Invited Speakers
Come back beginning in June for information on the 2014 Conference, meanwhile enjoy a retrospective look at the 2013 Conference.
OFC/NFOEC invited speakers are chosen through a highly selective nominations process to keep attendees at the forefront of optical communications. The speakers from the 2013 conference were an exciting lineup of speakers that covered various topics in the categories below.
1. Optical Network Applications and Services
2. Network Technologies and Applications
3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment and Applications
5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
6. Fiber and Waveguide Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors
7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Interconnects
8. Optoelectronic Devices
9. Digital Transmission Systems
10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
12. Core Networks
13. Access Networks
14. Optical Interconnection Networks for Datacom and Computercom
Also, see the Plenary, Symposia, Market Watch, Service Provider Summit, Short Courses and other Show Floor Activities pages for additional speakers.
Category 1. Optical Network Applications and Services (Invited)
Benefits of Multilayer Packet-Optical Transport, Chris Bowers; Juniper, USA
Carrier Strategies in Russia, Vitaly E. Shub; TransTelecom, TTK, Russia
Multi-Tenant Data Center and Cloud Networking Evolution, Nabil N. Bitar; Verizon, USA
Optics for Exascale: One Engineer's Perspective , Paul Coteus; IBM, USA
Path Computation Elements (PCEs): Applications and Status, Ramon Casellas; Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Surveys of Emerging Control Plane Initiatives, John Rathke; Verizon, USA
Transport Network Evolution for Advanced Services, Matthew Ma; Tata Communications, USA
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Category 1 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 1 Short Courses
Category 2. Network Technologies and Applications (Invited)
Advanced Modulation Formats for Free Space Laser Communications, Tom Wood; LGS Innovations, USA
Energy Awareness in the Design of Optical Core Networks, Andrea Bianco; Politecnico de Torino, Italy
Gridless Submarine Optical Networks, Brian Lavallée; Ciena, Canada
Near-term Opportunities for Terabit Transmission and Field Trials, T.J. Xia; Verizon, USA
Next-generation ROADM Architecture and Design, Roman Egorov; Verizon, USA
Strategic Vision for KDDI's Next Generation Packet Optical Transport Network, Masahiro Daikoku; KDDI, Japan
The “Growing Documentary” Project, Naohisa Ohta; Keio University/KMD, Japan
Toward Deeply Virtualized Elastic Optical Networks, Masahiko Jinno; NTT, Japan
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Category 2 Workshops and Panels |
Category 2 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 2 Short Courses
Category 3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment and Applications (Invited)
[CANCELLED] Next Generation Applications and Services for Ultra-fast Broadband, Glenn Ricart; US Ignite, USA
Activities, Drivers, and Benefits of extending PON over other Media, Yuanqiu Luo; Huawei, USA
Cost and Performance Evaluation of WDM-based Access Networks, Andreas Gladisch; Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Cost Optimization in FTTP Environments, Roger Tobin; Verizon, USA
France Telecom's PON Deployment: Lessons Learned and Next Steps, Philippe Chanclou; Orange Labs, France
FTTdp: Complementing FTTH in Difficult Areas, Richard Goodson; Adtran, USA
FTTH Deployments in Latin America, Nelson Saito; Furukawa Industrial SA Produtos Eletricos, Brazil
ODN Intelligence: Automating Fiber Deployment and Operations, Osman Gebizlioglu; Futurewei Technologies, USA
Operation and Maintenance Work Using AR Technology for Optical Access Networks, Ikutaro Ogushi; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs., Japan
Protection Schemes Beyond Currently Defined in FTTX, Takeshi Sakamoto; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs., Japan
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Category 3 Short Courses
Category 5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects (Invited)
Development of Low Loss, Wide Bandwidth Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap Fibers , Marco Petrovich; Univ. of Southampton, UK
High-throughput Fiber Links for Computercom Interconnects, Benjamin Lee; IBM, USA
Multimaterial Functional Fibers, Alexander Stolyarov; MIT, USA
Nonlinear Performance of SDM Systems Designed with Multimode or Multicore Fibers, Govind Agrawal; Univ. of Rochester, USA
Rayleigh Backscattering Signatures of Optical Fibers: Their Properties and Applications, Mark E. Froggatt; Luna Innovations, USA
Recent Progress in Multi-core and Few-mode Fiber, Shoichiro Matsuo; Fujikura, Japan
Supermodes in Strongly-coupled Multi-core Fibers, Neng Bai; CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Weakly-coupled Few-mode Fibers for Single-mode and Mode-division-multiplexed Transmissions, David Boivin; Prysmian Group, France
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Category 5 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 5 Short Courses
Category 6. Fiber and Waveguide Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors (Invited)
300-nm Broadband Chromium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers, Wood-Hi Cheng; National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan
Amplifier Technologies for Unrepeatered Links, Submarine Transmissions, Hans Bissessur; Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, France
Identification of High-PMD Sections along Installed Optical Cables with Long-range OFDR, Fumihiko Ito; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs., Japan
Integration of Optical Fiber and Optoelectronic Devices, John V Badding; Pennsylvania State Univ., USA
Phase-sensitive Amplifiers for Low-noise Links, Carl Lundström; Chalmers Univ., Sweden
PPLN-based Phase-sensitive Amplifiers and Their Applications, Masaki Asobe; NTT, Japan
Practical Issues of the Tunable Dispersion Compensation using Parametric Wavelength Conversion, Ken Tanizawa; AIST, Japan
Waveguide Optics for Novel in situ Biomedical Imaging, David Sampson; The Univ. of Western Australia, Australia
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Category 6 Workshops and Panels |
Category 6 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 6 Short Courses
Category 7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Interconnects (Invited)
[CANCELLED] Quantum Effects in Graphene Plasmons, Javier García de Abajo; IQFR-CSIC, Spain
Chip and Board Scale Integrated Photonic Networks for Next-generation Computers, Vladimir Stojanovic; MIT, USA
Devices and Components for Space-Division Multiplexing in Few-Mode Fibers, Nicholas Fontaine; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Heterogeneous Integration of InP PDs on Silica-based PLCs, Mikitaka Itoh; NTT, Japan
Integrated Optical Beam Steerers, Karel Van Acoleyen; Ghent Univ., Belgium
Integration of Si Photonics into DRAM Process, Dongjae Shin; Image Archit. Lab., South Korea
Mid-Infrared Silicon Photonics, William Green; IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
New Opportunities for Optical Phase-Locked Loops in Coherent Photonics, Larry Coldren; University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits for WDM Technology and Optical Switch, Long Chen; Acacia, USA
The Ge-on-Si Integrated Microphotonic Platform, Lionel Kimerling; MIT, USA
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Category 7 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 7 Short Courses
Category 8. Optoelectronic Devices (Invited)
40Gbit/s Germanium Waveguide Photodiode, Laurent Vivien; Paris Sud, France
Coherent Receiver PICs, Martin Schell; HHI, Germany
Compact and Power-efficient 100-Gbps CMOS-based Transceiver, Takashi Takemoto; Hitachi, Japan
High Density Optical Interconnects Integrated with Lasers, Optical Modulators and Photodetectors on a Single Silicon Chip, Yutaka Urino; Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association (PETRA), Japan
High Speed 850nm VCSELs for >40Gb/s Transmission, Johan Gustavsson; Chalmers, Sweden
III-V on Silicon Transmitters, Guang-Hua Duan; III-V Lab, France
III-V Quantum Dot Laser Growth on Silicon and Germanium, Huiyun Liu; UCL, UK
Thermal Management in Hybrid Silicon Lasers, Di Liang; HP Labs, USA
Ultra High-speed Uni-traveling Carrier Photodiodes, Cyril Renaud; UCL, UK
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Category 8 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 8 Short Courses
Category 9. Digital Transmission Systems (Invited)
Collaborative Signal Processing with FEC in Digital Coherent Systems, Takashi Sugihara; Mitsubishi Electric, Japan
GPU-based Parallelization of System Modeling, Stephan Pachnicke; ADVA, Germany
Higher-order Multilevel Signal Transmission using Coherent Receiver with Digital-Delay Detection, Nobuhiko Kikuchi; Hitachi, Japan
Large-capacity Transmission over a 19-core Fiber, Jun Sakaguchi; NICT, Japan
Nonlinearities in Space-division Multiplexed Transmission, Antonio Mecozzi; Univ. L’Aquila, Italy
Recent Progress in Space-division Multiplexed Transmission Technologies, Toshio Morioka; TU Denmark, Denmark
WDM Channel Capacity and its Dependence on Multichannel Adaptation Models, Erik Agrell; Chalmers Univ., Sweden
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Category 9 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 9 Short Courses
Category 10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements (Invited)
Advanced and Feasible Signal Processing Algorithm for Nonlinear Mitigation, Takeshi Hoshida; Fujitsu, Japan
Flexible Transceivers Using Adaptive Digital Signal Processing for Single Carrier and OFDM, David Plant; McGill Univ., Canada
Implementation of Coded Modulation and FEC, Deyuan Chang; Huawei, China
Pilot-Assisted Channel Estimation Methods for Coherent Receivers, Bernhard Spinnler; Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany
Real-time DSP for 100+Gb/s, Christian Rasmussen; Acacia, USA
ROADM Options in Optical Networks: Flexible Grid or Not?, Sheryl Woodward; AT&T, USA
Transmitter Synthesis for Advanced Modulation Formats Utilizing Silica-LiNbO3 Hybrid Integration Technology, Shinji Mino; NTT, Japan
Ultrahigh Spectral Efficiency Coherent Optical OFDM, Dayou Qian; NEC Labs. America, USA
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Category 10 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 10 Short Courses
Category 11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems (Invited)
Coherent Optical and Radio Seamless Transmission Based on DSP-Aided Radio-over-Fiber Technology, Atsushi Kanno; NICT, Japan
Heterogeneous Photonic Integration for Microwave Photonic Applications, Greg Fish; Aurrion, USA
How to Design an Energy-efficient Fiber-Wireless Network, Leonid Kazovsky; Stanford Univ., USA
Periodically Poled Silicon (PePSi) for Efficient and Electronically-tuned Nonlinear Optics in Silicon, Bahram Jalali; Univ. of California Los Angeles, USA
Phase-modulated Radio-Over-Fiber Systems, Tom Murphy; Univ. of Maryland, USA
Phase-Sensitive Signal Processing using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Andrew Ellis; Aston Univ., UK
Photonic Processing using Integrated Optical Filters, Christi Madsen; Texas A&M, USA
Progress in Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion, Franz Kaertner; CFEL, Germany
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Category 11 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 11 Short Courses
Category 12. Core Networks (Invited)
Can We use Flexible Transponders to Reduce Margins?, Jean-Luc Auge; Orange Labs, France
Cognitive Dynamic Optical Networks, Ignacio de Miguel; Uni de Valladolid, Spain
DT’s Standardization Activities to Achieve Interoperability on 100G for Metro Applications, Rudiger Kunze; Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Dynamic Adaptive Virtual Optical Networks, Anna Tzanakaki; AIT, Greece
Flexgrid, SDM, Multi-fiber: Which is Best for Networks?, Jim Benson; Nokia Siemens Network, USA
Impact of Cloud, Datacenter, and IT on Transport Networks, Jeffrey He; Huawei, China
Software Defined Optical Networks Technology and Infrastructure: Enabling Software-Defined Optical Network Operations, Dimitra Simeonidou; Univ. of Essex, UK
Virtualization: What is It?, Clarence Filsfils; Cisco, USA
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Category 12 Workshops and Panels |
Category 12 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 12 Short Courses
Category 13. Access Networks (Invited)
Advantages of Coherent Detection in Reflective PONs, Roberto Gaudino; Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Elastic and Green Optical Access based upon Coherent Interleaved Frequency Division Multiple Access (IFDMA), Ken-ichi Kitayama; Osaka Univ., Japan
Energy Efficient 10G-EPON System, Hiroaki Mukai; Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan
FSAN NG-PON2 Updates, Ronald Heron; Alcatel-Lucent Canada, Canada
Low Complexity FDM/FDMA Approach for Future PON, Benoit Charbonnier; France Telecom Orange Labs, France
Progress in Polymer-Based Components for Next-Generation PON Applications, Norbert Keil; Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Inst., Germany
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Category 13 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 13 Short Courses
Category 14. Optical Interconnection Networks for Datacom and Computercom (Invited)
A 10 μs Hybrid Optical-Circuit/Electrical-Packet Network for Datacenters, George Porter; Univ. of California San Diego, USA
A 50Tbps Optically-Cabled Infiniband Datacenter Switch, Ola Torudbakken; Oracle, USA
Architectural Implications of Silicon Photonics in High Performance Computing , Fabrizio Petrini; IBM, USA
Configurable Optical Interconnects for Scalable Datacenters, Mike Schlansker; HP, USA
High Bandwidth Optical Interconnection for Densely Integrated Server, Jun Matsui; Fujitsu, Japan
Network Energy Efficiency in the Data Center, Mike Bennett; Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., USA
Optical Interconnect for Volume Servers, Brad Booth; Dell, USA
The Role of Optical Interconnections in Data-center Architecture Evolution, Errol Roberts; Cisco, USA
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Category 14 Workshops and Panels |
Category 14 Tutorial Speakers |
Category 14 Short Courses