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OFMC 2007
Europe's leading conference for measurement of optical fibres and optoelectronics
15th - 17th October 2007, Teddington, UK
OFMC 2007 Programme
We are delighted to announce the programme for the International
Optical Fibres and Optoelectronics Measurement Conference (OFMC 2007).
Monday 15th October
| 09.00 - 10.00 |
Registration |
| 10.00 - 10.15 |
Opening Remarks |
Steve McQuillan, Director,
National Physical Laboratory |
| 10.15 - 11.00 |
Keynote Invited Presentation
Optical Frequency Standards for Metrology, Science, Space and
Telecommunications. |
Professor P. Gill, NPL. |
| Novel
Fibres |
| 11.00 - 11.20 |
Distributed Measurement of Brillouin Gain Spectrum
in Photonic Crystal Fibre. |
Jean-Charles Beugnot et al, Université de
Franche-Comté. |
| 11.20 - 11.40 |
Highly Nonlinear Dispersion-Flattened Photonic
Crystal Fibers for the Telecommunication Window. |
S. M. A. Razzak et al, University of the
Ryukyus. |
| 11.40 - 12.00 |
Designing Wideband Near Zero Ultra-Flattened
Chromatic Dispersion Photonic Crystal Fibers. |
S. M. A. Razzak et al, University of the
Ryukyus. |
| 12.00 - 13.00 |
Lunch |
| Non
Linear |
| 13.00 - 13.20 |
High-accuracy determination of fiber nonlinearity
using dispersion analysis and improved power measurement. |
Tuomas Hieta et al, Helsinki University of
Technology. |
| 13.20 - 13.40 |
Matrix Analysis of Micro-Ring Coupled-Resonator
Optical Waveguide Raman Amplifier. |
E.D. Ahmadi et al, Sharif University of
Technology. |
| 13.40 - 14.00 |
Empirical Relations of Nonlinear Constant and
Nonlinear Refractive Index for various Ge-doped Single Mode Optical
Fibers. |
Y. Namihira, University of the Ryukyus. |
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Datacomms |
| 14.00 - 14.30 |
Invited: High density optical storage. |
P. Török, Imperial College. |
| 14.30 - 14.50 |
Optical & Electrical jitter reduction
techniques for characterisation of 10G transceivers using sampling
oscilloscope. |
Fabrice Bernard and L. McInnes, NPL. |
| 14.50 - 15.10 |
A 1.562 Gb/s Phase-Encrypted Secure
Communication. |
T. Ajmal et al, University of Essex. |
| 15.10 - 15.30 |
Measurement Techniques for Extraction of
Parameters in Lightwave Systems for Simulation Purposes. |
I. Fatadin and D. Ives, NPL. |
| 15.30 - 16.00 |
Break |
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Multimode |
| 16.00 - 16.30 |
Invited: Measurement challenges for Optical
Printed Circuit Boards. |
D. Selviah, UCL. |
| 16.30 - 16.50 |
Mode Control for Emerging Link Performance
Standards. |
A.G. Hallam et al, Aston University. |
| 16.50 - 17.10 |
Attenuation Measurements of Multimode Fiber:
Reconciling the Light Source/Power Meter and OTDR Techniques. |
Gang HE et al, EXFO. |
| 17.10 - 17.30 |
Experimental study on the dependence of non-linear
pump spectral broadening and CW supercontinuum generation with chromatic
dispersion. |
S. Martín-López et al, Instituto de
Física Aplicada. |
| 17.30 - 17.50 |
Development of an optical system with controlled
launch conditions for the characterisation of polymer optical fibre (POF). |
R. Ferguson and S. Harris, NPL. |
Evening Reception Bushy House
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Tuesday 16th October
Conference Doors Open 08.45
| Low Photon I
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| 09.00 - 09.30 |
Invited: Standardisation of quantum
cryptographic systems and their metrology |
M. Legré, Université de
Genève GAP-Optique. |
| 09.30 - 10.00 |
Invited: Fibre pair photon sources for
quantum information and communication |
J. Rarity, Bristol University. |
| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Invited: Practical high speed quantum
cryptography. |
Z. Yuan, Toshiba Cambridge Research
Laboratory. |
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Break |
| Low Photon
II |
| 11.00 - 11.20 |
High Resolution OTDR Based on
Up-Conversion Photon-Counting Module. |
Matthieu Legré et al, Université de
Genève GAP-Optique. |
| 11.20 - 11.40 |
Si-APDs matrix for High-Speed
Photon-Counting. |
P. Eraerds et al, Université de
Genève GAP-Optique. |
| 11.40 - 12.10 |
Invited: Measurement Challenges for
Secure Communications. |
J. Cheung et al, NPL. |
| Power
Metrology |
| 12.10 - 12.30 |
NIST optical fiber power measurements:
intramural and international comparisons. |
I. Vayshenker et al, NIST. |
| 12.30 - 12.50 |
Laser beam propagation ratio
parameters, traceable to national measurement standards. |
S R G Hall et al, NPL. |
| 12.50 - 13.40 |
Lunch |
| OTDR |
| 13.40 - 14.10 |
Invited: Agile Optical Networks are
Everywhere, So are New Testing Challenges. |
B. Collings, JDSU. |
| 14.10 - 14.30 |
Random-Scrambling Tunable POTDR for
Cumulative-PMD Measurement of Installed Fibers. |
N. Cyr et al, EXFO. |
| 14.30 - 14.50 |
OFDR measurements for characterization
of the beat length dependance on temperature. |
C. Crunelle et al, Faculté Polytechnique de
Mons. |
| OCT
I |
| 14.50 - 15.20 |
Invited: Recent advances on optical
coherence tomography. |
Professor R. Wang, Oregon Health & Science
University. |
| 15.20 - 15.40 |
Comparative measurement of group
velocity dispersion on micro-structured fibre using Optical Low Coherence
Reflectometry. |
A.F. Obaton et al, Laboratoire National de
Métrologie et d'Essais. |
| 15.40 - 16.10 |
Break |
| OCT II |
| 16.10 - 16.40 |
Invited: Advances in optical coherence
tomography due to recent advances in photonics technology. |
Professor W. Drexler, Cardiff University. |
| 16.40 - 17.00 |
Study of flow dynamics in complex
vessels using Doppler optical coherence tomography. |
M Bonesi and I Meglinski, Cranfield
University. |
| 17.00 - 17.20 |
Characterisation of the architecture
in scaffolds and tendons by OCT. |
Ying Yang et al, Keele University. |
| 17.20 - 17.40 |
Visible-light OCT spectrometer for
microvascular oximetry. |
Sergei V. Gangnus and Stephen Matcher, University
of Sheffield. |
Conference Dinner
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Wednesday 17th October
Conference Doors Open 08.45
| Wavelength
Metrology |
| 09.00 - 09.30 |
Invited: Narrow linewidth fiber laser
frequency comb. |
W. Swann, NIST. |
| 09.30 - 09.50 |
Optical frequency transmission over 251 km of
fiber with 6x10-19 residual frequency instability in 100 s. |
P.A. Williams et al, NIST. |
| 09.50 - 10.10 |
A transportable optical frequency comb based on a
mode-locked fibre laser. |
B. R. Walton et al, NPL. |
| 10.10 - 10.30 |
Mode-locked lasers for remote intercomparison of
frequency standards over optical fibre networks. |
S. N. Lea et al, NPL. |
| 10.30 - 10.50 |
Fibre Optical Frequency Standards based on
Molecules in Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fibers, J. C. Petersen et al. |
J. C. Petersen et al, Danish Fundamental Metrology
Ltd. |
| 10.50 - 11.20 |
Break |
| Fibre
Sensors |
| 11.20 - 11.50 |
Invited: Fibre optics sensors applied to Resin
Transfer Moulding (RTM) in Aeronautic: Composite materials process
optimization. |
X. Aduriz, Faculté des Sciences et
Techniques, University of Nantes. |
| 11.50 - 12.10 |
The use of a CFBG fibre optical sensor to detect
disbond development in composite/composite and metal/composite adhesively
bonded joints. |
S.L. Ogin et al, University of Surrey. |
| 12.10 - 12.20 |
Closing Remarks |
Martin Wicks, NPL. |
| 12.20 - 13.30 |
Lunch |
13.30 - 15.30
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Tour of NPL's
facilities
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