2009 Invited Speakers

Category A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
Category B. Fiber and Waveguide-Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors and Performance Monitors
Category C. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering and Signal Compensation
Category D. Optoelectronic Devices
Category E. Digital Transmission Systems
Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
Category H. Core Networks
Category I. Access Networks
Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications
NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services
NFOEC 2: Network Technologies

Category A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects

OThD1, Simple and Precise Chromatic Dispersion Measurement Using Sinusoidally Phase-Modulated CW Light, Takashi Yamamoto, Kenji Kurokawa, Katsusuke Tajima, Toshio Kurashima; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs, Japan.
OThD4, Spatially Resolved Measurements of Fiber Parameters by Localized Four-Photon Mixing, Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.
OThK1, Progress in Metamaterials for Optical Devices, Alexander V. Kildishev¹, Shumin Xiao¹, Uday K. Chettiar¹, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan², Wenshan Cai³, Vladimir P. Drachev¹, Vladimir M. Shalaev¹; ¹Birck Nanotechnology Ctr., Purdue Univ., USA, ²Intel Corp., USA, ³Geballe Lab for Advanced Materials, Stanford Univ., USA.
OTuL4, Bend Insensitive Fiber for FTTX Applications, John M. Fini^1,2, Peter I. Borel², Peter A. Weimann³, Poul Kristensen², John Bjerregaard^2,4, Kenneth Carlson², Man F. Yan^1,3, Patrick W. Wisk¹, Siddharth Ramachandran¹, Andrew D. Yablon¹, David J. DiGiovanni¹, Dennis Trevor¹, Calvin J. Martin⁴, Alan McCurdy⁴; ¹Optical Fiber Res., OFS Labs, USA, ²OFS Fitel Denmark, Denmark, ³OFS Optical Cable, USA, ⁴OFS-Fitel, LLC, USA.
OWD7, Optical WDM Regeneration: Status and Future Prospects, Lionel A. Provost, Periklis Petropoulos, David J. Richardson; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK.
OWN1, Parabolic Pulse Formation and Applications, Christophe Finot¹, John M. Dudley², David J. Richardson³, Guy Millot¹; ¹Inst. Carnot Bourgogne, Univ. de Bourgogne, France, ²Inst. FEMTO-ST, Univ. de Franche-Comté, France, ³Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK.
OWN3, Long Period Fiber Gratings for High Speed Optical Pulse Shaping: Principles and Applications, Radan Slavik², Jose Azaña², Yongwoo Park²; ¹Inst. of Photonics and Electronics, Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic, ²Inst. Natl. de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Canada.
OWU7, Stimulated Supercontinuum Generation, Daniel R. Solli¹, Claus Ropers^1,2, Bahram Jalali¹; ¹Electrical Engineering Dept., Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA, ²Courant Res. Ctr. Nano-Spectroscopy and X-Ray Imaging, Univ. of Göttingen, Germany.

Category B. Fiber and Waveguide-Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors and Performance Monitors

OMH1, Recent Advances in Real-Time Processing Based on Parametric Processes, Camille-Sophie Brès; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.
OMP1, Fiber-Based Entangled Photon Sources and Their Applications, Alan Migdall^1,2, J. Fan^1,2, J. Chen^1,2, A. Ling^1,2, S. Polyakov^1,2; ¹NIST, USA, ²Joint Quantum Inst., Univ. of Maryland, USA.
OTuP3, Advances in Fiber Laser Beam Combination, Joshua E. Rothenberg; Northrop Grumman Space Technology, USA.
OWB3, Generation of Energetic Wavelength Tunable Femtosecond Pulses in Higher-Order-Mode Fiber, Chris Xu; Cornell Univ., USA.
OWT1, High Power Thulium Doped Fiber Lasers, W. Andrew Clarkson, Lee Pearson, Zhaowei Zhang, Ji Won Kim, Deyuan Shen, Alex J. Boyland, Jayanta K. Sahu, Morten Ibsen; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK.
OWT6, Novel Crystalline Core Optical Fibers, John Ballato, T. Hawkins, B. Kokuoz, A. James, R. Stolen, P. Foy; Ctr. for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies, Clemson Univ., USA.
OThH5, Performance Monitoring Using Coherent Receivers, Jonas C. Geyer¹, Chris R. S. Fludger², Thomas Duthel², Christoph Schulien², Bernhard Schmauss¹; ¹Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, ²CoreOptics GmbH, Germany.

Category C. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering and Signal Compensation

OMJ3, All-Optical Processing on a Silicon Chip, Alexander Gaeta; Cornell Univ., USA.
OMJ4, Multi-Wavelength Message Routing in a Non-Blocking Four-Port Bidirectional Switch Fabric for Silicon Photonic Networks-on-Chip, Benjamin G. Lee¹, Aleksandr Biberman¹, Keren Bergman¹, Nicolás Sherwood-Droz², Michal Lipson²; ¹Columbia Univ., USA, ²Cornell Univ., USA.
OTuF1, Flexible and Reconfigurable Time-Domain De-Multiplexing of Optical Signals at 160 Gbit/s, Michael Roelens¹, Jeremy A. Bolger^2,1, David Williams¹, Steve Frisken², Glenn W. Baxter², Aisling M. Clarke¹, Benjamin J. Eggleton¹; ¹Univ. of Sydney, Australia, ²Finisar Australia, Australia.
OTuF3, The Osmosis Optical Packet Switch for Supercomputers, Ronald Luijten¹, Richard Grzybowski²; ¹IBM Res. GmbH, Zurich Res. Lab, Switzerland, ²Corning Inc., USA.
OWC2, Ultra-Compact Optical Switch Based on Photonic Crystal Waveguides, Thomas Krauss; School of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK.
OWO1, Recent Progress on Athermal AWG Wavelength Multiplexer, Shin Kamei; NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.
OWO4, Low Power Consumption PLC-Type 43Gb/s DQPSK Demodulator, Kuninori Hattori, Yohei Sakamaki, Yusuke Nasu, Shin Kamei, Toshikazu Hashimoto, Hiroshi Takahashi, Yasuyuki Inoue; NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.
OWV3, Optical Isolator with SOI Waveguide, Tetsuya Mizumoto, Yuya Shoji; Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan.

Category D. Optoelectronic Devices

OMK1, High-Speed Photodiode and Optical Receiver Technologies, Atsushi Wakatsuki¹, Tomofumi Furuta¹, Yoshifumi Muramoto¹, Tadao Ishibashi²; ¹NTT Photonics Labs, Japan, ²NTT Electronics Corp., Japan.
OMK4, Highly Linear Integrated Coherent Receivers for Microwave Photonic Links, Jonathan Klamkin¹, Leif A. Johansson², Anand Ramaswamy², Nobuhiro Nunoya², Sasa Ristic², Uppili Krishnamachari², Janet Chen², John E. Bowers², Steven P. DenBaars^1,2, Larry A. Coldren^1,2; ¹Materials Dept., Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA, ²Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
OMR5, State of the Art Si-Based Receiver Solutions for Short Reach Applications, Mike Morse¹, T. Yin¹, Y. Kang¹, O. Dosunmu¹, H. D. Liu¹, M. Paniccia¹, G. Sarid², E. Ginsburg², R. Cohen², Y. Saado², R. Shnaiderman², M. Zadka²; ¹Intel Corp., USA, ²Numonyx Corp., Israel.
OTuK6, Novel Concepts for High Speed VCSELs, Nicolai Ledentsov; VI Systems GmbH, Germany.
OWJ5, Recent Advances in Long Wavelength Quantum Dot Lasers and Amplifiers, Richard Nötzel, E. A. J. M. Bente, M. K. Smit, H. J. S. Dorren; COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands.
OThG1, Optical Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) with Coherent Detection up to 128 States, Masataka Nakazawa; Res. Inst. of Electrical Communication, Tohoku Univ., Japan.
OThN3, Compact Integrated 100Gb/s Optical Modulators Using Hybrid Assembly Technique with Silica-Based PLCs and LiNbO3 Devices, Akimasa Kaneko, Hiroshi Yamazaki, Takashi Yamada; NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.
OThN6, Integration and Packaging of Devices for 100-Gb/s Transmission, Jeffrey H. Sinsky; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

Category E. Digital Transmission Systems

OMT5, Experimental Experiences in High Speed QPSK Transmission, Cornelius Fürst, M. Camera, H. Wernz, H. Griesser; Ericsson, Germany.
OTuD1, Overlaying Coherent-Detection Channels over Direct-Detection Channels in Multi-Bit-Rate Systems, Sébastien Bigo, Gabriel Charlet, Jérémie Renaudier, Massimiliano Salsi, Oriol Bertran-Pardo; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France.
OTuN1, Modulation Formats for 100Gb/s Coherent Optical Systems, Han Sun, Jamie Gaudette, Yue Pan, Maurice O'Sullivan, Kim Roberts, Kuang-Tsan Wu; Nortel Networks, Canada.
OTuN6, Requirements for 100Gb/s Metro Networks, Michael H. Eiselt, Brian T. Teipen; ADVA AG Optical Networking, Germany.
OWE1, Operating Points for Low-Density Parity-Check Codes in on-off Keyed Fiber-Optic Transmission Systems, Benjamin P. Smith, Frank R. Kschischang; Univ. of Toronto, Canada.
OWW1, High Spectral Efficiency Coherent Optical OFDM for 1 Tb/s Ethernet Transport, William Shieh; Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia.
OWW6, Enhanced Deep Space Data Return by Integrated RF-Optical TT&C, Thomas Dreischer, Michael Tuechler, Klaus Kudielka, Guy Baister; Oerlikon Space AG, Switzerland.
OThC3, Long-Haul Raman/ROPA-Assisted EDFA Systems, Alan J. Lucero, D. G. Foursa, J.- X. Cai; Tyco Telecommunications, USA.
OThL2, The SECOQC Quantum-Key-Distribution Network in Vienna, Momtchil Peev, Thomas Länger, Thomas Lorünser, Andreas Happe, Oliver Maurhart, Andreas Poppe, Thomas Themel; Austrian Res. Ctr.s GmbH, Austria.
OThR1, System Technologies for 100G Transport Networks, Peter Magill; AT&T Labs, USA.

Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

OMM3, Fundamental Limits of Signal Processing in Optical Communications, Michele Franceschini¹, Gianluigi Ferrari², Riccardo Raheli², Giorgio Bongiorni³, Fausto Meli⁴, Andrea Castoldi⁴; ¹IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA, ²Univ. of Parma, Italy, ³Selta S.p.A., Italy, ⁴Cisco Photonics Italy, Italy.
OTuO3, No-Guard-Interval Coherent Optical OFDM for 100-Gb/s/ch Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Akihide Sano, Yasushi Takatori, Yutaka Miyamoto; NTT Corp., Japan.
OWG5, High-Bit-Rate Optical QAM, Takahide Sakamoto, Akito Chiba, Tetsuya Kawanishi; NICT, Japan.
OWM3, Performance Monitoring in Optical OFDM Systems, Markus Mayrock, Herbert Haunstein; Univ. of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
OThE1, Reduced Complexity Rx Concepts for Optical Multilevel Transmission, Fabian N. Hauske¹, Maxim Kuschnerov¹, Bernhard Spinnler², Berthold Lankl¹; ¹Federal Armed Forces Univ., Germany, ²Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Germany.
OThE4, Microelectronics Advancements to Support New Modulation Formats and DSP Techniques, Bruce Beggs; Nortel Networks, Canada.
OThJ1, Agile Photonic Architectures Enabled by New Modulation Formats and DSP, David Boertjes; Nortel Networks, Canada.
OThJ4, Towards Real-Time Implementation of Coherent Optical Communication, Timo Pfau, Ralf Peveling, Vijitha Herath, Sebastian Hoffmann, Christian Wördehoff, Olaf Adamczyk, Mario Porrmann, Reinhold Noé; Univ. of Paderborn, Germany.

Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

OMI4, Toward Tera-Sample/s 5-Bit All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion, Yuji Miyoshi¹, Seiki Takagi¹, Hiroshi Nagaeda², Shu Namiki³, Ken-ichi Kitayama¹; ¹Osaka Univ., Japan, ²Trimatiz Ltd., Japan, ³AIST, Japan.
OMU1, All-Optical Label Processing and Swapping in Packet Switched Networks: Opportunities for Silicon Photonics, Javier Marti, Alejandro Martínez, Javier Herrera; Ctr. de Tecnología Nanofotónica, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.
OTuE5, Photonics for Microwave Generation, Transmission, and Processing, Ronald Esman¹, Steve Pappert¹, Brian Krantz², Ganesh Gopalakrishnan³; ¹Microsystems Technology Office, DARPA, USA, ²Booz Allen Hamilton, USA, ³Independent Consultant, USA.
OTuE6, Photonic-Enabled Microwave and Terahertz Communication Systems, Alwyn J. Seeds¹, Martyn J. Fice¹, Francesca Pozzi¹, Lalitha Ponnampalam¹, Cyril C. Renaud¹, Chin-Pang Liu¹, Ian F. Lealman², Graeme Maxwell², Dave Moodie², Michael J. Robertson², Dave C. Rogers²; ¹Univ. College London, UK, ²CIP Technologies, UK.
OTuM1, Novel Optically Generated Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Signals, Leslie A. Rusch, Mohammad Abtahi; Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. Laval, Canada.
OWF3, Broadband Antennas and Efficient Electro-Optic Interfaces for Fiber-Radio Applications, Rod Waterhouse, Dalma Novak; Pharad, LLC, USA.
OWS1, Microwave Photonic Applications for Silicon Photonics, Drew Guckenberger; Luxtera Corp, USA.
OThF3, 640 Gbit/s Optical Signal Processing, Leif K. Oxenløwe, M. Galili, H. C. H. Mulvad, A. T. Clausen, H. Ji, P. Jeppesen; Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark.
OThS4, All-Optical Regeneration for Ultra-Long Fiber Links and its Prospects for Future Applications with New Modulation Formats, S. J. Ben Yoo; Univ. of California at Davis, USA.

Category H. Core Networks

OML7, IP and Optical Integration in Dynamic Networks, Ori A. Gerstel; Cisco Systems, USA.
OMQ1, Optical Communication Challenges for a Future Internet Design, Darleen Fisher; Natl. Science Foundation, USA.
OWI3, Impact of Topology and Traffic on Physical Layer Monitoring in Transparent Networks, Dan Kilper¹, Alex Ferguson², Barry O'Sullivan², Steven K. Korotky¹; ¹Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, ²Univ. College Cork, Ireland.
OWL1, Optical Multi-Domain Routing, Xavi Masip Bruin, Marcelo Yannuzzi; Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain.
OWL6, Multi-Layer Network Architectures, Jan Spaeth; Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co.KG, Germany.
OThO3, Network Coding and Its Implications on Optical Networking, Minkyu Kim, Muriel Médard, Una-May O'Reilly; MIT, USA.
OThQ1, CAPEX and OPEX in Aggregation and Core Networks, Claus G. Gruber; Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany.

Category I. Access Networks

OMN1, New Passive Optical Technologies Enabling Faster, Lower Cost MDU Installations, John George, Peter A. Weimann, Daniel A. Hendrickson, Hongbo Zhang, Andrew Oliviero; OFS Optics, USA.
OMV1, Optical OFDM Transmission in Metro/Access Networks, Dayou Qian, Neda Cvijetic, Junqiang Hu, Ting Wang; NEC Labs America, Inc., USA.
OWH1, Investigation into Optical Technologies for Access Evolution, Philippe Chanclou, J.- P. Lanquetin, S. Durel, F. Saliou, B. Landousies, N. Genay, Z. Belfqih; France Telecom Res. & Development Div., France.
OWH6, 10-Gbit/s TDM-PON and over-40-Gbit/s WDM/TDM-PON Systems with OPEX-Effective Burst-Mode Technologies, Shunji Kimura; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.
OThA1, Plug-and-Play WDM-PON Technologies for Future Flexible Optical Access Networks, Hiro Suzuki, Masamichi Fujiwara, Tetsuya Suzuki, Hideaki Kimura, Kiyomi Kumozaki; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.
OThI1, CDM-Technologies for Next Generation Optical Access Networks, Takeshi Kamijoh, M. Kashima, H. Tamai, M. Sarashina, H. Iwamura, G. C. Gupta; Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd., Corporate R&D Ctr., Japan.
OThI6, Secure OCDM-Based PON, Gabriella Cincotti¹, Naoya Wada², Ken-ichi Kitayama³; ¹Univ. of Roma Tre, Italy, ²NICT, Japan, ³Osaka Univ., Japan.
OThP5, WDM-PON Development and Deployment as a Present Optical Access Solution, Bongtae Kim¹, Byoung-Whi Kim²; ¹ETRI, Network Res. Div., Republic of Korea, ²ETRI, Optical Communications Ctr., Republic of Korea.

Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications

OMG1, Virtualized Optical Network (VON) for Agile Cloud Computing Environment, Masahiko Jinno, Yukio Tsukishima; NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan.
OMO5, GENI: Overview and Plans, Kristin Rauschenbach; BBN Technologies, USA.
OTuA3, Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical Links for High-Bandwidth Data Center Networks, Madeleine Glick¹, David G. Andersen², Michael Kaminsky¹, Lily Mummert¹; ¹Intel, USA, ²Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA.
OTuI2, Cost-Efficient Dragonfly Topology for Large-Scale Systems, John Kim¹, William J. Dally², Steve Scott³, Dennis Abts⁴; ¹Northwestern Univ., USA, ²Stanford Univ., USA, ³Cray Inc., USA, ⁴Google, USA.
OWA1, Design and Development of Optical Grid over Wavelength Switched Optical Network, Hiroaki Harai, Sugang Xu; NICT, Japan.
OWK4, A Bandwidth Challenge at Super Computing (SC) Conference: Large-Scale Data Transfer Using 10Gbps Network, Ken T. Murata^1,2, Eizen Kimura², Kazunori Yamamoto², Daisuke Matsuoka², Hironori Shimazu¹, Yasuichi Kitamura¹, Keiichiro Fukazawa¹, Jin Tanaka³, Takatoshi Ikeda³, Yuuichi Kurokawa³; ¹NICT, Japan, ²Ehime Univ., Japan, ³KDDI Corp., Japan.

NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services

NMC5, G.709 Hierarchy Optical Transport Core Network Design, Requirements and Challenges, Nee Ben Gee, Bert E. E. Basch, Steven Gringeri; Verizon Inc., USA.
NMD3, Management and Control Architecture of Intelligent Transparent Optical Networks, Wataru Imajuku; NTT Labs, Japan.
NTuA1, Managing the Convergence of Carrier Ethernet with Optical Transport, Ronald Skoog; Telcordia Technologies, USA.
NTuA4, The Continuing Evolution of Ethernet, John D'Ambrosia; Force10 Networks, USA.
NTuB2, GMPLS Ethernet and PBB-TE (A Carrier’s View), Kenichi Ogaki, Tomohiro Otani; KDDI R&D Labs Inc., Japan.
NTuC1, Serial 40G Submarine Deployments, Wes George¹, Walter Chen¹, Samuel Liu²; ¹Sprint, USA, ²StrataLight Communications, Inc., USA.
NThE3, Service Oriented Optical Network Architecture, F. Baroncelli¹, B. Martini¹, V. Martini², Piero Castoldi²; ¹Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy, ²Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy.
NThF5, Interworking of IP and OTN Networks-Making IP over OTN a Reality, Mark Nowell; Cisco Systems, Canada.

NFOEC 2: Network Technologies

NMB3, AT&T Optical Transport Services, Barbara Smith; AT&T, USA.
NWA4, Automated Fiber Optical Switching in FTTP PON Access Networks, Joseph Finn; Verizon, USA.
NWC3, Impact of FTTP on Metro Network Architecture, David Templeton; Verizon, USA.
NWD3, Highly Integrated DQPSK Modules for 40Gb/s Transmission, Chris Clarke, Robert Griffin, Thomas Goodall; Bookham Inc., UK.
NThA1, Ethernet to the Cell Site, Hany Fahmy; AT&T, USA.
NThA2, The Deployment and Operation of Fiber to the Cell Site, Benjamin Parker; Verizon, USA.
NThB1, Recent Advances in 100G OTN, Masahito Tomizawa; NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan.