| Speaker |
Institute |
Topic / “Title” |
| Erwin Bente |
COBRA/OED |
"Fast pulsed mode-locked lasers" |
| Ton Koonen |
COBRA Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology |
"Recent research progress in hybrid fibre-optic in-building networks" |
| Gilberto Brambilla |
University of Southampton |
"Optical Fiber Nanowire Technology and Applications" |
| S. Chandrasekhar & X. Liu |
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent |
"Mixed 10/40/100-Gb/s Transmission through Bandwidth-Managed ROADMs" |
| Woo-Young Choi |
Yonsei University |
Radio over fiber (Devices) |
| Andrew Ellis |
University of Cork Tyndall National Institute |
Modulation formats toward 100Gbit/s Ethernet Coherent WDM and OTDM transmission |
| John Fini |
OFS Labs |
"Bend distortion in large mode area fiber amplifiers" |
| Min Gu |
Swinburne Univ |
"Engineering photonic crystal fibres for nonlinear optical endoscopy" |
George Harvey
|
Tyco |
Fiber Amplifiers for Undersea Applications |
| Peter Herman |
University of Toronto |
Femtosecond direct written waveguides and Bragg Gratings |
| Masaki Kato |
Infinera |
"InP integrated photonic circuits for digital optical networking" |
| Diana Huffaker |
University of New Mexico |
"Monolithic III-Sb Lasers on Si" |
| Davide Iannuzzi |
Free University of Amsterdam |
"Fiber-top devices: micromachined sensors on the tip of a fiber" |
| Satoki Kawanishi |
NTT Network Innovation Laboratories |
"Recent Progress in Photonic Crystal Fibre Technologies" |
| Kazuro Kikuchi |
University of Tokyo |
Coherent Optical Communications |
| Chang Seok Kim |
Pusan National University |
"Optical Fiber Laser-based Optical Coherence Tomography" |
| Shunji Kimura |
NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs |
"High-Speed Burst-Mode Transmission Technologies for 10-Gbit/s-class PON Systems" |
| Byoungho Lee |
Seoul National University |
Feasibility overview of plasmonic devices for optoelectronics |
| Yannick K. Lize |
ITF Laboratories |
"Advanced Modulation Format Devices for 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Optical Telecommunication Systems" |
| Barry Luther-Davies |
Australian National University |
"Breakthroughs in Nonlinear Optical Materials for Signal Processing Applications" |
| Kazuhide Nakajima |
NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs |
"Photonic Crystal Fibers for Wide-Band Transmission" |
| Thas A. Nirmalathas |
University of Melbourne |
Trends in optical switching technologies (tentative) |
| Steve Prawer |
University of Melbourne |
"Diamond Photonics" |
| Yikai Su |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Silicon nano-waveguides |
| Hwa-Yaw Tam |
Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
"Applications of Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors in Railroad" |
| Hark Hoe Tan |
Australian National University |
"III-V Nanowires and Quantum Dots for Optoelectronics" |
| Naoki Yoshitake |
OMRON Corp., Advanced Device Lab. |
Polymer optical waveguide devices for FTTH |
| Shinji Tsuji |
Hitachi CRL |
"Fast and widely tunable integrated DBR lasers" |
| Rod Tucker |
University of Melbourne |
"Energy and the Internet" |
| Mick Withford |
Macquarie University |
Overview of laser microfabrication techniques for photonic devices |
| Elaine Wong |
University of Melbourne |
"Roles of Long-Wavelength VCSELs in Access and Hybrid-Wireless Networks" |
| Zhengshen Jia |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
60-GHz Signal Generation and Transmission in ROADM-based Wide-Area Access Networks |