| Conference title | 9th Symposium on Optical Interconnect in Data Centres | |||
| Tuesday 3rd October 2023 | ||||
| Start time | End time | Speaker | Organisation | Title |
| 8:30 | 8:40 | Carol Monaghan MP | UK Parliament | Opening conference |
| Session title | Session chair | |||
| Session 1 | Optical Migration in Hyperscale | Richard Pitwon | ||
| 08:30 – 10:00 | ||||
| Start time | End time | Speaker | Organisation | Title |
| 8:40 | 9:00 | Craig Thompson | NVIDIA | The impact of AI/ML on the optical transceiver market |
| 9:00 | 9:20 | Antonio Tartaglia | Ericsson | Co-packaged optics for radio access networks: opportunities and challenges |
| 9:20 | 9:35 | Keren Bergman | Columbia University | Petascale photonic connectivity for energy efficient scaling of AI computing |
| 9:35 | 9:55 | Xin Chen | Huawei | The High Baudrate InP Integrated Platform for Optical Interconnect Application |
| 9:55 | 10:10 | Lidia Galdina | Corning | Emerging Fiber and Cable requirements in Data Center Application |
| 10:10 | 10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
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| Session 2 | PIC N Mix | Tolga Tekin | ||
| 10:30 – 12:00 | ||||
| Start time | End time | Speaker | Organisation | Title |
| 10:30 | 10:50 | Nick Psaila | Intel | Detachable Optical Chiplet Connectors for High-bandwidth Optical Compute Interconnects |
| 10:50 | 11:10 | Helene Debregeas | Almae Technologies | High-speed 100 to 200 Gb/s transmitters for datacom |
| 11:10 | 11:30 | Anna O’Dowd | Vector Photonics | Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers (PCSELs): Innovation through simulation |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | Adam Carter | OpenLight | The benefits of heterogeneous integration of III-V actives in silicon for next generation optical interconnects |
| 11:45 | 12:00 | Kazuhiko Kurata | AIO Core | Reliable silicon photonics optical transceiver “IOCore” in high temperature operation and immersion cooling systems |
| 12:00 | 12:15 | Marylise Marchenay | Scintil Photonics | Advanced photonic fully integrated circuits relying on the heterogeneous integration of lasers on the back side of standard silicon photonics: benefits for Direct and Coherent detection communications. |
| 12:15 | 13:30 | Lunch Break | ||
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| Session 3 | Quantum Age of Data Centres | Anke Lohman | ||
| 13:30 – 15:00 | ||||
| Start time | End time | Speaker | Organisation | Title |
| 13:30 | 13:50 | Catherine White | BT | Quantum secured data centre interconnect – feasibility and roadmap |
| 13:50 | 14:10 | Segolene Olivier | CEA Leti | QPICs |
| 14:10 | 14:25 | Michael Geiselmann | Ligentec | Low loss PICs for quantum: every photon counts |
| 14:25 | 14:40 | Ryan Vallance | Senko | Metallic Fiber-Optic Connectors for Quantum PICs |
| 14:40 | 14:55 | Claudia Hössbacher | Polariton | New Tricks with Light: Advancements in Plasmonics and Silicon Photonics |
| 14:55 | 15:10 | Charlotte Ovenden | Aegiq | Quantum light for next generation optical communication |
| 15:10 | 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session title | Session chair | |||
| Session 4 | Light in the Box | Richard Pitwon | ||
| Start time | End time | Speaker | Organisation | Title |
| 15.30 | 15.45 | Ana Gonzalez | IPRONICS | Enabling ultra-low energy and secure optical networks |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Robert Palmer | Huawei | Project ADOPTION – Advance co-packaged optics enabling high-efficiency cloud computing |
| 16:00 | 16:15 | Katherine Bryant | VTT | Silicon photonics-based fast tunable laser development in the Horizon Europe DYNAMOS project |
| 16:15 | 16:30 | Christian Reimer | Hyperlight | Integrated Photonics in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate |
| 16:15 | 16:30 | Cyriel Minkenberg | Lumiphase | BTO enabling high-speed IMDD and coherent optical communications. |
| 16:30 | 16:45 | Christian Reimer | Hyperlight | Integrated Photonics in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | Takaaki Ishigure | Keio University | Polymer optical waveguides for high-density 3-D optical packaging |
| 17:00 | 17:15 | Marika Immonen | TTM | Commercializing Optical Printed Circuit Boards – Volume Manufacturer’s View |
| 17:15 | 17:30 | Lewis Johnson | NLM Photonics | Transatlantic partnerships for hybrid electro-optic modulation |
Speakers
Carol Monaghan MP
Carol was first elected as the Scottish National Party MP for Glasgow North West in 2015, and has served as a MP continuously since then. Prior to her Parliamentary career, Carol gained an undergraduate degree in Laser Physics and Optoelectronics at Strathclyde University, latterly entering the teaching profession and becoming Head of Physics and Head of Science at Hyndland Secondary School in Glasgow. Carol also spent two years as a lecturer at Glasgow University, as well as being an SQA consultant responsible for developing physics qualifications at a national level. Carol sits on the House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee, and she serves as Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Photonics and Quantum. She is currently the SNP’s Westminster Spokesperson for Science, Innovation and Technology and Education.
Dr. Adam Carter, CEO of OpenLight
Dr. Adam Carter is an accomplished leader in the semiconductor industry, bringing over 25 years of experience to his role as Chief Executive Officer of OpenLight. Throughout his career, Adam has held various key positions in Sales, Marketing, and General Management, focusing on Networking, Optical Communication Systems, and Optical Components and Modules markets at HP, Agilent, Avago, and Cisco. Prior to his current role, Adam served as Chief Commercial Officer at Foxconn Interconnect and Oclaro, where he played a vital role in the senior executive team. Dr. Carter holds a B.Sc. (Honors) in Applied Physics from Portsmouth University and received a PhD from the University of Wales, Cardiff, for his research on Reactive Ion Etching of III-V semiconductor materials.
Keren Bergman, Faculty Director of the Columbia Nano Initiative
Keren Bergman is the Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University where she also serves as the Faculty Director of the Columbia Nano Initiative. Bergman received the B.S. from Bucknell University in 1988, and the M.S. in 1991 and Ph.D. in 1994 from M.I.T. all in Electrical Engineering. At Columbia, Bergman leads the Lightwave Research Laboratory encompassing multiple cross-disciplinary programs at the intersection of computing and photonics. Since 2023 Bergman is the Director of the Center for Ubiquitous Connectivity (CUbiC) a 5-year multi-university center funded by DARPA and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) under the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0). Bergman serves on the Leadership Council of the American Institute of Manufacturing (AIM) Photonics leading projects that support the institute’s silicon photonics manufacturing capabilities and Datacom applications. She is the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Engineering Award and is a Fellow of Optica and IEEE.
Dr Richard Pitwon, CEO, Resolute Photonics
Dr Richard Pitwon is CEO of Resolute Photonics and holds 55 patents on diverse range of advanced technologies including optical and photonic interconnect, photonic integrated circuits, optical transceivers, electro-optic circuit boards, optical waveguides, optical assembly, board and chip-level optical connectors, system enclosure cooling management and hyperscale data centre and HPC photonic architectures. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the IET (FIET), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), Senior Member of the IEEE (SIEEE), Senior Member of Optica (OSA) and Senior Member of SPIE. He has authored over 65 peer-reviewed publications including 5 international standards. He is the current chair of the IEC international standards subcommittee on fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components (IEC SC86B), chair of the BSI committee on fibre optics (GEL/86) and chair of the BSI committee on optical connectors (GEL/86/2). He is also the chair of IEEE UK and Ireland Photonics chapter and Quantum Group. He is a key contributor to UK and EU government strategy on optical, photonic and quantum technologies as a member of the ETP4HPC Steering Board, Photonics 21 Board of Stakeholders, UK Photonics Leadership Group, UK Quantum and other organisations.
Antonio Tartaglia, System Manager and Expert in Photonics, Ericsson
Antonio Tartaglia is a System Manager and Expert in Photonics at Ericsson, focusing on optical solutions for RAN and RAN transport networks. He holds a M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering and devoted the last 25 years to optical technologies in a variety of roles, from production engineering to product development and systems design. He loves running studies on novel technologies and new architectures, moving them one step closer to fruition in volume products.
Nick Psaila, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
Nick Psaila received the BSc (Hons) degree in Physics from Imperial College London, UK in 2003, the MSc degree in Photonics and Optoelectronic Devices from St Andrews University, Fife, UK, in 2004, and the Ph.D degree in Physics from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, in 2010. He was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Heriot Watt University from 2009 to 2010 and was then a Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellow from 2010 to 2011. From 2011 to 2020 he was Co-founder and CEO at Optoscribe, and then CTO at Optoscribe until 2022 until the Company’s acquisition by Intel. He is currently Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation in the United Kingdom. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 Journal and Conference papers, holds 8 patents and has more than 20 patents pending in the field of photonic devices and photonic manufacturing. His current focus is on the development of advanced photonic technologies for use in optically interconnected computing applications.
Dr. Xin Chen, Principle Engineer, Ipswich Research Center, Huawei
Dr. Xin Chen is a Principle Engineer at Ipswich Research Center, Huawei. He received Ph.D from Aalborg University, Denmark, and has worked at academia including York University, Manchester University, Cambridge University and industry including Corning Research Center, CIP Technologies, and Huawei Technologies. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers and held over 20 patents. His recent work is focusing on high-speed semiconductor transmitters.
Cyriel Minkenberg, Product Line Management of data- and telecom products, Lumiphase AG
Cyriel Minkenberg is responsible for Product Line Management of data- and telecom products at Lumiphase AG. Previously, he was a System Architect and Product Manager with Rockley Photonics, and a Research Staff Member with IBM Research Zurich. Cyriel received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Hélène Debrégeas, Almae Technologies
Hélène Debrégeas received Engineering degree from Telecom ParisTech in 1994, Mathematics Agrégation teaching certificate in 1995, and Ph.D on widely tunable lasers in 2007. She has worked for more than 20 years at Alcatel Research center (now Nokia Bell Labs, within III-V Lab) on InP transmitters such as electro-absorption modulated lasers, widely tunable laser, and Silicon photonic integrated circuits. From 2012 to 2014, she worked at Nokia Bell Labs Murray Hill (NJ, USA) on hybrid integration of InP transmitters and silica passive waveguides. In 2018 she joined Almae Technologies, a spin-off from III-V Lab, focused on developing and producing InP transmitters for telecommunication applications. She is in charge of research and innovation, to develop next generation products such as high-speed laser-modulators and their hybridization with other technologies or packaging. She contributed to more than 50 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, 20 patents, and a Springer book chapter on widely tunable lasers.
Ryan Vallance, Senko Advanced Components
Dr. Vallance is the VP of the CudoForm Division at Senko Advanced Components. He previously founded CudoForm Inc. and served as CEO and CTO until it was acquired by Senko in 2022. Senko is applying the CudoForm’s proprietary stamping technology to create new solutions for fiber-optic connectivity to photonic integrated circuits. CudoForm’s micro optics offers new solutions in photonic packaging using metallic optical benches, which have features that locate passive components in optical assemblies and aspherical micro mirrors. Dr. Vallance provides executive leadership for the business and leads research and development. Dr. Vallance has many years of experience in precision engineering, including machine and instrument design, and dimensional metrology; expertise in micro machining, nanotechnology, and ultra-high precision stamping. He received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT. Dr. Vallance was a tenured professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The George Washington University, where he founded The George Washington University’s (GW) Institute for Nanotechnology and directed the Precision Systems Laboratory. Dr. Vallance is an inventor with more than 40 patents and more pending. He is an author on more than 30 journal articles and more than 90 conference papers.
Craig Thompson, NVIDIA
Craig is Vice President, Interconnect Products and Technologies, at NVIDIA, and represents optics and cabling products across NVIDIA’s end-to-end accelerated computing solutions. Craig has more than 20 years’ experience in optical communications and networking products working at Intel, Gennum, EMC and Finisar prior to joining NVIDIA. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia, and MBA from MIT.
Dr. Lewis E. Johnson
Dr. Lewis E. Johnson is co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of NLM Photonics. His research spans computational chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology with applications towards cleantech, with a particular focus on hybrid organic electro-optic modulation. Lewis was previously a Research Scientist at the University of Washington (UW) Department of Chemistry and has extensive experience transferring academic technology research into the private sector. He conducted postdoctoral research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and taught at and conducted postdoctoral research at Pomona College. Lewis received a dual Ph.D. in Chemistry and Nanotechnology from UW in 2012 and a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Pomona College in 2007. He is a co-author of the undergraduate textbook Understanding Nanomaterials and a 2022 Puget Sound Business Journal 40 under 40 awardee.
Dr. Christian Reimer, HyperLight Corporation
Dr. Christian Reimer is Co-Founder and Head of Product of HyperLight Corporation and an expert in the fields of integrated high-speed electro-optics and photonics. HyperLight spun out of Harvard in 2018 and is a Venture Capital funded scale-up company which specializes on the commercialization of ultra-high performance integrated photonic solutions in thin-film lithium niobate. HyperLight’s technology offers ultra-high bandwidths, low power consumption, and can be manufactured at large volume. Our solutions offer competitive advantages in various market sectors ranging from performance-driven applications such as Radio-over-Fiber and Test and Measurement, to volume application including telecom and datacom.
Katherine Bryant, VTT
Katherine Bryant holds a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and an M.S. in chemistry from the University of Washington, where her graduate research focused on modifying semiconductor architecture for solar hydrogen fuel production. At AdvR in Bozeman, MT (USA), her work in nonlinear optics involved developing fabrication processes, improving chip frequency conversion efficiency, and exploring novel applications like spontaneous parametric down-conversion for transition edge sensor calibration. She currently leads the efforts for the EU DYNAMOS project at VTT in Espoo, Finland; the target is to develop a silicon photonics-based fast and broadly tunable laser for future data-center networks.
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero
Carmen is the founder and Chief Executive of Nu Quantum, a leading Quantum Computer Networking company based in Cambridge, UK. She is an award-winning quantum physicist and inventor, author of several high-impact research papers and a book based on her doctoral research. Prior to founding Nu Quantum, Carmen carried out her physics education and research at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London. She has been the leader of several pro-equality and LGBTQIA+ visibility groups, initiatives and direct action in STEM and beyond and has Featured in Wired, Forbes, BBC, and Sifted. She serves on the Technical Advisory Board of the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre and is co-founder and director of UKQuantum, the UK’s quantum industry group.
Dr. Takaaki Ishigure
Dr. Takaaki Ishigure is currently a professor of Keio University, Faculty of Science and Technology, the department of applied-physics and physic-informatics. He graduated Keio University, the department of applied chemistry in 1991, and received his Ph.D. degree in in material science from Keio University, Japan in 1996. In 2005, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, as a Visiting Research Scientist. His current research interests are in on-board optical interconnections realized with multimode / single-mode polymer optical waveguides. He published more than 80 original journal papers and 280 international conference papers including several invited papers. He has been a senior member of IEEE and Optica since 2018 and 2019, and works as a committee member of several IEEE and SPIE conferences.
Michael Geiselmann
Michael Geiselmann (President & CCO) studied physics and engineering at University Stuttgart and Ecole Centrale Paris. After his PhD at ICFO in Barcelona in 2014 he joined the laboratory of Prof. Kippenberg at EPFL in Lausanne, where he advanced frequency comb generation on integrated silicon nitride chips towards applications and was involved in several international research projects. In 2016, he co-founded LIGENTEC and brought the company to the international stage of photonic integration.
Marylise MARCHENAY
Marylise MARCHENAY is a Research and Development engineer at SCINTIL Photonics. She holds an engineering diploma from Centrale Marseille and a PhD in Physics and Material sciences from Aix-Marseille University. She joined SCINTIL Photonics in 2021, growing her expertise in the wafer-level testing of SCINTIL III-V/Si fully integrated circuits."
Dr Charlotte Ovenden
Dr Charlotte Ovenden is a Senior Photonics Engineer at Aegiq, a full stack quantum computing and quantum networking start-up. She completed a PhD and undertook postdoctoral research at The University of Sheffield, with a focus on the growth of site-controlled quantum dots for integration into photonic devices. During this time she developed a strong interest in quantum photonics, as a truly scalable quantum technology. At Aegiq she leads on the development of c-band single photon sources, which are a critical resources for quantum photonic computing and communication.
Marika Immonen
Marika Immonen is Director of Optical Technology at TTM Technologies. She holds a M.Sc. in Electronic Prod. and Reliability Engineering from Aalto University. At TTM Commercial Technology she leads product development programs on advanced electro-optical circuit boards, polymer waveguide systems and photonics assembly technologies. She has over 20 years of experience in the PCB industry. She is expert member of Electro-Technical standardization association in Finland, and a member in IEC Standards subcommittee (IEC TC86 JWG9). She has authored and co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed and conference publications. She is a member of the IEEE and SPIE.