POF 2009 Confirmed invited speakers

Dr. Paul Polishuk

IGI Group, USA

POF Markets and Applications - A Worldwide View

Professor Daniel R. Grischkowsky

Optoelectronics, Oklahoma State University

THz waveguides

Professor Yasuhiro Koike

Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
Director, JST Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology

The Giga House project

Prof. Roberto Gaudino
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Silvio Abrate
Istituto Superiore “Mario Boella”, Italy

POF-PLUS project: toward Gbit/s transmission over SI-POF for home networking

Professor Mark Kuzyk

Laboratory for Nonlinear Optical Studies,
Washington State University

Nonlinear-optical and photo-mechanical phenomena in dye-doped polymer fibers as the basis for making ultrasmart materials

Professor Hans Poisel

POF Application Center
University of Applied Sciences "Georg Simon Ohm" Nürnberg

POF sensors

Professor John Love

The Optical Sciences Group, The Australian National University

Nonlinear optics and soliton theory

Eddy Joseph
Managing Director, Poly Optics Australia

Polymer Optical fibres for architectural illumination

A/Prof Kara Peters
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering North Carolina State University

Earthquake sensing: Polymer fiber sensors for large
deformation strain measurements

Prof. Martijn de Sterke
Associate Director, CUDOS
The University of Sydney

Microstructured optical fibres