TOP Conference 2024 took place in London from 21-22 February.
Slides from some of the sessions, where we have permission to share, are available to view below.
Plenary: Harald Bock, Infinera
Stream 1: Telecommunications:
Experimentation enabled by the National Dark Fibre Facility – Martyn Fice, University College London
Stream 2: Quantum Communications:
Building quantum-safe networks with Symmetric Key Distribution – Melchior Aelmans, Juniper Networks
Stream 3: Photonic Components:
How Does Optical Networking Fit in Telecoms Network Architecture – Andy Reid, University of Bristol
Stream 4: Free Space Optics:
Stream 7: Network Planning:
Versatile Optical Network Planning – Andre Richter, VPIphotonics
Stream 8: Telecommunications / Free Space Optics
Mode division multiplexing technology: from ground to space – Feng Wen, UESTC
Rewatch sessions from TOP Conference
The streams from the two days were filmed and some of the videos are available to watch below (where we have permission from the speaker to share)
Stream 1: Telecommunications
- Optical communications – The future is bright by Joerg-Peter Elbers (Adtran)
- Experimentation enabled by the National Dark Fibre Facility by Martyn Fice (University College London)
- Integrating Hollow Core fibres with SMFs by Radan Slavik (University of Southampton)
Stream 2: Quantum Communications
- Building quantum-safe networks with Symmetric Key Distribution by Melchior Aelmans (Juniper Networks)
- Intra-city quantum networks and Inter-City satellite QKD by Siddarth Joshi (University of Bristol)
- Characterisation of Faint-Pulse-Sources for QKD by Peter Schlosser (Fraunhofer UK)
- An Integrated Fibre and Satellite QKD Network Optimisation by Vasileios Karavias (University of Cambridge)
Stream 3: Photonic Components
- Pump Lasers for Optical Amplification in Telecommunication Network Design, Reliability and Applications by Nadhum Zayer (Coherent) UNAVAILABLE
- Components for – and system demonstrations using spatial division multiplexing by Georg Rademacher (University of Stuttgart)
- How Does Optical Networking Fit in Telecoms Network Architecture by Andy Reid (University of Bristol)
- Very Small Fibre Optic Interconnect Solutions Supporting the Exponential Bandwidth Demand by Philip Ward (Senko)
Stream 4: Free Space Optics
- Noise-robust transport and manipulation of photonic spatial mode entanglement by Mehul Malik (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh)
- Toward Wide-Field-of-View and Large Area Optical Detectors for High-Speed Optical Wireless Communication by Abderrahmen Trichili (University of Oxford)
- A micromirror array- based streak camera for multi-channel, multi-spectral LIDAR by David Benton (Aston University)
Stream 5: Data Centres
- Cloud-scale archival data storage using ultrafast lasers by Patrick Anderson (Microsoft)
- Optical Networks for ML Systems by George Zervas (University College London)
- Application of Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers in Optical Communications by Richard Hogg (Aston University)
Stream 6: Telecoms/Photonics for RAN
- Long-haul core networks: Future needs for cable density and high fiber count cables by Lidia Galdino (Corning)
- Optical fibre fronthaul for the disaggregated 6G RAN by Nathan Gomes (University College London)
- Fixed access evolution towards 6G networks by Maxim Kuschnerov (Huawei) NOT AVAILABLE
Stream 7: Network Planning
- Versatile Optical Network Planning by Andre Richter (VPIphotonics)
- AI Carbon Footprint: how to design low complexity and sustainable ai tools by Pedro Freire (Aston University)
- Modeling, Processing and Detection of Optical Signals in Advanced Communication Systems by Tianhua Xu (University of Warwick)
- GPU-Accelerated Framework for Optical Communication System Design and Analysis by Egor Sedov (Aston University)
Stream 8: Telecommunications/ Free Space Optics
- Heterogeneous Integration and Silicon Photonics: Enabling Optics at Scale by Steve Alleston (OpenLight Photonics)
- Fibre optical parametric amplifiers for optical communications by Vladimir Gordienko (Aston University)
- Mode division multiplexing technology: from ground to space by Feng Wen (UESTC)
- 3.52 Tbps Dynamic Demultiplexing of Low-loss Spatial Modes in Strong Turbulence Using Reconfigurable Photonics by Ultan Daly (University of Glasgow)