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Opening session WPT1 Integrated Optics: The history and the future (plenary talk) Serge Valette, CEA-LITEN, France Integrated III-V Components WA0 Nanomaterials (invited paper) Jesper Mřrk COM·DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark WA1 Monolithic 2x2 Quantum Dot Switch for Optical Interconnect Networks E.T. Aw1, H. Wang1, Y. Chu1, S, Liu1, M.G. Thompson1, A. Wonfor1, R.L. Sellin1, R.V Penty1, I.H. White1 and A.R. Kovsh2 1Engineering Department, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK 2NL Nanosemiconductor GmbH, Germany WA2 InP based Polarization Insensitive Tunable duplexer and Integrated Reflective Transceiver L. Xu, X.J.M. Leijtens, M.J.H. Sander-Jochem, T. de Vries, Y.S. Oei, P.J. vanVeldhoven, R. Nötzel and M.K. Smit COBRA Research Institute, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands WA3 A compact passive polarization converter optimized for active-passive integration on InP/InGaAsP L.M. Augustin, J.J.G.M. van der Tol, E.-J. Geluk and M.K. Smit COBRA - TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands WA4 Carrier-depletion-type multiple quantum well optical phase modulators operating at the 1.55 µm wavelength range Hideki Ohe1,3, Hiromasa Shimizu2,3 and Yoshiaki Nakano1,3 1Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Japan 2Dept. of Elect. Eng ., Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan 3JST-SORST, Japan Glass Based Integrated Optics WB0 Low loss, high contrast optical waveguides based on CMOS compatible LPCVD processing (invited paper) R.G.Heideman1, D. Geuzebroek1, A. Leinse1, A. Melloni2, F. Morichetti2, C. Roeloffzen3, A. Meijerink3, L. Zhuang3, W. van Etten3, E. Klein4 and A. Driessen4 1LioniX bv, The Netherlands 2Dipartimento di Electronica e Informazione, Politechnico di Milano,, Italy 3Telecommunication Engineering group, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, MCS, University of Twente, The Netherlands 4Integrated Optical Micro Systems, MESA+ Research Institute, University of Twente, The Netherlands WB1 Single-pump high-power robust single-frequency waveguide lasers fabricated by ion-exchange techniques S. Taccheo1, G. Della Valle1, A. Festa1, K. Ennser2, G. Sorbello3, C.Cassagnettes4 and D. Barbier4 1Dipartimento di Fisica Politecnico di Milano and CNISM, Italy 2Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, Swansea University, UK 3DIIT, Universitŕ di Catania, Italy 4Teemphotonics, Grenoble, France WB2 Recent Developments in Direct-UV-Written Planar Waveguides, Gratings, Sensors, and Substrates F.R. Mahamd Adikan, J.C. Gates, A.S. Webb, H.E. Major, C.H. Holmes, M. A. G. Ramirez, B. D. Snow, D. Kundys, C.B.E. Gawith and P.G.R. Smith Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK WB3 Ultra-compact silica-on-silicon micro-resonators by etching deep trenches Haiyan Ou1, Karsten Rottwitt1 and Hugh Philipp2 1COM·DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2Cornell University, USA WB4 Deep-UV Lithography Fabrication of Slot Waveguides and Sandwiched Waveguides for Nonlinear Applications E. Jordana1, J.-M. Fedeli1, L. EL Melhaoui1, P. Lyan1, J.P. Colonna1, N. Daldosso2, L. Pavesi2, P. Pellegrino3, B. Garrido3, Anna Vilŕ3 and Y. Lebour3 1Léti-MINATEC, France 2Laboratorio Nanoscienze, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitŕ di Trento, Italy 3EME, Departament d'Electrňnica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain Lasers WC0 Micro and nanolasers for digital photonics (invited paper) Martin Hill COBRA Research Institute, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands WC1 MIXSELs - a new class of ultrafast semiconductor lasers D. J. H. C. Maas, A.- R. Bellancourt, B. Rudin, M. Golling, H. J. Unold, T. Südmeyer and U. Keller Department of Physics, Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland WC2 Towards a compact laser for chaos encryption Yousefi M.1, Beri S.1, Barbarin Y.1, Bente E.A.J.M.1, de Vries T.1, Smalbrugge E.1, Van Veldhoven P. J.1, Oei S.1, Smit M.K.1, Nötzel R.1 and Lenstra D.2 1COBRA Research Institute, TU/e, The Netherlands 2Delft University of Technology, Faculty of EEMCS, The Netherlands WC3 Optical Buffer Memory Using Polarization Bistable Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting lasers Hitoshi Kawaguchi1,2,3, Takashi Mori1,2 and Yuuki Sato2 1Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan 2CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan 3Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association (OITDA), Japan Fabrication WD0 Fabrication and applications of semiconductor nanowires (invited paper) Lars Samuelson Lund University, Sweden WD1 Femtosecond laser fabrication of integrated optical waveguides and microfluidic channels for lab-on-chip devices R. Martinez Vazquez, R. Osellame, V. Maselli, R. Ramponi and G. Cerullo Instituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, National Laboratory for Ultrafast and Ultraintense Optical Science ­ INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy WD2 Electric-field poling of Ti indiffused z-cut LiNbO3 wafers without surface grinding Davide D. Janner1, F. Lucchi2, P. Vergani2, S. Giurgola2 and V. Pruneri1,3 1ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain 2Avanex Corporation Sede Secondaria, Italy 3ICREA -Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain WD3 Novel and nanostructured optical waveguides by means of using electronic damage of swift heavy ions José Olivares1, Fernando Agulló-López2, Gastón García3, Angel García-Cabańes4 and Mercedes Carrascosa4 1Instituto de Óptica, CSIC, Spain 2Centro de Microanálisis de Materiales, UAM, Spain 3CELLS, Spain 4Depto. Física de Materiales, Spain Integrated Devices, Resonators I WE0 Applications of High Q Microresonators: Photonic Clocks, cQED and New laser sources on Silicon (invited paper) Kerry Vahala California Institute of Technology, USA WE1 Integrated Optical Ti:LiNbO3 Ring Resonator for Rotation Rate Sensing C. Vannahme, H. Suche, S. Reza, R. Ricken, V. Quiring and W. Sohler Angewandte Physik, Universität Paderborn, Germany WE2 Densely integrated photonic devices based on microring resonators for use in access networks Edwin J. Klein1, Gabriel Sengo1, Lucy T. H. Hilderink1, Marcel Hoekman1, Rudy Pellens2, Paul van Dijk2 and Alfred Driessen1 1Integrated Optical MicroSystems Group, MESA+ Research Institute, University of Twente, The Netherlands 2ASML, The Netherlands WE3 Oxygen-ion implanted silicon microring resonator for high-speed all-optical switching Michael Först1, Jan Niehusmann1, Tobias Plötzing1, Thorsten Wahlbrink2, Christian Moormann2 and Heinrich Kurz1,2 1Institut für Halbleitertechnik, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 2Advanced Microelectronic Center Aachen (AMICA), Germany Plasmonics WF0 Plasmonics: Engineering of highly confined electromagnetic modes (invited paper) Stefan A. Maier University of Bath, UK WF1 MONA - Merging Optics and Nanotechnologies: The Nanophotonics Technology Roadmap Laurent Fulbert1, Roel Baets2, André Scavennec3, Ulrich Fotheringham4, Rainer Beccard5, Krassimir Krastev6, Dirk Holtsmanspötter7, Eric Mounier8, Bertrand Noharet9, Thomas Pearsall10 and Suvi Haukka11 1CEA-LETI Minatec France 2IMEC, Belgium 3Alcatel-Thales 3-5 Lab, France 4Schott, Germany 5Aixtron, Germany 6Optics Valley, France 7VDI-TZ, Germany 8YOLE Développement, France 9Acreo, Sweden 10EPIC, France 11ASM, The Netherlands WF2 Gold Grating Coupler for Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides with 34 % Coupling Efficiency Stijn Scheerlinck, Frederik Van Laere, Jonathan Schrauwen, Dirk Taillaert, Dries Van Thourhout and Roel Baets Photonics Research Group, IMEC-Ghent University, Belgium WF3 Metal nanowires - a new class of plasmonic waveguides Tiberiu Rosenzveig1, Kristjan Leosson1 and Alexandra Boltasseva2 1Science Institute, University of Iceland, Iceland 2COM·DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Integrated Devices, Resonators II WG1 Compact Vertically-coupled Microring Laser Array Dual-Wavelength Source for Terahertz Mode Beating Chyng Wen Tee1, Kevin Williams1, 2, Richard Penty1, Ian White1, Michael Hamacher3, Ute Troppenz3, Helmut Heidrich3, Viorel Dragos4, Marin Alexe5, Dimtris Alexandropoulos6, Spiros Mikroulis6, Hercules Simos6, Dimitris Syvridis6, Mihai Kusko7 and Dana Cristea7 1Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK 2Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 3Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Germany 4EV Group, E. Thallner GmbH, Austria 5Max Planck Institute for Microstructurephysics, Germany 6University of Athens, Faculty of Science, Department of Informatics, Greece 7National Institue for R&D in Microtechnologies, Laboratory of Microphotonics, Romania WG2 High Q-factor microrings using slightly etched rib waveguides S. Maine1, D. Marris-Morini1, L. Vivien1, E. Cassan1, D. Pascal1, S. Laval1, B.Han2, R. Orobtchouk2, T. Benyattou2, L. El Melhaoui3 and J-M Fédéli3 1Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Université Paris-Sud, France 2Laboratoire de Physique de la Matičre, INSA de Lyon, France 3Laboratoire d'Electronique de Technologie, de l'Information LETI-Minatec, France WG3 Low-Loss SiON Ring Resonators on Silicon for 1.55 µm Wavelength Maxim Fadel and Edgar Voges High Frequency Institute, University of Dortmund, Germany WG4 Efficient Second Harmonic Generation in Matched Ti:PPLN Waveguide Resonators R. Nouroozi, Y. H. Min, W. Grundkötter, V. Quiring, R. Ricken and W. Sohler Angewandte Physik, Universität Paderborn, Germany WG5 Second harmonic generation via total internal reflection quasi-phase-matching in a hexagonal nonlinear optical microresonator Tleyane J. Sono1, Christos Riziotis2, Sakellaris Mailis1 and Robert W. Eason2 1Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK 2Department of Telecommunications Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Greece Applications WH1 Assembly of microsphere chains by counter propagating, guided waves Katarina Grujic and Olav Gaute Hellesř University of Tromsř, Norway WH2 Integrated optic beam combiners for astronomic interferometry: rapid prototyping of hybrid sol-gel devices A. Ghasempour1,2,4, D. Alexandre1,2,3, C. Brites1,2, P.J. Moreira1,4, P.J.V. Garcia4,5, J. L. Santos1,2, P.V.S. Marques1,2 and A.M.P Leite2 1Unidade de Optoelectrónica e Sistemas Electrónicos ­ INESC Porto, Portugal 2Departamento de Física da Faculdade de Cięncias da Universidade do Porto, Portugal 3Departamento de Física da Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal 4Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto, Portugal 5Departamento de Engenharia Física da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal WH3 Zero transmission narrow band laser mirror using a waveguide grating under normal incidence Nikolai Lyndin2, Nathalie Destouches1, Tina Clausnitzer3, Svetlen Tonchev4 and Olivier Parriaux1 1Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Université Jean Monnet, France 2Institute of General Physics, Russia 3Institut für Angewandte Physik, Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Germany 4On leave from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgaria WH4 Enhanced Transmission in Dynamically Tuned Optical Microresonator Possessing Highly Dispersive Media Curtis W. Neff, L. Mauritz Andersson and Min Qiu Department of Microelectronics and Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden WH5 Noise and resolution in IO interferometric sensing Hugo J.W.M. Hoekstra, Paul V. Lambeck, Ton M. Koster and Henri P. Uranus IOMS group, MESA Research Institute, University of Twente, The Netherlands Plenary session ThPT1 Progress in high index contrast integrated optics (plenary talk) Roel Baets, Peter Bienstman, Wim Bogaerts, Joost Brouckaert, Peter De Backere, Pieter Dumon, Gunther Roelkens, Stijn Scheerlinck, Meint Smit, Dirk Taillaert, Joris Van Campenhout, Frederik Van Laere and Dries Van Thourhout Ghent University IMEC, INTEC department, Photonics Research Group, Belgium ThPT2 How complex can integrated optical circuits become? (plenary talk) Meint Smit, Martin Hill, Roel Baets, Erwin Bente, Harm Dorren, Fouad Karouta, Paul Koenraad, Ton Koonen, Xaveer Leijtens, Richard Nötzel, Siang Oei, Huug de Waardt, Jos van der Tol and Djan Khoe COBRA Research Institute, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands Integrated Devices ThA1 Integrated Electro-optic Wavelength Filter With Programmable Spectral Response H. Herrmann, D. Büchter, R. Ricken and W. Sohler Angewandte Physik, Universtät Paderborn, Germany ThA2 Domain engineering in LiNbO3 for tailoring the electro-optic response of waveguide modulators Davide Janner1, Michele Belmonte2 and Valerio Pruneri1,3 1ICFO -Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain 2Avanex Corporation Sede Secondaria, Italy 3ICREA -Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Spain ThA3 TriPleX: a new concept in optical waveguiding A. Melloni1, F. Morichetti1,2, R. Costa2, G. Cusmai2, R.G. Heideman3, R. Mateman3, D. H. Geuzebroek3 and A. Borreman3 1Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 2CoreCom, Italy 3LioniX BV, The Netherlands ThA4 Integrated Optical Waveguide Device for Picosecond Pulse Compression M.J.R. Heck1, E.A.J.M. Bente1, Y. Barbarin1, H.D. Jung1, Y.S. Oei1, R. Nötzel1, D. Lenstra2 and M.K. Smit1 1COBRA Research Institute, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands ThA5 Amplifying Waveguide Optical Isolator with Integrated Electro-magnet Wouter Van Parys1, Dries Van Thourhout1, Roel Baets1, Beatrice Dagens2, Jean Decobert2, Odile Le Gouezigou2, Dalila Make2 and Liesbet Lagae3 1Department of Information Technology, Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium 2Alcatel Thales III-V Lab, France 3Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum, IMEC vzw, Belgium ThA6 A compact arrayed-waveguide grating with a locally enhanced optical confinement structure using trenches filled with low-refractive index materials Jiro Ito and Hiroyuki Tsuda Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, KEIO University, Japan Fabrication of Semiconductor Integrated Devices ThB0 Innovation for new-genera-tion optical communications based on photonic device break-through (invited paper) Kohroh Kobayashi Precision & Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan ThB1 Amorphous Silicon in Nanophotonic Technology Lech Wosinski1, Liu Liu2, Matteo Dainese3 and Daoxin Dai4 1Department of Microelectronics and Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, Joint Research Center of Photonics of the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and Zhejiang University (China) and Kista Photonics Research Center, Stockholm, Sweden 2Department of Microelectronics and Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and Joint Re-search Center of Photonics of the Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) and Zhejiang University (China) 3Replisaurus Technologies AB, Sweden 4Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, Zhejiang University, China ThB2 GaN, a new material for integrated nonlinear optics S. Pezzagna1,2, J. Brault1, M. de Micheli1,3, P. Vennégučs1, A. D. Wieck2 and J. Massies1 1Centre de Recherche sur l'Hétéro-Epitaxie et ses Applications (CRHEA-CNRS), Sophia Antipolis, France 2Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Feskörperphysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany 3Laboratoire de Physique de la Matičre Condensée, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France ThB3 Modelocking of a GaInNAs VECSEL using a GaInNAs SESAM for 1.3 µm applications Paolo Navaretti1, Andreas Rutz1, Valeria Liverini1, Deran J. H. C. Maas1, Benjamin Rudin1, Aude-Reine Bellancourt1, Silke Schön2 and Ursula Keller1 1ETH Zurich, Physics Department, Institute of Quantum Electronics, Switzerland 2ETH Zurich, FIRST Center for Micro- and Nanoscience, Switzerland ThB4 Focused-ion-beam fabrication of slanted fiber couplers in silicon-on-insulator waveguides Jonathan Schrauwen, Frederik Van Laere, Dries Van Thourhout and Roel Baets Photonics Research Group - Department of Information Technology - UGent/IMEC, Belgium Silicon Based Photonics ThC0 High speed silicon photonics (invited paper) Michal Lipson Cornell University, USA ThC1 Ultrafast All-Optical Switching by Cross Phase Modulation Induced Wavelength Conversion in Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguides and Ring Resonators Ronald Dekker1, Jan Niehusmann2, M. Först2 and Alfred Driessen1 1Integrated Optical Micro Systems, Mesa+ Research Institute, University of Twente, The Netherlands 2RWTH Aachen University, Institut für Halbleitertechnik, Germany ThC2 Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI Delay-Line Interferometer with Low Polarization-Dependent Wavelength Shift K. Voigt, L. Zimmermann, G. Winzer, M. Schnarrenberger, T. Mitze, J. Bruns and K. Petermann Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany ThC3 TE-TM coupling of a standard fiber to a Si-wire waveguide Raffaella Costa1, Giuseppe Cusmai1, Andrea Melloni2 and Mario Martinelli2 1Corecom, Italy 2DEI- Politecnico di Milano, Italy Polymers ThD0 Polymer Waveguide Technologies for Optical Interconnects (invited paper) A. Neyer, S. Kopetz, E. Rabe and D. Cai University of Dortmund, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Arbeitsgebiet Mikrostrukturtechnik (AG MST), Germany ThD1 Bends in Polymeric Multimode Waveguides Henry Kelderman, Mart B.J. Diemeer, Lucy T.H. Hilderink and Alfred Driessen University of Twente, Integrated Optical MicroSystems (IOMS), The Netherlands ThD2 Polymer Optical Motherboard Technology N. Keil, H. H. Yao, C. Zawadzki, W. Schlaak, M. Möhrle and N. Grote Fraunhofer-Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany ThD3 UV Light Induced Single Mode Waveguides in Polymer for Visible Range Applications Uwe Hollenbach1, Hans-Jürgen Böhm1, Jürgen Mohr1, Ludwig Ross2 and Dirk Samiec2 1Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Germany 2Ingenieurgesellschaft Optische Technologien GmbH, Germany Advanced Applications ThE0 RF over Fibre Systems (invited paper) Alwyn Seeds University College London, UK ThE1 Waveguide Quantum Memories (invited paper) W. Tittel1, M. Afzelius2, P. Baldi3, N. Gisin2, R. Ricken4, S. Hastings-Simon2, V. Scarani2, H. Suche4, W. Sohler4 and M. Staudt2 1Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary, Canada 2Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, Switzerland 3Laboratoire de Physique de la Matičre Condensée, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis & CNRS, France 4Angewandte Physik, University of Paderborn, Germany ThE2 Generation of Polarization-Entangled Twin Photons by Type-II QPM Waveguide NLO Device Toshiaki Suhara, Hiroaki Okabe and Masatoshi Fujimura Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan Materials Integration ThF0 Silicon photonics (invited paper) T.L. Koch Center for Optical Technologies, Lehigh University, USA ThF1 Frequency Response of Slow and Fast Light in Integrated Semiconductor Waveguide Amplifiers and Absorbers Filip Öhman and Jesper Mřrk COM·DTU Department of Communications, Optics & Materials, NanoDTU, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark ThF2 Realization of Polarisation based Integration Scheme (POLIS) for Active and Passive Components U. Khalique1, J.J.G.M. van der Tol1, F. H. Groen1, F. Karouta1, P. J. van Veldhoven1, M.K. Smit1, M. van de Moosdijk2, W. de Laat2 and K. Simon2 1COBRA Research Institute, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2ASML De Run 6501, The Netherlands ThF3 Comparison of optical passive integrated devices based on three materials for optical clock distribution B.Han1, R.Orobtchouk1, T.Benyattou1, P.R.A. Binetti2, S. Jeannot3, J. M. Fedeli4 and X.J.M. Leijtens2 1Laboratoire de Physique de la Matičre, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France 2COBRA Research Institute, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands 3STMicroelectronics, France 4CEA-DRT/LETI, France Poster Session ThG01 Evanescent-wave fluorescence excitation in aqueous solutions using symmetric planar waveguides K. Leosson1,2, M.H. Sřrensen3, T. Nikolajsen3, M. Hansen4 and S.I. Bozhevolnyi5 1Science Institute, University of Iceland, Iceland 2Lumiscence A/S, Denmark 3Crystal Fibre A/S, Denmark 4CAPRES A/S, Denmark 5Dept. of Physics and Nanotechnology, University of Aalborg, Denmark ThG02 Planar photonic crystal waveguide biosensor Nina Skivesen1, Amélie Tętu1, Martin Kristensen1, Jřrgen Kjems2, Lars. H. Frandsen3 and Peter I. Borel3 1Department of Physics and Astronomy and iNANO, University of Aarhus, Denmark 2Department of Molecular Biology and iNANO, University of Aarhus, Denmark 3COM·DTU Department of Communications, Optics & Materials, Nano·DTU Technical University of Denmark, Denmark ThG03 Waveguide grating spectral phase-shifter for temporal femtosecond pulse splitting D. Pietroy, A.V. Tishchenko, M. Flury, R. Stoian and O. Parriaux Laboratoire Hubert Curien, France ThG04 Low-Loss, High-Uniformity 1x2, 1x4 and 1x8 Polymer Multimode Y-Splitters Enabling Radio-over-Fibre Multicasting Applications N. Bamiedakis1, J. Beals1, F. Yang1, A. Wonfor1, R. V. Penty1, I. H. White1, J. V. DeGroot Jr.2 and T. V. Clapp2 1Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge, UK 2Dow Corning Corporation, USA ThG05 Optimized Deep UV hardbake process for metal-free dry-etching of integrated optical devices Gabriel Sengo, Henk A.G.M. van Wolferen, Kerstin Wörhoff and Alfred Driessen Integrated Optical Micro Systems, MESA+ Research Institute; University of Twente, The Netherlands ThG06 Waveguide grating for microchip-laser polarization control Florent Pigeon1, Marwan Abdou Ahmed2, Olivier Parriaux1, Svetlen Tonchev3, Nicolas Landru4 and Jean-Philippe Fčve5 1Laboratoire Hubert Curien, France 2Institut für StrahwerkzeugeIFSW, Stuttgart University, Germany 3on leave from the ISSP, Bulgaria 4Teem Photonics, France 5JDSU Laser Products Group, USA ThG07 18GHz Fabry-Pérot integrated extended cavity passively modelocked lasers Y. Barbarin1, E.A.J.M. Bente1, M.J.R. Heck1, J. Pozo2, J.M. Rorison2, Y.S. Oei1, R. Nötzel1 and M.K. Smit1 1COBRA Research Institute, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2University of Bristol, UK ThG08 Low-loss and stable integrated optical Y-junction on lithium niobate modulators N. Grossard, J. Hauden and H. Porte Photline Technologies, France ThG09 Numerical Analysis of Picosecond Pulse Propagation in a Tensile-Strained Semiconductor Optical Amplifier with Parameter Ex-traction using Frequency Resolved Optical Gating Michael J. Connelly1, Aisling Clark2 Prince M. Anandarajah2 and Liam P. Barry2 1Optical Communications Research Group, Dept. Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland 2RINCE, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Ireland ThG10 Fully Tunable LiNbO3 Ring Resonator Cavity for Frequency Comb Generator (FCG) A. Kaplan, A. Greenblatt, G. Harston, P. S. Cho, Y. Achiam and I. Shpantzer CeLight Inc., USA ThG11 Low-loss coupling technique between SOI waveguides and standard single-mode fibers J. V. Galán, P. Sanchis and J. Martí Valencia Nanophotonics Technology Center, Spain ThG12 Metallo-Dielectric Multilayer Sensor for Hydrogen Detection in Exhaled Breath N.Cioffi4, D. de Ceglia1,2, M. De Sario1, A. D'Orazio1, V. Petruzzelli1, F. Prudenzano3, M. Scalora2, S.Trevisi1 and M. A. Vincenti1 1Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Politecnico di Bari, Italy 2Charles M. Bowden Research Center, USA 3Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Ambiente e per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile, Politecnico di Bari, Italy 4Dipartimento di Chimica, Universitŕ degli studi di Bari, Italy ThG13 Segmented waveguide tapers for low insertion loss, high performance SPE:LiNbO3 integrated circuits Davide Castaldini1,2,3, Paolo Bassi1,3, Guillaume Bertocchi2, Sorin Tascu2, Pierre Aschieri2, Marc De Micheli2, Sebastien Tanzilli2 and Pascal Baldi2 1Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Bologna, Italy 2Laboratoire de Physique de la Matičre Condensée, University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France 3also with MIST.E-R, Laboratory for MIcro and Submicro enabling Technologies of EmiliaRomagna, Italy ThG14 Er/Yb Waveguide Amplifiers in Novel Silicate Glasses J. Jágerská1, F. Ondrácek1, L. Salavcová1,2, J. Spirková2, M. Míka3 and J. Ctyroký1 1Institute of Photonics and Electronics AS CR, Czech Republic 2Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic 3Department of Glass and Ceramics, Institute of Chemical Technology, Czech Republic ThG15 Polarization effects in gradient index MMI structures made by K+-Na+ ion exchange in glass Damian Kasprzak and Marek Blahu Institute of Physics, Silesian University of Technology, Poland ThG16 Integrated electro-optic Mach-Zehnder modulators based on Zn-diffused LiNbO3 waveguides G. Lifante1, P.L. Pernas2, E. Cantelar1, F. Cussó1 and I. Suárez1 1Departamento de Física de Materiales, C-IV. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain 2Departamento de Física Aplicada, C-XII. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain ThG17 High performance, single etch step MMI design on SOI Robert Halir1, Íńigo Molina Fernández1, Alejandro Ortega Mońux1, Juan Gonzalo Wangüemert Pérez1, Dan-Xia Xu2, Pavel Cheben2 and Siegfried Janz2 1Departamento de Ingenería de Comunicaciones, Universidad de Málaga, Spain 2Institute for Microstructural Sciences, National Research Council, Canada ThG18 High-temperature phases with increased refractive index in HxLi1-xTaO3 waveguide layers A.V. Tsarev, I.E. Kalabin and V.V. Atuchin Laboratory of Optical Materials and Structures, Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Russia ThG19 Energy deposition and heat diffusion in the process of chalcogenide glass modification by femtosecond laser pulses Elena Romanova1, Andrey Konyukhov1, Sergey Muraviov2 and Grigory Gelikonov2 1Saratov State University, Russia 2Institute of Applied Physics of RAS, Russia ThG20 Deep echted DBR gratings in InP for photonic integrated circuits B. Docter, E.J. Geluk, F. Karouta and M.K. Smit COBRA Inter-University Research Institute on Communication Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Opto-Electronic Devices Group, The Netherlands ThG21 Surface Modes in Antiresonant Reflecting Optical Waveguides with Rectangular Hollow Core Federica Poli, Matteo Foroni, Simone Busanelli, Annamaria Cucinotta and Stefano Selleri Information Engineering Department, University of Parma, Italy ThG22 Silicon-on-Insulator Slot Waveguides for Integrated Optical Sensing Francesco Dell'Olio and Vittorio M. N. Passaro Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Italy ThG23 Peculiarity of multi-reflector filtering technology Andrei Tsarev Laboratory of Optical Materials and Structures Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Russia ThG24 Investigation of Silicon Slot-based Directional Couplers Francesca Magno1, Vittorio M. N. Passaro1, Francesco Dell'Olio1 and Francesco De Leonardis2 1Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Politecnico di Bari, Italy 2Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Ambiente e per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile, Politecnico di Bari, Italy ThG25 An optimal design strategy for MMI splitters Kehinde Latunde-Dada and Frank Payne Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK ThG26 Numerical Studies on Silica Wire Directional Couplers Ziyang Zhang, Min Yan and Min Qiu Laboratory of Optics, Photonics and Quantum Electronics, Department of Microelectronics and Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden ThG27 The New Design and Numerical Simulation by 3D BPM of New Compact Polarisation Rotator in Anisotropic LiNbO3 Graded Index Waveguide Andrei Tsarev Laboratory of Optical Materials and Structures, Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Russia ThG28 A Semi-Analytical Propagation Equation Model for the Study of Signal Propagation in Kerr Nonlinear Nanophotonic Waveguides Thomas Kamalakis, Thomas Sphicopoulos and Athanasios Theoharidis Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece ThG29 Design of photonic crystal directional couplers for electro-optical wavelength switching Eric Cassan, Damien Bernier, Guillaume Maire, Delphine Marris-Morini and Laurent Vivien Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Université Paris Sud, France ThG30 Photonic crystals in diamond: Cavity Q ­ Mode volume influence on the design Igal Bayn and Joseph Salzman Department of Electrical Engineering and Microelectronics Research Center, Technion Haifa, Israel ThG31 Excitation of Leaky modes in the System of Coupled Waveguides Boris Usievich1, Jamil Nurligareev1, Vladimir Sychugov1 and Konstantin Golant2 1General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia 2Fiber Optic Research Center, Moscow, Russia ThG32 Band Structure and Coupled Surface Plasmons in one dimensional Photonic Crystals Michael Bergmair and Kurt Hingerl Christian Doppler Labor für Oberflächenoptische Methoden, Institut für Halbleiter- und Festkörperphysik, Universität Linz, Austria ThG33 A Semi-analytical Model for Estimation of the Transfer Function of a Coupled Resonator Optical Waveguide Based on Coupled Mode Theory Nikolaos Avaritsiotis, Thomas Kamalakis, and Thomas Sphicopoulos Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece ThG34 Light propagation in a highly birefringent photonic crystal fiber infiltrated with a nematic liquid crystal K.A. Rutkowska, T.R. Wolinski, P. Lesiak, A. Czapla, S. Ertman and K. Nowecka Faculty of Physics, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland ThG35 Finite-element analysis of -wedge plasmon polariton guide Min Yan and Min Qiu Department of Microelectronics and Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden ThG36 Whispering Gallery Mode for Second-Harmonic Generation in Microresonators G. Kozyreff1,2, J.L. Dominguez Juarez1 and Jordi Martorell1,3 1ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Spain 2ONT, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 3Departament de Fisica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Plenary session FPT1 Lab-on-a-chip systems with integrated optics for biochemical applications (plenary talk) Klaus B. Mogensen, Detlef Snakenborg, Ómar Gústafsson, Pedro S. Nunes and Jörg P. Kutter MIC ­ Dept. of Micro and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark FPT2 New frontiers in optical biosensing (plenary talk) Laura M. Lechuga Biosensors Group, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMM-CNM), CSIC, Spain Photonic Crystals FA0 Slow light: perspective and applications (invited paper) Thomas F. Krauss SUPA, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, UK FA1 Focused Ion Beam Milling Strategies of Photonic Crystal Structures in Silicon Wico C.L. Hopman1, Feridun Ay1, Wenbin Hu1, Vishwas J. Gadgil1, Laurens Kuipers2, Markus Pollnau1 and René M. de Ridder1 1MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, The Netherlands 2FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), The Netherlands FA2 Efficient coupling to W1 Photonic crystal waveguide on InP membrane through thinly supported access guides A. Talneau, K.H. Lee, S. Guilet and I. Sagnes CNRS/ Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, France FA3 Self-collimated superprism effect using a photonic crystal with parallelogram lattice Damien Bernier, Eric Cassan, Guillaume Maire, Delphine Marris-Morini and Laurent Vivien Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Université Paris-Sud, France FA4 Mapping the field distribution of a resonator in a photonic crystal slab, using transmission SNOM René M. de Ridder, Wico C.L. Hopman, R. Stoffer and Kees O. van der Werf University of Twente, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, The Netherlands Semiconductor Integrated Optics FB0 Ultra high-speed photodetectors and photoreceivers for telecom and datacom also aiming at THz applications (invited paper) Heinz-Günter Bach Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany FB1 Controlling Modes using VCSEL-Based Photonic Crystal Heterostructures L. D. A. Lundeberg and E. Kapon Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Physics of Nanostructures, Switzerland FB2 Detailed investigation of spontaneous emission decay rates of self-assembled InAs quantum dots Toke Lund-Hansen, Jeppe Johansen, Sřren Stobbe, Jřrn M. Hvam and Peter Lodahl COM·DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark FB3 Surface acoustic wave driven light modulation Mike van der Poel1, Markus Beck2, Maria B. Dühring3, Maurício M. de Lima4, Lars H. Frandsen1, Christophe Peucheret1, Ole Sigmund3, Uwe Jahn2, Jřrn M. Hvam1 and Paulo Santos2 1COM·DTU, NanoDTU, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 2Paul-Drude Institut für Festkörperfysik, Germany 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, NanoDTU, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 4Material Science Institute, University of Valencia, Spain FB4 Different-Guided-Mode-Coupling DBR for WDM Optical Interconnection Board Using Channel Waveguides Kenji Kintaka1, Junji Nishii1, Satoshi Yamaguchi2, Takayuki Kobayashi2 and Shogo Ura2 1National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan 2Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan Joint session with OWTNM FC4 SOI grating structure for perfectly vertical fiber coupling Günther Roelkens, Dries Van Thourhout and Roel Baets Photonics Research Group, Ghent University-IMEC, Belgium FC5 Spatial and Spectral Distributed Multi Population Rate Equations Model for Quantum Dot Superluminescent Diodes Mariangela Gioannini and Ivo Montrosset Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy FC6 Full-vectorial time-domain modelling of photonic crystal semiconductor lasers Wolfram H.P. Pernice1, Dominic F.G. Gallagher2 and Frank P. Payne1 1Oxford University, Department of Engineering Science, UK 2Photon Design, UK Post-deadline session FPD1 Direct Experimental Observation of Pulse Temporal Behavior in Integrated-Optical Ring-Resonator with Negative Group Velocity H.P. Uranus, L. Zhuang,, C.G.H. Roeloffzen and H.J.W.M. Hoekstra University of Twente, The Netherlands FPD2 2 bit Continuously Tunable Slow Wave Delay Line at 2.5 Gbit/s A. Melloni1, F. Morichetti1,2, C. Canavesi2, A. Breda1, C. Ferrari1, R. Costa2 and M. Martinelli1,2 1Politectnico di Milano, Italy 2CoreCom Milano, Italy FPD3 Probing the local density of optical states in 2D-photonic crystal membranes B. Julsgaard1, S. Stobbe1, J. Johansen1, T. Solbert-Rohr1, P. Lodalh1, T. Sünner2, M. Kamp2 and A. Forchel2 1COM•DTU, Lyngby, Denmark 2Universität Würzburg, Germany FPD4 An Optical Interconnect Layer on Silicon P.R.A. Binetti1, J. Van Campenhout4, X.J.M. Leijtens1, M. Nikoufard1, T. de Vries1, Y.S. Oei1, L. Di Cioccio2, J.-M. Fedeli2, C. Lagahe3, R. Orobtchouk5, X. Letartre5, P. Regreny5, P. Rojo-Romeo5, C. Seassal5, P.J. van Veldhoven1, R. Nötzel1, D. Van Thourhout4, R. Baets4 and M.K. Smit1 1COBRA - TU/e, Eindhoven, The Netherlands 2CEA-LETI, Minatec, France 3TRACIT Technologies, France 4Ugent, Belgium 5INL, Université de Lyon, France FPD5 Transition Matrix Methods David Yevick and Michael Reimer University of Waterloo, Canada