TRANSNET welcomes ECOC 2022
As per tradition, TRANSNET members will be participating in the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) taking place in the city of Basel this year, from 18 to 22 September 2022.
The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) is Europe’s largest event in the field of optical communications and attracts scientists and researchers from across the world. It not only hosts leading global universities, but also the world’s most influential companies in presenting their astonishing breakthroughs from materials and devices to systems and networks. This year, in its 48th edition, ECOC 2022 will be taking place in Basel, Switzerland, on 18 to 22 September 2022.
ECOC 2022 offers an extensive technical programme including workshops, symposia, presentations, short courses, and poster sessions. The conference also runs along the ECOC exhibition with over 250 exhibitors. Further details on the exhibition can be found here.
One of our external advisory board members, Dr. Christoph GIingener, will be giving a plenary talk entitled, "Never say never again". During the keynote, Dr Glingener will reflect on some of the most groundbreaking technology within the optical network industry that were not always obvious to begin with.
TRANSNET Investigator Dr. Lidia Galdino served as a sub-committee member, advising on SC6 – Optical Transmission Systems. She is one of the organisers behind the workshop titled, “Adaptive Everything! Do Optical Networks Really Need More Flexibility?”, where representatives from industry and academic will be presenting their takes on questions of adaptability and flexibility in future optical networks.
Please find our complete schedule laid out below.
Plenary Talk
Title: Never say never again
Speaker: Dr. Christoph Glingener, ADVA Optical Networking AG
Summary: We work in an optical networking industry driven by pure innovation and built on highly precise science. We are the foundation of today’s modern world. But considering our c reativity and ingenuity, we sometimes dismiss an idea or a technology only for it to become a mainstay. In this keynote, Dr. Christoph Glingener reflects on some of the key technical advances that weren’t always obvious and became some of the industry’s biggest successes with widespread adaptation. If you learn only one thing in this talk, it’s that in optical networking, never say never again.
Date: Monday, 19 September 2022
Time: 11:00 – 11: 30 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Room San Francisco
Workshops
Workshop: Adaptive Everything! Do Optical Networks Really Need More Flexibility? (Session 4 – Reality versus fiction in autonomous networks)
Speaker: Seb Savory
Title: Towards zero margin networking: what is possible and what is desirable?
Date: Sunday, 18 September 2022
Time: 11:20 – 11:30 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Room Singapore
Symposia
Symposium: 8th International Symposium for Optical Interconnect in Data Centres
Speaker: George Zervas
Title: Optical switching and networking for distributed deep learning systems
Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Time: 08:30 – 17:30 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Room Delhi
Presentations
Paper: An Extended Version of the ISRS GN Model in Closed-Form Accounting for Short Span Lengths and Low Losses
Presenter: Henrique Blugia
Abstract: A closed-form formula for the nonlinear interference (NLI) estimation of arbitrary modulation formats, supporting short span lengths and low losses in ultra-wideband optical transmission systems is presented. The formula is tested over 20 THz and accurately estimates the NLI at every point of the fibre span.
Date: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Time: 9:15 – 9:30 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Room Rio
Paper: Optimal and Low Complexity Control of SOA-Based Optical Switching With Particle Swarm Optimisation
Presenter: Hadi Alkharsan
Abstract: We propose a reliable, low-complexity particle swarm optimisation (PSO) approach to control semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based switches. We experimentally demonstrate less than 610 ps off-on switching (settling) time and less than 2.2\% overshoot with 20x lower sampling rate and 8x reduced DAC resolution.
Date: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Time: 15:00 – 15:15 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Room Sydney
Paper: Towards FPGA Implementation of Neural Network-Based Nonlinearity Mitigation Equalizers in Coherent Optical Transmission Systems [Student Paper Finalist]
Presenter: Pedro Jorge Freire de Carvalho Souza
Abstract: For the first time, recurrent and feedforward neural network-based equalizers for nonlinearity compensation are implemented in an FPGA, with a level of complexity comparable to that of a dispersion equalizer. We demonstrate that the NN-based equalizers can outperform a 1-step-per-span DBP.
Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Time: 9:00 – 9: 15 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Room Sydney
Paper: Record 2.29 Tb/s GS-256QAM Transmission Using a Single Receiver [Student Paper Finalist]
Presenter: Benedikt Geiger
Abstract: 8 x 26GBd DP-GS256QAM super-channel with a net data rate of 2.29Tb/s was received after 75km transmission using a single 211-GHz optical receiver. The use of digital pre-distortion and tailored geometric constellation shaping led to an improvement of 1.2bit/4D-sym in the achievable information rate.
Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Time: 14:15 – 14:30 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Room Rio
Paper: 195-nm Multi-Band Amplifier Enabled by Bismuth-Doped Fiber and Discrete Raman Amplification
Presenter: Aleksandr Donodin
Abstract: We report a first-time ultra-wideband transmission through 70-km long fiber enabled by hybrid amplifier based on bismuth-doped fiber and discrete Raman amplification. The experiment features 195- nm 30 GBaud PM-16-QAM signal amplified with 15 dB gain and 6 dB NF.
Date: Thursday, 22 September 2022
Time: 10:45 – 11:00 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Room Samarkand + Osaka
Joint Poster Sessions
Paper: 38 dB Gain E-Band Bismuth-Doped Fiber Amplifier
Presenter: Aleksandr Donodin
Abstract: We experimentally demonstrate a novel single-stage bismuth-doped fiber amplifier with record E-band 38 dB gain and 4.5 dB NF operating from 1384 nm to 1484 nm. The amplifier features 28% power conversion efficiency and 3 dB gain bandwidth of 74.7 nm.
Date: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Time: 17:30 – 19:00 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Foyer 2nd Floor
Paper: Simultaneous Clock and RF Carrier Distribution for Beyond 5G Networks Using Optical Frequency Comb
Presenter: Zichuan Zhou
Abstract: We demonstrate sub-100fs jitter, dispersion-tolerant dissemination of 5-GHz-spaced RF tones up to 45GHz using a filtered optical frequency comb, enabling clock and RF carrier synchronised wireless communication systems with 1.4Gb/s data rate. The impact of seed laser linewidth on RF phase noise is also studied.
Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Time: 17:30 – 19:00 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Foyer 2nd Floor
Paper: Expanding Graph Neural Networks for Ultra-Fast Optical Core Network Throughput Prediction to Large Node
Presenter: Robin Matzner
Abstract: Using maximum achievable throughput as an objective, message passing neural networks (MPNN) are applied to larger optical networks (25-100 nodes), enabling physical properties-aware large-scale topology optimisation in record time, reducing computation time by 5 orders of magnitude, with close to perfect throughput correlation ($\rho=0.986$).
Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Time: 17:30 – 19:00 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Foyer 2nd Floor
Paper: On the Impact of the Optical Phase Conjugation Solution on the Computational Complexity of Neural Network-Based Equalisers
Presenter: Diego Arguello Ron
Abstract: We develop a low complexity complex-valued neural network to compensate the nonlinearity from the transmission of PDM 28 Gbaud 64QAM over 400km of SSMF, by combining midlink optical phase conjugation and pruning.
Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Time: 17:30 – 19:00 (UTC + 02:00)
Location: Foyer 2nd Floor
Please use the link below to view the contributions of TRANSNET members to ECOC 2021.
Please also find a comprehensive list of all TRANSNET conference publications since the conception of our programme.