Video ECOC 2011

Welcome to ECOC 2011

Like every year, around 500 basic research scientists and R&D engineers presented to an international audience the results of current scientific work as well as major innovations in technologies related to optical communication.

Best Student Paper Award Ultra-Long-Haul Transmission of 7×42.9 Gbit/s PS-QPSK and PM-BPSK Carsten Behrens, Domanic Lavery, David Millar, Sergejs Makovejs, Benn C. Thomsen, Robert Killey, Seb Savory, Polina Bayvel Electronic & Electrical Engineering University College London, UK

Fabio Neri Award For the paper with the highest score submitted in the area of backbone and core networks:   «Field Trial of a 1.5 Tb/s Adaptive and Gridless OXC Supporting Elastic 1000-Fold Bandwidth Granularity.» Norberto Amaya, Georgios S. Zervas, Bijan Rahimzadeh Rofoee, Muhammad Irfan, Yixuan Qin, Dimitra Simeonidou University of Essex, UK

Public lectures:  Colladon The ECOC conference comes to Geneva exactly 170 years after Jean-Daniel Colladon’s first demonstration of light guiding in a water jet at the Academy of Science, now the University of Geneva. This anniversary will be celebrated with the public lectures “Milestones in Light Guiding" read more

Science of Secrecy by Simon Singh Sunday Public Talks   The evening plenary  will explore the history of cryptography. The talk will include a demonstration of a genuine Second World War Enigma machine. read more

Opening Ceremony - Monday Plenary Talks - Carsten Schloter, Swisscom, Switzerland       - Andrew F. Bach, NYSE Euronext, USA              - Thomas Skordas, Photonics.com, EU              - Hiromichi Shinohara, NTT, Japan                      - Nicolas Gisin, Uni. Geneva, Switzerland read more