Wednesday 25 th September – Morning New markets Verizon Measuring Vehicle speed, density and road conditions using standard telecom fiber carrying high speed data traffic Speaker: Glenn Wellbrock Time: 10:20 For the first time, we demonstrate detection of vehicle speed, density, and road conditions using deployed fiber carrying high-speed data transmission, and prove carriers’ large-scale fiber infrastructures can also be used as ubiquitous sensing networks. Global telecom carriers have built huge scale optical fiber infrastructures to support Internet [1]. Up to now, however, carriers’ fiber infrastructures only provide the function of data transmission. Actually, optical fiber is a material which can be used as a sensor as well. If carriers’ telecom fiber network can also function as sensor network, then the infrastructure will not only carry telecom data, but also generate various useful sensing data. This change will double the values of a carrier’s fiber assets and provide a large-scale environmental monitoring system serving many applications, such as smart city and smart community [2, 3]. Specially deployed sensor fiber has been used for downwell monitoring in oil/gas industry [4], pipeline leak detection [5], and intrusion detection [6] by detecting changes in temperature, strain, vibration, etc. Recently, employing fiber sensors for measurement of road traffic have been reported involving fiber-optic interferometer or dedicated fiber near the road [7, 8]. Since carriers’ optical fiber cables were not deployed for sensing purpose and enclosed in conduits normally, ultra-highly sensitive detection technologies must be developed to support the sensing functions. II-VI Inc. Photonic Innovations Enabling Transformational Megatrends in Consumer, Automotive and Life Sciences Markets: Challenges and Opportunities Speaker: Dr. Sanjai Parthasarathi, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, II-VI Inc. Time : 10:55 Technologies and associated products originally developed for the optical communications industry have not only been finding their way into other market segments but also enabling recent disruptive innovations in Consumer Electronics, Automotive, and Life Sciences. Irreversible megatrends such as 3D sensing, growth in mobile and 5G communications, electric and autonomous vehicles, Internet of Things with smart sensors, Industry 4.0 and point of care diagnostics are driven by innovative use of lasers, optics, detectors, engineered materials and integrated systems. This talk will address these transformational megatrends, the opportunities and challenges they present with a special focus on 3-D sensing for consumer and automotive applications, as well as point of care diagnostics. LightCounting Market Research Demand for lasers used for 3D sensing in smartphones and automotive lidar Speaker: Dr Pauline Rigby, consultant, LightCounting Market Research Time: 11:30 2017 proved to be pivotal year for manufacturers of vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs). The incredible success of Apple’s iPhone X, which incorporated facial recognition technology employing VCSEL arrays for illumination, created an market that even in its first year was comparable to the revenues generated by VCSEL into the global optical transceiver market. Another attractive market opportunity is beckoning for lasers used in vehicle sensors for in-cabin sensors and autonomous driving. Laser technology developed for telecom and datacom applications is highly adaptable to these new applications, but competition will be fierce. This presentation will review data on shipments of VCSELs into 3D sensing in 2016-2018 and present market forecast for 2019-2024, as well as preliminary results from a new report on lasers used in automotive lidar.
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