interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories

University of Sydney

CONFERENCE ROUNDUP

 

 Conference

 Available Presentations

Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS 2006) Cancun Mexico 
ICOCN 2006 Chengdu China

Structured fibres for telecomm and sensing 

1st Int. Wkshop on Multiphoton Processes in Glassy Materials (MPGGM 2006) Sydney Australia Photos Program and manuscripts for downloading
Optical Microsystems (OuM 2007) Capri Italy

Putting Fresnel Optics into Optical Fibres

  
  
  
  
  
  

Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS 2006) Cancun Mexico

Nathaniel Groothoff wins runner up award for best student paper. Nathaniel's ongoing work on DFB structured fibre lasers continues to catch attention. At OFS he talked about demonstrating selective lasing between fundamental and higher order modes to allow selective interaction with the air holes, exploiting the advantages of a structured fibre with a step index gain centre.

Cicero Martelli in his accepted post deadline paper talks about the first numerical simulation of Fresnel fibres using software developed for photonic crystal fibres and discusses the impact of introducing defects for various sensor applications.

Overall strong poster presentations highlighted the team's work and new interactions and collaborations have been established. Cancun is an exceptional venue that posed the serious dilemma of attending a reasonable number of great talks with a balanced amount of time spent on the beautiful beach and scuba diving in the spectacular reefs and into the cenote caverns.

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A visit to CIO (Centro de Investiagciones en Optica), Leon Mexico, one of the conference organisers, after OFS established the basis for future interactions between OFTC and CIO, a leader in the growing photonics community in Mexico. Gilberto Anzueto Sanchez from this group spent six months as part of his PhD work making various high power fibre lasers, including chalcogenide fibre systems and Raman lasers, at OFTC.

 

 

On the left right shows a team of divers, two of which were OFS registrants (John Canning 3rd from left), entering Cenote Chak-Mool ("Jaguar Cave" in Mayan). 

 

 

ICOCN 2006 Chengdu China

Presentation given at the 5th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN) & the 2nd International Symposium on Advances and Trends in Fibre Optics and Applications (ATFO) is available here: http://www.jclaboratories.com/structured fibres for telecomm and sensing ICOCN.pdf.

ICOCN is the region’s equivalent to OFC, established to enable regional parties to attend a fully fledged international communications conference. Many of these parties are often unable to attend conferences such as OFC. The next ICOCN will be held in Pakistan.

Discussions took place describing the plans to create a new conference dedicated to optical fibre sensors in the region modelled on the lines of Optical Fiber Sensors (OFS). It was felt this is necessary to have a convenient outlet from which to disseminate the increasing advances in optical fibre sensors across the region, particularly the numerous opportunities generated by the unique infrastructure growth in China.

 

Apart from listening to the impressive line-up of invited talks, time was available to visit some of the finer sites of Chengdu including the historic town centre shown below.

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