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

Bend Insensitive Fiber for FTTX Applications, John M. Fini; Optical Fiber Res., OFS Labs, USA.
Parabolic Pulse Formation and Applications, Christophe Finot; Faculty of Sciences Mirande, Univ. de Bourgogne, France.
Stimulated Supercontinuum Generation, Bahram Jalali; Electrical Engineering Dept., Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA.
Optical WDM Regeneration: Achievements and Prospects, Lionel A. Provost; Draka Communications, Optical Fiber, France.
Spatially Resolved Measurements of Fiber Parameters by Localized Four-Photon Mixing, Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.
Progress in Metamaterial Optical Devices, Vladimir M. Shalaev; Birck Nanotechnology Ctr., Purdue Univ., USA.
Long Period Fiber Gratings for High Speed Optical Pulse Shaping: Principles and Applications, Radan Slavik; Inst. of Photonics and Electronics, Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic.

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

Optical Fibers with Polycrystalline, Semiconducting, and Magneto-Optic Materials as Cores, John Ballato; Ctr. for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies, Clemson Univ. , USA.
Toward Real-Time Sampling with WDM Samples and Sampling Pulses, Camille Bres; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.
High Power Thulium-Doped Fiber Lasers, W. Andrew Clarkson; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., UK.
Performance Monitoring using Coherent Receivers, Chris Fludger, Jonas Greyer; CoreOptics GmbH, Germany.
Fiber-Based Sources of Entangled Photons and their Applications, Alan Migdall; NIST, USA.
Coherent Combining of Fiber Lasers, Joshua E. Rothenberg; Northrop Grumman Space Technology, USA.
All-Fiber, High-Energy, Tunable-Wavelength Femtosecond Pulse Sources, Chris Xu; Cornell Univ., USA.

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

All-Optical Processing on a Silicon Chip, Alexander Gaeta; Cornell Univ., USA.
Recent Progress on Athermal AWG Wavelength Multiplexer, Shin Kamei; NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.
Ultra-Compact Optical Switch Based on Photonic Crystal Waveguides , Thomas Krauss; School of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK.
Optical Packet Switch for Supercomputers , Ronald Luijten; IBM Res. GmbH, IBM Zurich, Switzerland.
Optical Isolator with SOI Waveguide, Tetsuya Mizumoto; Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan.

Category D. Optoelectronic Devices

Compact Integrated 100Gbps RZ-DQPSK Modulators using Hybrid Assembly Technique with Silica-Based PLCs and LiNbO3, Akimasa Kaneko; NTT Photonics Labs, Japan.
Highly Linear Integrated Coherent Receivers for Microwave Photonic Links, Jonathan Klamkin; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
Novel Concepts for High Speed VCSELs, Nicolai Ledentsov; VI Systems, Germany.
State of the Art Si-Based Receiver Solutions for Short Reach Applications, Mike Morse; Intel, USA.
Optical Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) with Coherent Detection up to 128 States, Masataka Nakazawa; Res. Inst. of Electrical Communication, Tohoku Univ., Japan.
Recent Advances in Long Wavelength Q-Dot Lasers and Amplifiers, Richard Nötzel; COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands.
Integration and Packaging of Devices for 100-Gb/s Transmission, Jeffrey H. Sinsky; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.
High-Speed Photodiode and Optical Receiver Technologies, Ryo Takahashi; NTT Photonics Labs, Japan.

Category E. Digital Transmission Systems

Overlaying Coherent-Detection Channels over Direct-Detection Channels in Multi-Bit-Rate Systems, Sébastien Bigo; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France.
Enhanced Deep Space Data Return by Integrated RF-Optical TT&C, Thomas Dreischer; Oerlikon Space AG, Switzerland.
Requirements for 100Gb/s Metro Networks (Vendors View), Michael Eiselt; ADVA, Germany.
Experimental Experiences in High Speed QPSK Transmission, Cornelius Fuerst; PA Optical Networks Business Unit Networks, Ericsson GmbH, Germany.
Long-Haul Raman/ROPA-Assisted EDFA Systems with Ultra-Long Spans, Alan J. Lucero; Tyco Telecommunications, USA.
A Wish List for 100G Transport Networks, Peter Magill; AT&T Labs, USA.
The SECOQC Quantum Key Distribution Network in Vienna, Momtchil Peev; Smart Systems Div., Austrian Res. Ctrs. GmbH-ARC, Austria.
Modulation Format Alternatives for Coherent Optical Systems, Han Sun; Nortel Networks, Canada.
High Spectral Efficiency Coherent Optical OFDM for 1 Tb/s Ethernet Transport, William Shieh; Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia.
Coding and Channel Capacity, Frank Kschischang; Univ. of Toronto, Canada.

Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

Microelectronics Advancements to Support New Modulation Formats and DSP Techniques, Bruce Beggs; Nortel, USA.
Agile Photonics Architectures enabled by New Modulation Formats and DSP, David Boertjes; Nortel Networks, Canada.
Fundamental Limits of Signal Processing in Optical Communications, Michele Franceschini; Univ. of Parma, Italy.
Reduced Complexity Rx Concepts for Optical Multilevel Transmission, Fabian N. Hauske; Federal Armed Forces Univ., Germany.
Performance Monitoring in Optical OFDM Systems, Markus Mayrock; Erlangen-Nuernberg Univ., Germany.
Towards Real-Time Implementation of Coherent Optical Communications, Timo Pfau; Univ. of Paderborn, Germany.
16 QAM Modulation of 50 Gb/s and Higher, Takahide Sakamoto; Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.
No-Guard-Interval Coherent OFDM for Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Akihide Sano; NTT, Japan.
Turbo Equalization: Joint Equalization and Decoding for Optical Links, Andrew Singer^1,2; ¹Finisar, USA, ²Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

Photonics for Microwave Generation, Transmission, and Processing, Ronald Esman, Steve Pappert; Defense Advanced Res. Projects Agency/MTO, USA.
Microwave Photonic Applications for Silicon Photonics, Drew Guckenberger; Luxtera Corp, USA.
All-Optical Label Processing and Swapping in Packet Switched Networks: Opportunities for Silicon Photonics, Javier Marti; Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.
Ultrafast Photonic Waveform Digitizer by Optical Quantizing and Coding using Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirrors, Yuji Miyoshi; Osaka Univ., Japan.
640 Gbit/s Optical Signal Processing, Leif K. Oxenløwe; Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark.
Novel Optically Generated Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Signals, Leslie Rusch; Laval Univ., Canada.
Photonic-Enabled Microwave and Terahertz Communication Systems, Alwyn Seeds; Univ. College London, UK.
Broadband Antennas and Efficient Electro-Optic Interfaces for Fiber-Radio Applications, Rod Waterhouse; Pharad, LLC, USA.
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

Future Internet, Darleen Fisher; Natl. Science Foundation, USA.
IP and Optical Integration in Dynamic Networks, Ori A. Gerstel; Cisco Systems, USA.
CAPEX and OPEX in Aggregation and Core Networks, Claus G. Gruber; Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany.
Carrier Ethernet, David Hunter; Essex Univ., UK.
Impact of Topology and Traffic on Physical Layer Monitoring in Transparent Networks, Dan Kilper; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.
Optical Multi-Domain Routing, Xavi Masip Bruin; Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC), Spain.
Network Coding and its Implications on Optical Networking, Muriel Medard; MIT, USA.
Multi-Layer Network Architectures, Jan Spaeth; Business Unit Networks, Ericsson GmbH, Germany.

Category I. Access Networks

Investigation into Optical Technologies for Access Evolution, Philippe Chanclou; France Telecom R&D, France.
Secure OCDM-Based PON, Gabriella Cincotti; Univ. Roma Tre, Italy.
Access Network Passive Technology Innovations Enabling Faster, Lower Cost Installations, John George; OFS, USA.
CDM-PON Technologies, Takeshi Kamijoh; OKI Electric Industry, Japan.
WDM-PON Development and Deployment as a Present Optical Access Solution, Bongtae Kim; ETRI, Republic of Korea.
Recent Progress of 10-Gbit/s-Class Burst-Mode Optical Transceiver Technologies for Next-Generation Optical Access Networks, Shunji Kimura; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs, Japan.
OFDM-Based Optical Access Network, Dayou Qian; NEC America Labs, USA.
Plug-and-Play WDM-PON Technologies for Future Flexible Band-Allocated Access Networks, Hiroo Suzuki; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs, Japan.

Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications

Applications of Optical Interconnects in High-Performance Data Centers, Dennis Abts; Google, USA.
Optical Interconnection Networks for High-Performance Cluster Computing, Madeleine Glick; Intel, USA.
Design and Development of Optical Grid over Wavelength Switched Optical Network, Hiroaki Harai; NICT, Japan.
Enabling Technology for Lambda Grid Services, Masahiko Jinno; NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan.
A Band Width Challenge in SC2008: Quasi-Teal Time Forecasting of Natural Disasters using High -Speed Network, Super-Computer and Virtual Reality System, Takeshi Murata; Ctr. for Information Technology, Ehime Univ., Japan.
Could Computing and Its impact on Networking Infrastructure, Mahmoud Naghshineh; IBM Res., USA.
Enabling Optical Network Research in the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), Kristin Rauschenbach; BBN, USA.

NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services

Service Oriented Optical Network Architecture, Piero Castoldi; SSSUP, Italy.
Title to Be Announced, John D'Ambrosia; Force10 Networks, USA.
Serial 40G Submarine Deployments, Wes George; Sprint, USA.
Management and Control Architecture of Intelligent Transparent Optical Networks, Wataru Imajuku; NTT, Japan.
Making IP-over-OTN a Reality, Mark Nowell; Cisco Systems, Canada.
GMPLS Ethernet and PBB-TE (A Carrier’s View), Kenichi Ogaki; KDDI R&D Labs Inc., Japan.
Usage Patterns and Revenue Sources for the Converged Optical Network, Scott Shepard; Univ. of Central Florida, USA.
Managing the Convergence of Carrier Ethernet with Optical Transport, Ronald Skoog; Telcordia Technologies, USA.

NFOEC 2: Network Technologies

Highly-Integrated DQPSK Modules for 40Gb/s Transmission, Chris Clark; Bookham, UK.
Ethernet to the Cell Site, Hany Fahmy; AT&T, USA.
Automated Fiber Connections, Joseph Finn; Verizon, USA.
Deployment and Management of Ethernet Backhaul in a Wireless Network, Benjamin Parker; Verizon, USA.
Optical Network Transport Services, Barbara Smith; AT&T, USA.
Impact of FTTP on Metro Network Architecture, David Templeton; Verzion, USA.
Recent Advances in 100G OTN, Masahito Tomizawa; NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan.