Tutorial Speakers

Category A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects

Chalcogenide Fibers for Mid-Infrared Applications, Ishwar Aggarwal; NRL, USA

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

Fibre Optic Sensors in Structural Health Monitoring, Jose Miguel Lopez Higuera; Photonics Engineering Group, Univ. of Cantabria, Spain
Silicon Nanophotonics, Dries Van Thourhout; Ghent Univ.–IMEC, Belgium

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

Plasmonic Nanophotonic Devices, Harry Atwater; Caltech, USA
Silica-Based Waveguide Technology for Phase Modulation 100Gb/s Coherent Receiver, Hiroshi Takahashi; NTT Photonics Labs, Japan

Category D. Optoelectronic Devices

High Performance Photonic Integrated PIC, Larry A. Coldren; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Quantum Dot Devices, James Coleman; Univ. of Illinois, USA

Category E. Digital Transmission Systems

Nonlinearity Management and Compensation in Transmission Systems, Alexei Pilipetskii; Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Algorithms for Coherent Detection, Michael Taylor; Optametra, LLC, USA

Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

OFDM Technology for Ultra-High Bit-Rate Optical Transmission: DD-OFDM Versus CO-OFDM, Single-Band Versus Multi-Band Approach for Both Transmission and Networking, Difficulties of Real-Time Implementation of Tx/Rx Digital Processing in OFDM, William Shieh; Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

All-Optical Processing with Highly Integrated InP-Based Subsystems, Alistair J. Poustie; Ctr. for Integrated Photonics, UK
Long Haul Analog Links, Vincent J. Urick; NRL, USA

Category I. Access Networks

10G PON-Explained, Frank J. Effenberger; Huawei Technologies, USA

Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications

Green Networking, Bill St. Arnaud; Canarie Inc., Canada
Recent Progress on OTDM Terabit/s Transmission and Their Future, Toshihiko Hirooka; Tohoku Univ., Japan
Optical Interconnects, David Miller; Stanford Univ., USA

NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services

Mutli-Layer Traffic Engineering, Jonathan Sadler; Tellabs, USA

NFOEC 2: Network Technologies

Operationalizing a Control Plane Network, Mike Reina; Telcordia Technologies, USA