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October 2017 Vol. 31, No. 5 www.PhotonicsSociety.org Probabilistic Shaping for Fiber-Optic Communication Uniform 2D Shaping Probabilistic Shaping Also Inside: • Creating a Network without Boundaries • STEM Outreach Workshop “Wonders of Light” Construction Ground Transportation Marine Transportation Energy OPTICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUE FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (NDE) Cost-effective way of inspecting Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) materials FEATURES • Non-contact with High Speed Scanning • Able to measure diverse types of samples of differing opacity • Simple to operate with user friendly SW package • High Lateral Resolution ~ 100 um • Wide scanning range up to 40.64 × 81.28 cm OTS-1000 Optical Transmission Scanner Crack Propagation Inclusions Detection Impact Damage Fiberglass 909.590.5473 [email protected] generalphotonics.com October 2017 Vol. 31, No. 5 www.PhotonicsSociety.org Probabilistic Shaping for Fiber-Optic Communication Uniform 2D Shaping Probabilistic Shaping Also Inside: • Creating a Network without Boundaries • STEM Outreach Workshop “Wonders of Light” October 2017 Volume 31, Number 5 FEATURE Research Highlights �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������4 – Probabilistic Shaping for Fiber-Optic Communication 10 Get to Know your Society Leadership . .10 • Catrina Coleman, Vice President of Publications Young Professional Spotlight ������������������������������������������������������������������12 • Creating a Network without Boundaries News �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 14 • University of Arizona Selected for High-Impact, Industrial Demonstration of New Integrated Photonic Cryogenic Datalink for Focal Plane Arrays • AIM Photonics’ Ed White Named Chair of National Photonics Initiative • Device That Revolutionized Timekeeping Receives an IEEE Milestone • 2018 IEEE Technical Field Award and 2017 Herz Award Recipients Announced • 2018 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients and Citations 16 Careers and Awards. 22 • IEEE Photonics Society 2017 Graduate Student Fellowship Program Membership . 25 • IEEE PVSC-44 Highlights • Walking on Sunshine at the PVSC-44 Young Professionals Mixer • STEM Outreach Workshop Brings “Wonders of Light” to IEEE Summer Topicals • Bletchley Park: An IEEE Milestone Site with Many Stories to Tell Conferences . 30 • IPC Preview • IEEE Summer Topicals Technical Highlights • IEEE Photonics Conference 2017 • Avionics and Vehicle Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference 2017 • IEEE Photonics Society Co-Sponsored Events 28 Publications. 36 • Call for Papers: – JLT: White Boxes – JLT: Avionics and Vehicle Fiber-Optics and Photonics – JSTQE: Solid-State Lasers – JSTQE: Emerging Areas in Integrated Photonics – JSTQE: Biophotonics – JSTQE: Nanobiophotonics – JSTQE: Metamaterial Photonics and Integration COLUMNS Editor’s Column . 2 President’s Column . .3 October 2017 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 1 Editor’s IEEE Photonics Society Column NICOLAS FontaINE President Associate Editor of North America I hope everyone enjoyed a productive summer! For me, I Kent Choquette Brian T. Cunningham University of Illinois Professor of Electrical and Computer spent the summer mentoring interns in addition to trav- Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor of Bioengineering elling to and preparing for many conferences. Addition- Engineering Interim Director, Micro and 208 North Wright Street Nanotechnology Laboratory ally, we have been working hard to add new content into Urbana, IL 61801 Director, Center for Innovative IEEE Photonics Society News. Hope you enjoy! Tel: +1 217 265 0563 Instrumentation Technology (CiiT) This summer, the IEEE Photonics Society held the Sum- Email: [email protected] University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Past President Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory mer Topicals meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The technical Dalma Novak 208 North Wright Street content and location were both excellent. This issue contains Pharad, LLC Urbana, IL 61801 1340 Charwood Road phone: 217-265-6291 two summary articles: one about the technical aspects of the Suite L email: [email protected] conference, and one about the very successful STEM outreach Hanover, MD 21076 Tel: +1 410 590 3333 Associate Editor of Central, Latin and events held at the conference. In addition, an article written Email: [email protected] South American by Nikola Alic, Technical Program Chair for the 2017 IEEE Juan A. Hernandez Cordero Secretary-Treasurer Institute of Materials Research Photonics Conference (IPC), introduces this year’s IPC, which Paul Juodawlkis Department of Rheology and MIT Lincoln Laboratory will be held in Orlando at the time of this publication. Mechanics of Materials 244 Wood Street National Autonomous University of Lexington, MA 02421-6426 Our second “Get to Know your Society Leadership” Mexico Tel: + 1 781 981 7895 column features Catrina Coleman, the Board of Governors Circuito Exterior s / n, Ciudad Email: [email protected] Vice President of Publications and the Publications Coun- Universitaria, Board of Governors AP 70-360; Coyoacán, Mexico, cil Chair, in which she discusses the Publications Council’s G. Cincotti O. Liboiron-Ladouceur Federal District, challenging task of determining the future of Photonics B. Eggleton C. Lim CP 04510 R. Essiambre D. Marom Email: [email protected] Society scientific publications. The next issue will feature K. Hagimoto P. Nouchi René-Jean Essiambre, Vice President of Membership. T. Kawanishi S. Poole Staff Editor B. Lee L. Rusch Lisa Manteria The Young Professionals column run by Dominic Siriani, IEEE Photonics Society Associate Vice President of Communications for the IEEE Vice Presidents 445 Hoes Lane Conferences—M. Dawson Photonics Society Membership Council, covers some of the Piscataway, NJ 08854 Finance & Admin—M. Glick Tel: 1 732 465 6662 Membership & Regional non-technical aspects of being an IEEE Photonics Society Fax: 1 732 981 1138 Activities—R. Essiambre Email: [email protected] member including career advice, networking, and community Publications—C. Coleman involvement. This month, Dom has interviewed Dr. Paul Leish- Technical Affairs—D. Plant Communications and er who in his short career has held positions in academia, gov- Newsletter Staff Marketing Manager Katie Agin Editor-in-Chief ernment labs and industry. Dr. Leisher shares his wisdom and 445 Hoes Lane Nicolas Fontaine Piscataway, NJ 08854 tips about networking and building a successful career. Nokia Bell Laboratories Tel: 1 732 562 5564 The research highlight article is from Georg Böcher and 791 Holmdel Rd, Holmdel, NJ 07733 732-888-7262 Email: [email protected] colleagues from the Technical University of Munich describ- Email: [email protected] ing probabilistic shaping for optical communications. Ever Associate Editor of Australia and Asia since the revival of coherent optical communications around Joel Carpenter 2005, which was primarily due to the availability of powerful The University of Queensland Australia Brisbane St Lucia, QLD 4072 digital signal processing, the amount of information that we Email: [email protected] can modulate onto a single wavelength has greatly increasing from 1-bit per symbol using simple on-off keying modula- IEEE prohibits discrimination, harassment, and bullying. For more information, visit http://www. tion, to over 6-bits per symbol using sophisticated formats ieee.org/web/aboutus/whatis/policies/p9-26.html. such as Nyquist shaped 64-Quadrature Amplitude Modula- tion. However, this is still does not achieve the optimal capac- ity predicted by Shannon’s information theory. Squeezing the IEEE Photonics Society News (USPS 014-023) is published bimonth- ly by the Photonics Society of the Institute of Electrical and last bit of capacity out of the fiber channel requires shaping Electronics Engineers, Inc., Corporate Office: 3 Park Avenue, 17th of the constellations by changing the probability of occupan- 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 cy of each symbol. After reading the article, I hope you will of the Photonics Society. 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Please direct all inquiries or requests to IEEE Copyrights Office. any feedback, suggestions, and comments. I look forward to working with you on future issues. 2 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER October 2017 President’s Column KENT CHOQUETTE “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with IPS is