Invited Speakers

Nanophotonics

Dr Weng CHOW
Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Title: Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Prof Shaya FAINMAN
University of California, San Diego, USA
Title: Nanophotonics for Information Systems Integration

Prof Qihuang GONG
Peking University, China
Title: Application of Femtosecond Laser Pulse to Photonic Materials and Devices

Prof Amr HELMY
University of Toronto, Canada
Title: Photonic Crystal Fibers: A Platform for Raman Spectroscopy of Colloidal Nanoparticles in Solution

Prof L. M. KUKREJA
Homi Bhaba National Institute, India
Title: Nano - ZnO in Photonics Landscape

Prof Zhi-Yuan LI
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Title: Surface Plasmon Resonance in Metallic Nanoparticles: Designs and Applications

Prof Ching-Fuh LIN
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Title: Nano-Structured and Micro-Structured Semiconductors for Higher Efficiency Solar Cells

Prof Boris LUKIYANCHUK
Data Storage Institute, Singapore
Title: What We Expect from Weakly Dissipating Materials at the Range of Plasmon Resonance Frequencies

Prof Xiangang LUO
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Title: Light Interaction with Subwavelength Metallic Structures & Its Applications

Prof Marek OSINSKI
University of New Mexico, USA
Title: Colloidal Nanocrystals for Applications in Detection of Ionizing Radiation

Prof Ci-Lin PAN
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Title: Vertically-Aligned Indium Nitride Nanorod Arrays as Bright Terahertz Emitter

Prof Hong-Gyu PARK
Korea University, Korea
Title: Hybrid Single-Nanowire Photonic Crystal Structures

Prof Andrew K S POON
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Title: Progress in Silicon Microresonator-Based Passive Devices: Optical Delay Lines, Switch Matrix, and Linear Absorption-Induced Thermal-Optical Dispersion

Prof Min QIU
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Title: Silicon Photonic Crystal Surface Mode Microcavities

Prof Mahi SINGH
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Title: The Study of Photonic Nanowires Made from Photonic Crystals

Prof Nelson TANSU
Lehigh University, USA
Title: Polarization Engineering of InGaN-Based Nanostructures for Low-Threshold Diode Lasers and High-Efficiency Light Emitting Diodes

Prof Kazumi WADA
University of Tokyo, Japan
Title: Light Emission and Detection for Si Photonics

Dr Qian WANG
Data Storage Institute, Singapore
Title: Silicon Nanophotonic Waveguide and Coupling

Prof O’Dae KWON
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Title: Photonic Quantum Ring Laser of Whispering Cave Mode and the Mega-Pixel Laser Chip

Prof Yi LUO
Tsinghua University, China
Title: Growth of III-Nitride Materials and Blue Light-Emitting Diodes by Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy

Biophotonics

Prof John ARKWRIGHT
CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, Australia
Title: The Use Of Wavelength Division Multiplexed Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors For Distributed Sensing Of Pressure In The Gastrointestinal Tract

Prof Liu AI-QUN
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Title: A Liquid Photonics with Micro-Optical-Fluidic-Systems (MOFS)

Prof Laura MARCU
University of California Davis, USA
Title: Hybrid Optical-Ultrasonic Technique for Biomedical Diagnostics

Dr Malini OLIVO
National Cancer Center, Singapore
Title: Photodetection of Cancer in the Non-Fluorescent Regime with Gold Nanostructures

Prof Colin SHEPPARD
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title: Developments in Modern Microscopy

ICOCN

Dr Thomas C.-J. CHAE
National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia
Title: Passive Optical Network with Bandwidth-efficient Local Networking Capability

Dr Andy Chan Hau PING
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Title: Planar Lightwave Circuit Technology-based Optical Interleavers

Dr Ki-Man CHOI
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Title: Evolution of TDM-PON to WDM-PON

Dr Mable P. FOK
Princeton University, USA
Title: Providing Network Security with Optical Signal Processing

Dr Jian-Jun HE
Zhejiang University, China
Title: Novel Integrated Multifunctional Laser Transmitters

Dr Robert JOPSON
Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Title: Applications of Fiber Parametric Gain

Prof Hoon KIM
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title: Integrated Transmitter with Amplitude and Phase Modulations

Dr Satoru KUROKAWA
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Title: Standardization Activity of Radio on Fiber Device and International Round Robin Test Results

Dr Kwanil LEE
Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Title: Protection Architecture for Colorless DWDM Passive Optical Networks

Prof San-Liang LEE
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Title: Laser Arrays and Tunable Lasers for Optical Access Networks

Prof Keping LONG
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Title: The Research and Development on OVPN for Optical Internet

Prof Chao LU
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Title: CDMA Based Fibre Bragg Grating Sensor System

Dr Stan LUMISH
JDSU, USA
Title: Advances in Photonic Technology for Multi-Terabit Optical Networks

Prof Moshe NAZARATHY
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Title: Recent Advances in Coherent Optical OFDM High-Speed Transmission

Prof Binh Le NGUYEN
Monash University, Australia
Title: Electronic Equalization of Modulation Formats for Optical Transmission

Dr Mark PELUSI
University of Sydney, Australia
Title: Highly nonlinear Chalcogenide Waveguide Devices for Ultra-fast All-optical Signal Processing

Prof Malin PREMARATNE
Monash University, Australia
Title: Multiple-scale Analysis of Optical Amplifiers

Dr Kim ROBERTS
Nortel, Canada
Title: Real-time 40G Coherent Optical Transmission

Dr Michaël ROELENS
The University of Sydney, Australia
Title: Advanced Applications of Flexible ROADM Technology

Prof Werner ROSENKRANZ
University of Kiel, Germany
Title: Advanced System Design and Optimization for Mitigation of Optical Channel Impairments

Dr Theodore J SCHMIDT
StrataLight Communications, USA
Title: Distortion Compensation in High Data Rate Long Haul Fiber-Optic Communication Systems

Prof Yikai SU
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Title: Slow Light and Signal Processing in Silicon Nano-waveguides

Prof Hidenori TAGA
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Title: Effect of Dispersion Map Design for Long-Haul RZ-DPSK System

Prof Yuichi TAKUSHIMA
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Title: Design Issues in RSOA-based WDM PON

Dr Naoya WADA
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Title: Recent Progress on Optical Packet Switching System

Prof Chongqing WU
Beijing Jiaotong University, Institute of Optical Information, China
Title: Nonlinear Polarization Rotation in SOA and its application in all-optical signal processing

Prof Jianping YAO
University of Ottawa, Canada
Title: Photonic Generation of Microwave Signals

Prof Koji YASUKAWA
Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Title: RoF Project in Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme

High Power Lasers and Applications

Prof Andrius BALTUSKA
Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Title: 10-mJ Few-Cycle OPCPA at 1.5 µm

Prof Arnaud BRIGNON / Jean Pierre HUIGNARD
Thales Research and Technology Fr, France
Title: Advanced Concepts for Energy Scaling of Fibre Lasers based on Nonlinear Optics and Beam Combining

Dr Jay DOSTER
Northrop Grumman - Cutting Edge Optronics, USA
Title: Performance and Applications for a Radially Pumped, Nd:YVO4 Gain Module

Dr Reinhard EBERT
Research Institute for Optronic and Pattern Recognition (FGAN-FOM), Germany
Title: Applications for Remote Laser Vibration Sensing

Prof Akio IKESUE/ Lin Aung YAN
World-Labo Co., Ltd, Japan
Title: Current and Future Status of Ceramic Lasers

Prof Alexander A. KAMINSKII
Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Title: Nonlinear Cascaded Lasing in Crystals and Ceramics

Prof Ursula KELLER
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Title: Pulse Energy Scaling of Femtosecond Ultrafast Thindisk Laser Oscillators towards the 100-μJ Level

Dr Espen LIPPERT
Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway
Title: ZnGeP2 in high power optical parametric oscillators

Prof Ebrahim-Zadeh MAJID
ICREA and ICFO, Spain
Title: To be advised

Dr Klaus PETERMANN
University of Hamburg, Germany
Title: High Power Yb-doped Thin-disc Lasers

Prof Phua Poh BOON
DSO National Laboratories, Singapore
Title: Generation of High Power Radially Polarized Laser Beam

Prof Peter SCHUNEMANN
BAE SYSTEMS, USA
Title: To be advised

Prof Andreas TUENNERMANN
FhG-IOF, Germany Title: Ultrafast Fiber Lasers – Status and Perspectives

Dr Jirong YU
NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Title: Advanced 2-micron Laser Development for Remote Sensing Applications

H. Y. ZHENG
Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
Title: Recent Research in Femtosecond Laser Processing

Dr Jean-Jacques ZONDY
Institut National de Metrologie, France
Title: High-power Diode-pumped Single-frequency Nd:YLF Lasers with Intracavity SHG to the Red Range

Prof Tan Howe SIANG
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Title: Multidimensional Optical Spectroscopy: Novel Techniques and Applications