Tutorial Speakers

D1: Advanced Prototyping, Packaging and Integration
Stefano Ruffini, Calnex Solutions, UK
"Tight Sync" In Precision Time Protocol (PTP), Requirements and Impact at Optical Component Level
D2: Passive Components
Nicolas Fontaine, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Photonic Lanterns, 3-D Waveguides, Multiplane Light Conversion, and Other Components That Enable Space-Division Multiplexing
D5: Fiber Devices, Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, and Nonlinear Waveguides
Xiaoyi Bao, University of Ottawa, Canada
Micro-Structured Fibers for Ultrasound and Acoustic Detection

S1: Datacom Subsystems and Systems
Joseph Kahn, Stanford University, USA
Probabilistic Shaping for Direct Detection Optical Systems
S2: Subsystems for Transmission
Lutz Lampe, University of British Columbia, Canada
Probabilistic Shaping for Nonlinearity Mitigation
Hiroshi Yamazaki, NTT Device Technology Labs, Japan
Electrical and Optical Multiplexing Technique for High Symbol Rate Signal Generation
S3: Transmission Systems
Julia Larikova, Infinera Corporation, USA
Practical Considerations for Ultra-Wideband Line System Development
S5: Free-space (FSO), Ranging (LiDAR), and Radio-over-fiber (RoF)
Christina Lim, University of Melbourne, Australia
Past and Future Development of Radio Over Fiber Including THz Over Fiber Technology

N1: Advances in Development of Systems, Networks and Services
Christian Rasmussen, Acacia Communications, Inc., USA
10 Years of Coherent DWDM Pluggables: Past, Present and Future
N2: Optical Networking for Data Center and Computing Applications
Dirk Englund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Optical Computing and Linear Optics
Hong Liu, Google LLC, USA
Optical Architecture and Interconnection for Datacenter Networking
N3: Architectures and Software-Defined Control for Metro and Core Networks
Ramon Casellas, CTTC, Spain
SDN Control of Multi-Band Optical Networks with Physical Layer Impairments
N4: Optical Access Networks for Fixed and Mobile Services
Zhensheng Jia, CableLabs, USA
Unlocking the Potential of Coherent Passive Optical Networks: Use Cases, Key Technologies, and Specification Development
Jun-ichi Kani, NTT Access Service Systems Laboratories, Japan
Disaggregation and Virtualization for Future Access and Metro Networks

SCQ: Quantum Devices, Systems and Networking
Xiongfeng Ma, Tsinghua University, China
Recent Advances in Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution
Christoph Marquardt, Max Planck Institute Science of Light, Germany
Recent Developments in Quantum Key Distribution