Photonic Technology Letters

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Semiconductor Lasers

Ultralow Threshold and Uniform Operation (1.3+-.09 mA) in 1.3 micrometer Strained-MQW 10-Element Laser Arrays for Parallel High-Density Optical Interconnects, Uomi

Ultralow Power Optical Interconnect with Zero-Biased, Ultralow Threshold Laser - How Low a Threshold is Low Enough?, Cutrer

Low Temperature Operation of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers, Goobar

Wavelength Control of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers by Using Nonplanar MOCVD, Koyama

High-Power and Wide-Temperature-Range Operations of InGaAsP/InP Strained MQW Lasers with Reverse-Mesa Ridge-Waveguide Structure, Aoki

Improved Performance from Pseudomorphic $In sub y Ga sub 1-y$As/GaAs MQW Lasers with Low Growth Temperature $Al sub x Ga sub 1-x$As Short-Period Superlattice Cladding, Larkins

Microwave Characterization of Corner Reflector p-Doped Multiple Quantum Well Lasers, Spencer "Modulation of Quantum Well Lasers by Short Optical Excitation: Energy and Spatial Dependent Effects, Tessler

Thermally Controlled Lateral Beam Shift and Beam Steering in Semiconductor Lasers, Sun

Digital Signal Regeneration with Side-Injection-Light-Controlled Bistable Laser Diode as a Wavelength Converter, Nonaka

Modulators

Internal Biasing by $delta$-doping for Low Voltage, High Bandwidth Quantum Well Optical Modulators, Batty

An Analysis of the Performance of Franz-Keldysh Electroabsorption Waveguide Modulators, Chin

Integrated Optics and Optoelectronics

A New Short and Low-Loss Passive Polarization Converter on InP, vanderTol

A Wavelength Selective Device Based on Three Coupled Anti-Resonant Reflecting Optical Waveguides, Trutschel

Arrow-B Type Polarizer Utilizing Birefringence in Multilayer Stripe Lateral Confinement, Asakawa

Optoelectronic Packaging Using Silicon Surface-Micromachined Alignment Mirrors, Solgaard

Reduction of Waveguide Facet Reflection in Optical Hybrid Integrated Circuit Using Saw-Toothed Angled Facet, Ogawa

Switches and Routers

Polarization-Independent Switching Operation in Directional Coupler Using Tensile-Strained Multi-Quantum Well, Aizawa

High Power Performance Limitation of an Extremely Shallow Quantum Well Self Electro-Optic Effect Device in an Asymmetric Fabry-Perot Etalon Structure, Kwon

Switchable-Logic Photonic Switch Array Monolithically Integrating MSMs, FETs and MQW Modulators, Nakahara

Temperature-Dependent Delay Time in GaAs High-Power High-Speed Photoconductive Switching Devices, Zu

Remotely Programmable Routing Device with Optical Clock Division, Lucek

Measurements and Properties

Experimental Determination of the Emission Cross Section Spectrum of the Pump Transition of Praseodymium, Krummrich

Saturation and Isotopic Shift of the Kr 84 Excited-State Transition at 1547.825nm, Fischer

Temperature Dispersion in KTP for Nonlinear Devices, Ghosh

Electronic Structure and Field Screening Effects in [111] InGaAs/GaAs Strained Layer Piezoelectric Quantum Wells, Rodriguez-Girones

Amplified Double Coupler Fiber-Optic Delay Line Filter, Pastor

Wide-band Fabry-Perot-like Filters in Optical Fiber, Town

Waveguides

Numerical Optimization Procedure for Low-Loss Sharp Bends in MgO Co-Doped Ti:LiNbO$nothing sub 3$ Waveguides, Mansour

High Spatial Resolution Diagostics of Optical Waveguides Using a Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Toda

Sensors

Fiber Optic Near Infrared Reflectance Sensor for Detection of Organics in Soils, Schneider

Networks & Systems

Scaling Limitations in Transparent Optical Networks Due to Low-Level Crosstalk, Goldstein

Transparent, All-Optical Interconnection of Two Independent Experimental OFDM-LANs via one Central Node, Westphal

One-Third Terabit/s Transmission Through 150 km of Dispersion-Managed Fiber, Chraplyvy

Effect of Modulation Statistics on Raman Crosstalk in WDM Systems, Forghieri

2x10 Gbit/s WDM 1310nm Optical Transmission over 63.5~km Standard Single Mode Fibre Using Optical Preamplifiers, de Waardt

Achievable Budget Improvement with Raman Amplification and Remotely Pumped Postamplification at Transmit Side of 622 Mbit/s and 2.5 Gbit/s Repeaterless Systems, Blondel

Packaged Hybrid Soliton Pulse Source Results and 270 Terabit.km/sec Soliton Transmission, Morton

40 GHz Pulse Train Generation Using Soliton Compression of a Mach-Zehnder Modulator Output, Swanson

Constraints on the Design of Single-Channel, High Capacity (>10 Gb/s) Soliton Systems, Evans

Extinction Ratio Improvement Using the Nonlinear Optical Loop Mirror, Olsson

An Optical Technique for Bit and Packet Synchronization, Blixt

Polarization-Independent Phase Conjugation in a Reflective Optical Mixer, Giles

First Operation of a Heterodyne Receiver Based on a Tunable Monolithically Integrated Polarization Diversity Optoelectronic IC on InP in a System Environment, Hilbk

BER Performance of Digital Optical Burst-Mode Receiver in TDMA All Optical Multiaccess Network, Su