Program
The program for the Photonics in Switching Topical Meeting will be held Monday, July 26 through Wednesday, July 28, 2010. No events are scheduled for Sunday, July 25; however participants may register and pick up their materials on Sunday afternoon.
A number of distinguished invited speakers have been invited to present at the meeting. In addition, the organizers have planned a number of special events to make your meeting experience more enjoyable!
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About Photonics in Switching
The Photonics in Switching Topical Meeting addresses all research areas in which photonic technologies are applied to innovate and enhance the future networking, computing, and Internet infrastructures. This area includes photonic switching devices, high-throughput optical systems, efficient optical network architectures, data center networking, and computing systems with optical interconnects, optical cross-connects and interconnects, integrated photonics and system on chip, optical routers and switches. In particular, developing optical subsystems, optical processors and novel integrated circuit requires proper balancing of photonic and electronic technologies. Optical infrastructures will leverage the opportunities offered by photonics to answer the emerging needs of the next decades such as the realization of all-optical network and computing elements, the reduction of network power consumption and device footprint by integration.
Papers were considered in the following topic categories:
Optical Switching Technologies
- Optical reconfiguration in computing systems
- All optical flip-flops
- Photonic memory and optical buffers
- All-optical wavelength conversion technologies
- Hybrid wavelength conversion technologies
- Integrated photonic switching technologies
- MEMS switches
- Silicon photonic switching technologies
- Tunable laser technologies
- Nanophotonic switching technologies
- Comparisons with all-optical, electronic, and hybrid technologies
Optical Subsystems
- Optical signal processing
- Optical label swapping
- Optical-code translation and processing
- Optical-header recognition
Optical Systems
- Optics in computing systems
- Optical cross-connects
- Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers
- Optical packet switching routers
- Optical burst switching routers
- Optical time domain multiplexed systems
- Optical CDMA systems
- Optical interconnects
- Optical access systems
Optical Networking
- Rapidly reconfigurable networks
- Optical network control and management
- Next-generation GMPLS, ASON, Photonic MPLS
- Optical label switching networks
- IP-over-optical architectures
- Optical access networks
- High-performance data server and computing networks with optical interconnects
- Energy-Efficiency in networks and cloud computing
- Future Internet Architectures
Special Events
- Special Symposium on Optics in Computing
- Dinner at the Chateau Julien Wine Estate in Monterey, California (a ticketed event)
- Welcome Reception
- Poster Sessions
- Post Deadline Sessions
Workshops
Sunday, July 25
2:00 p.m–6:30 pm (coffee break from 4:00 pm–4:30 pm)
Cypress III
Workshop 1: Energy Efficient Networking and Systems
This workshop will promote discussions on energy efficient networks and systems. New networking architectures, protocols, routing/protection algorithms as well as new systems architectures will be covered in this workshop. The role of optics vs. electronics, and hybrid use of optical and electrical technologies in networks or systems are also of our interest.
June-Koo (Kevin) Rhee, KAIST, S. Korea, Co-Chair
Antonella Bogoni, CNIT, Italy, Co-Chair
Dominique Chiaroni, Alcatel-Lucent, France, Co-Chair
Session 1:
Antonella Bogoni, CNIT, Italy, Moderator
2:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m.
Opening Remarks
Antonella Bogoni, CNIT, Italy
June-Koo (Kevin) Rhee, KAIST, S. Korea
2:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Network Equipment Energy Use and Public Policy, Steven Lanzisera, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA. The talk will cover an estimate of the USA and world wide consumption of network equipment, a campus LAN energy use case study, measuring the energy use of network equipment, and an overview of public policy in this area.Slides. (pdf)
2:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
A Researcher's Perspective to the Energy Issue, Alan Willner, Univ. of Southern California, USA.
For a majority of people, it is usually quite difficult to compare power consumption between electronic and photonic approaches. However, there are still a set of possible questions to pose that can help a researcher in photonics decide the potential energy-savings value of pursuing a given project. This presentation will highlight such questions, as well as use nonlinear optical signal processing as an example. Slides (pdf)
2:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Energy Footprint and Opportunities of ICT Networks, Loukas Paraschis, Cisco, USA. The access network currently dominates energy consumption, which has otherwise been contained benefiting by IC and optical advancements, despite the multi-year > 50% CAGR of traffic.
3:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Energy Efficiency and Green Networking, Mauro Macchi, Juniper, USA. The presentation will analyze the current status of energy consumption in telecom network and provide strategies for energy savings. Different aspects will be evaluated such as innovative network design as well as basic technology choices. Finally an historical track of power consumption reduction will be provided as well insights for future enhancements.
3:15 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Energy Efficiency of Access Nertworks in a Life Cycle Perspective, Stefan Dahlfort , Ericsson, Sweden. This presentation discuss the Life Cycle Assessment of Telecom in general and in particular of mobile and fixed broadband access: how much do the various parts of the broadband network and network operations contribute to the energy consumption. Focusing on fixed broadband, the presentation makes use of a theoretical model of fixed access networks to illustrate potential areas of power savings. Slides (pdf)
3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Steven Lanzisera, Alan Willner, Loukas Paraschis, Mauro Macchi, Stefan Dahlfort
4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
Session 2:
June-Koo (Kevin) Rhee, KAIST, S. Korea, Moderator
4:30 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
Energy Efficiency in Telecom Optical Networks, Pulak Chowdhury, Univ. of California at Davis, USA. Due to the rapid growth of energy consumption in telecom networks, lot of attention is being devoted towards "green" networking solutions. In this presentation, we provide a summary of various research approaches for minimizing the energy consumption in telecom optical networks. The approaches are classified over different network domains. Slides.
4:45 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Hybrid Optoelectronic Router for Optical Packet Switching, Tatsushi Nakahara, NTT, Japan. We describe a hybrid optoelectronic router for optical packet switched networks. The router optimally utilizes both optical and electrical technologies within a new node architecture to reduce power and latency while maintaining functionality to implement various services (multicast, QoS, etc.). A prototype router and its key device and subsystem technologies will be described. Slides (pdf)
5:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Electronic vs All-optical Processing: Flexibility vs Power Consumption, Nikola Alic, CAL-IT2, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA. Routing flexibility and power consumption are conflicting requirements in fiber optic transmission, when relying on the existing and widely adopted signal processing techniques. Power consumption alone, however, clearly calls for a careful joint optimization of both of these prerequisites. In this presentation, we shall give an overview of the recent CALIT2/UCSD Photonics Systems Group demonstrations paving a path for all-optical and electronic processing for the first time properly addressing flexible transport and exceedingly low power consuming ultra high speed transport.
5:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Reduction of the Energy Footprint in Optical Networks, Dimitri Staessens, Univ. of Ghent, Belgium. This presentation will focus on the current footprint of communication networks and provide strategies to reduce this footprint considerably in the coming decade. First an estimation is given for the energy consumption and carbon footprint of ICT worldwide and the share of communication networks in particular. From this current vantage point an estimation is made for future networks. Then some solution approaches and research initiatives to alleviate this footprint will be presented. We present the potential energy savings of FTTH in the access network, and introducing transparency in the core. Slides.
5:30 p.m.–5:45 p.m.
Energy and Spectrally Efficient Elastic Optical Path Network, Masahiko Jinno, NTT, Japan. I will present an energy and spectrally-efficient elastic optical path network where the required minimum spectral resources are adaptively allocated to an optical path according to various network conditions. I will focus on the direct accommodation of wide range of client traffic in the optical domain without any power-consuming electrical aggregation layer. Slides.
5:45 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Optical Packet and Circuit Integrated Network for New Generation Energy Efficient ICT, Takaya Miyazawa, NICT, Japan. This presentation will introduce our R&D on optical packet and circuit integrated network. The R&D is a part of AKARI architecture design project which NICT of Japan has been promoting for approximately 4 years. Firstly, our concept, a node architecture and an experimental setup of optical integrated network will be presented. After that, a potential for energy saving by the optical integration technique will be discussed. Slides.
6:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Pulak Chowdhury, Nikola Alic, Dimitri Staessens, Masahiko Jinno, Takaya Miyazawa
Sunday, July 25
2:00 p.m–6:30 pm (coffee break from 4:00 pm–4:30 pm)
Cypress
Workshop 2: Integrated Photonic Technologies and Systems: Current Status, Future Prospect, and Enabling Applications
This workshop will promote discussions on current status, future prospects, and enabling applications of Integrated Photonic Technologies and Systems. The workshop will highlight recent advancements in the area, both from research and utilization points of view, and also discuss trends in and motivations for future development and commercialization. In order to broaden the discussion and make it interactive, panels will be organized throughout the workshop, which all of the contributors will participate in.
Two major questions will be at the focus of this discussion: how do we make integrated photonics products and what do we intend them for? Accordingly, the workshop is divided in two sessions, the first – to address generic integrated photonics technologies and approaches to commercialization of such via a generic foundry model, and the second – current and future applications of integrated photonics.
It is one intention of the workshop organizers to, maybe in somewhat of a provocative manner, raise the question of what is so unique about photonic integration from a practical component or system design point of view that keeps the technology development alive and well for more than 40 years, while successful commercialization of this technology thus far has been very limited? New and innovative applications enabled by photonic integration, such as optical interconnects, high-capacity communications with advanced modulation formats and biomedical devices for personal healthcare/wellness – all are of great interest from this perspective, as well as new approaches to design and manufacturing of the integrated photonics products, e.g. fabless and foundry modes. The workshop sessions and panel discussions will, hopefully, provide some answers.
Session I: Generic Integrated Photonics Technologies and Foundry Approaches
Valery Tolstikhin, OneChip Photonics, Inc., Canada, Moderator
2:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m.
Introduction to the Workshop, Valery Tolstikhin, OneChip Photonics, Inc., Canada
2:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Silicon / III-V Hybrid Integrated Photonics, John Bowers, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
2:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
A Generic Foundry Approach for InP Photonics, Meint Smit, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2:45 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Towards a Foundry Approach for Silicon Photonics and III-V/Silicon Photonics, Geert Morthier, Univ. of Ghent, Belgium
3:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m.
Circuit Design Approach to Integrated Photonics: A Generic Design Platform for Generic Foundry, Andrea Melloni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
3:15 p.m.–3:30 p.m.
Status of the Silicon Photonics Fabless Ecosystem, Michael Hochberg, Univ.of Washington, USA
3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion
John Bowers, Meint Smit, Geert Mortier, Andrea Melloni, Michael Hochberg
4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
Session II: Current and Future Applications of Integrated Photonics
Takuo Tanemura, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, Moderator
4:30 p.m.–4:45 p.m.
InP Integrated Photonics, Larry Coldren, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
4:45 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Integrated Photonics in Telecom Systems, Fred Kish, Infinera, USA
5:00 p.m.–5:15 p.m.
Integrated Photonics: from Telecom to Biomed, Jian-Jun He, Zhejiang Univ., China
5:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
InP-Based Photonic Integrated Circuits for Transmission and Switching, Toru Segawa, NTT, Japan
5:30 p.m.–5:45 p.m.
Chip-Scale Integrated Photonic Systems, S. J. Ben Yoo, Univ. of California at Davis, USA
5:45 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Supercomputing on an Integrated Photonic-Electronic 'Chip', Jeff Kash, IBM, USA
6:00 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion
Larry Coldren, Fred Kish, Jian-Jun He, Toru Segawa, S.J. Ben Yoo, Jeff Kash
