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Plenary Speakers
Speaker Organisation Title
Michal Lipson Cornell University Silicon nanophotonics
David Payne University of Southampton Optical fiber revolution
Samia Melhem World Bank Impact of optical communications in developing countries
Kazuo Hagimoto NTT Evolution of Photonic Network Technologies: FTTH, NGN and beyond
 
Workshops
Topic Convenor
“High Q Cavities – How Much is Enough?” Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic
“DCF, Will It Ever Be Displaced?” Paul Westbrook
“Will POF be used in FTTH?” Maryanne Large
"Optical and electronic signal processing:  matching the technology to the application" Rod Tucker
 
Tutorials
John Dudley Universite de Franche-Comte "Supercontinuum generation and high field effects in optical fibers"
David Miller Stanford University "Devices for Optical Interconnects to Chips"
Jay E. Sharping UC Merced "Slow Light: what we have learned and where are we going?"
Ken-ichi Kitayama Osaka University Optical CDMA: Fundamentals, Developments, and Applications
 
Invited Speakers
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
 
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