Thursday, 2 December 2004
18:30 Registration open
20:00-21:45 Refter: Plenary session 1
20:00 Geert Morthier (UGent), “Welcome”
20:10 Philip St.P. Russell (Bath University, U.K), “New Age Fiber Crystals” (invited)
20:55 Roel Baets (UGent), “Research in the field of LEOS at Ghent University”
21:15-22:30 Refter & Kloostergang: Poster session 1 (all posters displayed; odd-numbered posters attended)
21:30-23:00 Refter & Kloostergang: Snacks & Drinks in poster room

Friday, 3 December 2004
8:45 Registration open
9:00-10:05 Refter: Plenary session 2
9:00 Christi Madsen (Texas A&M University), "Signal Processing with Optical Filters Making a Multi-Colored Engine" (invited)
9:45 Bas Huiszoon (TU Eindhoven), "Fiber-to-the-PAN: Towards Optical in Personal Networks"
10:05-10:30 Kloostergang: Coffee break
10:30-11:50 Refter: Parallel session 1A, Optical signal processing
10:30 Olilvier Pottiez (FP Mons), "Easily adjustable, power-symmetric Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror for ultrafast photonic applications"
10:50 Yohan Barbarin (TU Eindhoven), "Modelling and experimental results of a 26 GHz integrated passively modelocked ring Laser"
11:10 Wouter D'Oosterlinck (UGent), "A new optical decision circuit based on mutual optical feedback between a laser diode and a SOA"
11:30 Jaroslaw P. Turkiewics (TU Eindhoven), "A novel 1310-nm to 1550-nm wavelength converter"
10:30-11:50 Zaal Rector Vermeylen: Parallel session 1B, Sensors and Non-linear optics
10:30 Kerstin Wörhoff (U Twente), "Flip-chip assembly of an integrated optical sensor"
10:50 Aurèle J.L. Adam (TU Delft), "The use of Quantum Cascade lasers as local oscillator for heterodyne detection of THz radiation"
11:10 Shaoxiang Zhang (TU Eindhoven), "Optical shift register based on flip-flop memory consisting of one active element"
11:30 Olivier Deparis (FP Mons), "Novel technique for engineering structural and optical properties of metal-doped nanocomposite glasses"
11:50-13:45 Refter & Kloostergang : Poster session 2 (all posters displayed; even numbered posters attended)
12:45-13:45 Refter & Kloostergang: Lunch buffet in poster room
13:45-14:45 Zaal Rector Vermeylen: Parallel session 2A, Theory
13:45 Wenfeng Wang (VU Amsterdam), "Rectangular optical pulse generation by nonlinear directional couplers"
14:05 Philippe Tassin, (VU Brussel), "Left handed materials: the key to sub-wavelength resolution"
14:25 Didit Yudistira (U Twente), "Theory of slow light excitation in 1D photonic crystals"
13:45-14:45 Refter: Parallel session 2B, Semiconductor Lasers and Resonators
13:45 Miguel.C. Soriano (VU Brussel), "Carrier noise broadens the linewidth of a vertical-cavity surface emitting laser"
14:05 Xuelin Yang (TU Eindhoven), "Ring lasers and their applications in flip-flop memory"
14:25 Ilse Christiaens (UGent), "Vertically coupled InP microring resonators fabricated with BCB wafer bonding"
14:45-15:05 Kloostergang:Coffee break
15:05-16:00 Refter: Plenary session 3
15:05 Ronny Bockstaele (UGent), "Chip-to-chip parallel optical interconnects over optical backpanels based on arrays of multimode waveguides"
15:25 Piet De Pauw (Melexis), "Recent advances in automotive optical networks"
15:45 Geert Morthier (UGent), "IEEE/LEOS Benelux 2003 Poster Award"