The yearly "Photonic Network Conference" is one of the central conferences for the german-speaking optical communication community. This year, the conference took place at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HTWK Leipzig).
Main station in Leipzig
Photo: INÜ, Uni Stuttgart
The INUE was represented at the conference with one contribution. Sebastian Jung presented a paper entitled "Learning to Exploit z-Spatial Diversity for Coherent Nonlinear Optical Fiber Communication" which tries to exploit solitonic propagation properties of optical pulses using neural networks.