NEW HOTEL LOCATION: Fairmont Waterfront
 

 

14 - 16
July 2003

 

Fairmont Waterfront

 

Vancouver

British Columbia

CANADA

Polarization Mode Dispersion

 
Scope: 
High bit-rate, long-haul optical transmission systems face a number of challenges, including high-speed transmitters and receivers, optical-signal-to-noise ratio, and chromatic dispersion.  While these challenges have been met with advances in high-speed electronics, distributed Raman amplification, and slope-matched dispersion-compensating fibers, an additional challenge is polarization mode dispersion (PMD), originating from optical birefringence and the random variation of its orientation along the fiber length.  PMD is particularly difficult to manage because environmental changes including temperature and stress cause the fiber PMD to vary stochastically in time.  Researchers have been working on the problem of PMD for over twenty years, and much progress has been achieved in the areas of measurement, statistics, understanding of PMD impairments on systems, manufacture of low PMD fibers, and more recently, PMD compensator design.  However, while improvements in the PMD of optical fibers and optical components have enabled the transmission of ever higher bit-rates, these improvements have been accompanied by requirements of ever more stringent specifications for system PMD. In addition, PMD may often be a limiting factor when upgrading systems based on older installed fiber to higher bit rates. Therefore, PMD remains an issue of utmost importance in the design of optical transmission systems.

The LEOS 2003 Summer Topical on PMD is devoted to all aspects of PMD in optical transmission systems, including (but not limited to) modeling of PMD, statistics and importance sampling, systems impairments of first- and higher-order PMD, optical and electrical compensation techniques, and PMD monitoring and measurement.  The Topical Meeting will provide a forum for experts in the field to meet and present their most recent advances.  In addition, newcomers to the field will be introduced to this very active field of research, while learning about the wide array of research opportunities within the scope of PMD.
 

Committee

 Lynn Nelson, Chair
OFS Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Magnus Karlsson, Co-Chair
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden  
 

Henning Buelow  
Alcatel/Research & Innovation, Stuttgart, GERMANY 
 

Dipak Chowdhury
Corning, Inc., Corning, NJ  USA
 

Yun C. Chung
Korea Adv Institute of Science & Technology, Taejon, KOREA  
 

Nicholas J. Frigo  
AT&T Labs - Research, Middletown, NJ  USA  
 

Andrea Galtarossa  
Universita Delgli Studi Di Padova, Padova, ITALY  
 

Herbert Haunstein
Lucent Technologies, Nuernberg, GERMANY
 

William Kath
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL  USA
 

Antonia Mecozzi
Universita Delgli Studi Di L'Aquila, L'Aquila, ITALY  
 

Curtis Menyuk  
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD  USA

 
 
Sponsored by IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
 
For More Information:
Summer Topicals 2003
IEEE/LEOS
445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855
Phone: 732-562-3899  |   Fax: 732-562-8434
email: leosconferences@ieee.org 
Hotel & Pre-Registration Deadline:  13 June 2003