2011 IEEE Photonics Conference

(PHO 2011)

Arlington, Virginia, USA9-13 October 2011

4>IEEE IEEE Catalog Number: CFP11LEO-PRT

ISBN: 978-1-4244-8940-4

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Monday, October 10, 2011

MA Special Symposium on Innovative Optical Microresonators I

MAI Novel Applications of Crystalline Microresonators 1

MA2 Ultra-High-Q Micro-Cavity on a Silicon Chip 3

MA3 Conical and Bottle Microresonators in an Optical Fiber with Angstrom-Scale Radius 5

Variation

MA4 Simultaneous High-Harmonic Generation and Raman Lasing in a Lithium Niobate 7

Whispering-Gallery Resonator

MB Plasmonics and Nanostructures

MBl Nanoplasmonics: New Phenomena at the Sub-Wavelength Scale N/A

MB2 Extraordinary Interaction of Terahertz and Infrared Waves through Metallic 9

Nano-Slits

MB3 Grating Couplers in Ultrananocrystalline Diamond 11

MB4 Investigation of a Flexible On-chip Interconnection using a Plasmonic Strip 13

Waveguide

MB5 The Plasma Bipolar Junction Phototransistor: Coupling Electron-hole and 15

Electron-ion Plasmas

MB6 Widely Tunable Waveguide Filters Based on Long-Range Surface Plasmon 17

Polaritons

MC Microwave Photonic Devices

MCI High-Power and High-Linearity Photodiodes 19

MC2 Ultra-High Speed (270 GHz) Near-Ballistic Uni-Traveling-Carrier Photodiode with 21

Very-High Saturation Current (17 mA) Under a 50 Ohm Load

MC3 Third-Order Intermodulation Distortion Characterization of Variable Confinement 23

Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide Photodiodes

MC4 A Germanium on Silicon Uni-traveling Carrier Photodiode 25

MC5 Source- and Load-Pull Characteristics of Directly-Modulated Laser Diodes and 27

Analog Links

MD Novel Detectors for Mid Infrared

MDl Multi Band Sensing with Arsenides and Nitirdes 29

MD2 High Detectivity MWIR Type-II Superlattice Grown on a GaAs Substrate 31

MD3 Polarization Selective Interband Transitions in Type-II InAs/GaSb Superlattices 33

MD4 Quantum Efficiency Modeling of PIN Photodiodes with InGaAs/GaAsSb Quantum 35

Wells Absorption Region

MD5 Polarization Sensitive Solar-Blind Detector Based on A-Plane AIGaN 37

ME Optical NetworkingME1 Optical Physical Layer Security 39

ME2 All-Optical Self-Routing of 40 Gb/s DPSK Packets 41

ME3 Enhanced Noise Estimation with Correlation for MLD in OCDM-based PON System 43

ME4 Spectral Line Pairing for Heterodyne OCDMA 45

ME5 Regenerative Re-Circulating Fiber Loop for Optical Buffering 47

MF Pulse Generation and SynthesisMFl Femtosecond and Subfemtosecond Optical Waveform Synthesis 49

MF2 Picosecond Optical Pulse Generation Using a Directly Generated Gaussian-shaped 51

Optical Frequency Comb

MF3 Characteristics of Supercontinuum Generation Under the Influence of a Weak 53

Continuous-Wave Trigger

MF4 Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Few-Cycle Optical Pulses in Nonlinear Media 55

MF5 Bright, Dark, Multiple Optical Pulses Generation using a Carbon-nanotube- 57

deposited Fiber Device

MG Nonlinear Fiber and Waveguide ApplicationsMGl Controlling Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Chalocgenide Photonic Integrated N/A

Circuits

MG2 Widely Tunable Soliton Frequency Shifting for Mid-Infrared Applications 59

MG3 Nonlinear Effects Above 2 urn in Chalcogenide Suspended Core Microstructured 61

Optical Fibers: Modeling and Experiments

MG4 Dynamic Brillouin Gratings: A New Tool in Fibers for All-Optical Signal 63

Processing

MH Solar Energy and Lighting Applications I

MHl Nanowires for Optoelectronic Device Applications N/A

MH2 Study on the Quantum Efficiency Enhancement in InGaN/GaN Dot-in-a-Wire Light 65

Emitting Diodes Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

MI Special Symposium on Innovative Optical Microresonators II

Mil Berry Phase Magnification and Other Polarization Effects in Nonlinear Microcoil 67

Resonators

MI2 Ultra-High Q Whispering-Gallery-Mode Bottle Microresonators: Properties and N/A

Applications

MI3 Bloch-Wave Engineered Submicron Diameter Micropillars with Quality Factors 69

Exceeding 10,000

MI4 Whispering Gallery Resonators for the Quadratic Nonlinear Generation of Light 71

with Less Than One Hundred Molecules

MJ Nanophotonics and Nanolasers

MJl Nanofabricated Light Sources N/A

MJ2 Asymmetric Strip-loaded Slot Waveguides and its Applications in Silicon-Polymer 73Hybrid Electro-optic Modulators

MJ3 Low-Threshold Plasmonic Nanolaser Structure based on Coupled Nanowires 75

MJ4 Plasmonic Antenna Integrated Quantum Cascade Laser for Mode Confinement 77used for High Sensitivity Bio-Sensing Applications

MJ5 Miniature Slow Light Total-Internal-Reflection Switch with Carrier Injection 79

MJ6 Tunable Wavelength Selective Operation in Grating Silicon Waveguide having 81Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Cladding

MK Microwave Photonic Systems and DevicesMKl A Wide Bandwidth Digital to Analog Converter Based on Cyclic Code 83

MK2 Photonic Instantaneous Frequency Measurement Using Optical Carrier 85Suppression based DC Power Monitoring

MK3 Heterogeneous Photonic Integration for Microwave Systems Applications 87

MK4 Photonic Microwave Down-Conversion Based on Linear Modulation and Filtering 89

MK5 High Power Directly Modulated DFB Lasers for Large Dynamic Range Optical 91Transmission

ML Mid Infrared Focal Plane ArraysMLl Solid State Low Light Imaging N/AML2 Demonstration of High Performance LWIR Superlattice Focal Plane Array 93

ML3 Quantum Dots-in-a-Well (DWELL) Infrared Photodetectors with Confinement 95Enhancing Barriers

ML4 A Readout Integrated Circuit (ROIC) with Hybrid Source/Sensor Array 97

ML5 Fabrication of Wiregrid Micropolarizers for Imaging from Visible to Infrared 99Wavelengths

MM Phase-Sensitive AmplificationMMl Noise Properties and Information Capacities of Phase-(in)Sensitive Parametric 101

Amplifiers

MM2 Extinction Ratio and Gain Optimization of Dual-Pump Degenerate-Idler Phase 103Sensitive Amplifiers

MM3 QPSK Phase Regeneration in Saturated Degenerate Dual-pump Phase Sensitive 105Amplifiers

MN Quantum Dot Lasers I

MNl Quantum Dot Lasers - The Role of the 2D States 107

MN2 Direct Characterization of Carrier Relaxation in a Passively Mode-Locked 109Quantum Dot Laser

MN3 Dual Wavelength Mode-Locking of InAs/InP Quantum Dot Laser Diodes at 1.5pm 111

MN4 Scaling and Tuning Properties of Microwave Generation in CW Injection Locked 113InP-based Mode-Locked Quantum Dash Lasers

Simultaneous Low Linewidth Enhancement Factor and High Bandwidth Quantum-Dash

MN5 Injection-Locked Laser 115

MO Special Symposium on Terabit Optical Ethernet I

MOl Terabit Networks: The Key Drivers N/A

M02 Silicon Photonics for Terabit Optical Ethernet N/A

M03 Bandwidth-Scalable OFDM N/A

M04 Terabit InP Photonic Integrated Circuits N/A

MP Quantum Photonics

MPl Nano-Photonics Using Deterministic Semiconductor Quantum Wire and Quantum N/ADot Systems

MP2 Nonlinear Effects in Quantum Dot-Photonic Crystal Cavity Systems with 117

Integrated Waveguides

MP3 Ultranarrow Cascade-Switching Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon N/ADetectors: Operation and Potential Applications

MP4 Room Temperature Polariton Lasing from a Single GaN Nanowire Microcavity 119

MQ Special Symposium on Innovative Optical Microresonators III

MQl Modulated Mode-Gap Cavities in Various Forms 121

MQ2 TBD N/A

MQ3 SiN Based On-Chip Microresonator Frequency Combs and Application to Optical 123

Arbitary Waveform Generation

MQ4 Control and Characterization of Picosecond Pulse Trains from a Microresonator 125

Frequency Comb

MR Photonic IntegrationMRl Hybrid Integration on Silicon for Optical Interconnects N/A

MR2 Proof-Of-Concept Demonstration of an All-Optical De-multiplexer Using 127

III-V/SOI Microdisk Resonator Fabricated in a CMOS Pilot Line

MR3 Suppressing Standing-Wave property in Cascaded Integration of EAMs and High 129

Impedance Transmission Lines

MR4 Reconfigurable Monolithic Wavelength Filter Using Gated Amplifying 131

Mach-Zehnders

MR5 Demonstration of Chip-Scale Optical Interconnects Based on the Integration of 133

Polymer Waveguides and Multiple Quantum Well Modulators on Silicon

MR6 Theoretical Analysis of Hybrid Metal-Low-High Index Waveguide 135

MS Analog Processing and FilteringMSI Low-loss and Programmable Integrated Photonic Beamformer for Electronically- 137

steered Broadband Phased Array Antennas

MS2 Tapped Delay-line Matched Filtering using a High-Contrast Grating Hollow-Core 139

Waveguide

MS3 Analog Signal Processing/Filtering 141

MS4 Single-Bandpass Microwave Photonic Filter with Wide Tuning Range and no 143Baseband Response

MS5 Dual-Comb Microwave Photonic Filtering with Unprecedented 40-ns Tuning 145

Speed

MT Spectral SensingMTl Compressive Multispectral Sensing Algorithm with Tunable Quantum Dots-in- 147

a-Well Infrared Photodetectors

MT2 Development of a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD)-based Snapshot Spectral 149

Imaging (DMD-SSI) System

MT3 Compact Fluorescence Sensor using On-chip Silicon Nitride Microdisk 151

MT4 On-chip Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) Sensing 153

MU Coded ModulationMUl Multidimensional Coded Modulation for High-Spectrally Efficient Optical 155

Transmission

MU2 Energy-Efficient Coded-Modulation for High-Speed Optical Communication 157based on Statistical Physics Concepts

MU3 An Experimental Investigation of High-Rate Nonbinary Quasi-Cyclic LDPC-Coded 159Modulation for Coherent Optical Communication

MU4 Polarization-Multiplexed Nonbinary LDPC-Coded Modulation with Optimal Signal 161Constellations

MV Quantum Dot Lasers II

MVl Highly Stacked Quantum Dot Lasers Fabricated by a Strain-Compensation 163

Technique

MV2 Dual-Mode Quantum Dot Laser Operating in the Excited State 165

MV3 High-Gain InP-Based Quantum Dot Lasers for Telecommunication Applications 167

MV4 Carrier Distribution in InP/AIGalnP Quantum Dot Laser Diodes 169

MW Special Symposium on Terabit Optical Ethernet IIMWl Coding and Modulation Techniques Enabling Multi-Tb/s Optical Ethernet 171

MW2 TBDN/A

MW3 Implementation of Terabits Networks173

MX Plasmonic NanoantennasMXl X-Antenna Arrays for Optical Field Concentration and Enhanced Raman 175

Scattering

MX2 Optical Antenna Based nanoLED177

MX3 Shaping the Optical Near-Field Vortex Distribution in a Plasmonic Spiral 179

MX4 A Plasmonic Nanocluster Designed for Near-Field Polarization Analysis 181

MX5 Optical Force Mapping of Plasmonic Modes Generated by a Nanoantenna 183

PLE1 Plenary I

PLEl.l What's Next in Solid State Lighting: Speculations on the Future Ecosystem N/A

PLE1.2 Graphene Photonics and Optoelectronics N/A

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

TuA Special Symposium on Innovative Optical Microresonators IV

TuAl Resonant Coupling to Microspheres and Light Pressure Effects in Microfluidic 185

Fiber-Integrated Platforms

TuA2 Hybrid Optoplasmonic Microresonators and Networks 187

TuA3 Defect-Induced Whispering-Gallery-Mode Resonances in Optical Micro-Disk 188

Resonators

TuA4 A Cavity Effect on Optical Forces 190

TuB Radio Over Fiber

TuBl High Data Rate Radio Over Fiber Technologies 192

TuB2 Photonic UWB Signal Generation and Multicasting Using a Nonlinear Optical 194

Loop Mirror

TuB3 Photonic Generation of UWB Doublet Pulses Using a Modified Kerr Switch with 196

Parametric Amplification

TuB4 Ultrafast All-Optical Wavelet Transform Based on Temporal Pulse Shaping 198

TuB5 In-building Unlicensed WiFi Band OFDM Signal Distribution over MMF&BIF 200

Using VCSEL

TuC Recent Advances in Avalanche Photodiodes

TuCl Recent Advances in Avalanche Photodiodes: Ultraviolet to Infrared 202

TuC2 Laser Processing for Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance 204

TuD Semiconductor Lasers for Optical Communication

TuDl High-Speed Modulation Lasers for 100 GbE 206

TuD2 1.3-um, 4x25G, EADFB Laser Array Module for Compact 10-km lOOGbE 208

Transceivers

TuD3 Uncooled 25-Gb/s Operation of a Four-wavelength 1.3-um Surface-emitting DFB 210

Laser Array

TuD4 Ultra-High Power, Low RIN and Narrow Linewidth Lasers for C-Band DWDM 212

+ 100km Fiber Optic Link

TuD5 Reliable Etched-Facet, Surface-Mount InGaAlAs MQW FP Laser at 1.3&mum for 214

Non-Hermetic Applications

TuE WDM PONS and Transmission

TuEl Symmetric 2.5 Gb/s RSOA-Based WDM-PON with Electronic Equalization and 216

Overlapped-Subcarrier Multiplexing

TuE2 Uncooled DWDM Transmission System Using Tunable Laser Sources with 218

Anti-Mode-Hop Control Protocol

TuE3 Colorless ONU Based on All-VCSEL Sources with Remote Optical Injection for 220WDM-PON

TuE4 Shared-seeding Scheme for Integrated Services in WDM-PON Access Networks 222

TuE5 Enhanced Reflection Tolerance of RSOA-Based WDM-PON using Noise Predictive 224

Equalization

TUE6 A Robust Overlapped-SCM WDM PON with a Standalone Burst-Mode OLT 226Receiver

TuF Telecom Fiber ApplicationsTuFl Wavelength Tunable All-Optical Clock Recovery at 40 Gb/s Based on a Fiber

Optical Parametric Oscillator

TuF2 lOGbps POF Ribbon Transmission for Optical Interconnects

TuF3 Generating Orbital Angular Momentum Modes in a Fiber with a Central Squareand a Ring Profile

TuF4 Optical Fiber Mode Filters in the Dual-Mode Fiber Transmission Systems

TuF5 FDTD Calculation of Polarization Dependent Splice Loss in Optical Fiber

TuF6 All Fiber Michelson-Gires-Turnois Interferometer-based Optical Filter with

Programmable Transfer Function

TuG Negative Index and Rainbow TrappingTuGl Negative Index in Chiral Metamaterials 240

TuG2 Adiabatically Graded Plasmonic Structures for "Rainbow" Trapping Effect 242

TuG3 Slow-Light Generation in an Er-doped Glass via Electromagnetically Induced 244

Transparency

TuG4 Carrier and Exciton Spin Dynamics in Cu-doped ZnO Nanowires 246

TuH Computational NanophotonicsTuHl Applications of Computational Nanophotonics in Photonic Circuits, Self 248

Assembly, and Solar Energy

TuH2 Effect of Optical Force on Transmission of Plasmonic Bowtie Antenna 250

TuH3 Metamaterial Based Lenses with Distinctive Imaging Properties in Forward and 252Backward Directions

TuH4 GPW Excited by Folded Dipole Antenna with Opened Loop 254

Tul Special Symposium on Innovative Optical Microresonators VTull High Speed and Low Power Microring Modulators for Silicon Photonics 256

TuI2 Ultra-Wide Band Signal Generation Using a Silicon Micro-Ring Resonator 258

TuI3 Performance of Ring Resonator-based Linear Optical Modulator (IMPACC) under 260Critical Coupling (CC), Over Coupling (OC), and Under Coupling (UC) Conditions

TuI4 Optical Cavity with the Field Standing in Free Space 262

TuI5 Fabrication of Functionalized Optical Microstructures 264

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TuJ Millimeter Wave Systems and Devices

TuJl Reconfigurable DWDM Millimeter-Wave Band Radio-Over-Fiber Technologies 266

TuJ2 Challenges and Capacity Analysis of 100 Gbps Optical Fibre Wireless Links in 268

75-110 GHz Band

TuJ3 Transmission Schemes for Millimeter-Wave Radio-over-Fiber System using 270

Remote and Local Heterodyning of Free-Running Lasers and Self-Homodyning RF Receiver

TuJ4 Frequency-Stabilized W-band Two-Tone Optical Signal Generation for 272

High-Speed RoF and Radio Transmission

TuJ5 Development of 170 GHz Electro-Optic Phase LiNb03 Modulator for 274

Millimeter-Wave Imaging

TuK Novel Avalanche Photodiodes

TuKl InAs Electron-Avalanche Photodiodes: From Leaky Diodes to Extremely Low 276

Noise Avalanche Photodiodes

TuK2 Thin AlAsSb Avalanche Regions with Sub-mV/K Temperature Coefficients of 278

Breakdown Voltage and Very Low Excess Noise Factors

TuK3 Numerical Simulation of InAlAs/InAIGaAs Tandem Avalanche Photodiodes 280

TyK4 A Compact Bias and Gain Control Solution for Avalanche Photodiodes 282

TuK5 Pulse Mode Characterization of High-Power Modified Uni-Traveling Carrier 284

Photodiodes

TuL Lasers for Communications and DisplaysTuLl Progress in Ultra-High Modulation Efficiency Tapered Lasers for Free-Space 286

Communications

TuL2 Directly-Modulated High-Power Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide Lasers 288

TuL3 Progress in Efficient, High-Brightness Red-Emitting Tapered Diode Lasers for 290

Display Applications

TuL4 350 mW Green Light Emission from a Directly Frequency-Doubled DBR Laser in 292

a Compact Package

TuM Optical Wireless and In-Home Networks

TuMl Comparison of Multi-Carrier and Single-Carrier Intensity Modulation Techniques 294

for Indoor Optical Wireless Links

TuM2 A Spectral Efficient PolMux-QPSK-RoF System with CMA-Based Blind Estimation 296

of a 2x2 MIMO Wireless Channel

TuM3 Survivability Evaluation of Optimum Network Node Placement in a Hybrid Fiber- 298Wireless Access Network

TuM4 Carrierless N-Dimensional Modulation Format for Multiple Service Differentiation 300

in Optical In-home Networks

TuM5 Provisioning In-House Mobility for FTTH Customers by Incorporating 302

Modifications in Optical Network Unit (ONU)

TuN Capacity in Optical Communication

TuNl Capacity in Fiber Optic Communications - The Case for a Radically New Fiber 304

TuN2 Influence of Guard Band on Channel Capacity for Optical Transmission Systems 306

TuN3 Green Data and Computer Communication 308

TuN4 Optical OFDM Transmission with High Spectral Efficiency 310

TuO High Q Micro-Resonator and AmplifiersTuOl High Q Microtoroid and Applications 312

Tu02 Saturation Effect on Pump-to-Signal Intensity Modulation Transfer in 314Single-Pump Phase-Insensitive Fibre Optic Parametric Amplifiers

Tu03 Asymmetric Gain-Saturated Spectrum in One-pump Fiber Optical Parametric 316Amplifiers

Tu04 Spatial Modes of Phase-Sensitive Image Amplifier with Higher-Order Gaussian 318Pump and Phase Mismatch

Tu05 Chirped-Pulse Control of Carrier Dynamics in Low-Temperature Grown GaAs 320

TuP Nanophotonic Device IntegrationTuPl Nanofocusing with Dielectric Rings 322

TuP2 Ultrahigh-Q Nanocavities Fabricated by Scanning Probe Microscope Lithography 324on Pre-Patterned Photonic Crystal

TuP3 Large-Scale Integrated Photonics for High-Performance Interconnects 326

TuP4 Photonic Crystal Biosensor in Spatial Fourier Domain 328

TuP5 Design of Sub-Wavelength Size Indium Tin Oxide Clad Optical Disk Resonators 330with Quality Factors>104 in Visible Wavelengths

TuP6 Lattice-Matched Monolithically Integrated Lasers on Silicon N/A

TuQ Monolithic Integration in Indium PhosphideTuQl Integrated Laser and Modulator Components for Advanced Modulation Formats N/A

TuQ2 Integrated Transmitters from Backbone to On-Chip Applications 334

TuQ3 On-Chip Emitter for Regrowth-Free Multi-Guide Vertical Integration in InP 336

TuR Novel Components for High Data RateTuRl Nanophotonics for Energy Efficient High-Bit Rate Datacom and Ethernet IM/ATuR2 Thermally Stable 50 Gb/s SOI DPSK Demodulator 338

TuR3 10 Channel, 28 Gbaud PM-QPSK, Monolithic InP Terabit Superchannel Receiver 340PIC

TuR4 Multi-path Routing at 40Gb/s in an Integrated Space and Wavelength Selective 342Switch

TuR5 On-chip Guided-wave Optical Interconnects using Multiple Quantum Well 344Modulators

TuR6 Sidewall Roughness-induced Mode Splitting and Scattering Loss in High Q 346Microdisk Resonators: Theory and Experiment

TuS Photon-Counting Detectors

TuSl High-Rate Photon Counting with Geiger-Mode APDs 348

TuS2 Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors 350

TuS3 Patterned Zinc-Diffused Structures for Improved Avalanche Probabilities in 352

InGaAs/InP Single Photon Detectors

TuT Waveguide Devices

TuTl Tuning Wave Dispersion in Resonant Networks 354

TuT2 Monolithic High-Capacity Receivers in Silicon 355

TuT3 Higher Order Planar-Waveguide Bragg Grating on Curved Waveguide 357

TUT4 Region Identification Based Multidimensional Optimization of the Performance of 359

Semiconductor Laser Amplifier

TuU Free Space Optical Communications

TuUl Holographic Optical Beamsteering Demonstration 361

TuU2 Spatial-Domain-Based Energy-Efficient Optical Communications and Networks 363

TuU3 Visible Light Communications: Challenges and Potential 365

TuV AH Optical Signal ProcessingTuVl Extraction of Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Parameters for Wavelength 367

Conversion Modeling

TuV2 Detailed Time-Resolved Spectral Analysis of Ultra-Fast Four-Wave Mixing in 369

Silicon Nanowires

TuV3 Power Efficiency Improvement of a Wavelength-Preserved All Optical 2R 371

Regeneration System in an SOA-based Optical Cross-Gain Compression Mechanism

TuV4 Reconfigurable Optical DPSK Pattern Recognition based on Incoherent Optical 373

Processing

TuV5 Simultaneous Realization of a Multifunctional Photonic Logic Gate Based on 375

Bidirectional FWM

TuW Nonlinear Plasmon Polaritons and Effects

TuWl Second Order Nonlinear Optics with Long Range Surface Plasmon Polaritons 377

TuW2 Nonlinear Plasmon-Polaritons 379

TuW3 Second Harmonic Generation in GaP Photonic Crystal Waveguides 381

TuW4 Measurement of Phase-Matching Spectral Phase by Nonlinear Spectral 383

Interferometry

TuX Solar Energy and Lighting Applications II

TuXl InGaN Multiple Quantum Well Nanorod and Nanosheet Arrays for InGaN-based 385

LEDs

TuX2 Plasmonic Light Trapping Effect on Properties of InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Dot 387

Solar Cells

TuX3 Hybrid GaN/Organic Polymer Photonic Crystal LED 389

TuX4 Monolithically Grown InxGal-xAs Nanowire Array on Silicon Tandem Solar Cells 391with High Efficiency

PLE2 Plenary II

PLE2.1 Optical Networking Beyond WDM N/A

PLE2.2 Enabling VCSEL Technology for "Green" Optical Interconnect in HPC and Data 393

Centers

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

WA Hybrid III-V on Silicon IntegrationWAl Integrated Hybrid Silicon Sources for 100 Gbit/s and Beyond N/A

WA2 Laser Sources on a Heterogeneous III-V/Silicon Platform 395

WA3 Membrane InP-based Lasers and Related Devices for On-Chip Interconnects 397

WB Optical Resonators, Couplers and FiltersWBl Linewidth Unlimited Resonators: Stepping Around Conventional Performance N/A

Limits of silicon Microphotonics

WB2 Demonstration of Wavelength Conversion in a Reconfigurable Coupled 399

Resonator in Silicon

WB3 Bandwidth Adjustable Grating Coupler Integrated with Serially Connected 401Multi-mode Interference Filters

WB4 Highly Efficient Color Filter Based on a Subwavelength Metal Grating Integrated 403

with a Dielectric Monolayer

WB5 Optimization of Filter Architecture for High-Order RF-Photonic Filters on SOI 405

WB6 Compact Large-Cross-Section GaN Directional Couplers 407

WC Novel Linear and Nonlinear EffectsWCl Optical Lift: From Micro-Transport to Space Travel 409

WC2 Silk - New Opportunities in Optics and Photonics for an Ancient Material 411

WC3 Sub-Bandgap Detection Using Extremely Nondegenerate Two-Photon Absorption 413

WC4 Enhanced Detection of Broadband Terahertz Field by Filamentation of Chirped 415

Optical Pulses

WD Biophotonic Sensors

WDl Improving the Specificity and Stability of Label-Free Optical Biosensors 417

WD2 Athermal Silicon Waveguides for Aqueous Evanescent Biosensor Applications 419

WD3 Sensitivity Analysis of a Hollow-Core Bragg Fiber Biosensor 421

WD4 Plastic-Based Distributed Feedback Laser Biosensors in Microplate Format 423

WD5 Ultrasensitive Plasmonic Fano Sensor Enables Seeing Protein Monolayers with 425Naked Eye

WE Fiber and Waveguide Light Sources

WEI Highly Stable 200GHz Soliton Microring Resonator Laser based on Filter-Driven 427

Four Wave Mixing

WE2 Subpicosecond As2S3 Fiber Ring Laser 429

WE3 40 GHz and 80 GHz Mode-Locked Semiconductor Fiber Laser Using Nonlinear 431

Polarization Rotation in a Highly Nonlinear Fiber

WE4 Raman Fiber DFBs in Highly Nonlinear Germanoscilate Fibers 433

WE5 New Developments in Fiber-based Frequency Combs 435

WF Semiconductor Laser ReliabilityWFl High Power Laser Diode Reliability and Lifetesting N/A

WF2 Strain Driven Degradation in Laser Diodes 437

WG Optical Networking for High-Performance Computing and Data

Centers

WGl A High-Performance Network Architecture for Scalable Optical Datacenters 439

WG2 Cross-Layer Study of Optical Burst Switches for Next-Generation Datacenters 441

WG3 Experimental Demonstration of 10 Gigabit Ethernet-Based Optical 443

Interconnection Network Interface for Large-Scale Computing Systems

WG4 Implementation of Optical Burst Switching in Data Centers 445

WG5 NGN Optical Transport N/A

WH Solar Energy and Lighting Applications III

WHl Giving Photovoltaics the Green Light: Plasmon-Enhanced Upconversion for 447

Broadband Solar Absorption

WH2 Tunable Multi-Photon Absorption Cross-Sections Using Seeded CdSe/CdS 449

Nanorod Heterostructures

WH3 Predicting the Spectral Shape of Multi-Section Quantum Dot Superluminescent 451

LEDs

WH4 Antenna-Coupled Metal-Insulator-Metal Tunneling Diode for Energy Harvesting 453

WI Novel Display Materials

WIl High Performance Fringe-Field Switching Liquid Crystal Display 455

WI2 Efficient OLED's Made Using Solution Processed Metal Nanowire Anodes N/A

WI3 Reduction of Light Leakage in Protruded Electrode by Refractive Index Matching 457

Between Protrusion and Blue Phase Liquid Crystal

WI4 An Electrically Tunable LCOS Pico Projector with Optical Zoom 459

WJ Waveguide and Integrated OpticsWJl Deep-Levels in Silicon Waveguides: A Route to Monolithic Integration 461

WJ2 Silicon Based Taper Waveguides for Near Field Coupling 463

WJ3 Fabrication of Ge-rich SiGe-On-Insulator Waveguide for Optical Modulator 465

W34 Planar Coupling and Nanofocusing with Metallic Strip Tapers 467

WJ5 GalnAsP/InP Waveguide Dual Core Spot Size Converter for Optical Fiber 469

WJ6 Integrated refractometer design with directional light source 471

WK Microwave Photonics TechniquesWKl Ultra-Low-Loss Whispering Gallery Delay Lines and Resonators on a Silicon 473

Chip

WK2 An Optically Tunable Frequency-Quadrupling Optoelectronic Oscillator 475

WK3 Dependence of RF Frequency on Injected Optical Frequency of an Injection 477Locked Coupled Opto-Electronic Oscillator

WK4 Generation of Microwave Signals with a Dual-Frequency Distributed Feedback 479Fiber Laser

WK5 Optical Generation of Binary Phase-Coded Microwave Signal Using a 481

Polarization-Maintaining Fiber Bragg Grating

WL Optofluidics and NeurophotonicsWLl Microfluidic Flow Cytometer Utilizing Optical Space-Time Coding Technique 483

WL2 Label-Free Flow Cytometry Using Multiplex Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman 485

Scattering (MCARS) for Biological Analysis

WL3 Innovative Opto-Microfluidic Platform to Manipulate Liquid Drops and Transport 487Micro Objects

WL4 Optical Trapping of Micro-Objects Using Polymeric Microaxicons 489

WL5 Neuron Mid-Infrared Absorption Study for Direct Optical Excitation of Neurons 491

WL6 Fiber Beam Shaping for Optical Nerve Stimulation 493

WM Frequency Conversion Based on Quasi-PhasematchingWMl Optical Parametric Oscillations Based on Multiple-Layer-Bonded Walk-Off- 495

Compensated KTiOP04 Stacks

WM2 Quasi-Phasematched Semiconductors for Mid-IR Frequency Conversion 497

WM3 (4)Over-Bar-Quasi-Phasematching in Microdisks 499

WM4 Efficient Generation of 13-30 microns Based on Parametric Conversion in 501Periodically-Poled LiNb03 under Surface-Emitting Geometry

WN Nitride-Based Semiconductor LasersWNl Recent Progress in InGaN-Based Laser Diodes Fabricated on Nonpolar/Semipolar 503

Substrates

WN2 200mW GaN-based Superluminescent Diode with a Novel Waveguide Structure 505

WN3 6.3W InGaN Laser Diode Array with Highly Efficient Wide-Striped Emitters 507

WN4 Physics of Novel Ill-Nitride Gain Media for Visible and Ultraviolet Lasers 509

WO Advanced Modulation and Signal ProcessingWOl Performance of Advanced Modulation Formats in Submarine Transmission 511

Systems

All-Optical Modulation Format Conversion From Binary To Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying

W02 Using Delay Line Interferometer 513

W03 Single SOA-MZI-based 40 Gb/s NRZ to RZ and OOK to BPSK Format and 515

Wavelength Converters for Gridless Networking

W04 Soft-Differential Decoding for Demodulation without Carrier Phase Recovery 517

W05 Next-Generation Terabit Flexible-Bandwidth Networks based on Optical Arbitrary 519

Generation and Measurements

WP Nanolasers and Photonic CrystalsWPl Comprehensive Investigation of Composite Photonic-Crystal Cavities Emitting 521

Arbitrary-Angled Laser Beams

WP2 Thermal Emission Control by Simultaneous Manipulation of Electronic and 523

Photonic States

WP3 Ultra-High Sensitivity in a Photonic Crystal Superprism Due to the Curvature 525Singularity of a Dispersion Surface

WP4 Design of Integrated Nanocrystal Light Sources 527

WP5 Single-Mode Lasing from Top-Down Fabricated Gallium Nitride Nanowires 529

WP6 Spin Lifetimes in Wurtzite InGaN/ GaN Quantum Disk-in-Nanowire 531

Heterostructures from Time Resolved Photoluminescence Measurements

WQ Micro- and Metal Cavity Lasers for Integration in Indium Phosphideand Silicon

WQl Monolithically Integrated InP Micro-Ring Lasers N/A

WQ2 Metal-Cavity Microlasers on Silicon533

WQ3 1.3 - 1.55 urn Self-Organized InAs Quantum Dot Tube Nanoscale Lasers on 535Silicon

WR Nanotechnology and Silicon PhotonicsWRl Metamaterials and Nanotechnology Based Low Power and Small Footprint 537

Integrated Photonics

WR2 Silicon Modulator with Low Voltage Differential Signaling 539

WR3 Widely Tunable Silicon-On-Insulator Ring Resonators with a Liquid Crystal 541

Cladding

WR4 Light Collection From Scattering Media in a Slicon Photonics Integrated Circuit 543

WR5 Novel Porous Silicon Integrated Optical Devices for Sensing Applications 545

WR6 Free-Space Beam Steering Using Silicon Waveguide Surface Gratings 547

WS Technologies for Light EmittionWSl Flexible Organic Semiconductor Laser Array 549

WS2 TBDN/A

WS3 Flexible Vertical Structure GaN-Based Light Emitting Diodes on an AuSn 551Substrate

WS4 ZnO for Homojunction Light Emitting Diodes and Transparent Conductors 553

WT Transparent Oxide Materials and DevicesWTl Transparent Oxide Semiconductors: Recent Material Development and New 555

Applications

WT2 Features and Applications of Various TFTs: Si Based TFTs and Oxide 557Semiconductor Based Transparent TFTs

WT3 The Effects of Annealing Process Under H2/N2 Environment on the 559Characteristics of Low Temperature Solution Processed InGaZnO Thin Film Transistors

WT4 Well-Aligned Zinc Oxide Nanowire Arrays for Transparent Electrode Applications 561

WU Third-Order Nonlinear EffectsWUl Wavelength-Shift-Free All-Optical 2R Regeneration via Four-Wave Mixing 563

WU2 Four-Wave Mixing Generation in Carbon-Nanotube-Coated Optical Fiber Grating 565

WU3 Gap Solitons in Coupled Bragg Gratings with Dispersive Reflectivity 567

WU4 Adiabatic Soliton Spectral Compression in a Dispersion-Increasing Fiber 569

WU5 The Raman Contribution to the Intensity Dependent Refractive Index in Optical 571Fibers

WU6 Optical Pulse Transformations beyond Optical Wave Breaking 573

WV High Power Semiconductor LasersWVl High Power Single Mode Semiconductor Laser 575

WV2 56W Optical Output Power at 970nm from a Truncated Tapered Semiconductor 577

Optical Amplifier

WV3 High-Power Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide Amplifiers 579

WV4 The Modal Content of High Power Broad Area Diode Lasers with Integrated 581Distributed Feedback Gratings

WV5 Narrow Linewidth Operation in Broad Area Laser Diodes 583

WW Spacial Multiplexing and AmplificationWWl Optical Amplification for Capacity Increase in Long Haul Transmission Systems 585

by Spatial Multiplexing

WW2 25.6-bit/s/Hz Spectral Efficiency using 16-QAM Signals over Pol-Muxed Multiple 587

Orbital-Angular-Momentum Modes

WW3 Multimode Fiber Amplifier with Tunable Modal Gain Using a Reconfigurable 589Multimode Pump

WX Silicon Photonics for TelecommunicationsWXl Silicon Photonic Platform for Telecommunications Applications 591

WX2 All-Optical XOR Logic Gate for 40Gb/s DPSK Signals via FWM in a Silicon 593Nanowire

WX3 All-Optical Wavelength Conversion of a High-Speed RZOOK Signal in a Silicon 595Nanowire

WX4 Demonstration of Waveguide-Coupled Sidewalled Grating Filters on SOI 597

WY Microwave Photonic Signal Generation and Characterization

WYl Discrete Mode Lasers and Their Use in the Generation of Millimeter Wave and N/ATerahertz Signals

WY2 Noise Floor Reduction of a Fiber-Based Photonic Microwave Generator by Use of 599

a Mode-Filtering Cavity

WY3 Phase Noise Reduction of Photonic Frequency Synthesizer by Frequency Division 601

WY4 Generation of Ultralow Phase Noise Microwaves with an Er:Fiber-Based Optical 603

Frequency Divider

WY5 Slab-Coupled Optical Waveguide (SCOW) Based Optoelectronic Oscillator (OEO) 605

WZ Novel Optical ComponentsWZl All-Optical 3-bit Counter Using Two Cascaded Stages of SOA-MZI-based 607

T-Flip-Flops

WZ2 All-Optical Flip-Flop Operation of Polarization Bistable VCSELs with an Oxide 609

Confinement Structure

WZ3 Experimental Demonstration of Microring-based Optical Pulse Train Generator 611

WZ4 Control of the Radiation of a Silicon-Based Optical Leaky Wave Antenna through 613

Optical Pumping

WZ5 MMI for Wavelength Filtering and WDM on the SOI Platform 615

WZ6 Estimation of the Highest Channel Alignment Density of Multi-Channel 617

Multimode Optical Waveguide

WAA Technologies for EnergyWAAl TBD N/A

WAA2 ZnO Nanorods for Simultaneous Light Trapping and Transparent Electrode 619

Application in Solar Cells

WAA3 Record 27.6% Single-Junction Solar Cells Efficiency Through Photon Recycling N/A

WAA4 Flexible Porous Polymer Photonic Bandgap Structures for Chemical and 623

Biomedical Sensing

WAA5 Piezo-phototronic Effect and Its Applications in Flexible Optoelectronic and 625

Energy Technologies

WBB Novel Display TechnologyWBBl Manufacturing of Large Area High Mobility AM-TFT Backplanes Using IGZO 626

Rotary Sputtering Targets

WBB2 A Polarizer-Free, Color-Filter-Free, Bistable and Reflective Display Using a 628

Liquid Crystal and Polymer Composite Film

WBB3 A Polarization Independent Liquid Crystal Microlens Arrays Adopting Surface 630

Pinning Effect of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals

WCC High-Intensity Short-Pulse Lasers and Their ApplicationsWCCl Development and Applications of 0.1-Hz, 1.1-PW Tksapphire Laser 632

WCC2 Optimization of the Large Aperture Multi-Pass Amplifiers for CPA and OPCPA 634

Lasers by Extraction During Pumping (EDP)

WCC3 lOO-nrO Cryogenically-Cooled, Diode-Pumped Yb:YLiF4 Chirped-Pulse 636Regenerative Amplifier

WCC4 Nuclear Photonics with Laser-based Gamma-Rays 638

WDD High Power and Photonic Crystal LasersWDDl Progress in High-Power Semiconductor Separate-Confinement Double N/A

Heterestructure Lasers

WDD2 One Dimensional Photonic Crystal Microdisk Laser 642

WDD3 Optically Tunable Ring External-Cavity Laser 644

WDD4 Lateral Current Injection Photonic Crystal Membrane Emitters Bonded to 646

Sapphire

WDD5 Room-Temperature Lasing Operation of a 1.3-um npn-AIGalnAs/InP Transistor 648Laser

WEE Optical TransmissionWEEl Terabit/Second OTDM Systems 650

WEE2 Nonlinearity-Enhanced Crosstalk Effects for a 112 Gb/s PDM-QPSK Transmission 652over 1620-km SSMF

WEE3 3xll2-Gb/s DP-16QAM Transmission over 35x80 km of ULAF with Interchannel 654Nonlinearity Compensation

WFF NanoplasmonicsWFFl High-efficiency Optical Switching using an Integrated Electrochromic 656

Nanoplasmonic Device

WFF2 Ultra-compact On-Chip Light Concentrator based on a Hybrid Dielectric- 658Plasmonic Structure

WFF3 Nanoplasmonic Metamaterials, Sensors and Switches N/AWFF4 Subwavelength Dielectric-loaded Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides Based 660

on Metal Nanorods

WFF5 Erbium-Based Plasmonic-Assisted Vertical Emitter 662

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ThA Plasmonics for Enhanced Detection I

ThAl Nanometallic Concentration for Enhanced Photo detection 664

ThA2 Infrared Detectors with Plasmonic Structures 665

ThA3 Strong Coupling Between Free-propagating Photons and Electronic Transition 666Using Plasmonics

ThB Optical InterconnectsThBl Optical Interconnects for High Performance Computing 668

ThB2 Increasing Bandwidth Density in Future Optical Interconnects 670

ThB3 CWDM Based HDMI Cable Using Passively Aligned Optical Interconnect Modules 672

ThC High Power and Novel Lasers

ThCl High Power Lasers on InP Substrates 674

ThC2 High-Performance Interband Cascade Lasers for λ = 3-5.5 μm 676

ThC3 Lateral Current Injection Laser with Uniformly Distributed Quantum-Well 678

Structure

ThC4 The Reduction of Dumping Factor at Well-in-Well Quantum Well Lasers 680

ThC5 Investigation of the Carrier Escape and Capture Processes in InGaAsN Quantum 682

Well Lasers

ThD DSP EqualizationThDl Predistortion and OFDM Realizations 684

ThD2 Low Complexity Digital Backpropagation for SOA 686

ThD3 Computationally Efficient Hardware Design of RF-PilotTone Based Phase Noise 688

Compensation for Optical OFDM

ThD4 Comparison of Single Carrier and OFDM with Back-Propagation and RF Pilot 690

Tone for a 9x224Gb/s POLMUX-16QAM System

ThD5 Reduced Complexity for Back-Propagation Method Algorithm 692

ThE Imaging and MicroscopyThEl 3D Imaging Through Dispersive Media: Classical & Quantum Approaches 694

ThE2 Single-Photon Counting Imaging Systems 696

ThE3 Movies of Nanoscale Dynamics by Soft X-Ray Microscopy 698

ThE4 Chirped Pulse Lidar Using a Mode Locked Laser Source for Metrology 700

ThF Compound Semiconductors

ThFl Novel Dilute Nitride III/V-Semiconductor Laser System for the Monolithic 702

Integration Lattice-Matched to Si (001) Substrate

ThF2 High Temperature Stability in Integrable Quantum Dot Lasers with Dry Etched 703Mirror Facets for On-Chip Optical Interconnects

ThF3 Epitaxially Regrown GaAs Based Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Laser 705

ThF4 Highly Uniform Periodic Inverse Quantum Dots Arrays 707

ThF5 Investigation of the Efficiency-Droop Mechanism in a GaN Based Blue Light- 709

Emitting Diodes Using a Very-Fast Electrical-Optical Pump-Probe Technique

ThG Fiber Gratings and Sensors

ThGl Mechanically Induced and Cascaded Long-Period Gratings in ZBLAN Fibers 711

ThG2 Spot Formation and Scanning Microscopy via Multimode Fibers 713

ThG3 Refractometric Mode Splitting in Metal Coated Optical Fibers 715

ThG4 Monitoring Multiple Strain Sensors Based on All-Fiber Distributed Bragg 717

Reflector Lasers and Wavelength-to-Power Mapping

ThG5 Suspended Core Fiber Integrated Microfluidic Chip for Surface Plasmon 719Resonance Enhanced Biosensing

ThG6 Normal Free Space Coupling of Reflection-based Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors 721Embedded in Composite Materials

ThH Biophotonic ImagingThHl Novel Light Sources for Biophotonics Imaging 723

ThH2 Fast Total Variation Regularization for Higher Resolution in Fluorescence 725

Tomography: A Split Bregman Iteration Approach

ThH3 A Novel Non-Contact Common-Path Fourier Domain Optical Coherence 727

Tomography Method for Intraocular Lens Power Measurement In-Vitro

ThH4 Three-Dimensional Imaging of Stem Cell Distribution within Tissue Engineering 729Scaffolds using Angled Fluorescent Laminar Optical Tomography (aFLOT)

ThI Plasmonics for Enhanced Detection II

Thll TBDN/A

ThI2 Plasmonics with Spatially Engineered Polarization 731

ThI3 Plasmonic Gratings for Near Infrared Silicon Schottky Photodetectors 733

ThI4 Optical Antenna Design for Nanophotodiodes 735

ThJ Optical Modulators and ApplicationsThJl 40 Gb/s Silicon Optical Modulators

737

ThD2 InGaAIAs/InAIAs Multi Quantum Well Substrate Removed Electro-optic N/AModulators

ThJ3 RF Analysis, and Optimization, of Electro absorption Modulator based Photonic 741Integrated Circuits

TM4 Non-unity Permeability in InP-based Mach-Zehnder Interferometer with 743Metamaterial

ThJ5 Characterization of InGaAs/GaAs Microtubes at Transparent Wavelengths 745

ThJ6 Gl-Core Polymer Optical Waveguide Fabricated Using Soft-lithography Method 747for Optical Circuit Boards

ThK Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers

ThKl Intra-Cavity Dispersion Control in Passively Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers 749

ThK2 160 GHz 1.55 urn Colliding-Pulse Mode-Locked AlGalnAs/InP Laser with 751Reduced Optical Overlap

ThK3 Compact External-Cavity Semiconductor Mode-Locked Laser with Quantum- 753Well-Intermixed Modulator and Saturable Absorber

ThK4 High Peak Power (550 mW) 40GHz Mode-Locked DBR Lasers with Integrated 755Optical Amplifiers

ThK5 Sub-picosecond 9.8W Peak Power Passively Mode Locked Quantum Well 757GaAs/AIGaAs Laser

ThK6 Colliding-Pulse Mode-Locked AIGalnAs Laser Operating at 20 GHz with Narrow 759

RF Linewidth

ThK7 Lossless Anti-Guided Arrays with Improved Mode Discrimination 761

ThL Transmitter and Receiver Concepts

ThLl Nonlinear Effect of IQ Modulator in a Realtime Synchronous 16-QAM

Transmission System

763

ThL2 80 Gb/s PDM 16QAM Generation by Polarization-Multiplexing QPSK Modulator 765

ThL3 Radio Frequency over Glass Integrated into FTTx by using 1,3 um VCSELs:

Experimental Performance Assessment

767

ThL4 A Widely-tunable Integrated Coherent Optical Receiver Using a Phase-Locked

Loop

769

ThL5 Coherent Optical Receiver using Phase Modulation Detection 771

ThL6 Stabilization of a Delay Interferometer for Variable Bit-Rate DPSK Receiver from

40 Gbit/s up to 160 Gbit/s

773

ThM

ThMl

HHG and Attosecond Pulse Generation

Intense Isolated Attosecond Pulses Generated by Infrared Two-Color Multicycle

Laser Field Synthesis

775

ThM2 Infrared Double Optical Gating for Efficiently Generating Isolated Attosecond

Pulses

777

ThM3 Efficient and Intense High-Order Surface Harmonics Generated from

Nanometer-Thick Foil Targets pumped by a 70 TW Laser

779

ThM4 Generation of High Flux Attosecond Pulses with Phase-Matched Double Optical

Gating

781

ThN

ThNl

Progress in Metamaterials

Functional Photonic Metamaterials 783

ThN2 Carrier Concentration Dependent Resonance Frequency Shift in Metamaterial

Loaded Semiconductor

785

ThN3 Fano Resonance Membrane Reflectors from Mid-Infrared to Far-Infrared 787

ThN4 Optical Properties of Hybrid Nanostructures: Exciton-Plasomn Interaction, Fano

Effect, and Plasmon-Induced Chirality

789

ThO

ThOl

Fiber Devices

Progress on Nonlinear Optics in High Confinement Waveguides N/A

Th02 Optical Fibre Microwires: Some "Practical" Devices 791

Th03 Universal Figure of Merit for Arbitrary-Order Optical Differentiators 793

Th04 Design of an Ultra-Fast All-Optical First-Order Integrator based on Waveguide

Bragg Gratings

795

ThP

ThPl

Microscopy and SpectroscopySpatial Light Interference Microscopy (SLIM) 797

ThP2 A Custom Wide-Field Spectral Imager For Breast Cancer Margin Assessment 798

ThP3 Holographic Microscope with Twins Laser Beams: A Novel Conceptual Set-Up for 800

a Multifunctional Tool in Biophotonics

ThP4 Partial Wave Spectroscopic Microscopy: Detecting Alterations in Cell 802Nanoarchitecture in Early Carcinogenesis

ThQ Plasmonics for Solar Cells I

ThQl High Efficiency Microwire Solar Cells N/A

ThQ2 Triangular Metallic Gratings for High Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells 803

ThQ3 Absorption Enhancement in Thin-Film Organic Photovoltaics with Double 805Plasmonic Structures

ThQ4 Plasmonic Effects in Microcrystalline Silicon Thin-Film Solar Cells 807

ThQ5 Surface Plasmon Enhanced Nanopillar Photodetector Array 809

ThR Photonic Devices and ApplicationsThRl Slow Light and Bio-Sensing with Photonic Crystals 811

ThR2 Exploring Photonic Band Gaps in Sub-Lattices in Unitary Cells in Air/Silicon 813

ThR3 A Systematic Approach to Generation of Arbitrary Transfer Function Based on 815

Waveguide Couplers

ThR4 Highly Alignment Tolerant Multi-Channel OSA Module Using a Ribbon Plastic 817

Optical Fiber

ThR5 Simulation of Segmented Waveguide Crossing Using the 2D Finite Element 819Method

ThS Terahertz and Millimeter Wave Signal Generation and DetectionThSl Photonic Generation of TeraHertz Signals N/A

ThS2 Intensity Modulation of Sub-Terahertz Oscillating Resonant Tunneling Diode by 821Irradiation of 1.55-μm Laser

ThS3 Optical Techniques for Multifunctional Millimeter-Wave Imaging Receivers 823

ThT Transmission Impairments and EqualizationThTl Turbo Equalization for Mitigation of Linear and Nonlinear Impairments in 825

High-Speed Optical Transmission Systems

ThT2 Comparitive Analysis on the Mitigation of Intra Channel Nonlinearities in WDM 827Mesh Networks

ThT3 Distortion-Less 610 fs Pulse Transmission over 160 km SSMF-DCF Using 829

Wavelength Selective Switch for Compensation of Chromatic Dispersion

ThT4 First and Second-Order PMD Impact over 100 Gbps Polarisation-Multiplexed 831Multi-Band Coherent OFDM System under Realistic 'Field' Conditions

ThT5 Field Measurements of Polarization Transients on a Long-Haul Terrestrial Link 833

ThU Applications of HHG and VUV SourcesThUl VUV Frequency Combs and Fundamental Limits of Intracavity HHG Due to 835

Ionization Dynamics

ThU2 Observing the Continuous Transformation of a Four Level Laser into a Two Level 837

System

ThU3 Scalable Talbot Lithography with an Extreme Ultraviolet Table Top Laser 839

ThU4 Towards Table-top Time-resolved Extreme Ultraviolet Fourier Holography 841

ThV Emerging Material TechnologiesThVl Single Crystal and Polycrystalline Diamond for Photonic Applications N/A

ThV2 Development of High Transmittance, Silicon-On-Sapphire Substrates for High 843

Quantum Efficiency and High Resolution Avalanche Photodiode Imaging Arrays

ThV3 Wavelength-Dependent Optical Gain in a KGdxLu1_x(W04)2:Yb3+Waveguide 845

Amplifier

ThV4 Nonlinear Polymers and Hybrid Integration Technologies N/A

ThW Digital Imaging and HolographyThWl Parallel Phase-Shifting Digital Holography 847

ThW2 Single-Pixel, MEMS Scanning Mirror Camera 849

ThW3 Holographic Microscope for Quantitative Phase-Contrast Imaging of Particies 851

Driven by Optical Forces in Microfluidics

ThX Optical Networks

ThXl Techno-Economic Studies of Optical Networks 853

ThX2 Delay-SRLG Constrained, Backup-Shared Protection in WDM Networks with 855

Sleeping Schedule

ThX3 A Comparative Study of LOBS-HC and IP/WDM Networks 857

ThX4 Looking Backward: 2021-2011 in Lightwave Communications 859

ThY Plasmonics for Solar Cells II

ThYl Light Harvesting in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells and Detectors by Ag 861

Nanostructures

ThY2 Enhanced Absorption in Organic Semiconductors with Embedded Aluminum 863

Nanoparticles

ThY3 Plasmon Enhanced Detectors for Smart Lighting Applications 865

ThY4 An Efficient Unidirectional Plasmonic Coupler for Wide Incidence Angles N/A

ThZ Novel Functions with Grating and Ring Resonators

ThZl Narrow-Band Transmission Filter using Phase-Shifted Bragg Gratings in SOI 869

Waveguide

ThZ2 High-Q Shallow Etch Silicon Micro Resonators for Optical Delay 871

ThZ3 Practical Limitations of High-Q Multi-ring Optical Filters 873

ThZ4 Silicon-on-Insulator Polarization Rotating Micro-Ring Resonator 875

ThZ5 Mid-Infrared Micro-Ring Resonator on Silicon-on-Sapphire Characterized by 877

Thermal Tuning

ThZ6 Demonstration of Directed Optical Decoders Using Two Cascaded MicroringResonators

N/A

ThAA Ultrafast Fiber Laser

ThAAl Inter-Pulse Interactions in a Passively Harmonic Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Using 881a SWNT Polymer Modelocker

ThAA2 40 - 200 GHz Pulse Train Generation in a Mode-Locked Fiber Optical Parametric 883Oscillator

ThAA3 Hybrid Mode-Locked Thulium Soliton Fiber Laser 885

ThAA4 Direct Comparison of Semiconductor and Erbium-Based Frequency Stabilized 887

Harmonically Mode-Locked Lasers

ThAA5 Tunable All Normal Dispersion Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser 889

ThAA6 The Generalized Saturable Absorber 891

ThBB High Spectral Efficiency TransmissionThBBl Beyond 1-Tb/s Super-Channel Transmission 893

ThBB2 Transmission of Coexisting OFDM-Baseband and Multi-Band OFDM-UWB Signals 895

Along LR-PONs Using DMLs

ThBB3 Data-Aided Frequency-Domain Channel Estimation for CD and DGD Monitoring 897in Coherent Transmission Systems

ThBB4 A 2 bit/s-Hz Non-Coherent Transmission 899

ThBB5 1.2 Tb/s Ultredense WDM Long Reach and Spectra! Efficiency Access Link with 901

Digital Detection

ThCC High-Power Solid-State and Semiconductor LasersThCCl Generation of High Power, High Repetition Rate Few-Cycle Pulses from Fiber- 903

Amplifier-Pumped Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification

ThCC2 Refractive Beam Shaping Optics for High-Power Laser Systems and Applications 905

ThCC3 A Solar-pumped Micro-rod Laser for Energy Conversion 907

ThCC4 Ultrafast VECSELs and MIXSELs: Gigahertz Semiconductor Lasers with Multiwatt 909

Average Power

ThDD VCSELsThDDl First 102 nm Ultra-Widely Tunable MEMS VCSEL Based on InP 911

ThDD2 Giant Wavelength-temperature Dependence and Electro-thermal Tuning of MEMS 913VCSEL

ThDD3 Thermal Performance of Oxide-Free Lithographic VCSELs 915

ThDD4 Dynamic Behaviour of VCSELs Subject to Optical Injection with Arbitrary 917Polarization

ThDD5 Passive Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers 919

ThDD6 Phase and Coherence Extraction from an Implant-Defined Photonic Crystal 921VCSEL Array

ThEE Fiber and Waveguide Sensors

ThEEl PCB-Integrated Optical Gas Sensor 923

ThEE2 Ultrasensitive Goos-Hanchen Shift Sensing Using a Photonic Crystal Structure 925

ThEE3 Sub-Nano Resolution Static Strain Fiber Sensor Using a Novel Sideband 927

Interrogation Technique

ThEE4 Distributed Fiber Strain Sensor Using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Based 929

Slow Light

ThEE5 An Innovative Spectrometer-Free based Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) 931

Biosensor for Point-of-Care Test (POCT)

ThFF Access Networks and Passive Optical Networks

ThFFl Combinatorial Wavelength Selective Mirror Concatenation for Unambiguous 933

Subscriber Line Monitoring in FTTH/PON with High Subscriber Counts

ThFF2 Security Attacks in Optical Access Networks - Simultaneous Detection and 935

Localization

ThFF3 A 10-Gb/s Space Sampling Burst-Mode Clock and Data Recovery Circuit for 937

Passive Optical Networks

ThFF4 Coexistence-Type 40G-Class WDM/TDM-PON Employing Short Wavelength 939

Region (1.1-1.2 um) with Direct Laser Modulation

ThFF5 Multi-band UWB Signals Transmission Improvement Due to Pre-Emphasis in 941

LR-PONs Using DMLs

PD Post Deadline Papers

PDl Ultra-Low-Loss (<0.1 dB/m) Planar Silica Waveguide Technology 943

PD3 Synchronization of Micromechanical Oscillators Using Light 945

PD4 Robust Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics 947

PD5 One-step Holographic Lithography Fabrication of a Rainbow-colored 949

Photonic Bandgap Structure

PD6 A Hybrid 10GHz Photonic-microwave Oscillator with Sub-femtosecond 951

PD7 InP Photonic Integrated Circuit for 2D Optical Beam Steering 953

PD8 A High-Speed Silicon Photonic Platform 955