2010 Invited Speakers

Beyond Telecom and Datacom: Optical Interconnects for the Computercom Era
Symposium on Quantum Communications
Category A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects
Category B. Fiber and Waveguide-Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors, and Performance Monitors
Category C. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Signal Compensation
Category D. Optoelectronic Devices
Category E. Digital Transmission Systems
Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements
Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems
Category H. Core Networks
Category I. Access Networks
Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications
NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services
NFOEC 2: Network Technologies

Category A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects

OMG1, Recent Progress in Tellurite Fibers, Yasutake Ohishi, Guanshi Qin, Meisong Liao, Xin Yan, Takenobu Suzuki; Toyota Technological Inst., Japan

OMG6, Bi-Doped Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers for a Wavelength Range of 1300-1500 nm, Evgeny M. Dianov; Fiber Optics Res. Ctr., Russian Acad. of Sciences, Russian Federation

OMO3, High Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers for Applications in Telecommunications, George H. BuAbbud; IPG Photonics Corp., USA

OMO6, Ultimate Power Limits of Optical Fibers, Jay W. Dawson, Michael J. Messerly, Raymond J. Beach, Miroslav Y. Shverdin, Arun K. Sridharan, Paul H. Pax, John E. Heebner, Craig W. Siders, C. P. J. Barty; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA

OTuI1, Next Generation Transmission Fiber for Coherent Systems, Rong Chen, Maurice O’Sullivan, Charles Ward, Serge Asselin, Michel Belanger; Nortel, Canada

OWA2, Nano-Engineered Optical Fibers and Applications, Ming-Jun Li, Pushkar Tandon, Dana C. Bookbinder, Daniel A. Nolan, Scott R. Bickham, Mark A. McDermott, Robert B. Desorcie, Jeffrey J. Englebert, Stephan L. Logunov, Valery Kozlov, James A. West; Corning, Inc., USA

OWK5, Actively Doped Solid Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber, Jes Broeng¹, Christina B. Olausson¹, Jens K. Lyngsø¹, Hiroki Maruyama², Ken-ichi Ueda²; ¹NKT Photonics, Denmark, ²Inst. for Laser Science, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan

Category B. Fiber and Waveguide-Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors and Performance Monitors

OTuJ5, Yb Fiber-Based Frequency Combs, Ingmar Hartl, Axel Ruehl, Martin Fermann; IMRA America, Inc., USA

OWB1, Polychromatic Sampling for High-Speed Real-Time Processing, Andreas O. J. Wiberg, Camille-Sophie Brès, Bill P. P. Kuo, José M. Chavez Boggio, Nikola Alic, Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA

OWL1, New Prospects for Poled Fiber Technology in Frequency Doubling and Sensing, Simon Fleming,
Honglin An, Andrew Michie; Univ. of Sydney, Australia

OThA7, Astrophophotonics: A New Generation of Astronomical Instruments, Joss Bland-Hawthorn; Univ. of Sydney, Australia

OThI3, Linear and Nonlinear Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Juerg Leuthold; Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany

OThI4, Burst-Mode Optical Amplifier, Yoshinari Awaji¹, Hideaki Furukawa¹, Benjamin J. Puttnam¹, Naoya Wada¹, Peter Chan², Ray Man²; ¹NICT, Japan, ²Amonics Ltd., Hong Kong

OThQ3, Applications of Volume Bragg Gratings in High-Power Fiber Lasers, Fredrik Laurell, Pär Jelger, Valdas Pasiskevicius; Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden

OThQ6, Slow Light Laser Oscillator, Yaakov Shevy, D. Shevy, R. Lee, D. Provenzano; Orbits Lightwave, Inc., USA

Category C. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering and Signal Compensation

OMH2, Nanophotonic Devices by Dressed Photon Exchange, Motoichi Ohtsu; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

OMP1, Photonic Crystal Slow Light Devices-Tunable Delay, Nonlinearity, Dynamic Tuning, Toshihiko Baba¹^,²; ¹Yokohama Natl. Univ., Japan, ²CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan

OMP4, Monolithically Integrated Phased-Array Switch for Optical Packet Switching and Interconnection, Yoshiaki Nakano, Takuo Tanemura, Ibrahim Murat Soganci; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

OWJ3, Silicon Integrated Waveguide Devices for Filtering and Wavelength Demultiplexing, Folkert Horst; IBM Res.–Zurich, Switzerland

OThB3, Towards Silicon on Insulator DQPSK Demodulators, Lars Zimmermann¹^,², K. Voigt², G. Winzer², K. Petermann²; ¹IHP Microelectronics, Germany, ²Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany

OThJ1, Endless Optical Polarization Control and PMD Compensation, Reinhold Noé, Benjamin Koch, Vitali Mirvoda, David Sandel; Univ. Paderborn, Germany

OThR1, System Requirements for WSS Filter Shape in Cascaded ROADM Networks, Fred Heismann; JDS Uniphase, USA

Category D. Optoelectronic Devices

OMQ3, High Performance “Green” VCSELs for Data Centers, Akihiko Kasukawa, K. Takaki, H. Shimizu, T. Kageyama, Y. Kawakita, N. Iwai, K. Hiraiwa, S. Imai, T. Takagi, N. Tsukiji, S. Kamiya, T. Ishikawa; Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Japan

Watch Chairs Discuss Photonic Integration

OWD2, InP-Based Photonic Integration Circuits, Shinji Matsuo¹, Toru Segawa¹, Takaaki Kakitsuka¹, Yasuo Shibata¹, Akihiko Shinya², Masaya Notomi², Tomonari Sato¹, Yoshihiro Kawaguchi¹; ¹NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan, ²NTT Basic Res. Labs, NTT Corp., Japan

OWD3, Current View of Large Scale Photonic Integrated Circuits on Indium Phosphide, Charles Joyner, P. Evans, S. Corzine, M. Kato, M. Fisher, J. Gheorma, V. Dominic, P. Samra, A. Nilsson, J. Rahn, A. Dentai, P. Studenkov, M. Missey, D. Lambert, R. Muthiah, R. Salvatore, S. Murthy, E. Strzelecka, J. Pleumeekers, A. Chen, R. Schneider, R. Nagarajan, M. Ziari, J. Stewart, F. Kish, D. Welch; Infinera Corp., USA

OWN6, Remote Amplified Modulators: Key Components for 10 Gb/s WDM PON, Christophe Kazmierski; Alcatel-Thales III-V Lab, France

OWU5, High Performance Photonic Integrated Circuits for Coherent Fiber Communication, Chris Doerr; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

OThC1, 1060-nm VCSEL-Based Parallel-Optical Modules for Short Link Applications, Hideyuki Nasu, Yozo Ishikawa, Yoshinobu Nekado, Masakazu Yoshihara, Atsushi Izawa, Toshinori Uemura, Katsutoshi Takahashi; Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Japan

OThC6, High Speed Electronic Circuits for 100 Gb/s Transport Networks, Michael Möller¹^,²; ¹Saarland Univ., Germany, ²MICRAM Microelectronic GmbH, Germany

OThS3, High-Speed Optical Transceiver and Systems for Optical Interconnects, Kurata Kazuhiko; NEC Corp., Japan

OThS4, High-Speed Optical/Electrical Devices and Their Integration for Highly-Efficient 100GbE, Toshiki Sugawara¹, Shigehisa Tanaka¹^,², Tatsuya Saito¹, Shinji Tsuji¹^,², Masahiro Aoki¹, Masato Shishikura³, Hiroki Irie³, Masanobu Okayasu³; ¹Hitachi, Ltd., Japan, ²Optoelectroic Industry and Technology Development Association, Japan, ³Opnext Japan, Inc., Japan

Category E. Digital Transmission Systems

OMJ3, Advanced Coherent Modulation Formats and Algorithms: Higher-Order Multi-Level Coding for High-Capacity System Based on 100Gbps Channel, Xiang Zhou¹, Jianjun Yu²; ¹AT&T Labs-Res., USA, ²NEC Labs America, Inc., USA

OMR5, Data-Aided vs. Blind Single-Carrier Coherent Receivers, Maxim Kuschnerov¹, Kittipong Piyawanno¹, Bernhard Spinnler², Peter Kainzmaier², Mohammad S. Alfiad³, Antonio Napoli², Berthold Lankl¹; ¹Univ. of the Federal Armed Forces, Germany, ²Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, ³Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands

OTuD3, The Capabilities of the Undersea Telecommunications Industry, Neal Bergano; Tyco Telecommunications, USA

OWE1, Nonlinear Polarization Effects and Mitigation in Polarization Multiplexed Transmission, Chongjin Xie; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

OWE4, Ultra-High Spectral Efficiency Transmission, Alan Gnauck, Peter J. Winzer; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

OThD1, High Symbol Rate OFDM Transmission Technologies, Fatima C. Garcia Gunning¹, Selwan K. Ibrahim¹, Paola Frascella¹, Paul Gunning², Andrew D. Ellis¹; ¹Tyndall Natl. Inst., Univ. College Cork, Ireland, ²Futures Testbed, BT Innovate and Design, UK

OThL1, Soft Decision FEC for 100G Transport Systems, Kiyoshi Onohara, Yoshikuni Miyata, Takashi Sugihara, Kazuo Kubo, Hideo Yoshida, Takashi Mizuochi; Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan

OThT1, Advances in MLSD-Equalized Incoherent Transmission, Nikola Alic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA

OThT6, 56 GS/s ADC: Enabling 100GbE, Ian Dedic; Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe GmbH, UK

Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

OMS1, Real-Time Prototypes for Digital Coherent Receivers, Chris Fludger¹, J. C. Geyer², T. Duthel¹, S. Wiese¹, C. Schulien¹; ¹CoreOptics GmbH, Germany, ²Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

OMS6, Towards Real-Time Implementation of Optical OFDM Transmission, Qi Yang¹^,², Noriaki Kaneda¹, Xiang Liu¹, S. Chandrasekhar¹, William Shieh², Y. K. Chen¹; ¹Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, ²Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

OTuE5, Recent Progress on Nonlinear Compensation Technique in Digital Coherent Receiver, Takeshi Hoshida¹, Takahito Tanimura², Shoichiro Oda², Toshiki Tanaka², Hisao Nakashima¹, Zhenning Tao³, Lei Li³, Ling Liu³, Weizhen Yan³, Jens C. Rasmussen¹; ¹Fujitsu Ltd., Japan, ²Fujitsu Labs Ltd., Japan, ³Fujitsu R&D Ctr., China

OTuM5, Next Generation Photonic Network Elements - Multigranularity Switching and Rate Flexible Transponders, Kazushige Yonenaga; NTT Network Innovation Labs, NTT Corp., Japan

OThE3, 40G and 100G Deployment on 10G Infrastructure: Market Overview and Trends, Coherent Versus Conventional Technology,Jean-Paul Faure¹, Bruno Lavigne¹, Christine Bresson¹, Oriol Bertran-Pardo², Alberto Carrasco Colomer³, Rafael Cantó⁴; ¹Alcatel-Lucent France, France, ²Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France, ³Telefonica Spain, Spain, ⁴Telefonica I+D, Spain

OThM7, OFDM Spectral Efficiency Limits from Fiber and System Non-Linearities, Herbert F. Haunstein¹, Markus Mayrock²; ¹Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG, Germany, ²Friedrich-Alexander Univ. Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

OTuF1, Wideband Wireless over Fibre Systems, Ian White, R. V. Penty, M. Crisp, S. Sabesan; Univ. of Cambridge, UK

OTuF6, Photonic Generation and Processing Technologies for Converged Ultra-High Speed Fiber-Wireless Systems, Zhensheng Jia¹, Jianjun Yu², Anjali Agarwal¹, Hung-Chang Chien³, Arshad Chowdhury³, Georgios Ellinas⁴, Janet Jackel¹, Gee-Kung Chang³; ¹Telcordia Technologies, USA, ²NEC Labs America, Inc., USA, ³Georgia Tech, USA, ⁴Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus

OTuN5, Development of Photonic Switching Node Prototypes for Transparent Networks, Yoshiaki Nakano, Takuo Tanemura, Hideaki Imaizumi, Hiroyuki Morikawa; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

OThF5, Linear Coherent Optical Receivers, Leif A. Johansson, Uppili Krishnamachari, Anand Ramaswamy, Jonathan Klamkin, Sasa Ristic, Hsu-Feng Chou, Larry A. Coldren, Mark Rodwell, John E. Bowers; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA

OThN3, Optical Packet Add/Drop Systems, Dominique Chiaroni, G. Buforn, C. Simonneau, S. Etienne, J- C. Antona; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France

OThN6, Optical Label Processing in Optical Packet Switched Networks, Nicola Calabretta, Harm Dorren; Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands

OThU1, Performance of Microwave-Photonic Links, Thomas E. Darcie, Jinye Zhang; Univ. of Victoria, Canada

OThU5, High Frequency Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion Using Nonuniform Sampling, Michael L. Dennis, Patrick T. Callahan, Thomas R. Clark; Johns Hopkins Univ. Applied Physics Lab, USA

OThV3, Terabit/s Single-Carrier Transmission Systems Based on Coherent Time-Division Demultiplexing, Carsten Schmidt-Langhorst, Reinhold Ludwig, Lutz Molle, Dirk-Daniel Groß, Ronald Freund, Colja Schubert; Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Germany

Category H. Core Networks

OTuG1, Packet and Circuit Network Convergence with OpenFlow, Saurav Das¹, Guru Parulkar¹, Nick McKeown¹, Preeti Singh², Daniel Getachew², Lyndon Ong²; ¹Stanford Univ., USA, ²Ciena Corp., USA

OWH3, Lessons Learned from CORONET, G. Clapp¹, R. Doverspike², R. Skoog¹, J. Strand², Ann Von Lehmen¹; ¹Telcordia Technologies, USA, ²AT&T Labs-Res., USA

OWH6, Architectural Trade-offs for Video Transport Networks, Didier Colle, Goutam Das, Mario Pickavet, Piet Demeester; Ghent Univ., Belgium

OWR1, Next Generation Transport Network Architecture, Ken-ichi Sato; Nagoya Univ., Japan

OWY1, Advanced Technologies for Next-Generation Fiber Networks, Milorad Cvijetic; NEC Corp., USA

OWY4, The Role of Arrayed Waveguide Gratings in Energy-Efficient Optical Switching Architectures, Edoardo Bonetto, Davide Cuda, Guido A. Gavilanes Castillo, Fabio Neri; Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Category I. Access Networks

OTuO1, Optical Access Solutions beyond 10GEPON/XGPON, Jörg-Peter Elbers; ADVA AG Optical Networking, Germany

OTuO6, Key Roles of Green Technology for Access Network Systems, Yoh Somemura; NTT Labs, Japan

OWG3, RSOA-Based 10G WDM PON Using FEC and MLSE Equalizers, Akira Agata, Y. Horiuchi; KDDI R&D Labs Inc., Japan

OWQ1, Integrated Optical and Wireless Access/Metro Networks, Chunming Qiao¹, Jianping Wang², Ting Wang³; ¹SUNY Buffalo, USA, ²Computer Science Dept., City Univ. of Hong Kong, China, ³NEC Labs America, Inc., USA

OWQ6, The Convergence of Wired and Wireless Services Delivery in Access and Home Networks, Mikhail Popov; Acreo Netlab, Sweden

OWX1, High-Speed Circuit Technology for 10Gb/s Optical Burst-Mode Transmission, Yusuke Ohtomo¹, Hideki Kamitsuna², Hiroaki Katsurai¹, Kazuyoshi Nishimura¹, Masafumi Nogawa², Makoto Nakamura², Susumu Nishihara², Takeshi Kurosaki², Tsuyoshi Ito², Akira Okada²; ¹NTT Microsystem Integration Labs, NTT Corp., Japan, ²NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan

OThG5, Results from EU Project SARDANA on 10G Extended Reach WDM PONs, Josep Prat¹, Jose Lazaro¹, Philippe Chanclou², Risto Soila³, Ana M. Gallardo⁴, Antonio Teixeira⁵, Giorgio M. TosiBeleffi⁶, Ioannis Tomkos⁷; ¹Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain, ²OrangeLabs, France Telecom, France, ³Tellabs, France, ⁴INTRACOM Telecom, France, ⁵IT-Aveiro, Univ. de Aveiro, Portugal, ⁶Mise Dip. Comm. ISCOM, Italy, ⁷Athens Information Technology, Greece

OThO3, Ultra-Wideband Radio-over-Fiber Techniques and Networks, Benoît Charbonnier¹, Frédéric Lecoche¹, Mario Weiß², Andreas Stöhr², F. van Dijk³, A. Enard³, F. Blache³, M. Goix³, F. Mallecot³, D. G. Moodie⁴, A. Borghesani⁴, C. W. Ford⁴; ¹France Télécom Res. and Development, France, ²Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Germany, ³Alcatel-Thales III-V Lab, France, ⁴CIP Technologies, UK

Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications

OWI1, Design-Space Exploration for CMOS Photonic Processor Networks, Vladimir Stojanović¹, Ajay Joshi², Cristopher Batten¹, Yong-Jin Kwon³, Scott Beamer³, Sun Chen¹, Krste Asanović³; ¹MIT, USA, ²Boston Univ., USA, ³Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA

OWI6, Optical Flow Switching, Vincent Chan; Claude E. Shannon Communication and Network Group, Res. Lab of Electronics, MIT, USA

OThH2, Progress of Visible Light Communication, Shin-ichiro Haruyama; Keio Univ., Japan

OThP3, Photonic Terabit Routers: The IRIS Project, Jurgen Gripp¹, J. E. Simsarian¹, J. D. LeGrange², P. Bernasconi¹, D. T. Neilson¹; ¹Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, ²LGS Innovations, USA

Watch Chairs Discuss Datacomm and Optical Interconnects

OThX2, Low Power and High Density Optical Interconnects for Future Supercomputers, Petar K. Pepeljugoski¹, Jeffrey A. Kash¹, Fuad Doany¹, Daniel M. Kuchta¹, Laurent Schares¹, Clint Schow¹, Marc Taubenblatt¹, Bert Jan Offrein², Alan Benner³; ¹IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA, ²IBM Res. GmbH, Switzerland, ³IBM Systems and Technology Group, USA

NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services

NMB2, Economics of 100G Transport, Ross Saunders, M. Traverso, T. Schmidt, C. Malouin; Opnext, Inc., USA

NMB4, Network Innovations Brought by Digital Coherent Receivers, Takeshi Hoshida¹, Hisao Nakashima¹, Takahito Tanimura², Shoichiro Oda², Zhenning Tao³, Ling Liu³, Weizhen Yan³, Lei Li³, Jens C. Rasmussen¹; ¹Fujitsu Ltd., Japan, ²Fujitsu Labs Ltd., Japan, ³Fujitsu R&D Ctr., China

NMD2, Converged Networks; Their Pros and Cons, Munefumi Tsurusawa; KDDI R&D Labs Inc., Japan

NTuA5, The Impact of Peer-to-Peer Networking on User Behaviour and Network Design, Claus P. Larsen, Anders Gavler, Stéphane Junique; Acreo Netlab, Sweden

NWB4, Status of Next-Gen Access Networks in Europe, Bruno Capelle; France Telecom, France

NFOEC 2: Network Technologies

NMC3, Fiber Access Deployment Lessons, Vincent O’Byrne; Verizon Inc., USA

NME2, 100G Coherent DWDM Transponder Module Enabling Seamless Upgrade of Long Haul Optical Transmission Systems, Ted Schmidt, Christian Malouin, Bo Zhang, Ross Saunders, Jin Hong, Roberto Marcoccia; Opnext Subsystems, Opnext, Inc., USA

NME3, 100GBE Transmission, Appropriate Modulation Formats, Impact on Deployed Transport Networks, Marco Camera; Ericsson, Italy

NTuB2, Mapping and Transport Standard for OTU4, Mark Jones; Tellabs Inc., USA

NTuC3, Challenges of 40/100 Gbps Deployments in Long-Haul Transport Networks on Existing Fibre and System Infrastructure, Erwan Pincemin; France Telecom, France

NThB2, FiOS Cost Efficiency, Rajesh Yadav; Verizon Communications, USA

NThF3, AT&Ts Photonic Backbone Design Options, Kathy Tse; AT&T, USA