On December 6-7, 2018, the TUM Institute for Communications Engineering is organizing the 2018 Munich Workshop on Information Theory of Optical Fiber (MIO 2018)

Topics of interest

  • Capacity of fiber channels and networks
  • Quantum communication and information
  • Multi-mode optical communication
  • Coded modulation and transceiver design

Confirmed Participants

  • Francisco Elohim Becerra (Center for Quantum Information and Control)
  • Darko Zibar, Nicola De Renzis, Henrik Enggaard Hansen (DTU Fotonik)
  • Christian Schäffer (Helmut Schmidt Universität)
  • Christoph Marquardt (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light)
  • Georg Rademacher (NICT Japan)
  • Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi, Roland Ryf, Henning Bülow, Vahid Aref (Nokia Bell Labs)
  • Cristian Antonelli, Antonio Mecozzi (University of L’Aquila)
  • Amr Helmy, Qun Zhang, Reza Rafie Borujeny (University of Toronto)
  • Konrad Banaszek, Ludwig Kunz (University of Warsaw)
  • Mingming Tan, Abdallah Ali (Aston University)
  • Yunus Can Gultekin (Eindhoven University of Technology)
  • Mark Shtaif (Tel Aviv University)
  • Luca Barletta (Politecnico di Milano)
  • Felix Frey (Universität Ulm)
  • Georg Böcherer, Jan-Willem Goossens (Huawei Technologies France)
  • Shrinivas Chimmalgi (Delft University of Technology)
  • Jasmin Meinecke (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  • Javier García, Benedikt Leible, Roberto Ferrara, Christian Deppe, Gerhard Kramer (TUM)

Program

Thursday, December 6

9:30 Arrival
9:50 Welcome: Gerhard Kramer
Session 1 Quantum Communications 1 (Chair: TBD)
10:00 Konrad Banaszek (University of Warsaw)
10:30 Francisco Elohim Becerra (Center for Quantum Information and Control)
11:00 Coffee break
Session 2 Fiber and Quantum Communications (Chair: TBD)
11:30 Roland Ryf (Nokia Bell Labs)
12:00 Jasmin Meinecke (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Waveguides for Quantum Communication and Information
12:30 Lunch
Session 3 Quantum Communications 2 (Chair: TBD)
14:00 Amr Helmy (University of Toronto)
14:30 Christoph Marquardt (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light): Transforming coherent communication into quantum communication in fiber and satellite links
15:00 Coffee break
Session 4 Fiber Communications and Coding (Chair: TBD)
15:30 Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi (Nokia Bell Labs)
16:00 Georg Böcherer (Huawei Technologies France)
19:00 Dinner at Löwenbräukeller
Directions from LNT to Löwenbräukeller

Friday, December 7

Session 5 Machine Learning for Quantum Communications (Chair: TBD)
9:30 Darko Zibar (DTU Fotonik): Machine learning for Raman amplifier design and quantum phase estimation
10:00 Christian Schäffer (Helmut Schmidt Universität): Machine Learning in Heterodyne Quantum Receivers
10:30 Poster Session
11:30 Lunch
Session 6 TBD (Chair: TBD)
14:00 Mingming Tan (Aston University): Distributed Raman Amplification for Combating Optical Nonlinearities in Fibre Transmission
14:30 TBD

Poster presentations

There will be a two-hour poster session on Friday from 10:30-12:30. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please send an email to mio2018@lnt.ei.tum.de with a preliminary title. The recommended size of the posters is A0, either portrait or landscape. The following researchers will present a poster:

  • Ludwig Kunz (University of Warsaw): Noisy propagation of coherent states in a lossy Kerr medium
  • Yunus Can Gultekin (Eindhoven University of Technology): Enumerative sphere shaping for a subset of the amplitude bit labels
  • Reza Rafie Borujeny (University of Toronto): A Bounded Noise Model for Nondispersive Optical Fiber
  • Jan-Willem Goossens (Huawei Technologies France): Waveform Design and Transmission Based on the Periodic Nonlinear Fourier Transform
  • Qun Zhang: Improved Discrete Eigenvalue Estimation for Solitonic Inputs via the Continuous Spectrum
  • Shrinivas Chimmalgi (Delft University of Technology): Efficient Nonlinear Fourier Transform Algorithms
  • Nicola De Renzis (DTU Fotonik): LMMSE-based equalization in NFT domain for single/dual polarization NFDM transmission
  • Roberto Ferrara (TUM): Quantum information theory and Communication theory beyond the Shannon approach

 

Registration and more Information under: https://www.lnt.ei.tum.de/de/events/2018-munich-workshop-on-information-theory-of-optical-fiber-mio/