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Date: 26 February 2020
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Place: Aston University Birmingham, UK
SUMMARY
ETN WON and EID REAL-NET Consortia organised the 1st Year Technical Workshop for the Early-Stage Researchers on the 26 February Aston University, UK. This is the second WON network-wide training event followed the Introduction Workshop which was held in November 2019 in Munich.
The Workshop was divided into three sessions:
- Presentation on the state of the art in the Work Packages
- Talks of invited speakers , including two members of the WON Industrial Advisory Board (see details below).
- Presentations by the WON and REAL-NET ESRs on the progress and results achieved in the projects in the 1st year
AGENDA
8:45 – 9:15 Arrival, Opening
9:15 – 9:30 Welcome, Introduction and News – Wladek Forysiak, Aston Univeristy and Antonio Napoli, Infinera Germany
9:30 – 10.30 Talks on the state of the art in WP (30 min each)
- Network management: planning and control – Nelson Costa , Infinera Portugal
- Digital signal processing and system modelling – Antonio Napoli , Infinera Germany
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Talks on the state of the art in WP (continue)
- State of the art in amplifiers – Ian McClean, II-VI Photonics
- State of the art of ultra wideband modulators – Gerrit Fiol, Fraunhofer HHI
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 Invited Talks (45 min each)
- The future of optical fibre communications: an operator’s perspective – Andrew Lord, BT Group
- State of the art in digital coherent transmission – Lidia Galdino, University College London
14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:30 ESRs talks on the progress
- Pratim Hazarika, Aston University
- Bruno Vinicius, Politecnico di Torino
- Prediction of Performance Penalty due to Pump-Signal Overlap in Raman-amplified Systems – Gabriele Di Rosa, VPIphotonics
- Network Performance Assessment with Uniform and Non-Uniform Nodes Distribution in C+L andrades vs. Fiber Doubling SDM Solutions – Rasoul Sadeghi Yamchi, Politecnico di Torino
- Progress Update 25/02/2020; Machine Learning for OLS Controllers, SPM Accumulation – Elliot London, Politecnico di Torino
- E, S, C and L-Band wavelength switching on a single device – Rafael Kraemer, Eindhoven University of Technology
16:30 – 17:00 Do’s and don’t’s of an ESR – how to make the most of it – Md Asif Iqbal and Auro Perego, Aston Univerisy
17:00 – 18.00 Discussion, ESR networking, Closing
19:00 – Dinner
EXTERNAL SPEAKERS
Lidia Galdino
Lecturer, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at University College London (UCL)
Dr Lidia Galdino received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and electrical engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. Dr Galdino commenced a lectureship and a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship in September 2018 on the topic of “Capacity-approaching, Ultra-Wideband Nonlinear optical Fibre Transmission System”, and a co-investigated in the EPSRC TRANSNET programme grant. She previously worked as a Senior Research Associate on the EPSRC UNLOC programme grant.
She is Associate Editor of Optical Fiber Technology and part of the Technical Programme Committee for IEEE Photonic Conference (IPC) and Associated Vice President of IEEE’s Women in Photonic
Dr Galdino was a co-recipient of the RAEng Colin Campbell Mitchell Award in 2015 for pioneering contributions to optical communications technology and named as one of the 2017 “Top 50 Women in Engineering under 35” by The Telegraph and Women in Engineering Society which features the U.K.’s top rising female stars of engineering.
Andrew Lord
Senior Manager of Optical Research at British Telecom
Andrew joined BT in 1985 after a BA in Physics from Oxford University. He has helped design a wide range of optical network systems and technologies, including long haul subsea and terrestrial DWDM networks. He has been responsible for optical fibre and systems specifications. He currently leads BT’s optical core and access research including optical access, high speed transmission, Software Defined Networking and Quantum Communications. He has recently initiated BT’s quantum research, with applications in areas such as secure communications, timing and sensing. He regularly speaks at conferences, sits on several organising committees, including ECOC and was Technical Program Chair for OFC 2015 and General Chair for OFC 2017.
He is an associate Editor of Journal of Lightwave Technology, is Visiting Professor at Essex University, Senior Member of the IEEE and a Chartered Engineer with the IET. He is industrial chair of NDFIS (National Dark Fibre Infrastructure).
He is a project manager of the EU Horizon 2020 project ‘Metro-Haul’ researching optical networks for 5G.
In the ETN WON project Andre Lord acts as an External Industrial Adviser in WON Industrial Advisory Board.
Ian McClean
Product Manager, II-VI Photonics
Ian McClean is Product Manager for II-VI Photonics in Paignton, UK, where he specialises in the development of ROADM products for optical networks. With 23 years of experience in optical amplifier design for Nortel Networks, Bookham Technology, and Oclaro, Dr. McClean is a respected leader in the field and has written multiple patents and papers on various technology aspects for optical components. He is a Chartered Engineer with the IET and serves as a PI for the IEC’s standards working groups on optical amplifiers and dynamic modules. Dr. McClean is a member of the ECOC Technical Sub-Committee on Fibre, Fibre and Free Space Devices, and Fibre Amplifiers. He also serves as an External Industrial Adviser for the WON Industrial Advisory Board and the EE and PE post-graduate Industrial Steering Committee at Aston University. He obtained B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from the University of Bradford and holds a Ph.D. in Engineering focussing on II-VI thin-film semiconductor device development.
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