DCI Workshop

"Optical Data Center Interconnects – Applications, technologies and components”

Objectives:

• To highlight emerging applications, technologies and components for datacenter interconnects

Chairman:

• Ronny Henker, TU Dresden

Duration:

• 4h in total (including a break)

Speakers:

• Niels Neumann, "Energy Efficiency Comparison of Optical and Electrical Interconnects for High-Performance Computing and Datacenters"
• Jean-Pierre Locquet, "Photonic Reservoir Computing"
• S. Lischke, "Monolithic photonic BiCMOS technology: Enabler for high-speed transceiver applications"
• Pascal Stark, "Novel III-V and Electro-Optic Components Co-Integrated with Silicon Photonics"
• J.J.G.M. (Jos) van der Tol, "Hybrid integration of photonics and electwithin your partnersronics using wafer scale polymeric"
• Benjamin Wohlfeil, "Photonic integrated circuits for data center interconnects"
• Alexandru Giuglea, "Comparison of Segmented and Traveling-Wave Electro-Optical Transmitters Based on Silicon Photonics Mach-Zehnder Modulators"
• Xi Zhang, "PAM-4 Electro-absorption modulator driver for 3D wafer scale packaging"
• N. Ledentsov Jr., "Future of high-speed VCSEL-based interconnects applying high order modulation formats"
• Theoni Alexoudi, "Mid-board Transceiver and Routing technologies for chip-to-chip optical interconnection"

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Fast Switching Workshop

"Fast Switching Technologies and architectural considerations for Data Center Networks"

Objectives:

• To address the latest technology advances in the field of fast slot switching and optical packet switching
• To present advance network architecture solutions that make optimum use of fast switching technologies in data centres including hybrid fast and conventional architectures
• To identify realistic paths towards the introduction of fast switching technologies in future data centre networks

Chairman:

• Dimitrios Klonidis, AIT

Duration:

• 4h in total (including a break)

Speakers:

• Dominique Chiaroni, NOKIA Bell Labs
• Guilhem de Valicourt, IPG Photonics
• Dan Marom, HUJI
• Paraskevas Bakopoulos, Mellanox (TBC)
• Salah Ibrahim, NTT
• Roberto Proietti, UC Davis (TBC)
• George Zervas, UCL
• Nicola Calabretta, TU/e
• Naoya Wada, NICT
• Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University

Schedule and Abstracts:

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SDM Workshop

"Space Division Multiplexed Optical Transmission"

Objectives:

• To highlight emerging components, fibers and systems including the networking and control plane aspects required for future deployment of SDM in the field.

Chairman:

• Dr Chigo Okonkwo, Institute for Photonic Integration, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Dr. Ruben S. Luis, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

Duration:

• ~ 8 hours (including breaks and Lunch)

Speakers:

• Werner Klaus - NICT Japan –“EXAT and the first 10 years of SDM research in Japan”
• Haoshuo Chen - Nokia Bell Labs, USA – “Remote spatio-temporal control over multimode fiber”
• Itsuro Morita - KDDI R&D laboratory, Japan “Ultra-high capacity transmission using few-mode multi-core fiber”
• Koji Igarashi - Osaka University, Japan. “Signal Processing for mode multiplexed transmission in the optical domain and digital domain”
• Luca Poti - CNIT Pisa, Italy. “Multi-core fibre applications from the lab to a city test-bed”
• Takashi Sasaki - Innovation Core, Sumitomo, USA. “Toward the Practical use of the Multi-core Fiber in Optical Communications”
• Nick Psaila - Optoscribe UK. “3D laser written waveguide circuits for SDM and photonic integration”
• Dan Marom - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal. “Rectangular Core Fiber for Mode-Division Multiplexed Optical Communications”
• Salvatore Spadaro - UPC, Spain. “Spatial super-channel allocation strategies in dynamic Flex-Grid/MCF optical core networks”
• Yusuke Hirota - Osaka University, Japan. “SDM-oriented Networking System with fractional pSSC concept for future optical networks”
• Konstantinos Manousakis - University of Cyprus, Cyprus "Routing Spectrum and Core Allocation in SDM Networks with Physical Layer Considerations"
• Cristina Rottondi - University of Lugano, Switzerland. “Optimized design of flexi-grid optical networks with SDM Technologies”

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