IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

CFP09LEO-PRT 978-1-4244-3680-4

2009 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings

Belek-Antalya, Turkey 4 – 8 October 2009

Pages 1-417

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SESSION PLE: PLENARY SESSION The Magical World of Metamaterials .................................................................................................................................. 1

E. Ozbay

Photonics Integration Technologies for Large-Capacity Telecommunication Networks ................................................ 3Y. Hibino

From Femtosecond to Attosecond Optics ............................................................................................................................ 5U. Keller

SESSION MA: 3D DISPLAYS Research Trends in Holographic 3DTV Displays ............................................................................................................... 6

L. Onural

Capturing and Reproducing Light Field in the Real World .............................................................................................. 8T. Koike

Laser Scanning Based Autostereoscopic 3D Display with Pupil Tracking ..................................................................... 10E. Erden, V. C. Kishore, H. Urey, H. Baghsiahi, E. Willman, S. E. Day, D. R. Selviah, F. A. Fernandez, P. Surman

Super Multi-View Display and Holographic Display........................................................................................................ 12Y. Takaki

SESSION MB: OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS FOR COMPUTING Combining Si-Photonics and Optical PCB's...................................................................................................................... 14

F. Horst

Designing Manycore Processor Networks using Silicon Photonics.................................................................................. 16A. Joshi, C. Batten, Y.-J. Kwon, S. Beamer, I. Shamim, K. Asanovic, V. Stojanovic

Design of Optical Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) Translating Receiver.................................................................... 18A. J. Mendez, V. J. Hernandez, R. M. Gagliardi, C. V. Bennett

Integrated Micro-Mirrors for Compact Routing of Optical Polymer Waveguides........................................................ 20T. Lamprecht, R. Beyeler, R. Dangel, F. Horst, D. Jubin, N. Meier, J. Weiss, B. J. Offrein

SESSION MC: PHOTONIC CRYSTALS AND APPLICATIONS Progress in Developing Nanophotonic Fabrication........................................................................................................... 22

T. Yatsui, M. Ohtsu

Photon Manipulation at the Surface of Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals.............................................................. 24K. Ishizaki, S. Noda

Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Developed by Double-Angled Reactive-Ion Etching Technique ...................... 26K. Suzuki, S. Takahashi, M. Okano, M. Imada, K. Ishizaki, T. Nakamori, Y. Ota, S. Noda

Application of Raman Spectroscopy Using Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers to Study Aqueous Semiconductor Colloid Nanoparticles................................................................................................................................ 28

S. A. Rutledge, J. Dinglasan, A. Farah, D. J. Anderson, A. Das, J. Goh, C. Goh, A. S. Helmy

Thermal Preparation of Highly Stable Glass Periodic Changes with Nano-Scale Resolution using a Laser-Inscribed Hydrogen Loaded Seed Template .......................................................................................................... 30

J. Canning, S. Bandyopadhyay, M. Stevenson, P. Biswas, J. Fenton, R. Chakraborty, M. Aslund

SESSION MD: ENHANCED NANOPHOTONIC LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION Time-Resolved Observation of Stopping Optical Pulses by Dynamic Q Control of a Photonic-Crystal Nanocavity............................................................................................................................................................................ 32

J. Upham, Y. Tanaka, T. Asano, S. Noda

All-Optical Switching with Extremely-Small Control Energy in InGaAsP-based Photonic Crystal Nanocavity............................................................................................................................................................................ 34

K. Nozaki, T. Tanabe, A. Shinya, S. Matsuo, T. Sato, H. Taniyama, M. Notomi

Wavelength Conversion by Interband Transition in a Nested Photonic Crystal Cavity ............................................... 36A. Khorshidahmad, A. G. Kirk

Practical Limits of Optical Enhancement by Metal Nanoparticles ................................................................................. 38G. Sun, J. B. Khurgin

SESSION ME: OFDM TRANSMISSION On the Nonlinear Tolerance of 42.8-Gb/s DPSK with Co-Propagating OFDM Neighbors ........................................... 40

S. Adhikari, S. L. Jansen, V. A. J. M. Sleiffer, W. Rosenkranz

Sensitivity Improvement Using Amplified Optical Self-Coherent Detection in an Optical OFDM System................................................................................................................................................................................... 42

K.-M. Feng, R.-T. Shiu, Y.-W. Huang, W.-R. Peng

Applications of Optical OFDM: From Automotive to Ultra Long-Haul......................................................................... 44S. Randel, S. Adhikari, S. Jansen

150 Gb/s PolMUX-8PSK all-optical OFDM using Digital Coherent Detection with Modified CMA Algorithm ............................................................................................................................................................................. 46

Y.-K. Huang, D. Qian, J. Yu, T. Wang

SESSION MF: APPLICATION OF SOFT X-RAYS Laboratory Water-Window X-Ray Microscopy ............................................................................................................... 48

H. M. Hertz, M. Bertilson, E. Chubarova, O. V. Hofsten, A. Holmberg, M. Lindblom, J. Reinspach, U. Vogt

Observation of Ferroelectric Nanostructure by X-ray Laser Speckle Technique .......................................................... 49K. Namikawa, R. Z. Tai, M. Kishimoto, K. Ohwada, M. Matsushita

Table-Top Microscope for At-Wavelength Inspection of Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Mask.............................. 51F. Brizuela, Y. Wang, C. A. Brewer, F. Pedaci, W. Chao, E. H. Anderson, Y. Liu, K. A. Goldberg, P. Naulleau, P. Wachulak, M. C. Marconi, D. T. Attwood, J. J. Rocca, C. S. Menoni

Table Top Ultraviolet Lasers Enable New Nano-Patterning Schemes ............................................................................ 53M. C. Marconi, L. Urbanski, P. Wachulak, A. Isoyan, F. Jiang, Y. Cheng, J. J. Rocca, C. S. Menoni, F. Cerrina

SESSION MG: OPTO-ELECTRONIC PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY A Surface Activation based Nanobonding Technology for Optoelectronics Packaging................................................. 55

M. M. R. Howlader

Wafer-Level Hermetic Vacuum Micro-Packaging Technology for IR Detector Applications...................................... 57S. Garcia-Blanco, K. LeFoulgoc, Y. Desroches, J. S. Caron, P. Topart, C. Alain, H. Jerominek

Online Postweld Shift Measurement of Butterfly-Type Laser Module Using a 25.4-nm Resolution Measurement System........................................................................................................................................................... 59

Y. D. Liu, M. T. Sheen, Y. C. Hsu, H. K. Hsu, Y. C. Tsai, W. H. Cheng

AuSn Solder in Photon ICs Assembly ................................................................................................................................ 61H. Oppermann

SESSION MH: MICRO-NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES Sensitive Silicon and Silica Based Photonics ..................................................................................................................... 63

R. M. De La Rue

An Electrical Tunable Liquid Crystal Fabry-Perot Cell for a Miniaturized 3D Surface Scanning Profilometer ......................................................................................................................................................................... 65

C.-S. Park, K.-W. Park, S.-W. Kang, H.-R. Kim

Optical Modulation with a Ruby Microsphere in Liquid Crystal ................................................................................... 67H. Yilmaz, M. S. Murib, A. Serpenguzel, R. Beccherelli

SESSION MI: ADVANCED DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES Properties of Responsive Liquid Crystal/Polymer Fibers ................................................................................................ 69

J. L. West, E. A. Buyuktanir, M. W. Frey

PLED Integrated FR4 MEMS Display .............................................................................................................................. 71Y. D. Gokdel, A. O. Sevim, B. Kucukakarsu, S. Mutlu, A. D. Yalcinkaya

Improvement of PLED Lifetime using Inorganic Mg-Zn-F Thin Film Passivation....................................................... 73B.-H. Kang, D.-E. Kim, J.-S. Seo, J.-H. Kim, J.-H. Lee, D.-H. Kwon, H.-R. Lee, S.-W. Kang

Nanocrystal Integrated Light Emitting Diodes based on Radiative and Nonradiative Energy Transfer for the Green Gap ................................................................................................................................................................ 75

S. Nizamoglu, E. Sari, J.-H. Baek, I.-H. Lee, H. V. Demir

SESSION MJ: PLASMONICS Active Plasmonics: Current Status..................................................................................................................................... 77

K. F. MacDonald, Z. L. Samson, N. I. Zheludev

Loss Compensation by Amplification in Nanoplasmonic Waveguides: Possibilities and Limitations......................... 78L. Thylen

Fiber Coupling to Silicon Waveguides Using Cantilever Couplers ................................................................................. 80P. Sun, R. M. Reano

SESSION MK: LIGHT EMITTING MATERIALS AND DEVICES Mid-Infrard Lead-Chlacogenide VECSELs Emitting up to Above RT at 4-6 um Wavelength .................................... 82

H. Zogg, M. Rahim, M. Fill, F. Felder, A. Khiar, D. Chappuis

Fabrication of Planar GaN-Based Micro-Pixel Light Emitting Diode Arrays ............................................................... 84D. Massoubre, J. McKendry, B. Guilhabert, Z. Gong, I. M. Watson, E. Gu, M. D. Dawson

Highly Efficient FRET-based Light-Harvesting using Nanocrystals .............................................................................. 86E. Mutlugun, O. Samarskaya, T. Ozel, S. Nizamoglu, H. V. Demir

Quantum Dot Emitters Integrated with Smart Peptides .................................................................................................. 88G. Zengin, U. O. S. Seker, M. Sarikaya, C. Tamerler, H. V. Demir

Fabrication of a Near Infrared OLED ............................................................................................................................... 90M. T. Sharbati, F. Panahi, A. Gharavi, F. Emami, K. Niknam

SESSION ML: PLASMONIC DEVICES Active Plasmonic Devices and Optical Metamaterials...................................................................................................... 92

K.Aydin, S. Burgos, I. M. Pryce, M. J. Dicken, J. A. Dionne, K. Diest, R. de Waele, A. Polman, H. A. Atwater

Plasmonic EIT at the Drude Damping Limit .................................................................................................................... 94N. Liu, L. Langguth, T. Weiss, J. Kastel, M. Fleischhauer, T. Pfau, H. Giessen

Ultra-Compact Nanoplasmonic Splitter ............................................................................................................................ 96R. A. Wahsheh, Z. Lu, M. A. G. Abushagur

Compact Nanoplasmonic Mach-Zehnder Interferometers .............................................................................................. 98R. A. Wahsheh, Z. Lu, M. A. G. Abushagur

Dispersive Properties of Surface Plasmon Polaritonic Crystals with Different Boundary Shapes ............................. 100M. I. Benetou, W. Dickson, V. Mikhailov, B. Thomsen, P. Bayvel, A. V. Zayats

SESSION MM: OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING A NRZ Wavelength Converter Based on a Nonlinear Polarization Switch Cascading a Reshaping Delayed Interferometer ..................................................................................................................................................... 102

X. Zhao, C. Lou, S. Pan

All-Optical Reshaping of Constant-Envelope Signals..................................................................................................... 104G. Contestabile, M. Presi, E. Ciaramella

Convergence of Fibre Characteristics in SPM Based All-Optical Regenerators.......................................................... 106L.-S. Yan, J. Zhang, W. Pan, B. Luo

SESSION MN: COHERENT SOFT X-RAYS Collisionally Excited Extreme Ultra-Violet Lasers Created by Laser Irradiation of Plasmas.................................... 108

G. J. Tallents, I. Al'miev, N. Booth, M. H. Edwards, L. M. R. Gartside, H. Huang, A. K. Rossall, D. S. Whittaker, Z. Zhai

For the Extension of Current Attosecond Pulses to Multi-Cycle Driver Regime and Hard X-Ray Regime ................................................................................................................................................................................ 110

D. E. Kim, B. Kim, J. Ahn, S.-Y. Chung, M. Yoon, K. Lee, Y. Yu, Y. Cheng, Z. Xu

Carrier-Envelope Phase Effects on the Broadband Spectrum of High-Order Harmonics Driven by a Few-Cycle Laser Pulse ...................................................................................................................................................... 112

H. Nakano, K. Oguri, A. Ishizawa

Intense High-Order Harmonics from Nanostructured Material ................................................................................... 114T. Ozaki, L. B. Elouga Bom, R. A. Ganeev, J. Abdul-Hadi, F. Vidal

Femtosecond Vacuum Ultraviolet Seed Pulse Generation at 126 nm by using Harmonic Radiation......................... 116S. Kubodera, M. Kaku, W. Nagaya, H. Zushi, S. Harano, R. Matsumoto, M. Katto

SESSION MO: SUB-SYSTEM INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGIES Planar Hybrid Integration for the Development of Cost Effective Advanced Optical Components .......................... 118

W. K. Bischel

c-Si Photovoltaic Arrays.................................................................................................................................................... 119S. Bermejo, P. Ortega, L. Castaner

SESSION MP: 3D IMAGING AND HOLOGRAPHY Adaptive Deformation of Digital Holograms for Full Control of Depth-of-Focus in 3D Imaging .............................. 121

M. Paturzo, P. Memmolo, A. Finizio, P. Ferraro

Moving Picture Recording and Reconstruction of Visible Ultrashort Light Pulse Propagation in Diffusive Medium .............................................................................................................................................................. 123

Y. Awatsuji, T. Takimoto, S. Nakajima, M. Makino, K. Tosa, Y. Moritani, T. Kakue, K. Nishio, S. Ura, T. Kubota

Numerical Verification of Single-Shot Two-Step Phase-Shifting Color Digital Holography ...................................... 125T. Kakue, T. Tahara, K. Ito, Y. Shimozato, Y. Awatsuji, K. Nishio, S. Ura, T. Kubota, O. Matoba

Numerical Aperture Increasing in Digital Holography by a Two-Dimensional Grating............................................. 127M. Paturzo, P. Ferraro

SESSION TUA: CHANNEL MONITORING PMD Monitoring using Optical Sideband Filtering........................................................................................................ 129

M. N. Petersen, N. Sambo, N. Andriolli, M. Scaffardi

Simple, Low-cost, In-band OSNR Monitor Based on Digital Spectral Slice Manipulation......................................... 131M. Bakaul, R. Chakravorty, A. Nirmalathas

OSNR Monitoring of 40Gb/s Differential Phase-Shift-Keyed Signals Using a DC Detector and a Very Low Frequency Band-Pass Filter ..................................................................................................................................... 133

C.-J. Chae, T. B. Anderson

Optical Vector Signal Analyzer Based on Differential Direct Detection....................................................................... 135J. Li, K. Worms, P. Vorreau, D. Hillerkuss, A. Ludwig, R. Maestle, S. Schule, U. Hollenbach, J. Mohr, W. Freude, J. Leuthold

High-Resolution Optical Sampling................................................................................................................................... 137H. Sunnerud

SESSION TUB: SILICON PHOTONIC DEVICES InP-based Photodetector Bonded on CMOS with Si3N4 Interconnect Waveguides ..................................................... 139

P. R. A. Binetti, X. J. M. Leijtens, A. M. Ripoll, T. de Vries, E. Smalbrugge, Y. S. Oei, L. Di Cioccio, J.-M. Fedeli, C. Lagahe, R. Orobtchouk, D. Van Thourhout, P. J. van Veldhoven, R. Notzel, M. K. Smit

Strong Bandwidth-Enhancement Effect in High-Speed GaAs/AlGaAs Based Uni-Traveling Carrier Photodiode under Small Photocurrent and Zero-Bias Operation ................................................................................. 141

F.-M. Kuo, T.-C. Hsu, J.-W. Shi

Ultrafast Distortion-Free Semiconductor-Based All-Optical Gate that Contains Optical-Spectrum's Phase-and-Amplitude Synthesizer ................................................................................................................................... 143

T. Nishida, S. Shinada, N. Wada, T. Yamaji, Y. Ueno

SESSION TUC: EPITAXIAL QUANTUM DOTS, DASHES, AND WIRES Effect of the Crystal Structure on the Optical Properties of InP Nanowires................................................................ 145

S. Paiman, Q. Gao, H. H. Tan, C. Jagadish, K. Pemasiri, M. Montazeri, H. E. Jackson, L. M. Smith, J. M. Yarrison-Rice, X. Zhang, J. Zou

The Effect of Multi Active Junctions on Broadband Emission from InAs/InGaAlAs Quantum-Dash Structure............................................................................................................................................................................. 147

C. L. Tan, H. S. Djie, C. K. Tan, V. Hongpinyo, Y. H. Ding, B. S. Ooi

Growth and Properties of High Areal Density GaxIn1-xP Quantum Dots on GaP Substrate ...................................... 149S. Gerhard, V. Baumann, S. Hofling, A. Forchel

Photoluminescence and Carrier Dynamics in InAs/InP Quantum Dots Grown by Selective Area Growth................................................................................................................................................................................ 151

S. H. Pyun, W. G. Jeong, D. H. Nguyen, J. Park, Y. D. Jang, D. Lee, J. W. Jang

SESSION TUD: PLASMONIC ARRAYS AND NANOANTENNAS Three-Dimensional Metallic Metamaterials: Coupling Matters.................................................................................... 153

H. Giessen

UV Extraordinary Optical Transmission through Nanoslits ......................................................................................... 154Q. Gan, L. Zhou, V. Dierolf, F. J. Bartoli

Surface Excitation of Hybridized Plasmons In Metallic Nanocavities .......................................................................... 156A. A. Yanik, R. Adato, H. Altug

Sharp Plasmon Resonances in Periodic Arrays of Embedded Nanorods...................................................................... 158R. Adato, A. A. Yanik, H. Altug

Circularly Polarized Localized Near-Field Radiation at the Nanoscale........................................................................ 160E. Ogut, G. Kiziltas, K. Sendur

SESSION TUE: LONG-WAVELENGTH IMAGING ARRAYS Large Format Dual Band QWIP Focal Plane Arrays for Third Generation Thermal Imagers ................................. 162

C. Besikci, Y. Arslan, S. U. Eker

Demonstration of Megapixel Dual-band QWIP Focal Plane Array .............................................................................. 164S. D. Gunapala, J. K. Liu, J. M. Mumolo, D. Z. Ting, C. J. Hill, J. Nguyen

Low Strain Multiple Stack Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors for Multispectral and High Resolution Hyperspectral Imaging................................................................................................................................... 166

P. Vines, C. H. Tan, J. P. R. David, R. S. Attaluri, T. E. Vandervelde, S. Krishna, W. Y. Jang, M. M. Hayat

Multispectral Classification with Bias-tunable Quantum Dots in a Well Focal Plane Array...................................... 168W.-Y. Jang, B. S. Paskaleva, M. M. Hayat, S. C. Bender, S. Krishna

InGaAs/InGaAlAs/InAs/InP Very Selective Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector for 12 µm .................................. 170T. Gebhard, P. L. Souza, D. Alvarenga, C. A. Parra-Murillo, P. S. S. Guimaraes, K. Unterrainer, M. P. Pires, G. S. Vieira, J. M. Villas-Boas, M. Z. Maialle, M. H. Degani, P. F. Farinas, N. Studart

SESSION TUF: SHORT WAVELENGTH AND HIGH POWER SOURCES Development and Applications of Laser-based Mono-Energetic Gamma-Rays (MEGa-rays) ................................... 172

C. P. J. Barty

Extremely Intense Laser-Plasma Experiments at the Canadian Advanced Laser Light Source ................................ 173T. Ozaki

Lasing in Cs at 852.1 nm Pumped by the Photoexcitation of Cs-Rare Gas Collision Pairs ......................................... 175J. D. Readle, J. G. Eden

High Brightness Multimode Array Laser Diode ............................................................................................................. 177M. Murad, A. C. Bryce, V. Loyo-Maldonado

SESSION TUG: ULTRAFAST PULSE PROCESSING 625-MHz Shape-To-Shape Update Rate of a Programmable All-Fiber Optical Pulse Shaper Proved Through an Optical Sampling Oscilloscope .................................................................................................................... 179

A. Malacarne, S. Thomas, F. Fresi, L. Poti, A. Bogoni, S. B. Lee, J. Azana

Generation of a 150 fs Pulse Train at 12.5 GHz Repetition Rate via Cavity Filtering of a Self-Referenced Frequency Comb ........................................................................................................................................... 181

F. Quinlan, Y. Jiang, D. Braje, S. Osterman, S. A. Diddams

Optical Pulse Train Repetition Rate and Envelope Control Based on the Optical Fourier Transform ..................... 183S. Tainta, M. J. Erro, M. J. Garde, W. Amaya, S. Sales, M. A. Muriel

Second-Order Photonic Temporal Differentiator based on a Phase-Shifted Long Period Fiber Grating ................. 185R. Slavik, Y. Park, J. Azana, M. Kulishov

SESSION TUH: INTEGRATED PHOTONICS VLSI Photonics using Plasmonic Wires and Photonic Crystals for Sensor and Functional Applications ................. 187

E.-H. Lee

Tunable Silicon-on-Insulator Based Integrated Optical Filters with Liquid Crystal Cladding .................................. 189N. Hattasan, W. De Cort, J. Beeckman, K. Neyts, R. Baets

Ruby Microsphere and Liquid Cyrstal Based Tunable Optical Filter .......................................................................... 191E. Huseyinoglu, M. S. Murib, A. Serpenguzel, R. Beccherelli

SESSION TUI: DISTORTION COMPENSATION FFE, DFE and MLSE Equalizers in Phase Modulated Transmission Systems ............................................................ 193

M. S. Alfiad, D. van den Borne, M. Kuschnerov, B. Spinnler, T. Wuth, A. Napoli, S. L. Jansen, H. de Waardt

Integrated Analogue Adaptive Equalizer for Gigabit Transmission over Standard Step Index Plastic Optical Fibre (SI-POF)...................................................................................................................................................... 195

J. Sundermeyer, J. Tan, C. Zerna

Electronic Compensation of Fiber Nonlinearity for 40 Gb/s WDM Transmission Systems........................................ 197N. Ahmed, M. I. Hayee

FPGA-Based Optical Transmitters for Electronic Predistortion and Advanced Signal Format Generation.......................................................................................................................................................................... 199

R. I. Killey, P. M. Watts, Y. Benlachtar, R. Waegemans, R. Bouziane, R. Thiruneelakandan, P. A. Milder, D. Rangaraj, A. Cartolano, R. Koutsoyannis, J. C. Hoe, M. Puschel, M. Glick, P. Bayvel

SESSION TUJ: ADVANCED HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING Advances in Fourier Domain OCT................................................................................................................................... 201

R. Huber

OCT Measurement of Neural Structure and Function .................................................................................................. 203T. Akkin, D. Landowne, A. Sivaprakasam

Fourier Domain Common-Path Optical Coherence Tomography with a Conduit Fiber Bundle Probe .................... 205J.-H. Han, X. Liu, C. G. Song, J. U. Kang

Optical Coherence Tomography with High Power Quantum-Dot Superluminescent Diodes..................................... 207N. Krstajic, R. Smallwood, D. T. D. Childs, P. D. L. Greenwood, M. Hugues, K. Kennedy, M. Hopkinson, K. M. Groom, R. A. Hogg, L. E. Smith, S. J. Matcher, S. MacNeil, M. Bonesi

Imaging Spectroscopy with a Multi-Aperture Camera .................................................................................................. 209J. C. Ramella-Roman, A. Basiri, M. Nabili

SESSION TUK: PHOTONIC HETERO-INTEGRATION TECHNIQUES Fabrications and Properties of Optoelectronic SiGeSn Alloys Integrated on Silicon Substrates ............................... 211

J. Kouvetakis

A Platform for GaAs Opto-Electronic Integrated Circuits Based on GaAs/AlGaAs Overgrowth on Patterned InGaP ................................................................................................................................................................ 213

K. M. Groom, B. J. Stevens, P. D. L. Greenwood, D. T. D. Childs, J. S. Roberts, K. Kennedy, P. W. Fry, R. A. Hogg

Demonstration of FBG-Based First and Second-Order Photonic Temporal Integrators with Optimized Energetic Efficiencies...................................................................................................................................... 215

M. H. Asghari, C. Wang, J. Yao, J. Azana

On-Chip Integrated Nanowire Devices with Controllable Nanogap for Manipulation, Capturing, and Electrical Characterization of Nanoparticles .................................................................................................................. 217

C. Uran, E. Unal, R. Kizil, H. V. Demir

Design of Single Growth Epitaxial Structures for Monolithic Integration of Single Frequency Laser and Electro-Absorption Modulators ................................................................................................................................ 219

C. L. M. Daunt, Y. Hua, J. O'Callaghan, R. J. Young, K. Thomas, E. Pelucchi, B. Corbett, F. Peters

SESSION TUL: OPTOMECHANICS AND OPTICAL RESONATORS Cavity Optomechanics: Cooling of a Micromechanical Oscillator Close to the Quantum Limit................................ 221

O. Arcizet, R. Riviere, A. Schliesser, T. J. Kippenberg

Optical Gradient Force in a Slot Waveguide on a Silicon-on-Insulator-Chip .............................................................. 223J. Roels, B. Maes, D. van Thourhout, R. Baets

Optomechanical Response of Photonic Crystal with Double-Slab Configu .................................................................. 225Y.-G. Roh, T. Tanabe, A. Shinya, H. Taniyama, E. Kuramochi, S. Matsuo, T. Sato, M. Notomi

Sustained GHz Oscillations in Ultra-high Q Silicon Microresonators .......................................................................... 227M. Soltani, S. Yegnanarayanan, Q. Li, A. Atabaki, A. A. Eftekhar, A. Adibi

Athermal Operation in Polymer-Clad Silicon Microdisk Resonators........................................................................... 229P. Alipour, E. S. Hosseini, A. A. Eftekhar, B. Momeni, A. Adibi

SESSION TUM: HIGH PERFORMANCE IMAGING A Systematic Approach to Dark Current Reduction in InGaAs-based Photodiode Arrays for Shortwave Infrared Imaging ............................................................................................................................................ 231

B. M. Onat, X. Jiang, M. Itzler

Dark Current Mechanisms in InxGa1-xAs1-yNy ................................................................................................................ 233L. J. J. Tan, W. S. Soong, S. L. Tan, Y. L. Goh, M. J. Steer, J. S. Ng, J. P. R. David, I. P. Marko, J. Chamings, J. Allam, S. J. Sweeney, A. R. Adams

Ultra Low Dark Current Solar blind Focal Plane Arrays.............................................................................................. 235E. Ulker, T. Yelboga, B. Turhan, D. Yilmaz, H. Yu, E. Ozbay

Dark Current Reduction in Ultraviolet Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetectors based on Wide Band-Gap Semiconductors ............................................................................................................................................... 236

S. Butun, M. Gokkavas, H. Yu, V. Strupinski, E. Ozbay

Imaging Interferometric Microscopy - Resolution to the Linear Systems Limits ........................................................ 238S. R. J. Brueck

SESSION TUN: III-V AND HYBRID Progress in III-V/SOI Photonic Integrated Circuits ....................................................................................................... 240

G. Roelkens, L. Liu, T. Spuesens, T. de Vries, P. Regreny, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets

Individually-Addressable III-Nitride Micro-LED Arrays for Integrated CMOS Control.......................................... 242J. McKendry, B. R. Rae, Z. Gong, B. Guilhabert, D. Massoubre, E. Gu, D. Renshaw, R. K. Henderson, M. D. Dawson

2.5D-Surface-Operation Photonic-Crystal III-V On Silicon Based Lasers for Photonic Integrated Circuits and Sensing Applications.................................................................................................................................... 244

P. R. Romeo, L. Ferrier, F. Mandorlo, X. Letartre, P. Viktorovitch, J.-M. Fedeli

The Design of SOI-MMI Couplers with Arbitrary Power Splitting Ratios Using Slotted Waveguide Structures ........................................................................................................................................................................... 246

T.-T. Le, L. W. Cahill

Dual-Output Port Widely Tunable Fiber Laser based on a SOA Dual Sagnac Loop Mirror Configuration ..................................................................................................................................................................... 248

M. A. Ummy, N. Madamopoulos, P. Lama, R. Dorsinville

SESSION TUO: ULTRAFAST PULSE MEASUREMENT AND APPLICATIONS Rogue Waves and Extreme Events in Nonlinear Ultrafast Optics................................................................................. 250

J. M. Dudley, G. Genty, F. Dias

Real-Time Spectral Interferometry for Single-Shot Complex-Field Linear Characterization of Sub-Nanosecond Long Ultrafast Optical Signals .................................................................................................................... 252

M. H. Asghari, Y. Park, J. Azana

Single-shot, Real-time Full Characterization of High-Speed Continuous Optical Signals Based on ‘Balanced’ Ultrafast Photonic Differentiation................................................................................................................. 254

F. Li, Y. Park, J. Azana

Self-Referenced Spectral Phase Retrieval of 28-Attojoule Ultrashort Pulses by Modified Interferometric Field Autocorrelation Measurement ..................................................................................................... 256

C.-S. Hsu, S.-L. Lin, Y.-S. Lin, C.-B. Huang, S.-D. Yang, C. Langrock, M. M. Fejer

SESSION TUP: PHOTONICS FOR SENSING AND MEASUREMENT An FBG Sensor System for Low Voltage AC Signals ..................................................................................................... 258

S. Coskun, G. Kahraman

Range Resolved, High Resolution Lidar using Frequency Chirped Pulses................................................................... 260M. U. Piracha, D. Nguyen, D. Mandridis, I. Ozdur, T. Yilmaz, S. Ozharar, P. J. Delfyett

Planar Dielectric Cavity for Biochemical Sensing........................................................................................................... 262S. Zamek, A. Mizrahi, L. Feng, A. Simic, Y. Fainman

Acetylene Line-Width Measurement using a Piezo-Tuned, Erbium-Doped Ring DFB-PCF Laser ........................... 264K. Cook, C. K. Poon, A. A. P. Pohl, J. Canning

SESSION TUQ: SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ON OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS AND DEVICES FOR DATA Architectural Study of Reconfigurable Photonic Interconnects for Multi-Core Processors ....................................... 266

C. Debaes, I. Artundo, W. Heirman, M. Loperena, J. Van Campenhout, H. Thienpont

SESSION TUR: DIAGNOSTIC SPECTROSCOPY AND IMAGING Elastic Light Scattering Spectroscopy for the Detection of Early Cancer and Pre-Cancer......................................... 268

I. J. Bigio

Diffuse Optical Monitors for Bed-Side Monitoring of Cerebral Hemodynamics at the Neuro-Intensive Care Unit ............................................................................................................................................................................ 270

T. Durduran

Investigation of the Effect of Playing Video Games on Visual Attention and Brain Hemodynamics with Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy .................................................................................................................. 272

S. B. Erdogan, C. Bilgin, B. Turan, A. Akin

Noninvasive Measurement of Absolute Hemodynamic Components in Human Tissue Using Three-Fiber-Based Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy ............................................................................................................... 274

Y. Shimomura, S. Miki, T. Tajiri, H. Tanaka

SESSION TUS: LUMINESCENT COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS Quantum Dots for Future Nanophotonic Devices: Lateral Ordering, Position, and Number Control ...................... 276

R. Notzel, N. Sritirawisarn, E. Selcuk, H. Wang, J. Yuan

Dry and Wet Etching of Luminescent Silicon-Silicon Oxide Core Shell Nanostructures............................................ 278M. Ray, R. F. Klie, K. Banerjee, S. Ghosh

Wavelength Dependent Color Conversion of CdSe/ZnS Core/Shell Nanocrystals for White LEDs........................... 280S. Nizamoglu, H. V. Demir

Optically Active Bi-Polymer Hetero-Nanoparticles ........................................................................................................ 282I. O. Huyal, T. Ozel, D. Tuncel, H. V. Demir

SESSION TUT: QUANTUM OPTICS Single Quantum Dots in Fiber-Coupled Nanophotonic Cavities and Waveguides....................................................... 284

K. Srinivasan

A Single-Molecule Optical Transistor.............................................................................................................................. 286J. Hwang, M. Pototschnig, R. Lettow, G. Zumofen, A. Renn, S. Gotzinger, V. Sandoghdar

Resonance Fluorescence from a Quantum Dot Spin....................................................................................................... 287A. N. Vamivakas, Y. Zhao, C.-Y. Lu, M. Atature

Single Photon Gun : Radiative Decay Engineering with Metamaterials....................................................................... 289Z. Jacob, I. Smolyaninov, E. E. Narimanov

SESSION TUU: NOVEL APDS AND PHOTON COUNTING SiC APDs and Arrays for UV and Solar Blind Detection............................................................................................... 291

P. M. Sandvik, S. I. Soloviev, A. V. Vert, A. Bolotnikov, J. Frechette, S. Verghese, P. Grossmann, G. A. Shaw

Type-II photodiode and APD for detection in the 2-2.5 µm wavelength range ............................................................ 293Y. L. Goh, D. S. G. Ong, S. Zhang, J. S. Ng, C. H. Tan, J. P. R. David

Recent Progress on the Quantum-dot Avalanche Photodiode (QDAP) ........................................................................ 295D. A. Ramirez, J. Shao, M. M. Hayat, S. Krishna

Design-Oriented Simulation of the Photon Detection Efficiency and Temporal Response of Single Photon Avalanche Diodes.................................................................................................................................................. 297

A. Gulinatti, I. Rech, M. Assanelli, M. Ghioni, S. D. Cova

Monolithic Front-End System for Photon Timing Applications.................................................................................... 299I. Rech, C. Cammi, A. Gulinatti, M. Ghioni, S. Cova

SESSION TUV: SILICON PIC Design of Optically Pumped Er3+ Doped Silicon-On-Insulator Slot Waveguide Lasers .............................................. 301

P. Pintus, S. Faralli, V. Toccafondo, F. Di Pasquale, A. D'Errico, F. Testa

High Efficiency Monolithic Photodetectors for Integrated Optoelectronics in the Near Infrared ............................. 303A. K. Okyay, M. C. Onbasli, B. Ercan, H.-Y. Yu, S. Ren, D. A. B. Miller, K. C. Saraswat, A. M. Nayfeh

Non-uniform Focusing Grating for Coupling between Silicon Waveguide and Vertical Optical Fiber ..................... 305X. Chen, C. Li, H. K. Tsang

Proposal of Ge/SiGe Five-Layer Asymmetric Coupled Quantum Well for Mach-Zehnder Modulators ................... 307Y. Iseri, T. Arakawa, K. Tada, N. Haneji

A Compact and Broadband Polarization Splitter in SOI ............................................................................................... 309J. V. Galan, M. Aamer, P. Sanchis, A. Griol, L. Bellieres, J. Ayucar, J. Marti

Effect of Device Density on the Uniformity of Silicon Nano-Photonic Waveguide Devices ......................................... 311S. K. Selvaraja, K. De Vos, W. Bogaerts, P. Bienstman, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets

SESSION TUW: ULTRAFAST LASERS I En Route to the Generation and Attosecond Control of Intense Single-Cycle Light Pulses........................................ 313

E. Goulielmakis, M. Schultze, F. Reiter, U. Graf, J. Gagnon, M. Hofstetter, V. Yakovlev, R. Kienberger, U. Kleineberg, F. Krausz

Energy Up-Scalable Ultrashort Pulse Compression using Planar Hollow Waveguides............................................... 314S. Akturk, C. Arnold, B. Zhou, A. Couairon, A. Mysyrowicz

Femtosecond Few-Fermion Dynamics and Deterministic Single Photon Gain in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot ..................................................................................................................................................................... 316

R. Bratschitsch, T. Thomay, F. Sotier, T. Hanke, J. Korger, S. Mahapatra, A. Frey, K. Brunner, A. Leitenstorfer

Ultrafast Semiconductor Thin Disk Lasers: Power Scaling, Wafer Integration Concept and Optical Versus Electrical Pumping................................................................................................................................................ 318

U. Keller

SESSION TUX: OPTICAL AND PHOTONICS MICRODEVICES Low Drift and High Sensitivity Fiber Optic Gyroscope Using Tunable VCSEL as Optical Source ........................... 320

C. F. R. Mateus, C. D. Sardeto, C. L. Barbosa

Self-Assembled Liquid Microlens Arrays Activated by Pyroelectric Effect ................................................................. 322P. Ferraro, S. Grilli, L. Miccio, M. Paturzo, F. Merola, S. Coppola, V. Vespini

SPAD-Array Photoresponse is Increased by a Factor 35 by use of a Microlens Array Concentrator ....................... 324E. Randone, G. Martini, M. Fathi, S. Donati

Lamellar Grating Interferometer based Compact FT Spectrometers .......................................................................... 326O. Ferhanoglu, H. R. Seren, H. Urey

Electrooptical Tuning of a Ruby Microsphere Morphology Dependent Resonance in a Liquid Crystal Medium............................................................................................................................................................................... 328

K. D. Webb, M. S. Murib, A. Serpenguzel, R. Beccherelli

SESSION TUX2: PHOTONIC MATERIALS PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS The Art and Science of Femtosecond Laser Writing ...................................................................................................... 330

P. G. Kazansky, M. Beresna, Y. Shimotsuma, K. Hirao, Y. P. Svirko

Bend Loss Characterization of Direct Write Rib Waveguides Induced in Ge0.2Se0.8 Chalcogenide Glass using Electron Beams ........................................................................................................................................................ 332

G. B. Hoffman, R. M. Reano

Large Faraday Effect in Ce:BiIG Epitaxial Thin Films ................................................................................................. 334M. Ferrera, M. C. Sekhar, J. Y. Hwang, L. Razzari, C. Harnagea, M. Zaezjev, Y. Linzon, A. Pignolet, R. Morandotti

A Microfiber Bragg Grating based on a Microstructured Rod ..................................................................................... 336F. Xu, G. Brambilla, J. Feng, Y. Lu

Tapered Fiber Phase Conjugation for High-Power All Solid State Laser with High Repetition Rates...................... 338C. Tang, L. Tong, Q. Gao

SESSION TUY: SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ON OPTICAL INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS AND DEVICES FOR DATA Device Requirements for Dense Interconnects ................................................................................................................ 340

D. A. B. Miller

Nanophotonics for Information Systems ......................................................................................................................... 341Y. Fainman

SESSION TUZ: NOVEL MULTI-MODAL TECHNOLOGY Photoacoustic Tomography: High-Resolution Imaging of Optical Contrast in Vivo at New Depths ......................... 343

L. V. Wang

Going Deeper than Microscopy with Multi-Spectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MSOT)......................................... 344V. Ntziachristos

A Row-Action Based L1-Minimization Approach to Robust Fluorescent Tomography .............................................. 345P. Mohajerani, A. Behrooz, A. A. Eftekhar, A. Adibi

3-D Morphological and Molecular Imaging Using Multi-Modality Optical Tomography .......................................... 347S. Yuan, Q. Li, R. Naphas, Y. Chen

SESSION TUAA: THIN FILMS FOR OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS Crystal Symmetry Breaking of Wurtzite to Orthorhombic in Nonpolar a-ZnO Epi-Films ........................................ 349

C. C. Kuo, W.-R. Liu, W. F. Hsieh, C.-H. Hsu, H. C. Hsu, L. C. Chen

Influence of Rapid Thermal Annealing on the Molecular Structure of PEDOT-PSS Thin Films .............................. 351A. Schaarschmidt, A. A. Farah, A. Aby, A. S. Helmy

SESSION TUBB: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES FOR NANOSCALE IMAGING STED and Related Concepts for Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy..................................................................................... 353

D. Wildanger, E. Rittweger, J. Buckers, R. Medda, L. Kastrup, S. W. Hell

Plasmonic Imaging Beyond the Diffraction Limit .......................................................................................................... 355F. Wei, Z. Liu

Subsurface Microscopy of Multilayered Integrated Circuits......................................................................................... 357F. H. Koklu, M. S. Unlu

Focusing Anomalies in the Vicinity of Dielectric Interfaces........................................................................................... 359F. H. Koklu, M. S. Unlu

SESSION TUCC: HIGH PERFORMANCE PHOTODETECTORS InGaAs High Speed Communication Photodiodes.......................................................................................................... 361

M. Achouche, G. Glastre, C. Caillaud, M. Lahrichi, D. Carpentier

Resonant Tunneling Injection Detectors and Imagers ................................................................................................... 363O. G. Memis, J. Kohoutek, D. Dey, W. Wu, H. Mohseni

AlGaN Quadruple-band Photodetectors.......................................................................................................................... 365M. Gokkavas, S. Butun, P. Caban, W. Strupinski, E. Ozbay

Germanium Photodetectors in Silicon Photonics ............................................................................................................ 367Y. Ishikawa, J. Osaka, K. Wada

Effect of Uniaxial-Strain on Ge p-i-n Photodiodes Integrated on Si.............................................................................. 369H.-Y. Yu, S. Ren, M. Kobayashi, D. A. B. Miller, Y. Nishi, K. C. Saraswat

SESSION TUDD: POLYMERIC AND AMORPHOUS Optical Waveguides for Microfluidic Integration ........................................................................................................... 371

R. J. Ram, K. Lee

Stimulated Emission in a Deformable Fluorescent Droplet ........................................................................................... 373M. Saito, H. Shimatani, K. Koyama

Low Loss Deoxyribonucleic Acid Biopolymer Optical Waveguide ............................................................................... 375X. Yang, Z. Y. Wang, J. Zhou, C.-Y. Wong, E. Y. B. Pun

Free-Standing Light-Emitting Organic Nanocomposite Membranes ........................................................................... 377J. Herrnsdorf, B. Guilhabert, Y. Chen, N. Laurand, E. Gu, I. M. Watson, M. D. Dawson, A. L. Kanibolotsky, P. J. Skabara, A. R. Mackintosh, R. A. Pethrick

Focused Ion Beam Milled On-chip Resonator Nanostructures for Applications in Rare-Earth-Ion-Doped Al2O3 Active Waveguides ...................................................................................................................................... 379

F. Ay, L. J. Kauppinen, J. D. B. Bradley, K. Worhoff, R. M. de Ridder, M. Pollnau

SESSION TUEE: ULTRAFAST LASERS II Femtosecond Yb Fiber Lasers .......................................................................................................................................... 381

D. Kracht, M. Schultz, H. Karow, O. Prochnow, D. Wandt, J. Neumann

All-Fiber High-Energy Yb-doped Fiber Amplifier ......................................................................................................... 383B. Oktem, H. Kalaycioglu, F. O. Ilday

Monolithic All-PM Femtosecond Yb-doped Fiber Laser Using Photonic Bandgap Fibers ......................................... 385X. Liu, J. Laegsgaard, D. Turchinovich

Recent Advances in Cr:Colquiriite Laser Technology ................................................................................................... 387U. Demirbas, S. Sakadzic, K.-H. Hong, J. R. Birge, D. Li, H. Byun, P. Fendel, G. S. Petrich, L. A. Kolodziejski, D. A. Boas, A. Sennaroglu, F. X. Kartner, J. G. Fujimoto

Filterless All-Normal Dispersion Fiber Laser ................................................................................................................. 389K. Ozgoren, F. O. Ilday

SESSION TUFF: NANOSTRUCTURES AND MICROSTRUCTURE NONLINEAR OPTICS Extremely Nonlinear Nano-dispersed Organic Liquids for Multiple Time Scale Passive Optical Switching Applications ...................................................................................................................................................... 391

I. C. Khoo, A. Diaz, J. Liou, M. Stinger, J. Huang, Y. Ma

All-Optical PMD Monitor for Optical Signals at 40 Gb/s and Beyond ......................................................................... 393M. Rochette

Second, Third Harmonics and Flattened Supercontinuum Generation in Tellurite Microstructure Fibers .................................................................................................................................................................................. 395

G. Qin, M. Liao, C. Chaudhari, X. Yan, C. Kito, T. Suzuki, Y. Ohishi

Engineered Multiwavelength Conversion using Nonperiodic Optical Superlattice Optimized by Genetic Algorithm ............................................................................................................................................................. 397

J.-Y. Lai, Y.-J. Liu, Y.-H. Chen, S.-D. Yang

Soliton Self-Frequency Shift and Spectral Compression in Highly Nonlinear Fibers for Resolution Improvement of All-Optical ADC .................................................................................................................................... 399

H.-P. Li, X. L. Wu, J. K. Liao, X. G. Tang, Y. Liu, Y. Z. Liu

SESSION WA: SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ON NEW MATERIALS FOR PHOTONICS I Hybrid Green LEDs with n-type ZnO Substituted for n-type GaN in an Inverted p-n Junction ............................... 401

F. Hosseini Teherani, M. Razeghi, D. J. Rogers, C. Bayram, R. Mcclintock

Optically Nonlinear Chalcogenide Glasses for All-Optical Signal Processing.............................................................. 402B. Luther-Davies, D. Bulla, R. Wang, A. Prasad, S. Madden, D.-Y. Choi

SESSION WB: CELLULAR IMAGING AND MANIPULATION Lensfree Cell Holography On a Chip: From Holographic Cell Signatures to Microscopic Reconstruction ................................................................................................................................................................... 404

S. Isikman, S. Seo, I. Sencan, A. Erlinger, A. Ozcan

Optical Interferometric Vibration Measurements of Biological Objects ...................................................................... 406S. Olena, T. Grigoriy

SESSION WC: DESIGN OF OPTICAL NETWORKS Management of GMPLS Controlled All-Optical Network Considering Physical Impairments ................................. 408

M. Suzuki

Do We Need Impairment-Aware Control Plane for Dynamic Lightpath Setup in Transparent Optical Networks?........................................................................................................................................................................... 410

V. S. Chava, E. Salvadori, A. Zanardi, G. Galimberti, G. Martinelli, R. Pastorelli, E. S. Vercelli, A. Tanzi, D. L. Fauci

Impairment-Aware Wavelength Assignment Policies for Transparent Optical Networks ......................................... 412V. S. Chava, E. Salvadori, A. Zanardi, G. Galimberti, G. Martinelli, R. Pastorelli, E. S. Vercelli, A. Tanzi, D. L. Fauci

SESSION WD: FIBER GRATINGS AND DEVICES Recent Advances in the Design and Fabrication of a High Channel-Count Fiber Bragg Grating and Its Application to Dispersion Compensator and Multi-Wavelength Fiber Laser......................................................... 414

H. Li, Y. Painchaud

Bragg Gratings in Chalcogenide Optical Fibre Written with a Frequency Doubled Nd:YAG Laser ........................ 416K. Cook, N. Ducros, S. Fevrier, M. Aslund, J. Canning, A. K. Kar

Tailored Thermal Stabilisation of Type I Gratings ........................................................................................................ 418M. L. Aslund, J. Canning, M. Stevenson, K. Cook

Ultrafast Photonic Signal Processing based on Fiber Grating Devices for All-Optical Computing, Metrology and Communications ...................................................................................................................................... 420

J. Azana

SESSION WE: COHERENT RECEIVER AND DSP Realization of Digital Coherent Receivers ....................................................................................................................... 422

R. Noe, U. Ruckert, S. Hoffmann, T. Pfau, R. Peveling

Constrained Polarization Demultiplexing for Coherent Optical Receivers .................................................................. 424I. Roudas, A. Vgenis, C. S. Petrou, Y. Mauro, S. Raghavan, L. Raptis

Nonlinearity Mitigation with Carrier Phase Estimation for Coherent Receivers with Higher-Order Modulation Formats .......................................................................................................................................................... 426

K. Piyawanno, M. Kuschnerov, B. Spinnler, B. Lankl

Non-binary Quasi-Cyclic LDPC-Coded Modulation for Beyond 100 Gb/s Optical Transmission ............................. 428M. Arabaci, I. B. Djordjevic, R. Saunders, R. M. Marcoccia

SESSION WF: III-V PIC Integrated Tunable Optical Filters on InP for Continuously Tunable Lasers.............................................................. 430

B. W. Tilma, E. A. J. M. Bente, R. Notzel, J. Kotani, X. J. M. Leijtens, M. K. Smit

40 Gb/s Optical Modulation using Monolithically Chain Integration of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA) and Electroabsorption Modulators (EAM)....................................................................................... 432

J.-P. Wu, H.-J. Yan, T.-H. Wu, Y.-J. Chiu

Low Voltage Mach-Zehnder Modulator with InGaAs/InAlAs Five Layer Asymmetric Coupled Quantum Wells .................................................................................................................................................................. 434

M. Ushigome, M. Fukuoka, T. Arakawa, K. Tada

Simple and Compact InP Polarization Converter for Polarization-Multiplexed Photonic Integrated Circuits ............................................................................................................................................................................... 436

T. Tanemura, T. Amemiya, K. Takeda, A. Higo, Y. Nakano

Total Internal Reflection Mirrors and Etched Beam Splitters for Compact Photonic Integrated Circuits ............................................................................................................................................................................... 438

B. Kim, Y.-C. Chang, N. Dagli

SESSION WG: RADIO OVER FIBER Cost-Effective Optical Backhaul for Broadband Wireless ............................................................................................. 440

A. Nirmalathas, P. A. Gamage, Y. Yang, C. Lim, D. Novak, R. Waterhouse

A Comparison of Remote Radio Head Optical Transmission Technologies for Next Generation Wireless Systems................................................................................................................................................................ 442

D. Wake, S. Pato, J. Pedro, E. Lopez, N. Gomes, P. Monteiro

High Capacity Radio-over-Fiber Systems for Multi-carrier Signals with Dynamic Routing...................................... 444H. Yang, H.-D. Jung, C. Okonkwo, E. Tangdiongga, A. M. J. Koonen

Full-duplex 60 GHz Radio-over-Fiber System for Gigabit Network Application ........................................................ 446C. S. Park, Y.-K. Yeo, L. C. Ong

Adaptive LDPC-Coded OFDM for Radio-Over-Fiber Technologies ............................................................................ 448I. B. Djordjevic, L. Xu, T. Wang

SESSION WH: NANOPHOTONICS Mid- and Far-Infrared Semiconductor Devices Exploiting Surface-Plasmon Waveguides ........................................ 450

R. Colombelli

Two-Dimensional Photonic-Crystal Lasers with Centered-Rectangular Lattice Structure ........................................ 451S. Iwahashi, K. Sakai, Y. Kurosaka, Y. Liang, W. Kunishi, D. Ohnishi, S. Noda

Ultra-small InGaAsP/InP Buried Heterostructure Photonic Crystal Laser ................................................................. 453S. Matsuo, A. Shinya, T. Kakitsuka, K. Nozaki, T. Segawa, T. Sato, Y. Kawaguchi, M. Notomi

SESSION WI: SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ON NEW MATERIALS FOR PHOTONICS II Integrated Magneto-Optic Isolators: Problems and Solutions....................................................................................... 455

T. Mizumoto

SESSION WJ: BIOSENSING AND NANOBIOPHOTONICS I Multiplexed Protein Detection with an Array of Silicon-on-Insulator Microring Resonators .................................... 457

K. De Vos, J. Girones, Y. De Koninck, E. Schacht, P. Bienstman, R. Baets

Optical Phase to Biological Mass Conversion for Label-Free Interferometric Sensing Methods ............................... 459E. Ozkumur, A. Yalcin, M. Cretich, F. Damin, C. Lopez, D. A. Bergstein, B. B. Goldberg, M. Chiari, M. S. Unlu

A Platform for in situ Real-Time Measurement of Protein Induced Conformational Changes of DNA .................... 461P. S. Spuhler, J. Knezevic, A. Yalcin, P. Droge, U. Rant, M. S. Unlu

A Novel Spectroscopic Stokes Vector Polarimeter.......................................................................................................... 463J. Ramella-Roman, A. Nayak

Fluorescence Enhancement on Reflecting Substrates for Microarray Applications.................................................... 465A. Yalcin, M. Cretich, G. di Carlo, L. Sola, M. Monroe, M. S. Unlu, M. Chiari

SESSION WK: PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES All-Optical Label Swapping Techniques for Data Packets Beyond 160 Gb/s............................................................... 467

N. Calabretta, H.-D. Jung, J. H. Llorente, E. Tangdiongga, H. J. S. Dorren

Simultaneous Penalty Free Dual Wavelength Conversion Using Four Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier .................................................................................................................................... 469

O. Raz, C. M. Gallep, H. J. S. Dorren

DPSK-Labeled Direct-Detected Optical OFDM Transmission...................................................................................... 471W.-R. Peng, K.-M. Feng, S. Chi

Packet-Optical Add/Drop Multiplier Technology: A Pragmatic Way to Introduce Optical Packet Switching in the Next Generation of Metro Networks.................................................................................................... 473

C. Simonneau, J. C. Antona, D. Chiaroni

SESSION WL: NOVEL RESONANT AND WAVEGUIDE DEVICES Tunable Lineshapes from a Two-Mode Waveguide Coupled to a Single Mode Resonator......................................... 475

A. C. Ruege, R. M. Reano

Vertical MMI Coupler for 3D Photonic Integrated Circuits ......................................................................................... 477K. Kirita, F. Koyama

Microresonators Based on 3x3 Restricted Interference MMI Couplers on an SOI platform ..................................... 479T.-T. Le, L. W. Cahill

Low Power Parametric Wave-Mixing in a Zero Dispersive CMOS Compatible Micro-Ring Resonator .................. 481M. Ferrera, D. Duchesne, L. Razzari, M. Peccianti, R. Morandotti, P. Cheben, S. Janz, D. X. Xu, B. E. Little, S. Chu, D. J. Moss

SESSION WM: COMPONENTS AND SUBSYSTEMS FOR HIGH BIT RATES Polarization Dependent Frequency Shift Induced BER Penalty in DPSK Demodulators........................................... 483

D. Cotruta, X. Xu, D. V. Plant, O. Liboiron-Ladouceur

A Novel Resonant-Cavity Intensity Modulator with Pure Linear Response ................................................................ 485N. Hoghooghi, I. Ozdur, J. Davila-Rodriguez, M. Akbulut, P. J. Delfyett Jr.

100G Modules and Subsystems for Long-Haul DWDM Applications .......................................................................... 487T. Schmidt, C. Malouin, S. Liu

A 160 Gbit/s (4 × 40 Gbit/s) OTDM Multiplexer with Active Bit-Wise Phase Stabilization........................................ 489Y. Murata, M. Nagao, J. Miyashita, K. Inafune, M. Kagawa, H. Murai, H. Toda

Semiconductor Based Optical Frequency Comb Source with Optical Linewidth <1 kHz........................................... 491I. Ozdur, M. Akbulut, N. Hoghooghi, D. Mandridis, S. Ozharar, F. Quinlan, P. J. Delfyett

SESSION WN: RING RESONATORS Fabrication of Microring Resonator Tunable Wavelength Filter Using Five-layer Asymmetric Coupled Quantum Well .................................................................................................................................................... 493

T. Makino, R. Hasegawa, T. Arakawa, Y. Kokubun

Sub-Microsecond Thermal Reconfiguration of Silicon Photonic Devices ..................................................................... 495A. H. Atabaki, A. A. Eftekhar, S. Yegnanarayanan, A. Adibi

Compact Demultiplexer Using Cascaded Planar Concave Grating and Ring Resonators on SOI ............................. 497G. Yurtsever, J. Brouckaert, W. Bogaerts, P. Dumon, D. Van Thourhout, R. Baets

Opto-Electro-Mechanical Based Locking Technique ..................................................................................................... 499K. H. Lee, T. G. McRae, J. Knittel, W. P. Bowen

Silicon Microring Resonator-Based Reconfigurable Optical Lattice Filter for On-Chip Optical Signal Processing ........................................................................................................................................................................... 501

L. Zhou, S. S. Djordjevic, N. K. Fontaine, Z. Ding, K. Okamoto, S. J. B. Yoo

Nonlinear Dynamics of Asymmetrically Coupled Microdisk Lasers............................................................................. 503Y. De Koninck, K. Huybrechts, G. Van der Sande, J. Danckaert, R. Baets, G. Morthier

SESSION WO: MICROWAVE PHOTONIC SIGNAL GENERATION Generation of Tunable High Frequency Signals using Optical Phase Modulation ...................................................... 505

N. J. Gomes, P. Shen

Optical Frequency Stabilized Coupled Optoelectronic Oscillator ................................................................................. 507I. Ozdur, M. Akbulut, N. Hoghooghi, D. Mandridis, S. Ozharar, F. Quinlan, P. J. Delfyett

Novel Scheme of Optical Ultra-Wide-Band Generation using a Single Electroabsorption Modulator ...................... 509T.-H. Wu, J.-P. Wu, Y.-F. Choi, Y.-J. Chiu

Optical Frequency Comb Generation Based on Repeated Frequency Shifting............................................................ 511W. Li, J. Yao

Optical Millimeter-wave Signal Generation by Frequency Quadrupling Using Two Cascaded Mach-Zehnder Modulators.......................................................................................................................................................... 513

Y. Zhao, X. Zheng, H. Wen, H. Zhang

SESSION WP: MODE-LOCKED LASERS Passive Mode-Locking of AlGaInAs Quantum Well Laser, Modelling and Experiment ............................................ 515

A. C. Bryce, P. Stolarz, J. Javaloyes, L. Hou, M. Sorel, S. Balle

Thermally Locked Microtoroid Based Wavelength-Selective Optical Feedback Element .......................................... 517T. G. McRae, K. H. Lee, W. P. Bowen

Frequency Multiplication and Division in a DC-Offset Optical Pulse Injected Semiconductor Laser....................... 519Y-S. Juan, F.-Y. Lin

Dynamics of Optically-Injected Distributed Feedback Lasers using the Travelling-Wave Approach ....................... 521C. A. Stolz, D. Labukhin, N. Zakhleniuk, R. Loudon, M. J. Adams

Grating Parameters Effect on Actively Mode-locked HSPS .......................................................................................... 523N. Dogru

SESSION WQ: OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING Terabit/s Serial Optical Communications ....................................................................................................................... 525

L. K. Oxenlowe, M. Galili, H. C. H. Mulvad, A. T. Clausen, P. Jeppesen

DDesigning a 2R-Regenerator based on Four-Wave Mixing in Slow Light Engineered Photonic Crystal Waveguides ........................................................................................................................................................... 527

M. Ebnali-Heidari, C. Monat, C. Grillet, M. K. Moravvej-Farshi

Slow-Light Enhanced Nonlinear Transfer Function for 2R Regeneration in 2D Silicon Photonic Crystals at 10 Gb/s............................................................................................................................................................. 529

B. Corcoran, C. Monat, D. Pudo, M. Pelusi, T. P. White, L. O'Faolain, T. F. Krauss, B. J. Eggleton, D. J. Moss

Temporal Pulse Compression in Low Dispersion Hydex® Glass Integrated Waveguides .......................................... 531M. Peccianti, M. Ferrera, D. Duchesne, L. Razzari, I. B. Burgess, R. Morandotti, B. E. Little, S. T. Chu, D. J. Moss

Optical Performance Monitoring at 160Gb/s Via Slow Light Enhanced Third-Harmonic Generation in Silicon Photonic Crystal Waveguides .......................................................................................................................... 533

B. Corcoran, C. Monat, M. Pelusi, C. Grillet, T. P. White, L. O'Faolain, T. F. Krauss, B. J. Eggleton, D. J. Moss

High-Resolution Optical Sampling of 640-Gb/s Signals using Highly Nonlinear Chalcogenide Waveguides ........................................................................................................................................................................ 535

J. Van Erps, F. Luan, M. D. Pelusi, T. Iredale, S. Madden, D.-Y. Choi, D. A. Bulla, B. Luther-Davies, H. Thienpont, B. J. Eggleton

SESSION WR: BIOSENSING AND NANOBIOPHOTONICS II Spectral Reflectance Imaging Biosensor for High-Throughput and Label-Free Detection of Biomolecular Interactions ................................................................................................................................................. 537

E. Ozkumur, A. Yalcin, S. Ahn, B. B. Goldberg, M. Chiari, M. S. Unlu

Study of SPR using Gold Nano Rods to Detect E-coli O157:H7 .................................................................................... 539N.-S. Eum, S.-H. Yeom, D.-E. Kim, K.-J. Kim, D.-H. Kwon, S.-W. Kang

Spectro-Angular Surface Plasmon Biosensor Applied To Drug Binding Assays ......................................................... 541C. J. Alleyne, P. J. R. Roche, A. G. Kirk

Plasmonic Nano-Bio Sensors for Detection of E-Coli Bacteria ...................................................................................... 543N. A. Cinel, S. Butun, D. Caliskan, E. Ozbay

Real-Time Kinetics Measurements of Protein Induced Conformational Changes in DNA......................................... 545P. S. Spuhler, J. Knezevic, A. Yalcin, P. Droge, U. Rant, M. S. Unlu

SESSION WS: PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORKS Full-Duplex Transmission of 256-QAM WiMAX Signals over an 80-km Long-Reach PON ...................................... 547

K. Prince, A. V. Osadchiy, I. T. Monroy

Broadband Rural Access using Extended-Reach Passive Optical Networks in a Dual-Fibre Architecture ....................................................................................................................................................................... 549

K. L. Lee, J. L. Riding, A. V. Tran, R. S. Tucker

Optical Reflection Monitoring for Next-Generation Long-Reach Passive Optical Networks ..................................... 551K. Fouli, L. R. Chen, M. Maier

Experimental Study on Extended Reach TDM-, Hybrid-, and WDM-PON Configurations Based on Central Office Located Raman Pumps ............................................................................................................................ 553

E. Wong, K.-L. Lee, A. Nirmalathas

Symmetric 10 Gb/s WDM-PON based on a Cross Wavelength-Reusing Scheme to Avoid Rayleigh Backscattering and Maximize Band Usage...................................................................................................................... 555

A. Chiuchiarelli, R. Proietti, M. Presi, P. Choudhury, G. Contestabile, E. Ciaramella

SESSION WT: APPLICATIONS OF METAMATERIALS Metamaterials: For Lenses and Cloaking, from DC to Optics....................................................................................... 557

M. C. K. Wiltshire

Plasmonic Metamaterials .................................................................................................................................................. 559R. de Waele, S. P. Burgos, H. A. Atwater, A. Polman

Planar Negative Index Materials in the Far Infrared Regime ....................................................................................... 561T. F. Gundogdu, N. Katsarakis, M. Kafesaki, G. Konstantinidis, C. M. Soukoulis, E. Ozbay

Optical Hyperspace for Plasmons: Dyakonov States in Metamaterials ........................................................................ 563Z. Jacob, E. E. Narimanov

SESSION WU: SYSTEM AND NETWORK ISSUES A New Design Technique for Optical Links .................................................................................................................... 565

K. Hinton, J. C. Li, P. M. Farrell, W. V. Sorin

Optical System Performance of 40Gb/s Coherent Transponders from a Carrier's Perspective................................. 567L. E. Nelson, S. Woodward, X. Zhou, P. D. Magill

Dispersion Management in Long-Haul 111-Gb/s POLMUX-RZ-DQPSK Transmission Systems ............................. 569V. A. J. M. Sleiffer, D. van den Borne, M. S. Alfiad, S. L. Jansen, H. de Waardt

A Mixed Rate MUX/DEMUX Technique with Highly Efficient Use of Wavelengths for WDM/TDM-based Future Optical Access Systems .............................................................................................................................. 571

H. Kimura, K. Kumozaki

Fast Acousto-Optic Add-Drop based on Fiber Bragg Grating ...................................................................................... 573R. A. Oliveira, C. A. F. Marques, R. N. Nogueira, J. Canning, A. A. P. Pohl

Modulation-Format Transparent Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation Based Optical-Label Switching Transmitter with All-Optical Label Extraction Using FBG ......................................................................... 575

T. He, N. K. Fontaine, R. P. Scott, D. J. Geisler, J. P. Heritage, K. Okamoto, S. J. B. Yoo

SESSION WV: SWITCHES AND MODULATORS Dynamical Systems in Nanophotonics: from Energy Efficient Modulators to Light Forces and Optomechanics................................................................................................................................................................... 577

M. A. Popovic, P. T. Rakich, M. S. Dahlem, C. W. Holzwarth, T. Barwicz, F. Gan, H. I. Smith, F. X. Kartner, E. P. Ippen

High-Aspect-Ratio Gold Electrodes Fabricated by Thick-Multilevel Interconnection Technology for Electrical Isolation of MEMS Mirrors in Wavelength-Selective Switches.................................................................... 579

T. Sakata, M. Usui, S. Uchiyama, N. Shimoyama, J. Kodate, H. Ishii, T. Matsuura, F. Shimokawa, Y. Sato

Integrated Fabry-Perot Comb Switches: Transmission Experiments and Scalability................................................. 581M. Menard, A. G. Kirk

Optical Beam-Steering for Wireless Sensor Networks ................................................................................................... 583C. Reardon, A. Di Falco, K. Welna, T. Krauss

Wide Wavelength Operation of All-Optical Flip-Flop Using Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Bistable Laser Diode ........................................................................................................................................................................ 585

K. Takeda, M. Takenaka, T. Tanemua, M. Zaitsu, Y. Nakano

SESSION WW: MICROWAVE PHOTONIC LINKS AND PROCESSING Performance Comparison of Two Analog Photonic Links Employing a Pair of Directly Modulated Lasers and a Balanced Photodetector .............................................................................................................................. 587

D. Marpaung, C. Roeloffzen, W. van Etten

Intermodulation Distortion in Traveling-Wave Semiconductor Cascade Lasers......................................................... 589H. H. Hashim, S. Iezekiel

Photonic Millimeter-Wave Generation and Transmission Techniques for the High-Frequency Radio Interferometers .................................................................................................................................................................. 591

H. Kiuchi, T. Kawanishi

Electrically Controlled Phase Shifter using Semiconductor Laser in Optical Single Sideband System ..................... 593F. M. Wu, P. C. Peng, S. K. Yeh, C. T. Lin, J. H. Chen, S. Chi

Phase-Shifted Photonic Analog-to-Digital Conversion System with 40GS/s Sampling Rate ....................................... 595Y. Peng, H. Zhang, Q. Wu, M. Yao

SESSION WX: HIGH POWER LASERS Catastrophic Optical Mirror Damage of High Power Diode Lasers ............................................................................. 597

J. W. Tomm, M. Ziegler, T. Elsaesser

Reliability and Qualification of High-Power Wavelength-Tunable 1060-nm Laser Diode for Ultra-Compact Laser Projector Application ............................................................................................................................. 600

H. K. Nguyen, Y. Li, K. Song, N. J. Visovsky, S. Coleman, C.-E. Zah

Green Laser Source Based on Frequency Doubling of Semiconductor Laser in Folded External Cavity ................. 602D. V. Kuksenkov, C. M. Lynn

Broad-band High Power Quantum Dot Superluminescent Diodes ............................................................................... 604P. D. L. Greenwood, Q. Jiang, D. T. D. Childs, Z. Zhang, K. M. Groom, K. Kennedy, M. Hugues, M. Hopkinson, R. A. Hogg

Electric Field Controlled Emission Kinetics and Modified Lifetimes in Polar InGaN/GaN Quantum Heterostructures ................................................................................................................................................................ 606

E. Sari, S. Nizamoglu, I.-H. Lee, J.-H. Baek, H. V. Demir

SESSION THA: SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE CONVERGENCE OF WIRED AND WIRELESS SERVICES IN IN-BUILDING AND ACCESS NETWORKS I Recent Progresses in Fiber-Wireless Systems ................................................................................................................. 608

B. Cabon, Y. Le Guennec

Radio-over-Fiber Techniques and Demonstration for In-Building Optical-Wireless Access Networks .................... 610K. Xu, J. Yin, X. Sun, J. Li, H. Huang, J. Wu, X. Hong, J. Lin

Wireless Broadband Service Delivery via Optical In-Home Converged Networks...................................................... 612S. Walker, T. Quinlan, S. Dudley, T. Jordan, M. Parker

SESSION THB: RAMAN LASERS AND NONLINEAR TECHNIQUES Intersubband Raman Lasers: A New Insight .................................................................................................................. 614

Y. Dikmelik, J. B. Khurgin

Mode-Locked Parabolic Raman Fiber Oscillator ........................................................................................................... 615C. Aguergaray, V. I. Kruglov, D. Mechin, J. D. Harvey

All-Optical XOR Gate by Means of a Single Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Without Assist Probe Light.................................................................................................................................................................................... 617

C. Porzi, M. Scaffardi, L. Poti, A. Bogoni

Laser Frequency Combs for Molecular Fingerprinting ................................................................................................. 619B. Bernhardt, J. Mandon, P. Jacquet, M. Jacquey, A. Ozawa, R. Holzwarth, G. Guelachvili, T. W. Hansch, N. Picque

SESSION THC: TOWARDS IN-BUILDING OPTICAL NETWORKS FTTX - How Close to the End User Should Fiber Come?.............................................................................................. 621

G. van den Hoven

Optical In-Building Network Techniques ........................................................................................................................ 622A. M. J. Koonen, H. Yang, H.-D. Jung, S. C. J. Lee, E. Tangdiongga, C. Okonkwo, H. P. A. van den Boom

In-Building and Home Networks using POF................................................................................................................... 624A. Nespola, S. Abrate, R. Gaudino, B. Offenbeck, J. Sundermeyer, C. Zerna, N. Weber

SESSION THD: QUANTUM DOTS, QUANTUM WELLS, AND ENERGY TRANSFER Observation of Trapping and Release of Carriers in InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dots by Ultrafast THz Spectroscopy ...................................................................................................................................................................... 626

H. Porte, P. U. Jepsen, N. Daghestani, E. Rafailov, D. Turchinovich

Transient Photoconductivity in InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Wells, Measured by Time-resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy..................................................................................................................................................... 628

H. P. Porte, D. Turchinovich, D. G. Cooke, P. U. Jepsen

Sub-10 nm Patterning Technique for Site-Controlled III-Nitride Quantum Dot Growth .......................................... 630L. K. Lee, P. C. Ku

Efficient Migration of Mott-Wannier Excitons to Frenkel Excitons in Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Assembly of CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals in MDMO-PPV Homopolymers......................................................................... 632

S. Nizamoglu, X. Sun, H. V. Demir

Plasmon Enhanced Colloidal Nanocrystal Composites Incorporating Au Nanoparticles in a Repeating Layered Architecture ........................................................................................................................................................ 634

T. Ozel, S. Nizamoglu, O. Samarskaya, I. O. Huyal, E. Mutlugun, S. V. Gaponenko, H. V. Demir

Architectural Tuning of Color Chromaticity by Controlled Nonradiative Resonance Energy Transfer in CdTe Nanocrystal Solids............................................................................................................................................... 636

N. Cicek, S. Nizamoglu, T. Ozel, E. Mutlugun, D. U. Karatay, T. Otto, V. Lesnyak, N. Gaponik, A. Eychmuller, H. V. Demir

SESSION THE: COHERENT RECEIVER AND DSP II Data-Aided Single-Carrier Coherent Receivers.............................................................................................................. 638

M. Kuschnerov, K. Piyawanno, E. De Man, M. Chouayakh, B. Spinnler, M. Alfiad, A. Napoli, B. Lankl

Realtime Phase Tracking with Multiplier-Free Barycenter Approximation in Digital Synchronous QPSK Receiver for Coherent Detection........................................................................................................................... 640

S. Hoffmann, M. El-Darawy, T. Pfau, C. Wordehoff, R. Peveling, U. Ruckert, R. Noe

Quadrature Imbalance Compensation Algorithms for Coherent PDM QPSK Systems ............................................. 642C. S. Petrou, A. Vgenis, I. Roudas, L. Raptis

Hybrid Amplitude/Phase/Polarization Coded Modulation for 100 Gb/s Optical Transmission and Beyond ................................................................................................................................................................................ 644

H. G. Batshon, I. B. Djordjevic

SESSION THF: NOVEL INTEGRATED DEVICES Integrated Nanophotonics: Dynamic Optical Isolation, and Nanoscale Far-Field Focusing in Aperiodic Plasmonic Waveguide Array........................................................................................................................... 646

S. Fan, Z. Yu, L. Verslegers, P. Catrysse

Novel Concept for All-Optical Flip-Flop Operation in a Single DBR Laser Diode ...................................................... 648K. Huybrechts, A. Ali, R. Baets, G. Morthier

Graphene Plasmonics for Subwavelength Terahertz Oscillators .................................................................................. 650F. Rana, J. H. Strait, P. A. George, H. Wang, J. D. Besant

Experimental Demonstration of Injection-Locked Fabry-Perot Lasers with Integrated Phase Modulators ......................................................................................................................................................................... 652

S. Taebi, S. S. Saini, M. Dagenais

SESSION THG: MICROWAVE PHOTONIC DEVICES Tunable, Single Passband Photonic Microwave Filter Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Nonlinear Fiber.................................................................................................................................................................. 654

Y. M. Chang, J. H. Lee

Ultra-Low Voltage Substrate-Removed Mach-Zehnder Intensity Modulators with Integrated Electrical Drivers ............................................................................................................................................................... 656

S. Dogru, J. Shin, N. Dagli

Traveling Wave Effects in Microwave Photonics............................................................................................................ 658S. Iezekiel

Microwave Characteristics of Ge n-i-p Waveguide Photodetectors on Silicon-on-Insulator Substrate ..................... 660A. Ramaswamy, N. Nunoya, T. Yin, L. A. Johansson, J. E. Bowers

Enhancing Slow and Fast Light Effects in Quantum Dot Optical Amplifiers through Ultrafast Dynamics ............................................................................................................................................................................ 662

Y. Chen, J. Mork

SESSION THH: INTERBAND AND QUANTUM DOT LASERS Optically Pumped Intersubband Light Emission Near 2 µm from GaN/AlN Quantum Wells ................................... 664

K. Driscoll, Y. Liao, A. Bhattacharyya, T. D. Moustakas, R. Paiella, L. Zhou, D. J. Smith

Emission Wavelength Tuning in Interband Cascade Laser Devices in the 3-4 µm Wavelength Range ..................... 666A. Bauer, F. Langer, S. Hofling, A. Forchel, M. Motyka, G. Sek, K. Ryczko, J. Misiewicz

1.3 µm InAs/GaAs High-Density Quantum Dot Lasers.................................................................................................. 668Y. Tanaka, M. Ishida, K. Takada, Y. Maeda, T. Akiyama, T. Yamamoto, H.-Z. Song, M. Yamaguchi, Y. Nakata, K. Nishi, M. Sugawara, Y. Arakawa

Low Threshold Current Operation of 1.3 µm Quantum Dots Laser with High Mirror Loss Structure .................... 670T. Amano, T. Sugaya, R. Hettiarachchi, K. Komori, M. Mori

Modeling the Simultaneous Two Ground-State Lasing Emissions in Chirped Quantum Dot Lasers ........................ 672G. Lin, V.-T. Dai, C.-P. Lee

SESSION THI: SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE CONVERGENCE OF WIRED AND WIRELESS SERVICES IN IN-BUILDING AND ACCESS NETWORKS II Radio Over Fiber for Picocellular Network Architectures ............................................................................................ 675

M. Sauer, A. Kobyakov, A. Ng'Oma

Wired and Wireless Integrated DWDM Networks and Millimeter-Wave-Band RoF Technologies .......................... 677T. Kuri, J. J. V. Olmos, H. Toda, K.-I. Kitayama

Ultra-Wideband Radio-over-Optical Fiber: Concepts, Technologies and Applications.............................................. 679M. Ran, Y. Ben-Ezra, B. Lembrikov

SESSION THJ: THZ NONLINEAR OPTICS EFFECTS AND STRUCTURES Terahertz Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Free-Carriers in Semiconductors...................................................................... 681

L. Razzari, F. Blanchard, F. H. Su, G. Sharma, A. Ayesheshim, T. L. Cocker, L. V. Titova, H.-C. Bandulet, R. Morandotti, J.-C. Kieffer, T. Ozaki, M. Reid, F. A. Hegmann

All Optical Logic Operations in Silicon on Insulator Waveguides Based on Nonlinear Effects of Free Carriers .............................................................................................................................................................................. 683

M. Khorasaninejad, S. S. Saini

Third-Order Optical Nonlinearities and Optical Limiting Properties of Triarylmethane Dye in Liquid and Solid Media ................................................................................................................................................................. 685

G. Vinitha, A. Ramalingam

Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Passively Mode-Locked by Thin Films Incorporating Carbon Nanotubes.................... 687H. G. Rosa, E. A. de Souza

Second-Harmonic Generation using Matching-Layer Enhanced AlxGa1-xAs Bragg Reflection Waveguide .......................................................................................................................................................................... 689

P. Abolghasem, J. Han, B. J. Bijlani, A. Arjmand, A. S. Helmy

SESSION THK: WIRELESS NETWORKS AND TECHNOLOGIES Dual-User Wireless Heterogeneous Services over a Single Optical Carrier using Optical Frequency Multiplication..................................................................................................................................................................... 691

A. Maziotis, C. Stamatiadis, C. Kouloumentas, K. Vyrsokinos, N. Pleros

Optical Phase Synchronization in Coherent Optical Beamformers for Phased Array Receive Antennas ............................................................................................................................................................................. 693

M. Burla, A. Garcia Garcia, L. Zhuang, A. Meijerink, C. G. H. Roeloffzen, D. A. I. Marpaung, M. R. H. Khan, W. van Etten

Optical Wireless Networks using Self-Powered Nodes ................................................................................................... 695D. C. O'Brien, J. J. Liu, G. E. Faulkner, V. Pithamiron, S. Collins, S. J. Elston

1Gbps Impluse Radio Ultrawideband Multi-hop System Employing a Single Mode Fiber Repeater ........................ 697X. Yu, R. Rodes, J. B. Jensen, A. Caballero, T. B. Gibbon, I. T. Monroy

UMTS Radio-Over-Fiber Pico-Cell Interconnection Employing Uncooled DFB Lasers for Multi-Mode Fibre Modulation Bandwidth Enhancement ................................................................................................................... 699

R. Alemany, J. Perez, R. Llorente

New Applications for Microwave Photonics.................................................................................................................... 701A. J. Seeds, M. J. Fice, C.-P. Liu, L. Ponnampalam, F. Pozzi, C. C. Renaud, E. Rouvalis, R. J. Steed

SESSION THL: PHOTONIC INTEGRATION Large-scale Array of Small High-Q Microdisk Resonators for On-chip Spectral Analysis ........................................ 703

M. Soltani, Q. Li, S. Yegnanarayanan, B. Momeni, A. A. Eftekhar, A. Adibi

Compact Planar Silicon-Nitride Microspectrometers .................................................................................................... 705B. Momeni, E. S. Hosseini, A. Adibi

Analysis of the Composite Superprism Demultiplexer ................................................................................................... 707A. Khorshidahmad, A. G. Kirk

Ultra Low-Power and Compact Photonic Crystal Optical Switch Controlled by Micro-Heater Directly Attached on PhC Layer..................................................................................................................................................... 709

N. Yamamoto, J.-I. Sugisaka, M. Okano, M. Mori

Characterization of Deep Etched Holes Arrays as Grating Couplers between Optical Fibers and Nanophotonic Waveguides................................................................................................................................................ 711

X. Chen, H. K. Tsang

Experimental Demonstration of Moderately Low Group Velocity in Silicon Rib Photonic Wire Bragg Gratings .............................................................................................................................................................................. 713

A. Brimont, P. Sanchis, J. V. Galan, J. M. Fedeli, A. M. Gutierrez, J. Marti

SESSION THM: OFDM AND MULTI-CARRIER TRANSMISSION Practical Implementation of Coherent WDM ................................................................................................................. 715

S. K. Ibrahim, A. D. Ellis, F. C. G. Gunning, J. Zhao, P. Frascella, F. H. Peters

OFDM Data-Aided Channel Equalizer for Already-Deployed Optical Direct-Detection Transmission Systems ............................................................................................................................................................................... 717

M. E. M. Pasandi, D. V. Plant

Sensitivity Bound for Optically-Preamplified Direct-Detected OFDM Systems Using Spectrally Matched Filters .................................................................................................................................................................. 719

W.-R. Peng, K.-M. Feng, A. E. Willner, S. Chi

Transmission Channel Rate for Coherent Optical OFDM - Is the Sky the Limit? ...................................................... 721W. Shieh, Y. Ma, Q. Yang, S. Chen, Y. Tang

SESSION THN: WAVEGUIDE PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING Dispersion Engineered Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Linear and Non-linear Applications................................. 723

L. O'Faolain, T. F. Krauss

Effect of Cladding Layer Thickness on Dispersion and Nonlinearity of the Chalcogenide Core - Tellurite Cladding Composite Nanofiber......................................................................................................................... 725

C. Chaudhari, T. Suzuki, Y. Ohishi

Efficient TE-TM Mode Conversion in a GaInAsP Single-Trench Waveguide ............................................................. 727S.-H. Kim, R. Takei, Y. Shoji, T. Mizumoto

SESSION THO: MICROWAVE PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS Microwave Photonics Applied to fNIR based Biomedical Imaging? ............................................................................. 729

A. S. Daryoush, K. Pourrezaei, K. Izzetoglu, E. Papazoglou, L. Zubkov, B. Onaral

Reconfigurable Higher-Order Photonic Intensity Temporal Differentiator ................................................................ 731Y. Park, M. H. Asghari, J. Azana

UWB Radio-over-Fiber and Photonic Sensing for Cognitive Optical Access Networks.............................................. 733R. Llorente, M. Morant, T. Tokle, T. Quinlan, M. Thakur, S. Walker

Photonic Crystal based Spatial Filtering ......................................................................................................................... 735E. Colak, A. O. Cakmak, A. E. Serebryannikov, E. Ozbay

SESSION THP: QUANTUM DOT LASERS II Transparency Current Influence on the Temperature Dependent Threshold of Undoped and P-Doped QD Laser Diodes ................................................................................................................................................................ 737

G. Ozgur, A. Demir, D. G. Deppe

Controlled Growth of InGaAs/InGaAsP/InP Quantum Dots using Diblock Copolymer Lithography and Selective Area MOCVD Growth ............................................................................................................................... 739

L. J. Mawst, J. H. Park, J. Kirch, C.-C. Liu, M. K. Rathi, P. F. Nealey, T. F. Kuech

Barrier Width and Growth Temperature Effect in InP/AlGaInP Quantum Dot Lasers ............................................ 741M. S. Al-Ghamdi, P. M. Smowton, S. Shutts, P. Blood, A. B. Krysa

InP/GaInP Quantum Dot Semiconductor Disk Laser for TEM00 Emission at 740 nm................................................ 743P. J. Schlosser, J. E. Hastie, S. Calvez, A. B. Krysa, M. D. Dawson

SESSION THQ: SOLID-STATE LASERS Laser Operation of a Bulk Tm3+:Germanate Glass Laser Around 2 µm with 50 % Internal Slope Efficiency ............................................................................................................................................................................ 745

F. Fusari, A. A. Lagatsky, G. Jose, X. Jiang, A. Jha, W. Sibbett, C. T. A. Brown

Nd3+-Doped Tellurite Glass Laser at 1.37 µm ................................................................................................................. 747H. Cankaya, A. Sennaroglu

Simulation of Performance of End-Pumped Yb:YAG Thin Disk Lasers...................................................................... 749A. K. Jafari, S. Toroghi, A. H. Golpayegani

SESSION THR: PHASE CONJUGATION AND SOLITON EFFECTS Compensation of Nonlinear Effects in Optical Communication Systems Through Phase-Conjugation .................... 751

I. Cristiani, P. Minzioni, V. Degiorgio, L. Marazzi, M. Martinelli, C. Langrock, M. M. Fejer

Interacting Solitons in a High Index Glass ...................................................................................................................... 753E. D'Asaro, S. Heidari-Bateni, A. Pasquazi, G. Assanto, J. Gonzalo, J. Solis, C. Afonso

Control of Light Collapse in Magnetooptical Kerr Media ............................................................................................. 755K. A. Rutkowska, Y. Linzon, B. A. Malomed, R. Morandotti

Tunable Green Third Harmonics and Near Infrared Soliton (or Dispersive Wave) Source Generation in Tellurite Microstructure Fibers ................................................................................................................................... 757

G. Qin, X. Yan, M. Liao, T. Suzuki, A. Mori, Y. Ohishi

SESSION THS: ENCRYPTION AND ENCODING Optical Chaos Encoded Communications: Solutions for Today and Tomorrow ......................................................... 759

D. Syvridis

SESSION THT: NANOPHOTONIC SENSING Photonic Crystal Fiber Tip Sensor for Precision Temperature Sensing ....................................................................... 761

I. W. Jung, B. Park, J. Provine, R. T. Howe, O. Solgaard

Two Dimensional Photonic Crystal Waveguide Based Micro- Pressure Sensor .......................................................... 763A. Bakhtazad, J. Sabarinathan, J. Hutter

Odor Sensor for VOCs Detection based on Au Deposited Nano-Porous AAO Chip ................................................... 765H. Yuan, S.-H. Yeom, W.-Y. Choi, J.-H. Lee, S.-H. Kong, J.-W. Lim, S.-W. Kang

Fabry-Perot Nanocavities in 3D Plasmonic Crystals for Enhanced Biosensing ........................................................... 767A. Artar, A. A. Yanik, H. Altug

Experimental Observation of Polarization Anisotropy for Nearly Spherical Gold Nanoparticles ............................. 769B. Al-Qadi, A. Yamaoka, T. Saiki

Gold Nanoparticles Combining Polymer Thin Films for Near Infrared Sensor Applications .................................... 771J. Sabarinathan, H. Jiang, J. Markowski

SESSION THU: AMPLIFIER TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS A Novel Pre-Amplifier for WDM Systems Based on a Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier ...................................... 773

Y. Liang, J. Li, P. C. Chui, K. K. Y. Wong

Bismuth-Doped Fiber Amplifiers: State of the Art and Future Prospect ..................................................................... 775V. M. Mashinsky, V. V. Dvoyrin

Spectrally Flat and High-Power Er-Yb Amplifier for Telecommunications Applications .......................................... 777R. Ahmad, M. Rochette, S. Chatigny

Pump-Induced Nonlinear Phase Noise in Wavelength Converters based on Four-Wave Mixing in SOAs ................................................................................................................................................................................... 779

R. Elschner, K. Petermann

40 Gb/s NRZ Wavelength Conversion with Enhanced 2R Regeneration Characteristics using a Differentially-biased SOA-MZI switch ............................................................................................................................ 781

D. Petrantonakis, D. Apostolopoulos, M. Spyropoulou, N. Pleros, K. Vyrsokinos, H. Avramopoulos

SESSION THV: FIBER LASERS Tunable 40 GHz Mode-Locked Semiconductor Fiber Laser Using a Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror ..................... 783

T. Cai, L. R. Chen, M. Rochette

A Comparison Between an in-Field and an in-Laboratory 50 km Ultralong Erbium Fiber Laser ............................ 785L. A. M. Saito, E. A. de Souza, M. A. Romero

Frequency Dependence of the Pump-to-Signal RIN Transfer in Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers .................... 787H. Pakarzadeh, K. Rottwitt, A. Zakery

Coherent Combining Efficiency Assessment for Few-Mode Fibers with Higher-Order Mode Content .................... 789B. Bennai, P. Bourdon, V. Jolivet, L. Lombard, G. Canat, O. Vasseur, Y. Jaouen

Multiwavelength Brillouin /Erbium Fiber Laser with Adjustable Wavelength Spacing............................................. 791Z. Zhang, J. Wu, K. Xu, X. Hong, J. Lin

Spectral Variation in Brillouin-Raman Fiber Laser....................................................................................................... 793A. K. Zamzuri, M. A. Mahdi, M. H. Al-Mansoori, N. M. Samsuri, A. Ahmad, R. Mohamad, S. Yaakob

SESSION THW: MICROWAVE PHOTONIC COMMUNICATIONS Coherent Optical Transmission for Digital and Analog Applications........................................................................... 795

G. Li, X. Li, L. Zhu, E. Mateo, F. Yaman, X. Xie, X. Zhou

Optical NRZ to RZ Format Conversion based on a Frequency-Doubling Optoelectronic Oscillator ........................ 797S. Pan, J. Yao

Performance Evaluation of Digitized RF-over-Fiber Transport Link .......................................................................... 799Y. Yang, C. Lim, P. Gamage, A. Nirmalathas

Photonic Impulse-Radio Wireless 2.5Gbit/sec Data Transmission at W-Band Using Near-Ballistic Uni-Traveling-Carrier Photodiode (NBUTC-PD) Based Photonic Transmitter .......................................................... 801

F.-M. Kuo, Y.-T. Li, J.-W. Shi, S.-N. Wang, N.-W. Chen, C.-L. Pan

SESSION THX: VCSEL High-Speed Buried Tunnel Junction VCSELs with High Operation Temperature..................................................... 803

W. Hofmann

Analog and Digital Functionality from Composite Resonator Vertical Cavity Lasers ................................................ 805C. Chen, K. D. Choquette

Different Forms of Polarization Bistability with Very Wide Hysteresis Cycles in a 1550nm-VCSEL Subject to Orthogonal Optical Injection.......................................................................................................................... 807

A. Hurtado, A. Quirce, A. Valle, L. Pesquera, M. J. Adams

Nonlinear Polarization Dynamics Induced by Orthogonal Optical Injection in 1550nm Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers ....................................................................................................................................... 809

A. Quirce, A. Hurtado, A. Valle, L. Pesquera, M. J. Adams

Multi-Wavelength VCSEL Array based on High Contrast Sub-Wavelength Grating ................................................ 811A. Imamura, V. Karagodsky, B. Pesala, F. Koyama, C. J. Chang-Hasnain

SESSION THY: TWO-PHOTON AND WAVEGUIDE NONLINEAR OPTICS Photon Quantum Correlation Measurements by Two-Photon Absorption in Semiconductors.................................. 813

F. Boitier, A. Godard, E. Rosencher, C. Fabre

Nonlinear Two-Photon Photodetection and Autocorrelation in a GaAs MQW Waveguide ....................................... 815D. Duchesne, L. Razzari, L. Halloran, M. Giguere, F. Legare, R. Morandotti, A. J. SpringThorpe, D. N. Christodoulides, D. J. Moss

Two-Dimensional All-Optical Routing and Switching in Waveguide Arrays............................................................... 817A. Szameit, R. Keil, F. Dreisow, M. Heinrich, S. Nolte, A. Tunnermann

Flattop Broadband Wavelength Converters Based on Double-Pass Cascaded SFG + DFG in Quasi-Phase Matched Waveguides.............................................................................................................................................. 819

A. Tehranchi, R. Kashyap

SESSION THZ: PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DEVICES Photoinduced High-Q Cavities in Chalcogenide Photonic Crystals .............................................................................. 821

M. W. Lee, C. Grillet, S. Tomljenovic-Hanic, D. Moss, B. J. Eggleton, X. Gai, S. Madden, D.-Y. Choi, D. Bulla, B. Luther-Davies

Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Waveguide with Chalcogenide Glass ................................................................................ 823K. Suzuki, Y. Hamachi, T. Baba

Annular Type Periodic Dielectric Structures .................................................................................................................. 825A. E. Akosman, H. Kurt

Bandwidth Compression in Triangular Lattice Based Dynamic Photonic Crystals Structures.................................. 827M. Shalaby, A. K. AboulSeoud, M. H. Aly

Engineering Group Index Parameter in Slow Light Photonic Crystal Waveguides .................................................... 829K. Ustun, H. Kurt

SESSION THAA: FREE SPACE COMMUNICATIONS Analysis of the Telescope Array Receiver for Deep-Space Optical Communications with Mars ............................... 831

A. Hashmi, A. A. Eftekhar, A. Adibi, F. Amoozegar

On the High-Speed Communication over Hybrid Free-Space Optical(FSO)-Wireless Fading Channels.................. 833I. B. Djordjevic, G. T. Djordjevic

SESSION THBB: VCSEL/COMMUNICATION LASERS High Power Vertical External Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VESCELs) emitting in 1310 nm and 1550 nm Bands ................................................................................................................................................................... 835

A. Sirbu, A. Mereuta, J. Rautiainen, J. Lyytikainen, A. Caliman, O. Okhotnikov, E. Kapon

Continuous-Wave Electrically-Pumped GaSb-based VCSELs at ~ 2.6 µm Operating up to 50ºC ............................. 837S. Arafin, A. Bachmann, K. Kashani-Shirazi, M.-C. Amann

40-Gbps Direct Modulation of 1.55-µm AlGaInAs Semi-Insulating Buried-Heterostructure Distributed Reflector Lasers up to 85ºC .......................................................................................................................... 839

A. Uetake, K. Otsubo, M. Matsuda, S. Okumura, M. Ekawa, T. Yamamoto

Nanosecond Channel-to-Channel Switching in Discretely Tunable Slotted Fabry-Pérot Laser ................................. 841J. P. Engelstaedter, B. Roycroft, F. H. Peters, B. Corbett, N. Ryan, M. Todd

Easily Feasible High-Yield DFB Laser with High Power Efficiency and Tight Wavelength Tolerance..................... 843J. B. M. Boavida, J. A. P. Morgado, C. A. F. Fernandez

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