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Tutorial Speakers


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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. 

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

Category 1. Optical Network Applications and Services (Tutorial)

MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP): Overview and Status, Yoshinori Koike; NTT, Japan

Category 1 Workshops and Panels | Category 1 Invited Speakers | Category 1 Short Courses


Category 2. Network Technologies and Applications (Tutorial)

Energy Efficiency of Load-adaptively Operated Telecommunication Networks, Christoph Lange; DT, Germany

Category 2 Workshops and Panels | Category 2 Invited Speakers | Category 2 Short Courses


Category 3. FTTx Technologies, Deployment, and Applications (Tutorial)

NGPON2 Technology, Hirotaka Nakamura; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs., Japan

Category 3 Workshops and Panels | Category 3 Invited Speakers | Category 3 Short Courses


Category 5. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects (Tutorial)

Capacity Constraints, Carrier Economics, and the Limits of Fiber and Cable Design, Robert Lingle; OFS, USA

Chiral Fibers, Victor Kopp; Chiral Photonics, USA

Category 5 Workshops and Panels | Category 5 Invited Speakers | Category 5 Short Courses


Category 6. Fiber and Waveguide-Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors (Tutorial)

CANCELLED: Fiber Bragg Gratings in Industrial Sensing, Wolfgang Ecke; IPHT, Germany

Optical Amplifiers for Space Division Multiplexed Systems, David Richardson; Univ. of Southampton, UK

Category 6 Workshops and Panels | Category 6 Invited Speakers | Category 6 Short Courses


Category 7. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Interconnects (Tutorial)

Subwavelength Structures in Integrated Optics, Pavel Cheben; National Research Council, Canada

Category 7 Workshops and Panels | Category 7 Invited Speakers | Category 7 Short Courses


Category 8. Optoelectronic Devices (Tutorial)

Optoelectronic Components for Higher Order Modulation Formats, Nobuhiro Kikuchi; NTT, Japan

Category 8 Workshops and Panels | Category 8 Invited Speakers | Category 8 Short Courses


Category 9. Digital Transmission Systems (Tutorial)

Modeling of Non-Linear Propagation in Uncompensated Coherent Systems, Pierluigi Poggiolini; Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Space Division Multiplexed Transmission, Sebastian Randel; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Category 9 Workshops and Panels | Category 9 Invited Speakers | Category 9 Short Courses


Category10. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements (Tutorial)

Advances in High-speed ADC, DAC, and DSP for Optical Transceivers, Charles Laperle; Ciena, Canada

Mode-Division Multiplexing Systems: Propagation Effects, Performance, and Complexity, Joseph Kahn; Stanford Univ., USA, and Keang-Po. Ho; Silicon Image, USA

Category 10 Workshops and Panels | Category 10 Invited Speakers | Category 10 Short Courses


Category 11. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems (Tutorial)

Microwave Photonics: the Past and the Future, Keith Williams; NRL, USA

Optical Signal Processing, Alan Willner; Univ. of Southern California, USA

Category 11 Workshops and Panels | Category 11 Invited Speakers | Category 11 Short Courses


Category 12. Core Networks (Tutorial)

An Introduction to Routing and Wavelength Assignment Algorithms for Fixed and Flexgrid, Manos Varvarigos; University of Patras, Greece

PCE: What is It, How Does It Work and What are Its Limitations?, Raul Munoz; CTTC, Spain

Category 12 Workshops and Panels | Category 12 Invited Speakers | Category 12 Short Courses


Category 13. Access Networks (Tutorial)

Burst-mode Receiver Technology for Short Synchronization, Xing-zhi Qiu; Ghent Univ., Belgium

Home Area Networks, Ton Koonen; Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands

Real-time Digital Signal Processing for Future Optical Access Networks, Roger Giddings; Bangor Univ., UK

Category 13 Workshops and Panels | Category 13 Invited Speakers | Category 13 Short Courses


Category 14. Optical Interconnection Networks for Datacom and Computercom (Tutorial)

Optical Interconnection Networks for Datacom and Computercom, Casimer DeCusatis; IBM, USA

Category 14 Workshops and Panels | Category 14 Invited Speakers | Category 14 Short Courses