Confirmed BGPP Invited Speakers include:
Device Fabrication by Femtosecond Laser Inscription, Ian Bennion; Univ. of
Aston, UK
Bragg Gratings in Photonic Crystal Fibres Using High Intensity ArF Exciplex
Laser Emission, John Canning; Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Femtosecond Laser Nanomachining in Fused Silica, Cyril Hnatovsky; Natl. Res.
Council Canada, Canada
Bragg Gratings in Multicore Optical Fibres for Sensor Applications, Julian D. C.
Jones; Heriot Watt Univ., UK
Nanostructures and Poling in Silica Fibres, Peter G. Kazansky; Optoelectronics
Res. Ctr., UK
Femtosecond Laser Induced Nanoparticles in Glasses, Jianrong Qiu; Shanghai Inst.
of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China
Photonic Crystal Fibre Gratings: Prospects for Label-Free Biosensors, Lars
Rindorf; COM.DTU, Denmark
Confirmed NP Invited Speakers include:
High Speed Optical Amplification Based on Quantum Dots for the 100 G Ethernet,
Dieter H. Bimberg; Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany
Pulse Dynamics in Mode-Locked Lasers, Steven Cundiff; NIST, USA
Nonlinear Functionalities Implemented in Silicon-Compatible Materials: The
PHOLOGIC Project Vision, Marti Javier; Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Entanglement Generation and Propagation in Optical Fiber, Prem Kumar;
Northwestern Univ., USA
Nonlinear Carbon-Nanotube Photonics, Youichi Sakakibara; Natl. Inst. of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Waves in Photonic Lattices: From Interacting Photonic Quasi-Crystals to Anderson
Localization, Mordechai Segev; Technion–Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel
Optical Code-Label Processing Based OPS System and Related Technologies, Naoya
Wada; Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
Extreme Temporal Pulse Propagation in Quadratic Nonlinear Media, Frank Wise;
Cornell Univ., USA