PHOTONIC NETWORKS, COMPONENTS & APPLICATIONS

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• I Plenary Papers

  • Electronics & Photonics: Partners or Competitors?

  • Personal Entertainment (and Information) Networks

  • Optical Components and Electronic Packaging for High Performance Optical Data Links

  • Evolution of Fiber Technology from Telecommunications to Optics

  • Integrated Optical Devices for High-Data-Rate Communication

  • Ion-Exchanged Glass Integrated Optical Components

  • Polymer Waveguides for Optical Interconnects

  • Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Semiconductor Lasers for Optical Interconnections

  • Evaluation of the Life Cycle Cost for Universal Fiber Access

  • Amplification in the 1.3µm Telecommunications Window using a Single-mode Neodymium-doped Fluorozirconate Fibre

  • Recent Developments in the Application of Polymers to Electro-Optic and Second-Harmonic Devices

  • Optoelectronic Switching and Multiplexing

  • Influence of System Parameters on the Receiver Sensitivity of 10-Gbit/s Lightwave Systems

  • Noise Analysis of DFB Semiconductor Lasers

  • InP-Based Carrier Injection Optical Switch Array

  • Quasi-Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensors Grid for the Structure Monitoring

  • Avionic Fiber Optic Sensor Systems

  • Undersea Applications of Photonic Networks

  • Fiber-Based Multi-Sensor Networks for Industrial Applications

  • All Optical Analog Video Distribution System Using Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier

  • Metallic Interconnect Technology - A Moving Target

• II Poster/ Cameo Papers

  • Side-Mode Injection Locking Characteristics of Semiconductor Lasers: Multimode Analysis

  • A Swept Frequency Remote Refractometer for Liquids

  • Photonic Mid- and Far-Infrared Quantum Well Devices

  • A Model for Bioelectromagnetic Communication in Biological Cells

  • Glass Waveguides with Gratings

  • Ion-Exchanged Glass Waveguides with Spin-Coated Phosphate Overlays

  • Photorefractive GaAs for Coherent Detection

  • A Real Time Optical/ Digital Radon Space Image Processing System

  • Auger Recombination and the Non-Linear L-I Characteristic of the Double Active Region Semiconductor Laser

  • Semiconductor Laser Frequency Stabilization Using the Optogalvanic Effect

  • Optical Components in LiNbO₃ for a New Frequency-Shift-Keying Device

  • Modal Noise in Laser-Based Multimode Optical Interconnects

  • Waveguide and Device Modelling in Integrated and Fiber Optics

  • Optical Waveguides in Polyimide by Direct Laser Writing Utilizing Thermal Curing

  • Digitally Driven Electrooptic Modulator

  • Laser Lithography and Laser Pantography for Fabrication of Optical Guided Wave Components and Circuits

  • A New Method for Quasi-Static Analysis of Electro-Optic Device Electrode with Finite Metallization Thickness and Anisotropic Substrate

  • A Passive NxN Optical Limited Broadcast Coupler Using a Space-Varying Refractive Index Medium

  • Photorefractive Effect in Ti:LiNbO₃ Planar Waveguides: A Comparison in Material Purity and Thermal Fixing

  • Analysis of the Tapered Optical Couplers

  • Laser Phase Noise in Coherent Subcarrier-Multiplexed Optical Systems

  • Effects of Acoustic Properties on Stimulated Backward Brillouin Scattering of Single Mode Optical Fibers

  • Analysis of Cladded Single Crystal LiNbO₃ Fibers

  • NxN Passive Optical Star Coupler Based on the Exact Eigenmode Coupling and Coupling and Diffraction Theory

  • Optically Enhanced Franz-Keldysh Effect and Its Applications

  • On the Implementation of Coherent Sensors and Communications Fiber-Optic Network

  • Optical Hypercube Interconnections Using Mirrors and Corner-Cube Arrays

  • Ferroelectric Layers for Stabilization of Nonlinear Lightguides

  • Analysis of Ion-Exchanged Glass Waveguides with Grating

  • An Optical Data Communications Link for Wavemaker Control

  • Optical Circuit Board Simulations Using the Propagating Beam Method

  • Optical Arrow Waveguides for Sensing Applications

  • Precise Description of Fields in Optical Interconnects

  • Laser Direct Writing of Ti-diffused LiNbO₃ Waveguides

  • A New Correlation Scheme for Code Division Multiple Access in Optical Fibre Networks

  • Systems Design for Transmission of HDTV Over Broadband ISDN Photonic Networks

  • Development of a 1 Gbit Heterodyne Laser Diode Test Bed for Intersatellite Communication

  • Optical Computation of Aperture Weights for Phased Array Radar

  • Characterization of n₂ and β and Application to an Optical Limiting Device

  • Electroabsorption Devices in Multiple Quantum Wells and Superlattices

  • Characterization, Modelling and Design Optimization of Integrated Optical Waveguide Devices in Glass and Lithium Niobate

  • An Optically Programmable Synapse for Neural Networks

  • Circular Grating Resonator: A Coupled-Wave Analysis

  • Ion-Exchange Processes for Advanced Glass Waveguides

• III Panel Sessions

  • A) What Applications Will Effectively Utilize Fiber's Abundant Bandwidth

  • B) Future Optical Amplifiers - Fiber vs Semiconductor?

  • C) Passive or Active Fiber Distribution by the Mid 1990s?

  • D) Opto-electronic Packaging and Interconnection?

• IV List of Participants