Session 1.10:Optical Systems & Networks

Tuesday Afternoon, May 30

Session 1.10:	Optical Systems & Networks
Time & Place:	15:00 - 17:00, La Galerie
Chairperson:	B. Batagelj Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

1.10.1	15:00 All-optical amplification in LiNbO₃ waveguides via cascaded second order nonlinearity x^(2):x⁽²⁾M. Bozzetti, A. D'Orazio, M. De Sario, V. Petruzzelli, F. Prudenzano Department of Electrotechnical and Electronics, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
1.10.2	15:15 Wavelength conversion in periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides exploiting cascaded second order nonlinearity x⁽²⁾:x⁽²⁾ M. Bozzetti, A. D'Orazio, M. De Sario, V. Petruzzelli, F. Prudenzano Department of Electrotechnical and Electronics, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
1.10.3	15:30 Demonstration of a Fabry-Perot active switch by the bidirectional MoL-BPM A. D'Orazio, M. De Sario, V. Petruzzelli, F. Prudenzano, L. Sassi Departimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica del Polytecnico di Bari, Italy
1.10.4	15:45 FDTD simulation of all-optical switching using different wavelength controlling pulse in the NLDC N. Trivunac-Vukovic, B. Milovanovic Department of Telecommunications, Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Nis, Yugoslavia
1.10.5	16:00 Hardware implementation of a multimedia driven HFC MAC protocol H.-C. Leligou, J. Sifnaios, G. Pikrammenos Telecom Lab, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
1.10.6	16:15 The need for wavelength converters in all-optical transport network B. Batagelj Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia