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Enabling Technologies for Optical Communications and Networking
Dwivedi, Anurag ORGANIZER: Dwivedi, Anurag
This session will comprise of contemporary work in the areas of the enabling technologies for optical communications and networking as they relate to military applications. These include, but are not limited to, free space optical communications, acquisition, pointing and tracking, mitigation of weather related degradations (absorption, scattering, and turbulence), adaptive optics, efficient coupling of light in optical fiber, eye safety, RF/optical hybrid technologies, transceiver design, error correction coding, diversity-based coding, fading and scintillation characterization, mobility (boundary layer) induced turbulence, beam steering, multi-beam arrays, electrical and optical switching, MEMs, network protocols, network architectures, protection and restoration, dynamic topology control, multi-layer network protocol integration, network reliability, control plane and network management. Discussion will be focused on recent advances in these technologies and their effectiveness in solving the laser communications challenges for the military.
Dr. Anurag Dwivedi has over 15 years of experience in communications industry. After completing his MS and PhD from Alfred University, Alfred, NY, he held positions at Corning Inc., Corvis Corp. (now Broadwing), RHK Inc. and Applied Physics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University. He has published extensively in the areas of optical fibers, fiber optics, traffic forecasting, traffic overheads, network planning and architecture, network optimization, analysis of new communications technologies and architectures, capital and operating expense analysis, network utilization, efficiency, network transparency, optical network market research, and forecasting.