GOLD Session

Time: Sunday 7, November 2010 10:30am - 12:00pm
Place: Denver Marriot Tech Center, Denver USA

Schedule of Event

Welcome
Ju Han Lee, Gold Coordinator of IEEE Photonics Society

Invited Talk
Build it and they will come - What to do during grad school to prepare for a career in industry
Yannick Keith Lize, Ph.D.
Director of Engineering, Applied Micro, USA

Poster Presentations
2010 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Fellowship winners

1. Long-Haul Optical Transmission of High-order Modulation Formats with Data-Rates of up to 200 Gb/s, Mohammad Alfiad: Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. Recently we have witnessed a rapid growth in the required bandwidth for a variety of internet applications. This has trigged a significant interest in the development of transmission systems with line rates of 100 Gb/s and beyond, with a high SE. In this work, we have investigated the feasibility of using POLMUX-RZQPSK modulation format for achieving a data rate of 111 Gb/s over existing transmission links. Furthermore, we have demonstrated the transmission of 224 Gb/s POMUX RZ 16-level quadrture amplitude modulation (QAM) with a SE of 4.2 b/s/Hz over 1500 km of SMF.
   
   
2. Decision-Aided Maximum Likelihood Phase Estimation, Shaoliang Zhang: National University of Singapore, Singapore. A computationally linear decision-aided maximum likelihood phase estimation is proposed to estimate the carrier phase in coherent optical M-ary PSK and QAM systems. The other effects, such as frequency offset and fiber nonlinearity, are also addressed using some proposed algorithms. Experiments are carried out to prove those algorithms in coherent DP-QPSK systems.
   
   
3. High Performance Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers, Yanbo Bai: Northwestern University, USA. We demonstrate mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers with record breaking wall plug efficiency and output power in room temperature continuous wave operation, room temperature pulsed mode operation, and low temperature pulsed mode operation. Broad area quantum cascade lasers are also investigated with both Fabry-Perot and photonic crystal distributed feedback mechanisms.
   
   
4. High Precision Characterization of a High Finesse Fiberized Etalon, Dimitrios Mandridis: University of Central Florida, USA, We characterize the properties of a 100 MHz fiberized etalon. Sub-Hz (10-8) precision is attained for the FSR measurement for both polarization eigenstates. The finesse is measured with 3 % precision and the acoustic noise frequency response of the etalon is experimentally measured.
   
   
5. Generation, Manipulation and Characterization Techniques for High Repetition Rate Optical Frequency Combs and Related Applications, V. R. Supradeepa: Purdue University, USA. Optical arbitrary waveform generation (OAWG) refers to arbitrary control over individual lines of stabilized frequency combs for high-complexity waveform generation. OAWG promises to have broad impact in applications ranging from coherent communications and LIDAR to quantum control. I will describe my contributions to all its three key components - stabilized frequency combs, encoders for waveform generation and characterization apparatii.
   
   
6. Silicon Optomechanics, Joris Roels: University of Gent, Belgium. The strong field gradients encountered in nanophotonic guided wave structures enable optical forces. These can be exploited for actuating optomechanical devices on a SOI chip and make the transition from MEMS to NOMS (Nano-Opto-Mechanical Systems). Possible applications include integrated time keeping, reference oscillators, RF-filters and all-optically tunable circuits.
   
   
7. Digital Photonics for All-optical Network Nodes, Koen Huybrechts: University of Gent, Belgium. All-optical processing techniques are becoming a viable alternative to surpass the electro-optical conversions in standard network nodes. Novel designs for all-optical flip-flops, packet switching and regeneration are proposed, making use of standard DFB and DBR lasers. All-optical flip-flop operation in an ultra-small microdisk bonded on a silicon chip is demonstrated.
   
   
8. M-structure Superlattice for High Performance Infrared Detection, Binh-Minh Nguyen: Northwestern University, USA. The creation of M-structure superlattice has tremendously enhanced the band-edge tunability of Type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices. It enables novel heterostructure architectures with significantly improved performance, making Type-II superlattice based infrared detectors comparable to the state-of-the-art technologies in the mid, long, and very long wavelength infrared regimes.
   
   
9. Integrated Phased-Array Photonic Switches for Ultra-Large-Capacity Optical Packet Routing, Ibrahim Murat Soganci: University of Tokyo, Japan. Results of experimental and theoretical research on integrated phased-array photonic switches and their applications in optical packet switching (OPS) networks are summarized. The contents include ultra-broadband monolithic photonic switches with record-breaking port counts, bit-rate- and modulation-format-independent OPS demonstrations, and calculations on the energy efficiency of ultra-large-capacity OPS routers based on these technologies.