Conference Program

Contents are subject to change

 

Scope

1. Core/Access Networks and Switching Subsystems

  • Optical core network architecture, design, control, and management
  • Optical cross-connects/add-drop multiplexers and switching subsystems
  • Optical core network reliability and protection & restoration
  • Optical packet/burst/flow switching networks and switching subsystems
  • Optical access network architecture, design, control, and management
  • Optics in home area networks, local area networks, storage area networks
  • Optical access system reliability and security
  • Hybrid wireless-optical access networks
  • Grid/cloud computing over optical networks
  • Energy efficient optical networks
  • Field trials and interoperability demonstrations of optical networks

 

2. Transmission Systems and their Subsystems

  • Large capacity optical transmission, wavelength-division multiplexing
  • High speed optical transmission, optical time-division multiplexing
  • Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing in photonic systems
  • Optical code-division multiplexing
  • Advanced optical modulation formats
  • Dispersion/PMD compensation/management techniques
  • Optical coherent systems
  • Digital signal processing in photonic systems: signal estimation, error correction, electrical equalization techniques for optical transmission impairment
  • Physics of optical fiber transmission, transmission impairments by dispersion and/or nonlinearities
  • Quantum communications, quantum cryptography
  • Free-space optical communications
  • Novel concepts for photonic systems/subsystems

 

3. Optical Fibers, Cables and Fiber Devices

  • Fiber design, fabrication, installations and maintenance
  • Fiber characterization and measurement techniques
  • Photonic crystal fibers and related topics
  • Polymer fibers, non-silica fibers
  • Fiber Bragg gratings
  • Fiber/waveguide amplifiers and lasers
  • Fibers for switching and non-linear optical processing
  • Fibers for high power applications
  • Fibers for optical interconnection
  • Fiber sensing
  • Other novel fiber devices

 

4. Optical Active Devices and Modules

  • III/V-based and silicon-based active photonic devices and modules for optical communication/interconnection
  • Light emitters, semiconductor lasers, amplifiers
  • Semiconductor detectors, modulators, switching devices
  • Optoelectronic integrated circuits and modules
  • Photonic materials, devices and modules for information, industry and biomedical applications
  • New wavelength light emitters/detectors
  • Optical sensors, sensor systems and networks
  • Display applications
  • New/novel photonic/optoelectronics materials and structures
  • Quantum dot, nano-structured photonic devices
  • Photonic crystals, plasmons, metamaterials, and nano-photonics
  • Nonlinear optics

 

5. Optical Passive Devices and Modules

  • Optical waveguide integrated devices and planar lightwave circuits
  • New waveguide materials and fabrication method
  • Glass/ferroelectric/polymer optical modulators and switching devices
  • Optical filters, demultiplexers and demodulators
  • Photonic crystals
  • Optical MEMS
  • Micro-optics and related topics
  • Silicon photonics
  • Liquid crystal devices for photonic networks

 

 

Program at a Glance

 

 

 

 

Plenary Talks

"Toward New Paradigm of Optical Communication"
Masataka Nakazawa (Tohoku University, Japan )

"Wonders of Photonics R and D for the Broadband Information Society--Past, Present and Future"
Chinlon Lin (NanYang Technological University, Singapore)

 

 

 

Workshops

 

 

 

 

Tutorials Talks

Category 1

"Standardization Trend and Supporting Technologies of Optical Transport Network (OTN)"
Takuya Ohara (NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan)

"TBA"
(Alcatel-Lucent, )

 

Category 2

"Real-Time Digital Signal Processing for QPSK Transmission"
Reinhold Noe (University of Paderborn, Germany)

 

Category 3

"Fiber-based Parametric Devices"
Colin McKinstrie (Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

"TBA"
(Dept. of Physics, University of Bath, UK)

 

Category 4

"TBA"
(Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, )

 

Category 5

"TBA"
(Tokai University, Japan)

"TBA"
(NTT Photonics Laboratories Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Japan)

"TBA"
(NTT Photonics Laboratories, Japan)

 

Invited Talks

Category 1

"Toward More Dynamic Optical Networking"
Sheryl L Woodward (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)

"Optical Core Networks: Architecture and Challenges"
Vishnu S. Shukla (Verizon, USA)

"Hierarchical Optical Path Network Design for Future Peta-Bit Class Networks"
Hiroshi Hasegawa (Nagoya University, Japan)

"Energy Efficient, Scalable Packet Transport Networks"
Gert J. Eilenberger (Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG, Germany)

"TBA"
(Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA)

"Optical Flow Switching"
Vincent W Chan (MIT, USA)

"Emerging Technologies for Future Optical Access Networks"
Patrick Iannone (AT&T Labs - Research, USA)

"Multiplexing Technology in High-Speed TDM-PON Systems Using OCDMA"
Satoshi Yoshima (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)

"WDM-PON Architectures and Technologies"
Chang-Hee Lee (KAIST, Korea)

"Recent Advances in Ultra-High Speed OFDMA-PON"
Neda Cvijetic (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA)

"TBA"
(Huawei Technologies USA, USA)

"TBA"
(Keio University, )

"Architectural Change of Networks due to Optical Technology"
Andreas Gladisch (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany)

"TBA"
(ETRI, Korea )

"TBA"
(NTT, )

"TBA"
(Deutsche Telekom, )

"TBA"
(Tokyo Institute of Technology, )

"TBA"
(France Telecom, )

"TBA"
(NTT, )

"Optical Networking Technologies for Fixed and Mobile Convergence"
(KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan)

 

Category 2

"Novel Optical OFDM Transmitter and Receiver Structures"
Dayou Qian (NEC Labs America, Inc., USA)

"Advanced Algorithms to Mitigate the XPM Impact in Optical Digital Coherent Receivers"
Zhenning Tao (Fujitsu Research and Development Center Co., Ltd., China)

"Deployment of High Capacity Transport Networks with 100 G Wavelengths and Beyond in Verizon"
Bert E Basch (Verizon, USA)

"Digital Signal Processing for High Spectral-Efficiency Optical Transmission"
Xiang Zhou (AT&T Labs-Research, USA)

"High Speed DAC Based Digital Signal Pre-Processing Technologies for Optical Transmission Systems"
Takeshi Sugihara (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation , Japan)

"Coherent Technology for Access Networks"
Yun C Chung (KAIST, Korea)

"TBA"
(NEC Corp., Selete MIRAI Pj., Japan)

"TBA"
(Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucen, France)

"100Gb/s Coherent Transmission over Transoceanic Distances"
Gabriel Charlet (Alcatel-Lucent, France)

"Advanced Digital Modulation for High-Capacity Transport Network "
Yutaka Miyamoto (NTT Corporation, Japan)

"Advanced Modulation Formats and its Application in Optical label Switching"
Tetsuya Miyazaki (NICT, Japan)

"Decision-Aided Maximum Likelihood Phase Estimation in Coherent Communication Systems"
Changyuan Yu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

"Perspectives for Direct Detection Optical Fiber Transmission Systems with Electronic Precompensation"
Klaus Petermann (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)

"Next Generation Undersea Cable Systems: Technologies and Designs"
Ekaterina Golovchenko (Tyco Telecommunications, USA)

"TBA"
(University College Cork, Ireland)

"400 Gb/s and 1Terabit/s Superchannels using Multi-Carrier No-Guard-Interval Coherent OFDM"
Chandrasekhar S. (Alactel-Lucent, USA)

"Coherent Optical Transmission Systems"
Kazuro Kikuchi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

"TBA"
(National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

"TBA"
(Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)

"TBA"
(Bell Labs, USA)

"TBA"
(Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs., USA)

"TBA"
(Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Laboratories, USA, USA)

 

Category 3

"Highly Nonlinear Soft-Glass Microstructured Gibers and Their Application to Signal Processing"
Tanya Monro (The University of Adelaide, Australia)

"Recent Development in Designs of Micro-Structured Fibers"
Kunimasa Saitoh (Hokkido University, Japan)

"Advancing Frontier of Specialty Fibers for Fiber Lasers"
Liang Dong (IMRA America Inc., USA)

"Future Directions of Long Haul Fiber"
Aleksandra Boskovic (Corning Inc., USA)

"Optical Fibers for Future High Capacity Networks"
Eisuke Sasaoka (Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Japan)

"TBA"
(Physics Dept, University of Auckland, New Zealand)

"Advanced Signal Processing in High Confinement Fibers"
Stojan Radic (University of California, San Diego, USA)

"All-Optical Signal Processing in Highly Nonlinear Fibres"
Francesca Parmigiani (University of Southampton, UK)

"All Optical Node Functions Using Nonlinear Fiber Optics"
Shu Namiki (AIST, Japan)

"High Power Single-Frequency Fibre Lasers: Design and Applications"
Morten Ibsen (University of Southampton, UK)

"Recent Advances in High Power Ultrafast Fiber Lasers"
Martin Fermann (IMRA America Inc., USA)

"Transmission and Coupling Characteristics for Ultra-Broadband Cr-Doped Multimode Fibers"
Wood-Hi Cheng (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)

"Hollow-Optical Fiber Probes for Medical Diagnosis and Treatment"
Yuji Matsuura (Tohoku University, Japan)

"TBA"
(The University of Tokyo, )

"Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging Based on Novel Fiber Lasers"
Chang-Seok Kim (Pusan National University, Korea)

"Hole-Assisted Fibers Technology for Access and Long-Haul Network"
Kazuhide Nakajima (NTT Corporation, Japan)

"TBA"
(The University of Tokyo, )

 

Category 4

"New Functions of VCSEL Photonic Devices"
Fumio Koyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

"TBA"
(Cornell University, USA)

"CMOS-compatible Silicon Photonic Integrated Systems in Future Computing and Communication Systems"
S. J. Ben Yoo (University of California, Davis, USA)

"Ultra-Broadband THz-Wave Generations and Detections"
Hiromasa Ito (RIKEN Sendai, Japan)

"Optical Gain and Lasing from Band-Engineered Ge-on-Si at Room Temperature"
Jifeng Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

"Monolithic Integration of Germanium Photodetectors and Silicon Wire Waveguide Devices"
Tai Tsuchizawa (NTT Corporation, Japan)

"Ultrafast All-Optical Phase Modulation Device Using Intersubband Transition in InGaAs/AlAsSb Quantum Wells"
Ryoichi Akimoto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)

"TBA"
(NEC Corp., Selete MIRAI Pj., )

"All-Optical Signal Processing in Using QD-SOA"
Giampiero Contestabile (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)

"Ultra-Small Nanowire Lasers and Nanowire Photonic Devices"
Hong-Gyu Park (Korea University, Korea)

"Wide Temperature Range Operation of 10/40-Gbps 1.55-um Electroabsorption Modulator Integrated DFB Laser"
Wataru Kobayashi (NTT Corporation, Japan)

"Investigation of Photon Detection Using Mesa InAlAs-APDs for Quantum Key Distribution Application"
Takeshi Nakata (NEC Optical Network division, Japan)

"TBA"
Richard Osgood (Columbia University, USA)

"TBA"
(Humboldt-Universitat, Germany)

"Semiconductor Nanolasers"
Yong Hee Lee (KAIST, Korea )

"Large-scale High-Speed Photonic Switching Circuit Monolithically Integrated on InP"
Takuo Tanemura (the University of Tokyo, Japan)

"TBA"
(NTT Photonics Laboratories, )

"TBA"
(NEC, )

"High-speed Components and Integration for 100GbE"
Toshiki Sugawara (Hitachi, Ltd. , Japan)

"TBA"
(Sumitomo, )

"TBA"
(Nichiya, )

"TBA"
(IME, Singapore, )

"Infrared Wavelength Conversion in Semiconductor Waveguides"
Takashi Kondo (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

 

Category 5

"TBA"
(Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)

"Optical Integration of Optical Amplifiers and Optical Transport Nodes"
Gregory J. Cowle (JDSU, USA)

"Optical Signal Processing with Nanostructured Optica-fiber-based Devices"
Jianping Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

"TBA"
(Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

"High Speed Switching and Filtering Using PLZT Waveguide Devices"
Keiichi Nashimoto (Epi Photonics Corp., Japan)

"Polymer Waveguide Integrated Circuits"
Richard Penty (University of Cambridge, UK)

"Progress of Low Loss, Wide and Low-Ripple Passband Arrayed-Waveguide Grating"
Kitoh Tsutomu (NTT Photonics Laboratories, Japan)

"Functional Filters and Switches Using Series-Coupled Microring Resonator"
Yasuo Kokubun (Yokohama National University, Japan)

"Slow-light-enhanced Nonlinear Effects in Silicon Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Optical Signal Processing"
Christelle Monat (The University of Sydney, Australia)

"Multi-User-Multi-Chip Integrated MEMS for Micro Optics"
Hiroshi Toshiyoshi (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

"Waveguide Type Optical Nonreciprocal Devices by Wafer Bonding Technology"
(Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)

"Recent Progress of Optical Connector Technologies"
Ryo Nagase (Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan)

"TBA"
(Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Japan)

"Wavelength Tunable Laser with Photonic-Wire Waveguide Micro-Ring Resonators"
Tao Chu (AIST, Japan)

"TBA"
(NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories, Japan)

"Tunable Optical Dispersion Compensator Using Arrayed Waveguide Grating and Liquid Crystal on Silicon"
Naoki Ooba (NTT Corporation, Japan)

"TBA"
Andy H. P. Chan (Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong,)

"Recent progress of PLC module assembly technologies"
Motohaya Ishii (NTT Corporation, Japan)

 

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