Thursday , 16 July 2009 – Technical Session

ThA1 • 8:30 a.m. Invited Advanced Photonic Integration and High-Index-Contrast Circuit, Sai Chu, Brent Little, Wei Chen, John Hryniewicz, Fred Johnson, Wenlu Chen, Oliver King, Roy Davidson, Kevin Donovan, Dave Gill, John Monk and Fred Kish; Infinera Corp., USA. We highlight recent advances in advanced photonic integration of reliable densely integrated photonic integrated circuits (PIC) and high-index-contrast photonic lightwave circuits (PLC). The applications and benefits of these devices will be presented. ThB1 • 8:30 a.m. Packet Delay Variance and Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms for ExtendedReach GPON, Timothy G. Smith, Rodney S. Tucker, Kerry Hinton and An V. Tran; Univ. of Melbourne, Australia, NEC Australia, Australia, Victoria Research Lab., NICTA, Australia. We show that packet delay variance of constant bit rate traffic in extended-reach GPONs is larger than standard reach GPONs. We describe an allocation algorithm that produces zero delay variance for constant bit rate traffic. ThC1 • 8:30 a.m. Invited Polarization Manipulation in Photonic Integration on Indium Phosphide, J.J. G.M. van der Tol, U. Khalique, L.M. Augustin, A.A.M. Kok and M.K. Smit; Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands. The possibility to manipulate polarization in a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) gives new design options. This will be illustrated with POLIS, an integration scheme based on polarization. Also the polarization manipulating devices will be introduced.