2009 Tutorial Speakers
Category A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
OMS1, High Speed Transmission over Multimode Fiber, Ronald Freund; Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Germany.
OTuC1, History and Future of Photonic Crystal Fibers, Philip Russell; Max Planck Res. Group for Optics, Information and Photonics, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany.
Category B. Fiber and Waveguide-Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors and Performance Monitors
OTuP1, Holographic Bragg Reflectors: Designs and Applications, Thomas Mossberg, C. Greiner, D. Iazikov; LightSmyth Technologies, Inc., USA.
OThU1, Fiber Optics, from Sensing to Non Invasive High Resolution Medical Imaging, Adrian Podoleanu; Univ. of Kent, UK.
Category C. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering and Signal Compensation
OWC1, Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Trapping Crystals, Sajeev John; Univ. of Toronto, Canada.
OThB5, Complex Component Characterization Based on Elementary Matrices, Douglas Baney; Agilent Labs, USA.
Category D. Optoelectronic Devices
OWQ4, High-Power Semiconductor Optical Amplifier, Ken Morito; Fujitsu Labs Ltd., Japan.
OWX1, Single Photon Avalanche Photodiodes, Joe Campbell; Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Virginia, USA.
Category E. Digital Transmission Systems
OThL1, Capacity Limits of Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, René-Jean Essiambre, Gerard Foschini, Peter Winzer, Gerhard Kramer; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.
Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
OMM4, Modulation Formats Which Approach the Shannon Limit, Andrew Ellis; Tyndall Natl. Inst., Univ. College Cork, Ireland.
OTuG5, Principles of Digital Coherent Receivers for Optical Communications, Joseph Kahn, Ezra Ip; Stanford Univ., USA.
Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
OMI1, Photonic Analog-to-Digital Converters, George C. Valley; The Aerospace Corp., USA.
OWP5, Fiber-Wireless Networks and Microwave Photonics Subsystem Technologies, Christina Lim¹, Thas A. Nirmalathas1,2, Masud Bakaul², Prasanna Gamage¹, Ka-Lun Lee¹, Yizhuo Yang¹, Dalma Novak1,3, Rod Waterhouse1,3; ¹ARC Special Res. Ctr. for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN), Univ. of Melbourne, Australia, ²Natl. ICT Australia, Victoria Res. Lab (NICTA), Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia, ³Pharad, LLC, USA.
Category H. Core Networks
OWY5, Multilayer Network Resilience, Andrzej Jajszczyk; AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Poland.
Category I. Access Networks
OWR5, 40/100GbE Technologies and Related Activities of IEEE Standardization, Osamu Ishida; NTT, Japan.
Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications
OTuI1, Sun's Project Blackbox: A Modular Approach to High Density Datacenters, Jud Cooley; Sun Microsystems, USA.
OWK1, Ultra High Definition Media over Optical Networks (CINEGRID), Cees T. A. de Laat¹, Laurin Herr²; ¹Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands, ²Pacific Interface, USA.
NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services
NMD1, ROADM Network Design Issues, Sorin Tibuleac; ADVA Optical Networking Inc., USA.
NThC4, 10G-EPON Standardization and Its Development Status, Keiji Tanaka; KDDI R&D Labs, Japan.
NFOEC 2: Network Technologies
NThB4, The Impact and Mitigation of Non-Linear Effects in Coherent Optical Transmission, Gabriel Charlet; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France.