• Conference Chair:
  • Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka Univ. (Japan)
    
• Cochairs:
  • Pierpaolo C. Ghiggino, Ericsson AB (Italy);
  • Kim Roberts, Nortel Networks Ltd. (Canada);
    
  • Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. (China)
    
• Program Committee:
  • Jean-Christophe Antona, Alcatel-Lucent (France);
  • Chun-Kit Chan, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong (Hong Kong China);
  • Hongwei Chen, Tsinghua Univ. (China);
  • Ernesto Ciaramella, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy);
  • Andrea F. Fumagalli, The Univ. of Texas at Dallas;
  • Keng-Po Ho, SiBEAM;
  • Gunnar Jacobsen, Acreo AB (Sweden);
  • Hoon Kim, National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore);
    
  • Xiang Liu, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs.;
  • Ikuo Morita, KDDI Corp. (Japan);
  • Soo Jin Park, KT Corp. (South Korea);
  • Klaus Petermann, Univ. Hamburg (Germany);
  • Richard Plenty, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom);
  • Roberto Sabella, Ericsson Telecommunicazion (Italy);
  • William Shieh, The Univ. of Melbourne (Australia);
  • Hwa-Yaw Tam, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. (Hong Kong China);
  • Naoya Wada, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan);
  • Xu Wang, Heriot-Watt Univ. (United Kingdom);
  • Lei Xu, NEC Labs. America, Inc.;
  • Lianshan Yan, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (China)
• Subjects:
  • High-speed transmission systems, short-, medium, long- and ultra long haul
  • Ultra-high-speed transmission systems, 40 Gb/s, 100 Gbit/s systems and beyond
  • Chromatic dispersion and PMD compensation subsystems
  • Modulation format and coding
  • Electronic Signal processing and forward error correction (FEC)
  • WDM transmitters and receivers, Transponders
  • Optical regeneration, including all-optical
  • Optical access networks: xPONs
  • Radio over Fiber technologies, systems and network solutions
  • ASON and WDM networks and testbeds ? Reconfi gurable OADMs, WSS based nodes,
    optical crossconnects including WSS, MEMS, hybrid and all-optical
  • Optical systems design and simulation
  • Optical monitoring and protection issues
  • Routing algorithms in ASON and WDM networks
  • Gain equalization subsystems
  • MultiTerabit routers : optical and optoelectronical architectures, optical passive or active interconnection
  • Switching and routing algorithms, scheduling
  • Packet Optical add/drop multiplexers
  • Optical Packet/burst Switching Technology/systems and networks for metro and backbone networks
  • Optical processing for circuit or packet systems/networks, optical/opto-electronical memories
  • Burst mode tranceivers, burst mode optical amplifiers
  • Future optical network concepts
• Confirmed invited papers:
  • Ernesto Ciaramella, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Italy), “WDM Transmission systems based on SOAs and alternative modulation formats”
  • Vincent W. S. Chan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) “Optical fl ow switching—a promising new optical network transport mechanism and architecture”
  • Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas (USA) “Control planes for optical networks”
  • Pierpaolo C. Ghiggino, Ericsson (Italy), “Fiber in Access Technologies and opportunities: network convergence covering the potentialities and the opportunities offered by optical integration”
  • Ken-ichi Kitayama, Osaka University (Japan), “Radio over Fiber: DWDM-Based Analog/Digital Access Networking and Its Enabling Technologies”
  • Giancarlo Prati, Scula Superiore Sant’ Anna (Italy) “The all-optical fl ip-flop: state-of-the-art and perspectives”
  • Xiang Liu, Alcatel-Lucent Technologies (USA), “High Spectral-Efficiency DWDM Transmission with Mixed Data Rates and Signal Formats”
  • Kim Roberts, Nortel Networks (Canada), “Realtime measurements of 40 Gb/s coherent WDM systems”
  • Seb Savory, UCLA (USA), to be determined
  • Atsushi Takada, NTT (Japan), “Nonlinear inter-channel crosstalk compensation using predistortion”
  • Yuichi Takushima, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea), to be determined
  • Naoya Wada, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan), “Ultra wide-band OPS system and related technologies”
  • Ting Wang, NEC Labs (USA), to be determined
  • Xu Wang, Heriot-Watt University (UK), “Advances of OCDM encoding/decoding techniques”
  • Ian H. White, Cambridge University (UK), “Recent results and trends in RoF fi ber systems”