TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES

Subcommittee 1, "Fibres, Fibre Devices, and Amplifiers"
Subcommittee chair: Hanne Ludvigsen, AAlto University, Finland

Tim Birks, University of Bath, United Kingdom
Fabrizio Di Pasquale, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
David DiGiovanni, OFS, USA
Tommy Geisler, OFS Fitel, Denmark
Sailing He, Zhejiang University, P.R. China
Dag Roar Hjelme, Optomed, Norway
Maryanne Large, University of Sydney, Australia
Sang-Bae Lee, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Hans Limberger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Antonio Mecozzi, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Patrice Mégret, University of Mons, Belgium
Pascale Nouchi, Draka Communications, France
Periklis Petropoulos, ORC - University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Valerio Pruneri, ICFO - ICREA, Spain
Stojan Radic, University of California San Diego, USA
Christian G. Schaeffer , Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Ping Shum, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Subcommittee 2, "Waveguide and Optoelectronic Devices"
Subcommittee chair: Roel Baets, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium

Liam Barry, Dublin City University, Ireland
Paolo Bassi, University of Bologna, Italy
Joe Campbell, University of Virginia, USA
Chris Doerr, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA
Guang-Hua Duan, Alcatel Thales III-V Lab, France
Gadi Eisenstein, Technion, Israel
Piero Gambini, Avago Technologies, Italy
Douwe Geuzebroek, Lionix, The Netherlands
Christoph Harder, Swiss Laser Net, Switzerland
Hiroshi Ishikawa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Ursula Keller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Yong-Hee Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Christian Lerminiaux, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Jürg Leuthold, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Yi Luo, Tsinghua University, China
Graeme Maxwell, Centre for Integrated Photonics, United Kingdom
Yoshiaki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Marco Romagnoli, PGT Photonics, Italy
Salvador Sales Maicas, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Subcommittee 3, "Subsystems and Network Elements for Optical Networks"
Subcommittee chair: Antonio Teixeira, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Hercules Avramopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
John Cartledge, Queens University, Canada
Andrew Ellis, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Yaohui Jin, Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China
Claude Le Bouetté, Ekinops, France
Mario Martinelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Masata Nakazawa, University of Tohoku, Japan
Werner Rosenkranz, Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany
Roberto Sabella, Ericsson Telecomunicazioni, Italy
Seb Savory, University College London, United Kingdom
Minoru Shikada, NEC, Japan
Alan Willner, University of Southern California, USA
Yong Hyub Won, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Subcommittee 4, "Transmission Systems"
Subcommittee chair: Polina Bayvel, University College London, United Kingdom

Peter Andrekson, Chalmers University, Sweden
Giovanni Bellotti, Alcatel-Lucent, Italy
Sébastien Bigo, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Alberto Bononi, University of Parma, Italy
Huug De Waardt, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jörg-Peter Elbers, ADVA Optical Networking, Germany
René-Jean Essiambre, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Fabrizio Forghieri, Cisco Photonics Italy, Italy
Ekaterina Golovchenko, Tyco Telecommunications, USA
Kazuo Hagimoto, NTT, Japan
Michel Joindot, University of Rennes 1, France
Hiroshi Onaka, Fujitsu, Japan
Klaus Petermann, Berlin University of Technology, Germany
Christophe Peucheret, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Mark Shtaif, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Torger Tokle, OFS Fitel Denmark, Denmark
Rupert Ursin, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria 


Subcommittee 5, "Backbone and Core Networks"
Subcommittee chair: Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium

Carlo Cavazzoni, Telecom Italia, Italy
Andreas Gladisch, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
Jean-Pierre Hamaide, Alcatel-Lucent, France
Gabriel Junyent, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Andrew Lord, BT, United Kingdom
Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan
Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Jan Späth, Tesat, Germany
Hidenori Taga, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology, Greece
Naoya Wada, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan
Ben Yoo, University of California Davis, USA
Evi Zouganeli, Telenor, Norway

Subcommittee 6, "Access Networks and LAN"
Subcommittee chair: Gabriella Cincotti, University Roma Tre, Italy

Luis Cucala Garcia, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain
Juan Pedro Fernandez-Palacios, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain
Stéphane Gosselin, Orange Labs, France
Pat Iannone, AT&T, USA
Chinlon Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Kurt Lösch, Alcatel-Lucent, Germany
Thas Nirmalathas, University of Melbourne, Australia
Albert Rafel, BT, United Kingdom
Jerzy Siuzdak, Warsaw Technical University, Poland
Alexandros Stavdas, University of Peloponnese, Greece
Eduward Tangdiongga, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Gerlas Van den Hoven, Genexis, Netherlands
Peter Vetter, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium
Ping-Kong Alex Wai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong