High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET) 2012

To bring together professionals and practitioners from the academia, industry and government functionaries from around the world, with objectives to share knowledge and experience in the field of ICT for global partnerships and collaborations aiding economic growth to support peace and prosperity in the world.

Global Optical Networks enable the High-speed Internet by utilizing various photonic- and wireless- networks, lambda grids, and fiber-optic links over the vast landscape of our planet. These are the workhorse for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from the architectural, security, signal transport and application perspectives. Photonics and Optoelectronics are the disciplines that have emerged from the “fundamental light-matter interaction” and its engineering applications. At the core level, it starts from fundamental principles of optics and optical materials and encompasses the micro/ication of semiconductor devices, components, and functional modules and sub-assemblies. On the application side, such devices enable the ICT and constitute physical layer of contemporary infrastructure.

• Keynote Speakers

Dr. Ian Ferguson

Dr. Michael A Fiddy

Dr. Nasir Memon

Dr. Harry G Perros