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Welcome and Overview of Signal Processing Challenges in Optical Communications

Jean Armstrong, Arthur Lowery, Brendon Schmidt and Xia Li,

Monash University

Lunch (not provided but wide range of food available on campus)

Current DSP Processor Technology Challenges as Applied to Optical Transmission Systems

Simon Brewer, Engineering Manager, Analog Devices Australia Pty Ltd

Physical Layer Control of ASONS: Issues and Challenges

Peter Farrell, University of Melbourne

Break

Physical Layer Control of ASONS: Modelling and Control at Device Level

Peter Dower, University of Melbourne

High Speed RF and Mixed Signal Design on CMOS

Stan Skafidas, National ICT Australia

End of Day 1

Introduction to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)

Jean Armstrong, Monash University.

Coherent Optical MIMO-OFDM

Bill Shieh, University of Melbourne

Break

Asymmetrically Clipped Optical OFDM (ACO-OFDM)

Jean Armstrong and Brendon Schmidt, Monash University

Direct-Detection Optical OFDM (DD-OOFDM)

Arthur Lowery, Monash University

Field Programmable Gate Arrays for Optical Applications

Andrew Price, Monash University

Lunch (not provided but wide range of food available on campus)

Coherent Optical OFDM for Long Haul Fiber-Optic Transmission

Sander Jansen, KDDI R&D Laboratories in Saitama, Japan

Break

TBA

End of Day 2