Res., USA Bruce Nyman, Princeton Lightwave, USA	Optical Society of America Douglas Baney, Agilent Labs, USA Andrew Chraplyvy, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA Robert Tkach, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA, Chair John Zyskind, JDSU, USA
IEEE/Communications Society Thomas Afferton, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA Stewart Personick, USA Jane Simmons, Monarch Network Architects, USA	Ex-Officio Mehran Esfandiari, AT&T, USA Mark Feuer, AT&T Labs - Res., USA Biswanath Mukherjee, Univ. of California at Davis, USA Leo Spiekman, Alphion Corp., USA Atul Srivastava, OneTerabit, USA

2008 Committees

OFC/NFOEC Technical Program Chairs

OFC Committees

NFOEC Committees

OFC/NFOEC Steering Committee