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Optical Fibers
and Their Applications
2020

Ryszard S. Romaniuk
Jan Dorosz
Editors

27 – 31 January 2020
Białowieża, Poland

Organized by
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Białystok University of Technology (Poland)
Polish Association of Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering (Poland)

Patronage
Committee of Electronics and Telecommunications, Polish Academy of Sciences
Photonics Society of Poland
Polish Optoelectronics Committee, Association of Polish Electrical Engineers
SPIE

Volume 11456
Proceedings of SPIE 0277-786-786X
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Białowieża 2020 Symposium Committees
Conference Chairs
Wiesław L. Woliński, Warsaw University of Technology - Honorary Chair of the
Committee (Poland)
Jan Dorosz, Białystok University of Technology - Chair of the Committee (Poland)
Ryszard S. Romaniuk, Warsaw University of Technology – Chair of the Committee
(Poland)

Scientific Committee
Wiesław L. Wolinski, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Elżbieta Bereś-Pawlik, Wrocław University of Technology (Poland)
Anna Cysewska-Sobusiak, Poznań University of Technology (Poland)
Andrzej Domański, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Jan Dorosz, Białystok University of Technology (Poland)
Dominik Dorosz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków (Poland)
Zdzisław Jankiewicz, Military Academy of Technology (Poland)
Leszek R.Jaroszewicz, Military Academy of Technology (Poland)
Maria Łączka, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Kraków (Poland)
Wojciech Pisarski, University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland)
Tadeusz Pustelny, Silesia University of Technology (Poland)
Antoni Rogalski, Military Academy of Technology (Poland)
Ryszard S. Romaniuk, Warsaw University of technology (Poland)
Mieczysław Szustakowski, Military Academy of Technology (Poland)
Wacław Urbańczyk, Wrocław University of technology (Poland)
Jan Wasylak, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Kraków (Poland)
Tomasz R. Woliński, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Waldemar Wójcik, Lublin University of Technology (Poland)
Andrzej Zając, Białystok University of Technology (Poland)

Organizing Committee
Marcin Kochanowicz, Białystok University of Technology - Chair of Organizing
Committee (Poland)
Jacek Kusznier, Białystok University of Technology - Secretary of Organizing
Committee (Poland)
 Dominik Dorosz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków (Poland)
Piotr Miluski, Białystok University of Technology (Poland)
Jacek Żmojda, Białystok University of Technology (Poland)
Agata Baranowska, Białystok University of Technology (Poland)
Ewa Kulesza, Białystok University of Technology (Poland)

Session Chairs
Opening Ceremony and Plenary Session, Optical Fibers and Their Applications
Ryszard S. Romaniuk, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Wiesław L. Woliński, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

Photonics Crystal Fibres

Waldemar Wójcik, Lublin University of Technology (Poland)

Active Optical Fibres

Leszek R. Jaroszewicz, Military Academy of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)

Nonlinear and Active Optical Glasses and Photonic Materials

Tomasz Osuch, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

Optical Fibre Communications

Zdzisław Jankiewicz, Military Academy of Technology, Warsaw (Poland)

Optical Fiber Lasers

Wojciech A. Pisaraski, University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland)

Optical Fiber Sensors

Katarzyna Rutkowska, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

Optical Fiber Photonics

Wacław Urbańczyk, Wrocław University of Technology (Poland)

Special Optical Fibres

Paweł Mergo, UMCS University, Lublin (Poland)

Closing Plenary Session, Conference Summary

Ryszard S. Romaniuk, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Wiesław L. Woliński, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Introduction:
Optical Fibers and Their Applications 1976-2020
Symposium on “Optical Fibers and Their Application” OFTA is a kind of a forum of
national science in this branch of Photonics. The Symposium usually hosts also
numerable guests from this geographical region, and especially from neighboring
countries and Europe. It is organized every year and a half by two major optical fiber
technology and application development centers located in Białystok at Białystok
University of Technology and in Lublin at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University UMCS
and Technical University of Lublin. The conference belongs to a bigger circle of
national meetings on optoelectronics, optics, photonics, sensors and laser
technology which are under a general patronage of professional community
organizations like Polish Physical Society – Section of Optics, Polish Ceramic Society,
Photonics Society of Poland, Polish Optoelectronics Committee of the Association of
Polish Electrical Engineers, Section of Photonics in the Committee of Electronics and
Telecommunications, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Polish Association of
Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering.

Forty-five years ago, during the year of 1975, there was born fibre optic technology in
the country. The Department of Physical Chemistry chaired by Professor Andrzej
Waksmundzki at the Department of Chemistry in University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska
in Lublin started working on a modification of the glass capillary for optical signal
transmission purposes and implemented successfully there a few years later as the
only laboratory in the country the MCVD technology of high quality silica optical
fibres. The works on fibre-optic technology with soft glasses also begun in other
scientific institutions like ITME in Warsaw and technological tests began soon
afterwards in Glassworks Bialystok and Bialystok Technical University. Simultaneously
the country works on the active elements for fibre optics, including photodiodes and
light-emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers were actively conducted in ITE in
Warsaw. Several persons, the late university professors were involved in initiating and
supporting the OFTA conferences at their early stage: J.Groszkowski, A.Smoliński,
A.Waksmundzki, M.Pluta, B.Paszkowski, Z.Szpigler, J.Wójcik, K.Holejko, J.Rayss, S.Sońta.
The relatively easy availability in the country of numerous samples of various kinds of
optical fibres, manufactured by MCVD and other modified and hybrid multi-staged
methods, as well as DC, MC and RIT methods with different silica and
multicomponent glasses, practically since the mid and late seventies has played a
fundamental role in the development of the fibre optics and photonics, research
and technical community in Poland. One can say, without any exaggeration, that in
the absence in the country of such cheap samples, available virtually for free and
on-demand for all other laboratories, today the photonics and fibre optics, but also
laser technologies would be different, much more modest. Did the created
community manage in some way to repay the developers of technology for such a
unique opportunity to develop their own and rich photonics application? In general,
yes, because the gifted technologists often helped out in the pioneering application
work. In addition, the application works used to give a strong impetus to the
development of new optical fibre structures, and stimulated search for technology
developments. The country has created a positive feedback mechanism between
technology, metrology, fibre optic photonics theory and research applications, and
even some pioneering industries. The three mentioned and described fibre optic
technology centres, significantly different from each other by research profiles and
interest and involved in quite different types of fibre were then amplified by the work
on high quality glasses and optical and photonics materials carried out at the
Institute of Glass and Ceramics, AGH and Silesian University of Technology, and some
other centres.

The First National Symposium on “Optical Fibres and Their Applications", organized in
the Polish Academy of Sciences Palace in Jabłonna in February 1976, was a real
breakthrough event for the local research communities in optoelectronics, as could
be seen today from the perspective of several decades after that meeting. The
initiator of the first and several subsequent meetings was professor Adam Smoliński
from Warsaw University of Technology. Optical Fibre Symposia are since then
accompanying the development of photonics in the country and create their
unique scientific documentation. The Symposia have always gathered and are
gathering till today a large group of young people. The first fibre optic meeting was
attended by 100 people. The Symposium in Jabłonna turned into a constant cycle of
scientific meetings which lasts until today. During the First Symposium there were
delivered two technological works of attempts to manufacture optical fibers in the
centers of Lublin and Warsaw and a review by prof. Bohdan Paszkowski of the
manufacturing methods of optical fibers in the leading centers in the world. Other
works presented at the First National Symposium concerned several topics like: the
outlook of the birth of fiber optic telecommunications by prof. Zenon Szpigler, review
of the progress of integrated optics using planar optical waveguides and
components, first tests of fiber optic transmission in the country, medical and
instrumental applications using fiber optics developed in the country, optoelectronic
components for fiber optics - sources and detectors and measurements of
optoelectronic components. Part of plenary lectures at the symposium was delivered
by foreign experts, representatives of leading European optical fiber laboratories like
CNET Lannion, ISPT Rome, TU Braunschweig, Univ. Southampton. A large part of the
national work, especially those given by academics, had survey and prognostic
character, but several works, given by then young researchers concerned their own
technological, instrumentation and transmission experiments. A full book of the
Symposium Proceedings was published.

The second general summary meeting for technological, theoretical and application
works of the national research fibre optics community took place during the Second
National Symposium on "Optical Fibres and Their Applications", which was held on 13-
15 February 1979, also in the Palace of Sciences in Jabłonna. The meeting was
attended by approximately 150 people. During the symposium there were published
several key works from the optical fibre technology centres in Lublin, Warsaw and
Bialystok. There were presented several technological works on the production of
optical fibers by double-crucible method, MCVD and PCVD methods as well as
technological works on optoelectronic components and works of fibre metrology.
Topical sessions during the symposium were: optical fibre - technology and theory,
optical radiation sources and detectors, surveying of optoelectronic devices and
systems for telecommunications, non-telecom application usage of fibre optics,
sensors and integrated optics components. Symposium works were issued in two
volumes in Polish and an English volume of extended abstracts.

The Third OFTA Symposium was preceded by two side meetings: Optical Fibre
Measurement Techniques, Lublin 1981, and Non-telecommunications Optical Fibres
in Białowieża 1982. These high technology topical conferences gathered 100
participants each. The Third Symposium on Optical Fibers and Their Applications was
expected to be held in 1982 (16-18 February), but due to some well-known system
and organization issues in Poland was postponed to 1983 and was held on 15-17
February 1983 in Jabłonna. The symposium gathered much more participants than
the previous ones because there participated more than 250 people and 20 foreign
guests, which number far exceeded the capacity of the small but beautiful palace in
Jabłonna. In total, there were delivered approx. 30 plenary papers and presented
more than 150 contributed papers including many directly related to optical fibre
manufacturing technology. Again, there were represented all three technology
centres from Lublin, Warsaw and Białystok. The organization rule of the IIIrd Symposium
in Jabłonna was like the previous ones. Plenary papers, in the form of invited lectures
- tutorials were delivered by leading representatives of this technique from the world.
National presentations were displayed in a few thematic poster sessions, which were
preceded by wider introductory presentations of digest character. The topical
sessions of the national work were as follows: optical fibre communications; optical
fibre - technology, theory, measurements; sources and detectors for optical fibres;
optical fibre passive components - couplers, connectors, switches and sensors;
integrated optoelectronics - theory, technology, laboratory experiments;
applications of fiber optics - scientific, industrial, biomedical. Five volumes of
proceedings were published, four in Polish and one in English.

A series of conferences on "Optical Fibers and Their Applications" OFTA was

successfully continued. Subsequent conferences, the IVth and the Vth, due to the
much larger number of participants, took place in the Palace of Culture and Science
in Warsaw still every three years, in 1986 and 1989. After that there was a change in
the rule and the next OFTA conferences were continued with a considerable
organizational success by technological research centres in Bialystok and Lublin.
Initially, however, they were numbered separately and then again together. The
conferences started to be organized, after a while, every year and a half. The
dominant theme of the meetings done by Bialystok were, in the initial period, the
applications of fibre optics and technology of non-telecom optical fibres. The Lublin
meetings were concentrated on optical fibre transmission technology. Currently,
these two series of meetings are still organized every year and a half in September by
Lublin and in January by Białystok, and they are the most important events
summarizing periodically the achievements of the national scientific and technical
OFT community. Below there is a list of conferences continued within the cycle on
Optical Fibers and Their Applications. The cycle is supplemented with additional
important events, which were also dedicated to fiber optic technology, as a
Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics by SPIE, organized in 2005 in Warsaw and
the European Conference-Workshop of Optical Fibre Sensors EWOFS, 2013 Krakow,
WILGA annual meetings on Photonics Applications, and Laser Technology
Symposium.

1976 – I-OFTA (Optical Fibres and Their Applications) Jabłonna 16-18.02.1976;

1979 – II-OFTA Jabłonna, 13-15.02.1979;
1981 – Optical Fibre Measurement Technology, Nat. Symp., Lublin VI 1981;
1982 – Non-Telecommunications Optical Fibres, Nat. Symp., Białystok-Białowieża 1982;
1983 – III-OFTA, Jabłonna (1982) 15-17.02.1983;
1986 – IV-OFTA – Warszawa, PKiN, 11-13.02.1986, Proc. SPIE 0670; doi:10.1117/12.938955.
1989 – V-OFTA – Warszawa, PKiN, 21-23.02.1989, Proc. SPIE 1085; doi: 10.1117/12.952946
1996 – Technology and Applications of Lightguides, TAL, Krasnobród 17-19.10.1996, Proc.
SPIE 3189,
1998 – VI-OFTA - Białystok-Białowieża 22-24.01.1998, Proc. SPIE 3731;
1999 – Lightguides and their Applications, Krasnobród, 14-16.10.1999, Proc. SPIE 4239;
2002 – VIII-OFTA, Białystok – Białowieża, 23-25.01.2002, Proc. SPIE 5028;
2002 – Photonics Applications, Wilga Symposium, 23-26.05.2002, Proc. SPIE 5125;
2003 – Lightguides and their Applications II, Krasnobród, 9-11.10.2003, Proc. SPIE 5576;
2005 – SPIE Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics (COO) in Warszawa, 28.08-
02.09.2005, Proc. SPIE 5948, 5950, 5951;
2006 – (X-OFTA) Lightguides and Their Applications III, Krasnobród, 4-7.10.2006, Proc. SPIE
6608;
2008 – XI-OFTA – Białystok and Białowieża, 30.01-02.02.2008, Proc. SPIE 7120;
2009 – XII–OFTA - Lublin and Krasnobród, 14-17.10.2009;
2011 – XIII–OFTA - Białystok and Białowieża, 26-29.01.2011; Proc. SPIE 8010;
2012 – XIV–OFTA - Lublin and Nałęczów, 10-13.10.2012; Proc. SPIE 8698;
2013 – EWOFS Kraków 05.2013, Proc. SPIE 8794;
2014 – XV–OFTA - Białystok and Lipowy Most, 29.01-01.02.2014; Proc. SPIE 9228;
2015 – XVI–OFTA - Lublin and Nałęczów, 22-25.09.2015; Proc. SPIE 9816;
2017 – XVII-OFTA – Białystok and Supraśl; 23-27.01.2017; Proc. SPIE 10325,
doi:10.1117/12.2275494;
2018 – XVIII-OFTA – Lublin and Nałęczów, 19-23.11.2018; Proc. SPIE 11045,
doi:10.1117/12.2530349;
2020 – XIX-OFTA – Białowieża, 27-31.01.2020, Proc. SPIE
2020 – XLVI-WILGA Photonics Applications, 25-31.05.2020, Proc. SPIE in edition;
2020 – Symposium on Laser Technology, Karpacz near Wrocław, 21-25.09.2020;
2021 – XX-OFTA – Lublin and Nałęczów, planned in September 2021;

Nałęczów was hosting the Sixteenth Conference and School on "Optical Fibres and
Their Applications" on 22-25 September 2015. The conference was included in the
worldwide series of events to celebrate the International Year of Light IYL2015
[www.light2015.org]. The organizers of OFTA 2015 meeting were the Department of
Technology of Fiber Optics in the Faculty of Chemistry of Maria Curie-Skłodowska
University in Lublin, and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Technical University of Lublin. The aim of the conference was traditionally to enable
the direct discussion of relevant research and technical groups, which are actively
involved in the main areas of optical fibre photonics. An additional element of the
Conference was the organization of the fourth workshop on fibre optic technology
for students and doctoral students in technological laboratories of Optical Fibre
Technology Department of the UMCS in Lublin. This action allows young scientists to
better understand what opportunities and limitations of practical laboratory and
application work with optical fibre devices and photonic components are. The XVIth
OFTA2015 Conference was held 40 years after the start of the country's work on fibre
optic technology. There was an opportunity to organize the Jubilee Session and
remind of some facts, institutions, and above all those people who were associated
with the origins of this field of photonics in Poland. The 2015 Nałęczów Conference
gathered around 120 participants. There were presented over 80 papers in oral nd
poster sessions. The biggest groups of papers originated from such university centers
active in optoelectronics as: Silesian Uni. of Technology in Gliwice, Białystok, Warsaw
and Lublin as well as UMCS in Lublin. The topical coverage of the Symposium was:
materials for optoelectronics – materials for optical fiber technology, fabrication of
optical fibers, components and sub-assemblies for optoelectronics, metrology of
optical fibers, metrology of optoelectronic components and devices, applications of
optical fibers, education in optoelectronics and photonics. There were presented a
few plenary papers touching very current and hot problems in optoelectronics.

The Seventeenth Conference on “Optical Fibres and Their Applications 2017” was
organized’ in Supraśl on 23-27 January 2017, by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering
of Białystok University of Technology in co-operation with the Polish Society of
Theoretical and Applied Electrical Engineering. Traditionally the patrons of these
serial meetings are the Committee of Electronics and Telecommunications of Polish
Academy of Sciences, Polish Optoelectronics Committee of the Association of Polish
Electrical Engineers, Photonics Society of Poland, and Polish Ceramics Society. The
conference has gathered over 120 participants from leading photonics technology
centers in Poland. There were presented around 60 plenary papers and around 40
posters. The conference topical sessions were concentrated around: hot topics of
optical fibre photonics, materials for optical fibres and photonics including new glass
synthesis for IR fibres, nonlinear and active glasses for optical fibres, polymer optical
fibres, special optical fibres for functional components and sensors, optical fibre
sensors solutions, optical fibre communications and networks including PON-WDM,
photonic integrated circuits. The detailed conference subjects embraced:
• technology development and manufacturing of optical fibres – classical, telecom,
sensory and microstructural; optical fibre cables; planar optical waveguides and
components; integrated optics and micro-optics; optical, optoelectronic, photonic
and optical fibre sensors;
• fibre optics components, passive and active, such as couplers, power dividers,
connectors, optical insulators, fibre circulators, nonreciprocal devices, optical
amplifiers, optical and optoelectronic devices for connecting optical fibres with light
sources and receivers, optical fibre and planar multiplexers and demultiplexers, etc.;
• fibre applications especially those that require close cooperation with specialists
producing optical fibres, optical cables, transmission channels, and elements of fibre
optics, optoelectronics and photonics;
• education in the field of photonics in universities and secondary schools; continued
training in professional schools.
The proceedings of the XVIIth OFTA Conference were traditionally published in the
worldwide book series on optics and photonics, the Proceedings of SPIE. The 2017
OFTA Conference has summarized in a vivid way the current technological
achievements of the three major fibre optic technology centres in Lublin, Bialystok
and Warsaw; but also other technological centres active in research on materials for
photonics and optoelectronics - glasses, polymers, semiconductors; as well as
numerous academic and industrial centres of photonics fibre optic applications.
Technology and application centres of photonics and fiber optics are numerous
today and active across the country. One can mention some of them: AGH, Warsaw
University of Technology (IMiO, ISE, ITele, at the Faculties of Electronics, Mechatronics,
and Physics), WAT, at the Technical Universities in Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdansk,
Katowice and Gliwice, and other Institutes like ITE, ITR, ITME, and a growing number of
research companies and high-tech industries, like Vigo, Fibrain, InPhoTech and
others.

During the days of 19 to 23 November 2018 there was held XVIIIth Conference on
„Optical Fibers and Their Applications”. The Conference was opened at the
Energetyk Resort in Nałęczów, near Lublin, but the accompanying School/Workshop
on Optical Fiber Technology was held in Lublin at UMCS OFT Laboratory on 19
November. The XVIIIth Conference was opened by prof Waldemar Wójcik at the
presence of the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry of UMCS. The national expertise in
optical fibers was gathered during the recent years around several big organizations,
some of them with international roots: Section of Optoelectronics, Committee of
Electronics and Telecommunications, Polish Academy of Sciences; Polish Committee
of Optoelectronics, Association of Polish Electrical Engineers; Polish Chapter of SPIE –
The International Society for Optical Engineering. The latter organization registered in
this country as a Society was transformed in 2008 to the Photonics Society of Poland.
These organizations cooperate with SPIE – The International Society for Optics and
Photonics, IEEE Poland Section and Photonics Chapter, Section of Optics by Polish
Physical Society and Polish Ceramic Society.
During the conference opening ceremony prof. W.Wójcik remembered to
everybody the history of OFTA Nałęczów Conferences. The national experts of
guided wave, laser and semiconductor optoelectronics meeting in Krasnobród,
Nałęczów, Białowieża, Lipowy Most, and Świnoujście (Laser Technology Symposium)
managed to integrate their activities in the frame of numerable optoelectronics
research programs carried out during these years. These were programs: national,
central, departmental, priority, university and recently also European realized with a
number of international partners. Realization of these projects lead to numerable
scientific and technical achievements as well as they were underlying factors for
establishing several photonic firms in this country and modernizing the teaching at
technical universities. The 2018 Nałęczów Conference gathered around 120
participants. There were presented over 80 papers in oral and poster sessions. The
biggest groups of papers originated from such university centers active in
optoelectronics as: Silesian Uni. of Technology in Gliwice, Białystok, Warsaw and
Lublin as well as UMCS in Lublin. The topical coverage of the Symposium was:
materials for optoelectronics – materials for optical fiber technology, fabrication of
optical fibers, components and sub-assemblies for optoelectronics, metrology of
optical fibers, metrology of optoelectronic components and devices, applications of
optical fibers, education in optoelectronics and photonics. There were presented a
few plenary papers touching very current and hot problems in optoelectronics. The
technological sessions of the Symposium presented the works from three main
national centers where optical fibers are pulled. These are Faculty of Chemistry,
University of Maria Curie Skłodowska in Lublin, Faculty of Electrical Engineering at
Białystok University of Technology and Institute of Electronic Materials Technology in
Warsaw. Numerable papers were presented from the research firms and the industry,
including InPhoTech, Fibrain and Polish Centre for Photonics and Optical Fibres. A
number of research centers in this country and internationally use these optical fibers
for optical fiber sensors and photonic instrumentation devices. A large group of
applications concerned microstructural photonic optical fibers filled or impregnated
with liquid crystals, which are highly nonlinear optical substances, much more
nonlinear than glasses. This group of papers originated from the laboratories at
Warsaw and Wrocław Universities of Technology. But the fibers were manufactured
at UMCS in Lublin and at ITME in Warsaw. There were also numerable application-
oriented contributions from photonics innovative firms.

The nineteenth OFTA conference was organized on 27-31 Jaunary 2020 in Białowieża
by the optical fibre technology research team from Białystok University of
Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering under the chairmanship of prof. Jan
Dorosz. The conference gathered nearly 100 participants from all academic and
industrial centers active in optical fibre photonics. Ten topical session were organized
with over 30 plenary speeches. The conference was opened by prof. R. Romaniuk
and prof. W. Woliński from Warsaw University of Technology. The Conference
organizers have provided very favorable participation conditions for Ph.D. and M.Sc.
students, which participated in the meetings and sessions in large number. Most of
the papers were presented by young researchers which supports the belief that this
branch of technology is vivid and promises for the future development. Optical and
photonics sciences and technologies are developing very intensely globally and
locally. The local developments add very effectively to the global ones. The XIXth
Symposium on Optical Fibers and Their Applications was again a great success of the
local research and technical communities. The conference gathered a lot of OFT
leaders from the country and this geographical region as well as young researchers,
which shows how this vivid research area attracts constantly young, gifted brains. The
conference, combined with celebrations of forty-five years of OFT development by
the local technical community, has shown that the fields of optics and photonics,
and specifically Optical Fibre Technology is in well shape in Poland and this region of
Europe. The authors thank all older participants of the OFTA Series of National
Symposia, and especially those who participated in the first editions of these
meetings, for their remarks, reminding old facts, etc. The Editors would like to thank all
Authors from domestic and internationals photonics laboratories for making this
volume of proceedings possible by contributing their work results.

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Ryszard S. Romaniuk
Jan Dorosz
Contents
vii Authors
viii Conference Committees
x Introduction

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
01 – Development of optical fiber technology in Poland – 2020 (Invited Paper)

OPTICAL MATERIALS, GLASSES, LIQUID CRYSTALS, OPTICAL FIBRES AND COMPONENTS

07 - New multicomponent titanate-germanate glasses and their luminescence properties
10 - Biological properties of rare-earth doped bioactive glass
22 - Optical parameters of (Ga0.4In0.6)2Se3 thin film
23 - Jones-matrix mapping of polycrystalline networks of layers of main types of amino acids
04 - Femtosecond pulse delivery around 1560 nm in large-core anti-resonant fibers
24 - Design of multi-order diffractive intraocular lenses
25 - Technology of infrared radiation polarizer
26 - Relationship between the technique of integral equation and Kirchhoff approximation in
scalar diffraction theory
02 – Plastic optical fiber complements glass optical fiber in robot and other applications

PHOTONIC SENSORS, IMAGE PROCESSING, MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

08 - Lightning impulse withstand tests for optical fiber current sensor with external conversion
11 - Analysis of atherosclerotic lesions in the human body
13 - Modification of existing methods of visualization of offset face skin structure
14 - Optical-frequency gas flow meter on the basis of transistor structures with negative
differential resistance
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