Development of optical fiber technology in Poland 2015
The paper is a digest of works presented during the XVIth National Symposium on Optical Fibres and Their Applications. The Symposium is organized since 1976. OFTA 2015 was organized by Optical Fibre Laboratory of the Faculty of Chemistry at University of Maria Curie Skłodowska, and Institute of Electronics and Information Technology of Lublin University of Technology, in Nałęczów on 22-25 September 2015. The meeting has gathered around 120 participants who presented 85 research and technical papers. The Symposium organized every 18 months is a good portrait of optical fibre technology development in Poland at university laboratories, governmental institutes, company R&D laboratories, etc. Topical tracks of the Symposium were: optical and photonic materials, technology of classical, tailored and structural photonic optical fibres, light propagation physics in optical fibres, passive and active optical fibre components, optical fibre sensors, passive and active optical fibre networks, optical fibre amplifiers and lasers, optical fibre network issues: modulation, architectures, economy, etc.
Photonics applications and web engineering: SPIE-PSP WILGA Symposium series
SPIE - PSP WILGA Symposium gathers two times a year in January and in May new adepts of advanced photonic and electronic systems. The event is oriented on components and applications. WILGA Symposium on Photonics and Web Engineering is well known on the web for its devotion to "young research" promotion under the eminent sponsorship of international engineering associations like SPIE and IEEE and their Poland Sections or Counterparts. WILGA is supported by the most important national professional organizations like KEiT PAN and PSP-Photonics Society of Poland. The Symposium is organized since 1998 twice a year. It has gathered over 4000 young researchers and published over 2000 papers mainly internationally, including more than 900 in 10 published so far volumes of Proc. SPIE. This paper, in two parts, is a digest of WILGA Symposium Series (part 1) and WILGA 2010 summary (part 2). Part 1 (this one) treats WILGA Photonics Applications characteristics over the period 1998-2010. Part 2 presents a short report on the XXVth and XXVIth Symposia held consecutively in January and May 2010. The events took place on 29- 30 January at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies of Warsaw University of Technology and on 24- 30 May in Wilga Village near Warsaw. Both meetings gathered around 200 young researchers with 150 papers presented on current subjects of advanced photonics and electronics issues. Apart of young researchers the Wilga Symposium is always richly attended by students' mentors and tutors.
Performance of the CMS drift-tube chamber local trigger with cosmic rays
The performance of the Local Trigger based on the drift-tube system of the CMS experiment has been studied using muons from cosmic ray events collected during the commissioning of the detector in 2008. The properties of the system are extensively tested and compared with the simulation. The effect of the random arrival time of the cosmic rays on the trigger performance is reported, and the results are compared with the design expectations for proton-proton collisions and with previous measurements obtained with muon beams.