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OFC 2020
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OFC 2020
March 8, 2020 - March 12, 2020
The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) is the largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals. For over 40 years, OFC has drawn attendees from all corners of the globe to meet and greet, teach and learn, make connections and move business forward.
- • Learn how Acacia Communications can help you accelerate your optical network.
- • Acacia experts will be on hand to discuss your requirements and how your network can reach its full potential.
- • Attend one of our Acacia speaking sessions to learn more about our solutions.
| Sunday, March 8 | Hackathon Time: 20:00 – 22:00 Organizer: BinBin Guan SC203 – 400 Gb/s and Beyond Transmission Systems, Design and Design Trade-offs Time: 13:00 – 17:00 Presenter: Benny Mikkelsen, Co-founder and CTO Application and Technology Drivers for Short-reach Coherent Links at 800G and Beyond Time: 13:00 – 18:30 Organizer: Timo Pfau, Principal DSP Designer, and featuring panelist Ian Dedic, Consulting Engineer |
| Monday, March 9 | SC325 – Highly Integrated Monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits Time: 13:30 – 17:30 Presenter: Chris Doerr, Associate Vice President of Integrated Photonics SC487 – Hands-On: Laboratory Automation and Control using Python (Advanced) Time: 08:30 – 12:30 Presenter: BinBin Guan |
| Tuesday, March 10 | 400ZR Specification Update Time: 13:30 – 14:30 Location: Theater III Panelist: Markus Weber, Sr. Director, DSP Product Line Management As we Approach Shannon Limit, How do we Precisely Assess the Performance of Coherent Transponders for Field Deployment? Time: 14:00 – 16:00 Presenter: Shaoliang Zhang, Principal DSP Engineer |
| Wednesday, March 11 | Unleashing the Full Potential of Silicon Photonics Time: 13:30 – 14:30 Location: Theater III Moderator: Tom Williams, Vice President of Marketing Vision 2030: Taking Optical Communications through the Next Decade Time: 14:00 – 18:30 Presenter: Chris Doerr, Associate Vice President of Integrated Photonics BER and TDECQ Correlation for Different Impairments in 400Gbps PAM4 system (W3G.3) Time: 14:45 – 15:00 Location: Room 7 Presenter: Ying Zhao, Senior Optics Engineer |
| Thursday, March 12 | 400ZR and beyond…What comes next? Time: 11:00 – 12:00 Location: Theater III Moderator: Tom Williams, Vice President of Marketing Devices and Systems at 130 Gbaud and Above: What is the Outlook? Time: 8:00 – 10:00 Panelists: Chris Doerr, Associate Vice President of Integrated Photonics and Hongbin Zhang Design Consideration of Next Generation Ethernet Switches with Higher Speed Optics Time: 10:15 – 11:15 Location: Theater III Panelist: Tom Williams, Vice President of Marketing Pluggable Coherent Optics for Short-Haul/Edge Applications and Beyond Time: 14:00 – 16:00 Presenter: Christian Rasmussen, Founder, Vice President of Digital Signal Processing and Optics |
