Driven by the ever-increasing need for more and cost-effective network capacity, a broad research community that spans different technical fields is actively engaged in finding the optimal cost/performance trade-offs for the future deployment of high-performance optical communication systems. A key challenge in this pursuit is exploring the complementary roles of electronic and optical techniques for the mitigation of a wide variety of channel-degrading effects.
To achieve this over-arching goal for different types of optical communication systems, different research communities are collaborating, such as communication theory, optical transmission, integrated photonics, mathematical modeling and control algorithm, high-speed circuitry, advanced optical and electronic signal processing, network architecture and economic analysis. This multi-disciplinary group has already produced impressive research results for potentially practical solutions.
This topic will concentrate on different cost-effective mitigation approaches for channel degrading effects in optical communication systems of varying types and data rates. Special emphasis will be placed on the trade-offs in cost vs. performance through either electronic or optical approaches, or preferably, both. Topics will include:
- Electronic versus optical compensation methods
- Integrated photonic solutions
- Performance monitoring to facilitate mitigation
- All-optical signal processing and regeneration
- Effective control algorithms
- Schemes for multiple channels vs. single channel
- Powerful silicon approaches
- Robust data coding and modulation formats
- Coherent vs. non-coherent channels
- Dynamic behavior and challenges for different network architectures
- Cost/performance trade-offs
Best Student Paper Award
The
Ciena Best Student Paper Award, supported by Ciena Corp., has been set up to encourage the research and submission from our graduate students within the topic of Mitigating Channel Degrading Effects.
The Committee members will select the winner from the Contributed submissions. To be considered for the Ciena Best Student Paper Award, the first author of the paper MUST be a graduate student (no member requirement) and they will need to register and present the work at the conference.
The award will be announced sometime during the meeting with a certificate and a check of $500 USD from CIENA.
