2020 Tutorial Speakers

D1: Advances in prototypes and product developments of components and subsystems for data centers and optical networks
Robert Herrick, Intel Corp., USA
Reliability Qualification and Failure Mechanisms for Semiconductor Lasers and Fiber Optic Transceivers
D2: Passive optical devices for switching and filtering
Matthias Wuttig, Rheinish Westfalische Tech Hoch Aachen, Germany
Non-volatile Photonic Applications with Phase Change Materials
D3: Active optical devices and photonic integrated circuits
Andrea Ferrari, University of Cambridge, UK
Graphene and Related Materials for Photonics and Optoelectronics
Joseph Kahn, Stanford University, USA
Data Center Links beyond 100 Gbit/S Per Wavelength
D4: Fiber and propagation physics
Philip Russell, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Department of Physics, Friedrich Alexander University, Germany
Physics and Applications of Photonic Crystal and Microstructured Fibres
Pierre Sillard, Prysmian Group, France
Advances in Few-mode Fiber Design and Manufacturing
D5: Fiber-optic and waveguide devices and sensors
Nicolas Fontaine, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
SDM Optical Communications
Takemi Hasegawa, Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd, Japan
Ultra-low Loss Multicore Fibers, Amplifiers and Components

S1: Digital subsystems and systems for data centers
Chris Fludger, Infinera GmbH, Germany
Performance Oriented DSP Design for Flexible Coherent Transmission in Data Centers
Ashok Krishnamoorthy, Axalume Inc., USA
Energy-efficient Multi-wavelength, Chip-to-chip, Switched Optical Interconnects
S2: Optical, photonic and microwave photonic subsystems
Lukas Chrostowski, University of British Columbia, Canada
Silicon Photonic Waveguide Bragg Gratings
David Marpaung, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands
New Opportunities for Integrated Microwave Photonics
S3: Radio-over-fiber, free-space and sensing systems
Morio Toyoshima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Recent Trends of Free-space Laser Communications for Satellites Communications and Future Prospects
S4: Digital and electronic subsystems
Alan Pak Tao Lau, Photonics Research Center, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Machine Learning and its Applications in Optical Communication Systems
Guifang Li, University of Central Florida, USA
Few-mode Fiber Transmissions
S5: Digital transmission systems
Fukutaro Hamaoka, NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan
Ultra-wideband and Broadband Transmission Technologies
Alexei Pilipetskii, TE SubCom, USA
SDM Power-efficient Ultra-high Capacity Long-haul Transmission Systems

N1: Advances in system, network and service developments and field trials in commercial data centers and networks
Elizabeth Rivera Hartling, Facebook Inc., USA
From the Acceptance of Turnkey Systems to Open Networks with G-SNR
Maria Spiropulu, California Institute of Technology, USA
Toward a Scalable Hybrid Quantum Cloud
N2: Optical networking for data center and computing applications
Paul Prucnal, Princeton University, USA
Neuromorphic Photonics
N3: Architecture and software-defined control for metro and core networks
Martin Birk, AT&T Labs, USA
Open Optical Systems
Rui Morais, Coriant, Portugal
Reliable Machine Learning Models for Quality of Transmission Estimation
N4: Optical access networks for fixed and mobile services
Saurav Das, Open Networking Foundation, USA
The Telco Cloudification, from Opencord to SDN-enabled Broadband Access (SEBA)
Dora van Veen, Nokia Corp., USA
Transceiver Technologies for Next-generation PON Networks