Workshop: Enabling space division multiplexing technologies

Space division multiplexing (SDM) exploiting spatial diversity to increase transmission capacity has been a hot research topic for photonics society over the past decade. From fiber innovation such as coupled-core fiber to petabit-per-second transmission over a single optical fiber, emerging SDM technologies start to make both academia and industry rethink about device design and system architecture.

In this workshop, we discuss the enabling space division multiplexing technologies of fibers, amplification, devices, transmission and system.

    Organizers

 

Haoshuo Chen Juhao Li Takashi Sasaki
Nokia Bell Labs Peking University Sumitomo

 

    Speakers

 

Nicolas Fontaine Tetsuya Hayashi Takanori Inoue Shen Lei Chenhui Li
Nokia Bell Labs Sumitomo NEC YOFC Zhejiang University

 

Junjie Li Mingjun Li Takuya Oda Li Pei Jiajing Tu
China Telecom Corning Research and Development Corporation Fujikura Beijing Jiaotong University Jinan University

 

Jianxiang Wen        
Shanghai University        

 

 

 

 

    Workshop: Optical X-haul Networks – IEEE INGR optics

As networks continue to grow in scale and performance, they face increasingly complex challenges and must constantly push the boundaries of technology to evolve. The IEEE International Network Generation Roadmap (INGR), a part of the IEEE Future Networks Initiative, was created to develop a 10-year roadmap for wireless networks. Recently, the INGR has been expanded to include optical networks, including x-haul networks such as fronthaul, mid-haul, and backhaul. X-haul networks are a critical component of the next generation mobile networks, forming the fabric of interconnections between radio units, distributed units, and central units.

As the density of cells and the bandwidth offered by these cells increase, future X-haul networks will face increasingly stringent requirements for delay, bandwidth, energy efficiency, latency, synchronization, and deployment flexibility and scalability. To meet these demands, a variety of transport technologies, including dark fiber, WDM, gray optics, and TDM-PON, will be critical.

This workshop will explore the current state, future challenges, and potential solutions of X-haul networks, including optical transceivers, transport, synchronization, PON with CO-DBA/CTI, and other relevant topics.

    Organizers

 

HwanSeok Chung Reza Vaez-Ghaemi Chathu Ranaweera
ETRI Viavi solutions Deakin University

 

    Speakers

 

HwanSeok Chung  Sheng Liu Hirotaka Nakamura Huijun Sha  Hong Seok Shin
 ETRI  China Mobile NTT Viavi Solutions  SK Telecom

 

Mark Watts        
Verizon