This year's Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers will be held in the lovely coastal town of Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston is filled with historic homes, outdoor recreation, and an abundance of quaint shops. November is a great time to visit the South, when temperatures are mild and the humidity is low.
Conference Venue is The Hotel on Market, 35 Hayne Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 29401, USA
Conference Program is now available here
Conference Proceedings are now available here
| TECHNICAL PROGRAM |
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| Name | Affiliation | Topic/Title |
| Dr. Mark Neice | Former Director of the US DoD Joint Directed Energy Transition Office (formerly the High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office) | Defense Applications for High Energy Fiber Lasers |
| Dr. Nick Borrelli | Corning Incorporated | Fiber and Glasses (101) |
| Prof. Réal Vallée | Laval University, Canada | Advances in Mid-Infrared fiber lasers |
| Surname | First name | Institution | Topic/Title |
| Bennett | Kevin | Corning | Titania clad fiber fatigue performance |
| Bera | Subhabrata | National Energy Technology Laboratory | Single crystal fiber growth |
| Chenard | Francois | IRFlex | Chalcogenide fiber for long-wave infrared supercontinuum source |
| Dai | Shixun | Ningbo University | Novel chalcogenide glass fibers and fiber tapers for ultra broadband Mid-infrared SC generation |
| Ebendorff-Heidepriem | Heike | University of Adelaide | Making optical fibers sensitive and selective to the environment via functionalization and nanostructuring |
| Heidt | Alexander | University of Bern | Specialty optical fibers for extreme light generation |
| Ishaaya | Amiel | Ben-Gurion University | Israeli activities in specialty fibers and fiber lasers |
| Jollivet | Clemence | Coherent/Nufern | Next generation of DC fibers enabling high performances and high reliability of fiber lasers operating beyond multi-kW levels |
| Koike | Yasuhiro | Keio University, Japan | Recent Progress in Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fiber |
| Lindner | Eric | FBGS | History and advancements of FBG manufacturing in specialty optical fibers and their use in sensing |
| Mikhailov | Vitaly | OFS Optics | Bismuth-doped amplifier fiber |
| Moselund | Peter Morten | NKT Photonics A/S | Progress in Mid-IR supercontinuum sources and their applications – an overview |
| Ohishi | Yasutake | Toyota Technological Institute | Soft glass microstructured optical fibers and their applications |
| Peng | Gang-Ding | Universiy of New South Wales | New Pathway for Doped and Structured Optical Fibres |
| Rochette | Martin | McGill University | Optical devices based on chalcogenide fibers |
| Shardlow | Peter | University of Southampton | Cladding Shaping of Optical Fibre Preforms via CO2 Laser Machining |
| Simakov | Nikita | Defence Science & Technology Group, Australia | Recent efforts in power scaling of holmium doped fibre sources |
| Sintov | Yoav | Applied Physics Division, Soreq NRC, Isareal | Israeli activities in specialty fibers and fiber lasers |
| Starodubov | Dmitry | FOMS | Microgravity fiber processing for future optical networks |
| Tam | Hwa-Yaw | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Novel optical fiber for cochlear implants |
| Wang | Yingying | Beijing University of Technology | Loss reduction in hollow core fiber |
| Westbrook | Paul | OFS Optics | Distributed sensing fiber |
| Wysocki | Paul F | Baker Hughes | Specialty fiber requirements for sensing in the oil and gas field |
| Yerolatsitis | Stephanos | Bath University | Photonic lanterns: beyond telecoms |
| Yu | Anthony | NASA | Fiber lasers and amplifiers for space Lidar applications |
| Name | Affiliation |
| John Ballato | Clemson University |
| Liang Dong | Clemson University |
| Courtney Kucera | Clemson University |
| Wade Hawkins | Clemson University |
*To contact the local organizing committee, please email WSOF-2019@LISTS.CLEMSON.EDU
| Name | Country |
| Christiano de Matos | Brazil |
| Cristiano M. B. Cordeiro | Brazil |
| Juan Hernández-Cordero | Mexico |
| Walter Margulis | Sweden |
| Hwa-Yaw Tam | Hong Kong, China |
| Bai-Ou Guan | Hong Kong, China |
| Kyriacos Kalli | Cyprus |
| John Ballato | USA |
| Liang Dong | USA |
| Name | Affiliation | Country |
| Jacques Albert | Carleton University | Canada |
| Rodrigo Amezcua Correa | University of Central Florida | United States |
| John Ballato | Clemson University | United States |
| Igor Bufetov | FORC of RAS | Russia |
| John Canning | University of Technology Sydney | Australia |
| Adrian Carter | Coherent Nufern | Australia |
| David DiGiovanni | OFS | United States |
| Liang Dong | Clemson University | United States |
| Peter Dragic | University of Illinois | United States |
| Mark Dubinskiy | ARL | United States |
| Ben Eshel | AFIT | United States |
| Sebastien Fevrier | University of Limoge | France |
| Cliff Headley | OFS | United States |
| Stuart Jackson | Macquarie University | Australia |
| Ming-Jun Li | Corning | United States |
| Matthias Jäger | IPHT in Jena | Germany |
| Kyriacos Kalli | Cyprus University of Technology | Cyprus |
| Jens Kristian Lyngsø | NKT Photonics | Denmark |
| Jon Maikisch | Harris Corp | United States |
| Walter Margulis | Acreo | Sweden |
| Alexis Mendez | MCH Engineering LLC | United States |
| Michael Messerly | LLNL | United States |
| Daniel Milanese | Politecnico di Torino | Italy |
| Kyunghwan Oh | Yonsei University | Korea |
| Yasutake Ohishi | Toyota Technical University | Japan |
| Bishnu Pal | Bennett University | India |
| Francesco Poletti | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| Siddharth Ramachandran | Boston University | United States |
| Mohammed Saad | Thorlabs | United States |
| Jayanta Sahu | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
| Kunimasa Saitoh | Hokkaido University | Japan |
| Axel Schulzgen | CREOL | United States |
| Brandon Shaw | NRL | United States |
| Hwayaw Tam | Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong |
| Ji Wang | Corning Incorporated | United States |
| Michalis Zervas | Southampton University | United Kingdom |
DEPS Short Course Registration Ends - October 20
DEPS Short Course - November 5: 8am - 4pm
Exhibitor Booth Set-up - Tuesday (Nov 5): 2pm - 6pm
Exhibit Hours:
Exhibit: Wednesday (Nov 6) and Thursday (Nov 7): 8am - 5:30pm
Exhibit: Friday (Nov 8): 8am - 12pm
Pack up - Friday (Nov 8): 12pm - 3pm