TOM 1 – Guided-Wave Optics

TOPICS

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Optical fiber fabrication and devices
• Specialty optical fibers
• Integrated optics: design, fabrication and devices (other than Si-photonics)
• Guided-wave sensors, based on fibers and planar waveguides (other than Si-photonics)
• Fiber lasers and related components and phenomena
• Telecom optics, devices and sub-systems

CHAIRS 

• Chair: Seppo Honkanen, University of Eastern Finland (FI)
• Co-chair: Franko Küppers, Darmstadt University of Technology (DE)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

• Gualtiero Nunzi Conti, di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara (IT)
• Matthieu Roussey, University of Eastern Finland (FI)
• Nadège Courjal, FEMTO-ST Institute (FR)
• Robert Norwood, University of Arizona (US)
• Karl-Friedrich Klein, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (DE)

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Emiliano Descrovi, DISAT - Politecnico di Torino (IT): Light manipulation through surface modes in dielectric multilayers
• Goëry Genty, Tampere University of Technology (FI): Rogue waves in Optics
• Jean-Emmanuel Broquin, IMEP-LAHC, Grenoble (FR): Glass integrated optics: from telecom to sensors
• Maria-Pilar Bernal, FEMTO-ST, Besancon (FR): Lithium Niobate Nanophotonics: When Optics beats technology
• Nasser Peyghambarian, University of Arizona (US): New hand-held fiber lasers and their applications in biomedical applications
• Stefan Wabnitz, Università di Brescia (IT): Optical turbulence and synchronisation in fiber lasers
• Zhipei Sun, Aalto University (FI): Modulating light with 2D materials