1999 IEEE LEOS ANNUAL MEETING CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. 12th Annual Meeting

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1 1999 IEEE LEOS ANNUAL MEETING CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 12th Annual Meeting IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 Annual Meeting 8-11 November 1999 Volume November 1999 Wednesday - Thursday Renaissance Pare Fifty-Five Hotel San Francisco, CA UNIVERSiTivrSBIBliOTHEK ] HANOVER TEO.NfSCHE INFORMATiON'UDiSLIOTHEK IEEE Networking the World" IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN: ISSN: 99CH (Softbound Edition) (Casebound Edition) (Microfiche Edition)

2 Wednesday, 10 November 1999 WA Novel VCSELS WA1 Progress on GaN-Based Blue/Violet Light Emitting Quantum Dot Lasers and VCSELs 389 WA2 Reduced Cavity Loss for Ultra-Low Threshold Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers 391 WA3 Simplified-Anitresonant Reflecting Optical Waveguide (S-ARROW)-type VCSELs 393 WA4 Improved Performance of Selectively Oxidized Visible VCSELs 395 WA5 Compressively-Strained InGaAsP-Active (X= im) regions for VCSELs 397 WB Joint Session on Optical Communications and Optical Networking II WB1 Optical Networking - A Multi-service Global Carrier's View 399 WB2 Transparent Optical Packet Switching: The European ACTS KEOPS Project Approach 401 WB3 Fully Packaged Guided-wave and Hybrid Optical Circuits for Future Photonic Backplanes 403 WC Technologies for Optical X-connects I WC1 Optical Crossbar Swtiches on InP 405 WC2 InP-based Optical Cross-Connects for WDM Networks 407 WC3 Wavelength multiplexers by cascading 3D vertical couplers 409 WC4 Dilated Polarization Independent WDM Cross-Connect on InP 411 WD Special Symposium on Microcavities and Photonic Crystals I WD1 Photonic Bandgap Defect Laser 413 WD2 Room-temperature 2-D photonic bandgap single defect laser 415 WD3 FDTD Modeling of Lasing and Photon Localization in Microcavities Formed by Random Material 417 WD4 Directional effects in photonic bandgap cavities 419 WD5 Calculations on 2-dimensional Waveguides in Photonic Crystals 421 WE Packaging Technology WE1 Smart Photonics: Optoelectronics Integrated onto Si CMOS Circuits 423 WE2 Thermal behaviour of miniaturized surface mounted devices 425 WE3 Stress Free Wafer Bonded GaAs-on-Si Photonic Devices and Circuits 427 WE4 High Speed MiniDIL Package Technology 429 WF Impurity and Intermixing Processing WF1 Toward High Temperature Active Region Intermixing in VCL Structures 431 WF2 Al x O y induced intermixing in GaAs/AIGaAs quantum wells 433 WF3 Application of Selective Area Zinc In-Diffusion for Localized P-N Junctions in Integrated Electro-Optic Devices 435 WF4 Effect of deposition parameters on SiO x -enhanced intermixing in GaAs/AIGaAs quantum wells 437 WF5 The Effects of Selenium Doping on Performances of MOVPE Grown Compressively Strained (AI)GalnP Lasers 439 WG Nonlinear Effects in Lasers II WG1 Optical Communications using Synchronized Hyperchaos 441 WG2 Optical stabilization of an external cavity semiconductor laser by creation and destruction of external cavity modes 443 WG3 Return-map for semiconductor lasers with optical feedback 445 WG4 Recent Advances in All-Optical Signal Processing Using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers 447 JtV

3 WH Issues in WDM Networking WH1 EDFA Power Transients and Their Effects in High Speed Optical Networks 449 WH2 Compatability of gain-stabilized EDFAs: a simulation study 451 WH3 Multiwavelength Optical Networks: Next Generation Performance with Today's Technology 453 WH4 Suppression of Spurious Tones in Fiber System Simulations based on the Split-Step Method 455 Wl WH WI2 Quantum Dot and Novel Structures for 1.3um & 1.55um Laser Group Ill-Nitride-Arsenide Long Wavelength Lasers Grown by Elemental Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy 457 Near Room Temperature CW Lasing Operation of a Narrow-Stripe Oxide-Confined GalnNAs/GaAs Multi-Quantum Well Laser Grown by MOCVD 459 WI3 Low Threshold and High Temperature Characteristic of 1.3 um InAsP/AIGalnAs MQW ACIS Lasers WI4 Very Low Room-temperature Threshold Current Density Dots in a Well (DWELL) Lasers 463 WI5 1.3nm Quantum Dot Lasers with Single and Stacked Active Layers 465 WI6 Enhanced differential efficiency with monolithic, series-connected, segmented ridge lasers 467 WI7 Optical Characteristics and Low Linewidth Enhancement Factor in 1.2 um Quantum Dot Lasers 469 WJ Optically Amplified Systems WJ1 Raman Amplifiers in WDM Systems 471 WJ2 Cross-Phase Modulation from L-Band Amplifiers in WDM Systems 473 WJ3 Analysis of the Transmission of WDM Channels over Long-Span Amplified Systems: Interplay of Four-Wave Mixing, Cross-Phase Modulation, and Self-Phase Modulation 475 WJ4 Noise In Optically Amplified Links with a new Vacuum-Field Model 477 WJ5 A Nonlinear Amplifying Loop Mirror Operating with Wavelength Division Multiplexed Data 479 WK Technologies for Optical X-connects II WK1 Construction and performance of a 576x576 Single-Stage OXC 481 WK2 MEMS for Free-Space Optical Switching 483 WK3 Recent Progress on Silica-based Thermooptic Switches for ADMs/XCs 485 WL Special Symposium on Microcavities and Photonic Crystals II WL1 Microring Resonators for Very Large Scale Integrated Photonics 487 WL2 Spectral mode-beat phenomena in a cylindrical microcavity 489 WL3 Highly-Confined Waveguides in Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystal 491 WL4 Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals based on Ill-V Semiconductor at 1-2 um Wavelengths 493 WL5 Analysis of Near-Field Effects in Artificial Dielectric Structures using Rigorous Coupled- Wave Analysis 495 WM Integrated Photonic Packaging WM1 A Narrow-Linewidth Laser for WDM Applications Using Silicon Waveguide Technology 497 WM2 Integrated Optics Based on an Optical Fiber Embedded in a Silicon Wafer 499 WM3 Hybrid Implementation of an Optical Bit Processor in a LIGA Motherboard 501 WN MEMS and Novel Optoelectronic Devices WN1 Materials, Processing and Reliability Considerations for Commericalization of Optical MEMS N/A WN2 Wafer Surface Treatment for Bonding GalnAsP and Magnetooptic Garnet 503 WN3 MBE Growth of Low-Optical-Loss Cdv x MnJe Magnetooptical Waveguides on GaAs Substrate 505 WN4 Multiple triple-quantum-well active region for above-gaas-bandgap reflection modulator 507 xvi

4 WO Photorefractive NLO WO1 Adaptive Holograms and Application Using Photorefractive Quantum Wells 509 WO2 Real-time pattern recognition for moving object using LiNbO 3 photorefractive crystal 511 WO3 Mechanical Processing Error Measurement by Holographic Interferometry Using Photorefractive Crystal 513 WO4 Seeing Through Opaque Materials with Light: Advances in Adaptive Photodetectors for Laser Based Ultrasound Sensing 515 WO5 Photoreflective hologram written in Fe:LiNbO 3 at wavelength transmittable through quartz fibers 517 WP Large Scale Optical Network WP1 Recent Results from the National Transparent Optical Network (NTON) 519 WP2 Dimensioning of a Single Layer Optical Platform Based on the "Switchless" Concept for Large Scale Networks 521 WP3 Performance Modeling of a Planar Waveguide Based Spectral Encoding System 523 WQ Oxide-Confined Edge-Emitting Lasers WQ1 1.3 um Low Threshold Al-Oxide Confined Inner Stripe (ACIS) Lasers and ACIS Laser Array 525 WQ2 Self aligned AIlnAs native oxidized current aperture buried heterostructure InGaAsP/lnP Distributed Feedback Laser 527 WQ3 Low Threshold Current 1.55 nm Lasers using Novel Selective oxidation of Short-period Superlattice WQ4 Highly-Efficient Laser with Self-Aligned Waveguide and Current Confinement by Selective Oxidation WQ5 Low threshold 630nm band AIGalnP diode laser with AlAs native oxide current aperture 533 WR OTDM Systems III WR1 Progress in High-Speed TDMA Communications 535 WR2 Short Pulse Lasers and Their Applications in Optical Communications 537 WR3 Demonstration of a 10 Gb/s Channel-Tunable Mode-Locked Laser Transmitter for OTDM Networks WR4 Fiber transmission of 250fs optical pulses with suppressed third-order dispersion by electro-optic phase modulation 541 WR5 High-resolution wideband measurement of amplitude and phase noises of a GHz-repetition rate actively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser by time-domain demodulation 543 WS Technologies for Optical X-connects III WS1 Compact polymer components for an integrated add-drop multiplexer 545 WS2 Adaptive Gain and Channel Equalization Filters for Applications in Optical Networks 547 WS3 Architectural Aspects of Cross-talk Control in Guided Wave Switching Arrays 549 WS4 A Modular and Re-configurable Parametric Wavelength Interchanging Cross-Connect Architecture 550 WS5 Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopic Studies of Micro-ring Resonators 552 WT Special Symposium on Microcavities and Photonic Crystals III WT1 Cavity-QED Experiments on InAs Quantum Boxes in Micropillars and Microdisks 554 WT2 Directional Stimulated Emission from Deformed GaN Micropillar Cavities 556 WT3 Highly Directional Resonant Antennas Built Around Photonic Crystals 558 WT4 Purcell Efect and the Bias-Free Pulse Response of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers 560 WU Optical Processing WU1 Nonlinear Spatio-temporal Processing. 562 WU2 Optical Processing Using Optical Memories 564 WU3 Signal correlator with programmable variable time delay based on optical coherent transients 566 WU4 Recording of ultrafast image holograms by photo-induced frequency-doubling in glass 568 xvii

5 WV Terahertz Phenomena WV1 Detection of sub-terahertz radiation using proton implanted GaAs 570 WV2 Strong enhancement of THz radiation from InAs surfaces under magnetic fields at low temperatures WV3 Terahertz Generation in High Purity Semiconductors via 3 Wave DFG and Cross-Rest Strahlenband PM 574 WV4 Sub-Thz Transmission Spectroscopy in Liquids Using a Stand-Alone Compact Unit 576 WV5 The carrier dynamical issues for extending the operating wavelength of quantum cascade into the Terahertz regime 578 WW Frequency Conversion and OPO's WW1 Progress in Modeling Nanosecond Optical Parametric Oscillators 580 WW2 Efficient difference frequency generation (DFG) employing injection-seeded optical parametric oscillator (OPO) 582 WW3 Using Multiple Mutually Incoherent Fiber Lasers to Pump a Coherent Signal Beam in an Optical Parametric Oscillator 584 WW4 Efficient Third-Harmonic Generation with PPLN and PPLT 586 WW5 Vortex Nucleation and Evolution in Parametric Wave Mixing 588 WX Ultra High Speed OTDM and Optical Access Techniques WX1 Advances in Ultra-High Speed Optical TDM Networking 590 WX2 Demonstration of multicasting capability in a 100-Gb/s OTDM switched interconnect 591 WX3 A Feed-Forward Technique for Reconstitution of Dropped Optical Carriers in WDM Networks 593 WX4 A Burst-mode Packet Receiver with Bit-rate-discriminating Circuit for Multi-bit-rate Transmission System 595 WX5 Wireless Broadband Access Systems Using Fiber Links: A Comparison Between IF and RF Transport Techniques 597 WY Mid-lrSb Lasers WY1 High Power 3-12 um Laser Diodes, Recent Advances and Future Trend 599 WY2 Broadened-Waveguide W Quantum-Well Diode Lasers Operating at 1 = 3.2 um 601 WY3 Optical Pumping Injection Cavity (OPIC) for High-Efficiency Mid-IR "W" Lasers 603 WY4 Auger Suppression in Type-ll mid-ir Laser Diodes 605 WZ Nonlinear Transmission Impairments WZ1 Nonlinear Transmission of Noise Along Singlemode Fiber at Zero-Dispersion Wavelength 607 WZ2 Wavelength Shift Keying Technique to Reduce Four-Wave Mixing Crosstalk in WDM 609 WZ3 Properties of Nonlinear Cross Talk Caused by Cross Phase Modulation in Optical Fibers N/A WZ4 Numerically reversing the nonlinear wave propagation in single-mode optical fiber 611 WZ5 Parametric Gain in WDM systems 613 WAA Novel Fiber Technology I WAA1 Photonic Bandgap Fibers 615 WAA2 History and Current Status of Thermal Poling of Silicate Fibres 617 WAA3 Polarization Isolation Follow-up on the Fabrication Process of Birefringent Fiber Half-Couplers 619 WBB Optical Interconnect Circuits and Modeling WBB1 High-Speed Burst-Mode Optical Interconnects for Photonic Packet Communications 621 WBB2 Computer Aided Design for Free Space Optical Interconnected Systems 623 WBB3 A Multi-FPGA Demonstrator with POF-based Optical Area Interconnect WBB4 A10 GHz Hybrid Optical/Electrical Clock Distribution Network for Gigascale Integration 627 xviii

6 WCC Terahertz and Superconductor Optoelectronics WCC1 Terahertz Radiation from High-T c Superconductors Excited by Femtosecond Laser Pulses and It's Application to Visualizing Supercurrent Distribution 629 WCC2 Ultrafast Superconducting Optoelectronics 631 WCC3 Electron trapping time versus annealing temperature in low temperature grown GaAs 633 WCC4 Surface Micro-structuring of Titanium Oxide Crystal and Metals using Femtosecond Laser Ablation 635 WDD New Waveguide & Interconnect Technology WDD1 High-speed model of high efficiency RCLEDs operating up to 1 Gb/s 637 WDD2 New Fabrication Technology of Convex and Concave Microlens Using UV Curing Method 639 WDD3 An effective method for the analysis of bent dielectric waveguides 641 WDD4 Oxidised Porous Silicon Waveguide Technology for Silicon Optoelectronics 643 WDD5 Integrated Optical Waveguide Components Fabricated by LIGA Technique 645 WEE Optical Network Testbeds WEE1 Experiments on the MONET DC Network 647 WEE2 Optical Spectrum Explorer for Maintenance of Optical Networks 649 WEE3 Partially- and Fully- Coherent Crosstalk Induced Penalty in Optical Switches 651 WEE4 HORNET - a Packet-Switched WDM Metropolitan Area Ring Network: Optical Packet Transmission and Recovery, Queue Depth, and Packet Latency 653 xix

7 Thursday, 11 November 1999 ThA Laser Simulation ThA1 Microscopic Simulation of Optical Gain in Multi-Quantum Well Lasers 657 ThA2 Nonlinear Gain Saturation for 2-Dimensional Laser Simulation 659 ThA3 Intrinsic Recombination Coefficients in Quantum Well Semiconductor Lasers 661 ThA4 Current Noise, Photon Number Fluctuations and Squeezing in Quantum Cascade Lasers 663 ThA5 Elimination of cavity relaxation oscillations using photoreactive pumping 665 ThA6 On the Dynamic Stability of External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers Operating at Strong Feedback Regime 667 ThB WDM Transmission ThB1 Dispersion Mapping in Longhaul Dense WDM Systems N/A ThB2 Detuning Penalties for 10 Gb/s through a WDM Cross-Connectwith 100 GHz Spacing 669 ThB3 Power Penalty for Optical Signals Due to Dispersion Slope in WDM Filter Cascades 671 ThB4 Simulation of Performance Improvement by Fiber Nonlinearity in Spectrum-Sliced WDM Systems 673 ThB5 Saddlepoint Evaluation of the Effects of Interchannel Interference in Spectrum- Sliced WDM Systems 675 ThC Resonant Cavity Devices ThC1 Integrated vertical-cavity laser diodes and resonant photodetectors with hybrid SisN^SiOa top Bragg mirrors 677 ThC2 High-Performance ITO-AIAs/GaAs based Resonant Cavity Enhanced Schottky Photodiodes 679 ThC3 Improved device performance using a semi-transparent p-contact AIGaN/GaN heterojunction p-l-n photodiode 681 ThC4 Wavelength monitor based on two single quantum well absorbers in a standing wave 683 ThD Novel Fiber Technology II ThD1 Fiber Options for Advanced Transmission Systems 685 ThD2 Viscosity-matched Single Mode Fibers 687 ThD3 Fiber Lasers Employing Polarization-Rotating Loop Mirrors 689 ThD4 Excimer laser machining of a polymer multilayer for optoelectronics 691 ThE High Bandwidth Fiber-optic Interconnects ThE1 Parallel Optical Network Interconnects 693 ThE2 High Bandwidth Optical Links Over Multimode Fibre 695 ThE Gbit/s data rate fiber transmission using single-mode selectively oxidized GaAs VCSELs at A. = 850nm 697 ThF Mode locked Semiconductor Lasers ThF1 Novel Modelocked Semiconductor Lasers for Networking, Instrumentation and Signal Processing 699 ThF2 Colliding Pulse Mode Locked Laser 701 ThF3 Sub-THz Passive Harmonic Mode Locking Effects in External Reflector Compound Cavity Laser Diodes 703 ThF4 Dynamic Modal Analysis of Monolithic and Multi-GHz Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers 705 ThF5 Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Laser under Self Phase Modulation 707 ThG ThG1 WDM Sources & Modulators Nickel-lndiffused Lithium Niobate Ridge Optical Waveguides Fabricated by a Novel Self-Aligned Process 709 ThG2 Multiwavelength Laser Arrays with 0.4/0.8-nm wavelength spacing 711 xx

8 ThG3 Lithium Niobate Modulators for 10Gb/s and Beyond 713 ThG4 Hybrid Integrated Sources for WDM Systems 715 ThH Nonlinear Optical Conversion of Solid State Lasers ThH1 Microstructured Ferroelectriecs and Semiconductors for Nonlinear Optics N/A ThH2 Mid Infrared Lasers N/A ThH3 Development of GdYCOB Crystals 717 Thl Laser Linewidth & Dynamics ThH Demonstration of Passively Q-switched Multiple Quantum Wells Two-section InGaAs/AIGalnAs Diode Laser 719 Thl2 High Temperature Self-Sustained Pulsation in AIGalnP Visible Laser Diodes with Real Refractive Index Guided Self-Aligned Structure 720 Thl3 Frequency Stabilization of Fast Self-Pulsations in Two-Section Gain-Coupled DFB Lasers 722 Thl4 Dynamics of Wavelength Switching between Single-mode and Dual-mode Oscillations of a Self-seeded Laser Diode 724 Thl5 Laser Diode Linewidth Measurement by means of Self-Mixing Interferometry 726 Thl6 Picosecond Laser Diodes with an External Fiber Cavity 728 Thl7 Intensity Noise Properties of Long Wavelength Triangular Ring Lasers 730 ThJ Optical Amplifiers ThJ1 New Materials for Fiber Optic Amplifiers 732 ThJ2 The gain equalizing method of Erbium doped fiber amplifiers for C-band and L-band 734 ThJ3 Photon statistics of a single mode of amplified spontaneous emission noise in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier 736 ThJ4 The impact of dynamic gain transients in a dispersion-managed WDM system 738 ThK ThK1 Novel Photodetectors and Arrays Extended Wavelength InGaAs Detectors - Recent Progress in New Materials for Bandgap Wavelengths Kg > 1.65 um 740 ThK2 InGaAsPN/lnP Based Photodetectors for Long Wavelength (X > 1.65nm) Applications 742 ThK3 A Thin Film Indium Gallium Focal Plane Array for Visible and Near Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging 744 ThK4 Dead-Space Effect on Noise in Si UV-Selective Avalanche Photodiode 746 ThK5 Manufacturable Planar Bulk InP Avalanche Photodiodes For 10 Gb/s Applications 748 ThL Passive Planar Waveguides ThL1 A Novel Wide-Angle Low-Loss Y-Junction Waveguide 750 ThL2 Leaky bound modes in planar waveguides 752 ThL3 Low-loss and Strongly Confined InGaAsP/lnP Optical Waveguide Fabricated by Benxocyclobutene Wafer Bonding 754 ThL4 Optical Characterization of Thin Dielectric Waveguides 756 ThL5 Full Vectorial FE-BPM Approach for the Analysis of Optical Axis Misalignment Effects 758 ThM Devices for Optical Interconnects ThM1 VCSEL Array Technology for Optical Interconnects 760 ThM2 Operation Range of VCEL-lnterconnect Links with "Below-Threshokf-Biasing 762 ThM3 Multiwavelength VCSEL transmitter for WDM parallel optical fiber interconnects 764 ThM4 Quasimonolithic Hybridization of Multiple Quantum Well Electroabsorption Modulator/Detector Arrays with Silicon VLSI 766 xxi

9 ThN High Speed All Optical Processing ThN1 Missing Pieces in the Puzzle of Ultra-high Speed All-Optical Logic 768 ThN2 Optically-Controlled Optical Gate Using a Double Diode Structure 770 ThN3 Ultrafast Optical Processing for Network Applications 772 ThN4 A Dispersion-Managed, Harmonically Mode-Locked Fiber Soliton Laser 774 ThN5 New Methods of Numerical Modeling of Signal Processing in Optical Systems with Time-Varying Parameters 776 ThO Integrated Isolators & Wavelength Converters ThO1 Non-reciprocal loss/gain of semiconductor amplifier covered by ferromagnetic layer 778 ThO2 Bistable Optical Devices Based on Non-Reciprocal Optical Amplifier 780 ThO3 Integrated SOA-Based Interferometers for Wavelength Conversion and Photonic Signal Processing ThO4 All-optical wavelength conversion and signal regeneration using an electroabsorption modulator 784 ThO5 Chirped Pulse Propogation in Saturated Traveling Wave Semiconductor Amplifiers 786 ThP Fiber and Diode Lasers ThP1 Scaling Physics of Disk-type Fiber Lasers for kw Output 788 ThP2 Intracavity Dispersion in a Mode-Locked Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser 790 ThP3 Actively Stabilised, Tunable Single Frequency Operation of a Vertical External Cavity Surface Emitting Laser 792 ThP4 Free Carrier Absorption in Red VCSELs 794 ThP5 Incoherent Beam Combination of Diode Laser Bars 796 ThO. Reliability and High Speed Package Design ThQ1 On the design of coplanar waveguide bond wires as transmission lines 798 ThQ2 Effect of Joint Strength of PbSn and AuSn Solders on Temperature Cycling Tests in Laser Packages 800 ThQ3 Providing More With Less: The New Generation Small Form Factor Transceivers 802 ThR High Power Photodetectors ThR1 High Power, High-Frequency Waveguide Photodetectors 804 ThR2 Experimental Investigation of Power Distribution in Distributed Balanced Photodetectors 806 ThR3 Uni-Traveling-Carrier Photodiodes 808 ThR4 Increased power operation of GaAs/AIGaAs waveguide p-i-n photodiodes with non-absorbing input facets, fabricated by quantum well intermixing 810 ThS Active Planar Waveguides ThS1 Frequency upconversion in Er 3+ doped alkali bismuth gallate glasses 812 ThS2 Broadband 1.5 um Emission of Er 3+ Ions in Bismuth-based Oxide Glasses for WDM Amplifier 814 ThS3 Arrayed DBR Waveguide Lasers for the ITU Grid 816 ThS4 Characteristics of Er 3+ :AI 2 O 3 films deposited by reactive co-sputtering for application in optical amplification 818 ThS5 Fabrication of Ridge Waveguides from Sol-gel Derived Nd-doped SiO2-TiO 2 -AI 2 O3 Glass Films 820 ThT Novel Optical Interconnect Concepts and Applications ThT1 New physical layer concepts for optical data buses in automobiles 822 ThT2 Optical Data Links for Artificial Vision 824 ThT3 Multi-mode Fiber Coarse WDM Grating Router Using Broadband Add/Drop Filters for Wavelength Re-use 826 xxii

10 ThT4 Wavelength Division Multiplexed Optical Interconnects Using Femtosecond Optical Pulses 828 ThT5 Optical Interconnects Using Short Optical Pulses 830 ThU High Speed Semiconductor Devices ThU1 High-Speed High-Efficiency Photodetectors for Short Pulse Applications 832 ThU2 High Speed Velocity-Matched Distributed Photodetector 834 ThU3 160 GHz mode-locked laser diode stabilized by subharmonic-frequency optical pulse 836 ThU4 Theoretical Study on a Detuned AM Mode-Locked Laser 838 ThV ThV1 ThV2 Devices for Fiber Systems Compact Low-Loss Vertical Resonant Mode Coupling between Two Well-Confined Waveguides for Monolithic Integration 840 Current Induced Absorption Modulation using Quantum Structures in the Collector of Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors 842 ThV3 Gain Slope Compensator for Spectrally Linear Optical Power Equalization 844 ThV4 Polarization Independent 5-Strained InGaAs/lnGaAsP Quantum Well Waveguide Modulator 846 ThV5 InP Integrated Receivers for Narrow Band Radio Over Fiber Systems 848 ThW Novel Laser Architectures ThW1 Microchip Lasers 850 ThW2 Pulse train characteristics of a passively Q-switched microchip laser 852 ThW3 Injection locking of intracavity SHG lasers 854 ThW4 Properties of Yb 3 AI 5 O 12 and highly doped Yb:Y 3 AI 5 O ThW5 A diffractive-optic unstable resonator for low-gain lasers 858 ThX Passive Alignment ThX1 Solder Self-Alignment for Optical MEMS 860 ThX2 A Modal-Field Transformer for LD Modules 862 ThX3 Mechanical Clip-On and Flip-Chip Assembly on Silicon Submount for Self Aligned Fiber to Waveguide Coupling 864 ThY Waveguide Photodetectors ThY1 Evanescently-Coupled, Waveguide-fed Photodiodes for Ultrawide-Band Applications 866 ThY2 Bias dependent performance of 1.55nm absorption high-speed n-i-n photodetectors using lowtemperature grown GaAs 868 ThY3 Waveguide Photodiodes for Gbps Applications 870 ThY4 Internal Resistance and Carrier Transit Time in PIN Photodetectors 872 ThZ Fiber Gratings ThZ1 Resonant diffractive structures integrating waveguide-gratings on optical fiber endfaces 874 ThZ2 Optimization of apodized fiber grating filters for WDM systems 876 ThZ3 Fiber Grating Sensors N/A ThZ4 Temperature-independent strain sensor using a chirped Bragg grating partially embedded in a glass tube 878 ThAA Free Space Optically Interconnected Systems ThAA1 Prospects for Free-Space Optics in Digital Systems 880 ThAA2 16x16 Array Interconnects Using a Fiber & Free-space Hybrid Interconnect Module 882 ThAA3 High Speed Parallel Multi-chip Interconnection With Free Space Optics 884 ThAA4 Inherent image distortions of an optical fan-out device, the Kaleidoscope 886 xxiii

11 ThBB Ultrafast Optical Measurements of Generation ThBB1 Subpicosecond Single-Shot Waveform Measurement Using Temporal Imaging 888 ThBB2 Instantaneous time reversal of complex amplitude ultrafast waveforms 890 ThBB3 Pushing the Frontiers: Generation and Full Characterization of Pulses in the Two-Cycle Regime 892 ThBB4 Ultrafast Measurements of an SG-DBR Laser with picosecond time and nanometre wavelength resolution using a Fabry-Perot Interferometer 894 ThBB5 Phase noise suppression in electro-optic sampling 896 ThBB6 Ultrashort Optical Pulse Wavelength Conversion by Moving Grating of Refractive Index in Semiconductor 898 ThCC Devices for All Optical Signal Processing ThCC1 Semiconductor Devices for All-Optical Signal Processing: Just How Fast Can They Go? 900 ThCC2 Experimental characteristics of an all-optical 2R regenerator with adjustable decision treshold 902 ThCC3 Proposal of photon-induced waveguides for all-optical switching and wavelength conversion 904 ThCC4 Phase Engineering Applied to Integrated Optical Filters 906 ThDD High Power Solid State Lasers ThDD1 Diode-pumped High-Power (>100W), High-Brightness Solid State Lasers 908 ThDD2 3-Level quasi-cw laser operation and O-Switching of Yb:S-FAP at 985 nm 910 ThDD3 Diffraction limited output from a CW Nd:YAG MOPA with a fibre phase conjugate SBS mirror 912 ThDD4 Efficient flash lamp pumped YSGG:Cr:Yb:Ho laser at 3 micron 914 ThDD5 Cooling Analysis for Diode-Pumped YAG Slabs 916 XXIV