Conference Program
June 26 - 27, 2007

POF Data Applications
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 • 9:00 am - 12:30 pm

8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration
9:00 am - 9:30 am

New Opportunities for POF in Security and Surveillance
John Steen, National Sales Manager, Axis Communications

9:30 am - 10:00 am

POF Applications in Aircrafts:
Opportunities, Issues and Needed Technologies

T. Kien Truong, Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing Aircraft

10:00 am - 10:30 am Networking Break
10:30 am - 11:00 am Potentials of Ultra-short Reach Optics for "Redshift" Applications
Ashok Kirsnamoorthy, Sun Microsystems Inc.
11:00 am - 11:30 am Introduction to Optical Fiber Sheets for Optical Interconnects
Shogo Ikunishi, Mitsubishi Cable Industries Ltd., Japan
11:30 am - 12:00 pm Optical Polymers in High-speed Board-level Optical Interconnects
Alexei Glebov, Research Project Manager, Fujitsu Labs of America
12:00 am - 12:30 pm SMI Connectors
Dean Richardson, Molex Fiberoptics

POF Non-Data Applications: Lighting, Illumination and Sensors
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 • 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm A Plastic-fiber-coupled Hybrid Solar Lighting System
Curt L. Maxey, Oak Ridge National Lab and
Duncan Earl, Sunlight Direct
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm PlasticOptical Fibers Sensors for
Industrial Process Controls and Environmental Monitoring

Dr. Joe Hopenfeld, Noverflo
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Networking Break
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
POF for Lighting and Signage
Jonathan Hirakawa, Calsak Corp.
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Fiber-optic and LED Lighting: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Betty Lou Pacey, BL Innovative Lighting Ltd.
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Open POFTO Meeting & Reception

POF Technology
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 • 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

8:00 am - 9:00 am Registration
9:00 am - 9:30 am

GI-POF Perfluorinated Fibers & Applications
Whitney White, CEO, Chromis Fiberoptics Inc.

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Green LED Technology - Promises and Problems
Burt Lancaster, Lancaster Associates

10:00 am - 10:30 am

State of the Transceiver Market
Vladimir Kozlov, Lightcounting, Inc.

10:30 am - 11:00 am Networking Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am POF and IPTV
Speaker TBD, Motorola (fmr. Netopia)
11:30 am - 12:00 pm POF Optical Sources for IPTV
Declan O'Mahoney , Firecomms, Ltd.

New Opportunities for POF
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 • 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Optical Components for Enterprise Ethernet
Adam Carter, Cisco Systems
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm Need for Higher Speed Ethernet and HSSG status
Subi Krishnamurthy, Force10 Networks
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Updated Results on Performance of 1G and 10G Data Over GI POF
Brett Lane Panduit Laboratories
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Networking Break
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Use of Statistical Moments for Evaluation of Far-Field Patterns
R. P. Dahlgren, Department of Electrical Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm High-temperature Materials for POF
Herb Kelty, Exotech
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm New Tool Kit for the Versatile Link
Paul Mulligan, FiberFin
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Wrap-Up and Close of Conference

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