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AOE Short Courses

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Two short courses will be offered during AOE 2008 on Thursday, 30 October 2008 from 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Short Courses are an excellent opportunity to learn about new products, cutting-edge technology and vital information at the forefront of the industry.

 Advanced Optical Modulation and 100-Gb/s Transmission

Thursday, 30 October, 3:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Peter J. Winzer, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

Course Description
The course will give an overview of advanced modulation and detection strategies in the context of digital optically-routed networking at high speeds (100 Gb/s) and supporting high transport capacities (many Tb/s).

In a time where proven digital communication concepts from radio-frequency engineering are significantly impacting optical transmission systems, we will highlight important similarities and differences between radio and fiber systems and point at the resulting implications for optical network design. We will review, on an intuitive level, some key concepts of digital communications, such as the exploitation of signal space orthogonality for modulation and multiplexing. These basic concepts will serve as corner stones for the understanding of practically relevant modulation and detection techniques in next-generation 100-Gb/s systems. We will review important candidate modulation and detection schemes for 100-Gb/s transmission systems and discuss recent experiments that highlight the state of the art in 100-Gb/s transmission technologies.

Benefits and Learning Objectives
This course should enable you to:

  • understand the general concepts of digital modulation, detection, and multiplexing
  • appreciate the impairments found in optical networking and understand key differences between radio and optical systems
  • understand the drivers for 100-Gb/s transport systems and the technological options at hand
  • gain a feeling for the current state of high-speed advanced modulation and detection technologies
  • identify problems, benefits, and open research issues in the context of advanced optical modulation and detection

Intended Audience
The course is intended for researchers and technologists at all levels who want to understand modulation and detection options in advanced optically-routed networks and, based on this understanding, be able to assess future 100-Gb/s optical transport methods. Some general prior knowledge of optical transport systems and/or digital communication techniques will be helpful (but not absolutely required) to follow most aspects of this course.

Instructor Biography
Peter J. Winzer received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical/communications engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria in 1996 and 1998, respectively. His academic work, largely supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), was related to the analysis and modeling of space-borne Doppler wind lidar and highly sensitive free-space optical communication systems. In this context, he specialized on advanced digital optical modulation formats and high-sensitivity optical receivers using coherent and direct detection. In 2000 he joined Bell Labs (Holmdel, NJ, USA), focusing on high-bandwidth fiber-optic communication systems, including Raman amplification, optical modulation formats, advanced optical receiver concepts, and digital signal processing techniques for 10 and 40 Gb/s.

Since 2005 he has been working on 100-Gb/s optical transmission, where his team has set several laboratory records and has demonstrated the first field trial of live 100G video traffic over an operational carrier network. Dr. Winzer has widely published in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and edited books, and holds several patents in optical communications, lidar, and data networking. As a member of OSA and IEEE, he is actively involved in organizing conferences and workshops, including ECOC, OFC, CLEO, and LEOS, and serves as an elected member of the LEOS board of governors (BoG).

Organic Light Emitting Devices: High Efficiency Monochromatic and White Emission

Thursday, 30 October, 3:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Mark E. Thompson; Univ. of Southern California, USA

Course Description
Organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) have been studied for over 30 years and are currently being incorporated into commercial displays. The device structure is fairly simple, consisting of a few molecular or polymeric layers, sandwiched between anode and cathode materials. With optimal materials and device architecture choices, the turn-on voltages can be 2-3 V, with efficiencies of monochromatic devices reaching 100% (internal efficiency). White light emitting devices have been reported to have power efficiencies of > 80 lum/W.

In this Short Course I will describe the basic structure of the materials in OLEDs and the device properties. With an understanding of the basic functioning of an OLED, I will move on to talk about the principal loss mechanism that existed in the late 1990’s, which involves a spin statistical problem that limits the efficiency to 25%. The use of a novel set of emitting materials circumvented this problem, increasing the OLED efficiencies for 25% to 100%.

I will discuss the evolution of these dopants, give a detailed picture of their unique photophysical properties and describe how they are used to generate highly efficient monochromatic and white emitting OLEDs.

Benefits and Learning Objectives
This course should enable you to:

  • understand simple and complex OLED designs
  • understand the basic mechanism of thermoluminescence in organic materials
  • understand the basic mechanism of carrier transport in organic materials
  • design efficient monochromatic and white OLEDs
  • predict emission colors form heavy metal phosphors
  • understand the significance of the various performance metrics used for characterizing OLED efficiency and color quality

Intended Audience
The expected audience is a technically trained one that has not had extensive experience working with OLEDs.

Instructor Biography
Dr. Mark E. Thompson is Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science at the University of Southern California. He received his B.S. degree in chemistry in 1980 (U.C. Berkeley) and his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1985 (California Institute of Technology). He spent two years as a S.E.R.C. fellow in the Inorganic Chemistry laboratory at Oxford University. Prof. Thompson took a position in the chemistry department at Princeton University in 1987, as an assistant professor. In 1995 he moved his research team to the University of Southern California, where he is currently a Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department. He currently has over 200 papers in print and over 70 US patents. His research interests involve the optical and optoelectronic properties of molecular materials and devices, particularly organic LEDs and solar cells, as well as nanoscale materials, catalysis and biosensors. He has won a number of awards, including the MRS Medal, given by the Materials Research Society, and the Jan Rachman Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Flat Panel Displays, given by the Society for Information Display.