Development of optical fiber technology in Poland 2020

Abstract

The conference series on Optical Fibres and Their Applications (OFTA) is held in Poland since 1976, now every 18 months. It is organized alternately by two national optical fibre technological centres in Białystok (Technical University od Białystok) and Lublin (UMCS University and Technical University of Lublin). The conference gathers photonics experts from academic communities, technological, application, research and development, industrial, business, and administration ones. The Conference summarizes research, technical and application achievements of the involved national laboratories and enterprises, with participation of international guests. Since 1986, the conference is supported by SPIE via publications of the Proceedings. The conference gathers 100- 150 participants and 100 technical presentations. The XIXth OFTA 2020, organized by Technical University of Białystok, was held in January 2020, and gathered similar number of persons and quality papers. Topical area of the optical fibre photonics conference embraces technology of active and passive optical fibres, active and passive components, sources and detectors, sensors, photonic devices, circuits and systems, photonic signal transmission, processing and networking. A digest of chosen OFTA 2020 research and technical works is presented.