Through Dec. 4, the team is visiting Zurich; Paris; Lannion, France; Birmingham, UK; Stockholm; Frankfurt; Milan; Madrid and Tel Aviv. Seminar topics include DWDM passive component testing, polarization gain dependence in Raman amplifiers, protocol testing, the optimization of curing techniques for optoelectronic packages, polarization mode dispersion, optical signal-to-noise ratio in WDM systems and simulated Brillouin scattering.