Sessions

Conference Program

 

Tuesday, September 4th

 

08:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast – Skyline Room Lobby

 

 

Plenary Session

 

09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks  
  T. Kien Truong

Technical Fellow – Avionics & Fiber Optics

The Boeing Company, United States

POF 2018  Conference Chair
     
09:10 Plenary Keynote:

Status of Advanced POF and POF Network towards IoT Society

 
  Yasuhiro Koike, Director, Keio Photonics Research Institute (KPRI) and Professor, Keio University, Japan

 

Chairman of the International Cooperative on Plastic Optical Fibers
     
09:50 Plenary Keynote

Trends in Fiber Optics and Photonics for Airplane Systems

 
  T. Kien Truong, Technical Fellow – Avionics & Fiber Optics, The Boeing Company, United States

 

POF 2018  Conference Chair

 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Skyline Room

 

 

POF in Avionic Applications I

Chair: Kien Truong

 

11:00

 

Invited Unique POF Characteristics for Avionics Network & Sensing Applications
    Kien Truong, Boeing, United States
     
11:30   Technique To Achieve High Sensitivity Receiver for Passive Optical Network
    Eric Chan, Boeing, United States
     
11:50   Rugged POF Splice for Field Repair Capability in Fueled Aircraft
    Dennis Koshinz, Boeing, United States
     
12:10   Qualification & Certification of a New Avionics Optical Network
    Kim Nguyen, Boeing, United States
     

 

12:30 – 13:30 Networking Lunch Skyline Room

 

 

POF in Avionic Applications II

Chair: Kien Truong

 

13:30  

 

Evolution of Avionics Optical Fiber & Optical Connector Standards
    Lyndon Mazon, Boeing, United States
     
14:00   LiFi Optical Wireless Simulation Modeling for Passenger Cabin
    Eric Harvey, Boeing, United States
     
14:20   Evolution of Fuel Quantity Indication System
    Everett Groat, Boeing, United States
     
14:40   Evolution of Integrated Modular Avionics
    Sean Ramey, Boeing, United States

 

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break Skyline Room

 

 

POF in Automobiles

Chair: TBD

 

15:30 Invited

No41

Toyota’s POF Activities & Standardization and Simulation Status Of Automotive Optical Ethernet
    Manabu Kagami, A. Kawasaki, S. Ito, T. Yamashita, M. Soga, M. Ogawa
    Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Japan
     
16:00 Invited

No42

Standardization Activities On Gigabit And Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Operation over Glass and Plastic Optical Fibers for Automotive Optical Communication
    Oki Sugihara
    Utsunomiya University, Japan
     
16:20 Invited POF Technology in Automotive Applications 
  (TBD) Yoshihiro Tsukamoto

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, Japan

     
16:40

 

No29 Star Networks with Passive Splitters and High Sensitivity Detectors
    Juri Vinogradov, Martin Bloos, Robert Swoboda, Ahmed Al-Samaneh, Josef Wittl, Rainer Engelbrecht, Olaf Ziemann
    POF-AC, Technische Hochschule Nuernberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany
     

 

17:00 Poster Session / Exhibitor Hour 

(Cocktail Reception)

 

Skyline Room
18:00 Museum of Flight Guided Tour Museum of Flight
 

19:00

 

Close of Day 1

 

Wednesday, September 5th

 

08:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast – Skyline Room Lobby

 

 

Active Optical Cables and Datacom

Chair: Y Koike

 

09:00 Invited GI-POF in Active Optical Cables
  No37 Whitney White
    Chromis Fiberoptics, Inc., United States
     
09:30 No15 Ribbon POF based HDMI 2.1 AOC Incorporating an Encapsulated Optical Engine
    Yong-Geon Lee, Yung-Sung Son, Hyun-Ryong Cho, Soo-Geun You, and Sang-Shin Lee
    Kwangwoon University & Optomind Inc., Korea
     
09:50 No22 Self-Optical-Isolation Effect Of Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fiber
    Azusa Inoue and Yasuhiro Koike
    Keio University, Japan

 

10:10 No16 Study On Optical Interface For 8K Endoscope Using GI Type POF
    Hiroshi Takizuka(1), Toshio Chiba(2), Yasuhiro Koike(1)
    1: Keio University, Japan

2: Kairos Co., Ltd., Japan

     

 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Skyline Room

 

 

POF Sensors I

Chair: Alexis Mendez

 

11:00 Invited

No47

Photo-Mechanical Devices Made in Polymer Optical Fibers
    Mark G. Kuzyk
    Washington State University, United States
     
11:30 Invited

No34

Towards High Sensitivity FBG Strain Sensor Through The Combination Of Silica And Polymer Fibers
    R. Oliveira, L. Bilro, R. Nogueira
    Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
 

 

   
11:50 No26 Stress Sensing Using Luminescent Dye-doped POFs
    Rei Furukawa and So Kamimura
    University of Electro-Communications, Japan
     
12:10 No49 POF-based Rotary and Linear Position Sensor Enables New Medical and Industrial Applications
    Robert Rickenbach, Dennis Horwitz
    Micronor Inc.
     

 

12:30 – 13:30 Networking Lunch

ICPOF Meeting

Skyline Room

Lockwood Boardroom

 

 

POF Sensors II

Chair:  Rogerio Nogueira

 

13:30 Invited

No38

Biomedical Applications of POF Devices and Sensors
    Alexis Mendez
    MCH Engineering, LLC, United States
     
14:00 Invited

No14

POF – Sensors Applications
    Regina Célia Allil
    Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
     
14:20 No36 Biosensors in Polymer Optical Fibers
    Xuehao Hu
    Chongqing COPTICOMM Technology Industry Co., Ltd., China
     
14:40 Invited

No32

 

Optically Remote POF Powered Temperature Sensor with 1000 Measurements per Second
    Olaf Ziemann, Jakob Fischer, Michael Luber, Rainer Engelbrecht, Peter Urbanek, Holger Lenkowski, Magnus Ahlstedt, Christian Gärtner, Josef Wittl, Ulrich Wetzel
    POF-AC, Technische Hochschule Nuernberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany
     
15:00 Invited

No31

 

Distributed Strain Sensing for Geotextiles in Soil with POF and Photon-Counting OTDR
    Rainer Engelbrecht1, Michael Luber1, Martin Gehrke1, Juri Vinogradov1, Hartmut Hangen2, Rainer Worbes3
    1: Polymer Optical Fiber Application Center (POF-AC), Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany
    2: HUESKER Synthetic GmbH, Germany
    3: Institute for Geotechnical Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany

 

15:20 – 15:35 Coffee Break Skyline Room

 

 

Home Networking and Datacom

Chair: Olaf  Ziemann

 

15:35

 

Invited

No50

POF for Gigabit Home Networking – User Cases and Perspectives from Europe
   

Josef Faller

   

homefibre digital network GmbH, Austria

     
16:00 No28 Gigabit Transmission over Standard POF beyond 50 m
    Roman Kruglov, Juri Vinogradov, Olaf Ziemann
    POF-AC, Technische Hochschule Nuernberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany
     
16:20 No43 From 1Mb to 1Gbps on POF
    Ken Applebaum, Rex Radabaugh
    COTSWORKS, United States
     
16:40 No25 High-Quality Multi-Channel TV Broadcast Signal Transmission  Using Low-Noise Graded-Index Plastic Optical Fiber for 4K/8K Era
    K. Nishiyama, A. Inoue, Y. Koike
    Keio University, Japan
     
17:00 Tutorial POF: Fibers, Cables, Transmitters, Receivers, Sensors, and Standards
    Prof. Olaf Ziemann and Prof. Rainer Engelbrecht
    POF-AC, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm, Germany
     
18:00   Close of Day 2

 

19:00 – 21:00 Conference Dinner  

 

Thursday, September 6th

 

08:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast – Skyline Room Lobby

 

 

Materials and Fiber Technologies I

Chair: Ann Mescher

 

09:00 Invited

No46

Thermal Effects during Solid and Hollow Core Polymer Fiber Drawing
    Spencer Grange, Heather Dillon, Ann Mescher
    University of Washington, United States
     
09:30 No35 Process for Extrusion of Laser Active Single Mode Polymer Optical Fibers
    Daniel Schrein, Bechir Hachicha, Ludger Overmeyer
    Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
     
09:50 No10 Modelling of Eu-doped POF Amplifiers And Comparison With Experiment And Theory
    Jon Arrue, B. García-Ramiro, F. Jiménez, M.A. Illarramendi, I. Ayesta,  J. Zubia, D. Zaremba, R. Evert, And H-H. Johannes
    University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain
     
10:10 No44 Hollow-Core Fiber Manufactured from 3-D Printed Preforms
    Brek Meuris, Ruth Ann Mullen, Cody Moody, Ann Mescher
    University of Washington, United States

 

 

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Skyline Room

 

 

Test and Measurements

Chair: Rainer Engelbrecht

 

11:00 No40 Changes in MPD of step-index POF Due To Wiring Conditions
    Satoshi Takahashi1, Masahiro Uchida2, Okihiro Sugihara2
    1 POF Promotion, Japan
    2. Utsunomiya university, Japan
     
11:30 No39 Plastic Optical Fibers (POFs) Applied As Light Conductors In Digital Fourier Transform Holography 
    Luma Macieira, Rosembergue B. da Rocha Freire Jr., Paulo A.M. dos Santos, Ricardo M. Ribeiro
    Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
     
12:00 – 12:50 Networking Lunch

 

Skyline Room
12:50 – 13:00 Closing Remarks Skyline Room

 

 

13:00 – 15:00 Bus Departing Museum of Flight for Boeing Factory Tour

 

Meet bus in front of Museum of Flight or Meet the Group at Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour by 14:30

 

 

15:00 – 16:30 Boeing Factory Tour

 

Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour

 

 

16:30 – 18:00 Bus Departing Boeing Factory Tour for Embassy Suites by Hilton Hotel with stop near downtown Seattle

 

Meet Bus in Parking Lot after Boeing Tour

 

 

18:00 Conference Concludes See you at POF 2019!