Symposium Program (last updated: 21-06-07)

Date: 29^th of June, Aveiro, Portugal Topics Invited Talks Contributed papers Structure Topics The scope of the Symposium is concentrated on the applications of optical technologies in brodband telecommunication networks, systems, and components, developments in optical fibre/guided-wave sensors, photonic sensing devices and related technologies, including (but not limited to): Digital All-Optical Networks deployment Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing Optical Time Domain Multiplexing Chromatic Dispersion monitoring and compensation Polarization Mode Dispersion monitoring and compensation Wavelength conversion Optical amplifiers Nonlinear transmission Light sources Optical switching and routing Network reliability & availability Radio-over-fiber transmission Broadband metro and access networks Modelling of optical systems and components Network planning and design tools Standardisation issues Optical Fiber Sensors Integrated optics and Microfabrication Optical Fiber Sources Electronic and Optoelectronic Systems Integration Structure The Symposium will consist of Invited and Contributed talks (Oral or Poster presentation) organized in the following topics: Transmission, networks, devices and sensors. Invited Talks Mahmoud A. El-Sherif, “On-fiber active devices for next generation telecom” António B. Lobo Ribeiro, “Optical Fiber Sources in Biomedical Applications” Hideaki Furukawa, “10GE over colored OPS network” Naoya Wada, “Optical synthesizer and its application to THz optical clock generation” João Sousa, “High power fiber lasers” José Figueiredo, “New generation of negative resistance circuits: integration of lasers and detectors with negative differential devices” Chongxiu Yu, “The Introduction of The Science and Technology Programs in China and Optical communication in BUPT” Luís Ferreira, “Development of a commercial fiber optic based Weight-In-Motion system for railway traffic characterization” Ariel Guerreiro, “Quantum Crytographic: perspective in the future” Alvaro Buxens, “Optical Network planning” Contributed Papers Oral Tiago Silveira et al, “All-Optical Conversion from ODSB to OVSB using a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier” Jorge Castro et al, “Reactive and Proactive Multi-Path Routing Strategies for Optical Burst-Switched Networks” Silvia Pato et al, “Analysis of the Optimum APD Gain for 10 Gbit/s Ethernet Passive Optical Networks” Joel Pedro Carvalho et al, “Hollow-core photonic crystal fibres for gas sensing applications” Hugo Lima et al, “Structural health monitoring of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia Church in Aveiro” P. André – Projectos ARPA, CONPAC e OreO Askari Ghasempour et al, “Integrated optics beam combiners for astronomical interferometry” Luís Pessoa et al, “Adaptive Electrical Equalization of Optical Impairments in Coherent Optical Systems” Poster Transmission/Networks/Devices Leandro Oliveira et al, “Collision Free All-Optical Packet Switching based on MZI-SOA Structures” Cláudio Rodrigues et al, “2 x 50 Mbit/s Transmission over 50 m of 1 mm Standard Step Index PMMA Polymer Optical Fiber” Miguel Drummond et al, “107 Gb/s Optical Vestigial sideband system with fiber Bragg grating filtering” André Brízido et al, “3G Radio Distribution based on Directly Modulated Lasers over Transparent PONs on a Multiple User Scenario” João M. B. Oliveira et al, “Non-Linear Distortion Compensation of OFDM Signals in Radio-over-Fiber Systems” João Santos et al, “Synthesis of Multilayered Optical Thin Film Filters for 10G EPON Systems” J. P. Carvalho et al, “Experimental Development of Very High Speed Optical Links at the Beira Interior University Campus” Mário Pereira et al, “Analysis of Microstrip Electromagnetic Bandgap Structures Using the coupled-mode theory” Berta Neto et al, “Geometrical Method to Appraise the Stability of the Raman Equations Solutions” Ana Maria Rocha et al, “Raman Fiber Amplifiers based on Incoherent Pumps” A. D. Reis et al, “Synchronizers Operating by Two or One Data Transitions” Chandan Kumar et al, “Propagation of amplitude modulated rectangular pulse through fiber considering a down-shift in carrier frequency” Sensors Diana Viegas et al, “High Resolution optomechanical system for micro-optical devices” Gaspar Rego et al, “Long-period gratings arc-induced in B/Ge co-doped fibers” Cesar Maule et al, “Ruthenium Luminescent complexes for lifetime based pH sensing” Gerardo González-Aguilar et al, “Chemiluminescent silica nanoparticles for optical fiber sensing of reactive oxygen species” Paulo Caldas et al, “Whispering Gallery Modes device fabrication and sensing applications” Filipe Magalhães et al, “Implementation of a compact interrogation system for remote detection of methane” Sanderson Lima et al, “Acoustic Mandrel in a Bragg Grating Sensor to Partial Discharge Detection” Susana Silva et al, “Interrogation of a Fibre Fabry-Pérot Cavity using a p-Shifted Grating” João Decoroso et al, “Wearable optical bend sensor” Bruno Marques et al, “Thermal Current Sensor based on Metal Coated Hi-Bi Fiber Loop Mirror” Cristina Barbosa et al, “Development of a high performance fiber Bragg grating based tiltmeter” Short Biographies: Mahmoud A. El-Sherif Research Professor of Materials and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of Fiber Optics and Photonics Manufacturing Engineering Center and President of Photonics Laboratories, Inc., and Photonics On-Fiber Devices Inc. Dr. El-Sherif is one of the leading American inventors in the areas of fiber optics and opto-electronics as well as smart and intelligent materials/structures. He is the inventor of the first on-fiber active modulator, switch and tunable coupler for optical communication systems. He is the inventor of the first on-fiber optic chemical sensor. He has developed sapphire optical fibers (core, clad, and jacket) for high temperature application (up to 1700°C) and IR transmission. He is the principal investigator (PI) of several US Federal and State research and development programs with the NASA Lewis Research Center, The Department of Defense (DoD) (director of several projects developed with the US Army, US Air Force, and US Naval Surface Warfare Center), the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Ben Franklin Technology Center of South Eastern Pennsylvania. In addition, he served as the PI for many industrial projects with small and large size companies, including the David Sarnoff Research Center (formally RCA), Smith and Nephew Richards, Inc., Vickers, Inc., and Saphikon, Inc.. In addition, Dr. El-Sherif has served as a project director for several international collaborative projects with Japan, China, France, Germany, and Brazil. He has also served on the committees of numerous Ph.D. and M.S students graduating from the Electrical & Computer, Materials, and Mechanical Engineering Departments. António B. Lobo Ribeiro Graduated in Physics from the University of Porto (1990) and received is M.Sc. (honours) in Physics (Applied Optics) from University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (1992) and his Ph.D. (Applied Optoelectronics) from University of Porto in partnership with University fo Kent, UK (1997). From 1990-98 he was with the Optoelectronics Center of INESC-Porto, Portugal, as Researcher working on fiber optic sensing technologies. From 1998-1999 he worked as a Project Manager at the R&D Division of ENT S.A. (EFACEC Group Corp.). Since 1999, he is Associate Professor at the University of Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal. He co-founded MultiWave Networks Inc. (California, USA) in 2001 and Multiwave Networks Portugal, Lda., Maia, Portugal (a subsidiary of the US company) were he was Director of Development and Director of Operations. Since 2005, he has been Project Manager & Senior Consultant of Multiwave Photonics S.A. He has 45 publications in international journals and conferences proceedings and 7 patents. He his also member of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the Optical Society of America (OSA), and independent expert of Portuguese Innovation Agency (AdI) and European Defense Agency (EDA). Hideaki Furukawa Hideaki Furukawa received the B.E., M.E. and Dr. E degrees in Material and Life Science from Osaka University, Osaka Japan, in 2000, 2002 and 2005, respectively. Since 2005, he has been with National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo Japan. His research interests include photonic information technology and photonic networks. Dr. Furukawa is a member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP). Naoya Wada Dr. Wada received the B.E., M.E., and Dr. Eng. degrees in electronics from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, in 1991, 1993, and 1996, respectively. In 1996, he joined the Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Senior Researcher of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan. Since April 2006, he has been project reader of Photonic Node Project and research manager of the Photonic Network Group. His current research interests are in the area of photonic networks and optical communication technologies, such as optical packet switching (OPS) network, optical processing, and optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA) system. He has published more than 50 papers in refereed journals and more than 150 papers in refereed international conferences. Dr. Wada received the 1999 Young Engineer Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, and the 2005 Young Researcher Award from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. He is a member of IEEE Comsoc, IEEE LEOS, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP), and the Optical Society of Japan (OSJ). João Sousa Academic: Ph.D. in Physics (Applied Optics) from Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal, with the thesis “High-Power Fiber Sources” (1999). M.Sc. in Optoelectronics and Lasers from Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal, with the thesis “Tm, Ho:YAG and Tm:YAG Lasers” (1995). Graduated in Applied Physics (Optics and Electronics) from Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal (1992). Professional: Co-founder of Multiwave Photonics SA, Maia, Portugal (September 2003). Director of Engineering at Multiwave Photonics SA, Maia, Portugal (September 2003). Director of Engineering at MultiWave Networks Portugal, Lda., Maia, Portugal (May 2001-July 2003). Co-founder MultiWave Networks Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA (May 2001). Assistant Professor at Physics Department, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (November 2000-August 2001). Fiber Optic Laser Sources Group Leader at UOSE, INESC-Porto, Portugal (1999-2000). Assistant Professor at Physics Department, University of TAD, Vila-Real, Portugal (1999-October 2000). Senior Researcher of the Fiber Optic Laser Sources Group at UOSE, INESC-Porto, Portugal (1995-1999). Researcher at the Optoelectronics Group, INESC Porto, Portugal (1992-94). Alvaro Buxens M. Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering from the Engineering School of Bilbao (Spain) speciality in Radiocommunications, Industrial Ph.D. in Optical Communications from the Research Center COM at the Danish Technical University(DTU). Previous positions as Research Associate at the DTU, Development Engineer at Tellabs Denmark for the WDM product line, Intellectual Property Consultant at Plougmann & Vingtoft IP. Today working for Nokia Siemens Networks in the WDM business line as System Engineer. José Figueiredo José Figueiredo was born in Barcelos, Portugal. He completed his first degree in Physics (Optics and Electronics) at University of Porto, Porto, in 1991, with the work on holographic optical elements aberration correction with an intermediate computer generated hologram, at Vrije Universiteit Brussels under the ERAMUS Programme. From October 1991 to September 1992 he was with Universidade Lusíada, Famalicão, Portugal, teaching courses in Electronics. From 1992-1995 he was with INESC Optoelectronics Centre, Porto, Portugal, working on modelling of polymeric passive integrated optical component for wavelength division multiplexing. He completed the master in Optoelectronics and Lasers in February 1995 with the thesis on wavelength division multiplexing integrated optical devices. From 1995 to 1999 he was with the Department of Physics of University of Porto and with the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering of University of Glasgow, Scotland, as a Ph.D. student in "co-tutela", working on the optoelectronic properties of resonant tunnelling diodes. He completed his Ph.D. in Applied Physics in 2000. Presently he is member of the Physics Department of Faculty of Sciences and Technology of University of the Algarve. He is co-founder of the Centre of Electronic, Optoelectronics and Telecommunications (CEOT) of University of the Algarve. His current research interests include the design and characterization of optoelectronic devices incorporating resonant tunnelling processes - relevant publications. Recently he became involved in the development and characterization of biosensors, and the characterization of diode lasers operating at the communication wavelengths. Chongxiu Yu Professor of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Director of Optoelectronics and Lightwave Technology research Center. Professor, instructor of graduate student for PH.D student. She graduated from the Dept. of Radio Telecommunications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in 1969. She worked as a teaching assistant in the Dept. of Applied Physics, BUPT for eight years. Then she was visiting fellow in Dept. of physics, Shanghai Fudan University from 1978 to 1981. From then on she engaged in university education and research work including investigation of optical information processing, holography and applications, optoelectronics technology, optical interconnection and so on. Since 1986, she has been head of the Photo-electronic Group and responsible for a number of projects supported by China 863 plan, the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Ministry of Science Technology, and so on. Among the finished projects, some of them were awarded prizes from Nation and Department of state. Now she is the director of Optoelectronics Research Center. Her research interests are in optical fiber communication, optical switching, optoelectronic technology and devices, optical CDMA and so on. She has published more than 200 papers in journals and conferences in these areas. Now she is also Member, Chinese Institute of Communications; Member, Committee of Fiber Optics and Integral Optics, Chinese Optical Society; Deputy Director, Committee of Holography and Optical information Processing, Chinese Optical Society; Member, SPIE. Luís Ferreira Luís Ferreira was born in 1969 in Vale de Cambra, Portugal. He graduated in Applied Physics (Optics and Electronics) in 1991 and obtained the M. Sc. degree (Optoelectronics and Lasers) in 1995, both from the University of Porto, Portugal. In 2000, he received the Ph. D. degree in Physics from the same University, after developing part of his research work in fibre optic sensing at the Physics Department of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. Between 2000 and 2001, he was an Invited Assistant Professor of the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. During the period 1999-2000, he has also been an Invited Lecturer at the Physics Department of the University of Aveiro and at the Physics Section, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. From 2001 to 2003 he was manager of the Advanced Development Unit at MultiWave Networks, Portugal. Presently, he is a Senior Researcher at INESC Porto and Engineering Director at FiberSensing, a company that he co-founded in 2004. Ariel Guerreiro Ariel Guerreiro was born in Lisbon, Portugal, on January 1975. He received his Licentiate and Ph.D. in Physical Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon in 1998 and 2004, respectively. He is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Porto since 2002 and joined the INESC Porto - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto, Porto, in 2007 and has been engaged in research on Quantum and Nonlinear Optics.