Invited Speakers
Plenary Speakers

Henning Buelow, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, Germany
Quo vadis, spatial multiplexing?
Abstract: Application areas and motivation of high bit-rate transport over fiber bundle, multi-core fiber, and multimode fiber are revisited. With a focus on mode multiplexing, recent research is reviewed and direction of future research is discussed.

Yun Chung, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology, South Korea
Future Optical Access Networks
Abstract: This paper discusses the most competitive technical solutions for future optical access networks capable of providing >10-Gb/s service to each subscriber.
Invited Speakers
Spectrally Efficient Transmission: A Comparison Between Nyquist-WDM and CO-OFDM approaches,
Gabriella Bosco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
DSP-enabled OFDM superchannel transmission,
S. Chandrasekhar, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Dynamic Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation and Measurement for Telecommunications,
Nicolas Fontaine, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA,
Real-time Coherent Optical OFDM,
Noriaki Kaneda, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
1-Tb/s coherent transceiver,
Roberts Kim, Ciena, Canada
Recent Advances in Signal Processing for Real-time Implementation - 40Gb/s, 100Gb/s and Beyond,
Maxim Kuschnerov, Nokia Seimens Networks, Germany
Performance Monitoring Through Signal Processing in Current and Future Optical Communication Systems,
Alan P. T. Lau, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Real-time OFDM and Nyquist Transmitters,
Juerg Leuthold, KIT University, Germany
Single-carrier Frequency-domain Equalization,
Tadao Nakagawa, NTT Labs, Japan
Sub-banding - a Signal Processing Architecture Improving Real-time Realization of Coherent Optical Receivers,
Moshe Nazarathy, Technion University, Israel
Efficient Training-Based Channel Estimation in Coherent Optical Communication Systems,
Fabio Pittalà, Huawei European Research Center, Germany
500Gb/s PIC Based Coherent Optical Modem,
Jeff Rahn, Infinera, Canada
MIMO Processing for Space-division Multiplexed Transmission,
Sebastian Randel, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Decision-aided Carrier Phase Estimation for Coherent Optical Communication Systems,
Changyuan Yu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Hardware-efficient Carrier Recovery Algorithms for Single-carrier Systems,
Xiang Zhou, ATT, USA
High Performance, Low Overhead CO-OFDM for Next Generation Fiber Transmission Systems,
Qunbi Zhuge, McGill University, Canada