Darko Zibar organising symposium at OFC 2020

Prof Darko Zibar, the WON academic lead from Technical University of Denmark, DTU Fotonik, Denmark will be given an invited talk and organizing the symposium: The Role of Machine Learning for the Next-generation of Optical Communication Systems and Networks Organizers:  Darko Zibar, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Fotonik, Denmark; Alan Pak Tao Lau; The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, […]

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Accepted paper at OFC 2020 Conference

Congratulations to our research teams at Politechnico Di Torino and Infinera on great news about accepted paper at OFC Conference 2020.The paper “Network Performance Assessment of C+L Upgrades vs. Fiber Doubling SDM Solutions”  has been sessioned for an oral presentation at the 2020 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), which will be held at the San […]

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First implemented secondment in WON

The first secondment in WON scheduled on month 10 of the project duration is implemented on time in accordance with the Grant Agreement.Gabriele Di Rosa, ESR6 from VPIphotonics, is having a 2 months secondment visit  in the Aston Institute of Photonics Technologies at Aston University working on “Raman amplification schemes and interchannel Raman scattering effects […]

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Dr Antonio Napoli is helping with the OSA Incubators.

Project Technical Coordinator Dr Antonio Napoli (Infinera) is helping with the OSA initiative to organise the OSA Incubators Learning from Light: An OSA Incubator on Machine Learning. This small, invitation-only meeting, part of the OSA Incubator Program, will be held at OSA Headquarters in Washington, DC on 28 – 30 April 2020.Recent advances in machine […]

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WON Introduction Workshop, 18-19 Nov in Munich

The WON Consortium is organising the Introduction Workshop, which will take place on 18-19 Nov 2019 at Infinera premises in Munich. It is the first  scientific training event out of eleven planned and foreseen network-wide training events in the WON Grant Agreement. The aim of the workshop is to get the cohort of Early Stage […]

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OUTREACH: Aston ESR Alex Donodin at PHOTONEX Europe 2019

ESR Alex Donodin from Aston University has reached out to industry last week as part of the team representing the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies at the Photonex Europe 2019 exhibition event in Coventry, UK. PHOTONEX is the UK’s premier event dedicated to photonics, imaging, lasers, optical technologies from pure research to development of bespoke advanced user […]

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