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ICTON invited presentations:

Pedro Andres, Universidad de Valencia, Burjassot, Spain
Smooth and stable supercontinuum generation with standard photonic crystal fibers

Hovik Baghdasaryan, State Engineering University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Development of the method of single expression (MSE) for analysis of plane wave oblique incidence on multilayer and modulated structures having complex permittivity and permeability

Georges Boudebs, Université d'Angers, France
Comparison of different nonlinear optical characterization techniques

Noureddine Boudriga, SUPCOM, University 7th November at Carthage, Tunisia
All optical network switching: a new scheme for QoS provision and virtual memory control

Christian-Alexander Bunge, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
All-optical wavelength conversion of D(Q)PSK signals in transparent optical networks

Pavel Cheben, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Emerging planar waveguide devices for WDM and spectroscopy: curved waveguide multiplexers and interferometer arrays

Crina Cojocaru, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrasa, Spain
Broadband second-harmonic parametric scattering in ferroelectric crystals with random domain structure

Armin Ehrhardt, T-Systems, Berlin, Germany
Field trial measurements of PMD distribution along fibre links

Karin Ennser, Swansea University, UK
Applications of burst-mode amplifier

Konstantin Gaikovich, Institute for Physics of Microstructures RAS, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
Inverse problem of scattering for inhomogeneous layered media

Madeleine Glick, Intel Research, Cambridge, UK
Experimental demonstration of FPGA-based optical transmitter implementing real-time DSP

Norbert Hanik, Technische Universität München, Germany
Techniques for electronic mitigation of transmission impairments in high data-rate fiber-optic communication systems

Jürgen Jahns, Fern Universität, Hagen, Germany
Microoptical processing and shaping of ultrashort pulses

Bozena Jaskorzynska, Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden
Active Si-based photonics via heterogeneous integration

Dan Kipler, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Dynamic Circulating-Loop Methods for Transmission Experiments in Optically Transparent Networks

Ivan Kityk, Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, Poland
Acoustically operated optically transparent nanocomposites

Andrey Komarov, Universite d'Angers, Angers, France
Spectra of Solitons in Fiber Lasers

Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Warsaw, Poland
Future Networks - beyond Next Generation Networking

Craig Michie, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
Reach extension of passive optical networks using SOAs.

Konstantinos Moutzouris, Athens Information Technology (AIT), Greece
Ultra-wide band wavelength converters

Rogério Nogueira, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal
Devices for high bit rate optical systems

Yvan Pointurier, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Active monitoring of all-optical networks

Alexei Popov, IZMIRAN, Moscow, Russia
Model problems of Bragg fiber design

Francesco Prudenzano, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Near Infrared Fiber Optic Lasers and Applications

Zvi Rosberg, ICT Centre, Marsfield, Australia
Fractional bandwidth OCS based on the golden ratio

Werner Rosenkranz, University of Kiel, Germany
Signal Processing Algorithms in 100Gb/s Optical Coherent and Non-coherent Receivers with PSK Modulation

Karsten Rottwitt, COM DTU, Lyngby, Denmark
Noise issues in parametric amplifiers

Dan Sadot, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Dispersion compensation of self phase modulation impairment in optical channel using MLSE

François Sanchez, Universite d'Angers, France
Models for passively mode-locked fiber lasers

Yutaka Sasaki, Ibaraki University, Japan
Recent progress in research on fiber devices using special fibers by CO2 laser irradiation technique

Stefano Selleri, Università degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Doped fiber lasers: from telecom to industrial applications

Mark Shtaif, Tel Aviv University, Israel
The changing paradigm of terrestrial long-haul transmission systems

Alexandros Stavdas, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Title to be specified

Luc Thevenaz, EFPL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Achievements in slow & fast light

Giorgio Tosi Beleffi, ISCOM, Rome, Italy
All optical Multiwavelength devices for ultrafast WDM signal processing

Naoya Wada, NICT, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
Optical code processing system, device, and its application

Xuelin Yang, University College, Cork, Ireland
All-optical high-speed pattern recognition system

Kivilcim Yuksel, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Mons, Belgium
Optical layer monitoring in passive optical networks (PONs): a review

ESPC invited presentations:

Srinivasan Anand, KTH, Kista, Sweden
InP-based two dimensional photonic crystals - A material and processing perspective

Kanna Aoki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Coupling of quantum dot light emission with point defect cavity resonances in three dimensional photonic crystals

Mario Armenise, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Modelling of photonic crystals: a comparison among various analysis methods

Ella Bekker, Photon Design, Oxford, UK
Photonic crystal modelling

Matteo Galli, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
K-space spectroscopy of photonic crystal slabs

Martina Gerken, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
Direct observation of photonic modes in photonic crystal slabs

Romuald Houdré, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Characterisation of photonic crystal and nanophotonics devices with Fourier optics

Maria Kafesaki, IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
Metamaterials for microwaves and optics

Martti Kauranen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Local-field and multipole effects in second-harmonic generation from optical metamaterials

Emmanouil Kriezis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Polarization properties of liquid-crystal infiltrated photonic crystal fibers

Andrei Lavrinenko, TU Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Photonic crystal waveguides in artificial opals

Ariel Levenson, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, Marcoussis, France
Title to be specified

Stavros Pissadakis, IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
Bragg gratings in standard and microstructured all-silica fibres inscribed using ultra-fast ultraviolet radiation

Alexandre Pohl, Federal University of Technology, Curitiba, Brazil
Acoustic-induced modulation of photonic crystal fiber Bragg gratings

Sergei Romanov, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
Transmission spectrum transformation in photonic hetero-crystal interfaces

Aleksander Smirnov, Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Guiding properties of metamaterials

Kestutis Staliunas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Terrasa, Spain
Second harmonic generation of narrow beams in subdiffractive photonic crystals

Lucio Vegni, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Design of innovative metamaterial microwave components

Pierre Viktorovitch, Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon, France
2D-2.5D surface operation photonic crystals: slow Bloch modes and applications

Lech Wosinski, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Photonic crystal- and nanowire components on Silicon Platform

WAOR invited presentations:

Slavisa Aleksic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Power consumption issues in future high-performance switches and routers

Javier Aracil, UAM, Madrid, Spain
On local CAC schemes for scalability of high-speed networks

Steinar Bjørnstad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Gløshaugen, Norway
A Hybrid Packet/Time slotted circuit switched scheme (HPTS)

Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Traffic grooming and power level tuning for efficient physical impairment constrained routing

Jaume Comellas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
A comparison of in-fiber and out-of-fiber GMPLS-based control plane configurations: benefits, drawbacks and solutions

Milorad Cvijetic, NEC Corporation of America, Herndon, Virginia, USA
100 G Ethernet Introduction: Technologies and Practical Aspects

Chris Develder, Ghent University, Belgium
Anycast Routing in Grid Optical Networks

George Ellinas, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Multicasting with physical-layer constraints in metropolitan area networks

Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, UK
A Mirroring Technique for SANs in a Metro WDM Ring under Different Traffic Scenarios

Carlo Ferrari, Corecom, Milano, Italy
Chromatic dispersion compensation in a ring resonator wavelength router

Joan Garcia-Haro, Department of Information Technologies and Communications, Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT)
Traffic shaping trends in Optical Packet/Burst Switching Networks

Xavier Hesselbach-Serra, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
A strategy for IP traffic support with QoS in OBS networks

Selwan Ibrahim, Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland
Experimental demonstration of 42.6 Gbit/s Asynchronous Digital Optical Regenerator

Nobuyuki Kataoka, NICT, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
Granularity-flexible optical network using packet-selective ROADM prototype

Juerg Leuthold, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
A transparent network with all-optical grooming between access and metro rings

Joaquim Martins-Filho, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Intelligent and fast IRWA algorithm based on power series and particle swarm optimization

Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada
On the benefits of label conversion in the GMPLS-based transport networks

Reza Nejabati, University of Essex, UK
Novel implementations and test-bed demonstrations of application aware OBS network architectures

Michael O'Mahony, University of Essex, UK
Roadmap on optical transport network technologies

Salvador Sales, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Optimal configuration for burst assembly algorithms parameters in the edge node for video traffic transmissions over OBS networks

Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Essex, UK
Novel implementations and test-bed demonstrations of application aware OBS network architectures

Anna Tzanakaki, Athens Information Technology, Peania, Greece
Title to be specified

Manos Varvarigos, University of Patras, Greece
Routing and Scheduling in Grids

Kyriakos Vlachos, University of Patras, Greece
A virtual one-way signalling protocol for Optical Burst Switching (OBS) networks

Evi Zouganeli, Telenor R&I, Fornebu, Norway
Cost-performance comparison between optical and MPLS-based resilience

RONEXT invited presentations:

Piero Castoldi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
PCE-based wavelength routed optical networks with management-augmented RWA

Rebecca Chandy, Ericsson UK
Network reliability

Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Restoration of multi-cast trees in optical-beared grooming-capable two-layer networks

Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Title to be specified

Ricardo Martínez, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Experimental evaluation of the backup sharing aggressiveness for dynamic shared path protection in GMPLS transparent optical networks

Ridha Rejeb, Institute for Advanced Engineering and Research, Germany
Hardware-Based Control Unit for All-Optical Components

Nina Skorin-Kapov, FER, Zagreb, Croatia
A novel optical supervisory plane model: the application of self-organizing structures

Dimitri Staessens, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
Survivability over multiple GMPLS domains

Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
Guaranteeing high availability to client-server communications

Sofie Verbrugge, Ghent University - IMEC - IBBT, Ledeberg, Belgium
FTTH deployment and its impact on network maintenance and repair costs

Hélio Waldman, Federal University of ABC, Santo André, Brazil
SLA-aware survivability

Lena Wosinska, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Techno-economical evaluation of selected Passive Optical Network architectures

RONEXT-FSO invited presentations:

Roger Green, University of Warwick, UK
Bandwidth extension for optical wireless receiver-amplifiers

Matthew Higgins, University of Warwick, UK
Bandwidth maintenance in indoor optical wireless systems

Harita Joshi, University of Warwick, UK
Multiple carrier optical wireless: considerations about multispectral planning

Mark Leeson, University of Warwick, UK
Photoparametric amplifier frequency converters

Erich Leitgeb, TU Graz, Austria
High reliable optical wireless links for the last mile access

NAON invited presentations:

Vahid Ahmadi, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
Analysis of carrier and photon dynamics effects on the modulation behavior of self assembled quantum dot lasers

Prince Anandarajah, Dublin City University, Ireland
Wavelength tunable lasers in future optical communication systems

Liam Barry, Dublin City University, Ireland
All-optical pulse processing for advanced photonic communication system

Mario Bertolotti, Universita di Roma I 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy
Beam shaping and applications

Dieter Bimberg, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers for wavelength conversion using cross-gain modulation

Svetlana Boriskina, Boston University, USA
Aperiodic photonic structures: theory and applications

Il-Sug Chung, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Broadband subwavelength grating mirror and its application to vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser

Massimo De Vittorio, Universita' del Salento, Lecce, Italy
Design and fabrication of photonic devices based on colloidal nanocrystals

Katrien De Vos, Ghent University, Belgium
Label-free biosensors on silicon-on-insulator optical chips based on microring cavities and surface plasmon interferometry

John Donegan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
A single growth facetless semiconductor laser platform for photonic integration

Antonella D'Orazio, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Effects of gain saturation in InP-photonic band gap active waveguide

Wolfgang Freude, Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Quantenelektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany
Silicon devices for nonlinear optical signal processing

Annamaria Gerardino, CNR-IFN, Rome, Italy
Electrical injection of a photonic crystal nanocavity

Igor Goncharenko, Institute for Command Engineers of the Ministry of Emergencies, Minsk, Belarus
Matrix infrared-visible image converter based on waveguide microring resonators

Hitoshi Kawaguchi, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan
Optical buffer memory based on polarization bistability in VCSELs

Karel Král, Institute of Physics, ASCR, Prague, Czech Republic
Spontaneous current and voltage generation in gated quantum dot structures

Pascal Landais, Dublin City University, Ireland
Passively mode-locked lasers and their applications

Igor Nefedov, Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Espoo, Finland
Wave propagation and attenuation in chains of nanopores

John O'Brien, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Photonic crystal microcavity lasers

Krassimir Panajotov, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Double external-cavity optical feedback and experimental observation of coherence resonance

Mauro Pereira, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Intersubband optics: a microscopic approach

Tomasz Piwoński, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland
Gain and phase dynamics of InAs/GaAs quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers

Jose Pozo, COBRA, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands
InP - based lasers and photonic crystals devices for integrated photonics

Rama Raj, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, Marcoussis, France
InP 2D photonic crystal on SOI hybrid devices

Judy Rorison, University of Bristol, UK
Title to be specified

Igor Sukhoivanov, Salamanca University, Guanajuato, Mexico
Carrier transport in asymmetric multiple quantum well structures

PICAW invited presentations:

Hercules Avramopoulos, NTUA, Athens, Greece
Enabling Tb/s photonic routing: Development of advanced hybrid integrated photonic devices to realize high-speed, all-optical networking

Laurence Cahill, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Optical signal processing using MMI elements

El-Hang Lee, OPERA National Research Center for VLSI Photonics, Incheon, Korea
Micro/nano-scale optical network: a new challenge toward next generation

Phillip Sewell, George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research, University of Nottingham, UK
3D effects in planar optical ASICs

GOWN invited presentations:

Tibor Berceli, University of Economics, Budapest, Hungary
A new equalization method for dispersion effects in optical links

Carlos Bock, University of Essex, UK
Integration of wireless + optics, future trends on access networks

Christos Christopoulos, George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research, University of Nottingham, UK
Channel characterization for wireless propagation in reverberant environments

Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, Dublin City University, Ireland
Hybrid radio over fiber system for generation and distribution of UWB signals

Wen-Piao Lin, Chang Gung University, Tao Yunan, Taiwan
Optical ultra-wideband pulses for multi-channel radio-over-fiber communication systems

Carla Raffaelli, D.E.I.S - University of Bologna, Italy
End-to-end performance in hybrid wireless and optical packet switched scenarios

Xu Wang, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
Recent progresses in OCDMA

ACCESS invited presentations:

Gabriella Cincotti, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Physical layer security: all-optical cryptography in access networks

Konstantinos Kanonakis, Athens Information Technology (AIT), Greece
Finding near optimal scheduling disciplines for next generation QoS-aware GPON networks

Pandelis Kourtessis, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
PON Topologies for Dynamic Optical Access Networks

Klaus-Dieter Langer, Fraunhoffer Institute, Berlin, Germany
Optical wireless communications for broadband access in home area networks

Josep Segarra, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
OLT design approach for resilient extended PON with OBS dynamic bandwidth allocation sharing the OLT optical resources

Antonio Teixeira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Security issues on Optical Networks physical layer

Cedric Ware, TELECOM ParisTech, Paris, France
WDM optical CDMA using a single supercontinuum source

Ian H. White, University of Cambridge, UK
CDMA access networks using low-cost electronic techniques

MARS invited presentations:

Richard Dorward, Ericsson, UK
Title to be specified

Marco Forzati, Acreo AB, Kista, Sweden
Broadband Access and its impact on the economy, a Swedish perspective

Gustav Kalbe, European Commission, Photonics Information Society & Media Directorate General, Bruxelles, European Commission
Title to be specified

Eugene Kozlovski, University of Liverpool, UK
Impact of customer interactivity on service provisioning costs in multi-service optical networks

Leo Spiekman, Alphion, Princeton Junction, USA
Emerging applications of III/V components

Masashi Usami, General Manager, Technology Strategy Department, KDDI Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Strategy for KDDI's NGN

Pawel Wiatr, Comarch, Sweden
Title to be specified

Thierry Zami, Alcatel Lucent, Nozay, France
Title to be specified

MPM invited presentations:

Miguel Andres Bou, Universidad de Valencia, Burjassot, Spain
Microcapillary resonators with submicrometric wall

Trevor Benson, George Green Institute for Electromagnetics Research, University of Nottingham, UK
Numerical simulations of 3D micro-resonators

Romuald Brazis, Semiconductor Physics Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania
Trapping electromagnetic energy in the split-ring-cavity system

André Delâge, Institut des Sciences des Microstructures, Ottawa, Canada
Label-free biological sensors based on silicon ring resonators

John Donegan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Mode manipulation in small microsphere systems

Alfred Driessen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Propagation of short lightpulses in microring resonators

Takahisa Harayama, ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Japan
Propagation of short lightpulses in microring resonators

Jordi Martorell, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
Micro-resonators and whispering gallery modes

Susumu Noda, Kyoto University, Japan
Title to be specified

Alexander I. Nosich, Institute of Radiophysics & Electronics, NAS Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine
Optical Theorem helps understand thresholds of lasing in open microcavities

Reinhold Pregla, Fern Universität, Hagen, Germany
Analysis of optical resonator structures coupled by straight waveguides

Nataliya Sakhnenko, Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkov, Ukraine
Optical coupling of two microcavities with time-varying properties

George A. Stanciu, Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti, Romania
Investigation on photonic-corral-mode quantum ring lasers by laser scanning microscopy

Kerry J. Vahala, California Institute of Technology, USA
Title to be specified

Novel Glasses invited presentations:

Reinhard Caspary, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Erbium-Doped Fluoride Glass Waveguides

Cid de Araújo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Nonlinear properties of new glasses and composites at telecom wavelengths

Claire Duverger Arfuso, Université du Maine, Le Mans, France
Fabrication and spectroscopic properties of glass-based erbium activated micro-nano photonic structures

Animesh Jha, University of Leeds, UK
Rare-earth oxide doped single and multi-cores heavy metal oxide fibres for lasers and amplifiers

Katarzyna Ozga, Technological University of Czestochowa, Poland
Piezooptical materials doped by silver nanoparticles for telecommunications

Severine Philippe, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Polarization dependent gain in Pr3+/Yb3+ doped fluoride fibres

Elena Romanova, Saratov State University, Russia
Non-linear chalcogenide glasses and technologies for development of ultra-fast chip-scale optical devices

Bouchta Sahraoui, Universite d'Angers, France
Azo-azulene derivatives for nonlinear optical applications

Angela Seddon, University of Nottingham, UK
Review of novel glass microstructured fibres: fabrication and performance

František Uherek, International Laser Center, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Non-linear and linear properties characterization of all-optical signal processing devices

Kerstin Wörhoff, MESA+, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Silicon oxynitride based photonics