All sessions will be held in the Conference room
of Los Alamos Inn (Please NOTE!!!! the location
change)
Monday, Mar 12, 2001
8:00 Registration Opens
Session Chair: I. Gabitov (LANL)
9:00 9:15 Welcome
9:15 10:00 Y. Kodama (Ohio State) "On the dispersion managed solitons with multi-periodic structure"
10:00 10:45 A. Hasegawa (Kyoto) "Dispersion Managed Solitons, End or Beginning?"
10:45 11:00 Break
11:00 11:45 V. Lebedev ( Weizmann & Landau) "Collapse mechanism of the signal lost in storage systems"
11:45 12:15 P. Lushnikov (LANL) "Asymptotic of dispersion-managed soliton tails"
12:30 14:00 Lunch
Session Chair: Y. Kodama (Ohio State)
14:00 14:45 V. Zakharov (U Arizona & Landau) "Theory of propagation of wave pulses in periodic optical fibers"
14:45 15:30 E. Kuznetsov (Landau) "Phase transitions for solitons"
15:30 15:45 Break
15:45 16:30 C. Jones (Brown)
"The Dispersion Managed Soliton as a Ground State"
Session Chair: C. Jones (Brown)
9:00 9:45 G. Falkovich (Weizmann) "Error probability in soliton transmissions"
9:45 10:30 P. Mitra (Lucent) "Information theory for nonlinear communication channels"
10:30 10:45 Break
10:45 11:30 M. Chertkov (LANL) "Pulse confinement in optical fibers with random dispersion"
11:30 11:55 T. Schaefer (Dusseldorf & LANL) "Polarization mode dispersion in a medium with random birefringence"
12:15 14:00 Lunch
Session Chair: E. Kuznetsov (Landau)
14:00 14:45 F. Abdullaev (Tashkent) "Modulational instability and soliton propagation in optical fibers with random parameters"
14:45 15:30 V. Zharnitsky (Lucent) "Asymptotic decay of tails of dispersion managed soliton"
15:30 15:45 Break
15:45 16:30 I. Gabitov (LANL) "Managment
of dispersion and nonlinearity in optical fibers"
Session Chair: A. Taylor (LANL)
9:00 9:45 V. Klimov (LANL) "Semiconductor Quantum Dots: From Fundamenatl Physics to Optical Nanodevices"
9:45 10:30 F. Omenetto (LANL) "Observation, Manipulation and Control of Ultrafast Pulses in Optical Fibers"
10:30 10:45 Break
10:45 11:30 P. Delfyett (CREOL) "Multiwavelength Modelocked Semiconductor Lasers- Physics & Applications"
11:30 11:55 Y-J. Chung (LANL) " Modeling of femtosecond pulse propagation in optical fibers"
Afternoon: Social event (Hike Bandelier)
18:30 Conference Dinner (Osteria d'Assisi, 58th South Federal Place, Santa Fe)
Session Chair: P. Delfyett (CREOL)
9:00 9:45 P. Russell (Bath) "History & basic properties of photonic crystal fibres
9:45 10:30 J. Knight (Bath) "Dispersion and nonlinearity in photonic crystal fibres"
10:30 10:45 Break
10:45 11:30 P. Andrekson (Goteberg) "Some useful features of fiber nonlinearities - PMD robustness and parametric amplification"
11:30 12:15 G. Agrawal (Rochester) "Distributed Amplification of Optical Solitons and its Impact on Timing Jitter"
12:15 14:00 Lunch
Session Chair: G. Agrawal (Rochester)
14:00 14:45 P. Mamyshev (Mintera) "Physics of Nonlinear Femtosecond Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers"
14:45 15:30 F. Kueppers (T-Nova) "160 Gbit/s ps-pulse transmission over highly-dispersive field-installed standard telecommunication fiber"
15:30 15:45 Break
15:45 16:30 J. J.A. Rodriguez
(Puebla) "Modelling photonic crystal
fibres"
Session Chair: F. Omenetto (LANL)
9:00 9:45 W. Weiershause (T-systems) "Alternative Approach to Principal States of Polarization in Fibers with PMD"
9:45 10:30 A. Acheves (UNM) "Pulse dynamics in nonlinear fiber gratings"
10:30 10:45 Break
10:45 12:00 Round table discussion and Closing remarks
Afternoon : Social event (Ski Pajarito)
