The Final Programme is also available in PDF format.
Student Chapter Event: visit to "De Brouwers van de Grote Markt," brewery.
Day 1 / Thursday, November 5th 2009 | ||
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Foyer | Registration, installation posters |
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Roi Baudouin | Welcome by symposium chair Prof. Jan Danckaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) |
| 18:15 - 19:00 | Roi Baudouin | Invited Lecture: "Nematicons: Spatial Optical Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals", Prof. G. Assanto (IEEE Photonics Society distinguished lecturer) |
| 19:00 - 19:45 | Roi Baudouin | Invited Lecture: "Towards merged optical metro-access networks",T. Pfeiffer (ALCATEL-Lucent) |
| 19:45 - 22:30 | Posters | |
| 20:30 - 22:30 | Dinner | |
Day 2 / Friday November 6th 2009 | ||
| 08:45 | Roi Baudouin | Registration open |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Roi Baudouin | Invited Lecture: Micropillar Cavity Lasers in the Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Regime", Prof. S. Höfling (University of Wüerzburg, Germany) |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Invited Lecture:"Semiconductor Ring Lasers for all-optical Flip-Flop and signal processing", Prof. Guido Giuliani (University of Pavia, Italy) | |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | "BEgrid, NLgrid en EGI: almost unlimited computer resources to speed up your research", Rosette Vandenbroucke (BEgrid Coordinator, Belgian EGI Representative) | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:20 | Parallel sessions | |
| 11:00 - 12:20 | Roi Baudouin | Parallel session 1a |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | "Low-Speckle laser projection using farfield nonmodal laser emission of a semiconductor laser", G. Craggs (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | "Al2O3:Er3+ as a broad gain medium for 1.53um integrated optics application", J.D.B. Bradley (University of Twente) | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | "Quantum Dot Twin Stripe Lasers as Emitter and Receiver in Chaotic Encrypted Communication Systems", J. Pozo (TU Eindhoven) | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | "Optical Gradient Dipole Forces for Nanophotonic Devices on a Silicon-on-Insulator Chip", J. Roels (Ghent University) | |
| 11:00 - 12:20 | Ockeghem | Parallel session 1b |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | "All-optical Signal Processing with Standard Edge-emitting Laser Diodes", K. Huybrechts (Ghent University) | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | "Non-dispersive Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating Component for Ultrafast Optical Communications", C. Caucheteur (University of Mons) | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | "Optical Wireless Communication using SOI Technology", K. van Acoleyen (Ghent University) | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | "Manipulating Frequency Entangled Photons", L. Olislager (ULB Brussels) | |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Posters | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Walking Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Parallel sessions | |
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Roi Baudouin | Parallel session 2a |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | "Label-free Enzyme Sensing with Grated Silicon Photonic Wire", L.J. Kauppinen (University of Twente) | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | "Refractive Index Sensing with an InGaAsP Photonic Crystal Membrane Cavity by means of Photoluminescence", E.C.I. Ryckebosch (TU Eindhoven) | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | "DNA Separation and Fluorescence Monitoring by Integrated Waveguides in an Optofluidic Chip", C. Dongre (University of Twente) | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | "Perfect Absorption in Thin NbN Films", E.F.C. Driessen (University of Leiden) | |
| 14:00 - 15:20 | Ockeghem | Parallel session 2b |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | "Tuning SOI Filter Structures with Liquid Crystals", W. De Cort (Ghent University) | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | "Neodymium-Complex-Doped Steady-State Polymer Waveguide Lasers", J. Yang (University of Twente) | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | "Deeply Etched DBR Gratings for Photonic Integrated Circuits and Tunable Lasers", B. Docter (TU Eindhoven) | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | "Subwavelength Confinement of Light", V. Ginis (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:40 | Closing Remarks - Poster Award | |
Posters: | |||
| P1 | A. Elhawil | VUB | Left-handed metamaterial at D-band using single circular split-ring resonators |
| P2 | G. Ravet | Mons | OTDR technique for the characterization of supercontinuum generation along optical Fibers |
| P3 | R. Kumar | UGent | Simple and accurate measurements to characterize microdisk lasers for all-optical Flip-Flop operation |
| P4 | H. Shen | UGent | Absorption enhancement in organic solar cells by metallic nanoparticles |
| P5 | N. Sotiropoulos | Eindhoven | Multi-level modulation formats for optical access networks |
| P6 | T. Denis | UTwente | A single beam photonic free-electron laser |
| P7 | Y. Li | UGent | Miniaturized laser Doppler velocimetors (LDVs) integrated on silicon-onisulator (SOI) |
| P8 | M.A. DüĽndar | Eindhoven | Liquid crystal tuning of InGaAsP photonic crystal membrane type nanocavities |
| P9 | N. Ismail | UTwente | Efficiency comparison between integrated optical waveguide probes and conventional fiber probes in the detection of backscattered light |
| P10 | S. Rudra | UGent | Grating light valves: a SiGe based approach towards monolithic integration of MOEMS |
| P11 | M. Verbist | UGent | Focused ion beam etching of thin diamond layers |
| P12 | S. Islam | VUB | Metamaterial application in active millimeter wave imaging |
| P13 | R. Zhang | TUe | Sub-micrometer active-passive integration for InP-based membranes on silicon |
| P14 | Y. Shi | TUe | Performance evaluation of multi-band OFDM systems for short-haul optical communications |
| P15 | M. Fiers | UGent | Dynamics of coupled cavities for optical reservoir computing |
| P16 | S. Aravazhi | UTwente | Improved-index-contrast KY(WO4)2:Gd, Lu, Yb epitaxial waveguides suitable or highly efficient waveguide lasing |
| P17 | S.K. Selvaraja | UGent | Amorphous silicon: material for photonic-photonic and electronic-photonic integration. |
| P18 | S. Keyvaninia | UGent | Engineering the heterogeneously integrated III-V/SOI tunable laser |
| P19 | W. Coomans | VUB | Optical injection in semiconductor ring lasers |
| P20 | H. Wang | TUe | InAs quantum dot number and size control on truncated InP pyramids grown by selective area metal organic vapor phase epitaxy |
| P21 | K. van Dalfsen | UTwente | Neodymium-doped Al2O3 channel waveguide ampliffiers |
| P22 | N.A. Yebo | UGent | Integrated optical gas sensors on silicon-on-insulator platform |
| P23 | D.A.I. Marpaung | UTwente | Analysis of gain, noise figure and dynamic range of an analog photonic link employing a low-biased mach-zehnder modulator |
| P24 | M.R.H. Khan | UTwente | Phase noise analysis of an RF local oscillator signal generated by optical heterodyning of two DFB lasers |
| P25 | A. Masood | UGent | Photonics-CMOS 3D integration: copper through-silicon-via approach |
| P26 | B.W. Tilma | TUe | Observation and modeling of long-wavelength InAs/InP(100) quantum dot amplifier small signal gain spectra |
| P27 | S.R. Zanbergen | Leiden | Strong edge effect in photonic graphene |
| P28 | B.W. Tilma | TUe | Characterization of integrated electro-optically tunable cascaded filters for tunable laser purposes |
| P29 | L. Gelens | VUB | Theoretical and experimental investigation of excitability in semiconductor ring lasers |
| P30 | I.V. Ermakov | VUB | Simulations of fast switching between longitudinal modes of semiconductor laser cavity induced by on-chip filtered optical feedback |
| P31 | E. Brainis | ULB | Simultaneous excitation of N single colloidal quantum dots |
| P32 | R. Stabile | TUe | Loss mechanisms in dielectric optical micro-bends |
| P33 | E.H. Bernhardi | UTwente | Designing an Integrated Al2O3:Er3+ Distributed Feedback Laser |
| P34 | T. Van den Hauwe | VUB | Systematic noise analysis of CAPD based time-of-flight cameras |
| P35 | E. Brainis | ULB | Photon wave function description of space-time entanglement in quantum imaging |
| P36 | J. Zhao | TUe | Integrated multi-wavelength lasers: a design study |
| P37 | F. Sun | UTwente | Comparison of SiON layers doped with phosphorous and boron for integrated optics applications |
| P38 | K.Q. Le | UGent | Modeling the optical properties of metallic nanoparticles |
| P39 | M.J.H. Marell | TUe | Metal coated DBR/DFB lasers |
| P40 | S. Bette | Mons | Use of chirped fiber Bragg gratings for transverse strain sensing purposes |
| P41 | M.S. Tahvili | TUe | Operating regime and stability of mode-locking in 10GHz quantum dot laser diodes around 1.5μµm |
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