Invited Speakers
Plenary
Philip Russell
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Nanoscale Glass Blowing
Abstract: The past 15 years has seen the emergence of glass fibers with intricate transverse microstructures, often with nanoscale features. Their ability to guide and manipulate light in unexpected ways has led to many novel applications.
Eric Udd
Columbia Gorge Research, USA
Fire and Ice: 25 Years or Applying Fiber Optic Sensor Technology
Abstract: Since 1987 I have been heavily involved in identification of application that matched up well with fiber gratings sensors. Because initial costs were and in some cases continue to be high this often involved environmental measurements that were difficult and in some cases had not been performed using conventional sensor approaches. Much of my work has been in aerospace and has ranged from cryogenic measurements associated with liquid oxygen tanks to rocket nozzles...somewhat more hostile environments than "fire and ice". Along the way I diversified into applying fiber gratings sensor technology to civil structures, oil and gas, medical, utility and other areas. This paper provides a short summary of some of these ventures which I hope will be as interesting to readers as it has been to me.
Tutorials
Tutorial: Recent Developemnts in Fiber Lasers, Mode Stability Issues in LMA Fibers, Jens Limpert and Cesar Jauregui; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Institute of Applied Physics, Germany
Tutorial: Nonlinear Fibers for Parametric Signal Generation, Amplification and Processing., Stojan Rodic; California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, USA
Invited Speakers
Hybrid photonic crystal fiber components and amplifiers, Thomas Alkeskjold; NKT Photonics, Denmark
Progress on Mid IR Chalcogenide fiber Devices, Francois Chenard; IRflex Corporation, USA
Narrow Linewidth Fiber Amplfiers, Scott Christensen; Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
High Efficiency 1908nm Tm-doped Fiber Lasers, Dan Creedon; BAE Systems, USA
Military Interest in Fibers, Iyd Dajani; Air Force Research Laboratory/DELO/B761, USA
Large-core Single-mode Solid Photonic Bandgap Fibers, Liang Dong; Clemson Univ., USA
Making Lower Energy Photons from Fiber Lasres, Stuart Jackson; Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, Australia
High Power Passive Components for kW Lasers, Bertrand Gauvreau; ITF Optical Technologies Inc, USA
High Power All-Fiber Isolator for 1 Micron Fiber Lasers, Shibin Jiang; AdValue Photonics, Inc., USA
Ultrafast Laser Processing of Glass: From New Phenomena to Applications, Peter Kazansky; University of Southampton, UK
Nonlinear Properties of Silicon Optical Fibers, Anna Peacock; Univ. of Southampton, UK
Thulium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Development for NASA's ASCENDS Mission, Mark Phillips; Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
Nonlinear Frequency Generation in Poled Fibers: From Sum-Frequency Generation to Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion for Polarization Entangled Photons, Li Qian; Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Light That Spins Inside Fibers, Siddharth Ramachandran; Boston University, USA
Progress on Fluoride Fibers for Mid IR, Mohammed Saad; IRphotonics, Canada
Progress on Tm-doped Fiber Lasers, Larry Shah; University of Central Florida, USA
Novel Super-Lattice Polarization-Maintaining Photonic Crystal Fibre for Pressure Sensing, Hwa Yaw Tam; Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Optical Microfibers and Nanofibers, Limin Tong; Zhejiang University, China
Short-pulse Fiber Lasers Using Carbon Nanotube and Graphene., Shinji Yamashita; University of Tokyo, Japan
