Cedric F. Lam

Dr. Cedric F. Lam is currently Network Architect at Google. Before joining Google, he worked at OpVista Inc. as chief system architect, responsible for the development of an ultra-dense WDM transport system with integrated ROADM functionality. Prior to OpVista, Dr. Lam was senior technical staff member at AT&T Labs-Research. His research covers broadband optical transport and access networks architectures, optical signal modulation and transmission, passive optical network, HFC, etc. His current focus is in optical networking technologies for data center applications and Fiber-to-the-Home. Dr. Lam received B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong with First Class Honors and PhD. In Electrical Engineering from UCLA

Google Publications

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    High Performance, Low Cost, Colorless ONU for WDM-PON

    Ryohei Urata, Cedric Lam, Hong Liu, Chris Johnson

    Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference 2012, OSA, Washington DC

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    Silicon Photonics for Optical Access Networks

    Ryohei Urata, Hong Liu, Cedric Lam, Pedram Dashti, Chris Johnson

    Group IV Photonics, IEEE, Washington DC (2012), pp. 3

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    Drivers and applications of optical technologies for Internet Data Center networks

    Cedric F. Lam, Paul Schultz, Bikash Koley

    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, pp. 1-3

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    100GbE and Beyond for Warehouse Scale Computing

    Bikash Koley, Vijay Vusirikala, Cedric Lam, Vijay Gill

    OptoeElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) Technical Digest (2010), pp. 106-107

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    Fiber Optic Communication Technologies: What’s Needed for Datacenter Network Operations

    Cedric F. Lam, Hong Liu, Bikash Koley, Xiaoxue Zhao, Valey Kamalov, Vijay Gill

    IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. Vol.48 No.7 (2010)

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    Field verification of 40G DPSK upgrade in a legacy 10G network

    Valey Kamalov, Bikash Koley, Xiaoxue Zhao, Cedric F. Lam

    Optical Fiber Communication, IEEE (2010), NTuC2

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    FTTH look ahead — technologies & architectures

    Cedric F. Lam

    ECOC 2010, Turin, Italy

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    Scaling Optical Interconnects in Datacenter Networks Opportunities and Challenges for WDM

    Hong Liu, Cedric F. Lam, Chris Johnson

    2010 18th IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, IEEE, pp. 113-116

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    Wireless Techniques in Optical Transport

    Cedric F. Lam

    Proceedings of the 14th Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (2009)