2011 Tutorial Speakers

OFC/NFOEC tutorial presentations are one-hour instructional talks designed to provide reviews of important progress in research. Speakers are chosen through a highly selective nominations process to keep attendees at the forefront of optical communications. This year’s exciting lineup of tutorial speakers will cover various topics in the categories below.

Category 1. Optical Network Applications and Services
Category 2. Network Technologies and Applications
Category 3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment, and Applications
Category 5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
Category 6. Fiber and Waveguide-Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors
Category 7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Signal Compensation
Category 8. Optoelectronic Devices
Category 9. Digital Transmission Systems
Category10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
Category 11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
Category 12. Core Networks
Category 13. Access Networks
Category 14. Datacom, Computercom, and Short Range and Experimental Optical Networks

Category 1. Optical Network Applications and Services

Implementing a Network Control Plane, Sri Subramania; Telcordia, USA

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Category 2. Network Technologies and Applications

ASON/GMPLS Control Plane for Transport Networks—Current Status, Lyndon Ong; Ciena Corp., USA

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Category 3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment, and Applications

Technologies for PON Systems, Elaine Wong; Melbourne Univ., Australia
 

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Category 5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects

Numerical Modeling Methods in Optical Fiber Design, John Fini; OFS Labs, USA

Microstructured Optical Fiber Tutorial, Jonathan Knight; Univ. of Bath, UK

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Category 6. Fiber and Waveguide-Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors

Ultrafast Photonics Based on Carbon Nanotube Technology, Shinji Yamashita; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

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Category 7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering and Signal Compensation

ROADM Switching Technologies, Paul Colbourne; JDSU, USA

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Category 8. Optoelectronic Devices

Components for Coherent Communication, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar; Bell labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

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Category 9. Digital Transmission Systems

Low-Density Parity-Check Codes and Message Passing Algorithms, Gerhard Kramer; Univ. of Southern California, USA

Quantum Communications, Colin McKinstrie; Bell Labs, Alcatel Lucent, USA

Ultra High Capacity Transmission, Yutaka Miyamoto; NTT Basis Res. Labs, Japan

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Category 10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

Metrology of Complex Optical Modulation Formats, Peter Andrekson; Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden

Agile Subsystems for Coherent Systems beyond 100G, David Boertjes; Ciena Corp., Canada

High-Speed CMOS DSP and Data Converters, Ian Dedic; Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe GmbH, UK

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Category 11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

 

Fiber-Wireless Networks and Subsystem Technologies, Thas Ampalavanapilla Nirmalathas; Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

All-Optical Processing, Ernesto Ciaramella, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

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Category 12. Core Networks

Energy-Efficient networks, Daniel Kilper; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Optical Network Architectures, Michael Dueser; T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH, Germany

          See Invited Speakers for Category 13.
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Category 13. Access Networks

OFDM in Optical Access Networks, Neda Cvijetic; NEC Labs America, USA

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Category 14. Datacom, Computercom, and Short Range and Experimental Optical Networks

Computing Systems on Chip with Silicon Photonics Interconnects, Ashok Krishnamoorthy; Oracle/Sun Microsystems Labs, USA

Optical Interconnects for High Performance Computing, Marc A. Taubenblatt; IBM T. J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA

          See Invited Speakers for Category 14.
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