Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) 2017

92 Pages·2017·0.92 MB·English

Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) 2017
10–13 November 2017
The Garden Hotel, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Table of Contents
Welcome Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Conference Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Workshops and Forums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Agenda of Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
ACP Technical Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Key to Authors and Presiders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
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Welcome to Guangzhou and to the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference
It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the Asia authors for making ACP a truly unique, outstanding global presented during the Banquet on Sunday, 12 November .
Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) 2017 and event . The poster-only session will be held on Sunday, 12 Novem-
share the latest news in communications and photonics sci- ber from 10:30–12:30 . This is a good chance for you to meet
Our conference highlight is the Plenary Session scheduled
ence, technology and innovations from leading companies, with the authors and discuss technical issues in-depth .
on the morning of Saturday, 11 November . Five outstand-
universities and research laboratories throughout the world .
ing, distinguished speakers will give presentations: David In addition to the technical program, we have also an
ACP is now the largest conference in the Asia-Pacific region
N . Payne, Univ. of Southampton, UK will give a talk on No impressive range of exhibitions from the relevant industries,
on optical communication, photonics and relevant technolo-
Payne Without Gain . Eric Mazur, Harvard Univ., USA will publishers, and professional organizations .
gies . ACP has been held annually tracing back to 2001 and
also present in this session . Connie Chang-Hasnain, Univ.
jointly sponsored by OSA, SPIE, IEEE Photonics Society, We have also prepared a rich social program to facilitate
of California, Berkeley, USA will discuss VCSEL Arrays for 3D
COS and CIC . meeting and networking with colleagues from all over the
Sensing and Imaging . Peter J . Winzer, Massachusetts Inst. of
world . A conference welcome reception will be held in the
The ACP technical conference features a full suite of plenary, Technology, USA will discuss Future Network Scaling and the
evening on Saturday, 11 November . On the evening of
invited, and contributed talks given by international aca- Need for Massive Opto-Electronic Array Integration . Finally
Sunday, 12 November, we will hold a Banquet and Awards
demic and industrial researchers who are leaders in their Dimitra Simeonidou, Univ. of Bristol, UK will give a presenta-
Ceremony for conference registrants .
respective fields . This year’s conference will feature the tion on Ultimate Optical-Wireless Network Convergence:
following topics: Optical Fibers and Fiber-based Devices; Vision, Architecture and Real-Life Deployments . It is an enormous task to organize a conference and it is
Optical Transmission Systems and Networks; Photonic impossible to succeed without the dedicated efforts of many
In addition to the regular technical sessions, 7 workshops
Devices, Components, and Photonic Integration; Microwave supporters and volunteers . We are indebted to the entire
and an Industry Forum on the Advances and Trends of
Photonics; Micro-Nano, and Ultrafast Photonics: Science and Technical Program Committee and the Subcommittee Chairs
Photonics Integration will feature an additional 73 speakers .
Applications; Light Emitting Materials, Devices, and Ap- who have worked persistently throughout the whole year
Pre-conference workshops will be held on Friday, 10 Novem-
plications; Photonics for Energy; Photonics for Biology and to invite speakers, solicit and review papers, organize the
ber starting at 09:00 . These workshops will be held free of
Medicine . The conference will also include a wide spectrum technical sessions which results in the excellent technical
charge to conference registrants . We would like to thank the
of workshops and industrial forums taking place on 10 No- program . We also thank the staff and volunteers of Sun Yat-
workshop organizers and speakers for the excellent program .
vember . With a conference program of broad scope and of Sen University, South China Normal University, Center China
the highest technical quality, ACP provides an ideal venue to Best Student Paper Awards sponsored by OSA will be given Normal University, SKLLMD, Jinan University, Nanophotonics
keep up with new research directions and an opportunity to to students who are first authors and presenters of excep- Research Center, and the Chinese Laser Press . We also with
meet and interact with the researchers who are leading these tional contributed talks . This year, the State Key Laboratory to thank the professional societies OSA and IEEE Photonics
advances . We have over 600 papers scheduled, includ- of Optoelectronic materials and Technologies (the OEMT), Society, and SPIE for organizing and sponsoring the event .
ing nearly 120 invited and 10 tutorial presentations made Sun Yat-sen University, will sponsor the Best Paper Awards
by many of the world’s most prominent researchers from and Best Poster Awards . The selection will be made by Sincerely,
academia and industry . We thank all the contributors and the subcommittees during the conference . Awards will be

Siyuan Yu Chao Lu Xiaoping Zheng
Sun Yat-sen University, China The Hong Kong PolyTech University, China Tsinghua University, China
Univ. of Bristol, UK General Chair General Chair
General Chair
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Committees
Honorary Chairs Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China ACP Track 2: Optical Transmission Systems and
Songhao Liu, South China Normal Univ., China Brian J . Thomas, SPIE, USA Networks
Hequan Wu, China Academy of Information and Bingkun Zhou, Tsinghua Univ., China Chao Lu, Hong Kong Polytech Univ., China, Chair
Communications Technology, China Gangxiang Shen, Soochow Univ., China, Co-chair
Ningsheng Xu, Fudan Univ., China Technical Program Committee Chairs Hoon Kim, KAIST, Korea, Co-chair
Dianyuan Fan, Shenzhen Univ., China Chao Lu, Hong Kong Polytech University, China Nan Chi, Fudan Univ., China
Xiaoping Zheng, Tsinghua University, China Xiang Zhou, Google, USA
General Chairs Xiaocong Yuan, Shenzhen University, China Songnian Fu, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology,
Siyuan Yu, Sun Yat-sen Univ., China and Univ. of Bristol, UK Zhaohui Li, Sun Yat-sen Univ., China China
Chao Lu, The Hong Kong PolyTech Univ., China Xinlun Cai, Sun Yat-sen Univ., China Lilin Yi, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Xiaoping Zheng, Tsinghua Univ., China Krzysztof (Kris) Kempa, Boston College, USA and SCNU, Zhaohui Li, Sun Yat-sen Univ., China
China Qunbi Zhuge, Ciena, Canada
General Co-Chairs Shijian Su, South China University of Technology, China William Shieh, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
Qian Hu, Nokia-Bell Labs, Germany
Baiou Guan, Jinan Univ., China
Local Organizing Committee Georgios Zervas, UCL, UK
Yuguang Ma, South China Univ. of Technology, China
Xiaocong Yuan, Shenzhen Univ., China Yujie Chen, School of Electronics and Information Yoshinari Awaji, NICT, Japan
Guofu Zhou, South China Normal Univ., China Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, China, Chair Darko Zibar, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark 
Xiangshi Zheng, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic
ACP Track 3: Photonic Devices, Components, and
Steering Committee Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University, China,
Co-chair Photonic Integration
Xiaomin Ren, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications,
Xiuyan Lin, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Hon Ki Tsang, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China, Chair
China, Chair
and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University,China John Marsh, Univ. of Glasgow, UK, Co-chair
Yasuhiko Arakawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Shaojun Ye, State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Xinlun Cai, Sun Yat-sen Univ., China, Co-chair
Christine L . Bluhm, IEEE Photonics Society, USA
Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University,China Gunther Roelkens, Ghent Univ., Belgium
Naomi Chavez, OSA, USA
Yohsiaki Nakano, Tokyo Univ., Japan
Arthur Chiou, Yang-Ming Univ., Taipei, China
Subcommittees Liu Liu, South China Normal Univ., China
Christopher Jannuzzi, IEEE Photonics Society, USA
Yu Yu, Huazhong Univ. of Sci &Tech, China
Yun C . Chung, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and
ACP Track 1: Optical Fibers and Fiber-based Devices Niklos Bamiedakis, Cambridge Univ., UK
Technology, Korea
Connie J . Chang-Hasnain, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA Benyuan Zhu, OFS Labs, USA, Chair Patty Stabile, Technical Univ. of Eindhoven, Netherlands
Sailing He, Zhejiang Univ., China & KTH, Sweden Xuping Zhang, Nanjing Univ., China, Co-chair Qiang Lin, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Chennupati Jagadish, Australian National Univ., Australia Hui Cao, Yale Univ., USA Chunle Xiong, Australian National Univ., Australia
Thomas L . Koch, Univ. of Arizona, USA Nicolas Fontaine, Nokia Bell Labs, USA Wei Shi, Laval Univ., China
Ming-Jun Li, Corning Inc., USA Takemi Hasegawa, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd, Japan Giampiero Contestabile, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy
Xingde Li, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA Xin Jiang, City Univ. of New York, USA
Xiang Liu, Huawei Technologies, USA Fan Li, Sun Yat-Sen Univ., China
Chao Lu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China Periklis Petropoulos, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Qingming Luo, Wuhan National Laboratory for Pierre Sillard, Prysmian Group, France
Optoelectronics & Huazhong Univ. of Science and Baishi Wang, Thorlabs, Vytran Division, USA
Technology, China Liangming Xiong, YOFC, China
Qian Mao, Wuhan Research Inst. of Posts and
Telecommunications, China
Ping Perry Shum, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
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ACP Track 4: Microwave Photonics Paul Urbach, Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands ACP Track 8: Photonics for Biology and Medicine
Xiaoping Zheng, Tsinghua Univ., China, Chair Huitian Wang, Nanjing Univ., China Da Xing, South China Normal Univ., China, Chair
Nathan Gomes, Univ. of Kent, UK, Co-chair Jian Wang, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, Valery V . Tuchin, Saratov State Univ., Russia, Co-chair
Zhangyuan Chen, Peking Univ., China, Co-chair China Qingming Luo, Wuhan National Laboratory for
Arokiaswami Alphones, NTU, Singapore Jianfang Wang, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China Optoelectronics & Huazhong Univ. of Science and
Gee-Kung, Chang, GTI, USA Yunfeng Xiao, Peking Univ., China Technology, China, Co-chair
Yi Dong, Beijing Inst. of Technology, China Anatoly Zayats, King’s College London, UK Xingde Li, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA, Co-chair
Shanguo Huang, Beijing Univ. of Posts and Qiwen Zhan, Univ. of Dayton, USA Jürgen Popp, Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena, Germany
Telecommunications, China Lei Zhou, Fudan Univ., China Dick Sterenborg, Academic Medical Centre, Netherlands
Ming Li, Inst. of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of David Sampson, Univ. of Western Australia, Australia
ACP Track 6: Light Emitting Materials, Devices, and
Sciences, China Steven Jacques, Oregon Health & Science Univ., USA
Applications
Wangzhe Li, Inst. of Electrics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huabei Jiang, Univ. of Florida, USA
China Shijian Su, South China Univ. of Technology, China, Chair Junle Qu, Shenzhen Univ., China
Yifei Li, Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Xiaohong Zhang, Soochow Univ., China, Co-chair Zhihua Ding, Zhejiang Univ., China
Guo-Wei Lu, Tokai Univ., Japan Xiaowei Sun, Southern Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Liu, The Univ. of Oklahoma, USA
Borja Vidal Rodriguez, Universitat Politècnica de València, China, Co-chair Ruikang Wang, Univ. of Washington Seattle, USA
Spain Xiaogang Peng, Zhejiang Univ., China, Co-chairs Shaoqun Zeng, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology,
Iezekiel Stavros, Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus Chun-Sing Lee, City Univ. of Hong Kong, China China
Eduward Tangdiongga, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Lian Duan, Tsinghua Univ., China Xunbin Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Netherlands Guoqiang Li, South China Univ. of Technology, China Jianxin Chen, Fujian Normal Univ., China
Xianbin Yu, Zhejiang Univ., China Jianpu Wang, Nanjing Tech Univ., China Sihua Yang, South China Normal Univ., China
Xiaoxiao Xue, Tsinghua Univ., China Yizheng Jin, Zhejiang Univ., China
ACP Track 5: Micro-, Nano-, and Ultrafast Photonics: ACP Track 7: Photonics for Energy
Science and Applications Krzysztof (Kris) Kempa, Boston College, USA and SCNU,
Xiaocong Yuan, Shenzhen Univ., China, Chair China, Chair
Min Qiu, Zhejiang Univ., China, Co-chair Mike J . Naughton, Boston College, USA, Co-chair
Chengwei Qiu, Shenzhen Univ., China, Co-chair Jinwei Gao, South China Normal Univ., China, Co-chair
Ya Cheng, East China Normal Univ., China, Co-chair Michael Giersig, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, Co-chair
Yves Belluard, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Paul Mulvaney, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
(EPFL), Switzerland Liming Ding, NCNT, Beijing, China
Yangjian Cai, Soochow Univ., China Chuanfei Guo, SUSTech, Shenzhen, China
Yujie Chen, Sun Yat-Sen Univ., China Hans Joachim Lewerenz, California Inst. of Technology, USA
Yijun Feng, Nanjing Univ., China Liang Li, Soochow Univ., China
Min Gu, RMIT Univ., Australia Haibo Zeng, Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Jun He, Central South Univ., China Zhixiang Wei, National Center for Nanoscience and
Peter Herman, Univ. of Toronto, Canada Technology, China 
Dangyuan Lei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China
Guixin Li, Southern Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Xiangping Li, Jinan Univ., China
Zhaowei Liu, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA
Asger Mortensen, Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark
Stefan Nolte, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Germany
Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston Univ., USA
Michael Somekh, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China
Din Ping Tsai, National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, China
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) • 10 November 2017–13 November 2017 • Page 4
General Information
Conference Venue: The Garden Hotel Guangzhou Transportation Railway Station to the hotel . Details of travel from
Guangzhou South Railway Station are listed above .
Address: 368 Huanshi Dong Lu, Yuexiu District Guang- From Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
zhou, 510064, China
By Airport Line: Take Airport Express Line 2A to Garden Registration
Hotel Station (approximately 1 hour 30 min, 20RMB) . Location: Garden Hotel Lobby
By Subway; Take Subway Line 3 (North Extension Sec- Hours:
tion) from Airport South Station to Jiahe Wanggang
Station . Transfer to Line 2 to Guangzhou Railway Station . 08:30–18:00 Friday, 10 November
Transfer to Line 5 to Taojin Station . You will need to walk
08:00–18:00 Saturday, 11 November
to the hotel from Taojin Station (approximately 1 hour, 7
08:00–18:00 Sunday, 12 November
minutes, 7 RMB)
08:00–16:00 Monday, 13 November
By Taxi: 35 km to Garden Hotel (approximately 40 min-
utes, 127RMB)
Speaker Preparation
From Guangzhou Railway Station
All oral presenters should check in at the correspond-
By Subway: Take Line 5 from Guangzhou Railway Sta- ing ses- sion room at least thirty minutes prior to their
tion to Taojin Station then walk to the Hotel (approxi- scheduled talk to upload and check their presentation .
mately 10minutes, 2RMB) No shows of the oral presentation will be reported to
Conference manage- ment and these papers will not be
By Taxi: 3 .5 km to Garden Hotel (approximately 6 min-
published.
utes, 13RMB)
Accessibility
From Guangzhou South Railway Station Poster Preparation
The Garden hotel is a luxury hotel in the city center
By Subway: Take Line 2 from Guangzhou South Rail-
of Guangzhou in the People’s Republic of China, The Authors should prepare their poster before the poster
way Station to Guangzhou Railway Station . Transfer to
Garden Hotel Guangzhou is centrally located on Huan- ses- sion starts . The poster must not exceed the
Line 5 to Taojin Station . Walk from the Taojin Station to
shi Dong Lu, in the heart of Guangzhou’s prosperous boundaries of the display board and A0 size is recom-
the Hotel (approximately 1 hour, 6RMB) .
business district, only 35 kilometres from Guangzhou mended . Authors are required to be standing by their
Airport . The hotel is less than 15 minutes away from By Taxi: 26km to Garden Hotel (approximately 45 min- poster for the duration of their allocated session to
the Trade Fair Centre, and within easy reach of many utes, 70RMB) answer questions and further dis- cuss their work with
attractions of Guangzhou such as Shamian Island and attendees . No shows will be reported to Conference
From Hong Kong International Airport
the colourful Qingping Market, as well as some of the management and these papers will not be published.
city’s best shopping, dining and entertainment . By Shuttle:  Proceed to Counters C10 - C14, Coach
Poster Board Size – 1m (Length) * 2 .235m (Height)
Station, Terminal 2 then purchase tickets at Mainland
Coach Service and take the shuttles to Garden Hotel Set-up Time: Saturday, 11 November from 12:00–20:00
Guangzhou (approximately 3 hours, 30 min, 250RMB）
Tear-down Time: Monday, 12 November from 12:30–
From Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport 18:00
Take a taxi to Shenzhen North Railway Station (approxi-
mately 33km, 50 minutes, 90RMB) . Then take a high-
speed train to Guangzhou South Railway Station . Use
either subway or taxi to travel from Guangzhou South
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Exhibition Social Activities
The ACP Exhibition is open to all attendees .
Welcome Reception
Location: Exhibition area outside the garden grand ball
The ACP 2017 Welcome Reception will be held on
room. 1F. the Garden Hotel, Guangzhou
Saturday, 11 November . It is free to all the registered
Hours: participants . A ticket is provided within the badge . And
extra ticket could be purchased at the Registration
09:00–12:30 Saturday, 11 November Desk for 300RMB per person .
Location: The Grand Balll Room, IF, The Garden Hotel
Location: Corridor & public area, 3F, the Garden Hotel,
Guangzhou Time: 18:30–21:30
Hours:
Conference Banquet and Awards Ceremony
13:00–18:00 Saturday, 11 November
The ACP 2017 Banquet and Awards Ceremony will be
09:00–18:00 Sunday, 12 November
held on Sunday, 12 November . The OSA Best Student
09:00–16:00 Monday, 13 November Paper Awards, The OEMT Best Paper Awards, and The
OEMT Best Poster Awards will be presented at the
Coffee Breaks
banquet .
10:30–11:00 Friday, 10 November
The Banquet is NOT INCLUDED in the registration fee
15:30–16:30 Friday, 10 November for students, but is included for all other regular regis-
tration types . The ticket is provided within the badge .
10:30–10:45 Saturday, 11 November
Additional tickets for the banquet can be purchased at
15:30–16:00 Saturday, 11 November
the registration desk for 500RMB per person .
10:30–12:30 Sunday, 12 November
Location: The Grand Ball Room, 1F, Garden Hotel
16:00–16:30 Sunday, 12 November
Time: 18:30–21:30
10:30–11:00 Monday, 13 November
15:30–16:00 Monday, 13 November
Conference Materials
ACP 2017 Technical Digest will be provided in a
USB drive and not available in print form . The ACP 2017
Technical Digest material is composed of the 3-page
summaries of invited and accepted contributed papers .
The Technical Digest material is included with a technical
conference registration and can be found in your registra-
tion bag . The Digest will be available on OSA Publishing’s
Digital Library (https://www .osapublishing .org/) and IEEE
Xplore Digital Library (http://www .ieee .org/web/publica-
tions/xplore/) after the conference . IEEE Xplore Digital Li-
brary and OSA Publish- ing’s Digital Library are archived
and indexed by INSPEC R and EI Compendex, where it
will be available to the interna- tional technical community .
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Conference Highlights
Plenary Presentations boost the local economy . He founded SPI Lasers PLC, which (Pearson, 2015), a book that presents a groundbreaking new
Time: 08:00–11:30, Saturday, 11 November has recently been purchased by the Trumpf Corporation of approach to teaching introductory calculus-based physics .
Venue: Garden Grand Ballroom, The Garden Hotel Germany for $40M . Recently elected Chairman of the Mar- Mazur is a leading speaker on optics and on education . His
coni Society and to the Russian Academy of Sciences, David motivational lectures on interactive teaching, educational
ACP 2017 will feature five plenary presentations . The pre-
is a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of technology, and assessment have inspired people around
sentations will be preceded by an Opening Ceremony from
Engineering . He became a Commander of the British Empire the world to change their approach to teaching .
08:00 – 08:15 . For more information about the individual
in the 2007 New Years Honours list . In addition he has been
presenters, talk titles and biographies appear below .
awarded the top American, European and Japanese prizes in VCSEL Arrays for 3D Sensing and
photonics . Recent awards include the Marconi Prize in 2008 Imaging
No Gain Without Payne and the 2007 IEE Photonics Award the first to be awarded
to a person outside the USA . Most recently, in 2010, David 09:45–10:30
08:15–09:00
received the AILU (Association of Laser Users) Award for his
Connie Chang-Hasnain
David N. Payne pioneering work with fibre lasers .
Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA
ORC, Univ. of Southampton, UK
Nanyang Technological University, Extreme Optics with Zero Biography: Connie Chang-Hasnain is
Singapore Refractive Index Associate Dean for Strategic Alliances
of College of Engineering and Whinnery
Biography: Professor Sir David Neil
09:00–09:45 Distinguished Chair Professor in Electrical Engineering and
Payne CBE FRS FREng is a leading Pro-
Computer Sciences, at the University of California, Berkeley .
fessor at the University of Southampton and Director of the Eric Mazur
She has been the Founding Co-Director of Tsinghua-Berke-
Optoelectronics Research Centre . A world class pioneer of Harvard Univ., USA
ley Shenzhen Institute since 2015 . She is also the Chief Aca-
technology, his work has had a great impact on telecommu-
Biography: Eric Mazur is the Balkanski demic Officer of Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in
nications and laser technology over the last forty years . The
Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Singapore (BEARS) and Proram Leader of BEARS’ SinBeR-
vast transmission capacity of today’s internet results directly
and Dean of Applied Physics at Har- ISE (Singapore Berkeley Research Initiative on Sustainable
from the erbium-doped fibre amplifier (EDFA) invented by
vard University, Member of the Faculty of Education at the Energy) program since April 2015 . Prof . Chang-Hasnain
David and his team in the 1980s . His pioneering work in fibre
Harvard Graduate School of Education, and President of the received her Ph .D . from UC Berkeley in 1987 . Prior to join-
fabrication in the 70s resulted in almost all of the special
Optical Society . Mazur is a prominent physicist known for his ing the Berkeley faculty, Dr . Chang-Hasnain was a member
fibres in use today including fibre lasers which are currently
contributions in nanophotonics, an internationally recog- of the technical staff at Bellcore (1987–1992) and Assistant
undergoing rapid growth for application in manufacturing
nized educational innovator, and a sought after speaker . In Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
and defence . David has made numerous leading contri-
education he is widely known for his work on Peer Instruc- (1992–1995) . Professor Chang-Hasnain has been honored
butions to many diverse fields of photonics and is widely
tion, an interactive teaching method aimed at engaging stu- with many awards including the UNESCO Medal For the
acknowledged as an inventor of key components . Currently,
dents in the classroom and beyond . In 2014 Mazur became Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies (2015),
his main research interest is high-power fibre lasers . With
the inaugural recipient of the Minerva Prize for Advance- IEEE David Sarnoff Award (2011), the OSA Nick Holonyak Jr .
US funding, he led the team that broke the kilowatt barrier
ments in Higher Education . He has received many awards for Award (2007), etc . Additionally, she has been awarded with a
for fibre laser output to international acclaim and now holds
his work in physics and in education and has founded several National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow-
many other fibre laser performance records . An original
successful companies . Mazur is Chief Academic Advisor for ship by the US Department of Defense (2008), a Humboldt
member of the Highly Cited Researchers (USA) he is hon-
Turning Technologies, a company developing interactive re- Research Award (2009), and a Guggenheim Fellowship
oured as one of the most referenced, influential researchers
sponse systems for the education market . Mazur has widely (2009) . She was a member of the USAF Scientific Advisory
in the world . He has published over 650 Conference and
published in peer-reviewed journals and holds numerous Board, the IEEE LEOS Board of Governors, OSA Board of
Journal papers and is a frequent plenary and invited speaker
patents . He has also written extensively on education and is Directors, and the Board on Assessment of NIST Programs,
at major international optics conferences . As an entrepre-
the author of Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual (Prentice Hall, National Research Council . She was the Editor-in-Chief of
neur David’s activities have led to a cluster of 11 photonics
1997), a book that explains how to teach large lecture class- Journal of Lightwave Technology 2007-2012 .
spin out companies in and around Southampton - helping to
es interactively, and of the Principles and Practice of Physics
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) • 10 November 2017–13 November 2017 • Page 7
Her research is focusing in the fields of High Performance Best Student Paper Awards, 4 recipients, 3000 RMB
Future Network Scaling and the
Networks, Software Defined Networking, Network Conver- (Chinese Yuan) for each
Need for Massive Opto-Electronic
gence and Smart City infrastructures . She is the author and
Array Integration To be eligible for the award, a student must be the first
co-author of over 400 publications, numerous patents and
author of the paper and declare his/her student candidature
10:45–11:30 several major contributions to standards . She worked in
during online submission; and the student must give the pre-
Alcatel Submarine Networks as a Principle Engineer and she
Peter Winzer sentation at the conference by himself/herself . The selection
has been co-founder of two spin-out companies . The latest
Nokia Bell Laboratories, USA will be made by the subcommittees during the conference .
company is the University of Bristol, venture capital funded,
The awards will be presented at the conference banquet in
Biography: Peter J . Winzer received spin-out Zeetta Networks (http://www .zeetta .com), deliver-
the evening of Sunday, 12 November .
his Ph .D . from the Vienna University of ing SDN solutions for enterprise networks . Since 2015,
Technology, Austria, where he worked on space-borne lidar Dimitra has been the technical architect and the CSO of the
and laser communications for the European Space Agency . smart city project Bristol Is Open (www .bristolisopen .com), OEMT Best Paper Award
At Bell Labs since 2000, he has focused on many aspects delivering the world’s first open and programmable experi- ACP 2017 is pleased to announce that this year’s Best Paper
of fiber-optic communications, including advanced optical mental test-bed at city-scale . Awards on ACP will be sponsored by OEMT:
modulation, multiplexing, and detection . He has contributed
to several high-speed optical transmission records and field Keynote Banquet Talk 2 recipients, 3000 RMB (Chinese Yuan) for each
trials from 100 Gb/s to 1 Tb/s and has been globally promot- Time: 18:30–21:30, Sunday, 12 November The candidates will be nominated by the subcommittee
ing spatial multiplexing to overcome the optical networks Venue: Garden Grand Ballroom, The Garden Hotel chairs . The winners will be selected by the TPCC during the
capacity crunch . He has widely published and patented and
conference . The awards will be presented at the conference
is actively involved with the IEEE Photonics Society and the Nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy: banquet in the evening of Sunday, 12 November .
OSA, including service as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/OSA Driving electrons, ions, dipoles, and
Journal of Lightwave Technology, Program Chair of ECOC
spins OEMT Best Poster Award
2009, and Program/General Chair of OFC 2015/17 . Dr . Win-
zer is a Highly Cited Researcher, a Bell Labs Fellow, a Fellow 18:45–19:15 ACP 2017 is pleased to announce that this year’s Best Poster
of the IEEE and the OSA, and an elected member of the US Awards on ACP will be sponsored by OEMT:
Keith Nelson
National Academy of Engineering .
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2 recipients, 3000 RMB (Chinese Yuan) for each
USA
Ultimate Optical-Wireless Network The selection will be based on the voting of conference
Convergence: Vision, Architecture Biography: Keith Nelson received his delegates . The awards will be presented at the conference
and Real-Life Deployments Ph .D . in Physical Chemistry from Stanford University in 1981, banquet in the evening of Sunday, 12 November .
and after a postdoctoral stint at UCLA he joined the faculty
11:30–12:15 at MIT in 1982 . He has worked on discovery of new light-
matter interactions and their exploitation for spectroscopy
Dimitra Simeonidou
and control of coherent acoustic waves, lattice and molecu-
Univ. of Bristol, UK
lar vibrations, excitons, spins, and their admixtures with light .
Biography: Dimitra is a Full Professor at He has developed novel methods for study of solid-state Poster Session
the University of Bristol, the Director of chemical reactions, crystals near phase transitions, glass- Time: 10:30–12:30, Sunday, 12 November
the Smart Internet Lab (www .bristol .ac .uk/smart), the Chief forming liquids, electronic excited-state dynamics, thermal Venue: Exhibition Area, 3F, The Garden Hotel
Scientific Officer (CSO) of Bristol Is Open and the Head of transport, and matter far from equilibrium . He has pioneered
the High Performance Networks group (HPN), a Royal Soci- tabletop generation of strong terahertz-frequency fields and Almost 200 posters will be displayed during ACP 2017 . The
ety Wolfson scholar . Since 2015, Dimitra has been the tech- nonlinear terahertz spectroscopy . poster session is designed to provide an opportunity for
nical architect and the CSO of the smart city project Bristol selected papers to be presented in greater visual detail and
Is Open (www .bristolisopen .com), delivering the world’s first OSA Best Student Paper Awards facilitate vivid discussions with attendees . Authors will remain
open and programmable experimental test-bed at city-scale . in the vicinity of the bulletin board for the duration of the
ACP 2017 is pleased to announce that this year’s Best Stu- session to answer questions .
dent Paper Awards on ACP will be sponsored by OSA:
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) • 10 November 2017–13 November 2017 • Page 8
Workshops and Forums
Transmission and Switching Techniques for 10:40–11:00 Xiangjun Xin, Beijing Univ. of Post and Tele- • Indoor and outdoor optical channel modeling and charac-
Data Centers communications, China terization
Topic: Title to be Announced
Workshop Time: 09:00–12:30, Friday, 10 November • Enabling technologies on the physical layer: new LED and
Venue: The Garden Hotel, Orchi Room 11:00–11:20 Ciyuan Qiu, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ. China detectors, advanced modulation methods, equalization
Topic: Optical Switching Based on Silicon Microrings with and estimation, new signal processing algorithms, etc .
Organizers: Yikai Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China and
Wavelength Alignment
Zhaohui Li, Sun Yat-Sen Univ., China • Topology control, routing and VLC network architecture
11:20–11:40 Bo Liu, Beijing Univ. of Post and Telecommuni-
Description: Data center traffic is growing rapidly at an • Integration of VLC with PLC, Ethernet, WiFi and Mobile
cations, China
yearly rate of ~25% . Photonic technologies for transmis- Communication
Topic: High speed optical transmission system based on
sion and switching can provide solutions to deal with this
fast growth with high capacity, compact footprint and low probabilistic shaping and geometric shaping • Versatile applications of VLC systems/networks: Optical
power consumption . Optical interconnects within and Camera Communications, under water wireless communi-
between the data centers are key technologies . High data International Workshop on Visible Light cation, navigation and localization, application in vehicular
rate and low cost are desired in designing and implementa- Communications at ACP 2017 communications, etc .
tion of transmission systems . Modulation and multiplexing Workshop Time: 09:00–12:30, Friday, 10 November Speakers:
techniques will be discussed and explored . Furthermore, Venue: The Garden Hotel, Magnolia Room
the back planes of the electronic switches seem to impose 09:00–09:20 Gong-Ru Lin, Graduate Institute of Photonics
limitations on data transfer speed and interconnect density . Organizers: Gong-ru Lin, National Taiwan University, China; and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, China
Optical switching may be able to handle large traffic of Nan Chi, Fudan University, China; and Lilin Liu, Sun Yat-Sen Topic: Advances in Laser Diode White Lighting and Free-
coarse granularities if combined with electronic switches for University, China Space Communications
fine granularities . At the device level, in addition to VESELs Description: With the increasingly scarce of wireless spec- 09:20–09:40 Nan Chi, School of Information Science and
and other III-V components, silicon photonics has penetrated trum resources and the urgent demands of high speed, Engineering, Fudan Univ., China
into data centers with PSM4 and WDM . safe, environmentally friendly means of communication in Topic: Key Components for High-speed Visible Light Com-
Speakers: nowadays, visible light communication emerges at a historic munication
moment . In recent ten years, VLC technology has been
09:00–09:20 Jian Wu, Beijing Univ. of Post and Telecommu- developed rapidly . Governments worldwide have paid great 9:40–10:00 Hao-Chung Kuo, National Chiao-Tung Univ.,
nications, China attentions on it . By using a LED as the signal transmitter, VLC China
Topic: Scalable Optical Interconnect Network Based on is expected to integrate communication functions on the Topic: Progress of Blue VCSELs and u-LED/LDs
Small World Topology for Data Centers existing lighting facilities, which can provide a new wire- 10:00–10:20 Ming Jiang, School of Electronics and Informa-
09:20–09:40 Xiaolu Song, Huawei Technologies, China less communication access to make full usage of resources . tion Technology, Sun Yat-Sen Univ., China
Topic: High-density Optical Interconnects VLC can be used for many applications and areas, such as Topic: Space-Time-Multiplexed Multi-Image VLP System
indoor and outdoor information network, indoor positioning Exploiting Pseudo-Miller-Coding for Smart Phones
9:40–10:00 Tao Chu, Zhejiang Univ. China systems, and security network systems .
Topic: Large scale Silicon Photonic Switches 10:20–10:40 Jian Zhang, Information Engineering Univ.,
The goal of this workshop is to provide a technical forum to China
10:00–10:20 Lin Yang, Institute of Semiconductor, CAS, present the latest research in in VLC and exchange ideas in Topic: Under-seawater High Speed Wireless Optical Com-
China this emerging green post-radio frequency technology . We munication
Topic Silicon Optical Modulators for Data Centers welcome contributions from both academic and industry
covering a range of topics in VLC including but not limited 10:40–11:00 Coffee Break
10:20–10:40 Coffee Break
to the following:
Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) • 10 November 2017–13 November 2017 • Page 9
11:00–11:20 Changyuan Yu, Dept. of Electronic and In- Speakers 13:50–14:10 Jiajia Chen, Royal Institute of Technology,
formation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ.. Sweden and South China Normal University, China
09:00–09:20 Sailing He, Royal Institute of Technology,
China Topic: Do Children Trust Robots?
Sweden; Zhejiang University, China; South China Normal
Topic: Data Transmission with Dimming Control in Indoor
University, China 14:10–14:30 Elena Vasileva, Royal Institute of Technology,
Visible Light Communication System
Topic: Recent Activity and Progress at COER Sweden
11:20–11:40 Chao Shen, KACST-KAUST-UCSB Solid-State Topic: Polymer Photonics…Organic Photonics…Wood Pho-
09:20–09:40 Lech Wosinski, Royal Institute of Technology,
Lighting Program & KACST Technology Innovation Center tonics…What Next?
Sweden
for Solid-State Lighting at KAUST, China
Topic: 8 Years of JORCEP Cooperation Project on Silicon 14:30–14:50 Qiuqiang Zhan, South China Normal Univer-
Topic: Semipolar GaN Laser and SLD Enabling High-speed
Nanophotonics and Plasmonics sity, China
Visible Light Communications
Topic: Title to be Announced
09:40 -10:00 Daoxin Dai, Zhejiang University, China
11:40–12:00 Jing Xu, Optical Communications Laboratory,
Topic: Multimode Silicon Photonics 14:50–15:10 Kezhang Shi, Zhejiang University, China
Ocean College, Zhejiang Univ., China
Topic: Enhanced Near-Field Thermal Radiation Based on
Topic: Underwater Wireless Optical Communication: Recent 10:00–10:20 Zhenzhou Cheng, University of Tokyo, Japan
Multilayer Graphene-hBN Heterostructures
Development in Ocean College, Zhejian University Topic: Mid-Infrared Germanium Photonic Integrated Circuits
15:30–15:50 Tea/Coffee Break
12:00–12:20 Lilin Liu, School of Electronics and Information 10:20–10:40 Liu Liu, South China Normal University, China
Technology, Sun Yat-Sen Univ., China Topic: VCSEL and Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuits 15:50–16:10 Guangyu Zhao, South China Normal Univer-
Topic: Novel Mid-power GaN-based Flip-Chip LED for Dual sity, China
10:40–11:00 Coffee Break
Illumination and High Speed VLC Communications Topic: Inelastic Hyperspectral Lidar for Aquatic Ecosystems
11:00–11:20 Chi-Wai Chow, National Chiao Tung University, Monitoring and Landscape Plant Scanning Test
Joint Research Center of Photonics & Joint Centre of
China
Advanced Photonics Research Combined Workshop 2017 16:10- 16:30 Chao Fei, Zhejiang University, China
Topic: Physically Secure Communications Using Visible Light
(JORCEP Workshop) Topic: High-speed Underwater Optical Communication
Communications
Workshop Time: 09:00–18:00, Friday, 10 November
16:30–16:50 Xuezhi Hong, South China Normal University,
Venue: The Garden Hotel, Dahlia Room 11:20–11:40 Hon Tsang, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
China
China
Organizers: Erik Forsberg, Zhejiang University, China; Topic: Research on Nonlinear Equalization in Visible Light
Topic: Integrated Mid-infrared HgTe Quantum Dot Photode-
Lech Wosinski, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Hon Communication Systems
tector
Tsang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; Liu Liu,
South China Normal University, China; and Sailing He, Royal 11:40–12:00 Chester Shu and Caoran Huang, Chinese
Institute of Technology, Sweden; Zhejiang University, China;  University of Hong Kong, China
South China Normal University, China Topic: Raman-enhanced Optical Phase Conjugator in WDM
Coherent Transmission Systems
Description: The Sino-Swedish Joint Research Center of
Photonics (JORCEP) has since 2003 been an ever evolving 12:00–12:20 Yaojing Zhang, Chinese University of Hong
research and educational collaboration between several Kong, China
Swedish and Chinese universities that annually organizes a Topic: Forward Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Silicon
multi-disciplinary workshop to promote its joint research . Microring Resonators
Continuing a new tradition since 2015, the workshop is also
12:20–13:30 Lunch
this year combined with the annual workshop of that of the
Zhejiang University - Chinese University of Hong Kong Joint 13:30–13:50 Lars Thylen, Royal Institute of Technology,
Centre of Advanced Photonics Research . Sweden
Topic: Routes to the Further Development of Integrated
Nanophotonics and Possible Relations to Novel Compatible
Electronics
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