Technical Programme Overview
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ECOC2008 Technical Programme
Sunday, 21 September 2008
A limited number of half-day workshops will be organised on Sunday (morning and afternoon). These workshops aim at creating a
discussion forum on topics related to the ECOC technical programme. Check for details here
Monday 22 September - Plenary Sessions
Optical Communications- A View into the Future
R.C. Alferness
Chief Scientist Bell Laboratories
Alcatel-Lucent
USA
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Technologies for a Petabit Network
H.-J. Grallert
Professor Technical University Berlin and
Managing Director Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications,
Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI),
Germany
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Optical communications as a social infrastructure and its enabling technologies
H. Kuwahara
Fellow
Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
Japan
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Monday 22 September & Tuesday 23 September - Symposia
Monday 22 September 14h30 - 18h30
Symposium on Fiber Radio Convergence
Organizers:
Arne Alping, Ericsson
Pierre-Yves Fonjallaz, Kista Photonics Research Centre
Javier Marti, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Tom Pearsall, EPIC
Ralf Schaefer, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
Synopsis:
Digital video broadcasting promises to bring a wealth of new services on to the communication network. The Apple i-Phone is just the beginning. While user access to this kind of service is by radio, the information transport to bay stations must be optical in order to handle the traffic volume. This is an important example of radio fibre convergence in the network.
We predict an explosion of traffic both downstream and upstream to carry video messages, particularly to nomadic devices. Radio and Fiber will have to work together in a coordinated way to deliver content smoothly and symmetrically. Network architectures will involve both optical and radio components. A key question is how to structure the network in an optimal way to profit from the advantages of each transport medium.
The objectives of the symposium are to learn how the network systems and operators are planning to meet the challenge.
Programme:
14h30 - 14h55
Current situation on FTTH installations in Europe and the convergence of radio-based transmission and access issues
Joeri Van Bogaert, President FTTH Council, Belgium |
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14h55 - 15h20
Advantages of integrating fixed and wireless services over a common infrastructure
Anna Pizzinat, France Télécom R&D Réseaux d'Accès, France |
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15h20 - 15h45
Developments in video broadcasting and for two-way peer-to-peer video communication.
Ralf Schaefer, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany |
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15h45 - 16h10
Innovations in Video Services as driver for Fibre Access.
Ingrid van de Voorde,
Alcatel-Lucent Research, Belgium
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16h10 - 16h30 Coffee Break |
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16h30 - 16h55
A on vision of radio over fibre
Richard Penty, University of Cambridge, UK |
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16h55 - 17h20
Fiber closing in to the customer´s premises: Making the right design decisions
Raf Meersman, COMSOF, Belgium |
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17h20 - 17h45
TBA
Speaker from DAS Photonics |
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17h45 - 18h30
Panel Discussion
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Tuesday 23 September 14h30 - 18h30
Network Solutions to Reduce the Energy Footprint of ICT
Organizers:
Mario Pickavet
Ghent University – IBBT
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Rodney Tucker
University of Melbourne
Australia
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Scope:
Due to global energy production limits and environmental concerns, awareness for energy consumption is raising worldwide. While ICT is providing many energy-saving solutions, it is at the same time responsible for a considerable and steeply increasing energy footprint on its own. Recent surveys estimate that the complete life cycle of ICT equipment today is responsible for about 4% of the worldwide primary energy consumption. This percentage is expected to double within 10-15 years, if current ICT energy trends are not drastically deviated.
The objective of this symposium on Network Solutions to Reduce the Energy Footprint of ICT is two-fold. First, it aims to provide insight in the main ICT energy consumption factors and their expected future evolution. This broad picture will allow to identify key research challenges and directions. A second section will go into more technology oriented challenges and potential solutions and future network paradigms. Special attention will be paid to the role of optics.
The symposium will present a carefully selected set of invited speakers, experts from industry and academia. A closing panel discussion will reflect on similar or deviating approaches and identify key research challenges and action points.
This symposium is partially supported by the BONE-project ("Building the Future Optical Network in Europe"), a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission through the
7th ICT-Framework Programme |
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Tentative Speakers:
Telecom operator view
Andreas Gladisch, Deutsche Telekom, Germany |
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Energy consumption targets for network systems
Tohru Asami, University of Tokyo, Japan |
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Power consumption in optical packet switches
Ben Yoo, UC Davis, USA |
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Environmental footprint of ICT equipment in manufacture, use and end of life
Constantin Herrmann, PE-International, Germany |
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Monday 22 through Thursday 25 September - Tutorials
Monday 22 through Thursday 25 September - Invited speakers
Subcommittee 1 - Fibres, Fibre Devices and Amplifiers |
New materials and devices in Raman amplification
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Evgenii Dianov
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia |
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Slow Light and Stopped Light via SBS in an Optical Fiber
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Daniel Gauthier
Duke Univ., USA |
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Recent developments in all-optical nonlinear data processing
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Sonia Boscolo
Aston Univ, United Kingdom |
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Fiber-optic parametric amplifiers and their applications
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Peter Andreksson
Chalmers University, Sweden |
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Subcommittee 2 - Waveguide and Optoelectronic Devices |
Metallic nanolasers
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Martin Hill
Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands |
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100-Gb/s Hybrid Opto-electronic Integration
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Jeff Sinsky
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA |
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Terahertz Systems - Novel Applications of Telecom Technology
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Bernd Sartorius
Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute, Germany |
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Optical isolator for silicon-on-insulator circuits
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Tetsuya Mizumoto
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
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Subcommittee 3 - Subsystems and Network Elements for Optical Networks |
MLSE receivers: Application Scenarios, Fundamental Limits and
Experimental Validations
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Pierluigi Poggiolini
Politecnico di Torino, Italy |
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From ROADM technology to TOADM technology, on the path
towards optical restoration
Jean-Paul Faure
Alcatel-Lucent, France |
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Optical performance monitoring techniques - current status
and future challenges
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Yun Chung
KAIST, Korea |
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Compensation of fibre impairments in digital coherent systems
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Seb Savory,
University College London , UK |
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Subcommittee 4 - Transmission Systems |
Exploring capacity limits of fiber-optic communication systems
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Rene-Jean Essiambre
Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA |
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Challenges to FDM-QAM coherent transmission with
ultrahigh spectral efficiency
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Masataka Nakazawa
Tohoku Univ, Japan |
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Optical OFDM, a hype or is it for real ?
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Sander Jansen
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan |
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Review of 20 years of undersea optical fiber transmission system
development and deployment since TAT-8
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Stuart Abbott
Tyco Telecom, USA |
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Quantum Key Distribution systems and field trials
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Akihiro Tanaka
NEC Corporation, Japan |
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Subcommittee 5 - Backbone and Core Networks |
Control plane for (packet) transport networks
(ASON, GMPLS, interop)
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Hans-Martin Foisel
Deutsche Telekom, Germany |
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Energy Consumption of IP Net
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Rodney Tucker
University of Melbourne, Australia |
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Impairment aware routing and relevant resiliency issues
in all-optical networks
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Ioannis Tomkos
Athens Information Technology, Greece |
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Evolving optical grid network technologies to support
future Internet services
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Dimitra Simeonidou
Essex University, UK |
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Add/drop multiplexing in optical packet-switched
networks: technologies and research challenges
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Dominique Chiaroni
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France
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Subcommittee 6 - Access Networks and LAN |
Novel Network Architectures for Survivable WDM
Passive Optical Networks
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C.K. Chan Calvin
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
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Power efficiency of optical versus electronic access networks
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Andreas Gladisch
Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems, Germany |
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Optical access evolutions and their impacts
on the metropolitan and home networks
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Philippe Chanclou
France Telecom, France |
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Fiber to the home: a carrier perspective
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Shukla Vishun
Verizon, USA |
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CLEO Focus Meeting: Physics in Optical Communications |
Slow wave nanophotonics for faster telecom
L. (Kobus) Kuipers
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), The Netherlands
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Single spins in self-assembled quantum dots
Richard Warburton
Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom |
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Sunday 21 September - Topical Workshops
Morning Workshops : 09h00 - 13h00
Workshop 1
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Multi-tone transmission techniques for optical networks
In recent years the growing capacity of electronic signal processing has enabled the use of electronically generated orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to be contemplated for use in optical networks. At the same time the increasing impact of fibre impairments and the required inventory have led to suggestions for all optical multiplexing of regularly spaced coherent carriers. |
Organizers:
- Andrew Ellis
Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
- Itsuro Morita
KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
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Workshop 2
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Workshop on Optical Grids, Drivers & applications for high performance optical networks
This Workshop on Optical Grids intends to bring together practitioners and researchers from both the high performance computing and networking fields. The main objective is to discuss the work on the emerging aspects related to advanced techniques, platforms, paradigms and models for the design, deployment and usage of high performance optical networks with a particular focus on Grid networks and applications.
A workshop organised in the framework of the FP7 "BONE"-project |
Organizers:
- Chris Develder
Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
- Dimitra Simeonidou
University of Essex, UK
- Chunming Qiao
SUNY Buffalo, USA
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Workshop 3
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Short range optical networks
Short reach optical links, i.e. optical transmission systems that cover distances from few meters up to some 100 meters, are gaining increased attention mainly due to the evolution of the required bit-rates up to levels that make the traditional "electrical" solutions critical.
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Organizers:
- Roberto Gaudino
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Sebastian Randel
Siemens AG, Germany
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Workshop 4
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Optical fiber sensors - where are we and what's to come?
This workshop deals with an overview of the status of the field and of the trend-setting developments. It will focus on business perspectives as well, while identifying the opportunities and pitfalls.
The workshop will benefit from contributions from the COST299 action FIDES (Optical Fibres for New Challenges Facing the Information Society)
and of the recently launched European FP7 project PHOSFOS (Photonic Skins for Optical Sensing) |
Organizers:
- Francis Berghmans
Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
- Hugo Thienpont
Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
- Luc Thevenaz
EPFL, Switzerland
- Moshe Tur
Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Afternoon Workshops : 14h00 - 18h00
Workshop 5
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All-Optical versus OEO Networks
Transparent (all-optical) networking solutions have been touted as having the potential to meet those requirements and offer significant benefits in terms of performance and cost. On the other hand recent advancements in photonic integrated circuits have enabled the operation of opaque networks based on optoelectronic conversions (OEO) at much lower cost than what was originally considered possible in the past.
A workshop organised in the framework of the FP7 "BONE"-project |
Organizers:
- Ioannis Tomkos
AIT, Greece
- Winston Way
Opvista, USA
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Workshop 6
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ROADM in NG Optical Transport Networks
Optical transport network technologies continue to advance at a rapid pace providing additional switching and configuration functions to DWDM based transport platforms enabling increased capacity and flexibility while simultaneously lowering operational costs. Wavelength-selective switching technology is critical for achieving the full potential of NG Optical Transport Networks. Together with ASON/GMPLS control plane functions this technology facilitates implementation of dynamic optical networks enabling many on-demand bandwidth services.
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Organizers:
- Hans-Martin Foisel
Deutsche Telekom, Germany
- Vishnu Shukla
Verizon, USA
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Workshop 7
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Towards foundries for photonic components and ICs
The manufacturing of photonic components and ICs is moving in the direction of a foundry-like model, whereby fabless users rely on the services provided by wafer fabs. Even at the level of research and prototyping this trend is gaining momentum.
This workshop aims to provide insight in the current status of these developments and to provide an outlook of what is to come. Providers of photonic foundry or foundry-like services will present the status of their operations. Users will give testimonials of what can be achieved today. Both III-V, silicon and silica based technologies will be covered.
The workshop is geared primarily towards companies and institutions who have an interest to make use of foundry services for research, prototyping or volume manufacturing of photonic components and ICs.
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Organizers:
- Roel Baets
Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium
- Meint Smit,
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Workshop 8
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2nd Workshop on Future Internet Design (FID)
This workshop brings together researchers in the area of future Internet design including in particular "Clean Slate Design" and researchers in the area of optical communications, to raise mutual awareness, explore areas of joint interests, and stimulate discussion on the directions of future network research. Both communities will need to closely cooperate to overcome a number of fundamental issues to make the future Internet happen.
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Organizers:
- Michael Dueser
T-Systems, Germany
- Michael Menth
University of Wurzburg, Germany
- Phuoc Tran-Gia
University of Wurzburg, Germany
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Workshop 9
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Everything converged: today, tomorrow and after tomorrow
This workshop has collected a versatile team of speakers to discuss some of the many different aspects of the convergence in the end user environment - today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. The focus will be on the technology issues for access and in-building networks, but also services and business models will be considered.
A workshop organised in the framework of the FP7 "ALPHA"-project |
Organizers:
- Mikhail Popov
Acreo, Sweden
- Claus Popp Larsen
Acreo, Sweden
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Monday 22 through Wednesday 24 September - Workshops on the Exhibition Floor
Monday Workshop : 14h30 - 16h30
Phorce21 (Photonics Research Coordination Europe - Photonics21) - Towards a bright future for Europe
Organizers:
Markus Wilkens
VDI Technologiezentrum
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Scope:
In 2005 the European Technology Platform Photonics21 has been established to further shape the European Research Area in Photonics by bringing together all relevant stakeholders and develop a common research strategy for Photonics in Europe. The main objective of the European Commission funded coordination project Phorce21 which is supposed to start in June 2008 is to provide the essential support to the ETP Photonics21 in the development of RTD strategies through road-mapping, consensus building and coordination with Member or Associated States and beyond in order to overcome fragmentation, bundle resources, and achieve the critical mass for competitive innovation. The workshop will give an outline on the planned activities.
This workshop is supported by the Phorce21-project ("Photonics Research Coordination Europe - Photonics21"), funded by the European Commission through the 7th ICT-Framework Programme
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Programme:
- 14.30 Introduction Optics and Photonics in the 7FP
Ronan Burgess (European Commission, Deputy Head of Unit Photonics)
- 14.45 PHORCE21 Presentation. Aims and the link with
Photonics21
Markus Wilkens (VDI Technologiezentrum and the secretariat of the European Technology Platform Photonics21)
- 15.00 The Photonics Industry Landscape in Europe
Bart Snijders (TNO Science and Industry)
- 15.20 The Photonics Research Landscape in Europe
Marie-Joëlle Antoine (Opticsvalley)
- 15.40 Central Information Resource:
The website: www.phorce21.org
Peter Van Daele (INTEC, Ghent University - IMEC)
- 16.00 Final open discussion
Ronan Burgess (European Commission, Deputy Head of Unit Photonics)
Wednesday Workshop : 09h45 - 11h30
ACCORD - Advanced Components Cooperation for Optoelectronics Research and Development
Organizers:
Chris Gracie
Scottish Optoelectronics Association
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Scope:
ACCORD is the Advanced Components Cooperation for Optoelectronics Research and Development - an experimental programme funded under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union. ACCORD´s purpose is to purchase at marginal cost pre-competitive photonic devices from innovative world wide companies and to put them in the hands of European researchers and students, at no net cost to the university or to the company that furnished the devices
This seminar will consist of presentations from the successful participants from the 1st Round of awards. It will demonstrate the advantages to companies and Universities of engaging with the programme.
This workshop is supported by the ACCORD-project ("Advanced Components Cooperation for Optoelectronics Research and Development"), funded by the European Commission through the 6th ICT-Framework Programme
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Programme:
- 09.45 Introduction - The ACCORD Programme
Peter Van Daele, IMEC - Ghent University, Belgium
- 10.00 TBA
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- 10.20 TBA
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- 10.40 TBA
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- 11.00 TBA
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- 11.20 Final open discussion
Chris Gracie, Scottish Optoelectronics Association, United Kingdom
Wednesday Workshop : 11h30 - 13h00
ePIXfab
Organizers:
Pieter Dumon
IMEC - Ghent University
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ePIXfab provides shuttle runs for silicon photonic ICs in CMOS fabs. Research and prototyping of silicon photonic circuits is made affordable by sharing mask and processing costs in multi-project wafers. Since September 2006, has been providing three shuttle runs per year, open to European and world-wide users. Based on the technologies of the 200mm silicon pilot lines of IMEC (B) and LETI (F), ePIXfab offers deep UV lithography for silicon photonic devices with deep sub-micron resolution.
ePIXfab aims to gather all stakeholders in silicon photonics in order to bridge the gaps between research and the market, between device- and system level research and between small users and large fabs. IMEC and LETI have now set up a new project, PhotonFAB, supported by the European Union through a Support Action grant. This project will significantly gear up the ePIXfab activities, with an enhanced technology portfolio, an improved design interface, user support and education, well-defined links to design, post-processing, packaging and test providers and a roadmap for the shuttle runs.
In this session we will explain how you can make use of the ePIXfab services and show what the service portfolio can do for your exciting applications in communications, access networks, interconnects, signal processing, biophotonics and more.
We will kick off the PhotonFAB project and show how you can be involved in ePIXfab, get your designs fabricated, contribute to the roadmap, or just keep up to date!
Programme:
- 11.30 Introduction
- 11.40 ePIXfab
• shuttle run mechanism
• technology portfolio
• application notes
- 12:30 PhotonFAB
• Objectives
• Support and education
• How to get involved
Co-located Conferences & Events
14th MicroOptics Conference MOC08
(Reduced registration fee will be implemented for attending both ECOC and MOC)
European Semiconductor Laser Workshop 2008
ECOC2008 Social Programme
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Get-Together-Drink (18h00 - 19h30)
On Sunday evening you can meet your colleagues and socialize with your friends during the "Get-Together-Drink" in Hall 10 of the Brussels Expo, which is also the Hall which is used for registration. This drink is for free to all registered participants.
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Time: Sunday 21/09 - 18h00 - 19h30
Location: Brussels Expo, Hall 10 (Registration area)
Entrance fee:
registered conference attendees: free
registered exhibitors: free |
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Monday 22 September 2008
Reception "A Belgian Evening" (18h00 - 20h00)
Think Belgium and what comes to your mind? Beer, Chocolate, Food, French Fries,.... On Monday evening we will bring the "Brussel Grand Place" to the Brussels Expo Hall 9 for a Belgian Evening where you can enjoy a variety of beers, drinks and a range of typical Belgian food. This is Belgium at its best!
Conference registration includes an entrance ticket to this reception. Exhibitors, visitors to the exhibition and accompanying persons can purchase additional tickets at a price of 10 euro/person
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Time: Monday 22/09 - 18h30 - 21h00 (doors open at 18h00)
Location: Brussels Expo, Hall 9
Entrance fee:
registered conference attendees: included in registration fee (ticket will be required)
registered exhibitors and exhibition visitors: tickets can be purchased at 10 euro/person |
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Wednesday 24 September 2008
Conference Diner
The "Concert Noble" has been chosen as the location for the ECOC2008 Conference Diner.
The name Concert Noble dates back to 1785 when Archduke Albert of Saxe-Teschen and his lady, Maria-Christina of Austria, formed this society of nobles in the Royal Park in Brussels. In 1873, at the instigation of King Leopold II, the Société du Concert Noble built the present banqueting room in the Leopoldswijk (Leopold district) where the town residences of the Belgian nobles were situated. The Concert Noble building was designed by Hendrik Beyaert, who has also drawn up the plans for the National Bank at Brussels and Antwerp. The draft was unique : he created a crescendo of increasingly spacious rooms gradually rising to a climax from the gallery, along the front room, the lounge, the games room, the buffet and the banqueting room, culminating in the impressive ballroom. With its Louis XVI decoration, reflecting the eminent guests of the time, Concert Noble quickly became the prized meeting place for many national and international personalities. In 1982 the building passed into the ownership of ABB insurance company - now KBC – who restored the banqueting room complex completely into its original splendour. In 1987, after thorough renovation works, Concert Noble regained its function as a prestigious glittering meeting venue through the exploitation of the limited liability company Concert Noble.
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Time: Wednesday 24/09 - 19h00 - 23h00
Location: Concert Noble, Rue d'Arlon 82, 1040 Brussels
Entrance fee:
Separate registration : tickets can be purchased at 90 euro/person (pre-registration) or 110 euro/person(on-site) |
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Coffee Breaks
Coffee, thea and refreshments will be available throughout the day. Included in the conference registration fee are vouchers which can be redeemed for drinks at any time. Exhibitors and visitors to the exhibition can purchase drinks and refreshments at the coffee counters throughout the day.
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Time: Throughout the day
Location: Brussels Expo
Sunday 21/09 & Thursday 25/09: Hall 10 (Registration area)
Monday 22/09 through Wednesday 24/09: Hall 7 (Exhibition area)
Price:
registered conference attendees:
vouchers included in the registration fee
registered exhibitors and exhibition visitors:
for purchase |
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Lunches
Lunches are NOT included in the registration fees.
Light lunches can be purchased at the venue at different locations
or outside the venue.
Close to the Brussels Expo is the "Mini-Europe" & "The Village" where you can find several restaurants.
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Time: Throughout the day
Location: Brussels Expo or outside the venue
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For purchase, not included in registration fee
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