Scope

We are pleased to announce that the 23rd International Conference on Plastic Optical Fibers (POF 2014) will be held from October 8 through 10, 2014 at Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, Yokohama, Japan.

The conference will feature the latest developments and advances in a wide range of plastic optical fibers, technologies, and their integration for a variety of applications. The scope of this conference is to provide opportunities for researchers or technical engineers from both academia and industry to discuss the latest R&D results, industrial activities and applications of plastic optical fibers.

The participants are also expected to share and exchange their ideas how to expand businesses of optical communication using POF and to make significant impacts in various industries: such as consumer electronics, broadcasting, home network, healthcare, medical, sensor, and automobile applications.

Topics

POF 2014 covers the following topics:

Committee

International Committee

Local Steering Committee 

Proceedings

Download the template for manuscript and copyright transfer agreement form. Please submit them in PDF to POF Secretariat by email <info@pof2014.org> before September 10, 2014. Please remember that we will not accept a manuscript unless accompanied by the Copyright Transfer Agreement. The Copyright Transfer Form should be scanned and attached with your manuscript submission email to the POF Secretariat.

• Copyright transfer agreement
• Template for POF2014 manuscript
• Downloads final proceedings

Invited Speakers

Plenary Speakers

Masayuki Sugawara, Deputy Director of NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories, NHK
Hiroyuki Ohshima, CSO, Japan Display Inc.

Invited Speakers

(in alphabetical order)

Speaker Instructions

Oral presentations

Please come prepared with a PowerPoint on a flash drive as we wish to avoid unplugging of the main presentation laptop (Windows) provided by POF2014 committee with the individual laptops of each speaker. Prior to your session, and as early as possible — possibly first thing in the morning or during lunch — have the session assistant load your presentation on the computer from your flash drive and briefly test it to insure that it functions properly. At the end of each session, all presentations will be deleted from the computer, ensuring that your presentation can not be used by anyone else.

Microsoft PowerPoint is the primary software used for presentations. Should your presentation be in another format or a Mac format, please test it out on a PC using PowerPoint to make sure that it will be compatible with the on-site PC, and bring a backup copy in PDF format. If the presentation has been prepared in PowerPoint for Mac this is rarely a problem.

If you do need to use your own PC or Mac laptop, you will need to connect it to a LCD projector. We ask that you be considerate of the presenter following you and make sure your technical setup does not take away from any of their presentation time. Mac users will need to bring their own VGA adapters.

Contributed oral presentations are scheduled for 19 minute timeslots. 15 minutes are allotted for each presentation plus 4 minutes for questions. Invited talks are scheduled for 24 minute timeslots. 20 minutes are allotted for each presentation plus 4 minutes for questions. Time limits will be strictly enforced by the session moderator, who will warn each speaker when they are approaching their time limit.
Laser pointers will be provided for each session. 

If for any reason you are unable to present, please let the POF2014 Secretariat know by email at <info@pof2014.org>. If possible, notify the moderator of your session as well. If you can’t attend the meeting, a co-author may give the presentation for you.  

Poster presentations

Poster presentation session is scheduled for Wednesday, October 8th at the 1st floor of Raiosha Hall from16:20 to 18:00. Each board will be numbered on the upper left corner. Be sure you place your poster on the board number for which you will be assigned on the conference final program available in late September. Poster set-up is scheduled from 12:10 to 13:25 during the lunch break. All posters must be set up before the poster session, and must remain up until Friday noon. All posters must be removed from the boards by 13:50, Friday, October 10th. Staffs will remove posters that remain on the poster boards after the time. Poster boards are in portrait format with a dimension of 1130 mm width x 1630 mm height. Thumb tacks or tapes will be provided to hang your poster.

Registration

Registration is required for all POF2014 attendees. Click the Registration button below, and fill out your information and select your registration type. Student ID is required for the student registration. The registration and cancellation fees are as follows.

Registration fees include access to all conference sessions, conference materials including conference & exhibition guide and electronic proceedings, coffee, refreshment, and free wireless internet connection. Full registrants will be invited to the banquet on Oct. 9th hosted by the POF2014 organizing committee.　

Please complete your registration and make the payment online by October 6. All request for cancellation of registration must be sent to POF Secretariat <info@pof2014.org> by email.

Registration

Accommodation

The 23rd international conference on plastic optical fibers will be held at Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, which is located at the front of Hiyoshi Station. As there are no hotels nearby, please find your hotel at Yokohama, Musashi-Kosugi, Shibuya, and Shinagawa areas, where you can access Hiyoshi easily by train.

On our website, five different grade hotels we recommend at these areas are available. The price includes every breakfast, service charge, and taxes. Rooms will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. The hotel reservation and online payment is available until September 29. Note that reservations without payments will be automatically cancelled on the due date. Before making any changes to your reservation, please remember to check the hotel cancellation policy of JTB Corporate Sales, Inc., which is the official travel agency for this conference.

Hotel Reservation

Exhibition

All exhibition booth spaces for the POF2014 have now been sold.

Exhibition room will be open from 1pm of October 8 to noon of October 10. Up to fifteen booths (2-m width) are available. Each booth is equipped with a desk (0.7 m x 1.8 m), chair, board (1.2 m x 1.8 m)*, name plate, and power source (100 VAC, max. 200 W). Additional desk and chair are available upon a request for free. The booth will be allocated upon a request on a first-come, first-served basis.

(*Please note that the board size of booth 9 and 10 is 1.2 m x 1.5 m)

Price / booth: JPY 200,000+8% consumption tax

Complementary registration fee for one delegate is included.

Download the application form for Exhibitors. Please fill in the red blank and send this form to POF2014 secretariat <info@pof2014.org> by September 20th, 2014.

Purchase

Sponsorship

Coffee Break Sponsorship

Sponsorship applications for coffee breaks have now closed. We appreciate many sponsorship proposals.

We are seeking sponsors who would be interested in supporting POF2014 and having a presence among the attendees. You can get a great exposure by sponsoring coffee breaks at a very low price. Your company’s name will be displayed during the coffee breaks you sponsor. If you are interested in something else such as sponsoring a name tag, flash memory, and conference bag, we would be happy to work with you on this as well. Please look over the application form and if you need more information, please feel free to contact POF2014 Secretariat at info@pof2014.org. We greatly appreciate your cooperation.

October 8th (Wed.) – 10th (Fri.) : Twice daily (once in the morning, once in the afternoon)

* Limited to the first 6 applicants

Download the application form for Coffee Sponsorship. Please fill in the red blank and send this form to POF2014 secretariat <info@pof2014.org> by September 20th, 2014.

Purchase

Venue

POF 2014 will be held at Raiosha, Keio University Hiyoshi Campus, Yokohama, Japan.

Train Access to Hiyoshi Station

Access from International Airports

Access from Major Stations