Guided-Wave Optoelectronics

Introductory.- Scanning the symposium.- Photonics in telecommunications.- LiNbO3 Devices.- Development and applications of commercial LiNbO3 guided-wave devices.- Field induced waveguides in LiNbO3: New developments.- Electrooptic tunable filters for WDM networks.- Demonstration of 250 Gb/s all-optical routing control of a photonic crossbar switch.- An electrode-less integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer electric field sensor.- Laser Devices.- Monolithic semiconductor MOPAs: How the Watt was won.- Multi-wavelength vertical cavity laser arrays grown on a patterned backup substrate.- Polarization induced enhancement of relative intensity noise and modulation distortion of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers.- InP based multiple quantum well lasers with an integrated tapered beam expander waveguide.- Optimal design of combined distributed-feedback/Fabry-Perot structures for vertical cavity surface emitting semiconductor lasers.- Transmission-line modeling of multi-section DFB lasers.- Analysis of gain coupled DFB semiconductor lasers with absorption grating.- Linewidth reduction by the formation of a fiber external cavity with the vertical emission of a distributed Bragg reflector laser.- Distributed feedback lasers for diode laser gas sensing.- Modeling of optical gain due to excitonic transitions in index-guided ZnCdSe/ZnMgSSe multiple quantum well blue-green lasers.- Low threshold current density wavelength shifting between N=1 and N=2 transitions in n-type modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well lasers.- Switches and Coupling Devices.- High-speed photonic waveguide switch arrays and optical amplifier gates in InGaAsP/InP for communications applications.- Analysis of N × M waveguide splitters and couplers with multimode guiding sections.- Wavelength-flattenedthree core optical coupler power splitters in ion-exchanged glass.- Single-band and multi-band optical waveguide wavelength filters using ion-exchange process.- Synthesis of optical interconnects and logic gates.- Modelling of a versatile all-optical Mach-Zehnder switch.- A guide/antiguide structure for implementing self-imaging waveguide beamsplitters.- Strained-layer superlattices for polarization-insensitive integrated waveguide applications.- Power coupling efficiency for electro-optic directional coupler switch.- Design optimization and fabrication of a widened X-branch demultiplexer by ion-exchange in glass.- Modulators.- Recent progress in the development of traveling wave LiNbO3 modulators.- Integrated magnetooptic Bragg cell modules and applications.- High-speed wideband integrated magneto-optic frequency shifter and modulator.- GaAs VLSI-compatible OEIC technology: Design for a quantum well n-i-p-i phase modulator.- Design and analysis of surface-normal Fabry-Perot optical modulators in the near infrared (InGaAs/GaAs) and blue-green (ZnCdSe/ZnMgSSe) regions.- Optical phase modulation of a quantum well-dielectric slab waveguide.- Characterization of optical modulators for application in lightwave links at CERN.- Periodic Structures.- Periodic waveguide structures: 101 varieties!.- Waveguide grating router components for WDM networks.- Distributed feedback channel dropping filters.- Periodically segmented waveguides.- Guided wave deflectors using gratings with slowly-varying groove depth for beam shaping.- Waveguide coupling gratings: Attractive features and dangerous pitfalls.- Integrated-optic displacement sensor using a pair of grating couplers.- Rigorous guided-wave solutions for planar grating structures.- Nonlinear Techniques.- Cascading: Modelling a newroute to large optical nonlinearities and all-optical devices.- Nonlinear phase-shifts by cascading in the ?erenkov regime.- Ultrashort pulse propagation in nonlinear planar optical waveguides.- ?/4-shifted nonlinear periodic structure: Theory of low-intensity switching.- Frequency conversion in Ti:LiNbO3 channel waveguides.- Spatial solitons in superlattice with near resonant nonlinearity.- Numerical Methods.- Computer-aided analysis and design in guided-wave optoelectronics.- Parallel-processing finite-difference beam propagation methods.- An explicit and stable finite difference BPM for applications to device analysis and design.- An OEIC CAD system for passive and active planar waveguide circuits.- Finite element solution of nonlinear optical waveguides.- Photonic Bandgaps and Resonances.- Highly efficient light-emitting diodes with microcavities.- Wide stop band optical filters from photonic band gap air bridges.- Applications and characterization of a new face-centered-cubic photonic crystal.- Microparticle photonics: Fiber optic excitation of MDRs.