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Photonics: CPFR Advances in Photonics Fabrication
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
M-50 Auditorium, NRC - Ottawa, ON

In partnership with the CPFC, Ottawa Photonics Cluster, and the Ottawa Photonics Research Alliance (OPRA), the Centre for Photonics Fabrication Research at Carleton University presents;  Advances in Photonics Fabrication Workshop #2.

Date:

Tuesday February 26, 2008

Time:

8:30 am - 1:00 pm

Location:

NRC, M-50 Auditorium, Ottawa, ON

Registration:

No-charge, please RSVP to sfitzpatrick@ocri.ca
*for security reasons you must pre-register for this event.


Agenda

 8:30 am

Registration, Coffee and Networking

 9:00 am

Introductions

 9:15 am

Presentation #1: III-V Semiconductor Photonic Device Integration on Group IV Substrates

Principal Investigator: Dr. Trevor Hall, Professor and CRC Chair in Photonic Network Technology, SITE & Director of CRP, University of Ottawa

Speaker: Dr. Karin Hinzer, CRC Chair in Photonic Nanostructures and Integrated Devices, SITE, University of Ottawa

 9:45 am

Presentation#2: Fabrication of Surface Plasmon Waveguides on Membranes

Principal Investigator: Dr. Pierre Berini, Associate Professor, SITE, University of Ottawa

Speaker: Dr. Pierre Berini

 10:15 am

Presentation #3: CMOS Image Sensors

Principal Investigator: Dr. Len MacEachern, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University

Speakers: Oleksandr Tkachenko, M.A. Sc. Student, Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University (Novel Pixels for CMOS Image Sensors)
Igor Miletic, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University (Image Resolution Enhancement for CMOS Image Sensors)

 10:45 am

Coffee Break

 11:30 am

Presentation #4: Photonic Quasi-Crystal Based Integrated Optical Resonator Coupler

Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Gauthier, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University

Speaker: Dr. Robert Gauthier

 12:00 pm

Presentation #5: Optical Waveguide-Based Microcytometer

Principal Investigator: Dr. Chang-qing Xu, Professor, Dept. of Engineering Physics, McMaster University

Speakers: Benjamin Watts, M.Sc. Student, department of Eng. Physics and Thomas Kowpak, M.Sc. Student, Dept. of Chemical Eng.

 12:30 pm

Presentation #6: Fabrication of Erbium-doped silicon-rich planar waveguide devices

Principal Investigator: Dr. Peter Mascher, Professor & William Sinclair Chair in Optoelectronics, Dept of Eng Physics, McMaster University

Speaker: Ms. Jing Li, M.A.Sc. Student, Dept of Eng Physics, McMaster University

 1:00 pm

 Adjourn