Special Symposia
O2 + O4: Digital Coherent Transmission Systems and Devices: Past, Present, and Future
This symposium is organized to celebrate the 20 years anniversary from OFC 2005, where two pioneering works on digital coherent transmission, i.e., dispersion compensation and coherent demodulation in digital domain, were presented. Taking advantage of the progress in DSP ASIC and photonic integrated circuits (PICs), coherent optical communication technology has become a major driving force of device and system developments. This symposium provides an opportunity for reviewing the evolution of this field over the 20 years, covering the latest progress and challenges in PICs and systems for coherent transmission, and looking ahead toward future breakthrough including how to take full advantage of the potential of coherent technologies and explore new applications in short-reach and datacenter networks.
Organizers
- Koji Igarashi
- Osaka University
- Patrick Runge
- HHI
- Han Sun
- Infinera
- Hideki Yagi
- Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Speakers
- Manabu Arikawa
- NEC Corporation
- Junho Cho
- Infinera
- Hiroyuki Ishii
- Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Takayuki Kobayashi
- NTT Corporation
- Yoshihiro Ogiso
- NTT Innovative Devices Corporation
- Takuya Okimoto
- Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Shuntaro Makino
- Fujitsu Optical Components Limited
- Kim B Roberts
- Ciena
- Benjamin Wohlfeil
- Adtran Networks SE
O5＋P2: Photonic Computing Solving the Bottleneck of Von-Neumann Computing
Rapid advancement of machine learning technologies raised critical issues regarding the energy consumption for computations, which motivated various researches on alternative analog computing hardware. Photonic computing, with its unique advantages such as ultra-wide bandwidth and space/wavelength parallelism, offers a promising avenue for dramatically improving computational efficiency. Furthermore, recent breakthroughs in nanophotonics and optoelectronic integration suggest the possibility of large-scale integration of photonic computing engines. This symposium will explore the current state of optical computing integration, algorithms, and applications, discussing both its strengths and weaknesses, as well as its future prospects.
Organizers
- Ryan Michael Hamerly
- NTT Research
- Mitsumasa Nakajima
- NTT Corporation
- Nathan Youngblood
- University of Pittsburgh
Speakers
- Chaoran Huang
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Takahiro Inagaki
- NTT Corporation
- Romain Lance
- FEMTO-ST / CNRS
- ByoungJun Park
- NTT Research
- Martin M Stein
- NTT Research / Yale University
- Satoshi Sunada
- Kanazawa University