OFC is the Premier Event in Telecom and Data Center Optics
OFC is the largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals. The program is comprehensive — from research to marketplace, from components to systems and networks and from technical sessions to the exhibition. 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 the industry forward.
There are three Special Sessions scheduled for OFC 2019:
Integrated Photonics for Energy Efficient Datacenters: The ARPA-E ENLITENED Program
Special Chairs’ Session: The Role of Optics in Future Data Center and Computing Applications
Quantum Technology and Optical Communications
Quantum Technologies and Optical Communications
Wednesday, 6 March, 14:00 – 18:30
Room 6C
Organizers: Eleni Diamanti, CNRS, France; Werner Klaus, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan; Erwan Pincemin, Orange Labs, France
The use of the fundamental properties of quantum physics for applications in communication and information processing is at the very heart of the so-called second quantum revolution, which follows the conceptual advancements due to the quantum mechanical description of matter and light that have shaped up our technological capacities today. The emerging quantum technologies hold the promise to improve tremendously our computing power and the security of our communications, with implications in virtually all financial, industrial and societal sectors.
The goal of this special session will be to explore and highlight the importance of these technologies as well as the impact they may have on optical communications in the future. In the first part of this session, we will discuss the recent developments in quantum computing devices, which enable unprecedented tasks in particular for optimization algorithms, but also open the way to decoding the most advanced cryptographic algorithms used nowadays. This drives the need for the development of techniques that protect communication systems at the physical layer level, including quantum key distribution (QKD). We will also explore quantum communications in the longer term, going towards quantum repeaters links and eventually a quantum internet, which will require the development of adapted and increasingly advanced optical technologies.
In the second part of the session we will then focus more on near-term applications using QKD based on encoding various properties of light. As such, we will discuss different trends to improve network security through implementations of QKD over optical fibers or through free space optics between satellites and ground stations, look at means to decrease the cost of current QKD solutions by making them more compliant with existing optical communication networks, and touch upon potential use cases and applications for service and content providers.
Eleni Diamanti – Introduction
Part 1: Quantum Computing, Quantum Networks, Quantum Communication in General
Wednesday, 6 March, 14:00 – 16:00
Moderator: Werner Klaus, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Presenters:
Bo Ewald, D-Wave Systems, USA
Dirk Englund, MIT, USA
Mark Thompson, University of Bristol, UK
Yu-Ao Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Part 2: Quantum Communication with a Focus on QKD
Wednesday, 6 March, 16:30 – 18:30
Moderator: Erwan Pincemin, Orange Labs, France
Presenters:
Andrew Shields, Toshiba Cambridge Research Lab, UK
Christoph Marquardt, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Momtchil Peev, Huawei Munich, Germany
Akihisa Tomita, Hokkaido University, Japan
Deadline for Registration: February 4th, 2019
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