Meeting Topics to Be Considered:

• Silicon or Other Group IV Waveguide Photonics Including SOI-based materials – active, light emitters or lasers isolation, amplifiers, passives, and complex circuits.
• Active and Compound Semiconductor Devices: Active III-V semiconductor devices; compound semiconductor modulators; filters; switches; wavelength converters; VCSELs; planar amplifiers; photonic integrated circuits and optoelectronic integrated circuits; compound semiconductor WDM components; novel III-V quantum optoelectronic devices; III-V materials and processing for photonics; reliability advances and issues; and emerging packaging technologies.
• Dielectric and Polymer Waveguides and Waveguide Devices: Integrated planar waveguides; polymer-based waveguide devices; active/passive integrated components; switches; variable optical attenuators; modulators; filters; integrated isolators and circulators; planar dispersion compensators; materials and fabrication technologies for photonic integrated circuits; characterization of linear and nonlinear optical waveguide devices; micro-machines and micro-optic components; parallel optical interconnects; reliability advances and issues; novel assembly and manufacturing techniques; and low-cost technology for polymer devices.
• LiNbO₃ - and Other Metal-Oxide-Based Switches and Modulators: Ultrahigh-speed; low-Vπ; devices; integrated scanners; and new fabrication methods.
• Modeling, Numerical Simulation and Theory: Optical-system modeling; numerical and semi-analytical methods for guided-wave optics; active, passive and nonlinear component modeling; WDM component design; advances in computational algorithms, physics and coupled models for integrated photonic circuits.
• Microphotonics: Simulation, modeling and experimental characterization of microcavity and other high confinement structures, waveguides, resonators, filters, add-drop integrated optical circuits, metallic and metallodielectric waveguides.
• Inhomogeneous Materials (e.g., Composite Dielectrics, Semiconductors, Metals and Metallodielectrics): Anisotropic; dispersive; efficient light extraction; nonlinear optical materials; and dynamically configurable.
• Nano-Engineered Devices for Generation, Transport, and Detection of Light: Resonators; light sources; quantum information; modulators; nano-MEMS; biophotonics; biological and chemical transducers and sensors; and efficient mode matching.
• Nanofabrication Technology: Lithography techniques; growth and deposition approaches; self-organized methods; and etching.
• Characterization Tools on the Nanoscale
• Modeling and Simulation Tools
• Photonic Crystals, Waveguides, and Fibers
• Nanoscale Integration of Planar, Free-Space, and Mixed Subsystems