OFC Short Courses

Short Course Schedule by Time

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Sunday, March 22

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

SC105 Modulation Formats and Receiver Concepts for Optical Transmission Systems, Peter J. Winzer, Sethumadhavan Chandrasekhar; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
SC114 Passive Optical Networks (PONs), Paul Shumate; IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society, USA
SC125 Tunable Lasers, Jens Buus; Gayton Photonics Ltd., UK
SC171 Introduction to Optical Control Plane Concepts, Technologies and Practices, Greg Bernstein; Grotto Networking, USA
SC327 Modeling and Design of Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, Rene-Jean Essiambre; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

SC315 Recent Advances in Polymer Waveguides, Paul Ashley; US Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, USA
SC326 Patent Fundamentals, Mohammed N. Islam; Optics and Photonics and Solid State Electronics Lab, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. of Michigan, USA
SC239 Short-Reach Optical Interconnects, Brian E. Lemoff; West Virginia High-Technology Consortium Foundation, USA
SC290 High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Johan Nilsson; Univ. of Southampton, UK

1:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

SC133 Reliability Methodologies for Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack; Reliability Engineer, USA
SC141 Combating and Monitoring Data-Degrading Effects in Non-Static WDM Systems, Alan Willner; Univ. of Southern California, USA
SC177 High-Speed Semiconductor Lasers and Modulators, John Bowers; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
SC203 40 Gb/s Transmission Systems, Design and Design Trade-offs, Martin Birk¹, Benny Mikkelsen²; ¹AT&T Labs, Res., USA, ²Mintera, USA
SC216 An Introduction to Optical Network Design and Planning, Jane M. Simmons; Monarch Network Architects, USA
SC262 Alternative Broadband Access: Wired and Wireless Technologies for the Last Mile, Paul Henry; AT&T Labs, Res., USA
SC267 Silicon Microphotonics: Technology Elements and the Roadmap to Implementation, Lionel Kimerling; MIT, USA
SC293 Introduction to Fiber Sensors, Michel J. F. Digonnet; Stanford Univ., USA
SC328 An Introduction to OTN Networking and Its Role in the Convergence of IP and SONET/SDH Networks, William A. Thompson; Alcatel-Lucent, USA

4:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

SC103 Dynamic ROADMs, Switches and Integrated Technologies and Techniques for Dynamically Reconfigurable and Packet Switched Optical Networks, Daniel Blumenthal; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
SC217 Hybrid Fiber Radio: The Application of Photonic Links in Wireless Communications, Dalma Novak; Pharad, USA
SC243 Next Generation Transport Networks: The Evolution from Circuits to Packets, Ori A. Gerstel; Cisco Systems, USA
SC259 Electronic and Optical Impairment Mitigation, Chris Fludger¹, Seb Savory²; ¹CoreOptics GmbH, Germany, ²Univ. College London, UK
SC265 Passive Optical Components and Filtering Technologies, Bruce Nyman¹, Christi Madsen²; ¹Princeton Lightwave, USA, ²Texas A&M Univ., USA
SC312 Parametric Optical Processing and Systems, Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
SC325 Photonic Integrated Circuits, Chris Doerr; Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Monday, March 23

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

SC175 Packaging of Optoelectronic, Photonic and MEMS Components, Paul Haugsjaa; Polycision Inc., USA
SC178 Test and Measurement of High-Speed Communications Signals, Greg Lecheminant; Agilent Technologies, USA
SC208 Specialty Optical Fiber Design and Applications, David J. DiGiovanni; OFS Labs, USA
SC261 ROADM Technologies and Network Applications, Thomas Strasser; Nistica Inc., USA

8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

SC101A Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component Testing, Lorenz Cartellieri¹, Frank Buchanan², John Kim¹, Caroline Connolly³, Richard Buerli³, Roger Rutz⁴, Anthony Lowe⁴; ¹Experior Photonics, USA, ²Agilent Technologies, Canada, ³OptoTest, USA, ⁴EXFO America Inc., USA
SC102 WDM in Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Neal S. Bergano; Tyco Telecommunications, USA
SC160 Microwave Photonics, Keith Williams; NRL, USA
SC210 Hands-on Polarization-Related Measurements Workshop, Danny Peterson¹, Kent Rochford², Ivan T. Lima³, Paul Williams²; ¹Verizon Business, USA, ²NIST, USA, ³North Dakota State Univ., USA
SC268 Hands-on Workshop on Outside Plant Splicing, Testing and Troubleshooting for FTTx Networks, Larry Johnson; Light Brigade Inc., USA

8:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

SC264 Introduction to Ethernet Technologies, Jeffrey L. Cox; BT, USA

1:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

SC176 Metro Network: The Transition to Ethernet, Loudon Blair; Ciena Corp., USA
SC205 Integrated Electronic Circuits for Fiber Optics, Y. K. Chen, Noriaki Kaneda; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
SC266 Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Information, Richard Hughes¹, Thomas Chapuran²; ¹Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA, ²Telcordia, USA
SC289 Basics of Optical Communication Systems and WDM, Gerd Keiser; PhotonicsComm Solutions Inc., USA
SC294 Qualification Programs for Fiber-Optic Components, David Maack; Reliability Engineer, USA
SC319 Quantum Dot Laser Diodes, Peter Blood; Cardiff Univ., UK

1:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

SC101B Hands-on Workshop on Fiber Optic Measurements and Component Testing, Lorenz Cartellieri¹, Frank Buchanan², John Kim¹, Caroline Connolly³, Richard Buerli³, Roger Rutz⁴, Anthony Lowe⁴; ¹Experior Photonics, USA, ²Agilent Technologies, Canada, ³OptoTest, USA, ⁴EXFO America Inc., USA
SC123 Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Raman Fiber Amplifiers, John Zyskind; JDSU, USA
SC182 Biomedical Optical Diagnostics and Sensing, Thomas Huser; Univ. of California at Davis, USA
SC185 Hands-on Polishing, Inspection and Testing of Connectors, Jason Sloan¹, Steve Baldo², Neal Wagman³; ¹Light Brigade Inc., USA, ²Seikoh Giken Co. Ltd., USA, ³Norland Products, USA
SC187 Hands-on Basic Fiber Optics for the Absolute Beginner, Dennis Horwitz; Micronor Inc., USA
SC288 Fundamentals of Polarization, PMD and PDL in Lightwave Systems, Robert Jopson; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Tuesday, March 24

8:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.

SC291 Hands-on Fiber Optics for Engineers Designing for Military, Aerospace, Shipboard and Industrial Harsh Environmental Applications, Dennis Horwitz; Micronor Inc., USA
SC314 Hands-on Fiber Characterization for the Engineering of Long Haul and Metro Deployments, Danny Peterson¹, Christine Tremblay²; ¹Verizon Business, USA, ² École de Technologie Supérieure, Univ. du Québec, Canada

2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.

SC186 Hands-on Specialty Fiber Splicing, Clyde J. Troutman; 3SAE Technologies, USA