Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides (BGPP)
Topical Meeting and Tabletop Exhibit

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

Submissions Deadline: February 9, 2010, 12:00 p.m. noon EST (17.00 GMT)
Housing Deadline: May 17, 2010
Pre-Registration Deadline: May 24, 2010

Advances in Photonics and Renewable Energy Joint Plenary Speakers

ANIC Speaker – Leonid Kazovsky, Stanford Univ., USA
SENSORS  Speaker – C. Kumar N. Patel, Pranalytica, Inc., USA
SPPCom Speaker – Kim Roberts, Nortel Networks, Canada
NP Speaker – Yaron Silberberg, Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel
SOLED Speaker – Bernhard Stapp, OSRAM, Germany
BGPP Speaker – Martin Wegener, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany
PV Speaker – Eli Yablonovitch, Univ. of California at Berkley, USA

Part of Advanced Photonics:
OSA Optics & Photonics Congress

    Featuring Five Collocated Topical Meetings:

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 2010 Optics & Photonics Congress

New for 2010

Symposium on Ultrafast Laser Photosensitivity, Machining and Bragg Grating Fabrication in Dielectrics
See program details for list of invited speakers

Optics Visualized Contest 2010

Submission deadline: April 23, 2010
2010 European Optics and Photonics Congress
Karlsruhe, Germany

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.

For complete contest details, visit Optics Visualized Contest.

Sponsored by the Karlsruhe Student Chapter of the OSA

2010 Meeting Chairs

General Chairs
Ben Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Morten Ibsen, Univ. of Southampton, UK

Program Chairs
Stephen Mihailov, Communications Res. Ctr., Canada
Paul Westbrook, OFS Laboratories, USA

About BGPP

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 Considered