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SUMMARY:JEAN-DANIEL COLLADON SYMPOSIUM 
DTSTART:20110918T143000
DTSTAMP:20260502T092646Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Hecht\,  Donald B. Keck\, David N. Payne\, Philip Russell
 \nThe Colladon symposium is a public event at the ECOC conference that wil
 l honor the physicist Jean-Daniel Colladon (1802-1890). Colladon demonstra
 ted for the first time in 1841 the guiding of light in a liquid jet of wat
 er at the Academy of Science  now the University of Geneva. The British ph
 ysicist John Tyndall performed similar experiments in 1854 at the Royal In
 stitution of Great Britain in London. Until today he is mistakenly most of
 ten considered as inventor of light guiding in the Anglo-Saxon world.\n\nA
  working demonstration model of the “Colladon fountain” will be demons
 trated in the entrance hall to the lecture room at the Palexpo conference 
 centre in Geneva. Four presentations will cover the milestones in light gu
 iding that enabled the development of today’s ultrahigh capacity fiber c
 ommunication network:  \n\nDaniel Colladon and the Origin of Light Guiding
 \nJeff Hecht  Contributing Editor  Laser Focus World  USA\n\nThrough a Gla
 ss Brightly: Making the First Low-Loss Optical Fibers\nDonald B. Keck  for
 mer Vice President  Research Director for Corning Inc.  USA \n\nNo Network
  Without Optical Amplifiers\nDavid N. Payne  Director Optoelectronics Rese
 arch Centre University of Southampton  UK\n\nPhotonic Crystal Fibres: New 
 Ways to Guide Light\nPhilip Russell  Director at Max Planck Institute for 
 the Science of Light  Germany
LOCATION:Palexpo Geneva
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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