Lothar Möller received the Dipl.-Phys. and Dipl.-Ing. degrees in physics and electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1992 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 1996. Before joining Bell Labs, Holmdel, in 1998 he was with Lucent Technologies Network Systems GmbH, Nuremberg, the German facility of Lucent Technologies where he started his career in 1997. Dr Möller (co-) authored more than 80 papers in the fields of signal equalization, polarization mode dispersion, and ultra high-speed signaling and has over 10 US patents granted/filed. He has been an invited speaker at LEOS 2003 and OFC 2005, he also serves as a TPC member of APOC 2005 and APOC 2006.