Workshops
Sunday 22 September | 14:00 - 17:30
Workshop 1 - Room A
SDM: How to migrate from point-to-point transmission to full optical networking? |
Workshop 2 - Room B
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Workshop 3 - Room C
Integration of optical devices for SDM transmission |
Workshop 4 - Room D
Technologies for Short Reach Optical Interconnects |
Workshop 5 - Room E
Architectures and control for elastic optical networks |
Workshop 6 - Room F
SDN Applications for optical network operating system: Challenges and opportunities |
WS1 - SDM: How to migrate from point-to-point transmission to full optical networking? |
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Room A SDM: How to migrate from point-to-point transmission to full optical networking? Organised by: Georgios Zervas, University of Bristol (UK)
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We experience Internet traffic growth of 100 times every 10 years. The capacity of existing standard single-mode fibre is approaching its limits following significant progress on transmission technologies which allow for high spectral efficiencies to be realised. Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) has emerged as a solution to the problem of saturation of the capacity of optical transmission systems and has effectively achieved a 10-fold increase in the
overall fibre capacity within the space of just 2 years. The idea behind SDM is to transmit simultaneously over several different spatial modes of propagation, and the research community is exploring in parallel several different avenues that would allow this to happen; the use of fibres comprising multiple cores, multimode fibres and even the use of optical vortices are the prime examples. In order to fully benefit from the advantages of SDM technologies in a complete network scenario, the corresponding devices for the implementation of optical nodes, transceivers and networks will also need to be developed. However, clearly the relative benefits of the different SDM technologies are not the same and several technical and economic challenges need to be addressed before the wide adoption by service providers.
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WS2 - Low-cost access to photonic ICs 5th European Photonic Integration Forum |
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Room B Organised by: Professor Meint Smit, Eindhoven University of Technology Professor Roel Baets, University of Ghent, Belgium
In the last few years major progress has been made in the development of a generic foundry infrastructure for low-cost access to design and manufacturing of advanced Photonic ICs, in a similar way to how the microelectronics industry is configured.
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Targeted audience: Everybody interested in advanced devices and subsystems for a broad range of applications, including data transport systems and data networks.
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WS3 - Integration of optical devices for SDM transmission |
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Room C Organised by: Dr Tetsuya Kawanishi, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
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Recently, space division multiplexing (SDM) based on multi-core or multi-mode fibres has attracted a great deal of attention in huge capacity data transmission technologies. Similar to conventional systems, SDM based transmission systems are composed of transmitters, receivers, amplifiers and optical fibres. Large scale integration is recognised as an important step towards reducing costs in conventional systems and in SDM based systems there is the potential to achieve even greater component consolidation. However this requires dramatic improvement of the system components to increase total transmission capacity. The purpose of this workshop is to discuss device requirements for large-scale SDM systems which should have a high number of transmitters and receivers, advanced modulation formats to increase the total capacity and low power consumption to construct sustainable network systems. Crosstalk should be suppressed in SDM systems to avoid degradation of advanced modulation formats. Integration is the key technology for such optoelectronic components and is important for the fibre itself as well as optical components such as connectors, mux/demux devices and amplifiers. This workshop, co-organised and sponsored by EU FP7 project MODEGAP and the EXAT program, Japan, will review and discuss possible new technologies including optoelectronic device integration, amplifiers for SDM, multi-core and few mode fibres. The goal of this workshop is to achieve insights for the future direction of research on components designed for SDM.
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WS4 - Technologies for Short Reach Optical Interconnects | |
Room D Technologies for Short Reach Optical Interconnects Organised by: Professor Richard Penty, University of Cambridge, UK
Very Short Reach Interconnects Additional organiser: Dr Terry Clapp, Dow Corning
Short-reach optical interconnects have recently attracted significant interest due to the ever increasing demand for bandwidth and reduced energy consumption in large-scale high-performance electronic systems. Optical fibre technologies are now widely deployed in rack-to-rack communications in such systems as they can offer high-capacity low-power interconnections. Next generation supercomputers are expected to require even larger interconnection capacities and reduced power consumption. As a result, optics is increasingly being considered for use in even shorter (<1 m) communication links such as for backplanes and board-to-board, chip-to-chip and on-chip communications owing to the performance advantages it offer with respect to electrical interconnect counterparts when operating at high data rates: larger bandwidth, immunity to electromagnetic interference, reduced power consumption and relaxed thermal management requirements. However, the cost-effective integration of optics into existing electronic systems constitutes a significant technological challenge. Optical technologies need to be compatible with existing electronic system architectures and conventional manufacturing processes of the electronics industry and allow system assembly and packaging at low costs.
This workshop will therefore consider the drivers and optical technologies for next generation very short reach (sub metre) interconnects. This will include guided wave and free space approaches, and will consider length scales for on-chip (~mm), on board (~10cm) and backplane (~1m) communications as well as interconnect architectures for the above applications. Finally barriers to adoption of optical technologies over the existing Cu incumbent technologies will be considered.
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WS6 - SDN Applications for optical network operating system: Challenges and opportunities |
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Room F Organised by: Dr Hiroaki Harai, NICT, Japan
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Software Defined Network (SDN) is becoming an established trend in operation and management of today’s networks from Data Centre to telecomm operators’ infrastructures. This trend has been recently reinforced by the evolution of network services by means of Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and the consolidation of the OpenFlow protocol that support decoupling of network control and data plane.
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Titles of talks are tentative and subject to change. |