Sixth International Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications (WSOF 2019): Conference Digest

This presentation is essentially a retrospective of my 50 years of experience in the field of optical materials while working at the Corning Incorporated Research Laboratory.This time period happened happily coincided with the emergence of what could be termed the "optical revolution."It began with the laser then the optical fiber and subsequently to all the materials and devices that are related to the present ubiquitous optical network.A number of the topics in addition to fibers will be briefly covered such as, photonic crystal fibers, nonlinear optical glass, quantum dots and polarizing glasses.Society is incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in New Mexico, organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes.DEPS offers graduate scholarships of up to $10,000 each, per student per academic school year.Over the past five years, DEPS has awarded more than $500K to 48 students focusing their research in HEL, HPM, or USPL technologies.