EOA Seminar Archive Lists

Abstract: After 40 years of development, optical fiber communication has moved from laboratory R&D to wide commercial applications. The technology innovations in recent years, including fiber amplifiers and WDM systems, provided a solid foundation for this industry. However, the economic bubble at the turn of the century brought huge damage to the industry of communication equipment. Optical communication is going through a bottom this year and will have modest recovery next year. In the long term, optical communication will see rapid growth again to meet the demand of fast growing data traffic.

Speaker Bio: Yan Sun is CTO and VP of Engineering at Onetta, Inc. Before co-founding Onetta in 2000, Dr. Yan Sun worked at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, as a senior manager. He and his colleagues pioneered multiple fronts in the area of WDM optical communications, including ultra wide band optical amplifiers, long haul transmission at terabits levels, and DWDM system transmission with semiconductor optical amplifiers. Dr. Sun was the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Bell Labs President Gold Award from Lucent Technologies and the Innovator of the Year Trophy in Paris, France. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications and presentations. Dr. Sun is a senior member of IEEE and a member of OSA, and is a Guest Professor at Tsinghua Univeristy and Southeast Jiaotong University.

Ocotober/2002 EOA Ocotober Seminar Announcement

Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 10/12/02

Title: Laser Driven Processing for Rapid NanoMaterials Synthesis and PLC chip Fabrication

Speaker: Dr. Xiangxin Bi

Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member , $5 for student

Abstract:Is the Intelligent Broadband Optical Network is a hype or a progressive reality in the business of building the next-generation optical network? This presentation is to address the direction, requirements and challenges of developing an "efficient optical network infrastructure" from a practitioner's point of view. The speaker will share with the audience about his testimony of critical success factors when building an optical metropolitan service in this very stormy industry. The areas such as cost, integration issues and the optical network operation and management sub-systems will be covered.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Xiangxin Bi has degrees of BS in semiconductor physics, MS in optical physics and Ph. D. in solid-state physics. He has extensive experience in nanoscale materials synthesis, characterization and application development. He studied nanoscale materials applications in post doctorate research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the International Center for Materials Research (ICMR), USA. He is the inventor of world first commercial scale nanoscale powder production technology based on a laser driven process (NPM) and the inventor of PLC chip fabrication using Laser Reactive Deposition (LRD Processing). These two technologies are currenly being employed by two VC funded companies including NanoGram Devices and NeoPhotonics Corporation, in which Dr. Bi is a co-founder. Since the founding of the company in 1996, he has taken on the roles of Vice Presentdent, Research, Chief Scientist and Technical Strategy at the companies.

September/2002 EOA September Seminar Announcement

Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 9/14/02

Title: Photonics & Telecom: the Tide, the Cloud

Speaker: Xin Huang, Principle Analyst, Point East Research LLC

Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member , $5 for student

Abstract:This presentation is to address the dynamics inside photonics & telecom space from the Venture Capitalist point of view.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Xin is currently the Principal Analyst at Point East Research LLC, where he performs technical and strategic consulting for several leading VC firms including Pequot Capital, Fidelity Ventures, Worldview Technology Partners, JAFCO Ventures, Siemens Ventures Capital, Focused Ventures, Technology Venture Partners, St Paul Ventures and others. For the VC community, Xin provides technical validation and due diligence for emerging technologies in the optical and networking markets. Prior to joining PointEast Research, Xin worked as a Senior Analyst with Firsthand Capital Management, where he was responsible for researching and analyzing the competitive landscape of the optical networking industry. Xin conducted comprehensive due diligence in optical systems and component companies. His insight in the networking space and in-depth technical knowledge is highly regarded by many sell-side analysts and hedge fund analysts in the industry. Prior to joining Firsthand, Xin worked in various capacities within the communications industry, including entrepreneur, consultant, engineer and researcher. As a network & system consultant, he worked for INS (International Network Services Inc), Hewlett-Packard and Cisco etc. Earlier in his career, Xin worked as an optical system engineer at BNR and as a researcher in TRIO's Lightwave Communications Research Laboratory in Canada. Xin holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering (summa cum laude) and a Master of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He was also the recipient of two IEEE awards in his technical career. He is also the co-chairman of Smart Capital Committee of NCVCA (Northern California Venture Capital Association).

August/2002 EOA August Seminar Announcement

Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 8/11/02

Title: Challenges and Opportunities of The Evolving Intelligent Optical Network

Speaker: Pierre Lin, VP of Network Architecture, Yipes Communications, Inc.

Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member , $5 for student

Abstract: Is the Intelligent Broadband Optical Network is a hype or a progressive reality in the business of building the next-generation optical network? This presentation is to address the direction, requirements and challenges of developing an "efficient optical network infrastructure" from a practitioner's point of view. The speaker will share with the audience about his testimony of critical success factors when building an optical metropolitan service in this very stormy industry. The areas such as cost, integration issues and the optical network operation and management sub-systems will be covered.

Speaker Bio: With over 14 years of proven records in Telecommunication and Systems Integration industries, Pierre Lin is the current Vice President of Network Architecture for Yipes Communications, the US-based leading, and the first, Metro Optical carrier. Before joining Yipes to direct its “architecture direction” and “operation activities”, Pierre was the Chief Engineer and the head of Technology Integration Center of Verizon network integration business. His experience ranges from new products development, distributed NMS/OSS, switch architecture design with Nortel and Siemens AG, to voice/video/data integration, Broadband IP network architecture, Wave (xWDM) service implementation, etc. for Sprint International and Bell Atlantic (a.k.a. Verizon). Besides various professional awards, at Verizon, Pierre was recognized as one the most valuable technical executives for 5 consecutive years in excelling its network integration practice and Broadband IP professional service. During his tenure in Sprint and Verizon, Pierre was instrumental for over two dozens of multi millions dollars win.

Pierre received B.S. and M.S. in E.E. and Computer Science from MIT; also he completed a post-master Management Science Fellowship program in Germany. In addition, Pierre has been active in network research community and standards forum, such as Internet-2, IEEE, IETF, MEF, etc. For instance, he chaired the IEEE P1520 QoS API work-group in late 90’s.
Besides enhancing YIPES’ technology and service framework to maintain its competitiveness, Pierre has been invited as an Executive Advisor for the companies such as Extreme, Juniper, Riverstone, (previously) Nortel, etc.
When Pierre is not busy in designing network or validating technologies, he would like to spend time in painting, horse riding, traveling and good dinning.

July/2002 EOA July Seminar Announcement

Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 7/11/02

Title: Optical Passive Components and Markets

Speaker: Dr. W. Michael Xin, Field Application Engineering Director at Oplink Communications, Inc.

Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member , $5 for student

Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Xin will present the optical passive components for telecommunication applications. He will discuss the component impact on networks in terms of manufacturability, performance trade offs and market trends. He will also present Gigabit Ethernet long haul transmission as one of new potential applications.

Speaker Bio: W. Michael Xin is currently a Field Application Engineering Director at Oplink Communications, Inc. He joined Oplink two years ago as a Corporate Marketing Director responsible for the company’s marketing communication activities. Prior to Oplink, he was with Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) as a Research Scientist. He was responsible for the MONET New Jersey testbed as well as the Washington DC network. He was the winner of Bellcore’s CEO award for the MONET project. He was the first one to conduct a field trail of long haul transmission of Gigabit Ethernet for more than 1000 km using the Washington DC network. He was also instrumental for the optical packet switching networks program of DARPA’s Next Generation Internet project at Telcordia. Michael graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University with a B.S. degree in Applied Physics. He received a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in Applied Physics at the Center for Telecommunications Research. After obtaining his Ph.D., he worked as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University. His research interests include component applications, system integration and network architecture. He was selected as a NSF engineering education scholar by the National Science Foundation in 1995.

June/2002 EOA June Seminar Announcement

Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 6/08/02

Title: Metro Optical Ethernet Market

Speaker: Osa Mok, VP of Marketing, Pine Photonics

Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member , $5 for student

Abstract: Mr. Mok will examine the current state of the fiber optics industry and identify drivers and key enabling optical technologies for the next industry upturn. He will explain why the Metro market and Optical Ethernet will drive the industry growth during the next few years. He will further examine the various transponder and transceiver products that will likely be deployed in the Metro market. A detailed discussion of the next-generation 10G transceiver products will also be presented.

Speaker Bio:

Mr. Osa C.S. Mok, Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing, Pine Photonics Communications, Fremont, CA. Mr. Mok is an international marketing executive in the Telecommunications Industry with twenty years of experience in Fortune 500 as well as in start-up companies. From 1977 to 1983, he held several management positions at Intel and Xerox responsible for the financial and operational management of the companies?telecommunication groups. During 1984 he joined Hambrecht and Quist (now Chase H&Q) as a technology analyst responsible for investment research on telecommunication venture companies. From 1985 to 1993, he was Director, International Marketing for GTE (now Verizon), responsible for sales, marketing and program management of GTE抯 satellite business in international markets. He successfully developed several key markets and established a $25 million per year business for GTE. He won outstanding sales achievement award and received several President抯 quality awards for distinguished management achievements. From 1993 to 1999, he worked as an independent marketing consultant, assisting several Fortune 500 and start-up companies in the U.S. and in Asia to develop telecommunications business in international markets. Mr. Mok co-founded Pine Photonics in April 2000, and is responsible for sales, marketing and product strategy for Pine. He successfully brought several optical transmission products to market and is currently generating significant revenue for the Company. He has extensive background in strategic sales, product marketing, business alliance, joint venture, equity financing, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Mok received a MBA degree from University of Santa Clara, and a M.S. from Texas A&M University.

May/2002 EOA May Seminar Announcement

Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 5/11/02

Title: Korean Photonics Industry

Speaker: Chuck Kim, Presidetn of Opendream

Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member , $5 for student

Abstract:I will briefly review Korean Photonics History and describe on the Business Interface of Government vs Optic companies. The role of Opendream in Korean Photonics Industry will be stated, with its consortium mission and profile. I will also present on Korean Photonics projection at phase 2 up to 2007, the Alignment and Synergy between PSC and Korean Photonics Industry.

Speaker Bio:

Chuck Kim is currently President of Opendream

– Business : Representative & Consulting business for Semiconductor & Fiber Optics – International Business Planning : Consulting for Korean and US market – M & A : $20mil M&A under processing with Multi-Chip mounting with INTEL. – Product Development for In-situ tool : Under processing for Fiber Optic vendor in US – Consulting team management : 4 members ( Lawyer, CPA, Treasurer, HR specialist ) – Financing network : US, Taiwan, Singapore including Korean capitalist. – President of CNH Mobile, located in Sunnyvale, CA. Apr 1994 – Dec.1999 GM ( General Manager) of Samsung at KLA-Tencor – Organization : 40 persons ( 3 sales, 10 Applications, 25 Services, 2 Administrators ) – Revenue : $100mil dollars per year. – Product : All KLA-Tencor products –KLA4th ranked equipment company out of 500 vendors at Semiconductor equipment.

April/2002 EOA April seminar Announcement

Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 4/13/02

Title: Optoelectronic Packaging Explorations Into the Low-Cost /High-performance Zone

Speaker: Stanford Crane, CTO, Silicon Bandwidth

Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member

Abstract:

Are We All Insane?

Optoelectronic Packaging Explorations Into the Low-Cost/High-performance Zone

The optical industry depends upon innovation to drive the next generation of systems for two reasons: they need to operate at increased performance, but more importantly they must do so at radically lower prices. Additionally, the support infrastructures (i.e., the electronics systems) are also under significant pressure to innovate. The goals are very ambitious to the optoelectronics industry. Technical change is often slow, while expectations accelerate every day. Has everyone gone insane? Insanity is continuing the same old thing and expecting different results.

We shall explore the modern versions of the 14-pin butterfly, TO can and Mini DIL component products, electrical subsystems, our Asian partners and finally standards which may have to change in order to achieve the stated goals.

Speaker Bio:

Stanford has been awarded more than 100 patents in the fields of semiconductor technology, interconnect technology, advanced systems architecture, robotics, printed circuit board technology and substrate technology. He is widely regarded as a fiber-optics industry pioneer, and is the co-author of a number of scientific papers concerned with issues of electrical performance in advanced interconnect designs. Stanford has been a leader in producing bandwidth enhancing technologies at break-through price points.

Stanford’s designs for high I/O connectors, among them the Compass™ and its related pluggable technologies, the CGA and WGA, have set new standards within the industry for both performance and cost. He has won numerous achievement awards from groups as diverse as The International Design Yearbook, ID Magazine, Comdex, CeBit and PC Expo. Several of his product designs have been exhibited in museums here and abroad for the melding of art and technology.

A Virginia Military Institute EE, his 25-year-plus career includes senior posts at both AMP, Inc. and Molex, and has worked on strategic product development with customers, including: Xerox, HP, AT&T, Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin and General Motors. Stanford has founded three companies and developed numerous defense related products and technologies. He has personally designed and licensed products to 3M, Litton and LG.

Stanford leads a multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists and designers at SBI who are focused on the most critical performance and cost related needs in today’s technology space.

March/2002 EOA March seminar Announcement

Abstract:

In this presentation, we will review the optical amplifiers development and discuss new trends in amplifier technologies. Focus will be given to EDFA and Raman OA. New advances in related component innovations will also be discussed.

Speaker Bio:

Shou-Jong Sheih, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer/Founder, IOA Corporation

Dr. Sheih is a pioneer in the design and development of high-power wide-band optical amplifiers for both long haul and metro applications. Prior to founding IOA Corporation, Dr. Sheih served as Principal Engineer at ONI Systems where he led the next-generation optical amplifier design efforts. As a key member of the Advanced WDM (AWDM) group at Lucent Technologies, he created the WaveStar 800G L-band EDFA. As a project lead at Corning, he was responsible for the first commercial wide-band WaveStar-class EDFA. Dr. Sheih holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

February/2002 EOA February seminar Announcement

Title: "Tunable Lasers Enabling the Next Generation Optical Networks"

Speaker: Rang-Chen Yu, Cinta Networks Inc.

Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 2/9/02

Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member

Abstract: With the explosive internet traffic growth, the telecommunication infrastructures around the globe are increasingly dependant on high capacity, intelligent optical networks. For the last few years, carriers have been deploying DWDM transport equipment en mass, in reaction to the escalating bandwidth demand. With current telecommunication capital spending slow down, carriers are more focused on driving maximum operational efficiency and only deploying equipments that can offer substantial differentiated service to generate revenue with attractive return-on-investment (ROI). Despite over all slow down, optical technologies promise to drive better economics are continuing to advance at a healthy pace. Tunable lasers are one such example as one of the key enablers for a more efficient and intelligent next generation optical networks. In this talk, a broad range of tunable laser technologies, their pros and cons, and respective vendors are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the applicability of technology to system applications, and system design considerations. In addition, complimentary tunable optical component technologies, such as tunable filter, re-configurable OADM, etc. will also be discussed. Several novel wavelength agile optical networking systems based on tunable lasers will be used as examples for discussing tunable laser applications. Finally, future development of tunable laser, standardization, and associated dynamic optical technologies will be summarized.

Speaker's Biography: Rang-Chen Yu, currently Director of Optical Engineering at Cinta Networks Inc., responsible for optical system and optical hardware engineering for a tunable laser based optical core switching and transport networking system platform. He is the founder of the OIF (Optical Internetworking Forum) Tunable Laser User Group, and is instrumental in driving the standarzation of emerging tunable laser products. Prior to Cinta, he was Product Engineering Manager at Bandwidth9, a start-up company developing novel tunable laser products; Before BW9, he held senior engineering and management positions at SDL (now part of JDSU) leading high speed transmission product development. Before SDL, He was a Member of Technical Staff at Conductus leading R&D work on 10 Gbps optical transmission and cross-connects. he currently holds 5 patents in high speed laser, tunable laser, laser controls, packaging, OADM subsystems. Rang-Chen got his Ph. D. in Solid State Phycics at University of Pennsylvania, and B. S. in Phycics from Peking University. He also conducted research work at Princeton University and U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

January/2002 EOA January seminar Announcement

Title: "Dynamic Power Equalization of Optical Networking"
Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 01/12/02
Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Abstract: Power or gain equalization in optical networking is much needed to optimize signal-to-noise ratio and thus to maximize the transmission distance. Modern optical networking utilizes optical amplifiers such as Er-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) to replace the Optical-Electrical-Optical regenerations (O-E-O) for long haul transmission. The next generation networking will need to be dynamic and reconfigurable for cost and performance advantages over the current generation. Therefore, dynamic power equalization will play
an important role. However, the gain spectra of EDFAs are often uneven at different gain conditions. This unbalanced power distribution degrades the signal-to-noise ratio and hence limits the span without O-E-O. This
presentation will review various approaches and technologies for dynamic power balancing and gain equalization, and compare their advantages and disadvantages.

Speaker's Biography: Bo Lu is a Sr. Product Manager at CoAdna Photonics, Inc.(www.CoAdna.com). Before joining CoAdna, Bo spent more than five years with SDLI/JDSU in the areas of visible lasers, pump lasers, EDFAs and Raman pump modules. Bo has authored and co-authored more than 40 papers and given many presentations in various conferences. Bo earned his Ph.D. from the Center of High Technology Materials (CHTM) of University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and his Master of Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

December/2001 EOA November seminar Announcement

Title: Inteligent optical networks state of the affairs

Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 12/8/01

Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member

Abstract: Minimizing carriers' capital expenditure and matching their revenue with spending rely heavily on the architectures of intelligent optical networks. This presentation first reviews the fundamental needs and applications, including network protection and restoration, for intelligent optical networks. Traditional architectures are then detailed concerning their pros and cons. We introduce a new system that is in general availability status with architecture that has long lasting and fundamental cost and funtional advantages over the traditional approaches. These advantages are achieved by integrating DWDM transport and wavelength switching in a single platform. It also provides the most linear network growth ability, i.e., one wavelength at a time, both on the transport and wavelength switching using tunable lasers and modular photonic switches.

Speaker's Biography: Chien-Yu Kuo, Founder and CTO, Cinta Networks. For more than 20 years, Chien-Yu has led the telecommunications industry in the application of fiber communication systems and technologies. Before co-founding Cinta Networks, Chien-Yu worked with telecommunications systems and devices at AT&T Bell Labs for more than a decade. He was with Harmonic Lightwaves and responsible for products that set the industrial standard of excellence in the lightwave CATV transmission industry. Chien-Yu has authored and co-authored more than 100 papers and given numerous invited talks in various industry forums. He has also served in and academic forums and technical committes, e.g., OFCs, past president of IEEE/Optical Communication Subcomitte. Chien-Yu earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas, Austin.

November/2001 EOA November seminar Announcement

Title: "Metro Optical Networking- key components & major milestones"

Time: 10:00 am, Saturday, 11/10/01

Place: Stanford University CIS Building (Center for Integrated Systems), Room 101 (Cypress auditorium)

Fee: Member free, $10 for non-member

Abstract: We will review the essentials of metro optical networking in terms of new fibers ( Allwave ) , cost-effective surface emitting lasers and wide bandwidth photodiodes. System impairments/ remedies and architecture will be summarized. We will conclude with representative milestone results to date.

Speaker's Biography: Michael M. Choy is currently the Principal Scientist with Nova Crystals, a start-up in San Jose. He has 20 years of telecom system/ components experience in Bell Labs., Bellcore, IBM Yorktown and Lucent. Samples of hiis technical contributions include the first optical amplifier results in CATV, laser mode-partition statistics, widely tunable filters, metro WDM system integration, and high temperature cost-effective surface emitting lasers. He holds a PhD from Stanford in Applied Physics.

October/2001 EOA October seminar Announcement

Title: "Optical MEMS in communication and sensing"

Speaker: Dr. Olav Solgaard, faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and Co-founder Silicon Light Machines, Sunnyvale, CA

Time: 10:00AM, Saturday, 10/13/01