PUBLICATION OF THE NORTH JERSEY SECTION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS

 

Last Updated 5/1/07

May 2007

 

 

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Activities Calendar

 

 

 

 

AES:

New! Advances in WDM LANs for Avionics Applications:  Standards Development and Technology Challenges

AES:

New! OCDM-Based Photonic Layer “Security” Scaleable to 100 Gb/s for Existing WDM Networks

Computer and EMS:

Open Source Comes to Business Process Management

Consultants' Network:

Web Marketing for the Independent Professional

EDS/C&S:

New! Theory and Performance of ‘Pick-up’ Transistors and its Potential to Transform Macroelectronics and Biosensing

PACE & GOLD:

Engineers Meet:  New Directions at IEEE

Montclair Society of Engineers:

Montclair High School Robotics Team to Demonstrate Robots

 

 

 

North Jersey Section History – Made Again!

 

LISAT 2007

PES/IAS:

Mission Critical Power Technical Series - Paralleling Switchgear Seminar

 

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May 2007

Volume 53, Number 11

Publication No:  USPS 580-500

“The IEEE Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.   Headquarters:  3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY  10016-5997.  $1.00 per member per year (included in annual dues) for each member of the North Jersey Section.  Periodicals-class postage paid at New York, NY and at additional mailing offices.  Postmaster send address changes to:  “The IEEE Newsletter”, 445 Hoes Lane, P.O. Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ  08855-1331.  USPS 580-500 (ISSN 1076-3732).

 

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Editor........................................... Keith Saracinello

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SECTION OFFICERS

Chair......................................................... Kirit Dixit

                       kdixit “AT” ieee.org  (201) 669-7599

Vice-Chair-1................................ Bhanu Chivukula

    b.chivukula “AT” computer.org  (732) 718-3818

Vice-Chair-2........................................... Amit Patel

                                             a.j.patel “AT” ieee.org

Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon Shin

         s.shin “AT” ieee.org  (973) 492-1207 Ext. 22

Secretary.......................................... Russell Pepe

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Pete Donegan (doneganp “AT” ieee.org)

Katherine  Duncan (kb2zoo “AT” hotmail.com)

Seth Jakel (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net)

 

The North Jersey Section Executive Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays and December) of each month at 7:00 PM.  Meetings are open to all members.  For information on meeting agenda contact Secretary Russell Pepe (201) 669-7599, rpepe “AT” att.net.

 

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IEEE North Jersey Section Activities

May 2007

 

May 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 77 River Rd, Clifton, NJ  07014.  Russell Pepe at rpepe “AT” att.net.

May 6 – “NJ Section Awards Reception” - 3:00 to 6:00 PM at the Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ.  Anne Giedlinski (973) 377-3175.

May 7 – Theory and Performance of ‘Pick-up’ Transistors and its Potential to Transform Macroelectronics and Biosensing” - NJ EDS/C&S, 5:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.  Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.  Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).

May 9 – Engineers Meet:  New Directions at IEEE” - NJ PACE & GOLD, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ.  Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954 (rftax “AT” verizon.net).

May 15 – Spring 2007 Packaging Symposium” – registration 12:00 - 1:00 PM, papers from 1:00 - 5:30 PM, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ.  See http://www.imaps-gs.org/ for details.  Voya Markovich, voya.markovich “AT” eitny.com or (607) 755-1978.

May 16 – Advances in WDM LANs for Avionics Applications:  Standards Development and Technology Challenges” by Dr. Sarry Habiby, NJ AES, 7:00 PM, BAE Systems, 164 Totowa Road, Wayne, NJ  07474.  Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 636-7408, naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com.

May 16 – OCDM-Based Photonic Layer “Security” Scaleable to 100 Gb/s for Existing WDM Networks” by Dr. Sarry Habiby, NJ AES, 7:00 PM, BAE Systems, 164 Totowa Road, Wayne, NJ  07474.  Dr. Naresh Chand, (973) 636-7408, naresh.chand “AT” baesystems.com.

May 18 – Montclair High School Robotics Teams' Presentation”, 8:00 PM (coffee and desert at 7:30 PM), Union Congregational Church, 176 Cooper Ave, Montclair, NJ. Bob Chamberlin (973) 748-0385, Peter Donegan (973) 783-7998 (montclairengineer “AT” yahoo.com), or go to http://www.montclairengineers.org/.

May 24 – Web Marketing for the Independent Professional” by Mike Moran, NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ.  Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.

May 25 –Mission Critical Power Technical Series - Paralleling Switchgear Seminar” by Ron Hilbert, NJ IAS/PES, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison NJ.  Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.

May 31 – Open Source Comes to Business Process Management” by Arthur J. Hedge III, NJ Computer and EMS Chapters, 7:00 PM, Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ.  Seth Jakel - (973) 731 1902 – home, (973) 820-1865 – cell, or Howard Leach (973) 540-1283,  (h.leach “AT” ieee.org).

 

Upcoming Meetings

 

June 6 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 77 River Rd, Clifton, NJ  07014.  Russell Pepe at rpepe “AT” att.net.

 

 

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NJ AES Chapter:

Advances in WDM LANs for Avionics Applications:  Standards Development and Technology Challenges

OCDM-Based Photonic Layer “Security” Scaleable to 100 Gb/s for Existing WDM Networks

On Wednesday, May 16, 2007, the North Jersey Chapter of the IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society will sponsor the following two talks:

1.       “Advances in WDM LANs for Avionics Applications:  Standards Development and Technology Challenges” by Dr. Sarry Habiby

2.       “OCDM-Based Photonic Layer “Security” Scaleable to 100 Gb/s for Existing WDM Networks” by Dr. Shahab Etemad

About the Talks

Advances in WDM LANs for Avionics Applications:  Standards Development and Technology Challenges

This talk provides a review of status and advances in the development of WDM LAN standards for avionic and aerospace network applications.  It provides a synopsis of the scope, charter and recent activities of the WDM LAN Task Group of the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE) and highlights key challenges in WDM technology and standardization.  The standardization objective is to enable design and implementation of a WDM LAN that will facilitate flexible, high bandwidth, low cost, and low weight communication links on aircraft platforms for military, commercial as well as space vehicles.  Some of the key challenges are the development of technology and systems that can deliver the desired performance yet withstand the stringent environmental requirements encountered in aerospace applications.

OCDM-Based Photonic Layer “Security” Scaleable to 100 Gb/s for Existing WDM Networks

The ability to access and modify optical phase with high resolution is opening exciting new opportunities in the optical communications, optical signal processing, and RF-photonics arenas.  Optical demultiplexing with a resolution better than 1 GHz allows overlay optical communications scenarios compatible with the existing transparent WDM optical networks.  We here review the use of such high-resolution control of the optical phase of mode-locked laser frequency combs as an enabling technology for a new class of Optical Code Division Multiplexing (OCDM) systems.  A network based on such systems is compatible with and has a comparable spectral efficiency to existing DWDM networks, and can even occupy the unused bandwidth of an existing single channel DWDM window.  Through inverse multiplexing of 10 Gb/s tributaries we are demonstrating a security-enhanced optical transmission over metropolitan area at 40 Gb/s that is scalable to 100 Gb/s and beyond.

About the Speakers

Dr. Sarry Habiby is an Optical Networking professional with nineteen years experience in research and management of optical technology programs.  He is currently active in research programs in optical transport and switching, WDM network requirements, and transparent network simulation and modeling.  Prior to joining Telcordia, Sarry worked at Tellium, a leading provider of optical switching solutions for telecom operators' core networks.  At Tellium, Sarry was director of a technical sales engineering team.  Prior to Tellium, Sarry was a researcher at Bellcore; as a task leader for the systems engineering task in the DARPA-funded MONET project, Sarry had responsibility for network specifications of DWDM transport, optical amplifier, OADM and optical switching network elements, and requirements for systems and network interfaces.  He also led a simulation effort for DWDM networks, validating network specifications and requirements.  Sarry has participated in SAE standards for optical networks in avionics since 2004 and leads a WDM LAN sub-group focused on avionic network requirements.  Sarry is a member of the IEEE and SID (Society for Information Displays).

Dr. Shahab Etemad is a Chief Scientist and Director at Telcordia to which he moved at its inception from Bell Laboratories.  Dr. Etemad has a BS in Physics from Imperial College, London University and a PhD in Physics from University of Pennsylvania.  He has 35 years of academic and industrial experience in leading and managing research, development, and deployment of novel technologies.  In recognition of his research contributions in interaction of light with matter including photon localization, nonlinear optics, all optical switching, and applications of free electron lasers, he has been elected a Fellow of American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.  With the emergence of the EDFA as the workhorse of WDM and optical networking technology he focused on development of this promising technology for existing networks and was instrumental in deployment of the technology by major carriers.  He is currently in the Applied Research at Telcordia leading phase-locked communication research and is the principle investigator of the DARPA funded OCDMA project.

All Welcome!  

You do not have to be a member of the IEEE  to attend the talks but you need to email your name, address, and citizenship to Dr. Naresh Chand for obtaining security clearance by May 15.  A free buffet dinner, starting at 6:00 PM, will be provided.  Come and bring your friends.

 

Time:  7:00 PM (free buffet starts at 6:00 PM), Wednesday, May 16, 2007