ECOC 2012 & CLEO Focus 2012 Technical Programme Committee

Technical Programme Co-Chairs

Harm Dorren Piet Demeester Kobus Kuipers Geert Morthier

COBRA-TU Eindhoven IBBT-Ghent University AMOLF IMEC – Ghent University
The Netherlands Belgium The Netherlands Belgium
(CLEO Focus 2012) (CLEO Focus 2012)
Members:
Subcommittee 1 Fibres, Fibre Devices and Amplifiers Tim Birks, University of Bath, UK
David DiGiovanni, OFS, USA
This area focuses on optical fibres, their design, fabrication and Benjamin Eggleton, University of Sydney, Australia
characterization, the physics of light propagation in optical fibres,
fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers, as well as fibrebased devices for Andrea Galtarossa, Universita’ di Padova, Italy
communication and other applications. Tommy Geisler, OFS Fitel Denmark, Denmark
Dag Roar Hjelme, Invivosense, Norway
Chair: Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Patrice Megret, Masanori Koshiba, Hokkaido Univ., Japan
University of Mons, Belgium Sang-Bae Lee, KIST, Korea (Republic of)
Hans Limberger, EPFL, Switzerland
Hanne Ludvigsen, Aalto University Finland
Pascale Nouchi, Thales, France
Periklis Petropoulos, University of Southampton, UK
Valerio Pruneri, ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Spain
Stojan Radic, University of California San Diego, USA
Christian Schaeffer, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Limin Tong, Zhejiang University, China

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Subcommittee 2 Waveguide and Optoelectronic Devices
This area focuses on the design, fabrication, performance testing,
and reliability of devices and components used to generate, amplify,
detect, switch, or process optical signals for information transport,
routing and interconnecting. Technologies include planar
waveguides, bulk optics, and photonic bandgap structures based on
various material systems.
Chair
Juerg Leuthold,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Members
Liam Barry, Dublin City University, Ireland
Joe Campbell, University of Texas, USA
Fabrizio Di Pasquale, Scuola Superiore S. Anna Pisa, Italy
Guang-Hua Duan, Alcatel Thales III-V Lab, France
Yong-Hee Lee, KAIST, Korea (Republic of)
Christian Lerminiaux, Université de Technologie de Troyes, France
Yi Luo, Tsinghua University, China
Graeme Maxwell, CIP Technologies, UK
Geert Morthier, IMEC - Ghent University, Belgium
Yoshiaki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Bert Offrein, IBM, Switzerland
Min Qiu, Royal University of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Chris Roeloffzen, Univ. Twente, Netherlands
Salvador Sales Maicas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Leo Spiekman, Alphion, USA
Shinji Tsuji, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
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Subcommittee 3 Subsystems and Network Elements for
Optical Networks
This area focuses on the modelling, design, and implementation of
optical, optoelectronic, or electrical subsystems for fixed or adaptive
impairment mitigation, performance monitoring, add-drop
multiplexing, optical switching, and optical packet processing.
Chair
Antonio Teixeira
Universidade de Aveiro Portugal, Portugal
Members
Hercules Avramopoulos, National TU Athens, Greece
Johan Bauwelinck, Ghent Univ., Belgium
John Cartledge, Queen's University Kingston Ontario Canada,
Canada
Philippe Chanclou, France Telecom R&D, ANA, France
Ernesto Ciaramella, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Andrew Ellis, University of Cork UCC, Ireland
Yaohui Jin, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Byoungho Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Mario Martinelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Masataka Nakazawa, University of Tohoku, Japan
Shu Namiki, Nat. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology, Japan
Oded Raz, COBRA-TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
Werner Rosenkranz, University of Kiel, Germany
Seb Savory, University College London, UK
Moshe Tur, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Alan Willner, University of Southern California, USA
Subcommittee 4 Transmission Systems and Network
Elements
This area focuses on the modelling, design, and implementation of
network elements, optical fibre or free-space transmission links,
highlighting system-level applications of subsystems and networking
elements as well as system-level implications of physical
impairments and impairment mitigation techniques. It further covers
applications of quantum information technologies.
Chair:
Huug De Waardt
COBRA-TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
Members
Polina Bayvel, University College London, UK
Sébastien Bigo, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Alberto Bononi, Universita' di Parma, Italy
Rene-Jean Essiambre, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Ekatarina Golovchenko, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Helmut Griesser, ADVA AG Optical Networking, Germany
Michel Joindot, FOTON-ENSSAT/Univ. of Rennes 1/CNRS, France
Yutaka Miyamoto, NTT, Japan
Moshe Nazarathy, Technion, Israel
Roeland Nuijts, Surfnet, Netherlands
Hiroshi Onaka, Fujitsu, Japan
Klaus Petermann, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Christophe Peucheret, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Wen-De Zhong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Subcommittee 5 Backbone and Core Networks
This area focuses on the modelling, design, architecture, and
scaling of optical circuit- and packet-switched backbone and metro-
core networks, including control and management functions and
protocols as well as the application of optical communication
technologies in metrocore networks. It also covers aspects of
successful commercial network deployments and field trials.
Chair:
Mario Pickavet
IBBT-Ghent University, Belgium
Members
Achim Autenrieth, ADVA AG Optical Networking, Germany
Carlo Cavazzoni, Telecom Italia, Italy
Tibor Cinkler, BUTE Budapest, Hungary
Juan Pedro Fernandez-Palacios, TI&D, Spain
Kiyoshi Fukuchi, NEC, Japan
Andreas Gladisch, Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs, Germany
Jean-Pierre Hamaide, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Gabriel Junyent, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain
Andrew Lord, BT, UK
Ken-ichi Sato, University of Nagoya, Japan
Dimitra Simeonidou, Photonic Networks Res. Lab. Colchester, UK
Fernando Solano, Warzaw Univ. of Technology, Poland
Masatoshi Suzuki, KDDI Labs, Japan
Hidenori Taga, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology Center, Greece
Naoya Wada, AIST, Japan
Ben Yoo, University of California at Davis, USA
Subcommittee 6 - Access Networks and LAN CLEO Focus Meeting: Physics in Optical Communications

Focus lies on networking aspects of broadband optical access and The CLEO Focus Meeting invites contributions on new ideas and
local-area networks. It covers FTTx, passive optical networks, radio- developments relating to the physics of phenomena and devices of
over-fibre systems, hybrid wireless/optical solutions, and in-building potential relevance for optical communications. Topics include, but
networks. It also comprises aspects of successful commercial mass are not limited to nanophotonics, nonlinear optics, novel materials,
deployments, field trials, and applications of optical communication novel devices, nonlinear dynamics, quantum optics, etc.
technologies in public, private and enterprise networks and in
optical data-center and computer interconnect networks. Chair:
Kobus Kuipers, AMOLF, The Netherlands
Chair: Geert Morthier, IMEC – Ghent University, Belgium
Eduward Tangdiongga
Eindhoven University Technology, Netherlands Members
Ingo Fischer, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Members Sonia Garcia Blanco, Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands
Camille-Sophie Bres, EPFL, Switzerland Jonathan Knight, University of Bath, UK
Gabriella Cincotti, University Roma Tre, Italy Pascal Kockaert, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Stefan Dahlfort, Ericsson, Sweden Fabrice Raineri, CNRS-LPN, France
Luis Cucala Garcia, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain Marc Sorel, University of Glasgow, UK
Roberto Gaudino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Diederik Wiersma, University of Firenze, Italy
Stéphane Gosselin, Orange Labs, France
Bas Huiszoon, Genexis, Netherlands
Pat Iannone, AT&T, USA
Christina Lim, University of Melbourne, Australia
Chinlon Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Kurt Lösch, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany
Veronique Moeyaert, University of Mons, Belgium
Idelfonso Monroy, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Junichi Nakagawa, Mitsubishi, Japan
Albert Rafel, BT, UK
Alexandros Stavdas, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Peter Vetter, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium
Ping-Kong Alex Wai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong-Kong