Invited Speakers

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

Bend Insensitive Fiber for FTTX Applications, John M. Fini; Optical Fiber Res., OFS Labs, USA.
Parabolic Pulse Formation and Applications, Christophe Finot; Faculty of Sciences Mirande, Univ. de Bourgogne, France.
Stimulated Supercontinuum Generation, Bahram Jalali; Electrical Engineering Dept., Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA.
Progress in Metamaterials for Optical Devices, Alexander V. Kildishev¹, Uday K. Chettiar¹, Shumin Xiao¹, Hsiao-Kuan Yuan², Wenshan Cai³, Vladimir P. Drachev¹, Vladimir M. Shalaev¹; ¹Birck Nanotechnology Ctr., Purdue Univ., USA, ²Intel Corp., USA, ³Geballe Lab for Advanced Materials, Stanford Univ., USA.
Optical WDM Regeneration: Status and Future Prospects, Lionel A. Provost, Periklis Petropoulos, David J. Richardson; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK.
Spatially Resolved Measurements of Fiber Parameters by Localized Four-Photon Mixing, Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.
Long Period Fiber Gratings for High Speed Optical Pulse Shaping: Principles and Applications, Radan Slavik; Inst. of Photonics and Electronics, Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic.

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

Novel Crystalline Core Optical Fibers, John Ballato; Ctr. for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies, Clemson Univ., USA.
Recent Advances in Real Time Processing Based on Parametric Processes, Camille-Sophie Brès; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA.
High Power Thulium-Doped Fiber Lasers, W. Andrew Clarkson; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK.
Performance Monitoring Using Coherent Receivers, Chris Fludger, Jonas Greyer; CoreOptics GmbH, Germany.
Fiber-Based Sources of Entangled Photons and their Applications, Alan Migdall; NIST, USA.
Advances in Fiber Laser Beam Combination, Joshua E. Rothenberg; Northrop Grumman Space Technology, USA.
Generation of Energetic Wavelength Tunable Femtosecond Pulses in Higher-Order-Mode Fiber, Chris Xu; Cornell Univ., USA.

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

All-Optical Processing on a Silicon Chip, Alexander Gaeta; Cornell Univ., USA.
Recent Progress on Athermal AWG Wavelength Multiplexer, Shin Kamei; NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.
Ultra-Compact Optical Switch Based on Photonic Crystal Waveguides, Thomas Krauss; School of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK.
Optical Packet Switch for Supercomputers, Ronald Luijten; IBM Res. GmbH, IBM Zurich, Switzerland.
Optical Isolator with SOI Waveguide, Tetsuya Mizumoto; Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan.

Category D. Optoelectronic Devices

Compact Integrated 100Gb/s Optical Modulators Using Hybrid Assembly Technique with Silica-Based PLCs and LiNbO₃ Devices, Akimasa Kaneko; NTT Photonics Labs, Japan.
Highly Linear Integrated Coherent Receivers for Microwave Photonic Links, Jonathan Klamkin; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.
Novel Concepts for High Speed VCSELs, Nicolai Ledentsov; VI Systems, Germany.
State of the Art Si-Based Receiver Solutions for Short Reach Applications, Mike Morse; Intel, USA.
Optical Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) with Coherent Detection up to 128 States, Masataka Nakazawa; Res. Inst. of Electrical Communication, Tohoku Univ., Japan.
Recent Advances in Long Wavelength Q-Dot Lasers and Amplifiers, Richard Nötzel; COBRA Res. Inst., Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands.
Integration and Packaging of Devices for 100-Gb/s Transmission, Jeffrey H. Sinsky; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.
High-Speed Photodiode and Optical Receiver Technologies, Ryo Takahashi; NTT Photonics Labs, Japan.

Category E. Digital Transmission Systems

Overlaying Coherent-Detection Channels over Direct-Detection Channels in Multi-Bit-Rate Systems, Sébastien Bigo; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, France.
Enhanced Deep Space Data Return by Integrated RF-Optical TT&C, Thomas Dreischer; Oerlikon Space AG, Switzerland.
Requirements for 100Gb/s Metro Networks (Vendor's View), Michael Eiselt; ADVA, Germany.
Experimental Experiences in High Speed QPSK Transmission, Cornelius Fuerst; PA Optical Networks Business Unit Networks, Ericsson GmbH, Germany.
Operating Points for Low-Density Parity-Check Codes in On-off Keyed Fiber-Optic Transmission Systems, Frank Kschischang; Univ. of Toronto, Canada.
Long-Haul Raman/ROPA-Assisted EDFA Systems, Alan J. Lucero, D. G. Foursa, J.- X. Cai; Tyco Telecommunications, USA.
A Wish List for 100G Transport Networks, Peter Magill; AT&T Labs, USA.
The SECOQC Quantum Key Distribution Network in Vienna, Momtchil Peev; Smart Systems Div., Austrian Res. Ctrs. GmbH-ARC, Austria.
High Spectral Efficiency Coherent Optical OFDM for 1 Tb/s Ethernet Transport, William Shieh; Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia.
Modulation Formats for 100Gb/s Coherent Optical Systems, Han Sun, Jamie Gaudette, Yue Pan, Maurice O'Sullivan, Kim Roberts, Kuang-Tsan Wu; Nortel Networks, Canada.

Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

Microelectronics Advancements to Support New Modulation Formats and DSP Techniques, Bruce Beggs; Nortel Networks, Canada.
Agile Photonic Architectures Enabled by New Modulation Formats and DSP, David Boertjes; Nortel Networks, Canada.
Fundamental Limits of Signal Processing in Optical Communications, Michele Franceschini; IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA.
Reduced Complexity Rx Concepts for Optical Multilevel Transmission, Fabian N. Hauske; Federal Armed Forces Univ., Germany.
Performance Monitoring in Optical OFDM Systems, Markus Mayrock; Erlangen-Nuernberg Univ., Germany.
Towards Real-Time Implementation of Coherent Optical Communications, Timo Pfau; Univ. of Paderborn, Germany.
16 QAM Modulation of 50 Gb/s and Higher, Takahide Sakamoto; Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.
No-Guard-Interval Coherent Optical OFDM for 100-Gb/s/ch Long-Haul Transmission Systems, Akihide Sano, Yasushi Takatori, Yutaka Miyamoto; NTT, Japan.

Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

Photonics for Microwave Generation, Transmission, and Processing, Ronald Esman, Steve Pappert; DARPA/MTO, USA.
Microwave Photonic Applications for Silicon Photonics, Drew Guckenberger; Luxtera Corp, USA.
All-Optical Label Processing and Swapping in Packet Switched Networks: Opportunities for Silicon Photonics, Javier Marti; Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain.
Toward Tera-Sample/s 5-bit All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion, Yuji Miyoshi¹, Seiki Takagi¹, Hiroshi Nagaeda², Shu Namiki³, Ken-ichi Kitayama¹; ¹Osaka Univ., Japan, ²Trimatiz Ltd., Japan, ³Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.
640 Gbit/s Optical Signal Processing, Leif K. Oxenløwe; Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark.
Novel Optically Generated Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Signals, Leslie Rusch; Univ. Laval, Canada.
Photonic-Enabled Microwave and Terahertz Communication Systems, Alwyn Seeds; Univ. College London, UK.
Broadband Antennas and Efficient Electro-Optic Interfaces for Fiber-Radio Applications, Rod Waterhouse; Pharad, LLC, USA.
All-Optical Regeneration for Ultra-Long Fiber Links and its Prospects for Future Applications with New Modulation Formats, S. J. Ben Yoo; Univ. of California at Davis, USA.

Category H. Core Networks

Optical Communication Challenges for a Future Internet Design, Darleen Fisher; Natl. Science Foundation, USA.
IP and Optical Integration in Dynamic Networks, Ori A. Gerstel; Cisco Systems, USA.
CAPEX and OPEX in Aggregation and Core Networks, Claus G. Gruber; Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany.
Carrier Ethernet: A Standards Overview, David Hunter¹, Alan McGuire², Matthew R. Thomas¹, Mohammad A. Yousuf¹; ¹Univ. of Essex, United Kingdom, ²BT Labs, UK.
Impact of Topology and Traffic on Physical Layer Monitoring in Transparent Networks, Dan Kilper; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.
Optical Multi-Domain Routing, Xavi Masip Bruin; Technical Univ. of Catalonia (UPC), Spain.
Network Coding and its Implications on Optical Networking, Muriel Medard; MIT, USA.
Multi-Layer Network Architectures, Jan Spaeth; Business Unit Networks, Ericsson GmbH, Germany.

Category I. Access Networks

Investigation into Optical Technologies for Access Evolution, Philippe Chanclou; France Telecom R&D, France.
Secure OCDM-Based PON, Gabriella Cincotti; Univ. Roma Tre, Italy.
Access Network Passive Technology Innovations Enabling Faster, Lower Cost Installations, John George; OFS, USA.
CDM-PON Technologies, Takeshi Kamijoh; OKI Electric Industry, Japan.
WDM-PON Development and Deployment as a Present Optical Access Solution, Bongtae Kim; ETRI, Republic of Korea.
10-Gbit/s TDM-PON and over-40-Gbit/s WDM/TDM-PON Systems with OPEX-Effective Burst-Mode Technologies, Shunji Kimura; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs, Japan.
Optical OFDM Transmission in Metro/Access Networks, Dayou Qian, Neda Cvijetic, Junqiang Hu, Ting Wang; NEC America Labs, USA.
Plug-and-Play WDM-PON Technologies for Future Flexible Band-Allocated Access Networks, Hiroo Suzuki; NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs, Japan.

Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications

Cost-Efficient Dragonfly Topology for Large-Scale Systems, John Kim¹, William J. Dally², Steve Scott³, Dennis Abts⁴; ¹Northwestern Univ., USA, ²Stanford Univ., USA, ³Cray Inc., USA, ⁴Google, USA.
Dynamically Reconfigurable Optical Links for High-Bandwidth Data Center Networks, Madeleine Glick¹, David G. Andersen², Michael Kaminsky¹, Lily Mummert¹; ¹Intel, USA, ²CMU, USA.
Design and Development of Optical Grid over Wavelength Switched Optical Network, Hiroaki Harai; NICT, Japan.
Enabling Technology for Lambda Grid Services, Masahiko Jinno; NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan.
A Bandwidth Challenge in SC2008: Quasi-Real Time Forecasting of Natural Disasters Using High-Speed Network, Super-Computer and Virtual Reality System, Takeshi Murata; Ctr. for Information Technology, Ehime Univ., Japan.
GENI: Overview and Plans? Kristin Rauschenbach; BBN, USA.

NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services

Service Oriented Optical Network Architecture, Piero Castoldi; SSSUP, Italy.
The Continuing Evolution of Ethernet, John D'Ambrosia; Force10 Networks, USA.
Serial 40G Submarine Deployments, Wes George; Sprint, USA.
Management and Control Architecture of Intelligent Transparent Optical Networks, Wataru Imajuku; NTT Labs, Japan.
Making IP-over-OTN a Reality, Mark Nowell; Cisco Systems, Canada.
GMPLS Ethernet and PBB-TE (A Carrier’s View), Kenichi Ogaki; KDDI R&D Labs Inc., Japan.
Managing the Convergence of Carrier Ethernet with Optical Transport, Ronald Skoog; Telcordia Technologies, USA.

NFOEC 2: Network Technologies

Highly-Integrated DQPSK Modules for 40Gb/s Transmission, Chris Clarke; Bookham Technology, UK.
Ethernet to the Cell Site, Hany Fahmy; AT&T, USA.
Automated Fiber Connections, Joseph Finn; Verizon, USA.
Deployment and Management of Ethernet Backhaul in a Wireless Network, Benjamin Parker; Verizon, USA.
AT&T Optical Transport Services, Barbara Smith; AT&T, USA.
Impact of FTTP on Metro Network Architecture, David Templeton; Verizon, USA.
Recent Advances in 100G OTN, Masahito Tomizawa; NTT Network Innovation Labs, Japan.