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OSA and OIDA are pleased to collaborate with the LASER World of PHOTONICS China to host two workshops. Seats are limited and advance registration is strongly encouraged.

OSA Energy Photonics Workshop

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
09:30 – 17:00

Shanghai New International Trade Fair Center, SNIEC
Conference Room W1-M1

This workshop will include international leaders discussing photovoltaics, solid state lighting and optical components for the generation of energy. Additionally, the program will feature presentations examining the impact the world's generation and consumption of energy is having on our environment.

The workshop will focus on:

• The latest techniques and technologies used in the energy field for exploration, monitoring and control and the impact energy is having on the environment.
• An examination of the latest research advances used in the generation of energy in fields such as nano-photonics, photovoltaics, advanced concentrator design.
• A review of the optical components for the generation of solar energy including their design, modeling, integration of novel materials, manufacture, testing, deployment in the field, economic considerations, and field results.
• The latest research in energy conservation using solid state lighting ranging from device physics to the design of efficient luminaire optics.
• An update of government policies worldwide on supporting and facilitating the development and implementation of optically related energy approaches.

The following speakers have confirmed their participation (as of 10/31/11):

Moderator

James C. Wyant, Professor, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, USA

Presenters

TITLE: The Global Impact of Photonics: Renewable Resources, Monitoring Climate Change and Energy Conservation
Thomas M. Baer, Executive Director, Stanford Photonics Research Center, USA

Summary: The possibility of radical climate changes due to global warming poses a significant world-wide threat of unknown magnitude.  These potential changes are attributed to rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 levels thought to be caused by several centuries of extensive use of fossil fuels as primary energy sources.  Mitigating this threat will require a multifaceted deployment strategy consisting of developing alternative non-carbon energy sources, replacing existing infrastructure with more energy efficient technologies, and the effective monitoring of climate and atmospheric variables to measure the impact of climate change as well as monitoring compliance.  I will review the critical roles that photonics technologies are playing in helping to implement these strategies.

TITLE: Photonic Sensors for Energy Applications
Radu Barsan, President & CEO, RIO Inc., USA

Summary: Photonics is a key technology for a sustainable future and its importance extends beyond the better-known areas of photovoltaic energy, solid-state lighting, or displays. Photonic sensors in particular play a major role in a broad variety of applications in the generation, distribution, and conservation of energy, as well as in the mitigation of the effects of energy production and consumption on the environment. This talk reviews spectroscopic, fiber optic sensing, and LIDAR technologies that are increasingly being employed in the wind and geothermal energy sectors, in making fossil fuel exploration, extraction, and distribution, as well as fossil fuel-based energy generation cleaner, safer, and more efficient; and in monitoring greenhouse emissions and pollution and their effects on the planet.

TITLE: The US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative – the path to $1/Watt
Douglas W. Hall, Portfolio Manager of the Solar Energy Technologies Program's Photovoltaic Manufacturing Initiative, Department of Energy, USA

Summary:  The U.S. Department of Energy has launched an aggressive program to reduce the total cost of solar-electric systems by the year 2020.  For example, the target for utility photovoltaic systems is $1/Watt (installed) and for residential photovoltaic systems is $1.50/W (installed).   This talk will discuss the challenge, the impact of achieving the goal, and some of the programs driving technology and policy.  These programs are reducing solar component, module, and balance of systems costs to meet these goals.  Also programs reducing “soft” balance of systems costs such as project design, permitting, and financing costs, will be discussed.

TITLE: Lasers and Optics Research for Energy Applications at SIOM
Ruxin Li, Director, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Summary: Advanced laser and optical technologies play a vital role for the future development of clean and renewable energy. The recent progress in lasers and optics research for energy applications at SIOM will be reviewed, which includes the high power laser system, optical coating, laser glass and crystal development. Advanced solid state laser systems would be highly demanded in the performance improvement and machining for solar energy cell plates, as well as the potential driver for future nuclear fusion energy. Anti-reflection coating technique used in high power laser system has been successful transformed to be anti-reflection optics for solar energy cells. “

TITLE: SSL: An optical design challenge
Julius Muschaweck, OSRAM AG, Germany

Summary: The lighting industry goes green: LED-based Solid State Lighting is expected to replace traditional light sources like incandescent and fluorescent lamps in many areas. LEDs are not only energy efficient and RoHS-compliant: Their small size and color variety allows electronic adjustment of the quality of light in new ways. This is (also) an optical challenge: Good SSL lighting will require optical designs from LED package to luminaire that are affordable, optically efficient, long lasting, and provide flexible beam patterns with good color mixing in both near and far field.

TITLE: Thermodynamically Efficient Solar Concentrators
Roland Winston, University of California, Merced, USA

Summary: Non-imaging Optics is the theory of thermodynamically efficient optics and as such depends more on thermodynamics than on optics. Hence in this paper a condition for the "best" design is proposed based on purely thermodynamic arguments, which has profound consequences for design of thermal and even photovoltaic systems. Moreover, by analyzing the concentrator problem in terms of its inverse (light starting at the receiver) both concentration and illumination are treated in a unified way. The “best” concentrator design is also the “best” illumination design. This new way of looking at the problem of efficient concentration and illumination depends on probabilities, the ingredients of entropy and information theory while “optics” in the conventional sense recedes into the background. The application of these concepts leads to the development of more thermodynamically efficient solar thermal designs as well as higher efficiency solar cells.

OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop

Conference Room W1-M1
Wednesday, 21 March 2012

The "OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop" will focus on optical fiber communications networks, key components and markets. Current status and future trends in optical fiber communications will be discussed in both invited presentations and a panel discussion featuring the speakers. Workshop topics are described below.

• Markets - The status and forecast of the markets for fiber optic equipment and components will be reviewed. Emphasis will be on market drivers that provide impetus to system deployments and component demand.
• Networks - The most recent developments in telecommunications networks ranging from long haul to fiber to the home will be discussed. In long haul networks, topics for discussion include: recent & planned network deployments, economics of current and future 100 Gb/s systems, and key technological challenges and new research trends. In access/FTTH networks new architectures, network economics, customer penetration will be discussed.
• Components - Key technologies for long-haul and metro systems and status of commercial devices and research results for 10, 40 and 100G applications, both for transmit and reconfiguration will be discussed. Additionally, in view of the tremendous research activity in integrated photonics in China, the workshop will feature a talk that summarizes the current status of integrated photonics research in China.

09:30 – 17:00

Welcome and Introduction

Fred J. Leonberger, Principle, EOvation Advisors, LLC

Fred Leonberger is the Principal of EOvation Advisors LLC, a technology and business advisory firm. He serves on the Board of Directors for a number of venture-funded photonics companies and has been a Senior Advisor at the MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems (CIPS). Dr. Leonberger previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of JDS Uniphase Corporation (JDSU), a leading optical components supplier, and was a co-founder and General Manager of UTP, an optical modulator company. He has also held management positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and United Technologies Research Center. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE and OSA, a recipient of the IEEE Photonics Award, and presently serves on the OIDA Advisory Board. He received the B.S.E. degree from the University of Michigan, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

09:45 – 10:15

Demand Drivers for Telecommunications Networks and Component Requirements Thereof

Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, OIDA Executive Technical Director, USA

Over the last decade, high-bandwidth services have experienced explosive growth in all segments of the network. To meet this demand, telecommunications service providers have deployed new networks in addition to upgrading existing networks. This talk will examine the demand drivers for high-bandwidth services in telecommunications networks. New component technologies that enable long-haul networks will also be discussed.

Ganesh Gopalakrishnan is the Executive Technical Director of OIDA. He has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and optoelectronics industries. A recognized expert on high-speed optical modulation, Ganesh founded CODEON/Covega (now Thorlabs Quantum Electronics) in 1999, and grew the company to the stature of becoming a globally recognized supplier of optical components to the telecommunications industry. Since 2008 he has served as an independent consultant providing advanced technology consultancy services in the field of photonics. Ganesh holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

10:15 – 10:45

Optical Metro Networks 2.0

Jörg-Peter Elbers, ADVA AG Optical Networking, Germany

Fueled by the rapid traffic increase in access and enterprise networks, optical metro and backhaul networks represent a major growth opportunity for system vendors and component manufacturers. This presentation reviews market drivers, network architectures and system solutions from a techno-economic point of view. Discussing new technologies and applications, it assesses the prospects of next-generation metro networks: a simple and scalable bandwidth delivery for packet and circuit services.

Jörg-Peter Elbers is VP Advanced Technology at ADVA AG Optical Networking in Munich, Germany, and responsible for technology strategy and new product concepts. Prior to joining ADVA in 2007, he was Director of Technology in the Optical Product Unit of Marconi (now Ericsson). From 1999 to 2001 he worked at Siemens AG, last as Director of Network Architecture in Siemens Optical Networks. He received the Dr.-Ing. (PhD) degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, in 2000.

10:45 – 11:15

FTTx Technology Trends

Reg Wilcox, Huawei Technologies, USA

Wireline Access networks have seen significant investments in the last several years. The result has been a continuous flow of new technology innovations. Both fiber and copper access technologies have come a long way since the early 2000. Today Passive Optical Network (PON) based fiber access is more dominant than Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) based copper access. But as PON technology has evolved, so has the DSL technology for copper. Combining both in FTTx networks can offer potential synergies that reduce costs and improve time to market significantly.

This presentation will address the technology trends in Fiber and Copper access networks. It will provide an overview of the emerging 10G GPON (i.e. XG-PON1) as well as Next Generation PON technologies. It will then present the advances in Very high bit rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL) technologies such as G.Vector, channel bonding etc. and briefly outline new on-going work in G.Fast. The paper will then discuss the potential use of XG-PON1 with VDSL Vectoring and G.Fast for “fiber equivalent” services at lower costs. Lastly, a brief overview will be given with respect to regional variation of these trends that are observed globally.

Mr. Wilcox is Huawei Technologies’ Vice President of Network Marketing and Product Management for North America. Prior to joining Huawei, Mr. Wilcox was an Executive VP responsible for operations at Menara Networks, a high performance optical transceiver company. Mr. Wilcox also spent 19 years with Nortel where he held a variety of positions which included Vice President of Optical Development and President of Qtera Networks. In his tenure with Nortel, Mr. Wilcox played a pivotal role in Nortel's 10 Gb/s market success, its penetration into Metro DWDM and its transition to next generation transport systems. Mr. Wilcox holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto located in Toronto, Canada

11:15 – 11:45

Perspectives on 850 nm VCSEL-based Extended-Reach Multimode Optical Fiber Links at 25-56 Gb/s

J. A. Lott, VI Systems GmbH, Germany

We demonstrate error-free 25 Gb/s optical fiber interconnects with our 850 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) operating with a very low power consumption of only a few milliwatts per device. At 25°C through 100, 303, and 603 meters of standard commercial 850 nm multimode optical fiber we achieve record heat-to-bit-rate ratios of 99, 122, and 188 mW/Tbps (or equivalently in units of fJ/bit), respectively. Our VCSELs are the most energy efficient directly modulated high-speed light sources for data transmission across all distances up to 1 km of multimode optical fiber reported to date. When combined with equally low-power-consuming VCSEL driver integrated circuits and when configured as parallel channel arrays we expect our high-speed optical engines will enable highly practical energy efficient short to extended-reach optical fiber interconnects for datacenters, and optical interconnects for exascale computer communication. Finally we present the design and characteristics of our 40 Gb/s 850 nm VCSELs and review our perspectives on producing optical fiber links that operate at up to 56 Gb/s.

James A. Lott has over 25 years of experience in managing and leading research, product development, and manufacturing programs in electronics, photonics, and integrated systems. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering (EE) and computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of New Mexico (USA). He performed research at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico on VCSELs and other quantum-engineered semiconductor device structures from 1988 to 1993. From 1993 through 2006 he served as Professor of EE at the AFIT and completed sabbaticals as a visiting scientist at NEC Optoelectronics Research Center, Tsukuba, Japan in 1995 and at Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea in 1996. Since 2007 he has been the Chief Technology Officer of VI Systems GmbH, a company focused on high-speed optical products based in Berlin, Germany.

11:45 – 13:30 Lunch Break (on your own)

11:45 – 13:30

High-Speed Optoelectronic Components Research and Applications in China

Hu Yi, Wuhan Telecommunication Devices Co., China

Optoelectronic components are the enabling devices for the higher and higher capacity fiber optics networks. In this workshop, the status of commercial devices and technologies of high-speed optoelectronic components for 10G PON, 40G and 100G applications will be discussed. Also, study on technical standard and progresses for 400G will be also introduced. The discussion will address the worldwide status with a focus on the China market, the biggest user and manufacturer and a growing important developer of optoelectronics components.

Hu Yi is R&D Manager, Senior engineer of Wuhan Telecommunication Devices Co., tutor for post-graduates and national “863” and “973” project manager in China.

14:00 – 14:30

Integrated Photonic Research in China

Andrew Poon, Hong Kong Univ. of Science & Technology, Hong Kong

Researchers in China have long been making major contributions to integrated photonics research for optical communications and more recently for optical interconnects and biosensing. With a growing number of research groups from universities and institutes and unprecedented government backing, China is poised to take a leading role in this exciting area of research, which promises tremendous commercialization potential for the country and globally. In this talk, the speaker will summarize the current status of integrated photonics research in China, highlighting national research programs and major projects and their recent research activities, and discuss commercialization potential of integrated photonics research in China.

Andrew Wing On Poon received his Ph.D. and M. Phil. degrees in physics from Yale University, New Haven, in 2001 and 1998, respectively. He received his B.A. degree (with honors) in physics from The University of Chicago, Illinois, in 1995. In 2001 he joined the department of electronic and computer engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), as an assistant professor. He is now an associate professor. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers in journals and international conferences, co-authored two book chapters, co-edited one book, and awarded one patent. He has served as the chair of The IEEE Photonics Society Hong Kong Chapter (2008-2009). During his 2nd term tenure, the Hong Kong Chapter was awarded the Society “Chapter of the Year” Award 2009. He has served on various technical program committees of international conferences. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. His research interests include silicon photonics and optical microresonators for optical communications, optical interconnects, optofluidics and biosensing.

14:30 – 15:00 Tea Break
15:00 – 16:00 Invited Speaker Panel Discussion
16:00 – 17:00 Visit Exhibition

Registration

Advanced registration is strongly encouraged as seats are limited to both workshops. Registration is required for BOTH events and includes admission into one of the workshops, printed program and presentation materials, coffee breaks and the joint Workshop reception on Tuesday, 20 March 2012.

OIDA Workshop Registration is FREE for Students!

Registration and Fees for those residing in mainland China and Hong Kong (must register separately for each workshop):

Register Online for OSA Energy Photonics Workshop (for those residing in mainland China and Hong Kong)

Register Online for OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop (for those residing in mainland China and Hong Kong)

	RATE RMB Prior to 1 March 2012	RATE RMB After 1 March 2012
Chinese Member	¥ 636.00	¥ 636.00
Chinese Non-Member	¥ 954.00	¥ 954.00
Chinese Student Member	¥ 318.00 Energy Photonics Workshop ¥ 0 OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop	¥ 318.00 Energy Photonics Workshop ¥ 0 OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop
Chinese Student Non-Member	¥ 318.00 Energy Photonics Workshop ¥ 0 OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop	¥ 318.00 Energy Photonics Workshop ¥ 0 OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop

Registration and Fees for those residing outside of China (must register separately for each workshop):

Those registering from outside of China may register onsite at the Shanghai New International Trade Fair Center starting at 08:30am on Tuesday, 20 March.

	RATE USD Prior to 1 March 2012	RATE USD After 1 March 2012
Member	$200.00	$250.00
Non-Member	$300.00	$350.00
Student Member	$100.00 Energy Photonics Workshop $0 OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop	$100.00 Energy Photonics Workshop $0 OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop
Student Non-Member	$100.00 Energy Photonics Workshop $0 OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop	$100.00 Energy Photonics Workshop $0 OIDA Optical Fiber Communications Workshop

About OSA
Founded in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) was organized to increase and diffuse the knowledge of optics, pure and applied; to promote the common interests of investigators of optical problems, of designers and of users of optical apparatus of all kinds; and to encourage cooperation among them. The purposes of the Society are scientific, technical and educational.

The Optical Society brings together optics and photonics scientists, engineers, educators, and business leaders. OSA's membership totals more than 17,000 individuals from over 100 countries. Approximately 49 percent of the Society's members reside outside the United States.

About OIDA
Founded in 1991, the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) is a Washington DC-based, not-for-profit organization that serves and represents optoelectronics communities.

OIDA members include the leading providers of optoelectronic components and systems enabled by optoelectronics, as well as universities and research institutions. OIDA provides roadmaps, reports, and market data for the optoelectronics industry, serves as the voice of industry to government and academia, acts as liaison with other optoelectronic industry associations worldwide, and provides a network for the exchange of ideas and information within the optoelectronics community.

Travel and Accommodations

Participants requiring accommodations, travel information and letters of invitations for their visa applications are encouraged to refer to the Laser World of Photonics China travel and accommodations website.

Information about nearby hotels, a map of the surrounding area and venue as well as procedures for requesting an official letter of invitation can be found on this website