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Pre-Registration is now closed. You may still register on-site at the Kongresszentrum (Conference Center), Karlsruhe, Germany beginning Sunday, June 20.

Take advantage of all BGPP has to offer:

• 50 Years of Lasers Celebration - featuring two Nobel Laureate talks.
• Seven meetings for the price of one.
• Tabletop exhibits.
• 2010 Optics Visualized Contest - This contest will feature and award works that make the Optics branch of science more visible to the world in an appealing and accessible way. Click here to submit.
• Poster sessions providing one-on-one discussion time with presenters.
• Kongresszentrum (Conference Center)- Detailed information on the Conference Center and the City of Karlsruhe.

Conference Program

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• Email your itinerary to a colleague who might be interested in attending.

Download pages from the Congress program book (includes all meetings in the Advanced Photonics and Renewable Energy Congresses)!

• Abstracts (pdf)
• Agenda of Sessions (pdf)
• Key to Authors and Presiders (pdf)
• Postdeadline Abstracts (pdf)
• Key to Postdeadline Authors and Presiders (pdf)

Special Opportunities- for Students and Young Professionals

Advanced Photonics: OSA Optics & Photonics Congress

• Access Networks and In-house Communications (ANIC)
• Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides (BGPP)
• Nonlinear Photonics (NP)
• Optical Sensors (Sensors)
• Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)

Advanced Photonics is Collocated with the Renewable Energy Congress, allowing attendees to access all meetings within the Congress for the price of one and to collaborate on topics of mutual interest.

Special Events details

• 3 Joint Plenary sessions
• Nobel Laureate talks celebrating 50 years of lasers
• Welcome Reception
• Poster Sessions
• Conference Banquet
• Post Deadline Sessions

Sponsor:

The organizers acknowledge the generous support from the following sponsors: