Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)
Topical Meeting and Tabletop Exhibit

Technical Conference: June 21–24, 2010
Karlsruhe-Messe und Kongress (Conference Center)
Karlsruhe, Germany

Postdeadline Submission Deadline: May 3, 2010 12:00 p.m. noon, EDT (16.00 GMT)
Housing Deadline: May 17, 2010
Pre-Registration Deadline: May 24, 2010

Advances in Photonics and Renewable Energy Joint Plenary Speakers

ANIC Speaker – Leonid Kazovsky, Stanford Univ., USA
SENSORS  Speaker – C. Kumar N. Patel, Pranalytica, Inc., USA
SPPCom Speaker – Kim Roberts, Nortel Networks, Canada
NP Speaker – Yaron Silberberg, Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel
SOLED Speaker – Bernhard Stapp, OSRAM, Germany
BGPP Speaker – Martin Wegener, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
PV Speaker – Eli Yablonovitch, Univ. of California at Berkley, USA

Part of Advanced Photonics:
OSA Optics & Photonics Congress

    Featuring Five Collocated Topical Meetings:

Access Networks and In-house Communications (ANIC)
Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides (BGPP)
Nonlinear Photonics (NP)
Optical Sensors (Sensors)
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)

Advanced Photonics is Collocated with the Renewable Energy 2010 Optics & Photonics Congress

New for 2010

Optics Visualized Contest 2010

Submission deadline: April 23, 2010
2010 European Optics and Photonics Congress
Karlsruhe, Germany

This contest will feature and award works that make the Optics branch of science more visible to the world in an appealing and accessible way.

For complete contest details, visit Optics Visualized Contest.

Sponsored by the Karlsruhe Student Chapter of the OSA

2010 Meeting Chairs

Program Chairs
Werner Rosenkranz, Christian-Albrechts Univ. zu Kiel, Germany
Bernhard Spinnler, Nokia-Siemens-Networks, Germany
Alan Willner, Univ. of Southern California, USA

About SPPCom

Photonic transmission technology is required in communication networks of all kind – from access to long haul and submarine. Moreover, optical multimode, free-space, polymer and on-chip communication channels are becoming ever-more important in other types of applications, including sensor networks, free space communications, and feeding radio over fiber. For many advanced applications, simple data communications approaches, such as intensity modulation with direct detection, are no longer adequate given data impairments, increased system capacity, and required spectral efficiency. As an example, more advanced equalizer and forward error correction (FEC) technologies are now penetrating into high-end metro and core networks as well as into lower-end short MMF link equipment. The system gain has been quite dramatic, adding several dBs of performance.

Topics to Be Considered