AOE Invited Speakers

Scope 1: Optical Fibers, Fiber Components and Subsystems

Fiber-Based Approaches for All-Optical Clock Recovery, Lawrence R. Chen; McGill Univ., Canada.

Development of Long-Period Fiber Grating Coupling Devices, Kin Seng Chiang; City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

High-Speed Vectorial Lightwave Modulation Techniques, Tetsuya Kawanishi; Natl. Inst. of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.

Coherent Optical Communication, Guifang Li; Univ. of Central Florida, USA.

High Spectral-Efficiency Mixed 10G/40G/100G Transmission, Xiang Liu, S. Chandrasekhar; Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

DPSK, DQPSK and Coherent Receivers for 40G and 100G Systems, Yannick K. Lize; Stratalight Communications, USA.

Optical Electrostatic MEMS for Wavelength Switching, Yuan Ma; Dalhousie Univ., Canada.

Recent Developments in Optical Fiber Technology and Their Impact Opening New Application Spaces, Claudio Mazzali; Corning Inc, USA.

640-Gb/s OTDM RZ-DQPSK Signal Enabling 2.4-bit/s/Hz Spectral Efficiency and Its Detection with an EAM-based Receiver, Lothar Moeller¹, Yikai Su², Chongjin Xie¹, Jurgen Gripp1, Xiang Liu¹, Roland Ryf¹; ¹Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA, ²State Key Lab of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China.

High Power Lasers, Johan Nilsson; Univ. of Southampton, UK.

Recent Advances in Parametric Amplification and Processing, Stojan Radic, C. Bres; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA

Diffraction-Resistant Light (Bessel Beams) from Optical Fibers, Siddharth Ramachandran; OFS Labs, USA.

Recent Advances in Highly Nonlinear Microstructured Optical Fibers and their Applications, David Richardson, F. Poletti, M. L. V. Tse, P. Horak, J. Y. Y. Leong, F. He, J. H. V. Price, X. Feng, H. N. Rutt, K. E. Frampton, W. H. Loh, S. Asimakis, P. Petropoulos; Optoelectronics Res. Ctr., Univ. of Southampton, UK.

Fiber-Radio Antenna Feeding for MIMO Systems, Michael Sauer, Andrey Kobyakov; Corning Inc., USA.

High Power CW Pumped Supercontinuum Sources, B. A. Cumberland, A. B. Rulkov, J. C. Travers, S. V. Popov, J. R. Taylor; Imperial College London, UK.

Carbon Nanotube Based Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers, Shinji Yamashita; Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.

Scope 2: Optoelectronic Devices and Materials

Recent Progress on Photonic Crystal Slow Light Devices, Toshihiko Baba; Yokohama Natl. Univ., Japan.

Photonic Integration for Optical Switching Applications, Daniel Blumenthal; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

Monolithic Photonic Integrated Circuits for Long Haul Telecommunication Networks, Wei Chen; Infinera, USA.

Recent Progress on Polymer Photonics and Optical Interconnects, Xiaolong Wang¹, Ray Chen²; ¹Omega Optics, USA, ²Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA.

Modelling Photonic Integrated Circuits using TDTW, Dominic F. Gallagher; Photon Design, UK.

Advances in InP Optical Modulators, Rob A. Griffin, A.C. Carter; Bookham Technology PLC, UK.

Optoelectronic Devices Manufacturing in China, Zhangyong Huang; Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China.

Photonic Integration in Silicon for High-Speed Applications, Ansheng Liu¹, Ling Liao¹, Yoel Chetrit², Juthika Basak¹, Hat Nguyen¹, Doron Rubin², Mario Paniccia¹; ¹Intel Corp., USA, ²Numonyx Israel Ltd., Israel.

IIIV/SOI Heterogeneous Integration of Optoelectronic Devices, Liu Liu, Joris Van Campenhout, Günther Roelkens, Dries Van Thourhout, Roel Baets; Photoics Res. Group, Dept. Information Technology, IMEC-Ghent Univ., Belgium.

Challenges and Trends in High Volume Optical Component and Transceiver Manufacturing, Near Margalit; Source Photonics, Inc., USA.

Waveguide Optical Isolators for Integrated Optics, Tetsuya Mizumoto; Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan.

On-Chip All-Optical Processing Based on Photonic Crystal Nanocavities, Masaya Notomi¹, A. Shinya¹, T. Tanabe¹, E. Kuramochi¹, H. Taniyama¹, S. Matsuo², T. Kakitsuka², T. Sato²; ¹NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan, ²NTT Photonics Labs, Japan.

High-Speed and High-Power InP Based Photodiode for the Applications of Microwave Photonics, Jin-Wei Shi, Y.-S. Wu, W.-Y. Chiu; Natl. Central Univ., Taiwan.

High Fundamental Mode Power, High Speed InAlGaAs/AlGaAs 1310 and 1550-nm Wafer-Fused VCSELs , Alexei Sirbu¹, A. Mereuta¹, A. Caliman¹, V. Iakovlev², G. Suruceanu², E. Kapon^1,2; ¹Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Switzerland, ²BeamExpress S.A., Switzerland.

Recent Progress on Silica-Based Planar Lightwave Circuits, Senichi Suzuki; NTT Photonics Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.

Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers, Benjamin Williams; Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA.

High Speed Modulation of Optical Injection-Locked Semiconductor Lasers, Ming Wu; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA.

Advances and Trends in Si-Based Photonics, Jin-Zhong Yu; Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China.

Scope 3: Optical Sensors and Biophotonics

Title to Be Announced, Tongsheng Chen; South China Normal Univ. of Life Sciences, China.

Femtosecond Laser Integration for Biophotonic Applications - A "Magic Brush" in the Micro/Nano-World, Ya Cheng¹, Jian Xu¹, Zhizhan Xu¹, Koji Sugioka², Katsumi Midorikawa²; ¹State Key Lab of High Field Laser Physics, China, ²RIKEN-The Inst. of Physical and Chemical Res., Japan.

Visualizing Cellular Heterogeneity, Kristin Sott, Emma Eriksson, Mattias Goksor; Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Probe Biological Dynamics of Single Microbial Cells using Optical Trapping and Raman Spectroscopy, Shu-shi Huang¹, Gui-wen Wang¹, Lixin Peng¹, Yong-qing Li²; ¹Biophysics Lab, Guangxi Acad. of Sciences, China, ²East Carolina Univ., USA.

Title to Be Announced, Ma Hui; Tsinghua Univ., China.

Title to Be Announced, Fu-Jen Kao; Inst. of Biophotonics, Natl. Yang Ming Univ., Taiwan.

Title to Be Announced, Xianggui Kong; Chang Chun Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics and Physics, China.

Drug Discovery Biology Leading Biophotonics, Ye Fang, Ann Ferrie, Gary Li, Joydeep Lahiri; Corning, Inc., USA.

Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques in Multimodal Tissue Diagnostic Platform, Laura Marcu; Univ. of California at Davis, USA.

Title to Be Announced, Qiushi Ren; Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China.

Can Optically Driven Micromachines be Useful in Biomedicine? Optical Tweezers at Work, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Theodor Asavei, Simon Parkin, Alex Stilgoe, Vincent Loke, Timo Nieminen, Norman Heckenberg; Univ. of Queensland, Australia.

Title to Be Announced, Christoph Schmidt; Georg-August Univ., Germany.

Diagnostics and Treatment of Tumours using Laser Techniques, Katarina Svanberg; Lund Univ., Sweden.

Intracellular Manipulation Using Nonlinear Excitation, Wataru Watanabe; Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan.

Studying Leukemia Metastasis by in vivo Imaging and Flow Cytometer, Xunbin Wei, Yun Chen, Yan Li, Li Zhang, Guangda Liu; Inst. of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan Univ., China.

Title to Be Announced, Ping Xue; Tsinghua Univ., China.

Title to Be Announced, Larry X. Yuan; Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore.

Title to Be Announced, Shaoqun Zeng; Huazhong Univ of Science and Technology, China.

Scope 4: Displays, Solid-State Lighting and Optoelectronics in Energy

High Efficiency and Compact Lasers for Laser Projection Display, Yong Bi¹, Bin Wang¹, Yan Qi¹, Boxia Yan¹, Shaowei Chu², Tiejia Wu², Ying Zhang³, Wei Yan³, Haitao Min³, Zhenqing Tian³; ¹Acad. of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China, ²Graduate Univ. of Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China, ³Phoebus Vision Opto-Electronics Technology Ltd, China.

Photoluminescent Flexible Displays, Kyung Cheol Choi, Seung Hun Kim, Cheol Jang, Kuk Joo Kim, Sung-Il Ahn; KAIST, Republic of Korea.

UV-Curable Liquid Crystal for a Retarder, Hiroshi Hasebe, Yasuhiro Kuwana, Hidetoshi Nakata, Osamu Yamazaki, Kiyofumi Takeuchi, Haruyoshi Takatsu; DIC corp., Japan..

Mass Production of Optoelectronic Devices for Solid State Lighting (SSL) by MOCVD, M. Heuken; Aixtron, Germany.

The Structure Optimization for High-Efficiency White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, Ji Hoon Seo, Y. K. Kim; Hongik Univ., Republic of Korea.

New Field Sequential Color Displays with Transient LCD Modes, Y. W. Li, Hoi-Sing Kwok; Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.

GaN Based Active Matrix Light Emitting Diode Array by Flip-Chip Technology, Zhao Jun Liu¹, Chi Wing Keung², Kei May Lau¹; ¹Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, ²Advanced Packaging Technology Ltd, Hong Kong.

LED, Y. Luo; Tsinghua Univ., China.

Orthoconic Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals as a Material for Display Application, Zbigniew Raszewski¹, X. W. Sun², P. Perkowski¹, W. Piecek¹, J. Zielinski¹, R. Dabrowski¹, E. Nowinowski-Kruszelnicki¹, J. Kedzierski¹; ¹Military Univ. of Technology, Poland, ²Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore.

Exploring Low Temperature ZnO Nanowires in Display and Solar Cell Applications, Xiao-Wei Sun; Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore.

Boundary Image-Sticking Phenomena in AC Plasma Display Panel, Heung-Sik Tae¹, Choon-Sang Park¹, Jae Kwang Lim¹, Jeong-Hyun Seo², Bhum Jae Shin³; ¹Kyungpook Natl. Univ., Republic of Korea, ²Incheon Univ., Republic of Korea, ³Sejong Univ., Republic of Korea.

Exciton Migration in Organic LEDs and Solar Cells, Mark Thompson; Univ. of Southern California at Los Angeles, USA.

Controllable Light Utilization in Silicon-Based Thin Film Solar Cells, Ying Zhao, Peizhuan Chen, Xiaodan Zhang, Ning Cai, Xinhua Geng, Shaozhen Xiong; Nankai Univ., China.

Developing Bright and Color-Saturated Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes towards Next Generation Displays and Solid State Lighting, Jian Xu¹, Zhanao Tan¹, Ting Zhu¹, Fan Zhang¹, Brittany Hedrick¹, Shawn Pickering¹, An Cheng¹, Myo Thein¹, Andrew Y. Wang², Qingjiang Sun³, Qingjiang Sun³, Yongfang Li³; ¹Pennsylvania State Univ., USA, ²Ocean NanoTech LLC., USA, ³Chinese Acad. of Sciences, China.

Periodically Poled Optical Nonlinear Crystals for Laser Display Applications, Chang-Qing Xu; McMaster Univ., Canada.

Solar, Deren Yang; Zhejiang Univ., China.