Guided-Wave Optoelectronics

Proceedings of the Fourth Weber Research Institute (WRI) International Symposium held in Brooklyn, New York, October 26-28, 1994

In 1945, Dr. Ernst Weber founded, and was the first Director of, the Microwave Research Institute (MRI) at Polytechnic University (at that time named the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn). MRI gained worldwide recognition in the 50s and 60s for its research in electromagnetic theory, antennas and radiation, network theory and microwave networks, microwave components, and devices. It was also known through its series of 24 topical symposia and the widely distributed hardbound MRI Symposium Proceedings. Rededicated as the Weber Research Institute (WRI) in 1986, the institute currently conducts research in such areas as electromagnetic propagation and antennas, ultrabroadband electromagnetics, pulse power, acoustics, gaseous electronics, plasma physics, solid-state materials, quantum electronics, electromagnetic launchers, and networks. Following MRI tradition, WRI has launched its own series of in-depth topical conferences with published proceedings. Previous conferences in this series were: Directions in Electromagnetic Wave Modeling; October 1990 Ultra-Wideband Short-Pulse Electromagnetics; October, 1992 Ultra-Wideband Short-Pulse Electromagnetics, II; October, 1994 The proceedings of these conferences were also published by Plenum Press. This volume constitutes the proceedings of the fourth WRI International Conference dealing with Guided-Wave Optoelectronics: Device Characterization, Analysis and Design. The conference was held October 26-28, 1994, at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York, in cooperation with the IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society, and with the Optical Society of America. Theodor Tamir Giora Griffel Henry L. Bertoni v CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY Scanning the symposium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . . . . . . . . T. Tamir and G. Griffel Photonics in telecommunications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . . . . . . . . H.

Introduction. LiNbO3 Devices: Electrooptic Tunable Filters for WDM Networks (O. Eknoyan, H.F. Taylor). Demonstration of 250 Gb/s Alloptical Routing Control of a Photonic Crossbar Switch (I. Glesk, P.R. Prucnal). Laser Devices: Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Arrays for Optical Interconnects (C.J. ChangHasnain). Polarization Induced Enhancement of Relative Intensity Noise and Modulation Distortion of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (M.S. Wu). Switches and Coupling Devices: Highspeed Photonic Waveguide Switch Arrays and Optical Amplifier Gates in InGaAsP/InP for Communications Applications (H. Melchior). Modulators: Highspeed Wideband Integrated Magnetooptic Frequency Shifter and Modulator at Xband (C.S. Tsai, Y. Pu). Periodic Structures: Periodic Waveguide Structures: 101 Varieties! (R.C. Alferness). Nonlinear Techniques: Cascading: Modeling a New Route to Large Optical Nonlinearities and Alloptical Devices (G. Stegeman et al.). Numerical Methods: Computeraided Analysis and Design in Guidedwave Optoelectronics (W.P. Huang et al.). Photonic Bandgaps and Resonances: Highly Efficient Lightemitting Diodes with Microcavities (E.F. Schubert et al.). 48 additional articles. Index.