Fabrication of Guided-Wave Optical Devices by Laser Direct Writing and Applications

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Paulo Marques was born in Coruche, Portugal, in 1968. He received a PhD in Physics (2000) from the University of Porto, Portugal. Currently is an Assistant Professor at the Physics and Astronomy Department at Porto University.Since July 2000 he develops research activity in the Optoelectronics and Electronics Systems Unit (UOSE) of INESC PORTO. His research activities include hybrid sol-gel based waveguides, optical photosensitivity, Bragg gratings, integrated optical sensors and laser direct writing techniques for integrated optics and microfabrication in general.Since October 2009 is the coordinator of the Optoelectronics and Electronics Systems Unit of INESC Porto.

 

 

Some Relations between Visual Perception and Non-Linear Photonic Structures

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José A. Martín-Pereda has a Telecommunications Engineer degree from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (June, 1967), a BSc in Physical Sciences from Complutense University, Madrid (June, 1967) and a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (June, 1971). He has held the positions of Deputy Director of Research at ETSIT (1976-1980), Deputy Rector of Research at UPM (1980-1985), and Director of the “Photonic Technology” Department of UPM (1997-2002), creating the latter in 1985.He was member of the Universities Council, nominated by the Senate, from 1995 to 2000, and member of the Technical Committee of the ECOC ("European Conference on Optical Communications") and of OFC / I00C ("Optical Fibre Communication Conference" and "Integrated Optics and Optical Communications") in the USA, Japan and Europe from 1984 to 1996.He was the first in Spain to work in the fields of optical communications and liquid crystal applications in photonic devices, working in these fields since 1975. He was a pioneer in the study of optical bistability and chaotic phenomena, and applied optical computing and photonic switching for optical communications networks. He created the first Optical Communications school in Spain, training numerous professionals and university researchers; he was the first to introduce this field into the curricula of Telecommunications Engineering Schools in Spain (since 1980) and the first to introduce the concept of photonics. Having published more than 100 technical articles in Journals and International Congresses, including one book as author and several others as co-author, he wrote many other articles on the aforementioned subjects, including scientific politics, for Spanish magazines and journals. Bimonthly columnist in the “R&D Supplement” of a national newspaper, from 1990 to 1994.He received several scientific prizes for research work and holds an “Honorary Doctorate” from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He was a Visiting Professor at the "Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine", at Imperial College, London, UK, during 2004-05. In 1994, he became a founding member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Engineering.

 

 

Versatile, All-fibre based Sources

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Roy Taylor was born in Carrickfergus, N. Ireland in 1949. He obtained a BSc (1stHons) in physics from the Queen’s University of Belfast and commenced his research career at the Queen’s University in 1971. In 1973 he transferred to the Optics Section at Imperial College and obtained his PhD in 1974. After spending two years at the Technical University in Munich he returned to Imperial College in 1977 as a research assistant. He established the Femtosecond Optics Group at Imperial College in 1986 and over his career has published more than 370 papers and coauthored over 400 conference presentations. His work and contributions in various aspects of laser research, photonics, optical fibres and non linear optics has been recognised by the Carl Zeiss Research Award and also by the Institute of Physics Thomas Young Medal, the Imperial College Research Excellence Award and the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society.