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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Wednesday, 14 November 2001WA Quantum Dot/Wire Lasers IIWA1 Atomic Structure of Self-Organized QDs 399WA2 Gain Dynamics and Spectal Hole-Burning in ln(Ga)As Self-Organized Quantum Dots 401WA3 Excitation Dependence of Lateral Beam Width in a Quantum-Dot Laser 403WA4 Low Threshold Oxide-Confined InAs Quantum Dash Ridge Waveguide Lasers on InP Substrates 405WA5 1.5 urn Wavelength GalnAsP/lnP 5-Layered Quantum-Wire Lasers Fabricated by CH4/H2 Dry

Etching and Regrowth 407

WB Special Symposium on New Transmission Windows IWB1 Multi-Wavelength Diode-Pumped Broadband Raman Amplifiers 409WB2 TDFA for Amplification in the S-Band 411WB3 Measurements of S-band to C-Band SRS Interaction over Standard Single-Mode Fiber using a Cascade

of Lumped Raman and Erbium Amplifiers 413

WC Optical Components IWC1 Telecommunications using MEMS Devices: An Overview 415WC2 MEMS Switchable WDM Deinterleaver based on a Gires-Tournois Interferometer 417WC3 Smart EDFA with Embedded Control 419WC4 Widely Tunable Fiber Ring Laser with EDFA/SOA 421WC5 Complete Noise Characterization of a Gigahertz Optical Pulse Train by Time-Domain Demodulation of Its

Harmonics 423

WD WDM in the Metro EnvironmentWD1 Metro Area Transparent WDM Optical Networks 425WD2 Study of a Transparent and Reconfigurable Metropolitan Area Network 427WD3 Metro Area Optical Networks: Technologies and Trends 429WD4 Overlays and Churn in WDM Interconnected-Ring Metro Networks 431

WE O-E Reliability & Manufacturing IWE1 VCSEL Based Parallel Optic Interconnect Reliability 433WE2 Effect of Joint Strength of PbSn and AuSn Solders on Thermal Aging in Laser Packages 435WE3 Application of Flip-Chip-Bonders in AuSn Solder Processes to Achieve High after Bonding Accuracy for

Optoelectronic Modules 437

WF Nonlinear PropagationWF1 Compensation of Self-Focusing using the Cascade Quadratic Nonlinearity 439WF2 Nonlinear Propagation of Ultrashort Pulses in Nonlinear Periodic Materials with Alternating Oppositely-

Signed Kerr Coefficients 441WF3 Polarization Self-Modulation in a VCSEL Subject to Optical Feedback through a

Quarter-Wave Plate 443WF4 Beam Propagation in Reverse Saturable Absorbing (RSA) Dyes 445

WG VCSELsWG1 InP-based 1310-1550 nm Lattice-Matched VCSELs 447WG2 Fully Integrated 0.25 nm CMOS 4x8 VCSEL Driver Array IC with 2.5 Gbit/s/channel Bit Rate and Low

Cross Talk 449WG3 High-Voltage CMOS Arbitrary Waveform Generator for Linear SLM Array 451WG4 Low Cost 1300nm Edge Emitter Laser 453

WH Powerful X-Ray Generation and Its Application IWH1 Saturated Amplification of Fs Laser Driven Collisional Soft X Ray Lasers 455WH2 X-Ray Laser Research at JAERI 4 5 7

WH3 Coherent Femtosecond X-Ray Source by High Order Harmonics 459

Wl VCSELIWI1 Antiguided VCSELs and VCSEL Phase-Locked Arrays 461WI2 Influence of Design Variations on Bipolar Cascade VCSEL Performance..... 463WI3 Tailoring of Transverse and Longitudinal Mode Stability in Extended Cavity VCSELs, using Paraxial

Eigenmode Algorithms 465WI4 Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers: Comparison of Fabry-Perot and Rate Equations

Approaches 467WI5 Large Spot-Size Narrow Waveguide VCSEL 469

WJ Special Symposium on New Transmission Windows IIWJ1 S-Band Discrete Raman Amplifiers: Technology and System Performance 471WJ2 Line Fibers for New Transmission Windows 473WJ3 Component Technologies for the S-Band 475

WK Performance Enhancement TechniquesWK1 Forward Error Correction Techniques in Long-Haul Optical Transmission Systems 477WK2 Monitoring the Optical Performance in a Transparent and Configurable Metro Area Network 479WK3 Effectiveness of Receiver-Side Compensation against FBG Dispersion-Induced SNR Degradation in

Long-Haul WDM Optical Networks 481WK4 Spatially Resolved Detection for Enhancement of Multimode-Fiber-Link Performance 483WK5 Experimental Verification of Optimum Filter Bandwidths in Direct-Detection (N)RZ Receivers Limited by

Optical Noise 485

WL Three-Dimensional Imaging SystemsWL1 Three-Dimensional Television using Integral Photography 487WL2 Three-Dimensional Animation Display using Integral Photography with Variable Image Planes 489WL3 Enhanced 3D Color Integral Imaging using Multiple Display Devices 491WL4 Three-Dimensional Integral Imaging System using Volume Holography 493WL5 Three-Dimensional Object Recognition based on Multiple Perspectives Imaging with

Microlens Arrays 495

WM O-E Reliability & Manufacturing IIWM1 Photonics Chip™ Platforms for Communication Applications 497WM2 3D Micro Optical Switching System (3D-MOSS) -Packaging Design- 499WM3 Recent Progress in 40Gb/s IC/OEIC Design and Manufacturing 501

WN SolitonsWN1 Nematic Liquid Crystals for Coherent and Incoherent Spatial Solitons 503WN2 "Molecules of Light" - Multipole Spatial Vector Solitons 505WN3 Incoherent Spatial Solitons 507

WO ResonatorsWO1 High-Q, Vertically-Coupled Microresonators Built by Wafer-Bonding Technique 509WO2 Wavelength Selective Mirror using Notched Microring Resonators 511WO3 Control of Unidirectional Operation in Semiconductor Ring Lasers 513WO4 Periodically-Coupled GaAs-AIGaAs and GalnAsP-InP Microring Resonators with High-Order, Wide-FSR

Response 515WO5 Micro-Ring Resonators using Polymer Materials 517WO6 Fast Nonlinear All-Optical Switching in a Compact Semiconductor Microring Resonator 519

WP Powerful X-Ray Generation and Its Application IIWP1 Energy Scaling of High-Order Harmonics in Soft X-Ray Region 521WP2 Ultrafast X-Ray Generation and its Application 523WP3 Time-Resolved Probing of Aluminum Plasma Created by a 100-fs Laser Pulse using a Picosecond Soft

X-Ray Pulse 525WP4 Generation and Application of Femtosecond X-Rays from a Synchrotron 527

WQ Mid-IR Lasers IIWQ1 Noninvasive Blood Glucose Monitoring in the 2.0-2.5 nm Wavelength Range 529WQ2 Power Efficiency of GaSb based 2.0um Diode Lasers 530WQ3 Wavelength Beam Combining of Mid-IR Semiconductor Lasers 532WQ4 Mid-Infrared Lasers Operating on a Single Quantum Well at the Type II Heterointerface 534

WR MEMS Packaging and Novel ApplicationsWR1 The Challenges of Packaging MEMS Components for the All Optical Networks of the Future 536WR2 MEMS Packaging Technology N/AWR3 MEMS and their Applications in Optical Signal Processing and Beamforming for

Phased Array Antennas 538

WS Optical Components IIWS1 Challenges in Component Testing for Optical Systems 540WS2 Noise in Vertical-Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers 542WS3 Gain-Switched Laser Pulse Propagation in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier 544WS4 Broadband Tunability of External-Cavity Semiconductor Lasers for Optical Communication 546WS5 Analysis and Improvement on Polarization Sensitivity of Pulsed Lightwave Frequency Sweeper 548

WT Electro-Optical ImageWT1 Electro-Optical Systems for Image Recognition 550WT2 Double Random Polarization Encryption for Data Security 552WT3 Composite Filters based on Digital Holograms for Distortion-Tolerant Three-Dimensional Object

Recognition 554WT4 Volume Holographic Processor for Three-Dimensional Object Recognition 556WT5 Adaptive Imaging Spectrometer in a Time-Domain Filtering Architecture 558

WU Quantum Dots & VCSELsWU1 Metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy of Quantum Dots 560WU2 Saturation Intensity in InAs Quantum Dot and Its Application to All-Optical Switches 562WU3 Far Field Pattern Control of Single High Order Transverse Mode VCSEL with Micromachined Surface

Relief 564WU4 Monolithic Integration of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers and Wavelength-Shifted Resonant-

Cavity Photodetectors 566

WV Photonic Crystals and SolitonsWV1 Tuning 2-D Silicon Photonic Crystals 568WV2 Cascaded Raman Self-Frequency Shifted Solitons Generation in Er/Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifier 570WV3 Experimental Nonlinear Optics in Microstructure Fiber 572WV4 2D SOI Photonic Crystal Slab and Line-Defect Waveguide 574

WW Planar Waveguide TechnologyWW1 Single-Frequency and Mode-Locked Er/Yb Co-Doped Waveguide Lasers 576WW2 Optimal Plasma Etching for Fabrication of Channel Waveguides 578WW3 Semi-Leaky Optical Isolator Fabricated by Wafer Bonding of Magneto-Optic Garnet and LiNbO3 580WW4 Minimized Losses in a Cylindrical Microresonator by use of a Cladding: Experimental and Numerical

Study 582WW5 A New Two-Dimensional Subwavelength Resonant Grating Filter Fabricated by

Nanoimprint Lithography 584

WX Advanced UV and VUV Light SourcesWX1 Powerful UV Laser Oscillation on Copper and Gold Ion Lines in Nanosecond Pulsed Longitudinal

Discharges 586WX2 Development of a High-Power Deep-Ultraviolet Continuous -Wave Coherent Light Source for Laser

Cooling of Silicon Atoms 588WX3 High Power F2 Lasers for Microlithography 590WX4 A Physical and Chemical Study of ArF Laser Irradiation on Polycarbonate Surface 592

WY Long Wavelength VCSELsWY1 The Race Toward Long Wavelength VCSELs •. 594WY2 High-Performance1.3-Micron InGaAsN VCSELs 596WY3 High-Performance1.3-nm VCSELs with GaAsSb/GaAs Quantum Wells 598WY4 1.1-1.2 urn Multiple-Wavelength Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Array with Highly Strained

GalnAs/GaAs QWs on Patterned Substrate 600

WZ Visionary ON Services and TechnologiesWZ1 QuIST: DARPA's Program in Quantum Information Science and Technology N/AWZ2 Monolithic Optoelectronic Integration & Networks N/AWZ3 Future Switched Optical Network Architectures N/A

WAA Polarization Mode DispersionWAA1 PMD Mitigation by Optical and Electronic Signal Processing 602WAA2 Calculations of Outage Probabilities due to PMD using Importance Sampling 604WAA3 A Method of Distinguishing Combined Mode Coupling Regimes when Polarisation Mode Dispersion is

Measured by the Interference Method 606WAA4 Comparative Study among Analytical and Numerical Models for the Performance Evaluation of Optical

Systems Affected by Polarization Mode Dispersion 608

WBB Nonlinear Optical SystemsWBB1 Photorefractive Devices for Information Systems 610WBB2 Parallel readout of Multi-layer Optical Disks Recorded with a Blue Laser 612WBB3 Improvements in Medical Imaging Systems using Information Processing N/AWBB4 Broadband Diffraction in a Photorefractive Asymmetric Coupled Quantum Well Structure 614WBB5 Wide Angle High Speed Large Aperture Optical Scanner 616WBB6 Fabrication of Switchable Microlens Arrays based on a Liquid Crystal 618

WCC Long Wavelength Device ProcessingWCC1 GalnNAs/GaAs Edge Emitting Lasers for the 1.3 to 1.5 urn Wavelength Range 620WCC2 Improved Crystallinity of GalnNAs by Additional Rapid Thermal Annealing (RTA) 622WCC3 X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopic Study of InGaAsN grown by MOCVD 624WCC4 A Low-Cost Solution in Generating Multiple-Bandgaps for 1.55 um Optical Fibre Communications 626WCC5 Fabrication of Vertically Coupled lnP Microdisk Resonators by using Smooth, CH4-based Reactive Ion

Etching Methods 628WCC6 He+-implanted InxGa^ASyPi-y (Ag=1.3um) Tunnel Junctions and their Application as Current Blocking

Layers 630

WDD Organic NLOWDD1 Sum-Frequency Spectroscopic Investigation of the Alignment of Liquid Crystals on Self-Assembled

Monolayers and Imaging of Endgrafted Alpha-Helical Polypeptide Films 632WDD2 Self-Phase Modulation in Perfluorinated Polymer-Based Gl Polymer Optical Fiber with Intense

Femtosecond Laser Pulse 634WDD3 Periodically Poling by Chromophore Molecule Orientation Control in Cross-Linked Polymer Film 636WDD4 Photorefractive Effect in Nematic Liquid Crystals Doped with Nonlinear Optical Chromophores 638

WEE Terahertz Physics and TechniquesWEE1 Terahertz Polaritonics: Spatiotemporal Imaging, Spatiotemporal Femtosecond Pulse Shaping, and

Spatiotemporal Coherent Control 640WEE2 Attempt to Amplify Broadband THz Radiation with a p-Ge Active Crystal 642WEE3 Generation of High-Peak-Power THz Radiation by using Diamond Photoconductive Antenna Array 644WEE4 THz Spectroscopy of Ice 646

Thursday, 15 November 2001

ThA Novel Devices & CharacterizationThA1 Room Temperature Operation of VCSEL-Pumped Photonic Crystal Lasers 651ThA2 Effects of Undesired External Reflections on a Laser Diode Feedback Interferometer for Measurement of

Displacements without Ambiguity 653ThA3 Measurement of Spontaneous Emission Spectra of Diode Laser Structures 655ThA4 Enhancement of Lateral Mode Confinement in VCSELs using Curved Bragg Mirrors 657ThA5 Current Profiling and Transverse Mode Control in Broad Area Lasers 659ThA6 Far- and Near-Field Observation of Whispering Gallery Modes in 1.7-2.9 (am Microdisk Lasers 661

ThB Frequency ConversionThB1 Development of High Power Femtosecond Lasers based on the Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse

Amplifications 663ThB2 Threshold of the Second Stokes Scattering in a Fiber Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Beam Combiner.665ThB3 Synchronously Pumped OPO-OPO and OPO-DFM Devices 667ThB4 Femtosecond Light Source for Phase-Controlled Atomic Processes 669

ThC Modulation Formats IIThC1 Modulation Formats for Higher WDM Spectral Efficiencies 671ThC2 Numerical Comparison of NRZ, CS-RZ and IM-DPSK formats in 43Gbit/s WDM Transmission 673ThC3 Impact of the Modulation Depth on Self-Homodyne Optical Single Sideband Systems 675ThC4 Transmission Performance Improvement in Differential Phase-Shift Keying Wavelength-Division

Multiplexed Transmission Systems using All-Optical 2R-Repeaters 677ThC5 Influence of Extinction Ratio of Clock Modulator on the Dispersion Tolerance of Carrier Suppressed

Return to Zero Signals 679

ThD Holographic Memory SystemsThD1 Nonlinear Optical Systems for Industrial Inspection and Biological Imaging 681ThD2 Interleaving for Burst Errors in Volume Holographic Memory 683ThD3 Photorefractive Holography with Phase Conjugate of Signal Beam 685

ThE GaN GrowthThE1 Novel Growth of GaN with Low Dislocation Density for UV Lasers 687ThE2 Epitaxy of GaN by MOCVD and Fabrication of AIGaN/GaN MODFET 689ThE3 Frequency Stabilization of GaN Blue Diode Laser 691

ThF Avalanche PhotodiodesThF1 Low-Noise Avalanche Photodiodes 693ThF2 Theory of Impact lonization in Thin Multiplication Layers 695ThF3 Optimization of Double Diffused Floating Guarding Ring InGaAs/lnP Avalanche Photodiodes 697ThF4 Bandwidth Simulations of 10Gb/s Avalanche Photodiodes 699

ThG Air-Silica Microstructures & Fiber NonlinearitiesThG1 Generation and Applications of Supercontinuum in Optical Fibers 701ThG2 Super Continuum Generation at 800 nm in Highly Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fibers with Normal

Dispersion 703ThG3 Glass Photonic Crystals: Fabrication, Optical Properties and Applications 705ThG4 Modelling Birefringence in Isolated Elliptical Core Photonic Crystal Fibers 707ThG5 Evanescent Field Analysis of Air-Silica Microstructure Waveguides 709

ThH Short Pulse LasersThH1 Actively Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers for 40 Gb/s/channel DWDM Systems and Beyond 711ThH2 60 Channel * 3.6-Gb/s Optical WDM Transmitter using a Multiwavelength Modelocked Semiconductor

Laser 713ThH3 Wavelength Tunable Repetition Rate Doubled Pulse Generation

through a Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror 715

ThH4 Wavelength Tunable Optical Pulse Generation at Various Repetition Rates from a SemiconductorFiber Ring Laser 717

ThH5 Generation of Extremely Short Pulses from Self-Hybrid Mode-Locking of Semiconductor Lasers 719ThH6 Direct Generation of 1.5 urn, 2.1 ps Pulses at 10 GHz from an Actively Modelocked Fiber Laser using a

Monolithic Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and Electroabsorption Modulator Device 721

Thl VCSELsThl1 Long Wavelength Photonic Integrated Circuit Surface-Emitting Lasers (PICSELs) 723Thl2 High-Speed Modulation of 850-nmVertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers 724Thl3 10 Gbps Modulation Characteristics of 850nm Oxide Confined VCSEL 726Thl4 Transmission Improvement of VCSEL at 2.5 Gb/s Under Injection Locking by Another VCSEL 728Thl5 Active Layer Characterization of GalnP Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers using Two-Photon

Femtosecond Excitation 730

ThJ Novel Technologies & Applications for Optical Interconnects & ProcessingThJ1 MEMS Technology for Optical Interconnect and Networking Applications 732ThJ2 First Trials and Future Technologies for Artificial Retinas 734ThJ3 Photonic Crystals and their Applications to Efficient Light Emitters 736

ThK Metro Network Transmission SystemsThK1 Composite Packet Switched WDM Networks 738ThK2 Effect of Optical Pulse Shapes on the Performance of an All-Optical Packet Switching Node using an

Optical Correlator as a Packet Address Detector 740ThK3 16 Channel, 10 Gb/s DWDM Transmission of Directly Modulated Lasers with 100 GHz Channel Spacing

over 100 km of Negative Dispersion Fiber 742ThK4 Bidirectional Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer for Single-Fiber Metro Networks 744ThK5 Center Frequency Tolerances of Cascaded Optical Filters in WDM Optical Networks 746

ThL Frequency Conversion and TuningThL1 Wavelength-Tunable Optical Spectral Bistability in a Ring Laser using a Semiconductor

Optical Amplifier 748ThL2 Ultraviolet Broadband (190-450 nm) Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Optical Fibers for Biomedical

Use 750ThL3 Highly Efficient SHG in Buried Waveguides Formed using Annealed and Reverse Proton Exchange in

PPLN 752ThL4 Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation in Periodic Nonlinear Optical Nanostructures 754ThL5 Fibre-Laser-Pumped Femtosecond PPLN Optical Parametric Oscillator 756

ThM GaN ProcessingThM1 Advances in Ill-Nitride Micro-Photonic Devices 758ThM2 Fabrication of 50-100 nm Patterned InGaN Blue Light Emitting Heterostructures 760ThM3 Femtosecond Laser Micromachining of Sapphire 762ThM4 Microstructure Fabrication of GaN and Si Substrates using Intense Femtosecond Laser 764

ThN Novel PhotodetectorsThN1 Bias-Dependent Dual-Spectral lnAs/lno.i5Gao.85As Quantum Dots Infrared Photodetectors 766ThN2 Resonant Cavity Enhanced Photodiodes with a Broadened Spectral Peak 768ThN3 High-Speed and High-Sensitivity Waveguide jnAIAs Avalanche Photodiodes

for 10-40 Gb/s Receivers 770ThN4 Dark Current Reduction in Fused InGaAs/Si Avalanche Photodiode 772ThN5 Comparison of Numerical Aperture Increasing Lens and Standard Subsurface Microscopy 774

ThO Fiber Bragg Gratings & Their ApplicationsThO1 Fabrication of Fiber Bragg Grating by Femtosecond Laser Interferometry 776ThO2 Wavelength Characteristics of Arc-Induced Long-Period Grating by Core and Cladding Diameter

Modulation 778ThO3 Electrical Modulation of an Etched Long-Period Fiber Grating with a Liquid-Crystal Cladding 780ThO4 Optical Fiber Transducer based on LPFG and Microbends for Multi-Parameter Sensinn 782

ThO5 Frequency Stabilization of Fiber Grating Laser using Inteferometric Technique 784

ThP Femtosecond Interactions in Quantum Dots and WellsThP1 Femtosecond Interactions in Semiconductor Quantum Dots 786ThP2 Femtosecond Z-scan and Pump-probe Measurements of Silicon Nanoclusters made by Laser Ablation

and Ion Implantation 788ThP3 The Properties of Ion-Implanted InGaAs Single Quantum-Well Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mirrors

for Passive Mode-Locking 790ThP4 Ultrafast Intersubband Transitions in Heavily Doped InGaAs/AIAsSb Coupled Double Quantum Well

Structures for All-Optical Switching 792

ThQ Communications Laser DiodesThQ1 High Performance of 1.55-(am Laser Diode Integrated with a Novel Spot Size Converter 794ThQ2 Very Wide Temperature (-20 - 95°C) Operation of an Uncooled 2.5Gbit/s 1300nm DFB Laser 796ThQ3 InGaAsP-lnP 1.55 urn Lasers with Integrated Mode Expanders using

Fiber-Matched Leaky Waveguides 798ThQ4 Locking Range Dependence on the Grating Characteristics of Distributed Feedback Semiconductor

Lasers 800ThQ5 Over 100mW High Power Operation of 1625nm L-band DFB Laser Diodes 802ThQ6 Tail-Free Operation of an Overdriven Gain-Switched DFB Laser by Spectral Filtering 804ThQ7 Temperature Performance of AIGalnAs Semiconductor Lasers 806

ThR Optical Interconnect Technology & SystemsThR1 Large Scale Modulator Arrays for Beam Steering and Optical Modulator Applications 808ThR2 Ultra-Thin Silicon-on-Sapphire for Flip-Chip based CMOS/Optoelectronic Device Integration 810ThR3 Latency in Short Pulse based Optical Interconnects 812ThR4 Multi-Scale Lens Design for the Global Multi-Chip FAST-Net Interconnection Module 814

ThS Electro-Optic Sensors IThS1 Photonic Beamformer with Flexible Interface for Phased Array Antennas 816ThS2 Compact Multichannel 2KV Arbitrary Waveform Generator for Ferroelectric Device Arrays 818ThS3 Porous Silicon Vapor Sensor based on Polarization Interferometry 820ThS4 Integrated Multi-Band EO Sensor for UV, IR and Laser Detection Applications 822ThS5 Variation of the Pauli Matrices Coefficients in Nd-Doped Fibers Subjected to a Magnetic Field 823ThS6 Parametric Optimization of a Current Sensor Employing Spun SEB Fibers 825

ThT Novel Opto-Electronic Materials & DevicesThT1 Hybrid Integration of Polymers and Compound Semiconductors in Photonics 827ThT2 Developments on Organic Light-Emitting Structures and Microcavities N/AThT3 Nearly Lasing Actions from Nanoparticle-Modified Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Structure on Si 829

ThU PhotoreceiversThU1 Phototransceiver Arrays with Phototransistors and Resonant Cavity Light Emitting Diodes Vertically

Integrated with Tunnel Junctions 831ThU2 A Monolithically Integrated Bacteriorhodopsin/GaAs MODFET Bio-Photoreceiver 833ThU3 Hybrid Integrated Multiwavelength Photoreceivers Consisting of Photo-Diodes and an Arrayed-

Waveguide Grating 835ThU4 Silicon Lateral Trench Detectors for Optical Communications 837ThU5 High-Efficiency, 10 GHz Bandwidth Resonant-Cavity-Enhanced Silicon Photodetectors

Operating at 850 nm Wavelength 839

ThV Fiber Networks and ComponentsThV1 Use of Multimode Fiber and 850 VCSEL Arrays for High-Speed Parallel Interconnects 841ThV2 Loss Engineered Arrayed Waveguide Gratings for Generating Multiple Wavelength Shifted 500 GHz

Repetition Rate Flat-Topped Pulse Trains 843ThV3 Demonstration of a Fast All-Fiber Acousto-Optic Tunable Filter based Variable Optical Attenuator 845ThV4 Hybrid Integrated SOAG Array Module for Photonic Packet Switching Application 847

ThW Ultrafast Waveform Detection and ProcessingThW1 Nonlinear Space-Time Processing •- 849ThW2 Ultra-Sensitive Autocorrelation at 1.5 urn using a Photon-Counting Silicon Avalanche Photodiode 851ThW3 Single-Shot Interferometric Correlator for Ultrashort Laser Pulses based on Nonlinear Absorption in a

Silicon CCD .853ThW4 Effects of Mirror Surface Deformation in Optical Delay Lines based on

Resonant-Scanning Micromirrors 855ThW5 Using Electric Field Induced Second Harmonic Generation to Probe Electric Fields in Semiconductor

Devices 857

ThX High Performance Optical InterconnectsThX1 Next-Generation Parallel-Optical Data Links : 859ThX2 Electronic Packaging for 10-100Gb/s OE Systems •. 861ThX3 Gigabit Optical Network Interface Card using Parallel Data Fiber Link for a Free-Space Switched Local

Area Network System 863ThX4 Y-Junction based Addressing in Optical Symmetric Multiprocessor Networks 865

ThY Electro-Optic Sensors IIThY1 A High-Sensitivity, Simple, Low-Cost Method for the Measurement of Time-Multiplexed Fiber Bragg

Grating Sensors 867ThY2 Performance Characteristics of Fiber Bragg Grating Stabilized 980nm Diode Laser Pumped Difference

Frequency Generation as an Efficient Spectroscopic Source 869 |ThY3 Dynamic Strain Characteristics of Multiple FBG Sensor System using CDMA 871ThY4 Trace Gas Analysis by Diode Laser Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy 873ThY5 Measurement of Refractive Index in Oils using a Self-Referenced Fiber Optic Intensity Sensor 875ThY6 Large Area Average Temperature Sensing by the Use of Optical Coherence Domain Reflectometry....877

ThZ Semiconductor Laser EpitaxyThZ1 High Power Single Lateral Mode Buried Ridge Laser Incorporating a Curved Waveguide for Spatial

Filtering 879ThZ2 Vertical and Lateral Heterogeneous Integration 881ThZ3 New Buried Heterostructure using MOVPE Selective Regrowth of Semi-Insulating (Si-) InAIAs for Low

Capacitance Optical Sources 883

ThAA High-Speed PhotodetectorsThAA1 High Quantum Efficiency, 40 GHz InGaAs Twin Waveguide PIN Photodetectors 885ThAA2 High Power Performance of Ultrahigh Bandwidth MSM TWPDs 887ThAA3 High-Speed InGaAs based Resonant Cavity Enhanced p-i-n Photodiodes 889ThAA4 Design, Optical and High Frequency Characteristics of Double Stage Tapered Photodiodes for >40Gb/s

Applications 891

ThBB Fiber Characterization and ModelingThBB1 Characterization of Bandwidth Length Uniformity in High Speed Data Communications Multimode Optical

Fiber » 893ThBB2 Measurement and Modeling of Emission Spectra of Er-Yb Co-Doped Fibers 895ThBB3 Semi-Leaky Modes in Chiral Optical Fibers 897ThBB4 Novel Tunable Optical Filter Employing a Fiber Loop Mirror for Synthesis Applications in WDM 899ThBB5 Residual Stress in Silica Optical Fiber Preforms with Various Core Dopants, and Post Mechanical

Processes 901

ThCC Femtosecond Laser Stability and MetrologyThCC1 Time Meets Frequency: Phase Stabilization of Ultrafast Pulses and Optical Frequency Metrology with

Modelocked Lasers 903ThCC2 Ultralow Phase Noise of Ti:Sapphire Laser Rivals 100 MHz Crystal Oscillator 904ThCC3 Complete AM and Residual PM Noise Measurements of an External Cavity Semiconductor Laser Hybridly

Modelocked at 10 GHz 906