COTA Plenary and Invited Speakers

Plenary Speaker

To Be Announced, Amnon Yariv; Caltech, USA

Invited Speakers

High Resolution Optical Waveform Analysis, Peter Andrekson; Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden.

Performance of Synchronous or Nonsynchronous Receivers Using Atmospheric Compensation Techniques, Aniceto Belmonte^1,2, Joseph M. Kahn²; ¹Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain, ²Stanford Univ., USA.

Coherent Communication in Optical Free-Space and Fiber Networks, Vincent Chan; Lab for Information and Decision Systems, MIT, USA.

In vivo Three-Dimensional Optical Coherence Tomography using Fourier Domain Mode-Locked Laser, Yu Chen, Univ. of Maryland, USA

A High Dynamic Range Coherent Optical RF Digital Receiver, Thomas Clark, Michael Dennis; Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA.

Beyond 100-Gb/s Optical Transmission Based on Coded Modulation and Coherent Detection, Ivan B. Djordjevic; Univ. of Arizona, USA.

Optical Waveform Generation for Coherent High-Resolution Imaging, Kevin W. Holman; MIT Lincoln Lab, USA.

Digital Compensation of Linear and Nonlinear Impairments in Coherent Optical Receivers, Joseph Kahn, Ezra Ip, Alan P. T. Lao, Daniel J. Barros; Stanford Univ., USA.

Laser and Lidar Technology Development for Highly Accurate Vertical Profiles of Vector Wind Velocity from Earth Orbit, Michael J. Kavaya; NASA, USA.

Digital Holography of Total Internal Reflection, M. K. Kim, W. M. Ash; Univ. of South Florida, USA.

Chip-Scale Frequency Combs, Tobias J. Kippenberg; Max Planck Inst. of Quantum Optics, Germany.

Digital Self-Coherent Detection and Mitigation of Transmission Impairments, Xiang Liu; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

Long Range ID Using Sub-Aperture Array Based Imaging, Paul McManamon; AFRL, USA.

Applications of Highly Coherent Femtosecond Fiber Lasers, Nathan R. Newbury; NIST, USA.

Electro Optic Modulators and Modulation for Enhanced LIGO and Beyond, Volker Quetschke; Univ. of Florida, USA.

40 Gb/s Coherent WDM Modems, Kim Roberts; Nortel Networks, Canada.

Multi-Carrier or Single-Carrier Transmission: An Optical Debate, William Shieh; Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia.

Digital Coherent Communication Algorithms and Architectures, Isaac Shpantzer; CeLight Inc., USA.

Guiding Laser Thermal Therapy with Optical Frequency Domain Imaging, Ben Vakoc; Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Univ., USA.

Ultrastable Laser for an Optical Frequency Atomic Clock, Lijun Wang; Max-Planck Inst. of Optics, Information and Photonics, Germany.

Pulse Shaping and Control of Optical and RF Phase, Andrew Weiner; Purdue Univ., USA.

CARS Microscopy, Sunney Xie; Harvard Univ., USA.