• Conference Chair:
  • Ming-Jun Li, Corning Inc.
    
• Cochairs:
  
• Ping Shum, Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore)
  
• Ian H. White, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
  
• Xingkun Wu, Zhejiang Univ. (China)
  
• Program Committee:
  • David Z. Chen, Verizon;
  • Xiang-Fei Chen, Nanjing Univ. (China);
  • Yuh-Jen Cheng, Academia Sinica (Taiwan);
  • Kin-Seng Chiang, City Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong China);
  • Jon V. DeGroot, Jr., Dow Corning Corp.;
  • Libin Fu, IMRA America, Inc.;
  • Claire Gu, Univ. of California/Santa Cruz;
  • Helmut Heidrich, Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (Germany);
  • J?rn M. Hvam, Danmarks Tekniske Univ. (Denmark);
  • Xiaofeng Jin, Zhejiang Univ. (China);
  • Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden);
  • Kyunghwan K. Oh, Yonsei Univ. (South Korea);
  • Namkyoo Park, Seoul National Univ. (South Korea);
  • Rong-Hui Qu, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (China);
  • Rajeev J. Ram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
  • Yun-Jiang Rao, Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China);
  • Ken Sakuma, Fujikura Ltd. (Japan);
  • Akihito Shinya, NTT Basic Research Labs. (Japan);
  • Hon K. Tsang, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong China);
    
  • Baishi Wang, Vytran LLC;
  • Ji Wang, Corning Inc.;
  • Benyuan Zhu, OFS
• Subjects:
  • Fiber lasers and fi ber amplifiers
  • Optical fi ber design and characterization
  • Specialty fi bers (polarization maintaining, dispersion compensating, dispersion managed, rare-earth-doped)
  • Multimode, plastic and holey fibers
  • Fiber dispersion, polarization and non-linearities
  • Fiber cabling and array connectors
  • Low-cost interconnects
  • Fiber grating devices
  • Optical waveguide materials/devices
  • Planar waveguide devices
  • Couplers and fi ber-based components
  • Fiber alignment and packaging
  • Optical filters and interleavers (not fi ber-gratingbased)
  • Tunable filters
  • WDM Mux and Dmux devices
  • Wavelength lockers
  • Gain equalization fi lters and optical attenuators
  • Dispersion and PMD compensation components
  • Optical isolators and circulators
  • Component design simulation and evaluation
• Confirmed invited papers:
  • Dexiu Huang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China), “All-optical Signal Processing in Future Fiber Networks”
  • Daniel Nolan, Corning Inc. (USA), “Recent developments on specialty fi bers”
  • David Payne, University of Southampton (UK), to be determined
  • Kevin Williams, Technical University of Eindhoven (The Netherlands), “Integrated Crosspoint Switches”