Photonics and Sensor Workshop in London

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Public

Speaker: Prof. B. M. A. Rahman

Abstract

Leading researchers from all over the world will be delivering their talks on photonics and optical sensors. Emerging areas of photonic devices, silicon photonics, active devices, nonlinear photonics and numerical methods needed for their optimisation will be presented. Development and use of FBG, LPG, and silicon slot based sensors will also be presented.

Members in the organising committee:

Technical committee:

Prof. B. M. A. Rahman

Prof. K.T. V. Grattan

Local organising committee:

Dr. Souvik Ghosh

Events Team from City

Event date: 27-28 June 2019

Event time: 0900 - 1730 each day

Venue: City University of London, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK

Room no: B200

List of speakers:

Day 1

Sir David N Payne, FRS, University of Southampton
Prof. Boon Ooi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Prof. Harith Ahmad, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Prof. Saif Islam, University of California, Davis, USA
Prof. Thomas Schneider, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Prof. Ajoy Kar, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh
Prof. David Marpaung, Univ Twente, The Netherlands
Prof. Linjie Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Prof. Andrea Melloni, Politechnic Milan, Italy
Dr Akimasa Kaneko, Vice President, NTT, Japan
Prof. B M A Rahman, City, University of London
Prof. Salah Obayya, JewelCity University, Cairo, Egypt
Prof. Hugo Hernandez, University Campinas, Brazil

Day 2

Prof. K T V Grattan, City, University of London
Prof. Bishnu Pal, MEC, India
Prof. Nan-Kuang Chen, Lianchao University, China
Prof. Asokan Sundarrajan, IISc, Bangalore, India
Prof. Arup Lal Chakraborti, IIT Ghandhinagar, India
Prof. Richard De La Rue, University of Glasgow
Dr Parama Pal, TCR Research and Innovation, India
Prof. Elfed Lewis, University of Limerick, Ireland
Prof. Andy Augousti, Kingston University, London
Prof. P Kyriacou, City, University of London
Prof. Stewart Aitchison, University Toronto

Event Timetable

Thursday June 27 (Day 1)

Name	Talk Title	Time
Sir Paul Curran	Opening Ceremony	8.50 a.m.
Sir David N Payne	Silica – The Wonder Material	9.00 a.m.
Prof. Boon Ooi	Visible diode lasers for high bitrate visible light communications	9.45 a.m.
Prof. Harith Ahmad	Application of 2D materials in optical fibre lasers in 2 micron region	10.15 a.m.
Tea/Coffee
Prof. Saif Islam	Slowing down and trapping of light for highly-sensitive and ultra-fast silicon photonic receivers	11.15 a.m.
Prof. Thomas Schneider	Frequency time coherence for integrated silicon photonic devices	11.45 a.m.
Prof. Ajoy Kar	Manufacturing of Integrated Photonic Devices	12.15 p.m.
Lunch (12.45 p.m. to 1.40 pm)
Prof. David Marpaung	Integrated Microwave Photonics	1.45 p.m.
Prof. Linjie Zhou	Miniature multi-level optical memristive switch using phase change material.	2.15 p.m.
Prof. Andrea Melloni	Tuning and locking techniques for integrated optical filters and circuits	2.45 p.m.
Dr Akimasa Kaneko	Recent Progress of Photonic Integrated Circuits for Next Generation Data Center and 5G Networks	3.15 p.m.
Tea/Coffee (3.45 p.m. to 4.10 p.m.)
Prof. B M A Rahman	Photonics modelling: modal solutions	4.15 p.m.
Prof. Salah Obayya	Novel Modelling techniques for plasmonics	4.45 p.m.
Prof. Hugo Hernandez	Dielectric Antennas for High-rate Optical and THz Communications	5.15 p.m.
Day 1 close (5.45 p.m.)
Drinks (6.00 p.m.)
Dinner (6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.)

Friday June 28 (Day 2)

Name	Talk Title	Time
Prof. K T V Grattan	Optical Fibre Sensors for Industrial Applications	9.00 a.m.
Prof. Bishnu Pal	Silicon Photonics-based Guided Wave Components and Sensors	9.30 a.m.
Prof. Nan-Kuang Chen	Novel fiber interferometer with spatial mode beating for microsensing applications	10.00 a.m.
Tea/Coffee (10.30 a.m. to 11.00 a.m.)
Prof. Asokan Sundarrajan	Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors- chemical and bio chemical sensing applications	11.00 a.m.
Prof. Arup Lal Chakraborti	Chemical sensing using tunable semiconductor lasers - applications relevant to India	11.30 a.m.
Prof. Richard De La Rue	Biomedical and environmental sensing using meta-surfaces and photonic crystal structures	12.00 p.m.
Lunch (12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m.)
Dr Parama Pal	'Speckle and Phase': Fast and frugal methods for defect detection and material classification	1.30 p.m.
Prof. Elfed Lewis	Optical Fibre Sensors for Radiation Dose Monitoring in Clinical Environments	2.00 p.m.
Prof. Andy Augousti	Combined respiratory and cardiac monitoring using multimode fibre optic sensors	2.30 p.m.
Tea/Coffee (3.00 p.m. to 3.30 p.m.)
Prof. P Kyriacou	Optical Sensors in Healthcare	3.30 p.m.
Prof. Stewart Aitchison	Photonics for point-of-care sensing	4.00 p.m.
Closing discussions (4.00 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.)
Day 2 end (5.00 p.m.)

Admission price for the event:

£100

Contacts:

Prof. B. M. A. Rahman, Room no. C118, Tait building

Email: b.m.a.rahman@city.ac.uk

Mobile no. +44 -7931-256-982

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Within walking distance of City, University of London:

easyHotel, London Old Street/Barbican, (budget hotel) 80 Old Street, London, EC1V 9AZ, 0.6 miles, 11 minute walk
Thistle City Barbican, Central Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1V 8DS, 0.3 miles; 5 minute walk
DoubleTree by Hilton London - Islington, 60 Pentonville Road, London, EC1V 8DS, 0.6 mile; 13 minute walk
Travelodge London Farringdon, 10 - 42 Kings Cross Road, London, WC1X 9LN, 0.6 mile; 11 minutes walk
Travelodge Kings Cross Royal Scott, 100 Kings Cross Road, London, WC1X 9DT, 0.8 mile; 15 minutes walk
Travelodge Kings Cross, 356 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8BH, 1 mile; 20 minutes walk
Travelodge London City Road, 7-12 City Road, London, EC1Y 1AE, 1 mile; 20 minutes walk
Express by Holiday Inn, 275 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LN, 1 mile; 20 minutes walk

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