Major Funding Agencies:

• NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council)
  
• CFI (Canada Foundation for Innovation)
  
• OIT (Ontario Innovation Trust)
  
• CIPI (Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations)
  
• QW (QuantumWorks)
  

Our supporting organizations:

• Magna International Inc.
  
• Institut national d'optique (INO)
  
• IVG Fiber
  
• Fiber Optic Systems Technology Inc.(FOX-TEK)
  
• MPB Communications Inc.
  
• Advalue Photonics
  
• Corning Inc.
  
• Communications Security Establishment Canada
  

Our Collaborators:

• Prof. Hoi-Kwong Lo, ECE and Physics, University of Toronto
  
• Prof. Xijia Gu, Ryerson University, Canada
  
• Prof. Peter G. Kazansky, University of Southampton, UK
  
• Prof. J. Stewart Aitchison, ECE, University of Toronto
  
• Prof. John E. Sipe, Physics, University of Toronto
  
• Prof. Peter R. Herman, ECE, University of Toronto
  
• Prof. Kevin P. Chen, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  
• Prof. Jim Wallace, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
  
• Prof. Nazir Kherani, ECE & MSE, University of Toronto
  

Ontario Centers of Excellence (OCE):

• PRO (Photonics)
  
• CITO (Communications and Information Technology)
  
• MMO (Materials and Manufacturing)
  
• EET (Earth and Environmental Technologies)
  

Frequently Read Journals:

• Nature
  
• Science
• JQE
  
• STQE
  
• JLT
  
• PTL
  
• APL
  
• OL
  
• OE
  
• EL
  
• JOSA-B
  
• OC
  
• OQE
  

Professional Organizations:

• OSA (Optical Society of America)
  
• IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
  
• SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering)
  
• PEO (Professional Engineers Ontario)
  

Important Conferences:

General:

• CLEO (Conference on lasers and Electrooptics)
  
• CLEO Europe
  
• CLEO Pacific Rim
  
• OFC (Optical Fiber Communications Conference)
  
• ECOC (European Conference on Optical Communications)
  
• LEOS Annual Meeting (Lasers and Electro-optics Society Annual Meeting)
  
• OSA Annual Meeting
  

Topical:

• OAA (Optical Amplifiers and Their Applications)
  
• NP (Nonlinear Photonics)
  
• BGPP (Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides)
  

Event Calendar:

• OSA conference calendar
  
• LEOS conference calendar