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An event to celebrate the 50th
Anniversary of the first working laser and the award
of the 2009 Nobel Prize to Professor Charles Kao CBE
FREng FRS
Programme for day
A celebration of the 50th
Anniversary of the first working laser
10:00am
- Welcome - Sir
David Davies CBE FREng FRS, Past President,
The Royal Academy of Engineering
10:05am
- How the laser happened - Professor
Charles Townes FRS 10:35am - A brief history of
lasers - Professor Anthony E. Siegman, McMurtry Professor of Engineering Emeritus,
Stanford University, Stanford
11:15am Coffee break 11:40am
- Early laser work in the UK - Professor Colin E. Webb MBE FRS, Member, Advisory Committee, The Rank
Prize Funds 12:15pm - Ultrafast
lasers, past, present and future - Professor Wilson Sibbett CBE
FRS FRSE, Professor
in the School of Physics and Astronomy,
University of St Andrews 12:45pm
- Fibre lasers past, present and future - Professor David
Payne CBE FREng FRS,
Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton
Lunch interval of
45 minutes Afternoon session - A celebration of
Professor Charles Kao CBE FREng FRS
2:00pm
- Platform party - Lord
Browne of Madingley FREng FRS,
President, The Royal Academy of Engineering
2:30pm
- The Vision: The birth of optical communications - Mr Richard Epworth FIET, Previously with STL & Nortel
2:55pm -
Breakthrough: Making the first low loss optical
fibres - Dr Peter C. Schulz, Director OFS Fitel, formerly with Corning and Heraeus
3:15pm
- Realising the Vision: Fibre systems into the
network - Professor
John Midwinter FREng FRS, Previously with BT and UCL
3:40pm - Tea break
4:00pm
- Beyond the Vision: Multiple wavelength global
fibre networks - Dr Emmanuel Desurvire
FIEEE, VP Thales,
Technical Fellow and R&T
Physics Dept. Director
4:25pm - The Impact: Social
and economic impact of optical fibre communications
- Dr Yossi
Matias FACM,
Director, Israel R&D Center, Google
4:50pm - Charles Kao: The
person - Mrs Gwen Kao 5:10pm
- Reception - Generously
sponsored by UCL
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