Dear Members of Photonics Socety of Poland,

On behalf of the International Katowice Fair Management, Exhibition Center FairExpo Ltd. and the Photonic Society of Poland, we would like to invite you to take part in the second edition of Second Symposium of the Photonics Society of Poland combined with OPTON 2012 International Trade Fair for Optoelectronics and Photonics which will take place on 15-16th May 2012.

OPTON International Fair will be organised in Katowice every two years. It is a great opportunity to become familiar with domestic and foreign offers in the field of optoelectronics and photonics, which are sciences used in many industrial branches. It is a presentation of the state-of-the-art equipment and technologies that are launched in the Polish market. It is a variety of industrial branches and an opportunity to compare specialist exhibitions presented in one place and time. A fair that gathers representatives of the abovementioned fields will have a chance to become an excellent forum for presenting new solutions, exchanging experience between specialists, as well as an excellent meeting place for experts in these areas. For many years, International Katowice Fair has been an experienced organiser of specialist fair exhibitions. Therefore, it intends to prepare and present to our professional consumers an exhibition that boasts a select team of exhibitors and a varied programme of accompanying events in which policymakers and specialists of the appropriate sector will participate.

Our aim is to help you – our Exhibitors – establish long-lasting and satisfying business contacts. Bearing this in mind, we constantly collect information about potential recipients of your commercial offer: among other things, we conduct electronic registration of visitors and organise meetings with key clients for you. We are assisted by recognised experts in the field of science and industry, who give seminars and thematic lectures during Exhibitions.

We are pleased to inform you that the OPTON Fair is organised under the honorary auspices of and in cooperation with Photonics Society of Poland and under the auspices of Polish Society for Sensing Techniques.

We are convinced that participation in OPTON 2012 Fair will be an exceptional experience for you. It is with great pleasure that we can already today invite you to Katowice in May 2012.

Organizers

Szanowni Państwo, 

Działając zgodnie z § 23 Statutu Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Fotonicznego gorąco zapraszam wszystkich Członków PSP na Walne Zgromadzenie, które odbędzie się w dniu 15 marca (czwartek) 2012 r. w sali 111 Wydziału Fizyki Politechniki Warszawskiej przy ul. Koszykowej 75 w Warszawie. Początek Zgromadzenia o godz. 12.15 w pierwszym (12.30 w drugim) terminie, a koniec nie później niż o godz. 14.00.

PROPONOWANY PROGRAM WALNEGO ZGROMADZENIA:

1. Otwarcie Zgromadzenia i przyjęcie porządku obrad.
2. Wybór Przewodniczącego i Sekretarza Walnego Zgromadzenia.
3. Wybór Komisji Skrutacyjnej.
4. Roczne sprawozdanie Zarządu PSP.
5. Sprawozdanie Komisji Rewizyjnej.
6. Dyskusja i podjęcie uchwał o przyjęciu obu sprawozdań, w tym sprawozdania finansowego za rok 2011.
7. Plan działalności Stowarzyszenia w latach 2012-2013.
8. Wolne wnioski.
9. Zamknięcie Zgromadzenia.

Podczas Walnego Zgromadzenia będzie możliwość uzupełnienia zaległych składek członkowskich. Składki można również uregulować przelewem na konto PSP nr 23 1020 1097 0000 7902 0098 7081 w banku PKO BP SA (http://photonics.pl/index.php/Membership).

Bezpośrednio po zebraniu serdecznie zapraszam na spotkanie koleżeńskie w Auli Gmachu Fizyki PW.

Z koleżeńskim pozdrowieniem,
Tomasz Woliński
Prezes Polskiego Stowarzyszenia Fotonicznego

We are pleased to inform that Polish company Ammono has won the prestigious Compound Semiconductor Industry Award for the best 2012 product in the category of substrates and materials. The prize was granted for the engineering and the market introduction of the High Transparency Gallium Nitride Substrate.

The revolutionary product introduced by Ammono is the result of a clear market need for high quality GaN aiming at LED applications. It brings together two key features. At one side the inherent low dislocation of the ammonothermal GaN enabling the reduction of the droop effect and a better heat dissipation. At the other side the substrate’s high transparency which increases the light output of the LED. As a result the way towards three breakthroughs in LED technology is paved. Those are: the decrease of the cost of a single lumen, the increase of the LED life-time and a much higher light output enabling new classes of applications. 

We have a great pleasure to announce an invited lecture of prof. Prof. Perry Ping Shum, Nanyang Technological University, (Singapore), entitled:

Prof. Perry Ping Shum received the B. Eng. and PhD degrees in electronic and electrical engineering from of the University of Birmingham, UK, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. In 1996, he joined the Hong Kong University. Since July 1997, he joined the City University of Hong Kong. In 1999, he joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He was the founding member of IEEE Photonics Society Singapore Chapter. Since 2002, he has been appointed as the Director of Network Technology Research Centre. He received the Singapore National Academy of Science Young Scientist Award in 2002 for his contributions on optical communication technology. Dr. Shum has published more than 450 papers. He was the chair, committee member and international advisor of many international conferences (e.g. ICOCN, OECC, ECOC, COIN, ACP, ICMAT, ICICS and Photonics Global). His research interests are concerned with optical fiber communications, nonlinear waveguide modeling and fibre-based devices.