https://www.ecoc2022.org/programme/symposia/10-programme-description/77-symposium-optical-interconnect-in-dcs

8th International Symposium for Optical Interconnect in Data Centres

• Organiser

  Tolga Tekin, Fraunhofer IZM, Germany
  Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  Richard Pitwon, Resolute Photonics, Ireland
  Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
  Paraskevas Bakopoulos, NVIDIA, Greece

• Day & Time

  21.09.2022, 08:30 – 17:30

• Location

  Room Delhi

• Description

  Data centres have continued to evolve dramatically over the past two years with hyperscale now the dominant form of data centre in the world, accelerating the convergence of 5G/6G and even quantum interconnect with traditional datacom into future data centres. This annual symposium continues to evolve accordingly to ad-dress these new disruptive technologies.

  We address evolution of optical interconnect at the front panel with higher density SN/MDC type connectors, which increase  optical channel density at the font panel dramatically over traditional MPO.

  Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) and Near Packaged Optics (NPO) are driving the most dramatic industrial scale photonic integration exercise ever known, while advances in the underlying Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) platforms introduce exciting new materials to further reduce power consumption on optical operations and advances in thermo-plastics are opening the door to solder-reflow resistant complex, low-cost micro-optical components for higher temperature environments.

  Finally, the last two years have seen the introduction of quantum security products, such as quantum random number generators, of quantum networks, quantum computers and machine learning techniques. Quantum communication will become an indispensable means of securing any communication between data centres and the outside world while "Quantum as a Service" (QaaS) schemes will increasingly allow access to quantum computer facilities within the data centre. In parallel, Machine Learning techniques are expected to facilitate signal conditioning, routing and security functionalities by replacing conventional digital processing circuitry and offering a higher energy efficiency framework.

  The symposium includes only Invited Speakers from industry and academia.

  The symposium supported by EU-H2020-MASSTART.

• Speakers

  Andrew Lord, BT, UK
  Angelina Totović, Celestial AI, USA
  Antonio Napoli, Infinera, Germany
  Bernard Lee, Senko Advanced Components, Malaysia
  Darko Zibar, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  Gabrie Hoogland, SABIC, The Netherlands
  Ioannis Tomkos, University of Patras, Greece
  Jörg-Peter Elbers, ADVA, Germany
  Jose Capmany, iPRONICS, Spain
  Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA
  Lars Zimmermann, IHP, Germany
  Nicola Calabretta, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  Reza Nejabati, University of Bristol, UK
  Ségolène Olivier, LETI, France
  Stefan Abel, Lumiphase, Switzerland
  Tomoyuki Akahoshi, Kyocera, Japan