This panel session will bring together the latest advances in optical microwave frequency synthesis and the current application demands and opportunities. Progress has been made in realizing commercially available optical frequency combs and high-Q resonator based optical technologies to meet many of the previously unobtainable requirements as well as system integration issues. In addition, new technological and maturity developments in photonic integrated circuit now offer opportunities with cost, size, weight and power advantages. The session will focus on system-level performance and integration issues and active discussions on market insertion opportunities.
Organizers
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Antonella Bogoni
CNIT, Italy
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Thomas Clark
Michigan State University, United States
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Roberto Llorente
University of Valencia, Spain
Panelists
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Georg Böcherer
Ciena, Germany
Georg Böcherer obtained his M.Sc., Ph.D., and Dr.-Ing. habil degrees in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zürich (2007), RWTH Aachen University (2012), and Technical University of Munich (2017), respectively. From 2017 to 2020, he worked as a Senior Engineer for Huawei Technologies in Paris. From April 2020 to October 2025, he was a Principal Engineer at Huawei Technologies in Munich. Since November 2025, G. Böcherer is a Principal Research Scientist at Ciena. G. Böcherer is the inventor of Probabilistic Amplitude Shaping (PAS), for which he received a 2015 Bell Labs Prize, the 2017 Johann-Philipp-Reis-Preis, and the 2016 JLT Best Paper Award.
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Ian Roberts
Ciena, United States
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Junho Cho
Nokia, United States
Junho Cho received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Seoul National University, Korea. He worked at Bell Labs in Seoul, Holmdel, and Murray Hill from 2010 to 2022 and joined Infinera, now part of Nokia, in Ottawa, Canada, in 2022. He served as Associate Editor for the IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology and Optics Express. He is a recipient of the Brain Korea 21 Outstanding Research Award (2009) and the Edison Patent Award (2021). His research interests include forward error correction, probabilistic constellation shaping, and digital signal processing for optical communications.
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Marco Secondini
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
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Olga Vassilieva
1Finity Americas, Inc., United States
Olga Vassilieva Ph.D. is the Research Scientist with 1Finity Inc., a Fujitsu Company, Richardson, TX, USA. She specializes in research and development of high bit-rate coherent optical transmission systems, advanced optical modulation formats, and transmission impairment mitigation techniques. Dr. Vassilieva is a Senior Member of the IEEE Photonics Society, the author and co-author of numerous scientific papers and holds more than hundred US patents per current USPTO record.