The 18th International Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers
September 9-11, 2009
Dockside, Cockle Bay Wharf, on Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia
September 7 - 8, 2009:
2nd International Workshop on POF modelling
3rd international workshop on Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres

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POF 2009


 Wednesday 9th September
   
8:00 - 8:30 Registration & Coffee
8:45 - 9:00 Opening Address
       
9:00 - 10:00 Plenary Session
  9:00  Paul Polishuk POF Markets and Applications - A Worldwide View (Plenary Talk)
 
  9:30  Yasuhiro Koike The Giga House project (Plenary Talk)
       
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
       
10:30 - 12:30 Session 1 - Sensors and Devices I
  10:30  Hans Poisel POF Sensors (Invited Talk)
  11:00  Katerina Krebber Distributed POF Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring – First practical applications and field tests results (Invited Talk)
  11:30  Anna Wang Side-Hole Fibre Sensor based on Surface Plasmon Resonance
  11:45  Jens Witt Investigation of mPOF LPGs for sensing applications
  12:00  David Webb Applications of polymer fibre grating sensors
  12:15  Sergei Khotiaintsev Discrete POF liquid-level sensor for measuring the level of gasoline and detecting water in automobile tanks
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
       
1:30 - 3:00 Session 2 - Materials and Fabrication I
  1:30  Mark Kuzyk Nonlinear-optical and photo-mechanical phenomena in dye-doped polymer fibers as the basis for making ultrasmart materials (Invited Talk)
  2:00  Helmut Yu Emission Properties of Quantum dots in PMMA
  2:15  Anna Samoc Second harmonic generation induced by all-optical poling of nonlinear optical chromophores in polymer optical fibres
  2:30  Sergio Leon-Saval Single defect hollow-core photonic bandgap microstructured polymer optical fibre
  2:45  Inaki Bikandi Dependence of fluorescence in POFs doped with conjugated polymers on launching conditions
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
       
3:30 - 4:45 Session 3 - Standards and Characterisation
  3:30  M. Angeles Losada Space-time matrix model of power flow in SI-POFs applied to localized spatial disturbances
  3:45  Angelantonio Gnazzo Plastic Optical Fibre system specifications for 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s
  4:00  Inaki Bikandi Analysis of light scattering in plastic optical fibres by side excitation technique: Theory and experimentation
  4:15  Satoshi Takahashi Proposal of Optical Wiring System in Buildings and Homes with POF
  4:30  Christian Bunge High-resolution mode-mixing measurements in PF-GI-POF at 850 nm and 1.55 µm
       
4:45 - 6:30 Wine and Poster Session
  1  Marco Miguel Development of a biosensor based in polymeric optical fiber to detect cells in water and fluids.
  2  Martin Bloos Tailoring of special polymer optical light guides for illumination and signalling
  3  Hans Poisel Characterisation of side-emitting fibers
  4  Hans Poisel Progress with fiber optic daylighting system "Sollektor"
  5  Yanhua Luo Extrusion fabrication of sea-island bicomponent microstructured polymer optical fibre
  6  Marcus Schukar Climatic investigations of microstructured polymer optical fibers
  7  Richard Lwin Connecting Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres to the World
  8  Lyubomyr Bartkiv Video monitoring system using a standard polymer optical fiber
  9  Karl Klein Transmission of skew-modes in polymer- and silica-based step-index fibres
  10  Wook Jae Yoo Development of Fiber-optic pH Sensor using spectral analysis for biomedical applications
  11  David Sanchez Montero Plastic optical fiber sensor for fuel level measurements applied to paramotoring and powered paragliding
  12  Mauro Lomer Spring coil POF for weigh sensor applications
  13  Mauro Lomer Studies of hollow waveguide associated with POF for sensing applications
  14  Hans Poisel Application of POF elongation sensor
  15  Hans Poisel Bending sensor
  16  Bharath Mohan Design and Optimisation of Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres with Long Period Gratings
  17  Douglas Blacket High range strain sensing using mPOF and long period gratings
  18  Javier Mateo Cost-effective hybrid Fast-Ethernet switch for POF networks
  19  Yoshinobu Takano Perfluorinated low bending loss GI-POF for home use
  20  Abang Annuar Ehsan Tap-Off Ratio (TOFR) Optimization of a 1X2 Hollow POF Coupler for Portable Optical Access-Card System
  21  Lucia Bilro Enhanced bend sensibility of a side-polished POF based sensor
  22  Gaizka Durana Monitoring the vertical deflection of a flap rudder using a novel fiber optical strain sensor
  23  Lucia Bilro Development of a POF based device for measuring water turbidity of recent forest fires areas
  24  Bernd Offenbeck Results of Gigabit/s transmission using RC-LEDs and new driving techniques
  25  Teruyuki Taniguchi 1Gbit link system for home network with halogenated polymer based GI-POF
  26  Ari Ramelan Natural Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline TiO2 Solar Cell
  27  Hamid Reza Movahed The Effect of Core-Twist Hybrid yarn GL/PET on Mechanical Properties of Unsaturated Polyester Resin(Part1)
  28  Ari Ramelan GaSb Solar Cell Fabricated from Spin Coating Zn-Diffusion Method
  29  Makoto Asai The interaction of polymer and low molecule and its phase transition dynamics
  30  Amaia Berganza Ray-tracing analysis of the crosstalk effect in MC-POFs
  31  Piotr Hanczyc Ordering and characterisation of thin films of biopolymers based on DNA
  32  Joanna Olesiak Study on organized biomaterials based on DNA with the use of two-photon microscopy
 

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 Kyriacos Kalli Applications of polymer fibre grating sensors
   
7:30pm....
Local dinners - own cost. 		Make up a party of friends and dine on Cockle Bay Wharf, King Street Wharf, in The Rocks.... (not included in registration)
 

 Thursday 10th September
   
8:15 - 8:45 Registration & Coffee
       
8:45 - 10:00 Session 4 - Datacom Networks and FTTX I
  8:45  Silvio Abrate POF-PLUS project: toward Gbit/s transmission over SI-POF for home networking (Invited Talk)
  9:15  Angelantonio Gnazzo In-home POF solution with FTTH access architecture
  9:30  Jeffrey Lee Real-Time Gigabit DMT Transmission for Plastic Optical Fiber Communications
  9:45  Conrad Zerna Adaptive Integrated Equalizing Techniques for SI-POF Home Networking Links
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
       
10:30 - 11:30 Session 5 - Terahertz transmission and materials
  10:30  Daniel Grischkowsky THz waveguides (Invited Talk)
  11:00  Jessienta Anthony Characterizations of THz microstructured fibers with specially designed lenses
  11:15  Shaghik  Atakaramians Experimental validation of low dispersion and high birefringence properties of THz polymer porous fibers
       
11:30 - 12:30 Session 6 - Medical Applications of Plastic Fibres
  11:30  David McKenzie Biomedical applications of POF (Invited Talk)
  12:00  Jens Witt Respiratory sensor based on POF OTDR
  12:15  Ari Ramelan Optical Fiber-Like Hydrophone for the Characterization of Medical Ultrasound Fields
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
 
1:30 - 3:30 Session 7 - Fibre and System Design
  1:30  Karl Klein Damage of polymer optical fibers with high-brightness UV-LED
  1:45  Alex Argyros UV light transmission in hollow-core microstructured polymer optical fibres
  2:00  Mark Straton The use of chiral materials in polymer optical fibres
  2:15  Jon Arrue Computational analysis of the parameters affecting the spectral gain of active POFs
  2:30  Kyung-Hwan Kim High-Speed(>1.5Gbit/s) Ethernet Data Communication Using a PMMA based Graded-index Plastic Optical Fiber
  2:45  Noriyuki Uchida Hollow Multi-core POF for Light Guide
  3:00  Roman Kruglov Increasing of channel capacity of SI-POF transmission system: SIMULINK® based simulation
  3:15  Brant Gibson Fractal fibre - Nature inspired plastic fibre optics
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
       
4:00 - 5:30 Session 8 - Materials and Fabrication II
  4:00  Kotaro Koike Fluoro-Methacrylates for GI POF Communications at 670 and 780 nm Wavelengths
  4:15  Takafumi Noda Bandwidth Enhancement of Graded Index Plastic Optical Fiber by Control of Differential Mode Attenuation
  4:30  Ryosuke Nakao Partially Chlorinated GI-POF with High Thermal Stability
  4:45  Ann Mescher Transient Dynamics in the Drawing of Polymer Fiber
  5:00  Shicheng Xue Heat Transfer Within a Furnace for Drawing Microstructured Optical Fibres
  5:15  Yanhua Luo Reversible birefringent gratings in azo polymer optical fibre
       
6:30 onwards Conference Dinner at WatersEdge
       

 Friday 11th September
   
8:30 - 9:00 Registration & Coffee
       
9:00 - 10:30 Session 9 - Sensors II
  9:00  Kara Peters Earthquake sensing: Polymer fiber sensors for large deformation strain measurements(Invited Talk)
  9:30  Sylvia Utami Recognition of Devoiced Vowels by Using an Adjustable Plastic Optical-Fiber Microphone
  9:45  Atul Kulkarni A deformable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) optical cavity for monitoring of pressure using plastic optical fiber
  10:00  Matthias Stecher Periodic refractive index modifications inscribed in Polymer Optical Fibre by Focussed IR Femtosecond Pulses
  10:15  Marcus Schukar Integration technology of POF sensors into composites for structural health monitoring
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
       
11:00 - 12:45 Session 10 - Datacom Networks and FTTX II
  11:00  Michael Stevens DiMoto POF Networks (Invited Talk)
  11:30  Florian Breyer Real-Time Gigabit Ethernet Transmission over LED-Based Plastic Optical Fiber Systems
  11:45  Kimio Oguchi Application of WDM technologies in home network environment
  12:00  Ivan Djordjevic Beyond 100 Gb/s Transmission over Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fibers based on LDPC-Coded OFDM
  12:15  Dai Hanawa A Study on the network traffic of communication environment in the Next Generation Convergence Home Network
  12:30  Shingo Yamakawa POF for Fiber To The Desk (FTTD) in the enterprise/campus area
12:45 - 1:45 Lunch
       
1:45 - 2:45 Session 11 - Illumination
  1:45  Eddy Joseph Polymer Optical fibres for architectural illumination (Invited Talk)
  2:15  Demetri Kalymnios Novel structure of plastic optical fibre (POF) for daylighting application
  2:30  David Wu Emission spectra of gas plasma discharge in polymer capillaries
       
2:45 - 3:45 POF Art Prize and Pak Chu Student Prize
    Viewing of entries
    Presentation of Art Prize, sponsored by PolyOptics
    Presentation of Pak Chu Student Prize, sponsored by the University of New South Wales
    Coffee Break
       
3:45 - 4:45 Session 12 - Postdeadline Session
       
       
4:45 - 5:00 Close and announcement of POF 2010
       

 
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