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Optical Waveguide Sensing & Imaging
in Medicine, Environment, Security & Defence

October 12 - 21, 2006, Gatineau, Québec, Canada


LECTURERS

Jacques Albert

Canada Research Chair in Advanced Photonic Components

Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Novel sensing mechanisms using tilted fiber Bragg gratings


Xiaoyi Bao

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Fiber sensor development for health monitoring of civil structures
 

Francis Berghmans

Belgium Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN)

Reliability of optical fiber components

Ionising radiation Effects of optical fiber components

Anders Bjarklev

Research Center COM, Technical University of Denmark
Sensors and active devices based on hybrid photonic crystal fiber and planar structures

 

Wojtek Bock

Canada Research Chair in Photonics

Univeristé du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, QC, Canada

Optical fiber sensing technologies for explosive detection

 

Leonid Butvina

Prohorov GPI RAS, Moscow, Russia

FTIR ATR infrared fiber sensors for field environmental and

bio-chemical reactor monitoring

 

Rick Claus

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

Self-assembled nanostructured fibers and sensors

*will also be giving a talk on the "Commercialization of optical nanotechnologies" at the Advanced Tech Commercialization Workshop on October 16th

Tinko Eftimov

Plovdiv University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Applications of traditional and long period fber Bragg gratings      

 

Israel Gannot

Tel Aviv University, Israel and

George Washington University, DC, USA

Sensors for the smart medical home

Optical fiber nanoparticle bioimaging 


Jim Harrington

Rutgers University, NJ, USA

Infrared fiber optic sensors

Laser power delivery using infrared fiber optics

Scientific misconduct 


Ilko Ilev

Food and Drug Administration – Center for Devices and Radiological Health, MD, USA
Fiber optic biosensors and nanobiosensors - fundamentals and biomedical applications

*will also be giving a talk on "An optical scientist’s view of commercialization opportunities at the FDA" at the Advanced Tech Commercialization Workshop on October 16th


Siegfried Janz

Institute for Microstructural Sciences, NRC, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Silicon-based microphotonics for biosensing applications

Julian Jones

Heriot-Watt University, UK

Optical fiber interferometric sensing systems

*will also be giving a talk on "Knowledge transfer and universities: a UK perspective" at the Advanced Tech Commercialization Workshop on October 16th 
 

Karl Fridriech Klein

Friedberg Gissen University, Germany
New analytical applications of UV-waveguides

Gas-sensing with Hollow-Core-Waveguides

*will also be giving a talk on "Photonics commericialization experiences in Germany" at the Advanced Tech Commercialization Workshop on October 16th 
 

Ulrich Krull

University of Toronto at Mississauga, ON, Canada

Optical waveguides as a platform for detection of DNA hybridization
Microfluidics for waveguide-based DNA biosensors

 

Brian MacCraith

Biomedical Diagnostics Institute, National Centre for Senior Research, Ireland

Enhanced fluorescence-based sensors

Yuji Matsuura

Tohuko University, Sendai, Japan

Deep UV, x-ray laser and Raman waveguides for medical treatments

*will also be giving a talk on the "Biomedical photonics commercialization in Japan" at the Advanced Tech Commercialization Workshop on October 16th 
 

Jessica Ramella-Roman

The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA

Polarized light imaging of skin surface and sub-surface effects
Modeling of polarized light transport into scattering media:Polarized light Monte Carlo

Stoyan Tanev

Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Simulation tools for light wave scattering and propagation modeling – biomedical and biosensing research implications

Tomasz Wolinski

Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Photonic liquid crystal fibers - new sensing opportunities



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