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Engr. Dr. Muhammad Azhar Naeem selected for Advanced School/Workshop on Fibre Optics: Light in action from Science to Technology
Engr. Dr. Muhammad Azhar Naeem selected for Advanced School/Workshop on Fibre Optics: Light in action from Science to Technology


Engr. Dr Muhammad Azhar Naeem, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of the Punjab is selected by International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy for the training workshop "Advanced School/Workshop on Fibre Optics: Light in action from Science to Technology". This training is funded by UNESCO and co-sponsored by The Optical Society of America, SPIE and University of Fort Hare, South Africa. This year this conference will be held at University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa from 28th September to 1st October 2015. This University is responsible of many of the Africa's leading figures, e,g., Nelson Mandela.
This workshop aims to connect scientists from all over the developing countries on a topic in which there is a critical mass of researchers and which will have a high impact on scientific and economic development. Fibre optics brings together diverse fields, from the basic science on optics and light transport, to material design, through to application in communication and sensors. As such, it is a topical field the world over and one of the few topics of critical mass in the world photonics research. With the pressure to do science with applications ever more present in developing countries, this topic lends itself to high impact science.
The main topics to cover in this workshop are:
1.
The science of fibre optics: design, non-linear effects, exotic materials etc.
2.
Optical fibres for communication, including mode division multiplexing, polarisation, entanglement in fibres, etc.
3.
Optical fibres for sensing, including design and applications of sensing devices.
4.
Photonic crystal fibres