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2020年7月1日 2020年7月2日

Optics for the Cloud PhD Event

地点: Virtual/Online

Wednesday, July 1

Session 1
Time BST Session Speaker
13:45 – 14:00 Join Meeting and Informal Chat
14:00 – 14:05 Welcome and Introductions Ant Rowstron, Microsoft Research
14:05 – 14:20 A Whirlwind Tour of Optics for the Cloud Hitesh Ballani, Microsoft Research
14:20 – 14:45 Sub-nanosecond Optical Switching Using Photonic Integrated Soliton Microcomb Arslan Raja, EPFL
(collaboration with Tobias Kippenberg, EPFL and Sophie Lange, Microsoft Research)
14:45 – 15:10 Cost-effective Assembly for Hybrid Integrated Photonic Switches Wenjing Tian, TU/e
(collaboration with Xaveer Leijtens, TU/e and Kai Shi, Microsoft Research)
15:10 – 15:35 Phase and Polarization Spatial Light Modulator (PPSLM) System for Optical Data Storage in Glass Jintao Hong, University of Cambridge
(collaboration with Daping Chu, University of Cambridge and Andreas Georgiou, Microsoft Research)
15:35 – 16:00 Extending Phase Noise Tolerance in UDWDM Access Networks Hubert Dzieciol, UCL
(collaboration with Domaniç Lavery, UCL, Robert Killey, UCL and Christos Gkantsidis and Fotini Karinou, Microsoft Research)
16:00 – 16:20 From Optics to the Cloud: A Networking Perspective Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research
16:20 – 16:30 Day 1 Closing Remarks Francesca Parmigiani, Microsoft Research

Thursday, July 2

Session 2
Time BST Session Speaker
13:45 – 14:00 Join Meeting and Informal Chat
14:00 – 14:05 Welcome and Introductions Francesca Parmigiani, Microsoft Research
14:05 – 14:30 Optics for Distributed Learning: Challenges and Opportunities Alessandro Ottino, UCL
(collaboration with Georgios Zervas, UCL and Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research)
14:30 – 14:55 Synchronous Subnanosecond Clock and Data Recovery for Optically Switched Data Centres using Clock Phase Caching Kari Clark, UCL
14:55 – 15:15 Optical Storage meets Optical Communication: How Digital Signal Processing can Improve Reading Data Stored in Glass Pablo Wilke Berenguer, Microsoft Research
15:15 – 15:40 Optical Interconnection Architectures for On-Board Multi-Chip System Arastu Sharma, University of Cambridge
(collaboration with Richard Penty, University of Cambridge Nikos Bamiedakis, University of Cambridge and Fotini Karinou, Microsoft Research)
15:40 – 16:15 Frequency Stabilized Lasers for Coherent Optical (FRESCO) WDM DSP-free Datacenter Interconnects Grant Brodnik and Mark Harrington, UCSB
(collaboration with Dan Blumenthal, USCB and Hitesh Ballani, Microsoft Research)
16:15 – 16:30 Event Closing Remarks Francesca Parmigiani, Microsoft, TBC