Attend APOC 2008

Attend Asia-Pacific Optical Communications (APOC), one of the world’s major conferences in optical communications. Your participation is important in this international forum.

Register by 13 October and save $100 over onsite prices

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The symposium encompasses:
Over 625 invited and contributed papers, Plenary Session, Industry Forum, workshops, courses, Welcome Reception, and Banquet + Tour.
Presentation topics include:

Passive Components and Fiber-Based Devices Optoelectronic Materials and Devices Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems Network Architectures, Management, and Applications

Plan ahead for the AOE/APOC Joint Symposium on Broadband Access

Don't miss the SPIE APOC Plenary Session
Monday 27 October, 8:30 to 11:45 am

Opening Ceremony
8:30 to 9:15 am

Nanophotonic Devices
9:15 to 9:45 am

Dieter Bimberg Technical Univ. of Berlin (Germany) Dieter Bimberg research interests include the growth and physics of nanostructures and nanophotonic devices, ultrahigh speed photonic devices for the future Terabus, single photon emitters for quantum cryptography and ultimate nanomemories based on quantum dots.

Photonic Challenges Toward Future Broad Band Society
9:45 to 10:15 am

Yoshio Itaya NTT Communications (Japan) Yoshio Itaya is Executive Director of the NTT Science and Core Technology Laboratory Group, and is responsible for directing NTT’s leading edge technology and advanced research.

Technologies for a Renaissance in Long-Distance Optical Communications
10:45 to 11:15 am

Robert W. Tkach Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Crawford Hill (USA) Robert W. Tkach is Director of the Transmission Systems Research department at Bell Laboratories. His research has involved dispersion management, optical amplification, optical networking, and high-speed DWDM transmission systems.

Challenges of Optical Broadband Network
11:15 to 11:45 am

Wu Hequan Vice-Director of Advisory Committee for State Informatization of China (China) Hequan Wu is also Vice-Director of an Executive Council of China Institute of Communications (CIC) and Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), respectively. He also takes on Director of Experts Committee of China’s Next Generation Internet (CNGI) project. He was a senior member of IEEE.

Please join us in Hangzhou for APOC 2008!

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