Optica Webinar with Ben Puttnam on Space-division multiplexing for optical fiber communications

28 February 2023 9:00 - 10:00

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC -05:00)

Engaging with authors on the high-impact research published in Optica has never been so easy. In our Light Conversations webinar series, recently published authors talk with the Journal’s editors and webinar participants about how their careers have evolved, what they’re working on, and how others can follow in their footsteps.

In this Light Conversations event, Optica Associate Editor Antonio Mecozzi interviewed recently published mini-review author Ben Puttnam about his article, “Space-division multiplexing for optical fiber communications.

Featured Author

Ben Puttnam
Chief Senior Researcher
Photonic Network Laboratory
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

Puttnam received his M.Phys. degree in physics from the University of Manchester, U.K, and Ph.D. from University College London, U.K in 2008. In between, he was a switch design engineer at T-Mobile, U.K. After research visits to the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan, supported by JSPS and the Photonics group at Chalmers University, Sweden, supported by the Ericsson Research Foundation, he re-joined NICT in March 2010. He is currently Chief Senior Researcher with the Photonic Network Laboratory with research interests including SDM and multi-band transmission systems and aspects of optical signal processing.

Webinar Hosts

	Prem Kumar Editor-in-Chief, Optica Northwestern University, USA
	Antonio Mecozzi Associate Editor, Optica University of L'Aquila, Italy