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Wednesday 3rd November
09:45 – 10:15 II-VI Optical Communications for Satellite Networking: From Free Space Optics to Optics in Space! Speaker: Sanjai Parthasarathi, Chief Marketing Officer World’s hunger for data connectivity is insatiable. COVID has shown us the importance of high speed connectivity to our lives including in critical applications like telehealth. Connecting underserved communities is a UNESCO priority and Satellite networks are a promising tool. This emerging ‘New Space’ market is at an inflection point. We expect New Space to leverage Optical Communications innovations originally developed for terrestrial. The status and evolution of this important emerging market segment within optical communications will be discussed, reviewing trends, sizing opportunities as well as trying separate fact from fiction ! High volume integrated Silicon Photonics for next generation LiDAR and other sensing applications Speaker: Robert Blum, Sr. Director of Marketing and New Business Many next generation sensing applications require the integration of multiple and sometimes dozens of emitters and receivers. This high level of integration makes these applications well suited for silicon photonics, particularly in markets that require the ability to manufacture in high volume. This presentation will discuss progress and challenges in using silicon photonics for coherent FMCW LiDAR applications and review other applications that could potentially benefit from a mature silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers, amplifiers, and receivers. Extending Coherent to the Edge – How andWhy Now? Speaker: Dave Welch, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer The world is on the verge of wide-scale 5G deployment, and enterprises around the globe are moving to cloud applications to increase productivity and lower costs. This is fueling ever-growing demand for next-generation connectivity services with higher capacity, more flexibility, and simpler operations. While existing access networks carry all today’s services, their limitations prevent them frommeeting tomorrow’s capacity and agility requirements. This session describes how point-to-multipoint coherent optical pluggables enable service providers to push coherent to the access while leveraging existing infrastructure (e.g., PON) and deliver higher capacity (40x vs. XGS- PON), better flexibility, and 70+% TCO reduction. 10:20 – 10:50 Intel 10:55 – 11:25 Infinera 11:30 – 12:00 Acacia, now part of Cisco Next steps in coherent interface standardization Speaker: Tom Williams, Director of Marketing Standardization of coherent technology has taken a big step forward at 400G supporting applications in DCI and service provider networks. Looking toward the next generation, there are opportunities to increase speeds and expand the application space to address both shorter and longer reach interfaces using pluggable coherent optics. Meanwhile, silicon photonics is fast becoming the preferred material for high-speed coherent interfaces. The presentation will analyze how these trends are expected to influence next generation networks and investment in coherent technology.
12:05 – 12:35 CW-WDM MSA
A New Specification for Multi-Wavelength Optical Laser Sources for Advanced Integrated Optics Speaker: Chris Cole, Chair, CW-WDM MSA; Advisor, II-VI Incorporated The CW-WDMMSA, dedicated to defining and promoting specifications for multi-wavelength advanced integrated optics, recently announced the release of its first official specification for 8, 16, and 32 wavelength optical sources to support advances in datacentre bandwidth density and energy efficiency, for high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and other emerging applications. Chris Cole, Chair of the MSA, will present details of the new specification and how it creates great opportunities for transceiver and laser suppliers to develop innovative products. Integrated lithium-niobate electro-optic platform, an emerging solution enabling a wide range of high speed and power efficient applications Speaker: Mian Zhang, Ph.D, CEO and Founder Energy consumption in optical networking for ethernet, data centers and 5G is soaring because of the rapidly growing data traffic. The bottleneck is the limited voltage-bandwidth performance of existing integrated photonics solutions, which poses a serious challenge for meeting the tight power consumption requirements from network builders. In this session, HyperLight will talk about their breakthrough solution which is an integrated photonics platform based on thin- film lithium niobate. This scalable photonics platform offers sub-volt electro-optic modulators with a 3-dB bandwidth > 100 GHz as well as monolithically integrated ultralow loss passive optical components. Up to 700 Gb/s IMDD single channel and 1.55 Tb/s coherent transmission have been demonstrated on the platform. This emerging platform would save building and running costs for network operators and enable a wide range of high speed and power efficient applications. 12:40 – 13:10 HyperLight Corporation Photonics integration and digital silicon photonics, Optoelectronic integration trends and applications Speaker: Brad Booth, Chairman and President, COBO and Principal Engineer, Microsoft Is it right to continue the proven path of pluggable modules or time to adopt a new deployment model involving on-board optics or co-packaged optics? The trend of moving optics from the faceplate into the enclosure and onto the main PCB (on-board optics) or onto the switch package (co-packaged optics) represents an attractive opportunity to shorten electrical channels and minimize the number of transitions. COBO established its CPO and OBOWorking Groups, collaborations of end users and technology suppliers uniquely positioned to address guidance topics including trade-offs, enabling technologies, adoption paths, and potential impact on datacenter network architectures. 13:15 – 13:45 Consortium for On-Board Optics
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