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The SPIE-IEEE-PSP WILGA Symposium [wilga.ise.pw.edu.pl] is a kind of international Forum of Young Science in Photonics, Advanced Electronics, and Internet Engineering. It is organized twice a year under the eminent patronage of two big international engineering institutions, SPIE [www.spie.org/\] and IEEE [www.ieee.org/\] and their Polish Counterparts: PSP—Photonics Society of Poland [www.photonics.pl/\], successor of Polish Chapter of SPIE [www.spie.pl/\] and IEEE Poland Section [www.ieee.pl\], with participation of IEEE R8 [ewh.ieee.org/reg/8/sac/cms]. The patrons of the symposium are: PAS—Polish Academy of Science (The Committee on Electronics and Telecommunication) [keit.pan.pl], Association of Polish Electrical Engineers (SEP) [www.sep.com.pl\], Polish Committee of Optoelectronics SEP [pkopto.ise.pw.edu.pl], Warsaw University of Technology [www.pw.edu.pl\], Institute of Electronic Systems [www.ise.pw.edu.pl\]. WILGA Organizers: The Symposium is organized by a group of devoted young people - photonics, mechatronics, and electronics researchers - gathered in the PERG/ELHEP Research Group of the Institute of Electronic Systems at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of WUT. Most of these young researchers are active members of PSP, SEP, SPIE, OSA, and IEEE. The symposium is diligently done by young researchers for young fellow researchers and the main aim is to have a lot of fun and to learn a lot. WILGA Publications: The WILGA Symposium publishes its papers in the following proceedings series, technical and peer-reviewed journals: Proceedings of SPIE, since 2002; IEEE eXplore, Internet publication data base; Photonics Letters of Poland, since 2009; Elektronika, SEP Journal, since 1998; JET—Intl. Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications, PAS. WILGA Proceedings of SPIE: There has been a long tradition of WILGA publishing its works in the Proceedings of SPIE. This volume is the 12th published of the WILGA-SPIE series. All of the WILGA-SPIE volume series contain more than 1000 papers; all WILGA Symposiums published more than 2500 papers with around 5000 participants. This is an extraordinary achievement for a modest symposium oriented solely on young researchers. No one event of similar character could compare to this achievement. This success was only possible due to big involvement of young researchers in their work. The following WILGA Proc. SPIE were published: Wilga 2002 – Proc. SPIE 5125; Wilga 2003 – Proc. SPIE 5484; Wilga 2004 – Proc. SPIE 5775; Wilga 2005 bis – Proc. SPIE 5948; Wilga 2005 – Proc SPIE 6159; Wilga 2006 – Proc. SPIE 6347; Wilga 2007 – Proc. SPIE 6937; Wilga 2008 – Proc. SPIE 7124; Wilga 2009 – Proc. SPIE 7502; Wilga 2010 – Proc. SPIE 7745; WILGA 2011 – Proc. SPIE 8008; WILGA 2012 – Proc. SPIE 8454. xv SPIE Poland 2005: The SPIE Poland meetings in 2005 were very special because then the Polish Chapter of SPIE (predecessor of Photonics Society of Poland) hosted together with SPIE and some other regional SPIE Chapters, the SPIE Warsaw Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics – SPIE COO Warsaw 2005. WILGA 2005 Symposium was split to two parts – one held usually in WILGA and the second jointly with the COO’05. WILGA ways and topics: The official language of the symposium is English. Peer reviewed papers are published in a renowned, internationally recognized series called the Proceedings of SPIE. The symposium is designed mainly for Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. students (from physics, electronics and mechatronics, as well as material research) and their tutors/mentors. WILGA has a number of main topical tracks. Historically, the first one was Photonics and Web Engineering. Generally, WILGA embraces advanced photonic, mechatronic and electronic systems, in the following aspects: theory, modeling, algorithms, simulations, emulations, design, hardware, software, hardware-software interaction and integration, measurements, testing, commissioning and exploitation. WILGA also addresses new research tendencies like 3D photonics and electronics design, micro- and nano-systems, material engineering including meta-materials. Topical sessions are organized by leading experts. Sessions usually begin with current tutorials and are filled with contributed papers by students and young researchers. One of the most important session tracks in WILGA are photonics applications and systems for superconductive accelerator (and free electron laser) technology and high energy physics experiments. We invite warmly students, young researchers and their tutors to participate in WILGA. WILGA XXXth Jubilee Symposium: The WILGA 2012 January Edition was held on 26–29 January 2012 at WUT’s FE&IT. WILGA 2012, the May edition, was held on 28 May–2 June 2012 in a resort owned by Warsaw University of Technology. More than 300 presentations were delivered during both editions of Wilga, covering a broad area of photonics applications and web engineering. Nearly 350 persons participated. An exceptionally efficient chair of the Organization Committee of WILGA 20121 was traditionally Dr. Maciek Linczuk [M.Linczuk@elka.pw.edu.pl]. The working research Sessions of 30th WILGA 2012 were: general photonics, optical fiber technology, optical communications, optoelectronics, applications of optical fibers, integration of electronics, photonics and mechatronics, distributed measurement systems, LHC and CMS at CERN, JET and ITER tokamaks, optics and optoelectronics for astronomy, fundamentals of FPGA-DSP systems, object oriented design of hardware, terabit optical data links, software-hardware co-design, biomedical engineering, computational intelligence of advanced systems, development of photonics and electronics in Europe and Poland, radar technology, terahertz photonics, free electron lasers, E-XFEL and POLFEL lasers, EuCARD – European Coordination of Accelerator Research and Development, TIARA, etc. WILGA offsprings: The WILGA Symposium gave birth to a few topical meetings and conferences which then struck out on their own. These include students regional meetings (Opole, Wrocław, Kielce, Białystok, Lublin, Toruń and others), of SPIE student chapters, IEEE student branches, but also stand-alone conferences. Some of these meetings are still held periodically with Wilga, while some of them gained complete independence. WILGA is very proud of this sort of partnership, since the very good idea of WILGA is proliferating elsewhere. One of such meetings is, now fully nondependent, SPS – Signal Processing Symposium which started at Wilga in 2003. SPIE – PSP WILGA 2013: The organizers of WILGA 2012 Symposium, to be held on 27 May – 02 June 2013, warmly invite interested young researchers and students in photonics and related fields to participate in this exceptional and very friendly research event oriented to host young researchers from Poland and all over Europe.
Forum of Young Science in Photonics, Advanced Electronics and Internet Engineering. It is organized twice a year under the eminent patronage of two big international engineering institutions SPIE [www.spie.org\] and IEEE [www.ieee.org\] and their Polish counterparts: PSP—Photonics Society of Poland [www.photonics.pl\], successor of Polish Chapter of SPIE [www.spie.pl\] and IEEE Poland Section [www.ieee.pl\], with participation of IEEE R8 [ewh.ieee.org/reg/8/sac/cms]. The patrons of the symposium are: PAS—Polish Academy of Science (The Committee on Electronics and Telecommunication) [keit.pan.pl], Association of Polish Electrical Engineers (SEP) [www.sep.com.pl\], Polish Committee of Optoelectronics SEP [pkopto.ise.pw.edu.pl], Warsaw University of Technology [www.pw.edu.pl\], Institute of Electronic Systems [www.ise.pw.edu.pl\]. WILGA Organizers: The Symposium is organized by a group of devoted young people - photonics, mechatronics, and electronics researchers - gathered in the PERG/ELHEP Research Group [Zespół Badawczy PERG] of the Institute of Electronic Systems at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of WUT. Most of these young researchers are active members of PSP, SEP, SPIE, OSA and IEEE. The symposium is diligently done by young researchers for young fellow researchers and the main aim is to have a lot of fun and to learn a lot. WILGA Publications: The WILGA Symposium publishes its papers in the following proceedings series, technical and peer-reviewed journals: Proceedings of SPIE, since 2002; IEEE eXplore, Internet publication data base; Photonics Letters of Poland, since 2009; Elektronika, SEP Journal, since 1998; JET—Intl. Journal of Electronics and Telecommunications, PAS. WILGA Proceedings of SPIE: There has been now quite a long tradition of WILGA publishing its works in the Proceedings of SPIE. This volume is the 11th published of the WILGA-SPIE series. The WILGA-SPIE volume series contains more than 1000 papers; all WILGA Symposiums have published more than 2000 papers with around 4000 participants. This is an extraordinary achievement for a modest symposium oriented solely on young researchers. No one event of similar character could compare to this achievement. This success was only possible due to big involvement of young researchers in their work. The following WILGA SPIE Proceedings were published: Wilga 2002 – Proc. SPIE 5125; Wilga 2003 – Proc. SPIE 5484; Wilga 2004 – Proc. SPIE 5775; Wilga 2005 bis – Proc. SPIE 5948 (Warsaw SPIE COO’05); Wilga 2005 – Proc SPIE 6159; Wilga 2006 – Proc. SPIE 6347; Wilga 2007 – Proc. SPIE 6937; Wilga 2008 – Proc. SPIE 7124; Wilga 2009 – Proc. SPIE 7502; Wilga 2010 – Proc. SPIE 7745; WILGA 2011 – Proc. SPIE 8008. xiii SPIE Poland 2005: The SPIE Poland meetings in 2005 were very special because then the Polish Chapter of SPIE (predecessor of Photonics Society of Poland) hosted together with SPIE and some other regional SPIE Chapters, the SPIE Warsaw Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics – SPIE COO Warsaw 2005. WILGA 2005 Symposium was split to two parts – one held usually in WILGA and the second jointly with the COO’05. WILGA ways and topics: The official language of the Symposium is English. Peer reviewed papers are published in a renowned, worldwide recognized series Proceedings of SPIE in USA. The symposium is designed mainly for for Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. students (from physics, electronics and mechatronics, as well as material research) and their tutors/mentors. WILGA has a number of main topical tracks. Historically, the first one was Photonics and Web Engineering. Generally, WILGA embraces advanced photonic, mechatronic and electronic systems, in the following aspects: theory, modeling, algorithms, simulations, emulations, design, hardware, software, hardware-software interaction and integration, measurements, testing, commissioning and exploitation. WILGA also addresses new research tendencies like 3D photonics and electronics design, micro- and nano-systems, material engineering including meta-materials. Topical sessions are organized by leading experts. Sessions usually begin with current tutorials and are filled with contributed papers by students and young researchers. One of the most important session tracks in WILGA are photonics applications and systems for superconductive accelerator (and free electron laser) technology and high energy physics experiments. We warmly invite students, young researchers, and their tutors to participate in WILGA. WILGA 28th: The WILGA 2011 Symposium January edition was held 28–30 January 2011 at WUT’s FE&IT. WILGA 2011; the May edition took place 23–29 May 2011 in a resort owned by Warsaw University of Technology. Nearly 200 presentations were presented during both editions of Wilga, covering a broad area of photonics applications and web engineering, and nearly 250 persons participated. An exceptionally efficient chair of the Organization Committee of WILGA 2011 was Dr Maciek Linczuk [M.Linczuk@elka.pw.edu.pl]. The working research sessions of 28th WILGA 2011 were: general photonics, optical fiber technology, optical communications, optoelectronics, applications of optical fibers, integration of electronics, photonics and mechatronics, distributed measurement systems, LHC and CMS at CERN, optics and optoelectronics for astronomy, fundamentals of FPGA-DSP systems, object oriented design of hardware, terabit optical data links, software-hardware codesign, biomedical engineering, computational intelligence of advanced systems, development of photonics and electronics in Europe and Poland, radar technology, terahertz photonics, etc. WILGA 2011 - SPIE–PSP award for the best student paper presentation: The WILGA 2011 Award Committee was managed skillfully by Dr Ryszard Kossowski of WUT [kossowski@ia.pw.edu.pl]. The awards were a single category intended for students having just finished their M.Sc (including B.Sc.) degrees. The winners of SPIE-PSP WILGA 2011 competitions, and the titles of their presentations were: M.Sc. and B.Sc. category: 1 – Robert Plaga, Faculty of Physics WUT, “Fiber optic structures for dynamic stress sensing”; 2 – Tomasz Janicki, PERG-ELHEP-ISE Lab., “FPGA mezzanine card DSP module,” (prepared with Ph.D. student Radoslaw Cieszewski); 3 – Krzysztof Sielewicz, PERG-ELHEP-ISE Lab., “Intelligent thermal imaging camera with network interface.” The winning papers are published in this volume. WILGA offsprings: The WILGA Symposium gave birth to a few topical meetings and conferences which then flourished on their own. These include student regional meetings (Opole, Wrocław, Kielce, Białystok, Lublin, Toruń and other), of SPIE student chapters, IEEE student branches, but also stand-alone conferences. Some of these meetings are still held periodically with Wilga, while some of them gained complete independence. WILGA is very proud of this sort of partnership, since the very good idea of WILGA is proliferating elsewhere. One of such meetings is, now fully independent, SPS – Signal Processing Symposium which started at Wilga in 2003. SPIE – PSP WILGA 2012: The organizers of WILGA 2012 Symposium, to be held on 28 May – 03 June 2012, warmly invite interested young researchers and students in photonics and related fields to participate in this exceptional and very friendly research event oriented to host young researchers from Poland and all over Europe.
Proceedings of SPIE, vol.12040 (November 2021) , 2021
Wilga 2021 Summer Symposium on Photonics Applications and Web Engineering was the 48th edition of the research and technical meetings series [1,2]. Traditionally, the whole week lasting annual series of technical conferences and topical sessions was scheduled to be held on 26 May – 02 June 2020 in Wilga resort near Warsaw, owned by the Warsaw University of Technology. Nearly 150 participants took part in all of the Wilga 2021 events, most of them being young researchers active in all aspects of photonics, electronics and ICT science and technology. Wilga Symposium also embraces hardware and software technologies associated with photonics like optics, optical engineering, optoelectronics, electronics and electrical engineering, mechatronics, chemical and material engineering, applied physics, industrial solutions and applications. Around 100 papers were presented during Wilga 2021, oral and poster. Out of this number, some papers chosen by authors are published in this volume of Proc. SPIE mostly related to photonics. The major change was that during Wilga 2020 and 2021 Symposia, during summer editions, no traditional large young researcher sessions at large were possible to be organized.
During the week of 26-30 May, 2004, in the WILGA Resort owned by the Warsaw University of Technology there was held the XIVth Symposium on “Photonics and Web Engineering”. The title of the Symposium has now only a historical meaning. From this title on, the Symposium has started seven years ago. Now, the meeting covers the IEEE and SPIE areas. The Symposium, from its beginning, was directed towards well prepared presentations and peer reviewed papers by young scientists, as well as M.Sc. and Ph.Ds. The requirement to present a paper by a young scientist (originating mainly form the Faculties of Electronics, Computer Sciences, IT, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics and Physics) is a strict professional supervision and tutor’s opinion on their work. The meeting takes place two times a year: in January at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies, Warsaw University of Technology and in May in Wilga upon Vistula near Warsaw. The information web page of the Symposium is under the following URL: http://nms.ise.pw.edu.pl. The whole Symposium is managed logistically (from participant registration to issuing of proceedings) solely in the electronic domain. The Symposium is organized under the protectorate of the mentioned professional, international organizations, and in particular their Poland divisions like: IEEE Poland Section and SPIE Poland Chapter, as well as nuclear research centers CERN in Geneva and DESY in Hamburg. The national sponsoring organizations are: Committee of Electronics and Communications, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Committee of Optoelectronics, Association of Polish Electrical Engineers, Inter-Association Committee of Electronics, Communication and Information Technologies, Association of Polish Mechanical Engineers, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) and Institute of Electronic Systems (ISE). The organizers of the Symposium are: PERG and ELHEP Laboratories of ISE, IEEE Student Branch of WUT. There is cooperation at the Symposium organization from other IEEE and SPIE organizations in this country. The Symposium is attended mainly by young scientists, some of them accompanied by their tutors. The majority comes from this country but there are also numerable attendees from the Region 8 of the IEEE and the USA. The XIV Symposium gathered around 300 domestic participants and 20 from abroad. There were presented more than 200 papers by young scientists, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students as well as a few invited papers given by the tutors and research supervisors of the students. There were represented the following polytechnics and universitities from this country: Warsaw, Poznań, Łódź, Szczecin, Koszalin, Białystok, Lublin, Rzeszów, Kielce, Kraków, Opole, Wrocław, Zielona Góra, Siedlce, as well as governmental research laboratories: IOSTO, ITE, ITME, CFT PAN, IPJ from Warsaw and IBJ form Kraków. There were international guests from Germany, USA, France, England, Mexico and Belarus. The Symposium is a very low budget event. It is organized totally by students’ volunteers, without any entrance fee. The only costs are accommodation and meals in WILGA resort. These costs are well below 15Euro per diem. Every day, there are nice evening grill and beer sessions sponsored by the IEEE Poland Section. The major sessions of the XIV Symposium were: • Hot topics of photonics: integrated optoelectronics, optical fiber communications, optoelectronic components and subsystems, photonic sensors, photonic and hybrid circuits; European, superconducting, X-ray, free electron laser; RF control, RF gun, measurement and diagnostics, electron and optical beam quality, bunch compression, femtosecond phase stability; • Superconducting TESLA accelerator technology; • Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) for Large Hadron Collider (LHC); development of trigger electronics; • Gamma (GRB) and optical ray bursts of the whole sky; • Photonics applications in astronomy; low-noise front end CCD systems, image processing in astronomy; • FPGA/VHDL technology and multi-gigabit optical fiber transmission; signal multiplexing and demultiplexing, multichannel ADC-DAC systems, serial-light standard; • Radiation hardness of electronics and photonics; tests of discrete components and FPGA based subsystems; hardware - voting redundancy solutions, software solutions; • Integrated microsystems: mechatronics, photonics and electronics; multi-system integration, solutions of basic system blocks; • Digital holography, 3D object recognition, image processing, foundations of digital optics; • Photonic metrology; circuits, systems, networks; • Laser technology; laser development and applications, laser systems; • Semiconductor optoelectronics; materials, technologies, components, applications, measurements; • Infrared technology; • Integration and optimization of hardware – software systems; design balancing between hardware and software layers, development of middleware layer, flexibility and parameterization of hardware-software designs; • Application of integrated systems in industry, municipal technology, environment and biomedical; • Ultra-broadband optical Internet; 40Gb/s and 160Gb/s systems, new standards; • Optical networks of the ultimate throughput: LAN, SAN, synchronous and asynchronous systems; • Optical computing, photonic switching, architecture of optical computers, photonic and hybrid processors; • GRID computing, cluster techniques, neural networks and fuzzy logic; • Software development techniques for large systems; • Internet based measurement-control systems; • Internet development – safety, transmission quality, new protocols, new services; • Industrial applications of the web; Exceptionally broad topical scope of the Symposium (what is sometimes used as an argument by some opponents) is defined by the character of the meeting. The Symposium is totally devoted to present the work of young scientists, domestic and from abroad. The previous trials to narrow the scope were not approved by the research community and resulted temporarily in lowering the attendance, and to the surprise of the organizers, did not result in the better quality of symposium presentations and papers. The breadth of the topical scope is supported by the sponsors – the IEEE and SPIE, and is well received by the young participants. It has turned out that the wide exchange of information is possible between the young scientists originating from different regions and making different research. The participants are debating how to present your results in the most efficient way, how to write a Ph.D. thesis, etc. The 2004 annual Symposium in Wilga for young researchers addressed ideally the needs of the regional market for research results on advanced photonic and electronic systems and information technologies. The level of the Symposium for young researchers is build by several factors: • Presenting the papers in English, • Supervision of the papers by the tutors and the universities, • Reviewing by the Scientific Committee of the Symposium, • Publication in SPIE Proceedings. Till now the Wilga Symposium on Photonics Applications has published the following volumes of Proc. SPIE: 5125 (2003) and 5484 (2004). Apart of that a special issue of Electronics and Communications Quarterly by PAS was prepared as No 2/2002 and a few special issues (2001-2004) of the Electronics Monthly, a national professional journal by Association of Polish Electrical Engineers. All the proceedings cover more than 250 papers. The proceedings of previous Wilga Symposia were issued in the form of CD-roms, as internal editions of ISE WUT. During the XIVth Wilga Symposium a Memorandum of Understanding was officially signed by the Presidents of both cooperating organizations IEEE Poland Section and SPIE Poland Chapter. The extent of cooperation defined by the MOU covers research, technical and administrative activities on behalf of the regional development of electro-technology, electronics, telecommunications, information technologies, optoelectronics, photonics and optics. The following forms of activities are named: conferences, workshops, awards for outstanding research achievements, editing of journals and monographs, conference materials. Both societies will help each other in achieving the highest grade of its members – the Fellowship in IEEE and SPIE. The MOU was signed in witness of a few tens of Wilga Symposium participants. A big SPIE Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics is organized in Warsaw on 28 August – 03 September 2005 at the central campus premises of Warsaw University of Technology. The congress consists of Hot Topics in Optoelectronics Session and 13 topical conferences: Liquid Crystals Optics and Applications; Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry and High-Energy Physics Experiments; Nonlinear Optics; Photonic Crystals and Fibers; Optical Fibers; Acousto-Optics and Photoacoustics; Optical Security; Metamaterials; Integrated Optics; Infrared Photoelectronics; Lasers and Applications; Medical Imaging. The Congress is associated with technical exhibition. The Warsaw SPIE COO Conference on Photonics Applications is directly related to the tradition of WILGA Symposium and is organized in cooperation with IEEE Poland Section and IEEE Student Branch. The IEEE-SPIE WILGA 2005 Symposium is planned for 31 May – 05 June 2005. The best papers from WILGA, delivered by young scientists and students, are going to be awarded presentation during the Warsaw SPIE COO. The Program Committees of WILGA Symposium and Photonics Applications Conference of Warsaw COO are considering preparation of a common volume of SPIE Proceedings from the both related events. You are invited to participate.
Symposium on Web Engineering and Advanced Applications of Photonic and Electronic Systems. The symposium was held this year for the first time under the auspices of a newly established Photonics Society of Poland (PSP) [www.photonics.pl\] and cooperating organizations – Polish Committee of Optoelectronics PKOpto, Association of Polish Electrical Engineers SEP [www.sep.org.pl\], and Section of Optoelectronics, Committee of Electronics and Telecommunications KEiT, Polish Academy of Sciences PAN [keit.pan.pl]. The symposium is held twice a year: during the last week of May in WILGA and during the next to the last weekend of January in Warsaw. This year’s symposium is the eleventh meeting at the WILGA Resort owned by Warsaw University of Technology. The first symposium of this series was organized at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies of WUT 11 years ago in January 1998. The second was held in WILGA in May 1998. The WILGA symposia were organized under the wings of IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Region 8 Student Activities, and SPIE Poland Chapter (transferred to Photonics Society of Poland in 2008). Since several years, the WILGA Symposia are international. During these 11 years of WILGA Symposium continuity, the number of participants, mainly young researchers, reached over 3,500. There were published 12 volumes of the Proceedings of SPIE in the USA. These volumes contain around 1,000 research and technical papers. In parallel, there were published together a few hundred papers in the national and international journals, including the ones indexed by the ISI in Philadelphia. The more than a decade technical achievement of WILGA Symposium is probably one of the biggest in comparison with similar international meetings of young researchers in this country. The WILGA Symposium is filling a few roles: It is a very current digest of the young science; it is an absolutely free debating and comparison platform for young researchers; it is a good pattern for these ones starting their research and/or academic career; it is a place where the form and contents of more advanced young researchers is friendly, politely but accurately polished; and it is equally a place of meeting for the tutors and mentors of young researchers, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, etc. Technology who realize their theses with the PERG/ELHEP Research Group in the Institute of Electronic Systems as well as students associated in SPIE Student Branch of WUT, OSA, IEEE and in particular IEEE-LEOS. A chair of WILGA 2008 Organization Committee was Mr Dominik Rybka, a Ph.D. student of ISE PW, and simultaneously an employee of the Sołtan Institute for Nuclear Problems in Świerk (IPJ) [www.ipj.gov.pl\]. The WILGA 2008 Symposium has gathered more than 150 participants out of a number of technical universities from around this country. More than 100 research and technical papers were presented. The participants were mainly M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, arriving to WILGA alone or with their tutors and mentors. In particular, WILGA is a kind of Ph.D. work digest realized by young researchers in the areas of web engineering, photonics, apparatus for high energy physics experiments. WILGA 2008 has gathered, among others, representatives of the following technical universities: Warsaw, Białystok, Lublin, Gdańsk, Poznań, Łódź, Lublin. The topical sessions of WILGA 2008 Symposium concerned mainly the following subjects: computer simulations in electronics and electrical engineering, construction of photonics and electronics apparatus for high energy physics experiments, optical fiber optoelectronics, European program WARMER – water resources protection in Europe, coherent and noncoherent optical tomography, design and construction of optimal learning systems, design of free electron laser machine, European programs - CARE, EuCARD, European XFEL, ILC, photonic optical fibers filled with liquid crystals, optoelectronic sensors, web engineering, and in particular development of wiki standard, etc.
Since 8 years there is organized twice per annum a research Symposium, which is known under the abbreviated name of the IEEE-SPIE WILGA in the national research community of the photonics, web technologies and electronics for the high energy physics experiments. The WILGA Symposium is gathering young researchers, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students as well as their tutors. Recently the role of the Symposium is to show the level of the Ph.D. and M.Sc. theses in different technical universities all over this country, and in particular at their electrical and electronics engineering departments as well as technical physics and mechatronics. Very high requirements to accept the papers for the presentation and the print in English and the participation of many international guests caused that the Symposium gathers only the best from these works. One of the biggest successes of this Symposium is that it gathers each year more than 100 relevant papers, from the M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses, which fulfill all the tough printing requirements in the international conditions. The Symposium slowly paves its way to be a nationwide and international forum of young researchers in the domain of advanced electronics and photonics. The Symposium has been publishing its work, since several years now, in the Proceedings of SPIE, USA. This year, the XVIth Symposium lasted a whole week from Monday till Sunday and gathered over 260 presentations and over 300 participants. A lot of colleagues professors from the national academic centers is asking how it is possible to organize such a Symposium from the scratch and why it got such a success. One can try to name these factors, which seem to cause such an event very attractive for the young researchers. It is comparatively difficult to present a work on WILGA Symposium. The presentation time is short. Only English is accepted. There are presented only the own research results. There are no parallel sessions. The work has to be preliminarily accepted by the student’s tutor. Each presentation is widely debated. WILGA offers to the young researchers the possibility to present their work in the newest branches of the science and technology. Such branches are clearly preferred during the following editions of the Symposium. There are organized topical sessions devoted to the most current research directions. The authoring sessions are invited and done frequently by the leading experts in their fields. WILGA is organized under the most attractive umbrella. This organizational sponsorship is offered by the worldwide professional associations like IEEE and SPIE, international institutions like CERN, Geneva and DESY, Hamburg, and leading national institutions like the Committee of Electronics and Communications of Polish Academy of Sciences, Association of Polish Electrical Engineers, Association of Polish Mechanical Engineers. This group of institutions is joined by the technical universities from Warsaw, Białystok, Wrocław, Łódź, Kielce, Gdańsk, Lublin, Opole, Rzeszów, Szczecin, Poznań – which sent the largest number of students and young researchers. It is comparatively difficult for a young researcher to publish a paper in WILGA Proceedings. The Proceedings are published abroad in a form of a book. The papers are peer reviewed. There is accepted 50% of the presented papers on the average. WILGA gathers many young people from distant places in the country and from abroad. There is a possibility to compare personally the work conditions and research topics in different academic centers. WILGA is unbelievably cheap and convenient. There is no comparable conference in this respect in this country. WILGA offer a lot for low price. There is no conference fee. There is a full social service – night and food on the modest but acceptable level. The fourth meal is served each day late at night, and is customarily sponsored by the IEEE – Poland Section. WILGA is very diligent. The sessions last from early in the morning till late at night. There is organized an after supper night session lasting till 10 P.M. The fourth meal is served at a grill after this session. WILGA bases solely on the voluntary work of the organizers and participants. The whole work is done by the students for the students. The students do the registration of participants. They organize the Symposium web site. They p[prepare the materials for print. The core of the work is done by the PERG/ELHEP ISE WUT Laboratory members and the SB IEEE members. However, they try to distribute the work among all interested participants. WILGA is organized only by electronic media. There is not even a trace of traditional organizational methods. There are no invitations. The paper is not used at all. The whole information exchange is online over the net. A simple web site is http://wilga.ise.pw.edu.pl The major mail contact box is photonics@ise.pw.edu.pl WILGA has no solid and permanent structures basing typically on the human relations and importance of people in the research world. The young researchers receive this feature as a very positive. The Program Committee is created exclusively during the Symposium, only from the present in WILGA senior researchers and tutors. WILGA seems to base on the three simple and positive activity motifs of the young people: 1-Have Fun, 2. Have More Fun, 3-Learn a lot. The English expression ‘have a fun’ is here a mental shortcut for such feelings of young people as eagerness to get acquainted with other young researchers being in the similar life situation, willingness to participate in a real scientific symposium (for a number of them this is the first meeting of this kind) and the research curiosity of the world. The XVIIIth IEE-SPIE WILGA Symposium 2006 will be held on 29 May – 4 June, during the week after the National Microwave Conference MIKON (which takes place every second year). We invite warmly young researchers and their tutors to WILGA on the Vistula River to the Resort owned by the Warsaw University of Technology.
The SPIE-IEEE-PSP WILGA symposium is part of international Forum of Young Science. It is annually organized under the eminent patronage of two international engineering institutions, SPIE [www.spie.org\], IEEE [www.ieee.org\], and their Polish Counterparts: Photonics Society of Poland [www.photonics.pl\], the successor of the Polish Chapter of SPIE [www.spie.pl\], and IEEE Poland Section [www.ieee.pl\]. The patrons of the symposium are: the Polish Academy of Science (The Committee on Electronics and Telecommunication) [keit.pan.pl], Association of Polish Electrical Engineers (SEP) [www.sep.com.pl\], and Warsaw University of Technology [www.pw.edu.pl\]. The official language of the Symposium was English and the peer-reviewed papers are being published in the world renowned Proceedings of SPIE. The symposium was designed mainly for for Ph.D., M.Sc., and B.Sc. students (from physics, electronics and mechatronics) and their tutors/mentors. WILGA displayed a number of primary topics, the first being Photonics and Web Engineering. Generally, WILGA embraces advanced photonic and electronic systems in the following ways: theory, modeling, algorithms, simulations, design, hardware, software, hardware-software interaction, measurements, testing, commissioning, and exploitation. The topical sessions are organized by leading experts and usually begin with current tutorials and are filled with contributed papers by students and young researchers. One of the most important session tracks in WILGA is the photonics applications and systems for superconductive accelerator technology (and free electron laser) and high energy physics experiments. We warmly invite students, young researchers, and their tutors to participate in WILGA conferences. WILGA 2009 was held on 25-31 May at a resort owned by the Warsaw University of Technology. There were 200 presentations delivered covering a broad range of photonics applications and web engineering topics. The Jachranka 2009 VI Signal Processing Symposium (SPS-2009) was held on 28-30 May 2009 at the GUS Holiday Camp in Jachranka Village near Warsaw. The main goal of the symposium was to create a forum for students and scientists to present their latest research results, new trends in science and technology, and exchange ideas during the technical and evening sessions. The Jachranka meeting was part of the 24th SPIE-IEEE Symposium on Advanced Photonics, Electronics Systems, and Web Engineering. The SPS-2009 conference was organized by the Institute of Electronic Systems and Warsaw University of Technology together with the Przemyslowy Instytut Telekomunikacji S.A., Military University of Technology, RADWAR S.A, Space Research Center of Polish Academy of Sciences, Foundation for Development of Radiocommunication and Multimedia Technologies, IEEE Signal Processing Society Poland Chapter, and IEEE AESS Poland Chapter. In 2003 Dr. K. Kulpa chaired and organized the first Digital Signal Processing and Radar Signal Processing Sessions of the 12th IEEE-SPIE Symposium on Advanced Photonics and Electronics. In 2005 and 2007 students from The Radiolocation and Digital Signal Processing Students' Research Group, along with Dr. Kulpa, decided to organize the second and third edition of the Signal Processing Symposium, which was a part IEEE-SPIE Symposium on Photonics, Electronics, and Web Engineering. SPS-2005 and SPS 2007 gathered more than 100 participants and have been considered very successful events, a fact that has led the Radar Group of ISE to organize for the fourth time to create the Signal Processing Symposium, SPS-2009.
January at the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technologies, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) and at the end of May in WILGA Resort owned by Warsaw Univ. of Technology. Two big international Institutes keep patronage over the Symposium, IEEE-The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (especially Region 8) and SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering. In Poland, the Symposium is under the high patronage of Committee of Electronics and Communications, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Optoelectronics Committee of the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers and Warsaw University of Technology. Since several years, the Symposium is also under the patronage of two big European nuclear and high energy physics research centers: CERN in Geneva and DESY in Hamburg and European research programs and excellence networks: CARE-Coordinated Accelerated research in Europe, ELAN-European Linear Accelerator Network, ILC-International Linear Collider, TESLA Technology Collaboration. Logos of these institutions are in the header of this report. The host of the Symposium is the PERG/ELHEP Research Group from Institute of Electronic Systems, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) as well as IEEE Student Branch, IEEE Poland Section. The Patronage Committee of the Symposium consists of leading experts in the Symposium subjects. The area of interest of the IEEE-SPIE WILGA 2006 Symposium is defined by the work realized by young scientists and engineers, M.Sc. and Ph.D. students at the university faculties of electrical and electronics engineering, information technology, technical physics and mechatronics. Each year has a slightly different topical emphasis. Each year a few clearly visible topical branches can be distinguished. These topics for WILGA 2006 were: superconductive RF technology for accelerators, free electron lasers, optoelectronic technology, optoelectronic materials characterization, optical broadband Internet, optical fiber sensors, optoelectronic measurements, wireless sensory networks, modeling and control of industrial processes, microsystems for measurements in biomedicine and agriculture, biomedical engineering systems, advanced PCB technology, lead-less soldering and packaging technology, RFID, image processing, liquid crystal optical fibers, information safety, intelligent transmission and data processing systems, optical and optoelectronic computing, 3D object imaging, photo acoustics, femtosecond sampling techniques, Bragg grating optical fibers, cluster calculation and decomposition. Special sessions were designed for European FP6 programs: CARE-Coordinated Accelerator Research in Europe, Hand on Universe – Europe, Pi-of-the-sky observations of Gamma Ray Bursts and Optical Flashes. Among others, the following sessions were of the utmost interest for the IEEE-SPIE WILGA 2006 participants: - Observations of cosmic GRB flashes and optical companions, - Advanced photonic and electronic systems for biomedicine, - Biometry for information protection, - Photoacoustics and femtosecond pulse techniques, - Ecological soldering technologies and optoelectronic PCBs, - Advances in optical fiber technology, - Optical fiber sensors, - Liquid crystal optical fibers, - Optoelectronic artificial neural networks, - Beam research for free electron lasers, - Advanced control systems for superconducting accelerators. Each of these sessions featured a digest paper and a few research communications. The IEEE-SPIE WILGA 2006 Symposium was attended together by over than 250 participants. There were presented more than 200 contributed research papers and around 20 invited digest papers. WILGA’s custom is that particular topical sessions are organized by leading experts in their fields. The experts are representatives of academia, business and industry. This year, the representatives of the following institutions were actively present: Institute of Micro and Optoelectronics WUT, Institute of Electronic Systems WUT, Institute of Control and Computation Engineering WUT, Faculty of Physics WUT, Faculty of Mechatronics WUT, Tele&Radio Research Institute, Soltan Institute of Nuclear Problems, Technical Universities of: Łódź, Wrocław, Rzeszów, Gdańsk, Lublin, Academy of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH) in Kraków, Military Academy of Technology (WAT) in Warsaw, Poznań, Kielce, Silesian in Gliwice, Białystok, Szczecin, Opole, Warsaw and Universities: Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin, Zielona Góra and Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński in Warsaw. With regret we have noticed the lack of Technical Universities of: Kraków, Częstochowa, Radom, Koszalin and Academy of Technology and Agriculture (ATR) in Bydgoszcz. The IEEE-SPIE WILGA 2006 Symposium lasted the whole week. The meeting rule is that no parallel sessions are envisaged, neither the poster ones. All work is presented orally in English by young scientists. The presentations are usually subject to long, hot and interesting discussion, run by the students, during the plenary sessions, attended by young participants in large quantities. Peer reviewed proceedings of IEEE-SPIE WILGA 2006 will be traditionally issued by the international series Proceedings of SPIE in USA [www.spie.org\]. Chosen papers will be printed in a special issue of ELECTRONICS Monthly, a journal by the Association of Polish Electrical Engineers. This journal has a press patronage over the WILGA Symposium. Some of papers will be published in Electronics and Telecommunications Quarterly by Polish Academy of Sciences and some ISI journals like Optica Applicata, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physical Research and others.
The international M.Sc. and Ph.D. students Symposium gathers in Warsaw University of Technology Resort in Wilga numerable representatives of technical universities from this country and the IEEE Region 8. The high patronage over this symposium is held by IEEE, SPIE, Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University of Technology. The event is held, since several years, annually, during the last weekend of May. This year the Symposium was participated by over 200 participants, quite a number of them from the IEEE Region 8. The Wilga Symposium created a specific form of appointing the Technical Program Committee. The permanent members are leaders of the patronage institutions. The changing members are senior representatives of technical universities and industrial laboratories from this country and IEEE R8, which are present at the Symposium The Symposium is usually attended by quite a large groups of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students as well as young researchers from technical universities and corporate laboratories. These groups come frequently under the supervision of a senior research worker. Wilga Symposium is one of not very numerable meetings in the IEEE R8 totally designed for the young scientists and organized by young scientists and engineers, many of them members of the IEEE and SPIE. Wilga Symposium is an effective forum of exchange for research results and information on work conditions at different places in the IEEE R8. The students are interested in the similarities and differences in the curriculas and employment opportunities over the region. The Ph.D. students are seriously interested in the study subjects in the relevant fields of their colleagues from other universities in the IEEE R8. This knowledge facilitates considerably their work on the thesis. The Wilga Symposium facilitates exchange of personal information during the IEEE sponsored, informal, social meeting at the grill. The nice specialty of the local kitchen are extremely tasty Wilga cakes, specially fit a to semi-sweet Hungarian Tokay wine. Not all of the standard research conferences enable such efficient meetings of young researchers. The financial problems are the basic cause. The young researcher problems are treated as marginal at many conferences. A lot of the communications of young researchers are presented only during the poster sessions. Wilga is quite different in this respect. All papers are presented orally in English with an obligatory discussion following the presentation. Frequently, hot discussions are continued during the coffee breaks. All the sessions are lead by young researchers, while the senior research staff work as judges. The presentations are judged by the colleagues, sometimes quite deeply, not only in respect of the research content but also of the graphical form. The presentations are sent to the organizers only in the electronic form and presented in this way. They are then distributed on the CDs or available on the web. The fundamental assumption for the international Wilga Symposium is to keep the minimal costs for a young participant. The organizers offer full accommodation at a very competitive price. There is no conference fee at all. The second assumption is to keep the program level of the Symposium as high as possible. For the most of the participants, members of IEEE and SPIE the participation costs are close to zero, as it is comparatively easy to get the organizational support. No conference fee is possible, only when the event is organized wholly on the voluntary base. It has to be valued at a Symposium of this extent and size. The organization is facilitated by the fact that Wilga is nearly an ideal spot. The Warsaw University of Technology resort is located at the outlet of the Wilga River to the big Vistula River in the middle of the big pine forests. The accommodation conditions are modest but acceptable. The local food is very good. These conditions isolate the participants ideally from the influence of the external world. A good and cheap bus communications to/from Warsaw assures that the Symposium attracts numerable young researcher participation. To assure the highest level of the Symposium the papers are selected first for the presentation and next for the publication. The papers submitted for the Symposium have to be recommended by the supervisors of the young researchers, symposium participants. After the presentation and discussion, the best papers are chosen for publication in the IEEE professional press. Usually the organizers publish a special edition of one of the local professional journals additionally to issuing a separate volume of well known series Proceeding of SPIE. Prior to the publication, the papers are peer reviewed. The announcements about the Wilga symposium are published in the IEEE and SPIE press as well as in the local professional journals. The topical area of the symposium was initially confined to the photonics, optical communications and the optical Internet. With time, it was broadened to the advanced electronic systems, digital signal processing, mechatronics, automation, etc. Broadening of the scope was very favorable for the level of the contributions, especially from the Ph.D. students. The analysis methods used in quite different branches of the modern technology are sometimes analogous and it is possible to transfer efficiently the experience between the young researchers. The successive symposia receive more and more better contributions from the whole IEEE R8. The organizers consider edition of more than one volume of international proceedings next year. The patronage of large international organizations like the IEEE and SPIE over the Wilga symposium is very important not only for the organizers but also for the individual participants. The mentioned organizations are represented, in this country, by their national Sections and Chapters. Both organizations the IEEE and SPIE have rich libraries in this country, accessible freely for the members. The libraries are located at the central technical library of Warsaw University of Technology. The IEEE and SPIE patronage assures international meaning of the Symposium. It is possible to publish the Symposium papers in the press of these organizations, which assures the worldwide access. The organizers try to make Wilga Symposium as an official event of IEEE and SPIE in this geographical region. Now Wilga is supported by the regional Student Activity Committees of the both institutes. The WILGA Symposium is prepared in cooperation with the two large European physics institutes CERN in Geneva and DESY in Hamburg. The organizers of the Symposium cooperate closely with several research groups working at a number of experiments there, including the Large Hadron Collider and the TESLA X-Ray FEL. The participants of the Symposium include members of these institutes and researchers from the international groups working in the field of advanced electronics and optoelectronics for high energy physics. This year Symposium has a special invited paper on TESLA accelerator and laser development authored by dr S.Simrock from the DESY institute. The major topical subject of Wilga 2003 Symposium was photonics. The biggest centers presenting these subjects were Technical Universities in Warsaw, Białystok and Wrocław, Institute of Electron Technology and Military Academy of Technology in Warsaw. A group of papers concerned developments in the construction of the biggest world X-ray, free electron laser TESLA (DESY, Hamburg). These papers were in between such branches as mechatronics, advanced electronics, UV and RTG photonics. The photonics was also represented in the papers from the TU of Kielce (photonic materials), TU of Lublin (industrial applications) and TU of Gdansk (sensors). Some papers described particular photonic sub-systems applied in the industrial conditions. Traditionally, one of the major subjects of the Wilga Symposium is advanced electronics and photonics for high energy physics experiments. Apart from the TESLA, the current developments of two major world experiments are recorded. One is in the state of creation – the LHC and one of its detectors the CMS and the second – the HERA and ZEUS has been working for the last ten years. In case of the Backing Calorimeter (which is a part of ZEUS) a major upgrade of this detector has been undertaken very recently. During the shutdown of the HERA accelerator (dedicated to increase the luminosity of the collider which will significantly enhance its "discovery potential") the BAC detector was equipped with new trigger especially sensitive to muons. The diagnostic system of the detector was also substantially improved to monitor the performance of the detector and to provide the reliable trigger information. The CMS is a large barrel like multi-detector consisting of several detection layers sensitive to different particles and energetic phenomena. A group of papers on the CMS concern electronic and photonic systems design for multi-channel data readout, sorting and acquisition. The large CMS detector is just under construction and all of these moved topics are very hot. The papers concerning the (optical) Internet touched such problems as: optical network architecture, modern protocols for optical networks, optical network reliability, QoS, etc. Other papers concerned; massive data acquisition systems, distance learning, data bases for WWW servers, hardware remote control over the Internet, etc. A separate session was organized with the aid of the Industrial Institute of Telecommunication in Warsaw about the DSP for industrial and military applications.
WILGA XXXth Symposium: WILGA 2013, the February edition, was held on 8–9 February 2013 at the Warsaw University of Technology. The WILGA 2013 May edition was held on 27 May–2 June 2013 at a resort owned by Warsaw University of Technology. More than 300 presentations were delivered during both editions of Wilga, covering a broad area of photonics applications and web engineering. Nearly 350 persons participated. The exceptionally efficient chair of the Organization Committee of WILGA 2013 was Dr. Maciek Linczuk. The working research sessions of 32nd WILGA 2013 were: general photonics, optical fiber technology, optical communications, optoelectronics, applications of optical fibers, integration of electronics, photonics and mechatronics, distributed measurement systems, LHC and CMS at CERN, JET and ITER photomasks, optics and optoelectronics for astronomy, fundamentals of FPGADSP systems, object oriented design of hardware, terabit optical data links, software-hardware co-design, biomedical engineering, computational intelligence of advanced systems, development of photonics and electronics in Europe and Poland, radar technology, terahertz photonics, free electron lasers, EXFEL and POLFEL lasers, EuCARD—European Coordination of Accelerator Research and Development, and TIARA, etc. A special session was devoted to a project EuCARD2 (2013–2017), which is a continuation of EuCARD.