Archive

Short Courses

Schedule by Topic Category

1. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
2. Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide
3. Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensation 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. Access Solutions, Demonstrations and Non-Telecom Applications
NFOEC B: Network Technologies
Reliability and Qualifications

1. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects

SC186 Hands-on Specialty Fiber Splicing, Clyde J. Troutman; 3SAE Technologies, USA.

SC208 Specialty Optical Fiber Design and Applications, David DiGiovanni; OFS Labs, USA.

SC210 Hands-on Polarization-Related Measurements Workshop, Danny Peterson¹, Kent Rochford², Ivan T. Lima³, Paul Williams²; ¹Verizon Business, USA, ²NIST, USA, ³North Dakota State Univ., USA.

SC288 Fundamentals of Polarization, PMD and PDL in Lightwave Systems, Robert Jopson; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

2. Amplifiers and Lasers: Fiber or Waveguide

SC123 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Raman Fiber Amplifiers, John Zyskind; JDSU, USA.

SC290 High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Johan Nilsson; Univ. of Southampton, UK.

NEW! SC312 Parametric Optical Processing and Systems, Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.

3. Signal Measurement, Distortion Compensation Devices and Sensors

SC265 Passive Optical Components and Filtering Technologies, Bruce Nyman¹, Christi Madsen²; ¹Princeton Lightwave, USA, ²Texas A&M Univ., USA.

SC293 Introduction to Fiber Sensors, Michel Digonnet; Stanford Univ., USA.

4. Switching Wavelength-Selective Filtering and Routing Devices

SC292 Planar Integrated Optics, Christopher R. Doerr; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

5. Optoelectronic Devices

SC125 Tunable Lasers; Jens Buus; Gayton Photonics Ltd., UK.

SC175 Packaging of Optoelectronic, Photonic and MEMS Components, Paul Haugsjaa; Polycision Inc., USA.

SC177 High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers and Modulators, John Bowers; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

SC178 Test and Measurement of High-Speed Communications Signals, Greg D. Le Cheminant; Agilent Technologies, USA.

SC215 Nanofabricated Lasers, Waveguides and Dispersive Elements, Axel Scherer; Caltech, USA.

SC267 Silicon Microphotonics: Technology Elements and the Roadmap to Implementation, Lionel Kimerling; MIT, USA.

6. Digital Transmission Systems

SC102 WDM in Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Neal S. Bergano; Tyco Telecommunications, USA.

SC184 Introduction to Modeling High Data Rate Optical Fiber Communications Systems, Curtis R. Menyuk; Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.

SC203 40 Gb/s Transmission Systems, Design and Design Trade-offs, Martin Birk¹, Benny Mikkelsen²; ¹AT&T Labs - Res., USA, ²Mintera, USA.

7. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

SC101 Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component Testing, Lorenz Cartellieri¹, Peter Schweiger², John Kim¹, Karl Merkel³, Michael Kelly⁴, Caroline Connolly⁵, Richard Buerli⁵; ¹Experior Photonics Inc., USA, ²Agilent Technologies, Canada, ³Agilent Technologies, USA, ⁴Agilent Technologies GmbH, Germany, ⁵OptoTest, USA.

SC103 Fast Reconfigurable WDM Optical Networks, Daniel Blumenthal; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

SC105 Modulation Formats and Receiver Concepts for Optical Transmission Systems, Peter J. Winzer, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

SC141 Combating and Monitoring Data-Degrading Effects in Non-Static WDM Systems, Alan E. Willner; Univ. of Southern California, USA.

SC239 Short-Reach Optical Interconnects, Brian E. Lemoff; Scientific Res. Group, West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, USA.

SC259 Electronic and Optical Impairment Mitigation, Chris Fludger; CoreOptics GmbH, Germany.

SC289 Basics of Optical Communication Systems and WDM, Gerd Keiser; Natl. Taiwan Univ. of Science & Technology, Taiwan.

8. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

SC205 Integrated Electronic Circuits for Fiber Optics, Y. K. Chen; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

SC217 Hybrid Fiber Radio: The Application of Photonic Links in Wireless Communications, Dalma Novak; Pharad LLC, USA.

SC266 Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Information, Richard Hughes¹, Tom Chapuran²; ¹Los Alamos Natl. Labs, USA, ²Telcordia, USA.

NEW! SC315 Recent Advances in Polymer Waveguides, Paul Ashley; U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, USA.

9. Networks

SC114 Passive Optical Networks (PONs), Paul W. Shumate; IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society, USA.

SC171 Introduction to Optical Control Plane Standards and Technology: OIF UNI, GMPLS, G.ASON and All That! Greg Bernstein; Grotto Networking, USA.

SC176 Metro Network Architectures, Today and Tomorrow, Joseph Berthold; Ciena Corp., USA.

SC216 An Introduction to Optical Network Design and Planning, Jane Simmons; Monarch Network Architects, USA.

SC243 Next Generation Transport Networks: The Evolution from Circuits to Packets, Ori Gerstel; Cisco Systems, USA.

SC261 ROADM Technologies and Network Applications, Thomas Strasser; Nistica Inc., USA.

SC264 Optical Ethernet and Data Networking for Large Enterprises, Jeffrey L. Cox; JP Morgan Chase, USA.

SC268 Hands-on Workshop on Outside Plant Splicing, Testing and Troubleshooting for FTTx Networks, Larry Johnson; Light Brigade Inc., USA.

10. Access Solutions, Demonstrations and Non-Telecom Applications

SC160 Microwave Photonics, Keith J. Williams; NRL, USA.

SC185 Hands-on Polishing, Inspection and Testing of Connectors, Jason Sloan¹, Steve Baldo², Neal Wagman³; ¹Light Brigade Inc., USA, ²Seikoh Giken USA, USA, ³Norland Products, USA.

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

SC260 Biomedical Diagnostic Applications of Communications Technologies, Brett E. Bouma; Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA.

SC262 Alternative Broadband Access: Wired and Wireless Technologies for the Last Mile, Paul S. Henry; AT&T Labs -- Res., USA.

SC291 Hands-on Fiber Optics for Engineers Designing for Military, Aerospace, Shipboard and Industrial Harsh Environmental Applications, Dennis Horwitz; Micronor Inc., USA.

NFOEC B: Network Technologies

NEW! SC313 OTN/G.709 Technology Overview and Role in the “New Transport” Network, Frank D. Ferrara; JDSU, USA.

NEW! SC314 Hands-on Fiber Characterization for the Engineering of Long Haul and Metro Deployments, Danny Peterson¹, Joachim Peerlings²; ¹Verizon Business, USA, ²Agilent Technologies, Germany.

Reliability and Qualifications

SC133 Reliability Methodologies for Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack; Intel Corporation, USA.

SC294 Qualification Programs for Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack; Intel Corporation, USA.