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22leos02.qxd 4/8/08 1:14 PM Page cov1 April 2008 Vol. 22, No. 2 www.i-LEOS.org IEEE NEWS THE SOCIETY FOR PHOTONICS BroadbandBroadband andand FTTxFTTx -- WhatWhat hashas beenbeen done?done? WhereWhere isis itit going?going? OpenOpen Fiber-to-Fiber-to- the-Homethe-Home NetworksNetworks inin EuropeEurope 22leos02.qxd 4/8/08 1:14 PM Page cov2 22leos02.qxd 4/8/08 1:14 PM Page 1 IEEE Page 21, Figure 10 NEWS Figure 10 OFDM-16QAM (a) RF spectrum and (b) constellation diagram measured at the output of ONU with 100 km THE SOCIETY FOR PHOTONICS transmission. April 2008 Volume 22, Number 2 FEATURES Special Feature on FTTx: “Broadband and FTTx – What has been done? Where is it going?”, . 4 by Andre Girard, EXFO “Open Fiber-to-the-Home Networks in Europe”, . 13 by Gerlas van den Hoven, Genexis “Recent Research on Fiber Access Systems for FTTH Networks in Taiwan”, . 15 by C.H. Yeh, C.W. Chow, Y.M. Lin, D.Z. Hsu, and S. Chi Column by LEOS Leaders: “Reflections on a Career in Photonics,” . 20 by Ivan P Kaminow 11 DEPARTMENTS News . 22 • 2008 IEEE/LEOS Award Reminders • Graduate Student Fellowship Program – now accepting applications • Petition for candidates for Election to the Board of Governors • Call for Nominations: - IEEE/LEOS 2009 John Tyndall Award • Nomination Form 8 Careers . 28 • Announcing the 2008 IEEE/LEOS Quantum Electronics Award Winners • 2008 IEEE/LEOS Young Investigators Award Recipient: Jose Azana • 2008 IEEE David Sarnoff Award Recipient: James J. Coleman • Board of Governors New Vice Presidents: Amr S. Helmy and Alwyn Seeds • Announcing the 2008 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award Winners • 2007 International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium Membership . 31 • Benefits of IEEE Senior Membership • New Senior Members 12 Conferences . 32 • CLEO/QELS 2008 • 19th Annual Workshop on Interconnections Within High Speed Digital Systems • Photonics North 2008 • 2008 IEEE/LEOS International Conference on Optical MEMS & Nanophotonics • Summer Topicals 2008 • LEOS Annual 2008 – Paper Submission Publications . 38 • Call for Papers: - JOSA B/JLT – New Feature Announcement - Slow Light 14 and its Applications COLUMNS Editor’s Column . 2 President’s Column . 3 April 2008 IEEE LEOS NEWSLETTER 1 22leos02.qxd 4/8/08 1:14 PM Page 2 Editor’s IEEE Lasers and Column Electro-Optics Society KRISHNAN PARAMESWARAN President Newsletter Staff John H. Marsh Intense Photonics, Ltd. Executive Editor April marks the start of spring in many parts of the 4 Stanley Boulevard Krishnan R. Parameswaran world, symbolizing the start of warm weather and new Hamilton International Tech Park Physical Sciences Inc. Blantyre, Glasgow 20 New England Business Center growth. Following this theme, the April Newsletter G72 0BN, Scotland UK Andover, MA 01810 highlights the growth of FTTx (Fiber To The Home, Tel: +44 1698 772 037 Tel: +1 978 738 8187 Email: [email protected] Curb, Premises, etc.). As the demand for communica- Fax: +44 1698 827 262 Email: [email protected] tions bandwidth expands, optical fiber is making its way Associate Editor of Asia & Pacific Hon Tsang Secretary-Treasurer closer to the end user throughout the world. We present Dept. of Electronic Engineering Filbert Bartoli The Chinese University of Hong Kong three articles about FTTx systems this month. Dr. André Lehigh University Shatin, Hong Kong Girard of EXFO Canada has written a nice overview of 19 West Memorial Drive Tel: +852 260 98254 Packard Lab 302 Fax: +852 260 35558 where FTTx is going throughout the world. Dr. Gerlas Bethlehem, PA 18015 Email: [email protected] van den Hoven of Genexis in the Netherlands provides Tel: +1 610 758 4069 Fax: +1 610 758 6279 Associate Editor of Canada perspective on FTTH networks in Europe. Prof. Chi Wai Email: [email protected]; Lawrence R. Chen Chow and colleagues from ITRI and National Chiao [email protected] Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Tung University in Taiwan describe FTTH networks in Past-President McConnell Engineering Building, Taiwan. We hope that you will find this series of articles Alan Willner Rm 633 University of Southern California McGill University to be timely and informative. Dept. of EE-Systems/ Rm EEB 538 3480 University St. We also continue our series of commentaries by LEOS Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565 Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A-2A7 Tel: +1 213 740 4664 Tel: +514 398 1879 Leaders with an insightful column by IEEE Life Fellow Fax: +1 213 740 8729 Fax: 514-398-3127 Email: [email protected] Dr. Ivan Kaminow. Many readers will be familiar with Email: [email protected] his work and will surely find his experiences to be of Executive Director Associate Editor of Europe/Mid interest. A short preview of the Photonics North Richard Linke East/Africa Conference to be held in Montreal, Canada in June and a IEEE/LEOS Kevin A. Williams 445 Hoes Lane Eindhoven University of Technology summary of the recent IDRS conference are also included Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 Inter-University Research Institute this month. Tel: +1 732 562 3891 COBRA on Communication Technology Fax: +1 732 562 8434 Department of Electrical Engineering As always, please feel free to send any comments and Email: [email protected] PO Box 513 suggestions to [email protected]. I would love to 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands Board of Governors Email: [email protected] hear what you would like to see in future issues. M. Amann H. Kuwahara K. Choquette C. Menoni Staff Editor C. Gmachl J. Meyer Giselle Blandin Krishnan Parameswaran K. Hotate D. Plant IEEE/LEOS 445 Hoes Lane J. Jackel A. Seeds Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 T. Koonen P. Winzer Tel: +1 732 981 3405 Fax: +1 732 562 8434 Vice Presidents Email: [email protected] Conferences – E. Golovchenko Finance & Administration – S. Newton Membership & Regional Activities - A. Helmy Publications – C. Menoni Technical Affairs – A. Seeds LEOS Newsletter is published bimonthly by the Lasers and Electro- Optics 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 Lasers and Electro-Optics Society. Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to LEOS Newsletter, IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854. Copyright © 2008 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. 22leos02.qxd 4/8/08 1:14 PM Page 3 President’s Column JOHN H. MARSH As I write this, the Conference on Optical Fiber The anomalous event, of course, is the enormous Communications is one week away. This year, OFC is investment made in companies, licenses, and technologies being held in San Diego, California, and the technical pre- over a period of around three years centered on 2000. Back sentations and exhibition remain as strong as ever. The in the 1990s, a sober, if unimaginative, extrapolation of presentations will cover the latest exciting developments the growth curve would have led to the conclusion that in optical communications technology and the trade show demand for capacity would be at the levels currently expe- will welcome both established players and new companies. rienced. However, in the 2000 period the market was led 600 exhibitors are expected from 58 countries. Many of by emotion and fevered imagination! Those questioning the newer exhibitors will reflect the shift in the geo- where the money would come from to support the aggres- graphical focus of manufacturing industry that has taken sive growth predictions were told that individuals would place over the last few years, a shift that is both welcome be prepared to spend a significantly higher proportion of and inevitable as the industry becomes truly global. their disposable income on telecommunications services. OFC is regarded as a bell-wether of the photonics indus- History shows that sudden changes in spending patterns try, the communications sector of which has experienced are very rare, so demand failed to match expectations and particularly painful and turbulent times in the last decade. telecom share prices collapsed. As a result investment and However, turbulence in the market masks major success. pension funds (including IEEE’s own investments) lost Ultimately the telecommunications industry is sustained large amounts of money. The net result is that a real suc- because it is beneficial to society as a whole and individu- cess of the worldwide engineering community is widely als are prepared to pay for telecommunication services. perceived by the public to be a failure. Growth in telecommunication service revenues has been Through this period of turbulence, however, the OFC steady every year throughout the last decade, increasing conference has remained strong. It is a tribute to the from $517 bn in 1996 to $1472 bn in 2006 [source ITU/ICT]. It is significant (continued on page 22) that no year experienced a downturn in revenue. If growth curves are extrapolat- ed from the mid-1990s, they line up almost perfectly with current growth. Growth in internet traffic is often highlighted as the key statistic, and indeed the number of internet users has grown 10 fold since 1997, reaching 1.2 billion today and accompanied by a migration from slow to broadband access. However, internet access shows wide variation across different geograph- ical regions and countries.
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