Optical Fiber & Planar Waveguide Technology

Dynamic Localization in Curved AlGaAs Waveguide Arrays
J. Stewart Aitchison, University of Toronto, Canada

Applications of Fiber Devices to Ultrashort Pulses
Lars Grüner-Nielsen, OFS Fitel Denmark, Denmark

Femtosecond Laser Written Waveguides and Gratings
Peter R. Herman, University of Toronto, Canada

Recent Advances in Silica PLCs
Yasuyuki Inoue, NTT Corporation, Japan

Strong-Confinement Microring Resonator Photonic Circuits
Milos A. Popovic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering based Slow Light in Fiber
David J. Richardson, University of Southampton, UK

Planar Waveguide Optofuidics for Single Molecule Analysis
Holger Schmidt, University of California - Santa Cruz, USA