Session 1: Towards ultimate performance of silica fibers (90 min, 12 min per speaker + 30 min discussion)
Silica core fiber technologies for ultimately low loss, Takemi Hasegawa, Sumitomo Electric, Japan
Controlling void in silica glass for ultralow optical scattering loss, Madoka Ono, AGC Inc., Japan
Reducing loss beyond silica by anti-resonant fibers, Francesco Poletti, University of Southampton, UK
Recent progress on O-band bismuth-doped fibre amplifiers, Jayanta K. Sahu, University of Southampton, UK
E and S band optical fiber amplifiers, status and practical concerns, Lixian Wang, Huawei Technologies Canada, Canada
Coffee Break (30 min)
Session 2: Ultimate-density transmission fiber (90 min, 12 min per speaker + 30 min discussion)
Scaling fiber modal capacity by topological confinement, Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University, USA
Arbitrary generation of spatiotemporal field, Nicolas Fontaine, Bell Laboratories, USA
165 coupled core fibers for MM and SDM transmissions, Ming-Jun Li, Corning, USA
OAM fibers for high-capacity communications, Leslie A. Rusch, Université Laval, Canada
Investigation of loss mechanisms in few-mode optical fibers, Maroun Bsaibes, Université de Lille, France