Emerging Technologies



Improved Surface Plasmon Coupling with an InGaN/GaN Quantum Well for More Effective Emission Enhancement

Yen-Cheng Lu, Fu-Ji Tsai, Jyh-Yang Wang, Cheng-Hung Lin, Kun-Ching Shen, Cheng-Yen Chen, Chih-Feng Lu, Yean-Woei Kiang and C. C. Yang;

National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan


In Vivo Harmonic Generation Microscopy for Least Invasive Virtual Biopsy

Chi-Kuang Sun1,2; 1National Taiwan Univ. Taiwan, 2Academia Sinica, Taiwan


Novel High Power Femtosecond Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser Amplifier with High Repetition Rate and its Applications

Ching-Yue Wang; Tianjin Univ., China




Optical Fiber and Waveguide Devices



Advanced Photonic Integration and High-Index-Contrast Circuit

Sai Chu, Brent Little, Wei Chen, John Hryniewicz, Fred Johnson, Wenlu Chen, Oliver King, Roy Davidson, Kevin Donovan, Dave Gill, John Monk and Fred Kish; Infinera Corp., USA


Application of Carbon Nanotubes for Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers and Nonlinear Devices

Shinji Yamashita, Amos Martinez and Kin Kee Chow; The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan


Development of CW and Pulsed Fiber Lasers at SIOM

Qihong Lou, Jun Zhou and Songtao Du; Shanghai Inst. of Optics and fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China


Economics and Design Challenges in Implementing CMOS Transimpedance Amplifiers for 10Gb/s Operation

Ty Yoon; Basas Microelectronics, China


Efficient Broadband Frequency Conversion Using Engineered Apodized χ(2) Gratings and Fundamental Harmonic Resonance

Raman Kashyap1, Amirhossein Tehranchi1 and Chang-Qing Xu2; 1Univ. of Montréal, Canada, 2McMaster Univ., Canada


High Speed Silicon Modulators

Hui-Wen Chen, Ying-hao Kuo, and John E. Bowers; Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA


Innovation in Preform Fabrication Technologies

Alain Giraud1, Frederic Sandoz2 and Jarmo Pelkonen3; 1Nextrom SA, Switzerland, 2Silitec Fibers SA, Switzerland, 3Nextrom Oy, Finland


Modifying Photonic Crystal Fibers

T. A. Birks1, M. D. W. Grogan1, Z. Chen1,2, L. M. Xiao1, S. G. Leon-Saval1,3, C. Xiong1,3 and R. England1; 1Univ. of Bath, UK., 2National Univ. of Defense Technology, China, 3Univ. of Sydney, Australia


On-Chip Optics for Manipulating Light in Polymer Chips

Jessica Godin, Sung Hwan Cho and Yu-Hwa Lo; Univ. of California, San Diego, USA


Progress in the Slow and Fast Light Based on Billouin Scattering in Optical Fibers

Kwang Yong Song; Chung-Ang Univ., Korea


Silicon Nano- and Micro-photonic Devices

Ray T. Chen; The Univ. of Texas, USA


Silicon Photonics Based on Photonic Wire Waveguides

K. Yamada1, T. Tsuchizawa1, T. Watanabe1, H. Shinojima1, H. Nishi1, S. Park1, Y. Ishikawa2, K. Wada2 and S. Itabashi1; 1NTT Corporation, Japan, 2The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan




Optical Networks and Broadband Access



4K Uncompressed Streaming over Colored Optical Packet Switching Network

Nobuyuki Kataoka; NICT, Japan


40G/100G Long-Haul Optical Transmission System Design Using Digital Coherent Receivers

Dirk van den Borne1, Mohammad Alfiad2, Sander L. Jansen1 and Torsten Wuth1; 1Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, 2Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands


Blocking Probability Evaluation and Traffic Management of Bufferless OPS/OBS Networks

Eric M. W. Wong1, Jayant Baliga2, Moshe Zukerman1, Andrew Zalesky2 and Garvesh Raskutti3; 1City Univ. of Hong Kong, China, 2The Univ. of Melbourne, Australia, 3Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA


Challenges for the Future Networks and Enabling Photonic Technologies

S. Namiki, T. Hasama, H. Ishikawa; National Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan


Converged Wireline and Wireless Signal Transport over Optical Fiber Access Links

Tafur Monroy, Kamau Prince, Alexey Osadchiy, Neil Guerrero González, Antonio Caballero, Darko Zibar, Tim Gibbon, Xianbin Yu and Jesper Bevensee Jensen; Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark


Demonstration of 2.5Gbps SPE-OCDMA Transmission Using Time Domain Spectral Phase En/Decoding with LCFBG

Zhensen Gao1, Xu Wang1, Nobuyuki Kataoka2 and Naoya Wada2; 1Heriot-Watt Univ., UK, 2NICT, Japan


DREAMSCAPE: Dual Routing Engine Architecture in Multi-Layer/Multi-Domain Scalable Constraint-Aware Policy-Enabled Optical Networks

Yuefeng Ji, Jie Zhang, Yongli Zhao and Min Zhang; Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China


Electronic Processing for Generation and Detection of Multi Gbit/s CDMA over Fiber

Miguel Pimenta and I. Darwazeh; Univ. College London, UK


Network Design Method for Wavelength Routing Networks

Kimio Oguchi; Seikei Univ., Japan


New Generation Optical Infrastructure Technologies: "EXAT Initiative" Towards 2020 and Beyond

Toshio Morioka; NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan


Optical Performance Monitoring in Phase-Modulated Transmission Systems

Bartłomiej Kozicki1, Hidehiko Takara1, Akihiro Maruta2 and Ken-ichi Kitayama2; 1NTT Corporation, Japan, 2Osaka Univ., Japan


Recent Trends in 100G Module and Subsystem Development for Long Haul DWDM Applications

Ted Schmidt, Christian Malouin and Samuel Liu; Opnext Subsystems, USA


Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers in Passive Optical Networks

C. Michie1, T. Kelly2, I. Andonovic1; 1Univ. of Strathclyde, Scotland, 2Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland


Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers in Access Networks

Leo H. Spiekman; Alphion Corp., USA


Spectrum Sliced Microwave Photonic Signal Processing

Xiaoke Yi and Robert A. Minasian; Univ. of Sydney, Australia


Technology Options for Future WDM-PON Access Systems

Michael J. Wale; Oclaro, Caswell, UK


The Future Internet – an Energy Consumption Perspective

Kerry Hinton, Jayant Baliga, Robert Ayre, Rodney S. Tucker; Univ. of Melbourne, Australia


Wireless Techniques in Optical Transport

Cedric F. Lam; Google Inc., USA


Workflow-Based Distributed Computing over Optical Virtual Private Networks

Yaohui Jin, Yan Wang, Wei Guo and Weisheng Hu; Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China




Optical Sensors and Systems



An Important Milestone of Distributed Fiber Optical Sensing Technology: Separate Temperature and Strain in Single SM Fiber

Kinzo Kishida1, Kenichi Nishiguchi2, Che-Hsien Li1 and Artur Guzik1; 1Neubrex, Co., Ltd., Japan, 2Osaka Univ., Japan


Anatomical Optical Coherence Tomography: A Photonic Endoscopic Medical Imaging Modality

David D. Sampson; Univ. of Western Australia, Australia


Beam Shaping Technology Based on Optical Fiber for Applications in Laser, Optical Tweezers, and Free Space Interconnects

Kyunghwan Oh1, Jongki Kim1, Sejin Lee1, Woosung Ha1, Yoonseob Jeong1, Seongrae Lee1, Yongmin Jung2 and Junki Kim3; 1Yonsei Univ., Korea, 2Univ. of Southampton, UK, 3Fraunhofer Inst. for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, Germany


Crystal-Grating Technology for Wavelength Measurement

Eliezer Manor and David Vaknin; Specrys Ltd., Israel


Design and Evaluation of Optical Fiber Sensors in Civil Engineering Applications for Structural Health Monitoring

Kenneth T. V. Grattan1, Abdelfateh Kerrouche1, Tong Sun1, S. K. T. Grattan2,3, Susan E. Taylor2,3 and P. A. Mohammed Basheer2; 1City Univ. London, UK, 2The Queen’s Univ. of Belfast, N. Ireland, 3Sengenia Ltd., N. Ireland


Distributed Sensing: from Rayleigh to Brillouin Scattering

Xiaoyi Bao, Jeff Snoddy, Yun Li, Wenhai Li and Liang Chen; Univ. of Ottawa, Canada


Fiber-Optic Nerve Systems for Safety and Security

Kazuo Hotate and Zuyuan He; The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan


Fiber-Optic Sensors for the Exploration of Oil and Gas

Tsutomu Yamate; Schlumberger K.K., Japan


Fiber-Optic Structural Health Monitoring in the Energy Industry

Wolfgang Ecke, Reinhardt Willsch and Hartmut Bartelt; Inst. of Photonic Technology, Germany


Monitoring of Environmentally Hazardous Exhaust Emissions from Cars Using Optical Fiber Sensors

Elfed Lewis; Univ. of Limerick, Ireland


Optical Fiber Harsh Environment Sensors

Hai Xiao, Tao Wei, Xinwei Lan and Yinan Zhang; Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, USA


Optical Sensing with Coherent Imaging Fiber Bundles

Ralph P. Tatam; Cranfield Univ., UK


Plasmonic Biosensing and Imaging with Metal Nanoslits

L. -Y. Yu, C. -Y. Lin, J. -C. Hsu, Shih-Hui Chang, and Shean-Jen Chen; National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan


Technology Development for Deep Tissue Multiphoton Imaging

Chris Xu; Cornell Univ., USA




Optical Signal Processing



High-Speed and Precise Lightwave Modulation Technologies

Tetsuya Kawanishi, Takahide Sakamoto and Akito Chiba; NICT, Japan


Highly-Nonlinear Chalcogenide Glass Devices for High-Speed Signal Processing and Characterization

M.D. Pelusi1, T.D. Vo1, F. Luan1, S.J. Madden2, D.-Y. Choi2, D.A.P. Bulla2, B. Luther-Davies2 and B.J. Eggleton1; 1Univ. of Sydney, Australia, 2Australian National Univ., Australia


Lightwave Signal Processing Using Tellurite Fibers

Yasutake Ohishi, Guanshi Qin, Meisong Liao, Chitrarekha Chaudhari and Takenobu Suzuki; Toyota Technological Inst., Japan


Multi-Carrier Systems for High-Capacity Transmission

J. Zhao, A. D. Ellis, F. C. G. Gunning, S. K. Ibrahim, and P. Frascella; Univ. College Cork, Ireland


Optical Signal Processing up to 1.28 Tbit/s

H.C. Hansen Mulvad, L.K. Oxenløwe, M. Galili, A.T. Clausen, J. Xu, E. Palushani, H. Ji and P. Jeppesen; Technical Univ. of Denmark, Denmark


Optical Signal Processing in SOI Waveguide Devices

Yikai Su1, Qiang Li2, Fangfei Liu1, Qingjiang Chang1, Tao Wang1, Ziyang Zhang2 and Min Qiu2; 1Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China, 2Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden


Polarization Insensitive Wavelength Conversion Techniques for 100Gb/s Polarization-Diversity Signal

Jianjun Yu and Ming-Fang Huang; NEC Labs. America, Inc., USA


Physical Layer Network Security Based on Optical Processing Using Compact Passive Devices

Mable P. Fok, Yanhua Deng and Paul R. Prucnal; Princeton Univ., USA


Scalable Quantum Dot Based Optical Interconnects

K.A. Williams1,2, A. Albores -Mejia1, T. de Vries1, E. Smalbrugge1, Y.S. Oei1, M.K. Smit1 and R. Notzel1; 1Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, 2Cambridge Univ., UK


Vector Soliton Fiber Lasers

D. Y. Tang, H. Zhang, L. M. Zhao, X. Wu; Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore




Optoelectronics Materials, Devices and Modules



A New Electro-Optic Sampling Method Using Two/Multiple Wavelengths

L. Ji, W. R. Donaldson and T. Y. Hsiang; Univ. of Rochester, USA


Bandgaps Engineering in Light-Emitting Polymers via from p-n Diblock Compolymerization to Inorganic/ Organic Hybridization

Ling-Hai Xie and Wei Huang; Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), China


Colloidal Nanocrystal-Based Light-Emitting Diodes Fabricated on Plastic – Towards Flexible Quantum Dot Optoelectronics

Jian Xu1, Zhanao Tan1, Chunfeng Zhang1, Fan Zhang1, Shawn Pickering1, and Andrew Y. Wang2 ; 1Penn State Univ., USA, 2Ocean NanoTech LLC., USA


Epitaxy of III-V Semiconductor Nanowires Towards Optoelectronic Devices

Q. Gao1, H. J. Joyce1, S. Paiman1, H. H. Tan1, Y. Kim2, L. M. Smith3, H. E. Jackson3, J. M. Yarrison-Rice4, X. Zhang5, J. Zou5 and C. Jagadish1; 1The Australian National Univ., Australia, 2Dong-A Univ., Korea, 3Univ. of Cincinnati, USA, 4Miami Univ., USA, 5The Univ. of Queensland, Australia


GaN Nanorod-Based Subwavelength Optical Media

H.-Y. Chen1, H.-W. Lin1, Y.-C. Yang1, C.-Y. Wu1, W.-C. Chen2, J.-S. Chen2 and S. Gwo1,2; 1National Tsing-Hua Univ., Taiwan, 2National Applied Research Labs., Taiwan


GaN-Based Monolithic LED Micro-Arrays

Zhao Jun Liu, Ka Ming Wong, Chak Wah Tang and Kei May Lau; The Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China


Integration of InP/InGaAs/InP p-i-n Photodiodes on Silicon via Wafer Bonding and Hydrogen-Induced Layer Exfoliation

Peng Chen1, Ka Ming Wong1, Kei May Lau1 and S. S. Lau2; 1The Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China, 2Univ. of California, USA


Integration of Nanophotonic Devices for On-Chip Optical Interconnects

Solomon Assefa1, Fengnian Xia1, S. W. Bedell1, Ying Zhang1, Teya Topuria2, Philip M. Rice2 and Yurii A. Vlasov1; 1IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA, 2IBM Almaden Research Center, USA


Intermediate Band Solar Cells

Antonio Martí and Antonio Luque; Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid


Long-Wavelength VCSELs with Enhanced Modulation Bandwidth

Werner Hofmann; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA


Polarization Manipulation in Photonic Integration on Indium Phosphide

J.J. G.M. van der Tol, U. Khalique, L.M. Augustin, A.A.M. Kok and M.K. Smit; Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands


Polarization-Stable VCSELs for Optical Sensing and Communications

Rainer Michalzik1, J.M. Ostermann1, A. Al-Samaneh1, D. Wahl1, F. Rinaldi1 and P. Debernardi2; 1Ulm Univ., Germany, 2IEIIT-CNR, Italy


Recent Advances in Optoelectronic Technologies in ASTRI

Shu Yuan, Chen-Jung Tsai, Ming Lu, SK Lam and Enboa Wu; Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Inst. (ASTRI), China


Strain-Compensated InGaAs/InAlAs Quantum-Cascade Lasers

Liu Feng-Qi, Wang Zhanguo, Li Lu, Wang Lijun and Liu Junqi; Inst. of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China


Wavelength Control of MEMS VCSELs

Fumio Koyama and Hayato Sano; Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan




Transmission Systems and Switching Technologies



Advanced Digital Incoherent Multilevel Signaling Techniques

Nobuhiko Kikuchi; Hitachi Ltd.


Electro-Optic Synthesis of Multi-Level Coherent Signals

Takahide Sakamoto, Akito Chiba and Tetsuya Kawanishi; NICT, Japan


High-Speed Photonic Signal Processing for Packet Switching

H. J. S. Dorren, N. Calabretta, E. Tangdiongga and O. Raz; Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands


Long-Haul WDM Transmission Using No-Guard-Interval Coherent Optical OFDM

Akihide Sano and Yutaka Miyamoto; NTT Network Innovation Labs., Japan


Optical Flow Switching

Vincent W.S. Chan; Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, USA


Optical OFDM for High-Speed Transmission

Itsuro Morita; KDDI R&D Labs., Japan


Phase-Modulated Subcarrier-Multiplexed Transmission Systems

Hoon Kim; National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore


Progress in Real Time, DSP Assisted, Coherent Optical Transmission

M. O'Sullivan; Nortel, Canada


Recent Advances in Undersea Long-Haul Transmission

Jin-Xing Cai; Tyco Telecommunications, USA


Spectrally-Efficient High-Speed Optical Transmission Technologies

Xiang Zhou1 and Jianjun Yu2; 1AT&T Labs.–Research, USA, 2NEC Labs. America, Inc., USA

 
 

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