Meeting program

Optical communication: perspectives on next generation technologies

Tuesday, October 23
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10:00-18:00 09:30-10:00 10:10-10:50 11:00-11:40 11:40-13:00 13:00-13:40 14:00-14:40 15:00-15:40 16:00-16:40 17:00-17:40	Exhibition - HALL 1000 & Foyer Nature Photonics Session - HALL 500 Opening Speech John Hall (University of Colorado; NIST, USA) KEYNOTE ADDRESS "The early days of optical fibre" Tatsuo Izawa (NTT Electronics, Japan) "Convergence of wireless and photonics - bridging the gap" Will Stewart (University of Southampton, UK) Break "Realizing a sustainable and enriched society" Kaoru Yano (NEC, Japan) "Fibre to the home - a light pipe to the living room" Hiromichi Shinohara (NTT, Japan) "The role of optics and electronics -- how far can optics go" Liu Wen (Wuhan Research institute and Accelink, China) "Nanophotonics" Yong Hee Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea) "Light modulators for advanced fibre communication systems of higher spectral efficiency" Masayuki Izutsu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

Wednesday, October 24
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10:00-18:00 09:30-10:10 10:20-11:00 11:10-11:50 11:50-13:00 13:00-13:40 14:00-14:40 15:00-15:40 16:00-16:40 17:00-18:30	Exhibition - HALL 1000 & Foyer Nature Photonics Session - HALL 500 KEYNOTE ADDRESS The future of photonics -- is silicon the answer? Mario Paniccia (Intel, USA) "Advanced photonic technologies for the information era" Michiharu Nakamura (Hitachi, Japan) "Future of digital media over photonic network" Tomonori Aoyama (Keio University, Japan) Break "The challenges and prospects for deploying 40Gbit/s transmission systems" Fabrizio Forghieri (Cisco Systems, Italy) "New frontiers in optical communication" Masataka Nakazawa (Tohoku University, Japan) "The dawn of the terabit era" Colja Schubert (Heinrich Hertz Insitute, Germany) "Optical network nodes" Ken-ichi Kitayama (Osaka University, Japan) Panel Discussion: "The big challenges facing photonics" (Panelist TBD)

Thursday, October 25
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10:00-18:00 09:30-10:10 10:20-11:00 11:10-11:50 11:50-13:00 13:00-13:40 14:00-14:40 15:00-15:40 16:00-16:40 17:00-18:00	Exhibition - HALL 1000 & Foyer Nature Photonics Session - HALL 500 KEYNOTE ADDRESS "Internet social networking drives network capacity growth" Stan Lumish (JDSU, USA) "The role of optical communications technology and future prospects for broadband networks" Terumi Chikami (Fujitsu, Japan) "Quantum cryptography -- its impact, reality and future" Mitsuru Matsui (Mitsubishi Electric, Japan) Break "Optical packet interconnects for peta-flop ultrahigh performance computing" Hirsohi Onaka (Fujitsu, Japan) "Photonic crystals - a new toolbox for telecom devices" Susumu Noda (Kyoto University, Japan) "Advances in semiconductor quantum dot devices" Yasuhiko Arakawa (University of Tokyo, Japan) "Visible light communications" Masao Nakagawa (Keio University, Japan) "Optical technologies for car applications" Manabu Kagami (Toyota Central R&D Labs, Japan)