2002 IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings

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1 10-14 November IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society TECHNiSCHE INFORMATiGiNiSB^LiOTKEK UNIVEfiSiTATGBiSLICTHEK HANNOVER SECC Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre Glasgow, Scotland 4-IEEE UB/TIB Hannover Volume 2,13-14 November 2002, Wednesday - Thursday IEEE Catalog Number: 02CH37369 ISSN:

2 Wednesday, 13 November 2002 WA Transport Switches WA1 The Value of System Level Integration 369 WA2 Broadband Testing of a 64x64 Nanosecond Optical Switch 371 WA3 Simple Self-Synchronization Scheme for OTDM Packet Networks 373 WA4 Simulation of the Functionality of Liquid Crystal Phase Holograms for Applications in Optical Telecommunication Networks 375 WA5 Suppression of Supermode Competitions in SOA Fiber Mode-locked Ring Laser 377 WB Nonlinear Optical Interactions II WB1 Ultrafast All-Optical Switching using Near-Infrared Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells 379 WB2 Tunable Nonlinear Liquid-Crystal Photonic Crystals 381 WB3 Crosstalk Mitigation in Fiber Optic Parametric Amplifier 383 WB4 Second Harmonic Generation in Coupled LiNbO 3 Waveguides 385 WB5 Demonstration of Fast Switching Scheme of Photorefractive Four-Wave-Mixing by Pockets Effect 387 WC Tutorial: High Density Optical Integration WC1 High Density Optical Integration 389 WD Long Range Laser Communications WD1 Free-Space Laser Communications: A Historical Perspective 391 WD2 Space-Borne Optical Communications - A Challenging Reality 393 WD3 Acquisition and Tracking Strategies of the OPTEL 25 GEO Terminal 395 WE Ultrafast Semiconductor Dynamics WE1 Quantum Dynamics in Semiconductors Studied via Ultrafast Optical Techniques 397 WE2 Mid-Infrared Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Semiconductors 399 WE3 Ultrafast Dynamics in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers with Implications for Interferometric Switching 401 WE4 Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Stabilized by Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Modulated with the Residual Pump 403 WF Optical Network Testbed & Applications WF1 Long-Term Stable Operation of Optical Path Cross-Connect System in "MIRAI-Net" Testbed 405 WF2 Recent Results from ATDNet: An Operating Transparent Network 407 WF3 Dynegy"s National Long-Haul Optical Mesh Network Utilizing Intelligent Optical Switches 409 WG Design and Reliability of MEMs WG1 Performance of Large Scale MEMs-based Optical CrossConnect Switches 411 WG2 The System Approach in Photonic MEMS Commercialization 413 WG3 Filter-Shape Dependence on Attenuation Mechanism in Channelized Dynamic Spectral Equalizers 416 WG4 Design for Reliability of MEMS/MOEMS for Lightwave Telecommunications 418 WH High-Speed Photodetectors & Receivers I WH1 Metamorphic Optical Receiver Components 420 WH2 GHz and THz InGaAsP Traveling Wave Photodetector 422 WH3 Linearity Improvement in Photodetectors by using Index-matching Layer Extensions 424 WH4 Absorption Saturation Nonlinearity in ingaas/lnp p-i-n Photodiodes 426 Wl Optical Signal Processing I WI1 All-Optical Signal Processing using Fiber Nonlinearity 428 WI2 All-Optical Analog-to-Digital Conversion utilizing Nonlinear Phenomena in Fiber 430 WI3 The Role of Electronic Modulation and Signal Processing in Next Generation Fiber Transport 432 WI4 Effect of Nonlinear Index Evolution into EDFAs on Ultra-Short Pulse Propagation 434

3 WJ Blue and Ultraviolet Lasers WJ1 All-Solid-State, Continuous-Wave, Single-Frequency, Tunable, Deep-Ultraviolet Coherent Light Source by Efficient Sum Frequency Generation with Dual Frequency Enhancement 436 WJ2 Compact and Highly Efficient Ultrafast Blue Light Sources: Bulk and Waveguide Approaches to the Single Pass Frequency Doubling of Femtosecond CnLiSAF Lasers 438 WJ3 A High Finnese External Cavity with a LiB 3 O 5 Crystal for Efficient Frequency Doubling of CW TkSapphire Laser 440 WJ4 Compact Visible Laser Systems based on Frequency Doubled Diodes 442 WK Integrated Optoelectronic Devices WK1 Integrated Photonic Devices for Fiber Optic Communication Systems 443 WK2 Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Travelling Wave Photodetectors 445 WK3 Monolithically Integrated Sagnac Interferometer for All-Optical Wavelength Conversion 447 WK4 Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Narrowband Angularly-Insensitive Resonant Cavity Filter 449 WL Active Pointing Technology and Links WL1 Active Pointing for Terrestrial Free Space Optics 451 WL2 Fully Programmable High Speed Polarization Multiplexed Optical Scanner 453 WL3 Secure Free-Space Optical Communication Between Moving Platforms 455 WL4 Microseconds Domain Switching-Speed Wavelength-Multiplexed Optical Scanner 457 WL5 Free Space Optics - Extension to Fiber-Networks for the "Last Mile" 459 WM Broadband Femtosecond Technologies WM1 Origin of Supercontinuum Generation in Microstructured Fibers N/A WM2 168 Channel x 6-Gb/s Optical WDM Transmitter using a Multiwavelength Modelocked Semiconductor Diode Laser 461 WM3 Cascaded Operation of All-Optical Wavelength Converters based on Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror WM4 Self-Organization of Harmonic Pulses in a Passively Modelocked Stretched Pulse Erbium Fiber Ring Laser 465 WM5 Differential Optical Remoting of Ultrafast Charge Packets using Self-Linearized Modulation 467 WM6 Novel High-Performance Pulse Generating Lasers from 10 GHz to 160 GHz 469 WN Radio-over-Fiber WN1 Wireless Access over Optical Fibre: From Cellular Radio to Broadband; from UHF to Millimetre-Waves 471 WN2 Photonic Downconversion with Optical Frequency Shift for Dense WDM Radio-on-Fiber Signals 473 WN3 Self-Pulsating Laser Diode for the Generation of Multiple RF Data Channels in Hybrid Radio/Fiber Systems 475 WN4 Millimeter-Wave Photonics for 10-Gbit/s Wireless Links 477 WO Design and Reliability of Wavelength Lockers WO1 Integrated Wavelength Locker for Tunable Laser Applications 479 WO2 WDM Filtering and Packaging Technologies using Planar Lightwave Circuits 481 WO3 Small Size Optical Multi/Demultiplexer for WWDM Systems 483 WP High-Speed Photodetectors & Receivers II WP1 Monolithically Integrated Transceivers for 40 Gb/s Applications 485 WP2 Equivalent Circuit Modelling of p-i-n Photodiodes for 40 Gb/s Receivers 486 WP3 Low-Noise InP-based Avalanche Photodiodes with an Impact-lonization-Engineered Multiplication Region 488 WP4 Non-Equilibrium Modelling of Avalanche Photodiode Speed 490 WP5 On the Optimization of Heterostructure Avalanche Photodiodes 492 WQ Optical Amplifiers WQ1 L-Band EDFA Gain Dependence on the Return Loss of the Components in the Amplifier Input Port 494 WQ2 Parametric Amplification Driven by Orthogonal Pump Waves in Birefringent Fibers 496 WQ3 64x10 Gb/s DWDM System using a Two-Pump Fiber Optical Parametric Pre-Amplifier 498 WQ4 Simple Design Method for Gain-Flattened Three-Pump Raman Amplifiers 500 WQ5 Widely Tunable L-Band Erbium Doped Fiber Ring Laser by Means of Induced Cavity Loss Control 502

4 WR Near-Infrared Lasers WR1 IR Laser/OPO System for Biomedical and Chemical Sensing 504 WR2 Efficient Laser Performance of Nd:GdVO4 Crystals Grown by the Floating Zone Method 506 WR3 Tunable and Compact Femtosecond CrLiSAF Lasers: Single Prism and Prismless Approaches 508 WR4 Progress in the Growth and Characterisation of Zinc Germanium Phosphide Crystals..510 WS Photonic Bandgap Engineering WS1 Photonic Crystals and Microlasers.512 WS2 Novel Properties of Photonic Band Gap Waveguides 514 WS3 Analysis of Losses in 2D Photonic Crystal Waveguides Using the 3D Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Method. 516 WS4 Efficient Transmission of 60 Degree Photonic-Crystal Bend by Waveguide Width Tuning 518 WT Liquid Crystals for Agile Beams WT1 Liquid Crystal Optical Phased Arrays: Practical Issues and Applications 520 WT2 High Birefringence Liquid Crystals for Laser Beam Steering 522 WT3 Liquid Crystal Adaptive Optics 524 WU Terahertz Tools and Techniques WU1 Injection Seeded Terahertz-Wave Parametric Generator 526 WU2 Tomographic Imaging with Terahertz Pulses 528 WU3 Characterization of Apparent Superluminal Effects in Terahertz Bessel Beams 530 WU4 Generation of Ultrabroadband Terahertz Radiation with a Photoconductive Emitter 532 WV Microwave Photonic Components WV1 Optoelectronic Components for Microwave Photonic Applications WV2 Pulse Response of a High Power Waveguide Optoelectronic Switch for Track and Hold Operation WV3 Cascade Semiconductor Lasers for Telecommunications 538 WV4 Advances in Traveling-Wave Electroabsorption Modulators for Analog Applications 540 WW Component Packaging, Manufacturing & Reliability WW1 Reliability Issues in Pump Laser Packaging 542 WW2 Reliability of Oxide VCSELs in Non-Hermetic Environments WW3 Adiabatic Tapered Mode Converter for Selectively-Oxidized Waveguide Devices 546 WW4 Use of Laser-Stripped and Metallized Fibers for Hermetic Packaging Applications 548 WX Optical Materials Growth WX1 GaSb-based Lasers for Gas Monitoring 550 WX2 Growth and Characterization of Low-Threshold 1.3 fjm GaAsSb Quantum Well Laser 552 WX3 Ill-V Materials Growth by Hydride VPE for High Frequency Optoelectronic Devices 554 WY PMD WY1 System Applications of Holey Fibers 556 WY2 Reflectometric Measurements of PMD Parameters in Long Single-Mode Fibers 558 WY3 The Impact of Polarization Mode Dispersion: Optical Duobinary vs. NRZ Transmission 560 WY4 Setting up a Statistically Accurate High-Order PMD Emulator with Low Complexity 562 WZ Novel Near-IR Lasers WZ1 Optically-Pumped Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers WZ2 20 Channels Simultaneous Oscillation from a Semiconductor Fibre Laser 566 WZ3 High Power TEM^ Output from Nd:YVO 4 Slab Laser with Astigmatic Cavity Design 568 WAA Integrated Optical Solutions WAA1 Compact Integrated Tunable Dispersion Compensators 570 WAA2 Photonic Crystal based Integration WAA3 Subwavelength Optical Elemnents (SOEs) - A Path to Integrate Optical Components on a Chip 574

5 WBB Micromirrors and Optical MEMS WBB1 Agile Beams and Micromachined Membrane Deformable Mirrors 576 WBB2 3-Dimensional Wide Angle Optical Scanning using Code-Multiplexed Optical Scanner 578 WBB3 Optical MEMs based on Silicon-on-lnsulator (SOI) for Monolithic Microoptics 580 WBB4 MEMS WDM Routers using Analog Micromirror Arrays 582 WCC Electromagnetic Waveform Synthesis and Characterization WCC1 Electromagnetic Arbitrary Waveform Generation via Down-Conversion of Shaped Femtosecond Pulses WCC2 Modelocked External Cavity Semiconductor Laser for Applications in Photonic Arbitrary Waveform Generation and Photonic Synthesis 586 WCC3 Including the Nonlinear Medium's Dispersion in Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating 588 WCC4 Error Bars in Frequency-Resolved-Optical-Gating Measurements of Ultrashort Laser Pulses 590 WCC5 Wavelet Transformations for Ultrashort Pulse Characterization 592 WDD Photorefractive Devices & Optical Sensing WDD1 Sub-Nanometer to Millimeter Vibration Detection by Dynamic Holography 594 WDD2 High-Speed PVK-based Photorefractive Polymer Composites 596 WDD3 High-Phase-Conjugate Reflectivity (>70,000%) obtained in a Quasi-Continuous-Wave Diode Pumped Nd:YVO 4 Amplifier 598 WDD4 A Simple Bi-Polished Silicon Sample to Detect Vibrations by Fiber Bragg Sensor 600 WDD5 Target Ranging and Identification using Timing Modulation of a Mode-Locked Laser 602 WEE Module Packaging, Manufacturing, and Reliability WEE1 Simulation-based Prediction of Multimode Fiber Bandwidth for 10 Gb/s Systems 604 WEE2 A Compact Optical Transmitter and Receiver for 10-Gbit/s Transceiver Modules 606 WEE3 A Super-Compact, Multi-Channel Optical Subscriber Module for Economical Optical Access Systems 608 WEE4 A Novel Integration Platform with On-Board Thin-Film Heaters for Single-Mode Fiber-Pigtailed Photonic Devices 610 WEE5 New Processes for Fiberoptic Packaging and Automation N/A WFF Long Wavelength on GaAs WFF1 1300nm VCSELs based on InGaAsN N/A WFF nm on Gallium Arsenide: Quantum Dots vs GalnNAs 612 WFF3 Electroluminescence and Materials Characterization of InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots Grown by Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition 614 WFF4 Influence of Substrate Orientation on Self-Assembled InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots for Long Wavelength Emission Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy 616 WFF5 1.23/vm Long Wavelength Highly Strained GalnAs/GaAs Quantum Well Laser 618

6 Thursday, 14 November 2002 ThA Optical Signal Processing II ThA1 Applications of Signal Processing to Optical Fiber Communications 623 ThA2 Characterization of High Bit Rate Optical Signals by Low Rate Asynchronous Sampling 625 ThA3 Polarization Insensitive All-Optical Wavelength Converter using Birefringence Switching in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier 627 ThA4 All-Optical Format and Wavelength Conversion using Polarization Switching in a FP Laser Diode 629 ThA5 Self-Pumped Wide Range Wavelength Converter 631 ThB Pulsed Lasers ThB1 High Average Power, Picosecond Pulse Nd-Lasers 633 ThB2 Compact Diode-Pumped Nd:YAG/BaWO 4 Raman Laser 635 ThB3 Passive Mode-Locking and Q-Switching of 1.3 //m Neodymium Lasers with PbS-Doped Glass 637 ThB4 Diode-Pumped, Self-Generating, Q-switched Nd 3 *: PbWO 4 Yellow Laser 639 ThC High Brightness Sources ThC1 High-Flux and High-Efficiency Nitride-based Light-Emitting Devices..641 ThC2 Non Absorbing Mirror Laser with Improved Catastrophic Optical Damage Level 643 ThC3 High d/gamma Ratio in 940nm Two-Waveguide Asymmetric Epitaxial Structures 645 ThC4 Asymmetric Design of Semiconductor Laser Diodes: Thin p-clad and Low Divergence InGaAs/AIGaAs/GaAs Devices 647 ThC5 Internal Focus 980nm Unstable Resonator Laser Diodes 649 ThD Novel Devices and Materials I ThD1 Nanophotonic Materials and Devices for Optical System Integration 651 ThD2 Comparison of Evanescent and Directly Coupled Optical Interconnections Embedded into Electronic Interconnection Substrates 653 ThD3 Excimer Laser Ablation Based Microlens Fabrication in Polymer Materials 655 ThD4 Holographic Filters 657 ThE Measurements for High-Speed Applications ThE1 A Novel Dual Complementary Output Optical Fiber Transversal Filter for DWDM Applications 659 ThE2 Determination of Er-Fibre L-Band Gain Coefficient from Measured ASE Spectra 661 ThE3 Measurements and Simulations of Noise Imposed on Supercontinuum Generated in Microstructure Fiber 663 ThE4 Tunable Chromatic Dispersion Compensator utilizing Silica Waveguide Ring Resonator having Mach-Zehnder Interferometric Variable Coupler Eliminating Crossing Point of Waveguides 665 ThE5 Analysis of a Split-Bar Torsional Micromirror Characteristics 667 ThF Photonic Crystals ThF1 Design and Simulation of a Photonic Crystal Waveguide Filter using the FDTD Method 669 ThF2 Nanophotonics based on Planar Photonic Crystals 671 ThF3 2-D Photonic Crystal Filters: A Channel Dropping Radiation Filter and a Peak Transmission Filter with Mode Matching Features 673 ThF4 Membrane-based Photonic Crystal Light Sources 675 ThG Silicon Integration for Photodetection ThG1 Wafer Bonding for the Fabrication of High-Performance Photodetectors: A Mature Technology? 677 ThG2 The Silicon Lateral Trench Detector in Multi-Gb/s Receiver Systems 679 ThG3 10Gbps All Silicon APD Optical Receiver 681 ThG4 Implementation of CMOS Photodetectors in Optoelectronic Circuits 683 ThH Short to Long Vertical Cavity Devices ThH1 64x64 Matrix-Addressable Arrays of GaN-based MicroLEDs 685 ThH2 A Fiber-based Vertically Emitting Semiconductor Laser at 850 nm 687 ThH3 Densely Integrated Multiple-wavelength Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Array 689 ThH4 Development of Flip-Chip 1300 nm VCSELs 691 ThH5 Continuous Wave Operation of MOCVD Grown 1.55 //m Buried Tunnel Junction VCSELs 693 ThH6 Long Wavelength VCSEL using Ion-Implantation and Dielectric Mirror 695

7 Thl Transmission Systems Design Thl1 Capacity of Fiber: Nonlinear Propagation and Information Theory 697 Thl2 Data Dependent Phase Coding for Mitigation of Intrachannel Four Wave Mixing 699 Thl3 Optimal Power Budget In Quasi-Linear Dispersion-Managed Fiber Links 701 Thl4 On the Performance of Optical Direct-Detection DPSK in the Presence of Receiver Impairments 703 Thl5 Why Develop "In-House" Simulator for Transmission Design? 705 ThJ Special Symposium on Nonlinear Optics for Coherent Sources from THz Radiation to X-Rays I: Tutorial ThJ1 Time Resolved X-Ray Scattering from Excited Matter 707 ThJ2 Optimum Femtosecond K-Shell X-Ray Line Emission from Femtosecond Laser-Produced Plasma ThK Ultrafast Diode Lasers ThK1 Terahertz-Frequency Mode-Locking of Monolithic Compound-Cavity Laser Diodes 710 ThK2 Terahertz Heterostructure Lasers 712 ThK3 Generation and Stabilizaiton of Ultrafast Optical Pulses by Mode-Locked Laser Diodes 714 ThK4 Passive Mode Locking of InAIGaAs 1.3 //m Extended Cavity Lasers Fabricated by Quantum Well Intermixing 716 ThK5 Investigation of Spectral Gain Broadening for Mode-Locking using InGaAs/lnAIGaAs Multiple Width Quantum Wells at 1550nm 718 ThL Novel Devices and Materials II ThL1 Optoelectronic and Optical Device Characteristics for VCSEL-based Optoelectronic Neural Networks 720 ThL2 Two-Dimensional Fiber Array with Integrated Topology for Short-Distance Optical Interconnections 722 ThL3 Design of Micro-Spectrometers 724 ThL4 Design of a Multi-Technology FPGA with a Programmable Threshold Photoreceiver 726 ThL5 Waveguide Strategies for Optical Interconnect on CMOS 728 ThM Switch Technology Advancements ThM1 High Performance Optical Switches Integrated with Silica-based Planar Lightwave Circuits on Si 730 ThM2 Compact and Low Driving Power Silica-based 1xN Planar Lightwave Circuit Switches with Super High Delta Waveguides and Heat Insulating Grooves 732 ThM3 High Speed Optical Switch with Prism Deflector Array 734 ThM4 Physical Contact Conditions of Glass-Ceramic Ferrules for Optical Connectors 736 ThM5 An Analysis of Ultra Low Reflection Characteristics of FPC connectors 738 ThM6 Polarization-Dependence of Light Transmittance through a Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystal Spliced Optical Fibers 740 ThN Resonators ThN1 Passive Microring Resonator Coupled Lasers 742 ThN2 Polymer/Compound Semiconductor Hybrid Micro Resonators with Very Wide Free Spectral Range 744 ThN3 Precise Center Wavelength Trimming of Vertically Coupled Microring Resonator Filter by Direct UV Irradiation to Ring Core 746 ThN4 Polarisation Dependent Coupling in Ring Resonator Filters 748 ThN5 A Method for Detecting Sub-Wavelength Features by Means of a Multimode Waveguide and a Mode Splitting Photonic IC 750 ThO Photodetectors and Arrays for Long Wavelength Imaging ThO1 Normal-Incidence Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors 752 ThO2 Bias-Dependent Tunable Response of Normal Incidence Long Wave Infrared Quantum Dot Detectors ThO3 A Theoretical Model for Bias Dependent Shift of Absorption Spectra in Quantum Well Infrared Photodetectors 756 ThO4 Two-Dimensional Indium Gallium Arsenide Avalanche Photodiode Arrays for High Sensitivity, High Speed Imaging 758 ThO5 Development of Geiger-Mode APD Arrays for 1.06 //m 760

8 ThP Photonic Crystal Devices ThP1 Progress in Quantum Dots and Photonic Crystal for Future Photonic Network Devices in Japan 762 ThP2 Large Enhancement of Optical Nonlinearity using Quantum Dots Embedded in a Photonic Crystal Structure for All-Optical Switch Applications 764 ThP3 Direct Bandstructure Calculation in Multilayered Periodic Structures 766 ThP4 Photonic Crystal Heterostructure Engineering in an Envelope Picture 768 ThP5 Wave Propagation in Photonic Crystals with Active Layers 770 ThQ Optical Receivers ThQ1 High-Speed Optical Receivers in Advanced Silicon Technologies 772 ThQ2 On Properties of Electronic Equalizers for Optical Communications Systems 774 ThQ3 ASE-Noise Limit of Direct-Detection Receivers: Duobinary vs. IMDD 776 ThQ4 Emulating ETDM Receivers by OTDM Receivers for High Speed System Measurements 778 ThQ5 Optimisation of the Duty-Cycle of RZ Signals in Optically Preamplified Receivers with Arbitrary Optical Filtering 780 ThR Special Symposium on Nonlinear Optics for Coherent Sources from THz Radiation to X-Rays II ThR1 Scaling of an Intense Field Nonlinear Interaction 782 ThR2 XUV-Attosecond Pulses: Generation and Measurement 783 ThR3 Delivery of Coherent Radiation from Terahertz to X-Rays 785 ThR4 Quasi-Phase-Matching of High Harmonic EUV Radiation 787 ThS Diode Lasers and Gratings ThS1 Tunable Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser with Bragg Mirror External Cavity 789 ThS2 Polarization Effects in Wavelength-Stabilized Pump Laser Modules 791 ThS3 A Novel, Simple and Low-cost External Cavity Laser using Subwavelength Resonant Grating Filter 793 ThS4 Semiconductor Laser Incorporating a Short Two-Dimensional Grating 795 ThS5 Proposal of Wavelength Trimming of 1.55 //m GC-DFB Laser using Photoabsorption-lnduced Disordering of Superlattices 797 ThS6 A Novel Technology for Fabricating Gratings of Any Chirp Characteristics by Design 799 ThS7 Noise and Distortion Properties of Widely-Tunable Sampled-Grating DBR Lasers 801 ThT Antennas and Receivers ThT1 Integratable Antennas for Millimeter-Wave Fiber-Wireless Applications 803 ThT2 Laser Stabilisation for Coherent Phased-Array Antenna Beamforming 805 ThT3 Optical Down-Sampling of an X-band 1 -GHz-Bandwidth Nonlinear Chirp Signal 807 ThT4 Ultrafast Sampling using Low Temperature Grown GaAs MSM Switches Integrated with CMOS Amplifier for Photonic A/D Conversion 809 ThU Filters and Gratings ThU1 Accurate Differential Group Delay Measurement of Narrowband Fiber Devices with Immunity to Environmental Perturbation 811 ThU2 Coherent Microfluidic Resonances in Microstructured Optical Fiber 813 ThU3 Suppression of Cladding-Mode Coupling Loss in Bragg Grating using Standard Single-Mode Fiber ThU4 The Design of Grating Couplers with Ultra-Low Radiation Loss 817 ThU5 Fabrication of Long-Period Waveguide Grating (LPWG) 819 ThU6 Theory of Acousto-Optic Fiber Bragg Grating Coated with Zinc Oxide (ZnO) 821 ThV ThV1 Filters The New Architecture of Thermostable Acoustooptic Tunable Filter with Super Narrow Optical Linewidth and Low Sidelobe Level 823 ThV2 A Tunable Subwavelength Resonant Grating Optical Filter 825 ThV3 Thin-Film (DE)MUX based on Step-Like Spatial Beam Shifting 827 ThV4 Dynamic Response of Thermally Tunable Micromachined Optical Filter with Low Tuning Voltage 829 ThV5 Recent Advances and Results in Waveguide Shape Optimisation Techniques 831 ThV6 Reflection-Type Mach-Zehnder LiNbO 3 Optical Modulator with Double-Stub Structure 833

9 ThW Novel Materials and Structures for Photodetectors ThW1 AIGaN-based Resonant Cavity-Enhanced UV-Photodetectors 835 ThW2 UV/Blue GaP Avalanche Photodiodes 837 ThW3 Design of Micro-Cavity Semiconductor Devices for Highly Efficient Optical Switching and Sampling Applications 839 ThW4 Stacked Thin Film InGaAs and GaAs Photodetectors for Fully Registered Wavelength Discrimination 841 ThX Optical Device Processing ThX1 InP Photonic Integrated Circuits 843 ThX2 Influence of Cap Layer on Interdiffusion in InP/lnGaAs Quantum Wells 845 ThX3 Development of a Spatially Selective, High Resolution Quantum Well Intermixing (HRQWI) Method based on Low Energy Ion Implantation 847 ThX4 Monolithically Integrated Multi-Mode Interferometer Array Laser using Defect Induced Quantum Well Intermixing 849 ThX5 Integration of Passive Waveguides using Quantum Well Intermixing to Produce Reliable 980nm Laser Diodes 851 ThY Technologies for Optical Networking ThY1 OCDM Techniques for Improved Spectral Efficiency 853 ThY2 Optimum Filter Response Shape for Ultimate Spectral Efficiency in Ultra Dense WDM Systems 855 ThY3 Combined Effectiveness of Optical Hard-Limiting and Guard-Time in Optical CDMA Systems 857 ThY4 Study of Distortion Performance of Uncooled Low Cost RF MMF Links 859 ThY5 Low Wavelength Drift Uncooled Laser using Tuned Distributed Bragg Reflectors 861 ThZ Special Symposium on Nonlinear Optics for Coherent Sources from THz Radiation to X-Rays III ThZ1 Use of Periodically Poled Nonlinear Materials for the Generation of Ultrashort Pulses of Mid- and Far-Infrared Radiation 863 ThZ2 Generation and Coherent Detection of Far-Infrared and Mid-Infrared Radiation 865 ThZ3 Anomalous Power and Spectrum Dependence of THz Radiation from Femtosecond-Laser- Irradiated InAsinaHigh Magnetic Field of 14 T 867 ThZ4 Simultaneous Measurement of Thickness and Water Content of Thin Black Ink Films for Printing using THz-Radiation 869 ThAA Measurement Techniques ThAA1 Broadband Radio Frequency Spectrum Analyzer based on Spectral Hole Burning 871 ThAA2 Using Electro-Optic Sampling in Two-Dimensional Mapping of the Distribution of Electric Field over a Resonant Electrode 873 ThAA3 Applications of Dynamic Bragg Gratings in lnp:fe: From Spectrum Analysis to WDM Single-Sideband Fiber Radio Systems 875 ThAA4 Calibrating Photoreceiver response to 110 GHz 877 ThBB New and Novel Components ThBB1 Dynamic Gain Equalization in Fiber-Optic Communication Systems 879 ThBB2 Propagation of Picosecond Pulses through Photonic Crystal Waveguides at C-band Region 881 ThBB3 Transformation between Circular Fields and Highly Elliptic Ones by Means of Cascaded Graded-lndex Oval-Core Fibers 883 ThBB4 High Performance Lithium Niobate Polarization Controller for PMD Compensators 885 ThBB5 OTDM Planar Lightwave Components (PLCs) for Multiplexing from 40 Gb/s to Gb/s 887 ThCC Lasers & Amplifiers ThCC1 Tl-containing Semiconductors for Temperature-Insensitive Wavelength Semiconductor Lasers 889 ThCC2 Linear Optical Amplifiers 891 ThCC3 Low Input Power Wavelength Converter using a Gain-Clamped Semiconductor Optical Amplifier 893 ThCC4 Noise Properties and Cascadability of SOA-EA Regenerators 895

10 ThDD System Design & Modeling ThDD1 The HOLMS Low Latency Opto-Electronic Memory System 897 ThDD2 Determination of the Optimum Cluster Parameters for a Clustered Free-Space Optical Interconnect 899 ThDD3 Transmission Uniformity of Diffractive Parallel Optical Interconnect Relays: A Numerical Analysis based on Rigorous Coupled Wave Theory.901 ThDD4 Simulation of Modal Delays for 10 Gb/s Multimode Fiber Applications 903 ThDD5 Configurable Architecture for Smart Pixel Research 905 ThDD6 32x32-bit Optoelectronic Database Filter based on CMOS Photonic VLSI Technology 907