Invited Speakers (confirmed; preliminary list)

Miguel V. Andrés
Universidad de Valencia
Departamento de Física Aplicada – ICMUV
Spain
Title: Fabrication and postprocessing of Ge-doped nanoweb fibers

Juan Hernandez-Cordero
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México (UNAM)
Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales
Mexico
Title: Highly nonlinear fibers in all-optical modulators

Masaaki Hirano
Sumitomo Electric Industries, ltd
Japan
Title: Silica-based highly nonlinear fiber as platform for optical processings

Raman Kashyap
Ecole Polytechnique Montréal
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Engineering Physics
Canada
Title: New Perspectives in High-Power Optical Fibre-Amplifiers and Laser Induced Solid-State Cooling

Boris Kuhlmey
University of Sydney
School of Physics
Australia
Title:

Jesper Laegsgaard
Technical University of Denmark
Department of Photonics Engineering
Denmark
Title: Modeling of nonlinear propagation in photonic bandgap fibers

Maryanne Large
University of Sydney
School of Physics
Australia
Title: Post Processing of Microstructured Polymer Optical Fibres

José Miguel López-Higuera
Universidad de Cantabria
Photonics Engineering Group
Spain
Title: Successful fiber sensing technologies and hot topics for the near future

Walter Margulis
Acreo
Sweden
Title: High-speed fiber switches

Manuel Joaquim Marques
INESC Porto
Portugal
Title: Recent advances on optical sensing using Photonic Crystal Fibers

Cicero Martelli
PUC-Rio
Brazil
Title: Photonic Technologies Integrated into Optical Fibres

Younes Messaddeq
UNESP Araraquara
Instituto de Química
Brazil
Title: Special fibers based on heavy oxide and chalcogenide glasses: properties and applications

Vladimir P. Minkovich
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica (CIO)
Mexico
Title: Holey fibers with a limited number of air hole rings in the cladding: design, fabrication and application for some interferometric sensing devices

Tanya M. Monro
University of Adelaide
School of Chemistry & Physics
Centre of Expertise in Photonics
Australia
Title: Soft glass microstructured fibres: a review of recent progress in design, fabrication, and applications

Fiorenzo Omenetto
Tufts University
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Dept. of Physics
USA
Title: PCF applications from soft glasses to biopolymers

Alexandre de A. P. Pohl
UTFPR
Brazil
Title: The Acousto-Optic Interaction in Microstructured Optical Fibers

Valerio Pruneri
ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques and ICREA
Spain
Title: Post-processed micro-structured optical fibre sensors

Murilo A. Romero
University of São Paulo
Electrical Engineering Department - EESC/USP
Brazil
Title: Efficient S-Band Amplification Using Depressed-Cladding Erbium-Doped Silica Fibers

Philippe ROY
Institut de recherche Xlim
Département Photonique
France
Title: Optical fibres design and fabrication: discussions on recent developments

Enrique Silvestre
Universidad de Valencia
Spain
Title: Ultraflat supercontinuum spectrum generated with typical photonic crystal fibers

Arismar Cerqueira Sodre Junior
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Optics and Photonics Research Center
Brazil
Title: Beyond efficient generation of multiple four-wave mixing products

Pedro Torres Trujillo
National University of Colombia
School of Physics
Photonics and Optoelectronics Lab.
Colombia
Title: Spectral response of FBG written in specialty optical fibers

Marcelo Martins Werneck
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Lab. de Instrumentação e Fotonica
Brazil
Title: Fiberoptic applications in sensors and telemetry for the electric power industry.

Chris Xu
Cornell University
School of Applied and Engineering Physics
USA
Title: Generation of energetic wavelength tunable femtosecond pulses in higher-order-mode fibers