Solitons in Optical Communications

UC Irvine Distinguished Lecture Series:
Solitons in Optical Communications

Presenter: Professor Akira Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
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Dates for Six-Part Lecture Series:

• March 5, 2002
• March 6, 2002
• March 12, 2002
• March 14, 2002
• March 19, 2002
• March 21, 2002

Time: All lectures are from 4:00pm to 5:00pm.

Location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium, UCI
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The six one-hour lectures will present a systematic exposition on ultra-high speed optical soliton communications-from the theoretical foundation to the current status of experiments with particular attention to nonlinear effects. Topics to be covered include information transfer in optical fibers, the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, optical solitons, time jitters, soliton controls, dispersion managed solitons, recent experimental results, and future issues.

Professor Akira Hasegawa is the inventor of optical soliton communication concept and is the recipient of the prestigious Rank Prize (British) and the American Physical Society Maxwell Prize.

Sponsored by:

• School of Physical Sciences
• The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
• California Institute for Telecommunications
  and Information Technology [(Calit²]
• Institute for Surface and Interface Science