Conference Program Details
"Interaction of a photon with an isolated quantum system"
Nicholas Copernicus University, Poland
PIOTR KOLENDERSKI is an associate professor at the Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Torun, Poland. He completed his master and doctoral studies at NCU in Torun. He pursued his postdoctoral fellowship at the In stitute for Quantum Computing (IQC), Waterloo, Canada, as a laureate of the “Mobility Plus” program from the Ministry of Science and High Education of Poland. Since 2013, he has been serving as an associate professor at Institute of Physics at NCU and leads the Single Photon Applications Laboratory research group. His research interest involves the generation, detection and control the single photons and their applications for quantum communication, photon-matter interaction and quantum optical coherence tomography. Apart from IQC, Dr. Kolenderski cooperates with Politecnico di Milano in Italy, Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic, Ulm University, Germany and industry sector, Syderal Polska in Poland, Work Microwave GmbH in Germany and Exatel in Poland.
"The Need for a Better Visually Appealing Red – the red phosphor case"
Universiti Malaysia Perlis
Prabakaran Poopalan received his background education in Physics from University of Malaya in 1994 and MSc in 1996 after which he joined the Optical Fibre Group of the Telekom Malaysia R&D Division. He obtained his PhD in 2004 from his alma mater and spent a year as a postdoctorate as he assisted in setting up a photonics fabrication laboratory. He has since been lecturing at Universiti Malaysia Perlis in Microelectronics. He has been involved in photonics since the beginning, shifting focus away from lasers, fibers and ultra short pulses towards thin films and electro-optics. He now Heads a Light Emitting Diode Skills Development Centre (LED SDC), a boon from Northern Corridor Implementation Agency (NCIA), which focuses on skills enhancement as well as providing the necessary optical / photonics know-how, and technically leans heavily on optical material synthesis and optical characterization. His current interest is on thin film and doped thin film electro-optics for large area uses such as might be needed for free space communications using lamp surfaces.