2011 Invited Speakers
OFC/NFOEC invited speakers are chosen through a highly selective nominations process to keep attendees at the forefront of optical communications. This year’s exciting lineup of speakers will cover various topics in the categories below. Check back often; speakers are still being confirmed. Also, see the Symposia page for additional invited speakers!
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
OTN to Enable Flexible Networks, Virginia Hutcheon; AT&T, USA
Google Optical Network Deployment, Vijay Vusirikala; Google, USA
Category 2. Network Technologies and Applications
Digital Cinema over OTN—Status of SuperHD Development, Tatsuya Fujii; NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan
Convergence of Transport Technologies, David McDysan; Verizon, USA
Progress in Soft-Decision FEC, Takashi Mizuochi; Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan
100G—Photonic integration Challenges, Edmond Murphy; JDSU, USA
100G—Key Technology Enablers of 100 Gb/s in Carrier Networks, Kim Roberts; Ciena, Canada
OOO Switching—Technology Update, Ken-ichi Sato; Nagoya Univ., Japan
Fiber Nonlinearity Management—From Carrier Perspective, Xiang Zhou; AT&T Labs Res., USA
Category 3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment, and Applications
DOSCIS over PON (D-PON), Shamim Akhtar; Comcast, USA
Regulation Environments around the World: Impacts on Deployments, Fabrice Bourgart; France Telecom, France
RFoG, Jim Farmer; Enablence, USA
Assessing the Profitability of Alternative FTTP Deployment Opportunities (FTTX Optimization), Joseph Finn; Verizon, USA
Opportunities for PON Networks around the World in Unserved Markets, Malcolm Kirby; Metrofibre Networx, South Africa
Present State of Standards for PON Systems, Glen Kramer; Broadcom/Teknovus, USA
What Is the Business case for PON? Lowell Lamb; Broadcom/Teknovus, USA
The Evolution of Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial Cable Networks to an All-Fiber Network, Dean Stoneback; Motorola, USA
New Enabling Technologies for PON, Naoto Yoshimoto; NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan
Category 5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
Ultimate Limit of Effective Area and Attenuation for Large Effective Area Fibers, Scott Bickham; Corning Inc., USA
Capacity Limits of Transmission Fiber, Rene-Jean Essiambre; Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Optical Rogue Waves: Physics and Impact, Goery Genty; Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
Cooperative Light Scattering Effects in Optical Fibers, Lasers, and Amplifiers, Andrei Fotiadi; Univ. of Mons, Belgium
Quantum Effects in Optical Fibers, Gerd Leuchs; Inst. of Optics, Information and Photonics Univ. of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Recent Advances in MMF Technology for Data Networks, Denis Molin; Draka Communications, France
Multi-Core Fibers for Large Capacity SDM, Kazunori Mukasa; Furukawa Electric, Japan
High-Speed Short Range Transmission Over POF, Eduward Tangdiongga; Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Optical Fiber Refractive Index Profiling, Andrew Yablon; Interfiber Analysis, USA
A New Class of Optical Fiber to Support Large Capacity Transmission, Yoshinori Yamamoto; Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan
Category 6. Fiber and Waveguide-Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors
Gas-Phase Photonic Devices Based on Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers, Fetah Benabid; Univ. of Bath, UK
Commercial EDFA Evolution, Maxim Bolshtyansky; JDSU, USA
Developments and Applications of Microstructured Fiber Bragg Gratings, Andrea Cusano; Univ. of Sannio, Italy
Solid-Core Bandgap Fibers for High-Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Sebastien Février; Xlim - Univ. of Limoges, France
Advanced Fiber Optic Parametric Synthesis and Characterization, Evgeny Myslivets; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Optical Processing for Performance Monitoring, Mark D. Pelusi; CUDOS, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Recent Progress on 2-Micron Fiber Lasers, Shibin Jiang; AdValue Photonics Inc., USA
Distributed Optical Sensor System on the Guangzhou Communications Tower, Hwa-yaw Tam; Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China
Random Distributed Feedback Fiber Laser, Sergei Turitsyn; Aston Univ., UK
Category 7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Signal Compensation
Flexible and Grid-less Wavelength Selective Switch Using LCoS Technology, Steven Frisken; Finisar, Australia
Polymer PLC as an Optical Integration Bench, Norbert Keil; Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Inst., Germany
Integration of Silicon Photonics Devices, Dim-Lee Kwong; Inst. of Microelectronics, Agency for Science, Technology and Res., Singapore
Polarization Multiplexed (D)QPSK InP Receiver Photonic Integrated Circuits, Radhakrishnan Nagarajan; Infinera, USA
8-Channel InP Monolithic Tunable Optical Router, Steven Nicholes; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Integrated Optical Demultiplexer for Optical OFDM Signals, Koichi Takiguchi; NTT Photonics Labs, Japan
Silicon Photonic Components and Networks, Michael Watts; MIT, USA
Multilevel Optical Modulator with PLC and LiNbO3 Hybrid Integrated Circuit, Hiroshi Yamazaki; NTT Photonics Labs, Japan
Category 8. Optoelectronic Devices
Tunable Lasers for Packet Switching, Liam Barry; Dublin City Univ., Ireland
High-Speed Photonic Crystal VCSEL, Kent Choquette; Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
100 Gbit/sec Photodetectors, Heinz-Gunter Bach;Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Inst., Germany
Si/Ge APDs, Yimin Kang; Intel Corp., USA
Optical Interconnects in Future Servers, Jeffrey Kash; IBM T. J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA
Photonic Integrated Circuits for Optical Routing and Switching Applications, Milan Masanovic; UCSB
High-speed modulation lasers for 100GbE application, Takashi Tadokoro; NTT Photonics Labs.
Plasmonics for Signal Processing, Lars Thylen; KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Silicon Photonic Devices and Integration, Koji Yamada; NTT Microsystem Integration Labs, Japan
Category 9. Digital Transmission Systems
Linear and Nonlinear Impairment Compensation for Enhanced Transmission Performance, Oriol Bertran-Pardo; Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
Transmission Limitations due to Fiber Nonlinearity, Alberto Bononi; Univ. di Parma, Italy
Coded Modulation, Henning Bülow; Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, Germany
100G Undersea Transmission with High Spectral Efficiency Using Pre-Filtered QPSK Modulation Format, Jin-Xing Cai; Tyco Electronics Subsea Communications, USA
Free Space Communication Systems, Scott Hamilton; MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Mitigation of Nonlinearities in Optical Transmission Systems, Etsushi Yamazaki; NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan
Category 10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
Towards Real-Time Implementation of Coherent OFDM Transceivers, Fred Buchali; Alcatel-Lucent, Research & Innovation, Germany
Recent Progress on Real-Time DSP for Direct Detection Optical OFDM Transceivers, Robert Killey; Univ. College London, UK
Frequency-Domain Equalization for Coherent Optical Transmission Systems, Koichi Ishihara; NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan
Compensation of Nonlinear Effects Using Digital Coherent Receivers, Guifang Li; Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Bandwidth-Flexible ROADMs as Network Elements, Simon Poole; Finisar Australia, Australia
On the Convergence of L1/2/3 Functionality in Next-Generation Network Elements, Glenn Wellbrock; Verizon, USA
Category 11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
Ultra-High Data-Rate 60 GHz Radio-over-Fiber Systems Employing Optical Frequency Multiplication and OFDM Formats, Jason (Jyehong) Chen; Natl. Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan
Convergence of Optical Wirless Communication Systems Using Radio over Fiber Technology, Arshad Chowdhury; Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA
Transmit Isolating Photonic Receiving Links for High Dynamic Range Antenna Remoting, Charles Cox; Photonic Systems, Inc., USA
High-Power, Low-Noise Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide (SCOW) Amplifiers and Lasers, Paul Juodawlkis; MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
All-Optical RAM Subsystem Demonstration, Ken-ichi Kitayama; Osaka Univ., Japan.
Phase Noise Prcesses in Photodetection, Curtis Menyuk; Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
>10 Gbit/s Wireless Transmission Using Millimeter-Wave over Optical Fiber Systems, Andreas Stöhr; Univ. Duisburg Essen, Germany
Ultra-Low Power Optical Switches, Katsuyuki Utaka; Waseda Univ., Japan
Microwave Photonics Functionalities for ALMA Radio Telescope, Dorsey Thacker; National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA
Wideband Remote Encoding and Photonic Analog-Digital Conversion for RF systems, Raymond Zanoni; Rockwell Collins, USA
Category 12. Core Networks
Applications for Packet Transport Networks in the Core (MPLS-TP), Nabil Bitar; Verizon, USA
Increasing Role of Optics in Mobile Network Designs, Christopher Chase; AT&T Labs – Res., USA
Traffic Types and Growth in Backbone, Alexandre Gerber; AT&T Labs – Res., USA
Optical Switch Architectures for Core Networks, Richard Jensen; Polatis, Inc., USA
Distributed Optical Grooming, Arun Somani; Iowa State Univ., USA
Interaction between Applications and the Network, Malathi Veeraraghavan; Univ. of Virginia, USA
Category 13. Access Networks
Cable Co's Response to PON, George Bodeep; ARRIS Intl., USA
FTTH Deployment Strategies for New Applications, James Kelly; Google , USA
Real-Time Optical OFDM Transceivers for PON Applications, Jianming Tang; Bangor Univ., UK
Coherent Optical Access Networks, Harald Rohde; Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Over-Sampling Burst-Mode CDR and Burst-Mode Receiver Technology for High-Speed TDM-PON Systems, Naoki Suzuki; Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan
Category 14. Datacom, Computercom, and Short Range and Experimental Optical Networks
Optical Interconnects in Personal Computing, Jerry Bautista; Intel Corp., USA
Photonic Interconnection Networks in Multicore Architectures, Nathan Binkert; Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
Networks for Large Data Centers, Donn Lee; Facebook, USA
PLC Devices and Optical Backplanes, Osamu Moriwaki; NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan
Optical Interconnection for High-Speed Router, Shinji Nishimura; Hitachi Ltd., Japan
Energy-Efficient Exascale Computing Applications with Optical Interconnects, John Shalf; Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
Cloud Computing over Telecom Network, Dominique Verchere; Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, France