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December 2011Vol. 25, No. 6www.PhotonicsSociety.orgUltra-Low-Loss Planar Silica WaveguideAlso inside:•Photonics Activities at Valencia NTC•Highlights from the IEEE Photonics Conference•Review of “Toward Entrepreneurship” by Milton Chang

December 2011 Volume 25, Number 6COLUMNSEditor’s Column. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2President’s Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35816TERF SignalTMCW Light InMMI SplitterCoplanarElectrodesSlow WavePhase Shifter(Active Arm)Doped RibWaveguide(Referance Arm)MMI Combiner10 μmAmplitudeModulated LightRESEARCH HIGHLIGHTSAn Ultra-Low-Loss (

Editor’sColumnVIKRANT LALWelcome to the final issue of the Photonics Societynewsletter for the year 2011. As I write this article, theannual IEEE Photonics Conference has just concluded inArlington, Virginia. By all accounts it was a great conference,attended by nearly 600 members and covering awide range of topics of interest to the photonics researchcommunity. I hope you got to a chance to attend. Wehave included some pictures and an article from conferencechair Dr. Roel Baets.This month, we have an article from Prof. Javier Martiand his colleagues, giving us an overview of the Photonicsactivities at the Valencia Nanophotonics TechnologyCenter (NTC) in Spain. NTC was first establishedin 2003, and in the span of the last 8 years has grownto a center with a state-of-the-art silicon nanofabricationfacility and about 80 employees including professors,lecturers and PhD students.We are also pleased to announce the winner of the secondPhotonics Society figure contest. The winners haveprovided a nice article in this issue on the work behindthe figure, illustrating their recent success in developinglow loss planar waveguides in SiN. I’m sure the PhotonicsSociety is looking forward to further developmentsand innovation from their continuing research efforts.There have been some great developments in photonicsin 2011 and I am excited by the prospects that thefuture holds. We hope to continue to cover some of thesein our upcoming newsletter issues for our readers. Thankyou again for taking the time to read the newsletter. Asalways, we appreciate all of your comments, feedback andarticles. See you in 2012!Vikrant LalIEEE Photonics SocietyPresidentJames ColemanDept of E & C EngineeringUniversity of Illinois208 N Wright StreetUrbana, IL 81801-2355Tel: +1 217 333 2555E-mail: j.coleman@ieee.orgPast PresidentJohn H. MarshHead of School of Engineering /Professor of Optoelectronic SystemsSchool of EngineeringUniversity of GlasgowJames Watt Building SouthUniversity AvenueGlasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, UK.Tel: +44 141 330 5858Fax: +44 141 330 4885M: +44 7949 254660john.marsh@glasgow.ac.ukwww.eng.gla.ac.ukSecretary-TreasurerJerry MeyerNaval Research LaboratoryCode 5613Washington, DC 20375-0001Tel: +1 202 767 3276E-mail: jerry.meyer@nrl.navy.milExecutive DirectorRichard LinkeIEEE Photonics Society445 Hoes LanePiscataway, NJ 08854-1331Tel: +1 732 562 3891Fax: +1 732 562 8434Email: r.linke@ieee.orgBoard of GovernorsP. Andrekson J. KashY. Arakawa M. LipsonJ. Capmany J. McInerneyS.L. Chuang L. NelsonM. Glick D. NovakP. Juodawlkis I. WhiteVice PresidentsConferences - K. ChoquetteFinance & Administration - F. BartoliMembership & Regional Activities -J. KashPublications - R. TuckerTechnical Affairs - T. KochNewsletter StaffExecutive EditorVikrant LalInfinera, Inc.140 Caspian Ct.Sunnyvale, CA 94089Tel: 1 408 572 5496Email: vlal@ieee.orgAssociate Editor of Asia & PacificHon TsangDept. of Electronic EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong KongShatin, Hong KongTel: +852 260 98254Fax: +852 260 35558Email: hktsang@ee.cuhk.edu.hkAssociate Editor of CanadaLawrence R. ChenDepartment of Electrical &Computer EngineeringMcConnell Engineering Building,Rm 633McGill University3480 University St.Montreal, QuebecCanada H3A-2A7Tel: +514 398 1879Fax: 514 398 3127Email: lawrence.chen@mcgill.caAssociate Editor of Europe/Mid East/AfricaKevin A. WilliamsEindhoven University of TechnologyInter-University Research InstituteCOBRA on CommunicationTechnologyDepartment of Electrical EngineeringPO Box 5135600 MB Eindhoven, The NetherlandsEmail: K.A.Williams@tue.nlStaff EditorLisa JessIEEE Photonics Society445 Hoes LanePiscataway, NJ 08854Tel: 1 732 465 6617Fax: 1 732 981 1138E-mail: ipsnewsletter@ieee.orgAssistant Staff EditorLisa ManteriaIEEE Photonics Society445 Hoes LanePiscataway, NJ 08854Tel: 1 732 465 6662Fax: 1 732 981 1138E-mail: ipsnewsletter@ieee.orgIEEE prohibits discrimination, harassment, and bullying. For more information, visithttp://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/whatis/policies/p9-26.html.IEEE Photonics Society News (USPS 014-023) is published bimonthlyby the Photonics Society of the Institute of Electrical andElectronics Engineers, Inc., Corporate Office: 3 Park Avenue, 17thFloor, New York, NY 10017-2394. Printed in the USA. One dollar permember per year is included in the Society fee for each memberof the Photonics Society. Periodicals postage paid at New York,NY and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send addresschanges to Photonics Society Newsletter, IEEE, 445 Hoes Lane,Piscataway, NJ 08854.Copyright © 2011 by IEEE: Permission to copy without fee all orpart of any material without a copyright notice is granted providedthat the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercialadvantage, and the title of the publication and its dateappear on each copy. To copy material with a copyright noticerequires specific permission. Please direct all inquiries or requeststo IEEE Copyrights Office.2 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

President’sColumnJAMES J. COLEMANThis column is my last column as president of your PhotonicsSociety and I freely admit that it is a bittersweet moment.While I am happy to be finished writing these missives – okay,the writing part is fine but I can live without the deadlines – Iwill miss the big role the Society has played in my everydaywork life for the last two years. Certainly, I am far from finishedtrying to contribute to the Society. The bylaws providefor several important jobs for past presidents. But it is time tohand over the (nearly) daily responsibilities to Dr. Kuwahara.I know he will need and appreciate the same level of help andguidance that you provided for me during my term of office.Whistling a symphony…No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestrato play it. ~H.E. LuccockWhat better time for reflection than as you get on the biketo leave. Together we have accomplished a great deal of workin the last two years. For example, we have regenerated andrenewed the position of vice president for technical affairswith the primary responsibility for strategic technical planning.This has already led to a new conference and an improvedidentity – note the tag line “Transforming Science into Technology”which appears in our logo. Recognizing the centralimportance of conferences, we have refashioned our annualmeeting into a major photonics conference. I’ll have a bit moreto say about this a little later but the IEEE Photonics Conferenceis poised to become the most important Fall photonicsvenue and is among the first in our discipline to capture audio/visual content for those who are unable to attend in person.Another important component of our Society is publications.We have developed new plans for dramatically improving theturnaround times for submitted manuscripts and are proposingan aggressive program for moving toward open access.We have also made some organizational changes. Ourawards process is an important component of professional developmentand recognition. It is also cumbersome, expensive,time consuming for staff, and wastes a lot of paper. We haveoverhauled the system to make it better and more efficient andwill shortly move to a full electronic online process. We havealso streamlined our Board of Governors meetings. The meetingsare shorter but the impact is greater with a strong emphasison solving problems in a consensus manner. The mostrecent board meeting is an excellent example. A number ofimportant future concerns for the Society were addressed withconcrete plans for action. All of this while taking up less of ourvolunteers valuable time.Which brings me to this month’s quote… The Rev. HalfordE. Luccock quoted above is hardly a household name in the US.He was a professor of preaching at the Yale Divinity Schoolroughly 75 years ago. I like this quote because it is both efficientand elegant in its message. And it is appropriate because Ididn’t personally do any of the things listed here. It is temptingto name some of the most important contributors but that listis very long. How long? Well for starters we have a remarkableand dedicated staff that numbers roughly eighteen. These aretrue professionals – it’s just that their profession is professionalmanagement not photonics. Then there are the elected and appointedleadership which number roughly twenty more. Theydonate their time and often their own resources to provide theenergy and knowledge that is required for our staff to effectivelyuse their own energy and professional experience. My jobwas simply to ride in the passenger seat and yell loudly whenI was frightened by the oncoming traffic. That part is easy….So, I will close by saying that I think our Photonics Societysymphony sounds wonderful and I am grateful to all ofthe members of our orchestra for making the last two years apleasure.This and that…If you weren’t in Arlington for the IEEE Photonics Conference,you missed a great conference. The organizers and staff did asuperb job in creating a program that had great energy andexcitement and a wide variety of interesting ways for photonicsresearchers to interact. The conference was substantially largerthan we have seen for a number of years and there was a clearfeeling of growth and health that rivaled the “telecommunicationsbubble” days. Look for more and better next year andplan early to attend.With Warm Wishes,Jim ColemanUniversity of Illinoisj.coleman@ieee.orgDecember 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 3

Research HighlightsAn Ultra-Low-Loss (

Waveguide Section and ModesSEM of FacetLPCVD SiO 2LPCVD Si 3 N 4SiO Si 3 N 4210016-Channel AWGFSR = 25.3 nm1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10111213141516 1Thermal SiO 2CorePower (dBm)–10–20Silicon Substrate–30TETM10 μm–401,527 1,531 1,535 1,539 1,543 1,547 1,551 1,555Wavelength (nm)Arrayed WGFigure 2. Schematic cross-section of the planar waveguides, anSEM micrograph of a waveguide facet, and simulated fundamentalTE and TM modes.1.5 cmBend Loss Test Structures2 cmFigure 4. Spectral response (top) and layout (bottom) of a16-channel AWG (de)multiplexer.Amplitude (dB)–90–100–110–120–130–140–15022 mm Tapered RegionBend Radius (mm)9 8 7 6 5 4 3–1600 0.1 0.2 0.3Length (m)0.4 0.5Figure 3. (Top) A planar waveguide coil with red laser light injected.(Bottom) Reflectivity with respect to propagation lengthmeasured for infrared light.resulting polarization dependent loss are useful for achieving alarge (> 35 dB) polarization extinction with compact polarizersand spiral waveguide delays. These benefit systems that requiresingle polarization operation for high performance, such as opticalgyroscopes.Fig. 3 shows red laser light propagating in a planar waveguideArchimedean spiral. The spiral begins with a bendingradius of 10 mm, decreasing by 0.5 mm per round trip beforeending at a bend radius of 0.5 mm. The total propagationdistance in the structure is around 0.45 m per waveguide ina ten-waveguide bus. Since scattering loss scales proportionallywith l -4 , the small relative decrease in red light intensityover 0.45 m of propagation is a qualitative indicator of lowpropagation loss. The data in Fig. 2 shows the reflectivity measuredwith respect to propagation distance into the waveguidespiral for infrared light near 1550 nm. A linear taper is used atthe beginning of the spiral in order to avoid the excitation ofany higher order modes that could influence the data. One canextract information about a waveguide’s bending capability byfitting a bend radius dependent equation to the data. Sincebending loss increases exponentially with respect to the bendingradius, it is important to know the radius at which bendloss begins to dominate the total propagation loss.Fig. 4 shows the spectral response of a 16-channel,200-GHz-channel-spacing arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG)(de)multiplexer demonstrated with the ultra-low-loss waveguidetechnology. The layout of the 2 cm 3 1.5 cm chip is alsoshown. The total on-chip loss of the device is below 0.5 dB.Detailed information is given in reference [4].Fig. 5 shows the transmission spectra for various planar ringresonators measured near 1060, 1310, and 1550 nm wavelengths[5]. Intrinsic Q-factors as high as 30 million are obtained fromfits to the spectra. The data demonstrates the transparency of theDecember 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 5

Research HighlightsPhotonics Activities at Valencia NTCJavier Marti, Alejandro Martinez, Pablo Sanchis, and Jaime GarciaIntroductionNTC the Nanophotonics Technology Center, at the UniversitatPolitecnica de Valencia (UPVLC), Spain, is a research institutewhose areas of expertise span from photonic meta-materials tonano-photonic devices. Also included in NTC’s scope is the useof these technologies in novel optical systems and ultra-highspeedoptical networks, as well as nano-fabrication processesand packaging. The mission of the NTC encompasses both scientificand technology knowledge-generation and its use forcreating innovation around knowledge and technology transferto industry, launching spin-off companies, etc.HistoryNTC formally created in 2003 by joint approval of UPVLC andthe Valencia Regional Government incorporated scientists and researcherscoming from the Fiber-Radio Group (FRG) at UPVLCand skilled technologists from world class semiconductor industries(Lucent Technologies, ST Microelectronics, Intel, etc). Researchersfrom FRG have brought knowledge and expertise in bothRadio-over-Fiber (RoF) systems and Optical Processing techniquessince the early 1990’s when FRG scientists pioneered research onRoF by proposing and demonstrating new techniques and systemconcepts. Skilled silicon processing engineers are responsible forsetting up advanced nanofabrication processes that not only allowrealization of the novel system concepts on silicon chips but alsoensures reproducibility at high resolutionwith minimum feature sizes of about 10nm. Currently NTC has about 80 employees,including professors, lecturers, processingengineers, postdoctoral scientists andPhD students.FacilitiesNTC has been operating in a new facilitysince 2009. The facility includes a 500square meter clean room (class 10–100)with a full line of 6-inch “one-of-a-kind”silicon nanofabrication equipment. In additionthere are full-equipped labs totalingover 2000 square meters for physicalcharacterization and sample preparation,assembly and packaging, and optical devicecharacterization. Full optical & RFsystem and network performance testingmay be carried out for RF frequencies upto 170 GHz and for bit rates up to 100Gbit/s.A few examples of the research activitiesin nanophotonics that are being carriedout at NTC are presented below.II. Electro-optical silicon modulatorsenhanced via slow-light propagationThe potential for slow light propagation as a means to enhancethe modulation efficiency of silicon electro-optical modulatorshas recently been demonstrated by NTC researchers in theframework of the FP7-HELIOS project [1, 2]. The attractiveproperties of slow light propagation in a nanostructured 1Dperiodic waveguide together with a high speed semiconducst(a)I. Photonic Metamaterials and PlasmonicsPlasmonic resonances in the infra-red and visible wavelengthregimes can be exploited to implement photonic metamaterialswhich can display intriguing electromagnetic propertiesnot shown in nature. By overlapping electric and magneticresonances of subwavelength plasmonic nanoparticlesarranged in periodic lattices, it becomes feasible to achieve acomposite medium showing simultaneously negative electricpermittivity and magnetic permeability. This kind of mediumis commonly termed “left-handed” material and has some reversedproperties, mainly negative refraction. Recently, NTCresearchers have shown that by exploiting the second-orderplasmonic magnetic resonance of the so-called “fishnet” metamaterial,the left-handed behavior can be achieved in the visibleregime, as depicted in figure 1, paving the way towardsthe realization of super-resolution lenses [1].December 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 7ahkE P 1 , H P 23.02.0E P 2 , H P 1 1.00.0–1.01.00.80.60.40.20.0500 550 600 650 700 750 800 850(b)Re (ε)Re (μ)Re (n)FOM1 1 μm μm–2.0660 690 720 750 780 810 840Wavelength (nm)(c)Figure 1. (a) Schematic of a fishnet metamaterial made up of three unit cells in thepropagation direction. The overall number of layers is 7 (4 metal layers and 3 dielectriclayers); (b) Normal incidence, zero-order measured and simulated transmission spectraof different fabricated metamaterials (t 5 35 nm, s 5 15 nm, h 5 250 nm, a 5 400 nm);(c) Retrieved effective parameters (Inset: SEM image of one fabricated sample).

CW Light InMMI SplitterRF SignalDoped RibWaveguide(Referance Arm)aWeWCoplanarElectrodesSlow WavePhase Shifter(Active Arm)MMI CombinerAmplitudeModulated LightSn(a) (b) (c)SpFigure 2. (a) Schematic of the slow-wave modulator. (b) Top scanning electron microscope (SEM) of nanostructured 1D periodicwaveguide. (c) Eye diagram at 20Gb/s.Γ-K20 μm221 nmRelative Peak Position (pm)6040200a)Δλ = 47.1 pmPBS0.1xDNA0.5 μM–200 20 40 60 80Time (minutes)Figure 3. (Left) SEM image of a SOI photonic crystal waveguide used for sensing, with close-up view of the sensor area and photoniccrystal holes, and (Right) sensing results obtained for single strand DNA detection.Target ScenariosFigure 4. Target scenarios for wireless multi-Gbit/s modems inwhich multi-level modulation/demodulation schemes are neededto allocate transmission in the available spectrum bands.tor pn diode were exploited to demonstrate a highly efficientand CMOS-compatible 500 µm-long silicon electro-opticalmodulator device, as may be seen in figures 2a and 2b, exhibitingerror-free modulation up to 20 Gbit/s (as from figure 2c)and at a moderate group index of only ~11. To the best of ourknowledge, this is the highest error-free data rate in the shortestmodulation length demonstrated so far in a carrier-depletionbased silicon electro-optical modulators, which is actuallyone of the most effective mechanism to achieve ultra highspeed in silicon. The insertion loss of the slow-wave modulatorwas around 10 dB and a voltage swing of 5V ppwas usedto drive the modulator. This drive voltage could be halved byusing a dual-drive modulation scheme hence allowing integrationwith electronic BiCMOS circuits. In summary, theseresults, supported by modulation rate capabilities reaching 40Gbit/s, will pave the way for pushing forward the limits ofcurrent state-of-the art silicon electro-optical modulators.III. Label-free detection in photonicLab-on-a-chipOne of the main candidates for the development of highlysensitive sensing devices able to perform a label-free detectionis photonic technology, and more specifically, integratedplanar photonic devices, which are envisaged as a highlypromising alternative for future lab-on-a-chip (LoC) devices.Using integrated planar photonic devices we have successfullydemonstrated label-free biosensing of protein, antibodies andeven single strand DNA, which will have application in manyfields such as medical diagnostics. Among the structures used8 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

for biosensing purposes in our institute, are ring resonators,photonic crystal waveguides, photonic crystal cavities, and 1Dperiodic structures. This covers most of the currently used integratedplanar photonic devices [4].IV. Microwave nanophotonicsMicrowave photonics systems and devices have been a researchfocus at NTC, and formerly at FRG, since the early 1990’s.NTC has pioneered research in areas such as optically beamformedantennas, microwave optical filters using chirped fibergratings, high dynamic range frequency up & down-conversionlinks for microwave signals employing optical modulators, dispersionmanagement of microwave fiber-optic links employingwideband chirped fiber gratings, and photonic ultra-broadband(>10 Gbit/s) multilevel electrical modulators/demodulators.The latter has been demonstrated in the laboratory up to16 QAM-40 Gbit/s bit rates [5]. Due to their high spectralefficiency these modems are attracting huge interest for bothpoint-to-point 4G wireless backhaul scenarios, as depicted infigure 4, as well as point-to-multipoint ultra-wideband indooraccess technologies.Recently, integration of key microwave photonic devicesby means of silicon nanophotonics has paved the way towardslarge microwave photonic systems integration at NTC.InnovationPromoting innovation has been pivotal at NTC since its beginning.A specific program for knowledge and technology transferto industries has been deployed. Many innovation supportcontracts have been developed with single companies as wellas industrial consortia at national and European dimension.Moreover, spin-off companies such as DAS Photonics and FibernovaSystems have been launched since 2005.SummaryNTC is a research institute at the Universidad Politecnica deValencia, Spain, with outstanding facilities for 6-inch siliconprocessing as well as very skilled engineers with over 20 yearsexperience in the Seminconductor Industry. A balanced approachcombining fundamental research with applied researchand innovation has been the main strategy since its foundationin 2003.References1. C. García-Meca, J. Hurtado, J. Martí, A. Martínez, W. Dicksonand A. V. Zayats, “Low-loss multilayered metamaterialexhibiting a negative index of refraction at visible wavelengths,”Physical Review Letters, 106, pp. 067402, 2011.2. A. Brimont, P. Sanchis and J. Martí, “Strong electro-opticalmodulation enhancement in a slow wave corrugated waveguide”,Opt. Express, vol. 17, pp. 9204–9211, 2009.3. A. Brimont, D. J. Thomson, P. Sanchis, J. Herrera, F.Y.Gardes, J. M. Fedeli, G. T. Reed, and J. Martí, “High speedsilicon electro-optical modulators enhanced via slow lightpropagation”, Optics Express, vol. 19, no. 21, pp. 20876–20885, 20114. J. García-Rupérez, V. Toccafondo, M. J. Bañuls, J. G. Castelló,A. Griol, S. Peransi-Llopis, and Á. Maquieira, “Label-freeantibody detection using band edge fringes in SOIplanar photonic crystal waveguides in the slow-light regime,”Optics Express, vol. 18, pp. 24276–24286, 2010.5. R. Sambaraju, D. Zibar, A. Caballero, J, Marti, J. B. Jensen,I. T. Monroy, “Up to 40 Gb/s Wireless Signal Generationand Demodulation in 75-110 GHz Band using PhotonicTechniques,” in IEEE International Topical Meetingon Microwave Photonics MWP’10, Montreal, Canada, Oct2010, PDP.“Nick” Cartoon Series by Christopher DoerrDecember 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 9

NewsIEEE Photonics Conference 2011 –A New Name, A New MomentumRoel BaetsWhat’s in a name? Once upon a time it was called LEOSAnnual Meeting, a strong brand engraved in the mindsof most Society members. Then, with the Society’s namehaving changed it became Photonics Society Annual Meeting– a mouthful. Now we have landed on IEEE PhotonicsConference or IPC for short.The 2011 IEEE Photonics Conference, held in Arlington,Virginia from October 9 to 13, has been a highlysuccessful meeting. Consider the statistics first. The Conferencewas attended by 592 participants – a record highsince quite a number of years. The program consisted of421 contributed papers and 148 invited papers. It is difficultto say why the number of participants was so high.Was it the high quality program built by the TechnicalProgram Committee? Was it the location of the venue inclose proximity of and good access to the Washington,D.C. downtown area? Was it the dedication and promotionby the Photonics Society staff? Probably it was a mixof all of that.But statistics do not tell everything. Much more importantis the feeling shared by many participants thatthere was a level of excitement at the conference, somethingvibrant. It started already on Sunday afternoon withthe GOLD session, the Careers in Research session and theEntrepreneurship session. The speakers of the latter twosessions did a splendid job in conveying what made thedifference for them in turning their passion for research orfor innovation into a successful career. And many of themtalked not only about the technical or scientific core of theirjob but just as much about the circumstantial factors, thepersonal network, the voluntary initiatives in their work,even the more personal and private factor. Things went almostout of hand when Leif Oxenløwe from the TechnicalUniversity of Denmark took out his guitar and started tosing a song as part of his talk in the Careers in Researchsession. Perhaps we should encourage him to publish thesong text. It was about getting a PhD in photonics… Youcan enjoy the performance at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohi-t2yCVH8In the scientific core of the conference there was a deviationfrom tradition by splitting the plenary session intwo parts and scheduling it in the afternoon of Mondayand Tuesday. Both sessions had a mix of excellent plenaryspeakers from various topical fields, from industry andacademia and from different regions. Dr. Makarand Chipalkatti- Chips - from Osram-Sylvania covered the evolutionsin the field of solid state lighting with emphasis onthe way ambient light can have a very strong impact onhow we humans function and feel. With proper lightingdesign, one may even be able to keep conference participantsawake if they suffer from jet lag! Prof. Andrea Ferrarifrom Cambridge University introduced the audienceinto the wonderful world of graphene. The scientific richnessand the diverse application potential of this new materialis really stunning. Dr. Peter Winzer of Alcatel-LucentBell Labs literally “entertained” the audience with allthe tricks the optical telecom players continue to inventto push ever more bits through a single fiber. Amongstothers he covered the rapid move into spatial multiplexingtechniques based on multimode or multi-core fibers.Dr. Akihiko Kasukawa of Furukawa Electric Co. took theaudience to the world of short reach interconnects in highperformance computing and datacenters with emphasison the revolution in power-efficient VCSELs for this field.Right after the plenary session on Tuesday a Panel Discussionwas held under the title “Photonics in 2025: someglimpses into the crystal ball” moderated by Prof. RodTucker (University of Melbourne) and David Plant (McGillUniversity). Several speakers discussed what they thoughtwould become “Moore’s law like” growth areas in the fieldof photonics. With beer and wine within reach, the discussionwent on and on and left everybody with a lot of foodfor thought.It is hardly possible to convey the highlights of theeight parallel sessions throughout the four days of the conferenceand we will not even try. Apart from the regularbroad range of topics covered by this conference, there werefive special symposia on Terabit Optical Ethernet, FlexibleLarge Area Photonics, Plasmonics in Detectors and Solar Cells,On-Chip Light Sources for Photonic Integrated Circuits in IndiumPhosphide and Silicon and Innovative Optical Microresonators.Very much noteworthy was definitely the post-deadlinesession. The quantity and quality of the submitted postdeadlinepapers was very high this year and given the availabletime slots only a relatively small fraction could beaccepted. But the resulting post-deadline session broughtsome exciting novel work to the audience.A special innovation at this year’s conference was thefact that a subset of plenary, invited and contributed presentationswas audio recorded including video display ofthe presentation materials. For those that did not attend,the recorded material is available on-line for a fee at the10 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

News (cont’d)conference website: http://www.photonicsconferences.org/PHOTONICS2011/index.php.While the IEEE Photonics Conference 2012 – to be heldfrom 23 to 27 September near San Francisco airport - mayseem far away, work has already started to make it as mucha success as the 2011 meeting. Some adjustments weremade in the subcommittee structure of the Technical ProgramCommittee so as to better reflect the evolutions inthe field. The subcommittees have meanwhile started theirwork in identifying Special Symposia and invited speakers.We very much welcome Prof. Susumu Noda of KyotoUniversity as the next Program Chair and wish him muchsuccess in his involvement in the conference during thenext three years.We look forward to meeting you in San Francisco next year!David Plant (McGill University), Program Chair 2011Dalma Novak (Pharad LLC), Member-at-Large 2011Roel Baets (Ghent University), General Chair 2011Book Review: Toward Entrepreneurship,by Milton ChangReviewed By Albert ManteriaToward Entrepreneurship: Establishing aSuccessful Technology BusinessBy Milton Chang:Self-published, 2011; $35.00ISBN 978-0-9835958-0-9The author immediately captures the reader’s attention byhis inspiring tale of his personal journey to become a livingexample of the American dream. He describes his earlylife in Hong Kong growing up in a shack without runningwater or electricity which leads to his conclusion that hardshipbuilds character. The foundation his family provided toshape his character provides the fundamental business ethicsthat he concisely expresses throughout the book.The author, a Past President of the IEEE Photonics Society,graduated from Caltech with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineeringand went on to become President and CEO of twosuccessful technology businesses. His breadth of experienceis generously shared with the audience and provides notonly a clear and succinct guide for starting a new businessbut also a resource that defines the basics of sound businessbehavior and ethics that are useful for any manager.I expected just another dry and laboriously boring “howto” business primer when I initially started reading the book.On the contrary, this book is a quick and interesting readthat grabs, keeps your attention and invites a second readingto filter the smart and practical information that the readermay find personally applicable. The author’s method of focusingattention on keyconcepts by highlightingand bold headings givesthe reader a concise summationof the strategies,techniques and theoriesthat were presented.I particularly enjoyedChang’s tips for recruitingand interviewing alongwith his philosophy inwhat I personally considerthe book’s most essentialchapter on Building anOrganization that Works.I suggest that buddingentrepreneur’s as well asmanagers at any level readthis book for the extremelypractical and proven guidelinesfor building a businessand keeping it successfulthrough core values, ethicalprinciples and soundbusiness concepts of mutualrespect for customers,employees and suppliers.December 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 11

News (cont’d)Call for Nominations reminder!IEEE Photonics Society 2012 DistinguishedLecturer AwardsThe deadline for submitting nominations for the DistinguishedLecturer Awards is February 16.A list of previous recipients, awards information andthe nomination form are available on the Photonics Societyweb site:http://www.photonicssociety.org/award-winnershttp://www.photonicssociety.org/award-infoThe Distinguished Lecturer Awards are presented tohonor excellent speakers who have made technical, industrialor entrepreneurial contributions of high quality to thefield of lasers and electro-optics, and to enhance the technicalprograms of the Photonics Society chapters. Considerationis given to having a well-balanced variety of speakers whocan address a wide range of topics of current interest in thefields covered by the Society. The term for the lecturers isJuly 1 of the year of election until June 30 of the followingyear. Candidates need not be members of the IEEE or thePhotonics Society.Call for NominationsIEEE Photonics Society 2012 AwardsNominations for Aron Kressel Award, EngineeringAchievement Award, Quantum Electronics Award,and the William Streifer Scientific AchievementAward are now being solicited for submission to the PhotonicsSociety Executive Office. The deadline for nominationsis April 5. Full nominations are required at the timeof submission, and include, the statement of contributions,curriculum vitae, and endorsers’ letters (which may be sentseparately).A list of previous recipients, awards information andthe nomination form are available on the Photonics Societyweb site:http://www.photonicssociety.org/award-winnershttp://www.photonicssociety.org/award-infoThe Aron Kressel Award is given to recognize thoseindividuals who have made important contributions toopto-electronic device technology. The device technologycited is to have had a significant impact on their applicationsin major practical systems. The intent is to recognizekey contributors to the field for developments of criticalcomponents, which lead to the development of systems enablingmajor new services or capabilities. These achievementsshould have been accomplished in a prior time framesufficient to permit evaluation of their lasting impact. Thework cited could have appeared in the form of publications,patents products, or simply general recognition by the professionalcommunity that the individual cited is the agreedupon originator of the advance upon which the award decisionis based. The award may be given to an individual orgroup, up to three in number. The award will be presentedat the IEEE Photonics Conference, formerly known as thePhotonics Society Annual Meeting.The Engineering Achievement Award is given torecognize an exceptional engineering contribution that hashad a significant impact on the development of lasers orelectro-optics technology or the commercial application oftechnology within the past ten years. It may be given to anindividual or a group for a single contribution of significantwork in the field. The intention is to recognize somesignificant engineering contribution which has resulted indevelopment of a new component, a new processing technique,or a new engineering concept which has had a significantimpact in either bringing a new technology to themarket, significantly improving the manufacturability of acomponent or device, or creating a new technology whichwill greatly accelerate or stimulate R&D. No candidateshall have previously received a major IEEE award for thesame work. Candidates need not be members of the IEEEor the Photonics Society. The award will be presented atthe IEEE Photonics Conference.The Quantum Electronics Award is given for exceptionaland outstanding technical contributions that havehad a major impact in the fields of quantum electronics andlasers and electro-optics. This award is given for truly excellentand time-tested work in any of the fields of interestof the Photonics Society. It may be given to an individual12 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

News (cont’d)or to a group for a single outstanding contribution or for along history of significant technical work in the field. Nocandidate shall have previously received a major IEEE awardfor the same work. Candidates need not be members of theIEEE or the Photonics Society. The award will be presentedat the IEEE Photonics Conference.The William Streifer Scientific Achievement Awardis given to recognize an exceptional single scientific contribution,which has had a significant impact in the field oflasers and electro-optics in the past ten years. The award isgiven for a relatively recent, single contribution, which hashad a major impact on the Photonics Society research community.It may be given to an individual or a group for asingle contribution of significant work in the field. No candidateshall have previously received a major IEEE awardfor the same work. Candidates need not be members of theIEEE or the Photonics Society. The award will be presentedat the IEEE Photonics Conference.I E E E P H O T O N I C STechnology LettersWhy Publish in IEEE PTL? Easy-to-Use Authors’ Tools Contact us:ptlstaff@ieee.orgNew issue published every 2 weeksRapid online posting within two weeksof acceptancePlus: ®About IEEE Xplore ® : IEEE PTL welcomes original advances related to state-ofthe-artcapabilities in the theory, design, fabrication, application,performance, packaging and reliability of: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ptl-ieeeDecember 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 13

Careers and AwardsEffective 2012, nomination deadlines for the IEEE Photonics SocietyAwards are listed as follows:AwardNomination deadlineDistinguished Lecturer Awards February 16Aron Kressel Award April 5Engineering Achievement Award April 5Quantum Electronics Award April 5William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award April 5Distinguished Service Award April 30Graduate Student Fellowship May 30John Tyndall Award August 10Young Investigator Award September 3014 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

Careers and Awards (cont’d)2012 John Tyndall Award recipient:John BowersThe John Tyndall Award is jointly sponsoredby the IEEE Photonics Society andthe Los Angeles Convention Center, Loswhich is taking place 4–8 March 2012, atthe Optical Society. The award is presentedannually to a single individual who hasJohn Bowers holds the Fred Ka-Angeles, CA USA.made outstanding contributions in anyvli Chair in Nanotechnology, and is thearea of optical-fiber technology, includingoptical fibers themselves, the opticalficiency, and a Professor in the Depart-Director of the Institute for Energy Ef-components used in fiber systems, as wellments of Electrical and Computer Engineeringand Materials at UCSB. Dr.as transmission systems and networks usingfibers. The contributions which theBowers received his M.S. and Ph.D.award recognizes should meet the test ofdegrees from Stanford University andtime and should be of proven benefit toworked for AT&T Bell Laboratoriesscience, technology, or society. The contributionsmay be experimental or theo-John Bowersta Barbara. Dr. Bowers is a member ofand Honeywell before joining UC Sanretical.The award Nominees need not bethe National Academy of Engineering,members of the sponsoring societies. Corning Inc. endorses a fellow of the IEEE, OSA and the American Physicalthe award which consists of a glass sculpture, a scroll, and Society, and a recipient of the OSA Holonyak Prize, thean honorarium.IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Award, and theThe John Tyndall Award will be presented to John South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of theBowers, “for pioneering research in hybrid-silicon lasers Year Award. He has published eight book chapters, 450and photonic integrated circuits.” The presentation will journal papers, 700 conference papers and has receivedbe made during the Plenary Session at OFC/NFOEC 2012 52 patents.December 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 15

Membership SectionIEEE Photonics Society 2011Chapter Award winnersThe IEEE Photonics Society announced the winners of the fivePhotonics Society Chapter Awards for 2011. The Chapterswere recognized during the Awards Reception at the 2011IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC) formerly known as the IEEEPhotonics Society Annual at the Marriott Crystal Gateway,Arlington, Virginia, USA on Monday, October 10th, 2011.The Chapter of the Year AwardHong Kong ChapterThe Largest Membership Increase AwardScotland ChapterThe Most Improved Chapter AwardScotland ChapterThe Most Innovative Chapter AwardUkraine ChapterThe Senior Member Initiative Chapter AwardPoland ChapterIEEE Photonics Society Chapter Ukraine:2011 Most Innovative Chapter AwardThe Innovations and ConferenceSeries in the UkraineThe IEEE Photonics Society Chapter Ukraine being establishedin 1998 considers organization of regular conferenceswith wide involvement of foreign participants asthe main mission. As our experience shows, these meetingsattract more attention of international scientific community.Initially, the topics and program of the meetingshave emerged from the works and interests of the scientificschools of Laboratory “Photonics” (Kharkov NationalUniversity of Radio Electronics) headed by Prof. Igor A.Sukhoivanov who is also founder of the laboratory and theIEEE Photonics Society Chapter Ukraine, and Departmentof Radiophysics (V. N. Karazin Kharkov NationalUniversity) whose research supervisor is Dr. VyacheslavA. Maslov. During the lifetime of the chapter we havesuccessfully organized 23 international conferences andworkshops.The activity of the chapters and single scientists arefaced with difficulties in conditions when, on the one hand,the budget programs of local chapters are retrenchingand, on the other hand, the society membership dues andregistration fees of most of conferences are increasing. Ofcourse, such a situation dictates necessity for search of new(a)(b)Figure 1. Two big buildings of V. N. Karazin National University. The right hand building in picture (a) is the conferencevenue; it is left hand building in picture (b). Address: Maidan (Square) Svobody 4, 61077, Kharkiv (Kharkov), Ukraine.16 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

Membership Section (cont’d)KharkovFigure 2. Location of the city of venue.solutions and improvements, and generation of innovationsin the chapter activity. The main improvement in 2010–2011 we see, is the fact that we have saved a number ofour chapter members. Particular attention has been paid toyoung scientists and students. This activity was recognizedby the IEEE Photonics Society through several awards, thenewest one is “Most Innovative Chapter 2011”.Ideas and innovationsThe main activity of our small chapter is directed to organizationand holding of our traditional conference seriesin the general area of optoelectronics and photonics. For12 years, the Photonics Society Chapter Ukraine has beenorganizing regular conferences with increasingly high levelsof attention from the international scientific community.Conferences have been successfully held since 1999in various cities in the Ukraine, as well as in Guanajuato,Mexico (2006) and Turunç-Marmaris, Turkey (2009). Forexample, in 2005 in Yalta we have held one of our mostprominent conferences on Advanced Optoelectronics andLasers (CAOL*2005) [1], where almost 300 contributionshave been presented. The central topic was materials anddevices employing photonic crystals. In that time, thistopic was in the focus of the Laboratory “Photonics” whatlater resulted in the book “Photonic Crystals: Physics andPractical Modeling” by Igor A. Sukhoivanov and Igor V.Guryev, published by Springer publisher within the series“Springer Series in Optical Sciences” [2]. In contrast, theNATO workshop TERA-MIR*2009 held on November3–6, 2009 in Turkey, consisted of a much smaller numberof participants. However, results were really great: we hadnot only workshop proceedings [3], but edited collectionof expanded contributions published by Springer publisher[4] as well. This success has been rated by the award “MostInnovative Chapter 2009”.In spite of small number of members, our chapter hassuccessfully settled all problems in 2010/2011, thanks toa new idea related to conference organization. The year2010 has marked the 50th anniversary of the creation ofthe world’s first laser. This anniversary was the center ofall of our activity. More significant innovation has beenrealized this year when we have organized the 5th CAOLconference and two satellite meetings, 10th InternationalConference on Laser and Fiber–Optical Network Modeling(LFNM*2010) and 2nd International Workshopon “THz Radiation: Basic Research and Applications”(TERA*2010) reported in [5]. Now CAOL has become arecognizable title and the conference attracts contributorsfrom many countries of Europe, North America, Australia,and Asia. In 2011, we have developed successful experienceof 2010 and have organized 1st International Workshop onNonlinear Photonics (NLP*2011) as a continuation of thespecial session on nonlinear photonics held in Sevastopol in2010 within CALO*2010. This new event has undoubtedlybecome the powerful stimulus for organizers as wellas for contributors, and has involved many interesting presentationsand new participants. Implementing the chaptermission, the next regular meeting 11th LFNM*2011was held in Kharkov, the first capital of the Ukraine, onSeptember 5–8, 2011. In addition to LFNM*2011 andNLP*2011, the third meeting has been organized in orderto increase the interest and circle of participants. It wasthe 3rd International Workshop “THz Radiation: BasicResearch and Applications” (TERA*2011), held on September4–5, 2011.The meetings’ venue needs a special note. The conferenceseries 2011 has been held in Kharkov, the famous scientificand cultural center of the Eastern Ukraine. Foundedin 1654, Kharkov is the second largest city in the Ukrainewith the population of about 2 million, located in theDecember 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 17

Membership Section (cont’d)(a)(b)Figure 3a. Views of Kharkov. Monument of Taras Shevchenko, famous Ukrainian poet, and on the right a part of SumskayaStreet. Figure 3b. Sovetskaya (Soviet) Square and a part of Sumskaya Street.North-East of the country, as shown in Fig. 2. Kharkovis the major cultural, scientific and educational, transportand industrial center of the Ukraine, with 60 scientificinstitutes, 30 institutes of higher education, 6 museums,7 theatres and 80 libraries. Kharkov has numerous hotelsand cultural objects, and is the host city for the UEFA footballchampionship EURO*2012. The big luck and successat the same time was the meetings venue that has becomeV. N. Karazin Kharkov National University (Fig.1). It isthe third oldest (since 1804) and highly reputed universityof natural sciences, in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) andalma mater and working place of such famous scientistssuch as Nobel Laureates Ilya Mechnikov (1908), Lev Landau(1962), world-famous mathematicians Mikhail Ostrogradskyand Alexander Lyapunov.Thanks to good weather in the beginning of September,the city excursion (Fig. 3), as well as excursion to the Slavyanogorskhave been organized in the frame of cultural program.The Slavyanogorsk is famous with its Svyatogorsk(lit. “Holy Mountains”) Monastery. Founded at the end ofthe XVII century, on the top of the Limestone Mountainsrising along the river, with centuries the monastery grewinto an effective ensemble of unique buildings (Fig. 4).We would like to thank the institutions and colleagueswho have contributed incredibly to the success of the event.Probably the most valuable contribution into local organizationwas made by our young colleagues from three studentchapters of three societies, the IEEE Photonics Society, theOptical Society of America, and the International Societyfor Optics and Photonics, established in Kharkov NationalUniversity of Radio Electronics. But the basis of the greatfinal result was the cooperation of three Ukrainian universities:V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, KharkovNational University of Radio Electronics, and TauridaNational V. I. Vernadsky University. The big and positiverole has been played by our colleagues from other organizationssuch as University of Guanajuato, Mexico, (CampusIrapuato-Salamanca); Institute of Physics, National Academyof Science of Ukraine, Kyiv; Nonlinear Physics Centre,Australian National University, Canberra, et al.The permanent organizers of all conferences are leadersof the Organizing and Program Committees, Igor A. Sukhoivanov(General Chair), Vyacheslav A. Maslov (Org. Com.Co-Chair), Igor V. Dzedolik (Org. Com. Co-Chair). Wewould like to make special mention of Igor A. Sukhaivanovas a founder of the IEEE Photonics Society Ukraine Chapterand regular editor of the conference proceedings for hisscientific contribution, permanent scientific search and organizingefforts. He is really the cement that strengthensour team. It is very pleasant that new people have joined asleaders; Mauro F. Pereira (Co-Chair of TERA*2011) fromSheffield Halam University, United Kingdom, and AntonDesyatnikov (Co-Chair of NLP*2011) from NonlinearPhysics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.18 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

Membership Section (cont’d)We hope it is just beginning ofour collaboration that will be furthersuccessfully developed. Localorganization and technical supportare kept by members (PhDsand PhD students) of Laboratory“Photonics” (Kharkov NationalUniversity of Radio Electronics)and members of RadiophysicsDepartment (V. N. KarazinKharkiv National University) andTaurida National V. I. VernadskyUniversity, who not only worked12 hours a day, but also made anumber of interesting high levelpresentations. This permanentwork that is not easy, but reallyinteresting has helped us to wina number of awards: Most ImprovedChapter (2003), Most InnovativeChapter in 2000, 2007,2009 and 2011.Figure 4. Views of Svyatogorsk Monastery (Holy Mountains Monastery).General results and main contributionsAs before, the 2011 meetings covered hot topics of laserphysics, photonics, nanotechnology and new materials,nonlinear optics and optical telecommunications includingtheoretical, experimental and technological aspects.In 2011, there were many invited speakers from industrialcountries who attended Kharkov in September, which isthe practical realization of our general concept and PHOchapter goal: Opening the possibility for wide contactsbetween scientists of the Ukraine and industrial countriesand especially support of young Ukrainian scientists. Thejoint technical program consisted of 92 oral and 51 posterpapers from about 23 countries on five continents. All ofthe papers presented during the 5 days are published inthe CDROM-conference proceedings and will be postedin IEEE Digital Library. The success of the conferencesis that 32 contributions have been presented by internationalgroups from 2 or even 4 countries. It indicates thedevelopment of international scientific collaboration andever more involvement of the Ukraine into internationalscientific cooperation. Extremely interesting reports werepresent by scientist affiliated with National Universityof Ireland (UK), Université Bordeaux (France), Universityof València (Spain), Moscow Engineering Physical Institute(Russia), University of Vigo (Spain), University Jena (Germany),Aston University (UK), Institute of Radio Astrono-Figure 5. Partial conference photo with key speakers, some invitees and some participants. The picture is taken in the front ofmain entrance of V. N. Karazin Kharkov National University. In the background, in the right part of the photo, one can seethe monument of the founder of the university, Vasyl Nazarovitch Karazin.December 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 19

Membership Section (cont’d)(a)(b)Figure 6. Key speakers: a) Silvano Donati (University of Pavia, Italy) talking about self-mixing interferometry; b) Jens Buus(Gayton Photonics Ltd, UK) giving a talk about tunable semiconductor lasers.my of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, SheffieldHallam University (UK), Taras Shevchenko University ofKiev (Ukraine), R&D Institute of Radiophysics and Electronicsof National Academy of Sciences Ukraine, R&DInsti tutes of Physics of Ukraine, Institute of SemiconductorPhysics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,University of Guanajuato (Mexico), M. V. Lomonosov MoscowState University (Russia), Ultrafast Optical ProcessingResearch Group at INRS-EMT in Montreal (Canada).Some of the participants are shown in Fig. 5 where partialconference photo is shown.Undoubtedly, contributions and presentations by invitedspeakers are always of high importance for the successfulconference. Extremely interesting presentations havebeen given by internationally known scientists. We wantto make special note of keynote speakers (Fig. 6) SilvanoDonati (University of Pavia, Italy) and Jens Buus (GaytonPhotonics Ltd, UK). Both of them are distinguished scientistsand have made big contributions in the developmentof laser physics and optoelectronics, especially in Europe.They have known our PHO chapter for a long time, andwe consider them as good friends, and we are always gladto see them at our events. Very interesting presentationswere made by invited speakers Yuriy Kivshar (NonlinearPhysics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra),Miguel V. Andrés (University of Valencia, Spain), AnatoliiM. Negriyko (Institute of Physics, National Academy of Scienceof Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine), Pedro Chamorro Posada (Universidadde Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain), and many others.The short abstracts of the talks may be found on the conferenceweb site, and extended contributions are posted inthe IEEE Digital Library.Technical program of the NLP workshop has becomea very successful part of the joint technical program. Beinga newly established event, the NLP workshop covers avariety of hot topics ranging from nonlinear metamaterialsto nonlinear effects in plasmonics and nano-optics. Thisyear, Prof. Marat Soskin, Corresponding Member of theNational Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine has joinedus with an invited contribution. Prof. Marat Soskin is oneof pioneers of Singular Optics. Thanks to his numerousfundamental works on this topic, the Singular Optics isoften called the Ukrainian Nonlinear Optics. We wouldlike to express our deep gratitude to all invited speakers fortheir contributions, presentations, interesting and usefulconversations, and interest to young Ukrainian scientists.We will be glad to invite them to our future conferences.The conferences LFNM/NLP/TERA*2011 have establishedthemselves as cutting edge meetings in the Ukrainein the field of photonics and laser physics, particularly fromthe viewpoint of the scope, international publicity and recognitionby leading international societies such as IEEEPhotonics Society, OSA and SPIE. One should note theuniqueness of these events for Ukraine from the viewpointof international participation (about 25% from the farabroad) and participation of young scientists (about 40%of the total number of participants). Now our conferenceseries is one of the main regular conferences on optics andlasers within the territory of the Commonwealth of IndependentStates.You are welcome to attend our meetings! The photo, aswell as all information about past and future conferences ofthis series, can be found on these sites:http:// lfnm.kture.kharkov.ua/http://tera.kture.kharkov.ua/http://caol.kture.kharkov.ua/Sergii I. PetrovCo-Chair of the Organizing CommitteeOleksiy V. ShulikaLFNM/TERA/NLP Coordinator20 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

Membership Section (cont’d)References1. I. A. Sukhoivanov, “Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers:IEEE/LEOS Conferences in Yalta,” LEOS Newsletter,vol. 20, No.1, Feb. 2006, pp. 39–40. Available:http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/feb06/leos0206.pdf2. I. A. Sukhoivanov, I. V. Guryev, Photonic Crystals: Physicsand Practical Modeling, Germany, Berlin-Heidelberg:Springer, 2009, 242 p. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02646-13. Proceedings of NATO Advanced Workshop TERA-MIR*2009, Turunç-Marmaris, Turkey, Nov. 3–6,2009, 98 p. Available: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/opac?punumber=10030644. Mauro F. Pereira, Oleksiy V. Shulika, Eds., Terahertz andMid Infrared Radiation: Generation, Detection and Applications(NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physicsand Biophysics), The Netherlands: Springer, 2011, 202p.Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0769-65. I. A. Sukhoivanov, O. V. Shulika, “Photonics in theUkraine: Laser and Photonics Meeting in Sevastopol,”IEEE Photonics Soc. News, vol. 24, No.6, Dec. 2010, pp.17–20. Available: http://photonicssociety.org/newsletters/dec10/Dec2010-Web.pdfIEEE Photonics Society Chapter Poland:2011 Senior Member Initiative Chapter AwardThe Poland Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society celebratesits tenth anniversary, as it was formed as the national Chapterof the Lasers & Electro-Optics Society, LEOS, on February7th 2001, following an initiative by Marian Marciniak.The main activity of the chapter is preparing for numerousconferences. The flag conference of Poland Chapter isthe International Conference on Transparent Optical Network,ICTON, technically co-sponsored by the PhotonicsSociety. The conference progresses very dynamically, andwhile starting with 68 technical presentations and 87 participantsfrom 17 countries only at the very first event inKielce, Poland in 1999, there were as many as 435 paperspresented at 77 technical sessions for/by 427 attendees from46 countries in six continents at ICTON 2011 in Stockholm,June 26–30. ICTON has thus become a truly globalevent, mainly owing to Photonics Society organizationaland volunteer support. ICTON proceedings are availablevia IEEE-Xplore digital library.ICTON International Scientific Committee is actingupon an Honorary Sponsorship by Professor Hans-GeorgUnger from Germany, with a valuable involvement of internationallyrecognized experts in photonics from all overthe world. The Executive Chairmanship is provided by theacting Chairman of Photonics Society Poland Chapter, currentlyProf. Elzbieta M. Beres-Pawlik.ICTON 2011 hosted the topical meetings of large internationalresearch projects active in the field of photonicsas: the 3rd Annual Conference of COST Action MP0702:Towards Functional Sub-Wavelength Photonic Structures,COST Action MP0805 Annual Workshop: Dilute III-VAlloy Semiconductors for Future Photonics (DILSEM-PHOTON), and Midterm Workshop of FP7 IntegratedProject OASE: Optical Access Seamless Evolution.The Chapter acknowledges the services of ICTON voluntaryorganizers and General Chairs: Krzysztof M. Abramski(Wroclaw, Poland, 2004), Josep Solé-Pareta (Barcelona, Spain,2005), Trevor M. Benson (Nottingham, UK, 2006), GiorgioM. Tosi Beleffi (Rome, Italy, 2007), Ioannis Tomkos (Athens,Greece, 2008), Antonio Teixeira (Ponta Delgada, Azores islands,Portugal, 2009), Norbert Hanik (Munich, Germany,2010), and Lena Wosinska (Stockholm, Sweden, 2011).ICTON 2012 is scheduled in Coventry, UK, for July2–5, and it is being announced at http://www.itl.waw.pl/icton. Professor Roger Green, from The University of Warwick,will serve as the General Chairman for ICTON 2012.In parallel, ICTON - Mediterranean Winter conferenceshave been organized in Mediterranean countries in 2007 (Tunisia,General Chair Noureddine Boudriga), in 2008 (Morocco,General Chairs Mohammed Addou and Mina Bakasse),and in 2009 (France, General Chair Bouchta Sahraoui). Theidea behind is to bring ICTON topics of interest to North Africancountries, and it has been originally proposed by RidhaRejeb (Germany) and Marian Marciniak (Poland Chapter).The Chapter organizes an annual International Conferenceon Semiconductor Mid-IR Materials and Optics SMMOstarting from 2007. SMMO 2010 was held October 21–23,2010, Warsaw, Poland, under a chairmanship by Prof. MauroPereira from Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and Prof.Maciej Bugajski, IEEE-PHO Poland Chapter Chair. TheSMMO conference provides a unique forum to discuss materialissues and topics important for the realization of semiconductoremitters and detectors as well as their applicationDecember 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 21

Membership Section (cont’d)Figure 1. ICTON 2011 participants during the reception at Stockholm City Hall - the venue of the Nobel Prize banquet.to production and environmental control,medical diagnostics and security, extendedrecently to terahertz frequency range.The Chapter contributed to organizeLEOS Winter Topical in Innsbruck, Austria,January 12–14, 2009. The topic of‘Nonlinear Dynamics in Photonic Systems’was organized and chaired by Marian Marciniakrepresenting LEOS Poland Chapterand Trevor M. Benson from the Universityof Nottingham, UK, both involved inCOST (European Cooperation in Scienceand Technology), Action MP0702: ‘TowardsFunctional Sub-Wavelength PhotonicStructures’. Following the success of the event, a FeatureSection on Nonlinear Dynamics in Photonic Systemsof the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics was publishedin November 2009 under the Guest Editorship of TrevorBenson and Marian Marciniak.In 2013, the Chapter will host the Information Photonicsconference which will be a continuation of successful eventseries. We will cooperate with the International Commissionfor Optics ICO which traditionally sponsors the InformationPhotonics conference. Information Photonics 2013 follows aninitiative by Pavel Cheben, the Chair of Information Photonics2011 in Ottawa, Canada, which was enthusiastically supportedby ICO President Prof. Maria Luisa Calvo. Poland Chaptervolunteers: Piotr Nyga, Elzbieta M Beres-Pawlik, TomaszSzoplik and Marian Marciniak have committed themselves toco-organize the Information Photonics 2013 in Warsaw.During last ten years, the Chapter had regular technicalmeetings, many of them accompanied by presentationsby eminent IEEE guests. We acknowledge the presentationsby Society Distinguished Lecturers, starting as earlyas 2001, with lectures by Kent Choquette (in NovemberFigure 2. Elzbieta Beres-Pawlik.2001), Hugo Thienpont (June 2002), DanMittleman (November 2002). After that,we have continued to receive LEOS DistinguishedLecturers and other internationallyrecognized photonics scientists.Numerous scientists, both internationaland from Poland, have been involved inthe organization of meetings and events.It provides the Chapter a valuable leadingposition in the frontier research in photonicsat the global scale.It is worth it to notice the PolandChapter received the Largest MembershipIncrease Award in 2007 and the SeniorMember Initiative Award in 2011.The following individuals have served as the Chairsof the Poland Chapter: Marian Marciniak (2001–2003),Krzysztof M. Abramski (2003–2005), Wlodek Nakwaski(2005–2007), Sergiusz Patela (2007–2009), and MaciejBugajski (2009–2011).Prof. Elzbieta Beres-Pawlik started her term as the PolandChapter Chair in July 2011. She represents ElectronicDepartment at Wroclaw University of Technology. Wroclawis an academic city, as there are eight different Universitiesthere providing education to approximately 150thousand students, with Wroclaw University of Technologybeing the largest one. There are over 30,000 studentsat that University, and the Electronic Department itselfcounts over 6,000 students.Prof. Elzbieta Beres-Pawlik obtained her Doctor of Sciencedegree in 2008. Her present research interests include:designing and building of fiber lasers with the use of specialactive fibers, medical applications as determining cancertissues based on autofluorescence pictures, and passiveoptical networks.22 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

Membership Section (cont’d)Benefits of IEEE Senior MembershipThere are many benefits to becoming an IEEE SeniorMember:• The professional recognition of your peers for technicaland professional excellence• An attractive fine wood and bronze engraved SeniorMember plaque to proudly display.• Up to $25 gift certificate toward one new Societymembership.• A letter of commendation to your employer on theachievement of Senior member grade (upon the requestof the newly elected Senior Member.)• Announcement of elevation in Section/Society and/orlocal newsletters, newspapers and notices.• Eligibility to hold executive IEEE volunteer positions.• Can serve as Reference for Senior Member applicants.• Invited to be on the panel to review Senior Memberapplications.The requirements to qualify for Senior Member elevationare a candidate shall be an engineer, scientist, educator,technical executive or originator in IEEE-designated fields.The candidate shall have been in professional practice forat least ten years and shall have shown significant performanceover a period of at least five of those years.”To apply, the Senior Member application form is availablein 3 formats: Online, downloadable, and electronic version.For more information or to apply for Senior Membership,please see the IEEE Senior Member Program website: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/md/smprogram.htmlNew Senior MembersThe following individuals were elevated to Senior Membership Grade thru September:Hilmi V. DemirFrederic GrillotKazuro KikuchiNaoto KishiWerner RosenkranzVincent J. UrickDecember 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 23

Conference Section2011 IEEE Photonics Society Awardsand RecognitionsJames Coleman, Photonics Society President, recognizedthe recipients of the 2011 IEEE Photonics Society awardsand several of our volunteers for their service to the Society.The awards were presented during the Awards Reception atthe IEEE Photonics Conference also known as the PhotonicsSociety Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia, USA.The William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award waspresented to Xi-Cheng Zhang, “for exceptional contributionof terahertz (THz) air photonics, especially in free-space coherentdetection of ultra-broadband THz waves.”The Distinguished Service Award was presented to SilvanoDonati, “for continuous and wide-ranging contributions tothe activity of the Society and for founding and developingthe Italian Chapter.”Alan Willner received the Engineering Achievement Award,“for technical advances in optical fiber communications technologiesthat have enabled significant improvements in theperformance and reliability of wavelength-division-multiplexedsystems.”IEEE Photonics Society Fellow plaque was presented toMark Itzler and Johann Reithmaier in recognition of theirachievement to IEEE Fellow grade.Ian H. White received the Aron Kressel Award, “for contributionsin the field of III-V photonic devices for data-communicationtransmission and routing applications.”Tetsuya Mizumoto and Sarath Gunapala completed theirterms as IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer.24 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

Conference Section (cont’d)Jerry Meyer recognized for his service to the IEEE PhotonicsSociety as Secretary Treasurer.Shun Lien Chuang , Ian White and Jeffrey Kash, completedtheir terms as elected members of the IEEE Photonics SocietyBoard of Governors.Filbert J. Bartoli was recognized for his service to the IEEEPhotonics Society as VP of Finance.James Coleman recognized Rodney S. Tucker for his serviceto the IEEE Photonics Society as VP of Publications.The Chapter of the Year award was presented to the Hong Kong Chapter. The Most Innovative Chapter was presented toUkraine Chapter, the Senior Member Initiative Award was presented to the Poland Chapter, and the Scotland Chapter wasawarded for the Most Improved Chapter and also the Largest Membership Increase Chapter.December 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 25

Conference Section (cont’d)The Best Student Paper Award recipients.The Graduate Student Fellowship recipients.The IEEE Photonics Society staff at the IEEE Photonics Conference in Arlington, Virginia, USA.26 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

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Conference Section (cont’d)2011IEEE Photonics SocietyCo–Sponsored EventsFOI December 3 – 4, 20112011 Functional Optical ImagingUniversity of Nottingham, NingboNingbo, Chinahttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ibios/index.php?page=foi11RIO December 6 – 9, 2011Fifth ‘Rio de la Plata’ Workshop on Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear PhotonicsHotel Radisson Colonia del SacramentoColonia del Sacramento, Uruguayhttp://www.fisica.edu.uy/~cris/workshop11.htm2012APOS January 31 – February 3, 20123rd Asia-Pacific Optical Fiber Sensors ConferenceWater’s Edge VenueSydney, NSW, Australiahttp://www.apos2012.org/OFC/NFOEC March 4 – 8, 20122012 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication / National Fiber Optic Engineers ConferenceLos Angeles Convention CenterLos Angeles, CAhttp://www.ofcnfoec.org/ETOP March 29 – 31, 2012Education and Training in Optics and PhotonicsRamada Hotel at GammarthTunis, Tunisiahttp://www.esprit-prepa.com/etop/SOPO May 21 – 23, 20122012 Symposium on Photonics and OptoelectronicsTBDShanghai, Chinahttp://www.sopoconf.org/2012/28 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

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Conference Section (cont’d)TECHNICAL CONFERENCE March 4–8, 2012EXPOSITION March 6–8, 2012LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTERLos Angeles, California, USAATTEND THE WORLD’SLEADING EVENT FORAdvancing OpticalSolutions in Telecom,Datacom, Computingand More!780+ PRESENTATIONS500+ EXHIBITS✓ Data center networking✓ Green networks✓ Spatial multiplexing✓ Coherent detection for highspectral efficiency✓ 100G and beyond✓ Wireline-wireless networking✓ High-speed photonic integration✓ And More!WWW.OFCNFOEC.ORG/GMREGISTER for a FREE Exhibits Pass plus, or Upgrade to aFull Conference Package by February 6 and Save UP to $115SCAN THISQR CODE TOVIEW VIDEOSPONSORED BYNON-FINANCIALTECHNICAL CO-SPONSOR30 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

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Conference Section (cont’d)IEEE PhotonicsSocietySubmission Deadline13 January 2012General Co-ChairsRaymond Beausoleil, HP Labs, USAJeffrey Kash, Columbia University, USAProgram Co-ChairsAshok Krishnamoorthy, Oracle, USADavid Miller, Stanford University, USAJohn Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, USAPre-Registration Deadline: 27 April 2012www.OI-IEEE.org32 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

Conference Section (cont’d)CALL FOR PAPERSPaper SubmissionDeadline:21 March 2012Pre-Registration Deadline:8 June 20129-11 JULYPhotonic Next Generation Communication Systemsand Novel DevicesTOPICS:Space Division Multiplexing for OpticalSystems and NetworksCo-Chairs:Lynn Nelson, AT&T, USAJohn Fini, OFS Laboratories, USADavid Richardson, University of Southampton, UKHigh Power Semiconductor LasersCo-Chairs:Gary Smith, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USAPaul Crump, Univ. of Ferdinand-Braun-Institut furHochstfrequenztechnik , GermanyActive NanoplasmonicsCo-Chairs:Stefan Maier, Imperial College London, UKAnatoly Zayats, King’s College London, UKOptical Wireless Systems and ApplicationsCo-Chairs:Gee-Kung Chang, Georgia Institute of Technology, USAMohsen Kavehrad, Pennsylvania State University, USARenaissance Seattle HotelSeattle, WashingtonUSASponsored byGENERAL CHAIR:Kent ChoquettePhotonics Society V.P.of Conferenceswww.PhotonicsConferences.orgDecember 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 33

Conference Section (cont’d)Optical MEMS &NanophotonicsConferenceCALL FOR PAPERS6-9AUGUST 2012THE BANFF CENTREBANFF, ALBERTACANADANanophotonics Program Chair:George BarbastathisMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USAOptical MEMS Program ChairYves-Alain PeterEcol e Polytechnique de Montreal, CanadaGeneral Chair:David DickensheetsMontana State University, USAThe 2012 International Conference on OpticalMEMS & Nanophotonics will bring togetherthe latest technical advancement in the field ofoptical micro and nano systems. Specifically, theconference features the growing fields at theintersection of optical micro-electro-mechanicalsystems and nanophotonic devices and systems.Integration and miniaturization of photonic andoptical MEMS components and systems towardsmicro- and nano-scale for various applicationswill be the main theme of the conference.PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE:23 APRIL 2012PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE:6 JULY 2012Sponsored bywww.MEMS-IEEE.org34 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

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Conference Section (cont’d)Forthcoming meetings with ICO participationICO, THE PLACE WHERE THE WORLD OF OPTICS MEETResponsibility for the correctness of the information on this page rests with ICO, the InternationalCommission for Optics; http://www.ico-optics.org/.President: M L Calvo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Óptica, Facultadde Ciencias Físicas, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, E 28040 Madrid, Spain; mlcalvo@fis.ucm.es.Associate Secretary: Prof. Gert von Bally, Centrum für Biomedizinische Optik und Photonik,Universitätsklinikum Münster, Robert-Koch-Straße 45, 48149 Münster, Germany; Ce.BOP@uni-muenster.de6–17 February 2012ICTP Winter College 2012“Winter College on Optics:Advances in Nano-Optics andPlasmonics”Trieste, ItalyContact: ICTP Secretariat, phone:+39-040-2240-9932; fax: +39-040-2240-7932; smr2132@ictp.ithttp://cdsagenda5.ictp.it/full_display.php?email=0&ida=a1115229–31 March 2012Education and Training in Opticsand Photonics (ETOP)Carthage, TunisiaChair: Zohra Ben LakhdarContact: Mourad Zghal, phone: +216-71856240, fax:+216-71856829mourad.zghal@supcom.rnu.tnwww.esprit-prepa.com/etop/31 March–3 April 20121st EOS Topical Meeting onPhotonics for SustainableDevelopment - Focus on the Mediterranean(PSDM 2011)Tunis, TunisiaContact: Julia Dalichow, phone: +49511 2788 155,fax: +49 511 2788 117dalichow@myeos.orgwww.myeos.org/events/psdm201110–13 April 2012VII International Workshop Tecnolaser,“TECNOLASER 2012”, andIII International Meeting Optics,Life & Heritage, under the generallemma “Optics and Laser Technologyin Science, Industry and Culture”La Habana, CubaContact: Justo Ravelo Triana, phone:(0537) 209 3920, fax: (0537) 202 1518tecnolaser@ceaden.edu.cuhttp://www.ceaden.cu/tecnolaser/index.asp14–17 May 20123rd Int. Topical Meeting on OpticalSensing and ArtificialVision (OSAV 2012)St. Petersburg, RussiaContact: Igor Gurov, phone: +7 (812)571-6532,fax: +7 (812) 315-7534,gurov@mail.ifmo.ruhttp://osav.spb.ru19–23 May 2012ICO Topical Meeting:6th International Conference onNanophotonics (ICNP 2012)Beijing, ChinaContact: Qihuang Gong,phone: (86)-10-62765884,fax: (86)-10-62756567qhgong@pku.edu.cn2–5 July 20128th International Conference onOptics-photonics Design andFabrication “ODF’12”St.-Petersburg, RussiaContact: M. Letunovskaya, phone:+7(812)457 18 87,fax: +7(812)457 18 87,odf12@gmail.comhttp://odf2012.ru/4–6 July 2012ICO Topical Meeting:12th Conference of the InternationalSociety on Optics Within LifeSciences “OWLS 12”Genoa, ItalyContact: Alberto Diaspro,phone: +39-010.71.781.503,fax: +39-010-72.03.21,alberto.diaspro@iit.ithttp://www.owls2012.org/2–5 November 20125th International Photonics andOptoelectronics Meetings(POEM 2012)Wuhan, ChinaContact: Xiaochun Xiao, QingmingLuo, phone: +86-27-87792227,87792223, fax: +86-27-87792224xiaoxc@mail.hust.edu.cn;qluo@mail.hust.edu.cn40 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

Publication SectionCall for PapersAnnouncing a Special Issue of theIEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology inAssociation with the 30th IEEE InternationalConference on Consumer Electronics(ICCE 2012)Display Technologies for ConsumerElectronicsDeadline for Full Manuscripts – 15th January 2012Submissions are invited of 2-page extended abstracts forpresentation at ICCE 2011, to be followed by full manuscriptsand subsequent publication in a special issue of theJournal of Display Technology. Submissions are open onany topic which is relevant to modern Consumer Electronic(CE) devices, systems or services but the focus should be onthe display technology and its relevance or significance forCE. Topics for which submissions are particularly welcomeinclude 3D and immersive display technology; low powerand energy efficient displays; eBook and micro-projectordisplays; improvements in current display technologies;novel and emerging technologies which are relevant fornext-generation CE products.Extended abstracts – 2 pages in IEEE format - may be submittedup to the 15th August for presentation in a number ofspecial sessions at ICCE 2011 to be held immediately after JanCES in Las Vegas. ICCE is where key technologies, services,devices and architectures for consumer entertainment and informationdelivery are first presented. Full papers based on acceptedabstracts – up to 12 pages IEEE format - may also besubmitted by mid-January and will be considered for publicationin a special issue of the JDT later in 2011. Guest Editorsfor this issue are Rainer Zwing of C.R.S. iiMotion and Dr PeterCorcoran of the National University of Ireland Galway.All submissions will be reviewed in accordance with thenormal procedures of the Journal and ICCE 2012. Twopage conference digest papers will be published in theProceedings of ICCE 2012 and full manuscripts should besubmitted by 15th January 2012. Manuscripts which arenot submitted to ICCE may be considered for publicationin this special issue, but preference will be given to manuscriptswhich are initially presented at the conference.The IEEE Copyright Form should be submitted after acceptance.For ICCE digest papers submission details canbe found on http://www.icce.org. For full manuscripts theform will appear online in the Author Center in ManuscriptCentral after an acceptance decision has been rendered.For all papers published in JDT, there are voluntary pagecharges of $110.00 per page for each page up to eightpages. Invited papers can be twelve pages in length beforeoverlength page charges of $220.00 per page are levied.The length of each paper is estimated when it is received.Authors of papers that appear to be overlength are notifiedand given the option to shorten the paper. Authorsmay opt to have figures displayed in color on IEEE Xploreat no extra cost, even if they are printed in black andwhite in the hardcopy edition. Additional charges willapply if figures appear in color in the hardcopy edition ofthe Journal.Extended abstracts should first be submitted to http://www.icce.org by 15th August 2011. Following acceptance fullmanuscripts should be submitted electronically throughIEEE’s Manuscript Central: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jdt-ieee. Be sure to select “2012 Display Technologiesfor Consumer Electronics” as the Manuscript Type, ratherthan “Original Paper.” This will ensure that your paper isdirected to the special issue editors. IEEE Tools for Authorsare available online at: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/transactions/information.htmInquiries can be directed to Lisa Jess, Publications Coordinator,IEEE Photonics Society Editorial Office, l.jess@ieee.org (phone +1-732-465-6617; fax +1 732 981 1138).December 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 41

Publication Section (cont’d)Call for PapersAnnouncing an Issue of the IEEEJOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS INQUANTUM ELECTRONICS on Quantum& Nanoscale PhotonicsExtended Submission Deadline: January 1, 2012The nanophotonic structures (both dielectric and plasmonic)offer the opportunity to manipulate light on a chip, and tolocalize it into optical volumes below sub-cubic wavelength,thereby increasing local field intensities, and subsequentlyincreasing the strength of light-matter interaction. This inturn can be used to reduce thresholds for effects includinglasing and nonlinear frequency conversion. Moreover, sucha nanophotonic platform can be combined with quantumemitters (atoms, quantum dots, nitrogen vacancy centers indiamond, etc), which makes it interesting both as a test-bedfor quantum optics experiments, as well as a route to buildefficient devices for optical interconnects, quantum informationprocessing and sensitive metrology. A similar platformcan be employed to control mechanical modes of the system(in addition to optical modes), which leads to an interestingenvironment for studying of nano-optomechanics. Thepurpose of this issue of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics inQuantum Electronics is to highlight the recent progress andtrends in developing of novel nano- and quantum photonictechnologies. We invite manuscript submissions in the broadtechnical areas which include (but are not limited to):• Quantum optics and quantum information processingbased on nanophotonics platform– Novel nanophotonic structures for cavity QED withquantum dots, NV centers in diamond, atoms, etc– Nanophotonic quantum gates and quantum informationprocessing circuits– Nanophotonic interfaces for quantum informationprocessing• Efficient devices for optical interconnects and optical informationprocessing based on novel nanophotonic structures– Optical switching at a few photon level– Electro-optic modulators based on a single quantumemitters• Combining nanophotonics and opto-mechanics platforms– Phononic crystals– Phonon lasers– Micro- and nanocavity optomechanics• Novel nanophotonic light sources– Single photon sources and other nonclassical light sources– Lasers based on single quantum emitters– Ultra-low threshold nanolasers• Novel sensors based on single quantum emitters andnanophotonic structures– Magnetic and electric field sensors– Bio-sensors and single molecules sensorsThe Guest Editors for this issue are Jelena Vuckovic, StanfordUniversity, USA; Oliver Benson, Humboldt University,Berlin, Germany; Jeremy O’Brien, Bristol University,U.K.; and Marko Loncar, Harvard University, USA.The deadline for submission of manuscripts is January 1,2012; publication is scheduled for Nov/Dec of 2012.*Please note: Accepted papers will be rapid posted onlinein IEEE Xplore ideally within six weeks after author has uploadedhis/her final files, pending no page proof corrections.Online Submission is Mandatory at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pho-ieee. Please select the Journal of Selected Topics ofQuantum Electronics Journal from the drop down menu. Contributedpapers should be up to eight pages in length, and invitedup to 12 pages. Beyond that, a charge of $220 per pageapply. All submissions will be reviewed in accordance with thenormal procedures of the Journal.For inquiries for this Special Issue, please contact:JSTQE Editorial Office – Chin Tan LutzIEEE – Photonics Society, 445 Hoes LanePiscataway, NJ 08854, U.S.A.Phone: 732-465-5813, Email: c.tanlutz@ieee.orgThe following supporting documents are requiredduring manuscript submission:1) A PDF or an MS Word formatted manuscript (doublecolumned, 12 pages for an Invited Paper, 8 pages for aContributed Paper.) Bios of ALL authors are Mandatory,photos are optional. You may find the Tools forAuthors link useful: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html*Figures shouldbe placed in a print ready position, and not after thereferences or BIOS as mentioned in the link above.2) Completed Color Agreement/ Color Decline form.If your paper is accepted, you may have it in color,online in our IEEE Explore site for free. However, ifyou wish for color in print, please check of the appropriateAgree/decline box. If you wish to decline Colorin Print, check off the appropriate Decline box, signand date. (Email c.tanlutz@ieee.org for this form.)3) MS Word formatted list of ALL Authors FULLContact information as stated below:Last name (Family name): /First name:/ Suffix (Dr/Prof./Ms./Mr):/Affiliation:/ Dept:/ Address:/ Telephone:/Fax:/Email:/AlternativeEmail:42 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER December 2011

Publication Section (cont’d)Call for PapersAnnouncing an Issue of the IEEEJOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUMELECTRONICS on Current Trends inTerahertz Photonics and ApplicationsSubmission Deadline: April 1, 2012Terahertz photonics and applications have been rapidlyadvanced, especially within the last two decades. IEEEJournal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronicsinvites manuscript submissions in the area of terahertzphotonics and applications, emphasizing the currenttrends. The goal of this issue is to highlight the currenttrends in fundamental understanding of terahertz photonicsand developing novel terahertz applications. Broadtechnical areas include (but are not limited to):• Advances in sources such as quantum cascade lasers,parametric frequency converters, and those based onnovel schemes• Progress in detections including novel schemes• Advances in time-domain systems• Applications in spectroscopy, sensing, and imagingincluding physical and life sciences• Components such as filters and mirrors, waveguides, Ycouplers, and novel functionalities• Advances in communications including theories, demonstrations,and systems• Promising new materials such as ferroelectrics, superconductors,and nanostructures including growth,characterization, devices, and applications• Novel phenomena and devices based on metamaterials,surface plasmons, polaritons, phonons, photoniccrystals, near-field effects, and nonlinearities• Novel applications• Novel measurement techniques and instrumentationsincluding imagingThe Guest Editors for this issue are Yujie J. Ding, LehighUniversity, USA; Hiromasa Ito, RIKEN, Japan; PeterUhd Jepsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark;Weili Zhang, Oklahoma State University, USA.The deadline for submission of manuscripts is April 1,2012; preprints of accepted manuscripts will beposted in the IEEE Xplore website within 2 weeksafter authors have correctly uploaded their final filesin the Scholar One Manuscripts “Awaiting Final Files”queue. Final page proofs of accepted papers will beposted online in IEEE Xplore ideally within 6 weeksafter the author has uploaded their Final Files, ifthere are no page proof corrections. Hardcopy publicationof the assembled Issue is scheduled for January/February of 2013.Online Submission is Mandatory at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pho-ieee. Please select the Journal of SelectedTopics of Quantum Electronics Journal from the dropdown menu. Contributed papers should be up to eightpages in length, and invited up to 12 pages. Beyond that,a charge of $220 per page applies. All submissions will bereviewed in accordance with the normal procedures of theJournal.For inquiries for this Special Issue, please contact:JSTQE Editorial Office – Chin Tan LutzIEEE/Photonics Society, 445 Hoes Lane,Piscataway, NJ 08854, U.S.A.Phone: 732-465-5813, Email: c.tanlutz@ieee.orgThe following supporting documents are requiredduring manuscript submission:1) PDF or MS Word manuscript (double columned,12 pages for an Invited Paper, 8 pages for a Contributedpaper.) Manuscripts over the standardpage limit will have an Overlength charge of$220.00 imposed per page. Bios of ALL authorsare mandatory, photos are optional. You may findthe Tools for Authors link useful: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html2) Completed Color Agreement/decline form. Pleaseemail c.tanlutz@ieee.org to request for this form.3) MS Word document list of ALL Authors FULLContact information as stated below: Last name(Family name): /First name: Suffix (Dr/Prof./Ms./Mr):/Affiliation:/Dept:/Address:/Telephone:/ Fax:/Email:/ Alternative Email:December 2011 IEEE PHOTONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 43

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