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August 2020 Vol. 34, No. 4 www.PhotonicsSociety.org Multicore Fiber Now Closer to Enter Telecommunications Market than Ever Also Inside: • Improved IEEE Author Center & IEEE AuthorLab Tools • IEEE Photonics Society Selects the 2020 Distinguished Service Recipient Introducing IEEE Collabratec™ The premier networking and collaboration site for technology professionals around the world. IEEE Collabratec is a new, integrated online community where IEEE members, Network. researchers, authors, and technology professionals with similar fields of interest can network and collaborate, as well as create and manage content. Collaborate. Featuring a suite of powerful online networking and collaboration tools, Create. IEEE Collabratec allows you to connect according to geographic location, technical interests, or career pursuits. 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Learn about IEEE Collabratec at ieee-collabratec.ieee.org August 2020 Volume 34, Number 4 FEATURE Industry Highlight. .5 – Multicore Fiber Now Closer to Enter Telecommunications Market than Ever 12 Industry Engagement . .8 • Life at a Photonics Startup: Lessons Learned Get to Know Your IEEE Photonics Society Leadership . .12 Photonics Worldwide—This is My Lab ...........................14 News ......................................................15 • Improved IEEE Author Center & IEEE AuthorLab Tools • IEEE Day 2020 Events Will Be Virtual Careers and Awards .........................................17 • IEEE Photonics Society Selects the 2020 Distinguished Service Recipient • Election of Board of Governors Candidates • Distinguished Lecturer Selection for 2020-21 16 • Call for Nominations: IEEE Technical Field Awards and Eric Herz Staff Award Membership ................................................19 • What’s Next with Photonics Outreach in Kenya? • The University of Warsaw’s Student Branch Chapter Online Transformation • IDL 2020 Virtual Symposium: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati • IEEE COVID-19 HUB: IEEE On the Front Lines • COVID-19: Pre-University & STEM Outreach Resources Available Conference................................................ 26 • vPVSC: Virtual 2020 IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference • BIGGS 2020 Publications ............................................... 30 • JSTQE CFP: Biophotonics 19 • JSTQE CFP: Nanobiophotonics • JSTQE CFP: Semiconductor Lasers • JSTQE CFP: Hybrid Integration for Silicon Photonics • JSTQE CFP: Machine Learning in Photonic Communications and Measurement Systems • PTL: IEEE Photonics Conference 2020 • JOCN: Machine Learning Applied to QoT Estimation in Optical Networks COLUMNS Editor’s Column . 2 President’s Column ...........3 August 2020 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 1 Editor’s IEEE Photonics Society Column NICOLAS FONTAINE President National Autonomous University of Carmen Menoni Mexico I hope everyone is staying safe during this pandemic. Colorado State University USA Circuito Exterior s / n, Ciudad Phone: 970-491-8659/555 Universitaria, This summer has been very strange for me due to a com- Email: [email protected] AP 70-360; Coyoacán, Mexico City 04510, Mexico bination of three things that have seemed to eliminate Past President Email: [email protected] Chennupati Jagadish any productivity; the pandemic forcing us to socially dis- Associate Editor of Asia & Pacific Australian National University tance, our labs moving, and supervising a toddler at the Nicholas H. L. Wong Canberra, Australia GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd. house. I’ve gotten very little real work done even though Ph: +61-2-61250363 60 Woodlands Industrial Park D Street 2 Email: ChennupatiJagadish@anu Singapore 738406 I have been “working” all the time. We are nearly 70% .edu.au Email: [email protected] complete with our move, and I’m looking forward to the Secretary-Treasurer Associate Editor of Northern Europe days when I am productive again! Dan M. Marom Martin Lavery The Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Engineering The industry highlight is provided by InPhoTech, a School of Engineering Rankine Building fiber company in Poland. They are developing novel fi- Edmund Safra Campus University of Glasgow Jerusalem, Israel 91904 Oakfield Avenue bers to increase the capacity of future optical networks. Tel: + 972 2 658 4851 G12 8LT The industry engagement column, “Life at a Photon- Email: [email protected] [email protected] Associate Editor of Southern Europe Board of Governors ics Startup” is provided by John MacDonald. It provides Ivana Gasulla N. Fontaine A. Peacock some great insight into how demand is created and the ITEAM Research Institute M. Hutchinson S. Ralph Universitat Politècnica de València responsibility of industry to create demand and provides A. Kasukawa M. Sander Camino de Vera, 46022 Valencia M. Mashanovitch S. Savory Spain numerous historical examples! Thanks to Daniel Renner N. Nishiyama M. Suzuki Email: [email protected] L. Oxenlowe J. Yao for running this column and John for contributing! Student Editor The get to know your Photonics Society leadership Vice Presidents Naznin Akter Conferences—Perry Shum INSYST Integrated Nanosystems features Fatima Garcia-Gunning. She is the VP of Mem- Finance & Admin—Xiuling Li Research Laboratory bership of the Society and is a Senior Staff Researcher at Membership & Regional Electrical and Computer Engineering, Activities—Fatima Garcia-Gunning EC-3975 Tyndall University. Our student editor, Naznin Akter, Publications—Aaron Hawkins Florida International University 10555 W Flagler Street. Technical Affairs—Lesile Ann Rusch helps put these together! Miami, FL 33174 The Photonics Worldwide column is run by our stu- Newsletter Staff Email: [email protected] dent editor, Senta Jantzen. This issue features three young Editor-in-Chief Student Editor Nicolas Fontaine Senta L. Jantzen professionals, Angeles Camacho from the University of Nokia Bell Laboratories Optoelectronics Research Centre Southampton, Shaimaa Ali, a lecturer at the Zewail City 791 Holmdel Rd, Holmdel, NJ 07733 University of Southampton 732-888-7262 Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK of Science and Technology in Egypt, and Grace Kuo a Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley. Associate Editor of Australia Staff Editor We are always looking for new content for the news- Joel Carpenter Lisa Sandt letter. If you have something you would like to show off The University of Queensland Australia IEEE Photonics Society Brisbane St Lucia, QLD 4072 445 Hoes Lane such as a new lab, exciting results, exciting conference, Email: [email protected] Piscataway, NJ 08854 Tel: 1 732 465 6662 or even some funny experience please reach out to us! Associate Editor of Central, Latin and Fax: 1 732 981 1138 South American Email: [email protected] Juan A. Hernandez Cordero Institute of Materials Research Department of Rheology and Mechanics of Materials IEEE prohibits discrimination, harassment, and bullying. For more information, visit http://www. ieee.org/web/aboutus/whatis/policies/p9-26.html. IEEE Photonics Society News (USPS 014-023) is published bimonthly by the Photonics Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Corporate Office: 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10017-2394. Printed in the USA. One dollar per member per year is included in the Society fee for each member of the Photonics Society. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Photonics Society Newsletter, IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854. Copyright © 2020 by IEEE: Permission to copy without fee all or part of any material without a copyright notice is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, and the title of the publication and its date appear on each copy. To copy material with a copyright notice requires spe- cific permission. Please direct all inquiries or requests to IEEE Copyrights Office. 2 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER August 2020 President’s Column CARMEN S. MENONI In my career as an educator, I have greeted freshmen and four tinuing education from across IEEE. There are more than 600 years down the road attended their graduations. I have active- educational courses available, free and at-cost. If you are look- ly recruited graduate students and mentored them through- ing to advance your career, refresh your skills, or just curious out graduate school into post-graduation and the job search. about the latest trends, ILN has helpful content. The IEEE In either case, I have sensed how some students find it harder Photonics Society was one of the initial Societies to support the than others to become ‘part of a team’ and transition beyond foundation of this platform. the classroom. All of us, at a certain point in our career, when Moreover, the IEEE has rolled out extended online offer- we start a new job or a new activity, have to break barri- ings to improve the organization’s IEEE Author Center to help ers in our behavior to integrate. Self-confidence goes a long new authors navigate publishing at this time and recruit new way in furthering your career, and volunteering provides the volunteer reviewers. The Center now has a section for new outlet to improve this valuable trait. So, an important