JEAN-DANIEL COLLADON SYMPOSIUM
Event details
| Date | 18.09.2011 |
| Hour | 14:30 |
| Speaker | Jeff Hecht, Donald B. Keck, David N. Payne, Philip Russell |
| Location |
Palexpo Geneva
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The Colladon symposium is a public event at the ECOC conference that will honor the physicist Jean-Daniel Colladon (1802-1890). Colladon demonstrated for the first time in 1841 the guiding of light in a liquid jet of water at the Academy of Science now the University of Geneva. The British physicist John Tyndall performed similar experiments in 1854 at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London. Until today he is mistakenly most often considered as inventor of light guiding in the Anglo-Saxon world.
A working demonstration model of the “Colladon fountain” will be demonstrated in the entrance hall to the lecture room at the Palexpo conference centre in Geneva. Four presentations will cover the milestones in light guiding that enabled the development of today’s ultrahigh capacity fiber communication network:
Daniel Colladon and the Origin of Light Guiding
Jeff Hecht Contributing Editor Laser Focus World USA
Through a Glass Brightly: Making the First Low-Loss Optical Fibers
Donald B. Keck former Vice President Research Director for Corning Inc. USA
No Network Without Optical Amplifiers
David N. Payne Director Optoelectronics Research Centre University of Southampton UK
Photonic Crystal Fibres: New Ways to Guide Light
Philip Russell Director at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Germany
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