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Sunday, 17 March

Time Code Title
9:00 - 12:00 SC171 Introduction to Optical Control Plane Concepts, Technologies and Practices
9:00 - 12:00 SC177 High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers and Modulators
9:00 - 12:00 SC265 Passive Optical Components and Filtering Technologies
9:00 - 12:00 SC289 Basics of Optical Communication Systems and WDM
9:00 - 12:00 SC328 New Developments in Optical Transport Networking (OTN)
9:00 - 12:00 SC359 Datacenter Networking 101
9:00 - 12:00 SC384 Background Concepts of Optical Communication Systems
9:00 - 12:00 SC401 New Course! Software Defined Networking and OpenFlow
9:00 - 13:00 SC105 Modulation Formats and Receiver Concepts for Optical Transmission Systems
9:00 - 13:00 SC182 Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Sensing
9:00 - 13:00 SC288 Fundamentals of Polarization, PDL, and PMD
9:00 - 13:00 SC325 Highly Integrated Monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits
9:00 - 16:30 SC264 Introduction to Ethernet Technologies
13:00 - 16:00 SC114 Passive Optical Networks (PONs) Technologies
13:00 - 16:00 SC203 Sold Out 100 Gb/s and Beyond Transmission Systems, Design and Design Trade-offs
13:00 - 16:00 SC216 An Introduction to Optical Network Design and Planning
13:00 - 16:00 SC243 Next Generation Transport Networks: The Evolution from Circuits to Packets
New time!
13:00 - 16:00 SC358 Data Center Cabling: Transitioning from Copper to Fiber
13:00 - 16:00 SC371 Multi-layer Control Plane Technologies - Managing Hybrid Networks
13:00 - 16:00 SC385 New Course! Fundamentals of Super Computing
13:00 - 16:00 SC386 New Course! The Evolution of Network Architecture Towards Cloud-centric Applications
17:00 - 20:00 SC205 Integrated Electronic Circuits and Signal Processing for Fiber Optics
17:00 - 20:00 SC217 Hybrid Fiber Radio: The Application of Photonic Links in Wireless Communications
17:00 - 20:00 SC243* Next Generation Transport Networks: The Evolution from Circuits to Packets (See note about new time below)
*THIS COURSE HAS BEEN MOVED TO A NEW TIME: SUNDAY, 17 MARCH 2013 FROM 13:00-16:00.
17:00 - 20:00 SC259 Electronic and Optical Impairment Mitigation
17:00 - 20:00 SC267 Silicon Microphotonics: Technology Elements and the Roadmap to Implementation
17:00 - 20:00 SC341 OFDM for Optical Communications
17:00 - 20:00 SC372 Energy-Efficiency Networking
17:00 - 20:00 SC387 New Course! Network Securities
17:00 - 20:00 SC388 New Course! Wireless Backhaul
17:00 - 20:00 SC389 New Course! Network Optimization



Monday, 18 March

Time Code Title
8:30 - 12:30 SC101 Sold Out Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component Testing
8:30 - 12:30 SC102 WDM in Long-Haul Transmission Systems
8:30 - 12:30 SC210 Hands-on Polarization-Related Measurements
8:30 - 12:30 SC239 Short-Reach Optical Interconnects
8:30 - 12:30 SC347 Reliability and Qualification of Fiber-Optic Components
9:00 - 12:00 SC176 Metro Network: The Transition to Ethernet
9:00 - 12:00 SC208 Optical Fiber Design for Telecommunications and Specialty Applications
9:00 - 12:00 SC356 40G/100G Ethernet Technologies and Applications
9:00 - 12:00 SC357 Computercom Interconnects: Circuits and Equalization Methods for Short Reach Power-Efficient Optical and Electrical Links
9:00 - 12:00 SC390 New Course! Introduction to Forward Error Correction
Companion to SC391
9:00 - 12:00 SC392 Sold OutNew Course! Coherent Optical Systems 1
Companion to SC393
13:00 - 17:30 SC187 Sold Out Hands-on Basic Fiber Optics for the Absolute Beginner
13:30 - 16:30 SC261 ROADM Technologies and Network Applications
13:30 - 16:30 SC312 Parametric Optical Processing and Systems
13:30 - 16:30 SC327 Modeling and Design of Fiber-Optic Communication Systems
13:30 - 16:30 SC369 Test and Measurement of Complex Modulated Optical Signals
13:30 - 16:30 SC373 Specialty Fiber Splicing and Interconnection
13:30 - 16:30 SC391 New Course! FEC Technology and Applications in Optical Communications
Companion to SC390
13:30 - 16:30 SC393 Sold OutNew Course! Coherent Optical Systems 2
Companion to SC392
13:30 - 17:30 SC160 Microwave Photonics
13:30 - 17:30 SC185 Hands-on Polishing, Inspection and Testing of Connectors
13:30 - 17:30 SC360 Hands-On Fiber Optic Terminations and Measurements with Emphasis on MTP Connectorized Ribbon Fiber



Tuesday, 19 March

Time Code Title
8:00 - 12:00 SC314 Hands-on Fiber Characterization for the Engineering of Long Haul and Metro Deployments
8:00 - 12:00 SC395 New Course! Hands On: Basic Modeling and Design of Coherent Fiber-Optic Communication Systems
All attendees must bring their own laptop, with Matlab installed, in order to participate in this course.
8:00 - 12:30 SC291 Hands-on Fiber Optics for Engineers Designing for Military, Aerospace, Shipboard and Industrial Harsh Environmental Applications
9:00 - 12:00 SC266 Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Information
9:00 - 12:00 SC374 Cloud Computing and Dynamic Networks