40 Years Anniversary Symposium
since the optical fiber backbone network was introduced in Japan
Symposium lecturers will talk about hardships they experienced during at that time. They will also talk about the attitudes of researchers based on their experience, “how they tackle and how they challenge to the topics at that time”.
On the System side
Dr. Kazuo Hagimoto
(Program Director, Beyond 5G R&D Promotion Program National Institute of Information and Communication Technology (NICT))
On the Device side
Honorary Prof. Yasuharu Suematsu
(Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Professor Katsuyuki Utaka
(Waseda University / KDD at that time)
Professor Yuzo Yoshikuni
(Kitasato University / NTT at that time)
Professor Larry. A. Coldren
(U.C. Santa Barbara / AT&T Bell Labs at that time)
Dr Björn Broberg
(Co-founder of Altitun and Syntune / Institute of Microelectronics at that time)
Session Organizer
Dr. Yuichi Tohmori
(President of Tsurugi-Photonics Foundation / NTT at that time )