Wednesday 9th September |
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Registration & Coffee |
| 8:45 - 9:00 |
Opening Address |
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| 9:00 - 10:00 |
Plenary Session |
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9:00 |
Paul Polishuk |
POF Markets and Applications - A Worldwide View (Plenary Talk) |
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9:30 |
Yasuhiro Koike |
The Giga House project (Plenary Talk) |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 - 12:30 |
Session 1 - Sensors and Devices I |
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10:30 |
Hans Poisel |
POF Sensors (Invited Talk) |
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11:00 |
Katerina Krebber |
Distributed POF Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring – First practical applications and field tests results (Invited Talk) |
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11:30 |
Anna Wang |
Side-Hole Fibre Sensor based on Surface Plasmon Resonance |
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11:45 |
Jens Witt |
Investigation of mPOF LPGs for sensing applications |
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12:00 |
David Webb |
Applications of polymer fibre grating sensors |
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12:15 |
Sergei Khotiaintsev |
Discrete POF liquid-level sensor for measuring the level of gasoline and detecting water in automobile tanks |
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| 12:30 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 - 3:00 |
Session 2 - Materials and Fabrication I |
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1:30 |
Mark Kuzyk |
Nonlinear-optical and photo-mechanical phenomena in dye-doped polymer fibers as the basis for making ultrasmart materials (Invited Talk) |
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2:00 |
Helmut Yu |
Emission Properties of Quantum dots in PMMA |
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2:15 |
Anna Samoc |
Second harmonic generation induced by all-optical poling of nonlinear optical chromophores in polymer optical fibres |
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2:30 |
Sergio Leon-Saval |
Single defect hollow-core photonic bandgap microstructured polymer optical fibre |
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2:45 |
Inaki Bikandi |
Dependence of fluorescence in POFs doped with conjugated polymers on launching conditions |
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| 3:00 - 3:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 - 4:45 |
Session 3 - Standards and Characterisation |
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3:30 |
M. Angeles Losada |
Space-time matrix model of power flow in SI-POFs applied to localized spatial disturbances |
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3:45 |
Angelantonio Gnazzo |
Plastic Optical Fibre system specifications for 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s |
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4:00 |
Inaki Bikandi |
Analysis of light scattering in plastic optical fibres by side excitation technique: Theory and experimentation |
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4:15 |
Satoshi Takahashi |
Proposal of Optical Wiring System in Buildings and Homes with POF |
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4:30 |
Christian Bunge |
High-resolution mode-mixing measurements in PF-GI-POF at 850 nm and 1.55 µm |
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| 4:45 - 6:30 |
Wine and Poster Session |
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Marco Miguel |
Development of a biosensor based in polymeric optical fiber to detect cells in water and fluids. |
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Martin Bloos |
Tailoring of special polymer optical light guides for illumination and signalling |
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Hans Poisel |
Characterisation of side-emitting fibers |
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Hans Poisel |
Progress with fiber optic daylighting system "Sollektor" |
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Yanhua Luo |
Extrusion fabrication of sea-island bicomponent microstructured polymer optical fibre |
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Marcus Schukar |
Climatic investigations of microstructured polymer optical fibers |
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Richard Lwin |
Connecting Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres to the World |
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Lyubomyr Bartkiv |
Video monitoring system using a standard polymer optical fiber |
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Karl Klein |
Transmission of skew-modes in polymer- and silica-based step-index fibres |
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Wook Jae Yoo |
Development of Fiber-optic pH Sensor using spectral analysis for biomedical applications |
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David Sanchez Montero |
Plastic optical fiber sensor for fuel level measurements applied to paramotoring and powered paragliding |
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Mauro Lomer |
Spring coil POF for weigh sensor applications |
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Mauro Lomer |
Studies of hollow waveguide associated with POF for sensing applications |
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Hans Poisel |
Application of POF elongation sensor |
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Hans Poisel |
Bending sensor |
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Bharath Mohan |
Design and Optimisation of Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres with Long Period Gratings |
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Douglas Blacket |
High range strain sensing using mPOF and long period gratings |
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Javier Mateo |
Cost-effective hybrid Fast-Ethernet switch for POF networks |
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Yoshinobu Takano |
Perfluorinated low bending loss GI-POF for home use |
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Abang Annuar Ehsan |
Tap-Off Ratio (TOFR) Optimization of a 1X2 Hollow POF Coupler for Portable Optical Access-Card System |
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Lucia Bilro |
Enhanced bend sensibility of a side-polished POF based sensor |
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Gaizka Durana |
Monitoring the vertical deflection of a flap rudder using a novel fiber optical strain sensor |
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Lucia Bilro |
Development of a POF based device for measuring water turbidity of recent forest fires areas |
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Bernd Offenbeck |
Results of Gigabit/s transmission using RC-LEDs and new driving techniques |
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Teruyuki Taniguchi |
1Gbit link system for home network with halogenated polymer based GI-POF |
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Ari Ramelan |
Natural Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline TiO2 Solar Cell |
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Hamid Reza Movahed |
The Effect of Core-Twist Hybrid yarn GL/PET on Mechanical Properties of Unsaturated Polyester Resin(Part1) |
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Ari Ramelan |
GaSb Solar Cell Fabricated from Spin Coating Zn-Diffusion Method |
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Makoto Asai |
The interaction of polymer and low molecule and its phase transition dynamics |
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30 |
Amaia Berganza |
Ray-tracing analysis of the crosstalk effect in MC-POFs |
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31 |
Piotr Hanczyc |
Ordering and characterisation of thin films of biopolymers based on DNA |
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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 |
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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)
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Thursday 10th September |
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| 8:15 - 8:45 |
Registration & Coffee |
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| 8:45 - 10:00 |
Session 4 - Datacom Networks and FTTX I |
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8:45 |
Silvio Abrate |
POF-PLUS project: toward Gbit/s transmission over SI-POF for home networking (Invited Talk) |
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9:15 |
Angelantonio Gnazzo |
In-home POF solution with FTTH access architecture |
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9:30 |
Jeffrey Lee |
Real-Time Gigabit DMT Transmission for Plastic Optical Fiber Communications |
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9:45 |
Conrad Zerna |
Adaptive Integrated Equalizing Techniques for SI-POF Home Networking Links |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 - 11:30 |
Session 5 - Terahertz transmission and materials |
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10:30 |
Daniel Grischkowsky |
THz waveguides (Invited Talk) |
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11:00 |
Jessienta Anthony |
Characterizations of THz microstructured fibers with specially designed lenses |
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11:15 |
Shaghik Atakaramians |
Experimental validation of low dispersion and high birefringence properties of THz polymer porous fibers |
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| 11:30 - 12:30 |
Session 6 - Medical Applications of Plastic Fibres |
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11:30 |
David McKenzie |
Biomedical applications of POF (Invited Talk) |
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12:00 |
Jens Witt |
Respiratory sensor based on POF OTDR |
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12:15 |
Ari Ramelan |
Optical Fiber-Like Hydrophone for the Characterization of Medical Ultrasound Fields |
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| 12:30 - 1:30 |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 - 3:30 |
Session 7 - Fibre and System Design |
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1:30 |
Karl Klein |
Damage of polymer optical fibers with high-brightness UV-LED |
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1:45 |
Alex Argyros |
UV light transmission in hollow-core microstructured polymer optical fibres |
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2:00 |
Mark Straton |
The use of chiral materials in polymer optical fibres |
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2:15 |
Jon Arrue |
Computational analysis of the parameters affecting the spectral gain of active POFs |
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2:30 |
Kyung-Hwan Kim |
High-Speed(>1.5Gbit/s) Ethernet Data Communication Using a PMMA based Graded-index Plastic Optical Fiber |
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2:45 |
Noriyuki Uchida |
Hollow Multi-core POF for Light Guide |
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3:00 |
Roman Kruglov |
Increasing of channel capacity of SI-POF transmission system: SIMULINK® based simulation |
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3:15 |
Brant Gibson |
Fractal fibre - Nature inspired plastic fibre optics |
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| 3:30 - 4:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 4:00 - 5:30 |
Session 8 - Materials and Fabrication II |
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4:00 |
Kotaro Koike |
Fluoro-Methacrylates for GI POF Communications at 670 and 780 nm Wavelengths |
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4:15 |
Takafumi Noda |
Bandwidth Enhancement of Graded Index Plastic Optical Fiber by Control of Differential Mode Attenuation |
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4:30 |
Ryosuke Nakao |
Partially Chlorinated GI-POF with High Thermal Stability |
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4:45 |
Ann Mescher |
Transient Dynamics in the Drawing of Polymer Fiber |
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5:00 |
Shicheng Xue |
Heat Transfer Within a Furnace for Drawing Microstructured Optical Fibres |
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5:15 |
Yanhua Luo |
Reversible birefringent gratings in azo polymer optical fibre |
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| 6:30 onwards |
Conference Dinner at WatersEdge |
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Friday 11th September |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Registration & Coffee |
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| 9:00 - 10:30 |
Session 9 - Sensors II |
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9:00 |
Kara Peters |
Earthquake sensing: Polymer fiber sensors for large deformation strain measurements(Invited Talk) |
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9:30 |
Sylvia Utami |
Recognition of Devoiced Vowels by Using an Adjustable Plastic Optical-Fiber Microphone |
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9:45 |
Atul Kulkarni |
A deformable polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) optical cavity for monitoring of pressure using plastic optical fiber |
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10:00 |
Matthias Stecher |
Periodic refractive index modifications inscribed in Polymer Optical Fibre by Focussed IR Femtosecond Pulses |
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10:15 |
Marcus Schukar |
Integration technology of POF sensors into composites for structural health monitoring |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 - 12:45 |
Session 10 - Datacom Networks and FTTX II |
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11:00 |
Michael Stevens |
DiMoto POF Networks (Invited Talk) |
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11:30 |
Florian Breyer |
Real-Time Gigabit Ethernet Transmission over LED-Based Plastic Optical Fiber Systems |
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11:45 |
Kimio Oguchi |
Application of WDM technologies in home network environment |
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12:00 |
Ivan Djordjevic |
Beyond 100 Gb/s Transmission over Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fibers based on LDPC-Coded OFDM |
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12:15 |
Dai Hanawa |
A Study on the network traffic of communication environment in the Next Generation Convergence Home Network |
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12:30 |
Shingo Yamakawa |
POF for Fiber To The Desk (FTTD) in the enterprise/campus area |
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| 12:45 - 1:45 |
Lunch |
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| 1:45 - 2:45 |
Session 11 - Illumination |
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1:45 |
Eddy Joseph |
Polymer Optical fibres for architectural illumination (Invited Talk) |
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2:15 |
Demetri Kalymnios |
Novel structure of plastic optical fibre (POF) for daylighting application |
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2:30 |
David Wu |
Emission spectra of gas plasma discharge in polymer capillaries |
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| 2:45 - 3:45 |
POF Art Prize and Pak Chu Student Prize |
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Viewing of entries |
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Presentation of Art Prize, sponsored by PolyOptics |
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Presentation of Pak Chu Student Prize, sponsored by the University of New South Wales |
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Coffee Break |
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| 3:45 - 4:45 |
Session 12 - Postdeadline Session |
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| 4:45 - 5:00 |
Close and announcement of POF 2010 |
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