Tutorial Speakers

Category A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects

High Speed Transmission over Multimode Fiber, Ronald Freund; Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Germany.
History and Future of Photonic Crystal Fibers, Philip Russell; Max Planck Res. Group for Optics, Information and Photonics, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany.

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

Holographic Bragg Reflectors: Designs and Applications, Thomas Mossberg; LightSmyth Technologies, Inc., USA.
Fiber Optics, From Sensing to Non-Invasive High Resolution Medical Imaging, Adrian Podoleanu; Univ. of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

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

Complex Component Characterization Based on Elementary Matrices, Douglas Baney; Agilent Labs, USA.
Circuits of Light in Photonic Band Gap Materials, Sajeev John; Univ. of Toronto, Canada.

Category D. Optoelectronic Devices

Advances in Single Photon Detectors, Joe Campbell; Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Virginia , USA.
High-Power Semiconductor Optical Amplifier, Ken Morito; Fujitsu Labs Ltd., Japan.

Category E. Digital Transmission Systems

Fiber Nonlinearity, Advanced Formats and Capacity Limits of Fibers, Rene-Jean Essiambre; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

Category F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements

Modulation Formats Which Approach the Shannon Limit, Andrew Ellis; Tyndall Natl. Inst., Ireland.
Principles of Digital Coherent Receivers for Optical Communications, Joseph Kahn, Ezra Ip; Stanford Univ., USA.

Category G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems

Fiber-Wireless Networks and Microwave Photonics Subsystem Technologies, Christina Lim; Univ. of Melbourne, Australia.
Photonics Analog to Digital Converters, George C. Valley; The Aerospace Corp, USA.

Category H. Core Networks

Multilayer Network Resilience, Andrzej Jajszczyk; AGH Univ. of Science and Technology, Poland.

Category I. Access Networks

40/100GbE Technologies and Related Activities of IEEE Standardization, Osamu Ishida; NTT, Japan.

Category J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications

Sun’s Project Blackbox: A Modular Approach to High Density Datacenters, Jud Cooley; Sun Microsystems, USA.
Ultra High Definition Media over Optical Networks (CINEGRID), Cees de Laat; Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

NFOEC 1: Optical Networks and Services

10G-EPON Standardization and Its Development Status, Keiji Tanaka; KDDI R&D Labs, Japan.
ROADM Network Design Issues, Sorin Tibuleac; ADVA Optical Networking Inc., USA.

NFOEC 2: Network Technologies

The Impact and Mitigation of Non-Linear Effects in Coherent Optical Transmission, Gabriel Charlet; Alcatel-Lucent, France.