With the utility of optical fiber communications and fiber sensors well established, new challenges arise with its expanded use. Both digital and analog networks are proceeding toward an all-optical architecture. The future is clearly optical, and the challenges will be optical devices which enable this expanding technology.
A number of these challenges become materials issues as signals traverse longer spans and demand optical processing (switching, pulse shaping, etc.) to reach their destination. From the biased eye of a materials researcher, the performance of the fiber devices enabling these changes is frequently realized by an understanding of the fiber materials capabilities.
The symposium would provide a forum for optical fiber device materials issues frequently hidden or not emphasized in the system or device papers of other conferences.
Contributed papers are solicited in the following areas:
* High-power fiber devices
* Grating-based devices
* Raman fiber lasers and amplifiers
* Up-conversion sources
* Novel non-linear materials (poled silica, polymers ...)
* Fiber devices (modulators, switches and isolators)
* Optical amplifiers (digital and linear)
* Rare-earth host selection enhanced performance
* Fiber Raman lasers and amplifiers
* Dispersion compensation fiber (design and fabrication issues)
* Frequency shifters (acousto-optic, four-wave mixing)
* Fiber sensors
* Fiber device reliability
* Optical nonlinearity effects on fiber systems and devices
* Spectral and polarization hole burning
* Fiber coating materials and effects
Partial list of invited speakers: Steven Brueck (University of New Mexico), Poling of Optical Fiber Materials; Edward Mendosa (Physical Optics Corporation), Sol-Gel Glasses for Chemical Sensing; Ray Measures (University of Toronto), Smart Skin Fiber Sensors; David Griscom (Naval Research Laboratory), Radiation Hardness of Silica-Based Optical Fiber; and Turan Erdogan (University of Rochester), Materials Issues for UV-Induced Fiber Gratings
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Symposium Organizers
Jay Simpson
AT&T Bell Laboratories
P.O. Box 636 - Rm. 6E-212
Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636
Phone (908) 582-5270
Fax (908) 582-2913
jay@allwise.att.com
Robert Sadowski
N115 Edward L. Ginzton Lab
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4085
Phone (415) 723-1566
Fax (415) 725-7509
sadowski@loki.stanford.edu
Robert Lieberman
Physical Optics
20600 Gramercy Pl., Bldg. 100
Torrance, CA 90501-1821
Phone (310) 320-3088
Fax (310) 320-4667
rlieberman@aol.com
T.F. Morse
Laboratory for Lightwave Technology
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Phone (401) 863-1444
Fax (401) 863-1157
theodore_morse@postoffice.brown.edu
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