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On behalf of the TOP 2024 co-chairs and our eight-strong technical programme committee, I’d like to welcome all delegates to the third Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics Conference (TOP 2024) to be held in The City of London, Feb 21-22, 2024. In organising the TOP Conference our aim is to continue to bring together our local telecommunications, optics, and photonics community in a compact, face-to-face meeting held in our fantastic global city, to exchange news and ideas in the traditional way, enabling plentiful in-person networking, while hearing about some of the latest, exciting advances in our field. We were delighted with the response to our first two events in 2022/23, and we’re really looking forward to a great kick-off event to 2024 in the UK for our TOP community, following a highly successful ECOC 2023 last October in Glasgow. We are delighted with the shape of the TOP 2024 technical programme which ranges from well-established topic areas in telecommunications, photonics components, data centres and radio access networks, to new frontiers in free-space optics and quantum communications. We encourage you to check out the TOP programme to view the range of plenary, invited, contributed and poster presentations, which include an inspiring mix of industry and academic speakers, from the UK, Europe, Asia, and the USA. Please note, while the mornings are single-session with two 45-minute plenary talks, followed by our now-traditional, interactive, workshop-style panel sessions, the afternoons comprise two parallel technical sessions, reflecting the strong growth of our forum this year. Presentations will be recorded, so that delegates can view the alternate technical session at their leisure after the meeting . We’re thrilled to kick off each day of the conference with two highly topical plenary presentations: on Day 1, from Dr Harald Bock of Infinera, Germany and Dr Ben Puttnam of NICT, Japan, and on Day 2, from Prof Graham Reed of Southampton University and Prof Dominic O’Brien of Oxford University . On Day 1, the panel session will be led by a team from the UK Telecoms Innovation Network (UKTIN) with the latest on their activities, focus areas, an update on the work of the expert panel in optical communications, and opportunity to comment and feed into their work. On Day 2, the expert panel session will be led by Dr Jose Pozo, CTO of Optica, who will focus the discussion on future opportunities for photonic integration in the UK, asking the question “Could the UK stand up an industrial-scale semiconductor fab for future optical and quantum networks?”. In between sessions, apart from great-quality refreshments and personal networking, there will be opportunities to view the poster presentations, previews of which are available online, and to visit our expanded table-top exhibition, details also available online.
General Information
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Timetable
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Abstracts
8 - 13
Poster Session Abstracts
14 - 17
Speaker Biographies
18 - 23
Exhibitors
24 - 25
Sponsors and Partners
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We look forward to offering you a warm welcome to London for what we anticipate will be a great start to 2024. See you there.
Wladek (on behalf of the TOP TPC 2025)
James Regan, Oriole Networks
Fotini Karinou, Microsoft Research
Wladek Forysiak Bristol University
Andrew Lord BT
TOP Conference 2024 is organised by Nexus Media Events Ltd Suite 3, Building 30, Churchill Square, Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent ME19 4YU United Kingdom t: +44 (0) 1732 752 125
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