See: http://www.ecoc.dk/
CFP: http://www.ecoc.dk/ecoc.pdf
28TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OPTICAL COMMUNICATION
September 8 - 12, 2002
Bella Center
Copenhagen Denmark
www.ecoc.dk
Deadline for submission of papers: April 15, 2002
Paper submission will begin by end January 2002
CONFERENCE ABOUT COPENHAGEN
ECOC is the largest conference on optical com- Copenhagen is the southern most capital of
munication within Europe with more than the Nordic countries and it thus combines the
1,500 participants and a large technical exhi- Scandinavian spirit with continental European
bition with several hundreds of companies. It culture and cuisine.
is an international platform for everyone in-
volved in optical communication, from scien- The city centre has many pedestrian streets.
tists to managers and investors working in the Town squares are filled with people "en
field. route" between sights, museums, shops, re-
staurants and cafes. Or why not visit the Tivoli
More than 300 papers will be presented in Gardens placed at the end of the popular
parallel sessions covering the most recent walkway named Strøget?
technical progress.
If you want to see more of Denmark you can
The role and the impact of photonic techno- reach Elsinore with the Kronborg Castle within
logy in present and future telecommunication one hour by car or train. You can also go to
networks will be explained and discussed in Odense, where Hans Christian Andersen was
tutorials and invited papers. born, in less than one and a half hours by train
or car.
Among the offers are also the new bridge
EXHIBITION connecting Copenhagen with the Swedish
Parallel to the conference an exhibition will city Malmö.
be organised by Nexus Media covering a
broad range of products and services in the
field of optical communication: systems and
system applications, components, materials,
software, equipment for communication, fa-
brication and measurement, a job centre, an
investors forum and services like education,
job training etc.
ECOC 2002 TECHNICAL PROGRAMME * Fibre characterization techniques
ECOC 2002 will have parallel sessions with con-
tributed papers (both oral and poster presenta- * Theory for fibres and waveguides
tions) on the topics listed below, as well as in-
vited papers and tutorials on current topics. * Fibre and waveguide WDM components
Prior to the Conference, on Sunday 8 September,
a number of short courses and an IST - OPTIMIST * Fibre and waveguide OTDM components
workshop will be organised.
* Fibre grating-based devices
ECOC 2002 will cover the following fields:
* Fibre and waveguide filters
FIBRES AND WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS * Splitters and couplers
* Fibre design and fabrication * Dielectic-layer interference devices
* Fibre cabling * Sensors
* Specialty fibres
OPTOELECTRONICS AND SEMI-
* Microstructured fibres CONDUCTOR INTEGRATED DEVICES
* Plastic fibres * Semiconductor sources, detectors, and
modulators
* Fibre propagation characteristics
* Semiconductor optical amplifiers
* Fibre and planar amplifiers & lasers
* Photonic modulation, switching and
* Dispersion compensating fibre and interconnection devices
waveguide structures
* Lithium niobate modulators and switches
* Non-linear and polarization effects
* Wavelength converters
* New materials
* Semiconductor nonlinear devices * Multiplexing and demultiplexing techniques
* Picosecond and femtosecond devices * Transmitter and receiver subsystems
* Optical MEMS * Performance monitoring technology
* Device theory, modelling and simulation * Modulation techniques with high spectral
efficiency
* Optoelectronic integration, hybrid integration
and device packaging * Optical amplifier dynamics in complex
systems
* Device testing and reliability
* Fibre radio and microwave photonics
* Materials, processing and micro-fabrication
* Cable television distribution technologies
* Quantum wires and dots
* Free-space systems
* Microstructured material
* Optical processing subsystems in transmission
* Photonic bandgap devices
* Optical regeneration in transmission systems
SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES * Adaptive impairment compensators
* Transmission experiments
NETWORKS AND SWITCHING
* Transmission system modelling
* Optical network demonstrations
* WDM transmission systems
* Network architecture and performance
* OTDM transmission systems
* Network modelling, planning, design and
* Impact of fibre nonlinearities optimisation
* Metro and access networks
* Hybrid fibre-coax networks Conference language is English
* Hybrid wireless-optical networks Submit:
1 Title, author's names, affiliation and a 35 word
* Optical customer premises networks abstract for inclusion in the advance programme
* Short distance interconnect networks 2 Full paper (2 pages max.) including title, names,
affiliation and abstract in PDF-format (PDF- con-
* Node architecture and implementations verters are available from the ECOC 2002
website)
* Network control and management
3 Preferred subcommittee:
* Resource administration Fibres and waveguide components
* Protection and restoration strategies Optoelectronics and semi-
conductor integrated devices
* Algorithms and protocols
Systems Technologies
* Issues related to overlaying IP, ATM, or SDH
over an optical network Networks and switching
* Interoperability demonstrations 4 Your preference: oral or poster presentation.
* Economic analysis and business cases A detailed description on how-to-prepare a pa-
per for ECOC 2002, including a template, can
* System reliability and availability be downloaded from the website:
www.ecoc.dk. Use of a template is mandatory
* Optical switching and only papers following these instructions will
be accepted. Deadline for submission of papers:
April 15, 2002. The first author will be notified
PAPER SUBMISSION about acceptance or rejection of the contribution
Original, previously unpublished contributions are by mail (unless specified otherwise by the authors).
solicited on the topics listed above. Papers should
concentrate on results.
ECOC ORGANISATION
European Management Committee Chair
* Palle Jeppesen, COM
Technical Programme Committee Chair
* Kristian Stubkjær, COM
Organising Committee Chairs
* Palle Jeppesen, COM, Chairman
* Per Danielsen, COM, Secretary
* Ejner Nicolaisen, COM, Treasurer
Congress Bureau
DIS Congress Service Copenhagen A/S
Herlev Ringvej 2C
DK-2730 Herlev
Denmark HOW TO GET TO THE CONFERENCE
Bella Center is located within 5 minutes from
Tel. + 45 4492 4492 Copenhagen Airport with direct connections to
Fax + 45 4492 5050 all major European airports as well as many over-
ecoc2002@discongress.com seas destinations.
Bella Center has easy access to the highway net-
work between Denmark and Sweden and is situ-
INFORMATION ON WEB ated less than 6 km from the city centre of
Conference: www.ecoc.dk Copenhagen.
Organiser: www.com.dtu.dk
Congress Bureau: www.discongress.com Shuttle busses between the official conference
Exhibition: www.ecocexhibition.com hotels in the city centre and the conference venue
Official airline: www.scandinavian.net will be provided during the conference.
Conference venue: www.bellacenter.dk
SAS has been appointed Official
Airline of ECOC 2002.
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