Subject Groups

Nonlinear Optics in Communications

30 June, 2004

Franklin Lecture Theatre, Insitute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London

A half day meeting, starting at 1.00 pm, organised by the ITEC group and co-sponsored by the QE group. Attendance at the meeting was free.

Invited Speakers:

• Jonathan Knight, University of Bath: Photonic Crystal Fibres
• Alistair Poustie, Centre for Integrated Photonics: All Optical Switching (with a review of CIP)

The main aim of this meeting is to establish a forum whereby academics and industrial researchers working in the field can meet to discuss their research in a relatively informal and friendly setting. Currently there is no local UK forum for the exchange of ideas and researchers have to go overseas to international conferences to present their work to other UK researchers. Hence we feel that there is a need for an annual workshop in this area and researchers are encouraged to present their latest work in the following topic areas:

• Nonlinear optical transmission
• Optical regeneration
• Optical switching
• Novel materials and fibres
• Optical Sources

In particular we would like to particularly encourage young researchers (post-docs and PhD students) to attend as they will gain valuable experience in presenting their research as well as the opportunity to discuss their work with future employers.

Programme

Optical switching and processing

1300: Invited talk: All-Optical Switching (with a review of CIP), Alistair Poustie, Centre for Integrated Photonics.

1330: Ultrafast all-optical switching of a hybrid-integrated Mach-Zehnder switch at 10GHz repetition rate, C K Yow, Y J Chai, R McDougall, R V Penty, I H White, Cambridge University.

1350: High-speed optical signal processing systems based on the switching of broadband frequency-chirped pulses, P J Almeida, P Petropoulos, M Ibsen, and D J Richardson, ORC, University of Southampton.

1410: Optical Waveform Measurement Using a Waveguide Quasi-Phase-Matched Sum-Frequency-Generation Device, J Prawiharjo, K Gallo, B C Thomsen, N G R Broderick, D J Richardson, ORC, University of Southampton.

1430: Theoretical optimisation of hybrid-integrated twin-contact SOA for enhanced all-optical routing, E Moll, Y Chai, K Williams, I H White and R V Penty, Cambridge University.

Transmission Systems

1450: Non-Gaussian statistics of optical solitons, I Nasieva, S A Derevyanko and S K Turitsyn, Aston University.

1510: 5 x 10Gb/s WDM Transmission System Performance using Different Numbers of Ones and Zeros in PRBS Data, M Nahas, R Ibbotson and K J Blow, Aston University.

Photonic Crystal Fibres

1530:Invited talk: Photonic Crystal Fibres, J C Knight, University of Bath.

1550: Record high nonlinearity in a bismuth-oxide-based glass holey fibre, S Asimakis, P Petropoulos, H Ebendorff-Heidepriem, R C Moore, K Frampton, T M Monro, D J Richardson, ORC, University of Southampton.

1610: Spectroscopy of solitons in photonic crystal fibres, D V Skryabin, F Biancalana, A Yulin, F Luan, J C Knight, P St J Russell, University of Bath.

System and Device Modelling

1630: Computational modelling for long haul transmission system design, Gareth L Jones, Marconi.

1650: 0.8 bit/s/Hz WDM RZ-DPSK Transmission with Carrier Reshaping and MUX-DEMUX Filtering, Ranjeet S Bhamber, Sergei K Turitsyn, Vladimir Mezentsev, Aston University.

1710: Polarization Modelling with Pre-Computed M(omega) Matrices, C Bramiotis and M Eberhard, Aston University.

1730: High precision modelling of Erbium-doped fibre amplifiers, S N Muhyaldin and M Eberhard, Aston University.

Organisers:

Keith Blow, Aston University
Neil Broderick, University of Southampton

Location:
Franklin Lecture Theatre
Institute of Physics
76 Portland Place
London W1B 1NT

Date:
30 June 2004

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