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
Category 2. Network Technologies and Applications
ASON/GMPLS Control Plane for Transport Networks—Current Status, Lyndon Ong; Ciena Corp., USA
Category 3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment, and Applications
Technologies for PON Systems, Elaine Wong; Melbourne Univ., Australia
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
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
Category 7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering and Signal Compensation
ROADM Switching Technologies, Paul Colbourne; JDSU, USA
Category 8. Optoelectronic Devices
Components for Coherent Communication, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar; Bell labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
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
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
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
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
Category 13. Access Networks
OFDM in Optical Access Networks, Neda Cvijetic; NEC Labs America, USA
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