2008 IEEE Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics jointly held with the

2008 Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference

September 30 – October 3, 2008Gold Coast International Hotel

Gold Coast, Australia

Sponsors :

Conference Chairs

• General Co-Chairs– Rodney Tucker, University of Melbourne, Australia– Thas A. Nirmalathas, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Vice Chairs– José Capmany, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,

Spain– Masayuki Izutsu, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan– Dalma Novak, Pharad, USA

TPC Chairs

• TPC Co-Chairs– Christina Lim, University of Melbourne, Australia– Woo-Young Choi, Yonsei University, Korea

• TPC Vice Chairs– David Hunter, Defense Science & Technology Org, Aust– Andreas Stöhr, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany– Rod Waterhouse, Pharad, USA

Technical Program Committee

• Masud Bakaul (University of Melbourne, Australia)

• Manik Attygalle (DSTO, Australia) • Toshiaki Kuri (NICT, Japan)• Seongtack Hwang (Samsung Electronics,

Korea)• Arnan Mitchell (RMIT, Australia)• Tetsuya Kawanishi (NICT, Japan)• Mingshan Zhao (Dalian University, China) • Sheel Aditya (NTU, Singapore)• Tadao Nagatsuma (NTT, Japan)• Linh Nguyen (DSTO, Australia)• Hao-Ching Kuo (National Chiao-Tung Uni,

Taiwan) • Sang-Kook Han (Yonsei Uni, Korea) • Arthur Paolella (ALC, USA)• Ted Darcie (University of Victoria, Canada) • Paul Matthews (Northrop Grumman)• Bill Jemison (Lafayette College) • Keith Williams (NRL)• Peter Delfyett (CREOL)

• Sagi Mathai (Quantum Science Research, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories)

• Bahram Jalali (UCLA) • Ron Esman (DARPA)• Paul Juodawlkis (MIT Lincoln Lab)• Afshin Daryoush (Drexel University) • John Bowers (UCSB) • Valentin Polo (Universidad Politechnica

de Valencia, Spain) • Nathan Gomes (University of Kent)• Alayn Loayssa (Public University of

Navarra, Spain) • Chin-Pang Liu (UCL)• Andreas Umbach (U2T, Germany)• Stavros Iezekiel (University of Cyprus) • Daniel Dolfi (Thales,France) • Luigi Pierno (SELEX SI, Italy) • Tabassam Ismail (UCL) • Yifei Li (Univ of Massachusetts) • Robert Minasian (University of Sydney) • Jean Pierre von der Weid (Pontifícia

Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)

Conference Program

TUE (30/9/2008) WED (1/10/2008) THURS (2/10/2008) FRI (3/10/2008)

1:00-5:00

Workshop on Imaging using

mm-wave, terahertz, optical

(Organizers: Andreas Stöhr

and Stavros Iezekiel)

9:00-10:45

Chairs’ welcome Plenary 1 Plenary 2

8:30-10:30

Mini Symposium: “Looking Beyond”

8:30-10:00

Session V

10:45-11:15

Morning Break 10:30-11:00

Morning Break 10:00-10:30

Morning Break

11:15-12:00

Plenary 3 11:00-12:00

Session III 10:30-12:00

Session VI

12:00-1:30

Lunch 12:00-1:30

Lunch 12:00-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:00

Session I 1:30-3:00

Session IV 1:30-3:00

Session VII

3:00-3:30

Afternoon Break 3:00-3:30

Afternoon Break 3:00-3:30

Afternoon Break

3:30-5:00

Session II 3:30-5:00

Posters 3:30-4:30

Session VIII –Post-deadline

papers6:00-9:00

Welcome Reception

6:00-10:00

Conference Banquet

Paper Submissions

0

4

8

12

16

20

Total submission: 108Countries: 18

Final Program

Invited (12 papers)

Poster Presentation(46 papers) Oral

Presentation(24 papers)

Plenary(3 papers)

• Accepted 70 contributed papers (out of 93 contributed papers)• 9 Technical Sessions • 1 Mini-Symposium• 1 Post-Deadline Session (Accepted 2 PD papers)

Plenary Speakers

Speaker Institute/Organization Topic

Benoit Charbonnier

France Télécom R&D Réseaux d'Accès (RESA) – ANA, France

Photonics for broadband radio communications at 60 GHz in access and home networks

Tadao Nagatsuma

Osaka University, Japan Radio Spectral Evolution with Photonics

Charles Cox Photonic Systems Inc, USA Microwave Photonics – Past and Future

Invited Speakers – Technical Sessions

Speaker Institute/Organization TopicHiroshi Murata

Osaka University, Japan High-Speed Modulators

Ansheng Liu

Intel Corporation, USA Silicon Photonics

Tom Clark John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Linear Fiber-Optic Links

Kazuo Hotate

University of Tokyo, Japan Photonics Signal Processing

Jesper Mork

Technical University of Denmark (COM DTU)

Slow Light in Microwave Photonics

Hiroyo Ogawa

NICT, Japan Standardization activities on LN Modulator within IEC TC103

Stan Skafidas

National ICT Australia, Australia CMOS Technology in Microwave Photonics

Invited Speakers – Mini Symposium

Speaker Institute/Organization Topic

Joe Campbell

University of Virginia, USA Photodetectors beyond 100 GHz

Cyril Renaud

University College London, UK

Communication Systems beyond 1000 GHz

Iwao Hosako

NICT, Japan Communication Devices beyond 1000 GHz

Ron Beresford

CSIRO, Australia Challenges and Opportunities in SKA Systems

Invited Speakers - Workshop

Speaker Institute/Organization TopicDavid Sampson

University of Western Australia, Australia

Optical Imaging Techniques

Johan Stiens

Consultant, Brussels Active Imaging and Sensing in the mm-wave and THz Domains

Derek Abbott

University of Adelaide, Australia

Introduction to Terahertz Imaging

Katsuhiro Ajito

NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories, Japan

Imaging Using mm-waves and THz Lasers

AfshinDaryoush

Drexel University, USA Imaging Applications Exploiting Microwave Frequencies

Social Program• Conference reception at Dolphin Cove, Seaworld

• Conference banquet at Gold Coast International Hotel

Conference Attendance

• 117 Attendees including 58 at the Workshop– Approx 6% lower than MWP 2007 in Victoria, BC (125)– 63.5 % from Asia-Pacific region– 14 % from North America– 22.5 % from Europe

Finances - Final