The LEOS Awards Committee has selected four individuals to be LEOS Distinguished Lecturers during 1999-2000, and has extended the terms of Jens Buus and Xi-Cheng Zhang for one year. The six will be available to present talks at LEOS Chapters, with LEOS providing travel support. Arrangements are made directly by the Chapter with the Lecturer. This year’s Lecturers are:
Jens Buus
Gayton Photonics Ltd.
6 Baker Street
Gayton, Northants NN7 3EZ
England
Tel: +44 1604 859253
Fax: +44 1604 859256
Email: buus@compuserve.com
Title of talk: Semiconductor Lasers for WDM Systems
Richard De La Rue
Optoelectronics Research Group
Dept. of Electronics &
Electrical Eng.
Univ. of Glasgow,
Glasgow Scotland UK
Tel: +44 141 330 4993
Fax: +44 141 330 6002
Email: r.delarue@elec.gla.ac.uk
Title of talk: Photonic Crystals and Photonic Microstructures
Luke Mawst
Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1415 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1691
Tel: (608) 263-1705
Fax: (608) 265-4623
Email: mawst@engr.wisc.edu
Title of talk: High-Power Aluminum-Free Semiconductor Diode Lasers
Klaus Petermann
TU Berlin
Fachgebiet Hochfrequenztechnik
Einsteinufer 25
10587 Berlin Germany
Tel: +49-30-314-23346
Fax: +49-30-314-24626
Email: Petermann@TU-Berlin.DE
Title of talk: Noise and Feedback Phenomena in Laser Diodes
Alan E. Willner
Univ. of Southern California
Dept. of EE-Systems
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565
Tel: (213) 740-4664
Fax: (213) 740-8729
Email: willner@solar.usc.edu
Title of talk: Reconfigurable Multiple-Wavelength Optical Systems and Networks
Xi-Cheng Zhang
Physics Dept.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
Tel: 518-276-3079
Fax: 518-276-6680
Email: zhanagx2@rpi.edu
Title of talk: Free Space THz Optoelectronics