Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides (BGPP)

OSA Topical Meeting and Tabletop Exhibit

Collocated with:

Access Networks and In-house Communications (Access)
Nonlinear Photonics (NP)
Optical Sensors (Sensors)
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)

Technical Conference: June 21-24, 2010
Karlsruhe-Messe und Kongress (Conference Center)
Karlsruhe, Germany

Submissions Deadline: January 20, 2010, 12:00 p.m. noon, EST (17.00 GMT)
Housing Deadline: May 21, 2010
Pre-Registration Deadline: May 24, 2010

2010 Meeting Chairs

Ben Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia, General Chair
Morten Ibsen, Univ. of Southampton, UK, General Chair
Stephen Mihailov, Communications Res. Ctr., Canada, Program Chair
Paul Westbrook, OFS Laboratories, USA, Program Chair

About Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides

The Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity, and Poling (BGPP) Topical Meeting gives you the opportunity to discover the impact on telecommunications and sensing and witness first-hand the latest advances and breakthroughs in the field of fiber gratings. BGPP continues to be a popular meeting for covering the state-of-the-art advances in fiber gratings in a relaxed and non-pressured atmosphere. The program is tailored for informal exchanges, forming new partnerships and reconnecting with colleagues. Attendees come from around the world to participate in this exchange of knowledge.

Topics to be Covered

Fundamentals of Photosensitivity and Poling

• Improvements in the understanding of photosensitivity in fibers, waveguides, and bulk materials
• Femtosecond laser induced photosensitivity in dielectrics
• Fundamental understanding of femtosecond laser-matter interaction
• Photosensitivity of nano-materials and precipitates
• New glass compositions and processing methods for enhanced photosensitivity
• Gratings in new materials systems (polymers, crystals, chalcogenide glasses, etc)
• Modeling of the kinetics of UV and femtosecond IR-induced index changes occurring during grating writing
• Basic studies of point defects responsible for photosensitivity
• Role of Hydrogen in UV and femtosecond IR -induced index change mechanism
• Role of stress and structural change in UV and femtosecond IR -induced index change mechanisms
• Thermal stability of UV and femtosecond IR -induced index changes in glasses
• Effects of high optical power levels on grating properties
• Ultra high temperature and chemical composition gratings
• Gratings in fibers without UV photosensitivity
• Physics and chemistry of poling
• Advances in thermal and UV-assisted poling of fibers and waveguides

Grating Properties and Fabrication Techniques

• Advances in grating fabrication techniques, including direct write, holographic lithography and phase mask methods
• Advances in femtosecond laser grating fabrication
• Reel to reel grating fabrication and other mass production techniques
• Properties of gratings in non-telecom and non-silica fibers
• Grating measurement, characterization, and profile reconstruction techniques
• Grating synthesis and design (inverse scattering)
• Modeling of optical properties of new gratings and devices
• Wavelength and phase tuning of Bragg gratings
• Radiation-mode and cladding mode coupling of fiber gratings
• Gratings in new geometries
• Grating defects and noise (PMD, PDL, phase ripple, out of band reflections, MPI, etc)
• UV and IR laser induced birefringence
• Post processing techniques for grating performance correction
• Direct writing, patterning or phase trimming of integrated optical devices with UV or femtosecond lasers
• Volume Bragg gratings

Applications of Gratings and Poled Glass

• Applications of arbitrary complex grating filters
• Optical signal processing using fiber gratings
• Multichannel tunable dispersion compensators and other telecom related grating filters
• Devices based on femtosecond laser-grating fabrication
• Devices based on poled glass
• Nonlinear fiber grating applications, including enhanced continuum generation and Bragg solitons
• Fiber grating sensors and sensor systems
• Gratings for ultra high temperature, pressure and radioactive environments
• Mode conversion gratings and devices based on higher order mode propagation
• Applications of gratings in photonic crystal fibers
• Grating devices for OCDMA
• Fiber lasers incorporating gratings, including DFB, DBR, high power and multiwavelength lasers.
• Comparison of fiber gratings with other optical filter technologies
• Grating based spectrum and polarization measurement
• Applications of long period gratings in systems, including gain flattening, mode conversion, and sensing
• Medical and bio-photonic applications
• Gratings in microwave photonics
• Complex filters in astrophotonics
• Slow light in fiber gratings