Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications Invited Speakers

1. Active Waveguide Devices

Nanostructure Patterned Active Regions for Semiconductor Diode Lasers, James Coleman; Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Integrated High-Speed DQPSK Transceiver, Chris Doerr; Alcatel-Lucent, USA.

InP Mach-Zehnder Modulators for Advanced Modulation Formats, Nobuhiro Kikuchi; NTT Basic Res., Japan.

Photonic Integrated Circuits for Optical Routing and Switching Applications, Milan Masanovic; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA.

III-V/Silicon Photonics: Technology and Integrated Devices, Gunther Roelkens; IMEC, Belgium.

Digital vs. Analog Photonic Integration, M. K. Smit; TU Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Photonic Integrated Circuits for WDP Applications, S. J. Ben Yoo; Univ. of California at Davis, USA.

2. Passive Waveguide Devices

Si Photonics Integrated Circuits, Mehdi Asghari; KOTURA, Inc, USA.

Intrachip Photonic Network for Multicore Communications, Mark Beals; MIT, USA

Nanophotonic Interconnect for High-Performance Many-Core Computation, Ray Beausoleil; HP Labs, USA

Integrated Optical Bio Sensors, Igal Brener; Sandia Natl. Labs, USA.

Optical-Wire Bonding for PLC Packaging, Roberto R. Panepucci, Florida International Univ., USA

Advanced PLC Filter and Integration Technologies, Matt Pearson; Enablence Technologies Inc., Canada.

3. Modeling, Numeric Simulation and Theory

Microstructured Fibers: Modelling, Design and Applications, Annamaria Cucinotta; Univ. of Parma, Italy.

Rethinking Photonics Design and Manufacture: Offshoring, Material Platforms and the Future of Integration, Erica R.H. Fuchs, Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA

Plasmonic Components and Devices, Olivier J. F. Martin; Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Circuit Theory and Microphotonic Circuit Design: From Resonant Filters to Light-Powered Nanomachines, Milos A. Popovic; MIT, USA.

Flexible Modelling Approaches for Nanophotonics, Phillip Sewell; Univ. of Nottingham, UK.

Electrical Network Approach to Synthesizing Coupled-Cavity Optical Devices, Vien Van; Univ. of Alberta, Canada.

Nano- and Micro-Optical Modelling of OLEDs, Christoph Waechter; Fraunhofer Inst. für Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik, Germany.

4. Nanophotonic Devices and Applications

Plasmonic Waveguide Devices and Networks, Harry Atwater; Caltech, USA.

Nanophotonic Interconnection Networks for Computing, Keren Bergman; Columbia Univ., USA.

Multiscale Fabrication and Properties of Photonic Nanostructures, Teri Odom; Northwestern Univ., USA.

Engineering of Charge and Light Transport at the Micro and Nanoscale for Low-Cost, Large-Area Solar Cells, Peter Peumans; Stanford Univ., USA.

Membrane Microlasers and Their Integration, Christian Seassal; Lab d'Electronique, Optoélectronique et Microsystème, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France.

Nonlinear Switching in High-Q Photonic Crystal Nanocavities, Takasumi Tanabe; NTT Basic Res. Labs, NTT Corp., Japan.