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August 4 (Tue.)

9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks
Masataka Nakazawa (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
Welcome Address
Masafumi Yano (Director of RIEC, Tohoku Univ.)
Session 1 Time and Frequency Control
Presider: Kaoru Minoshima (AIST, Japan)
9:10-9:40 Erich P. Ippen (MIT, USA)
gFemtosecond technology for clocks and optical arbitrary waveformsh
9:40-10:10 S. J. Ben Yoo (Univ. of California at Davis, USA)
gHigh-precision optical arbitrary waveform generation using integrated photonicsh
10:10-10:40 Scott A. Diddams (NIST, USA)
gFemtosecond optical frequency combs and their applications in precision time and frequency metrologyh
10:40-11:10 Kenji Torizuka (AIST, Japan)
gAttosecond timing and phase synchronization among multicolor laser pulsesh
11:10-11:40 Peter A. Andrekson (Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden)
gAll-optical sampling techniques for high-fidelity capture of optical waveformsh
11:40-12:00 Exhibition and Coffee Break
Session 2 Light Sources and Modulators
Presider: Junichiro Ichikawa (Sumitomo Osaka Cement, Japan)
12:00-12:30 Andrius Marcinkevicius (IMRA America Inc., USA)
gStatus and prospects of compact high field laser technologyh
12:30-13:00 David J. Richardson (Univ. of Southampton, UK)
gAdvances in high power pulsed fibre lasers and their applicationsh
13:00-13:30 Tetsuya Kawanishi (NICT, Japan)
gHigh-speed and precise control of lightwave using Mach-Zehnder interferometer modulatorsh
13:30-14:00 Kazuhiro Tanaka (Fujitsu Ltd., Japan)
gIntegrated optical modulators for high-speed multi-level modulation formath
14:00-20:30 Lunch and Excursion
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August 5 (Wed.)

Session 3 Optical Transmission (1)
Presider: Itsuro Morita (KDDI, Japan)
9:00-9:30 Masataka Nakazawa (Tohoku Univ., Japan)
gRecent progress on ultrahigh-speed transmission and multi-level coherent transmissionh
9:30-10:00 Reinhold Ludwig (Heinrich-Hertz Inst., Germany)
gUltrafast transmission systems using coherent technologyh
10:00-10:30 Michael Galili (Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark)
gTowards terabit per second serial communication systemsh
10:30-10:50 Exhibition and Coffee Break
Session 4 Optical Transmission (2)
Presider: Shigeki Watanabe (Fujitsu Labs, Japan)
10:50-11:20 Peter J. Winzer (Alcatel-Lucent, USA)
gScalability aspects of high capacity optical transport networksh
11:20-11:50 Takashi Mizuochi (Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan)
gRecent progress in forward error correction for 100 Gbps optical communicationsh
11:50-12:20 Yukio Horiuchi (KDDI, Japan)
gHigh capacity wide-area optical access network technologiesh
12:20-13:30 Lunch Break
Session 5 Signal Processing and Routers (1)
Presider: Koji Yamada (NTT, Japan)
13:30-14:00 Alexander L. Gaeta (Cornell Univ., USA)
gUltrafast all-optical processing on a silicon chiph
14:00-14:30 Shigeru Nakamura (NEC, Japan)
gFunctional integration of ultra-small optical multiplexer/demultiplexer and optical switch using silicon photonicsh
14:30-15:00 Juerg Leuthold (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany)
gSilicon organic hybrid - a new platform for high-speed photonic communications componentsh
15:00-15:30 Stojan Radic (Univ. of California San Diego, USA)
gScalable parametric processing of ultrafast optical signalsh
15:30-15:50 Exhibition and Coffee Break
Session 6 Signal Processing and Routers (2)
Presider: Tetsuya Miyazaki (NICT, Japan)
15:50-16:20 Harmen J. Dorren (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands)
gOptical signal processing and optical packet switching at high bit-ratesh
16:20-16:50 Katsuya Ikezawa (Yokogawa Electric Corp., Japan)
gDevelopments of core technologies for ultra-fast optical routers with compound semiconductor technologiesh
16:50-17:20 Ryohei Urata (NTT, Japan)
gOptical and optoelectronic technologies for a photonic routerh
17:20-17:30 Closing Remarks
Yuichi Matsushima (NICT, Japan)