-   Date: March 1, 2013
 Where: IEICE Technical Committee Conference (OCS/OFT/OPE)
 MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons
 Research Area: Electronic and Photonic Devices
   Brief   - The paper "An MMI-based Polarization Splitter using Patterned Metal and Angled Joint" by Kojima, K.,  Nishikawa, S.,  Yagyu, E.,  Yuan, W.,  Wang, B.,  Koike-Akino, T. and  Parsons, K. was presented at the IEICE Technical Committee Conference (OCS/OFT/OPE).
 
 
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-   Date: September 16, 2012
 Where: European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)
 MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons
 Research Area: Electronic and Photonic Devices
   Brief   - The paper "An MMI-based Polarization Splitter Using Patterned Metal and Tilted Joint" by Yuan, W.,  Kojima, K.,  Wang, B.,  Koike-Akino, T.,  Parsons, K.,  Nishikawa, S. and  Yagyu, E. was presented at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC).
 
 
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-   Date: June 27, 2012
 Where: Optics Express
 MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons
 Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
   Brief   - The article "High-order Statistical Equalizer for Nonlinearity Compensation in Dispersion-managed Coherent Optical Communications" by Koike-Akino, T.,  Duan, C.,  Parsons, K.,  Kojima, K.,  Yoshida, T.,  Sugihara, T. and  Mizuochi, T. was published in Optics Express.
 
 
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-   Date: April 23, 2012
 Where: Optics Express
 MERL Contacts: Bingnan Wang; Kieran Parsons
 Research Area: Electronic and Photonic Devices
   Brief   - The article "Mode-evolution-based Polarization Rotator-splitter Design via Simple Fabrication Process" by Yuan, W.,  Kojima, K.,  Wang, B.,  Koike-Akino, T.,  Parsons, K.,  Nishikawa, S. and  Yagyu, E. was published in Optics Express.
 
 
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-   Date: March 4, 2012
 Where: Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC)
 MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons  Brief   - The papers "Fractionally-Spaced Statistical Equalizer for Fiber Nonlinearity Mitigation in Digital Coherent Optical Systems" by Koike-Akino, T.,  Parsons, K.,  Kojima, K.,  Duan, C.,  Yoshida, T.,  Sugihara, T. and  Mizuochi, T. and "A Low-Complexity Sliding-Window Turbo Equalizer for Nonlinearity Compensation" by Duan, C.,  Parsons, K.,  Koike-Akino, T.,  Annavajjala, R.,  Kojima, K.,  Yoshida, T.,  Sugihara, T. and  Mizouchi, T. were presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC).
 
 
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-   Date: January 26, 2012
 Where: IEICE Optical Communication Systems (OCS)
 MERL Contacts: Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Kieran Parsons
 Research Areas: Communications, Signal Processing
   Brief   - The paper "Fractionally-Spaced Equalizer Based on High-Order Statistics in Nonlinear Fiber Optics" by Koike-Akino, T.,  Duan, C.,  Parsons, K.,  Kojima, K.,  Yoshida, T.,  Sugihara, T. and  Mizuochi, T. was presented at IEICE Optical Communication Systems (OCS).
 
 
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-   Date: January 6, 2005
 MERL Contact: Kieran Parsons  Brief   - Mitsubishi Electric is demonstrating its wireless ultrawideband technology for home theater at the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Jointly developed by corporate research and development labs in the US and Japan, Mitsubishi Electric's demonstration is based on the emerging standard from the MultiBand OFDM Alliance (MBOA).
 
 
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