Winner of the 2009 IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Ottawa Chapter

Student Paper Competition

IEEE Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter is pleased to announce the winner of the "2009 IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Ottawa Chapter Student Paper Competition"; Chao Wang of University of Ottawa.  His paper "Simultaneous optical spectral shaping and wavelength-to-time mapping for photonic microwave arbitrary waveform generation" is an excellent representation of high quality research and technology advancement.  Congratulations, Chao Wang!

 

 

 

 

Recent Advancements in Photonics

 

 An IEEE-PS/OPRA/OPIN-OPC/NRC Symposium Celebrating 125th Anniversary of IEEE

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 Friday, October 30, 2009

Location:  M-50 Auditorium, NRC Main Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa

Noon – 4:30pm

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Program

 

Noon               Registration and Networking (Free lunch provided)

1:00pm            Opening Remark

1:05pm            2009 IEEE Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter Best Student Paper Awards Presentation

1:20pm            Invited Speaker: Dr. Maurice O’Sullivan, Nortel, Canada, "Progress in Real-Time, DSP Assisted, Coherent Optical Transmission"

2:10pm            Invited Speaker: Dr Adam Densmore, NRC-IMSS, Canada, "Silicon Photonics: a New Approach to Label-Free Molecular Sensing"

3:00pm            Break

3:15pm            125th Anniversary of IEEE Presentation: Prof David Coll, IEEE Life Fellow, Professor Emeritus, Carleton University, Canada, “Introduction to History of IEEE Ottawa Section”   

3:30pm            IEEE PS Distinguished Lecturer: Prof. Nabeel Riza, CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA, “Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation Higher Efficiency Greener Power Plants”

4:30pm            Closing Remark

Registration

All participants must register in advance.  To register for this free seminar please e-mail the following information to Edmund Chung of OCRI  EChung@ocri.ca by October 29, 2009

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For more information, please contact: Kexing Liu kexing.liu@ieee.org

 

 

Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation Higher Efficiency Greener Power Plants

Prof. Nabeel Riza, CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA

 

Biography
Nabeel Riza holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) from the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Masters and Doctorate degrees in EE from the California Institute of Technology. In Jan. 2002, he became the first Caltech Alumnus to be awarded the International Commission for Optics (ICO) Prize and co-awarded 2001 Ernst Abbe Medal from the Carl Zeiss Foundation, Germany. Riza’s other awards include the 2007 Fellow Award of the IEEE, 1998 Fellow Award of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the 1998 Fellow Award of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2008 IIT Distinguished Alumni Professional Achievement Award, and 2008 Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize Nominee Distinction-Germany. After completing his PhD in 1989, Dr. Riza joined the General Electric (GE) Corporate Research and Development Center, New York, where he initiated and led the GE Optically Controlled Radar Project. In 1995, he joined the CREOL & the ECE Dept. at the University of Central Florida where he is Full Professor and Head of the Photonic Information Processing Systems Laboratory. For 2007–2008, he was selected as European Union Erasmus Scholar Visiting Professor at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.  He is founder of Nuonics, Inc. For further information on research, teaching, and service contributions to the field of photonics.

 

Summary

The lecture will describe the first wired-wireless hybrid optical sensors for temperature and pressure sensing, in particular, for the harsh environments of greener coal-fired gas turbines and combustors in power plants, gas turbines in aircraft engines, and also for ultra-cold applications.

 

Progress in Real-Time, DSP Assisted, Coherent Optical Transmission

Dr Maurice O’Sullivan, Nortel, Canada

 

Biography
Maurice O'Sullivan has worked for Nortel for a score of years, at first in the optical cable business, developing factory-tailored metrology for optical fiber, but, in the main, in the optical transmission business developing, modeling and verifying physical layer designs & performance of Nortel's line and highest rate transmission product including OC-192, MOR, MOR+, LH1600G, eDCO and eDC40G. He holds a Ph.D. in physics (high resolution spectroscopy) from the University of Toronto and is a Nortel Fellow.

 

Summary
Ready high speed digital signal processing, DSP, has ushered in a new epoch of commercial coherent optical transmission. We present recent progress in this area.

 

Silicon Photonics: a New Approach to Label-Free Molecular Sensing
Dr Adam Densmore, IMSS, NRC, Canada

 

Biography
Adam Densmore received the B.Sc. degree in physics in 1997 from the University of Ottawa. He received the Ph.D. degree in engineering physics from McMaster University in 2001, for his work on quantum-well waveguide photodetectors, wavelength monitoring devices for WDM systems and fibre optic sensors. From 2001 to 2005, he was part of the research team at MetroPhotonics, Inc., that first commercialized photonic integrated circuits containing echelle grating wavelength demultiplexers and active waveguide devices. In June 2005, he joined the Optoelectronic Devices Group at the National Research Council Canada, where his research interests now include silicon-based integrated optics, nanophotonics and biosensors. He has authored over 80 scientific publications in the field of photonics.

 

Summary
The demand for new optical biosensing technologies is growing at a rapid pace driven by the need for improved medical diagnostic equipment, increased food and water safety, genomic screening, drug discovery and many related applications. The advantages that integrated optics offers for these purposes have been widely recognized. These include the ability to fabricate compact sensor arrays, the potential for integration of optical, electrical and fluid handling functionalities on a single chip, reduced consumed sample volumes, and the existence of established semiconductor manufacturing infrastructure. In this presentation, our progress developing molecular sensors using silicon-on-insulator photonic wire waveguides is discussed. The unique optical guiding characteristics of these high-index-contrast submicron structures are engineered to achieve large evanescent field strength in a region near the waveguide surface for maximized sensor response to molecular binding events. The sharp bend radius achievable with photonic wire waveguides is also shown to enable the formation of unique and compact optical circuit geometries that are compatible with commercial microarray spotting tools used for receptor/probe immobilization. New optical biochips are then demonstrated that contain arrays of silicon photonic wire sensors and monolithically integrated microfluidic channels that are capable of providing simultaneous, real-time monitoring of different molecular binding reactions with extremely high sensitivity.