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February 2008Vol. 22, No. 1www.i-LEOS.org IEEE

THE SOCIETY FOR PHOTONICS

NEWS

Celebrating 25 Years of

the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave

Technology

Celebrating 25 Years of

the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave

Technology

Photonic CAD MaturesPhotonic CAD Matures

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February 2008 IEEE LEOS NEWSLETTER 1

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THE SOCIETY FOR PHOTONICS

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A photonic crystals laser oscillating in a“Littrow” mode; simulated usingCrystalWave’s active FDTD algorithmwhich couples the light to the electronpopulation of the laser’s active region. February 2008 Volume 22, Number 1

COLUMNS

Editor’s Column . . . . . . . . . . 2 President’s Column . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16• Announcing the 2008 IEEE LEOS Fellows• Call for Nominations:

- IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award- IEEE/LEOS Engineering Achievement Award- IEEE/LEOS Aron Kressel Award- IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Service Award

• Nomination Forms

Careers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21• 2008 John Tyndall Award Recipient: Robert Tkach• 2007 IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellows• LEOS 2007 Best Student Paper Award Recipients• IEEE Photonics Award Recipient: Joe C. Campbell• Newly Elected Members to the BoG: Janet Jackel, Ton Koonen,

Jerry Meyer, and Peter Winzer

Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32• Benefits of IEEE Senior Membership• New Senior Members• Chapter Highlight: IEEE/LEOS Poland Chapter – 2007 Largest

Membership Increase Award• Fellow Program Presentation – IEEE Conferences / Meetings

Conferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37• 19th Annual Workshop on Interconnections Within High Speed

Digital Systems• LEOS Annual 2008 – Paper Submission

Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39• Call for Papers:

- IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology for Flexible Electronicsand Display (JDT)

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FEATURES

Special Feature: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4“Celebrating 25 Years of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology,” by Alan Willner and Connie Chang-Hasnain

Industry Feature Highlights: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8“Photonic CAD Matures,”by Dominic Gallagher, Photon Design

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Welcome to the first LEOS Newsletter of 2008! The startof a new year often brings exciting changes, and this yearis no exception. Firstly, LEOS welcomes Dr. John Marshas new LEOS President. Dr. Marsh has a unique back-ground of experience in academia and industry, and willcertainly bring new ideas to help LEOS grow. Next, asProf. Amr Helmy becomes LEOS Vice-President forMembership this year, we welcome Prof. Lawrence Chenof McGill University as the new Associate Editor forCanada. Prof. Chen has been active in LEOS activities foryears, and is a welcome addition to the Editors team,joining Prof. Kevin Williams of the Technical UniversityEindhoven and Prof. Hon Tsang of the ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong.

This month, we commemorate 25 years of the Journalof Lightwave Technology with a special feature article.Professors Alan Willner of the University of SouthernCalifornia and Connie Chang-Hasnain of the University ofCalifornia Berkeley, past and president Editors-in-Chiefrespectively, have written a nice retrospective on this out-standing journal. We also present a feature article byDominic Gallagher of Photon Design Incorporateddescribing algorithms used in photonics modeling.Software tools are increasingly used in photonics develop-ment, and this article provides a nice overview of the tech-niques used in photonics design packages.

In Membership News, the Polish chapter receivedthe award for the largest membership increase in2007, and its activities are nicely outlined in an arti-cle by Prof. Wlodzimierz Nakwaski of the TechnicalUniversity of Lódz

As always, please feel free to send any comments andsuggestions to [email protected]. I would love tohear what you would like to see in the Newsletter this year.I wish everyone a happy and prosperous 2008!

Krishnan Parameswaran

Editor’sColumnKRISHNAN PARAMESWARAN

PresidentJohn H. MarshIntense Photonics, Ltd.4 Stanley BoulevardHamilton International Tech ParkHigh Blantyre G72 0UX Scotland, UKTel: +44 1698 827 000Fax: +44 1698 827 262Email: [email protected]

Secretary-TreasurerFilbert BartoliLehigh University19 West Memorial DrivePackard Lab 302Bethlehem, PA 18015Tel: +1 610 758 4069Fax: +1 610 758 6279Email: [email protected];[email protected]

Past-PresidentAlan WillnerUniversity of Southern CaliforniaDept. of EE-Systems/ Rm EEB 538Los Angeles, CA 90089-2565Tel: +1 213 740 4664Fax: +1 213 740 8729Email: [email protected]

Executive DirectorRichard LinkeIEEE/LEOS445 Hoes LanePiscataway, NJ 08855-1331Tel: +1 732 562 3891Fax: +1 732 562 8434Email: [email protected]

Board of GovernorsM. Amann H. KuwaharaK. Choquette C. MenoniC. Gmachl J. MeyerK. Hotate D. PlantJ. Jackel A. SeedsT. Koonen P. Winzer

Vice PresidentsConferences – E. GolovchenkoFinance & Administration – S. NewtonMembership & Regional Activities

- A. HelmyPublications – C. MenoniTechnical Affairs – A. Seeds

Newsletter Staff

Executive EditorKrishnan R. Parameswaran Physical Sciences Inc.20 New England Business CenterAndover, MA 01810Tel: +1 978 738 8187Email: [email protected]

Associate Editor of Asia & PacificHon TsangDept. of Electronic EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong KongShatin, Hong KongTel: +852 260 98254Fax: +852 260 35558Email: [email protected]

Associate 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: [email protected]

Associate Editor of Europe/MidEast/AfricaKevin A. WilliamsEindhoven University of TechnologyInter-University Research Institute COBRA on Communication TechnologyDepartment of Electrical EngineeringPO Box 5135600 MB Eindhoven, The NetherlandsEmail: [email protected]

Staff EditorGiselle BlandinIEEE/LEOS445 Hoes LanePiscataway, NJ 08855-1331Tel: +1 732 981 3405Fax: +1 732 562 8434Email: [email protected]

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President’sColumnJOHN H. MARSH

I would like to start by wishing you all a happy New Year. As Iwrite this column, 2008 is about to begin – a new year and a newLEOS President. However, as a result of relatively recent changesto the way LEOS operates, the President is now appointed everysecond year; in fact I am the third President to be appointed fora two-year term. Such changes are part of the ongoing develop-ment of a vibrant society, and in 2008 the LEOS vision and strat-egy will be coming under detailed examination and more changeis expected, with some already underway.

LEOS Vision and StrategyOver the last two years, the Long Range Planning Committee,led by Scott Hinton, has developed a quite detailed strategyfor LEOS. However, there are now only two meetings a year ofthe Board of Governors, and therefore of Long RangePlanning, and it was clear that more time was needed for thismost fundamental activity. A series of annual StrategicPlanning Retreats has therefore been initiated as part of thelong range planning process and these are intended to developstrategy across the Society, identifying common themesbetween publications, technical committees, membership,finance and conferences. The first of these one day StrategicPlanning Retreats was held in August andI believe its conclusions are worth sharing.

At the August meeting it was agreedthat the vision for LEOS is to be a pre-emi-nent global photonics society. Above all, itwas recognized that LEOS is a community– a vital, active, international communityof photonics engineers and scientists. Asuccessful LEOS will have a visible andmeasurable effect on their careers andendeavors and individuals will recognizethat there are significant benefits frombeing a LEOS member.

There are three ways LEOS involvesand builds this community: • Firstly, LEOS is a forum, where critical

and fundamental advances in the fieldare shared and nurtured. The LEOSforum takes many forms, the more obvi-ous being conferences and publications.The less obvious are no less importantand include Chapters, careers meetings,tutorials, short courses, this Newsletter,and the web portal. Involvement comesfrom reading, referencing, and writingarticles for journals, attending meetingsof all types, serving as committee mem-bers, editors or referees, but alsothrough informal interactions – ranging

from offering career or technical advice and mentoring tobuilding inter-institution and international projects. I havefound these informal interactions are usually initiated at faceto face meetings, such as conferences, workshops or chaptermeetings, and are of immense value.

• Secondly, LEOS activities are perceived to be of high quali-ty. Engineers everywhere around the world choose to attendLEOS conferences and publish in our journals because oftheir high quality, visibility, prestige, and peer perception.This high quality does not come easily – it is the result ofhard and focused work by all of the LEOS community anddepends as much on individuals submitting their best workto LEOS conferences and journals as on the willingness ofvolunteers to serve the Society in formal positions.

• Thirdly, LEOS has to be an influential advocate of photonicsby articulating its value and contributions to the technicalcommunity and the general public. As photonics becomesmore pervasive in all kinds of applications and products, one ofthe most immediate ways in which LEOS can promote pho-tonics is by working with other IEEE societies. LEOS already

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“If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If youwant to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.” Anon.

As of the December 2007 publication issue, the IEEE/OSAJournal of Lightwave Technology celebrated its 25th anniversary.We, as a past and present Editor-in-Chief, heartily congratulate allof JLT’s authors, readers, editors, and reviewers on this milestoneachievement!!

The journal has thrived over the past 25 years and has producedsome of the most seminal contributions in lightwave technology.Many key scholarly articles can be found in individual manuscriptsas well as in targeted Special Issues. Moreover, the topics treated inJLT have continually evolved over time to be at the very forefrontof our field. It is not surprising that JLT is consistently ranked nearthe top of all electrical engineering and optics journals in terms ofits impact on readership.

Dating back to 1983, JLT has enjoyed the insightful leadershipof some extremely distinguished individuals, namely TomGiallorenzi (Editor-in-Chief ‘83-’88), Don Keck (Editor-in-Chief‘89-’94), and Rod Alferness (Editor-in-Chief ‘95-’00). [Please readthe inset boxes of their personal perspectives.] We have all strived tomaintain the extremely high standards of quality that are the cor-nerstone of our community. We have grown dramatically over theyears and now publish ~5,000 pages annually. Additionally, we arehighly international, with approximately 75% of the manuscriptsubmissions and 66% of the Editors originating from countriesoutside the U.S.

We are a “big tent” in terms of diverse topics, constituents, andgeography, and our journal occupies a unique position among thetechnical societies. It was recognized from the beginning that light-

wave technology is a multidisciplinary field. Therefore, through theefforts of many wise individuals such as Henry Kressel, the journalwas formed by a collection of seven IEEE technical societies (AES:Aerospace and Electronic Systems, ComSoc: Communications Society,ED: Electron Devices, IM: Instrumentation and Measurements, LEOS:Laser and Electro-Optics Society, MTT: Microwave Theory andTechniques, and UFFC: Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and FrequencyControl) and the Optical Society of America (OSA). This coopera-tion/collaboration is a tremendous asset in terms of capturingemerging topics as well as directing effort wherever it brings themost value to the readers.

JLT is governed by Coordinating and Steering Committees that:(i) have representation from each of the sponsoring societies, and (ii)meet regularly to discuss strategic and budgetary matters. Thecommittee members are leading figures that take their profession-al responsibility quite seriously, and the current Chair of both com-mittees is John Lee, a master at predicting page budgets (see insetbox). Primary publishing of JLT is expertly handled by the IEEELEOS publications staff, and we extend our deepest appreciation toDouglas Hargis and Linda Matarazzo for their tireless efforts andgood cheer!

In addition to the 12 regular monthly publication issues, weannually produce several special issues. These are compactarchival resources of high-quality technical information on a spe-cific subject and enable the journal to more readily expand intoemerging technologies. special issues help plant us as a valuableresource in new areas as well as cement our leadership in our corestrengths. It should be emphasized that the scope of JLT is quitebroad, and we are uniquely situated to sponsor multi-discipli-

nary Special Issues that cover technologies related to anyof our eight sponsoring societies. An added bonus is thatwe publish an annual Special Issue on the Conference onOptical Fiber Communications (OFC), which is the pre-mier meeting in its field and is also co-sponsored by theIEEE and the OSA. In this Special Issue, Tutorial andPost-Deadline Papers are highlighted.

We want to call your attention to the upcomingSpecial Issue on the 25th Anniversary of JLT that willappear in mid-2008. The papers are historical perspec-tives concerning various technologies that have hadgreat impact, and the list of authors is a veritable “Who’sWho” from our community. Topics will include: fiberand waveguide design, LEDs and lasers, integratedoptics, receivers, nonlinearities, communication systems,networks, measurements, sensors, and microwave pho-tonics. It is quite exciting to imagine the dramaticimpact of JLT that will be chronicled in the 50thAnniversary Special Issue!

If you haven’t been a participant in JLT, come joinus. If you have been involved, “three cheers for us!”

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“Celebrating 25 Years of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology”Alan Willner (USC) and Connie Chang-Hasnain (UC Berkeley)

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Thomas G. Giallorenzi, Editor-in-Chief (1983-1988)

By the early ‘80’s, it had become obvious that optical guided-wave technology was becoming firmly entrenched and that it was starting to establish itself in

the commercial world. The IEEE examined whether a journal dedicated to this technology was warranted by publishing several special issues in the Journal

of Quantum Electronics. The success of these special issues confirmed that the membership within multiple IEEE societies as well as the OSA could easily

sustain such a journal. Since several societies came to this conclusion at the same time, instead of competing, they decided on a cooperative approach by pub-

lishing a joint journal with seven IEEE societies and the OSA as co-sponsors. The cooperative nature for sponsoring JLT fostered the sharing of critical tech-

nical data that led to rapid advances in the field. The interdisciplinary makeup of the sponsoring societies also contributed to the journal’s offering a complete

picture of important advances and was a unique characteristic the journal brought to scientific publishing at the time.

As it was my pleasure to serve as the first editor of JLT, I can attest to the hard work many volunteers contributed to making the Journal a success. Henry Kressel led the way

in establishing the journal as well as building consensus to the concept of a cooperative journal. The JLT Steering Committee representing all the sponsoring societies proactively

labored to make the journal the premier source of lightwave technology information. There are numerous associated editors and IEEE staff who also made important contributions.

After 25 years of publication, all associated with JLT can be proud of these accomplishments and our contributions to spreading guided-wave knowledge.

Rodney C. Alferness, Editor-in-Chief (1995-2000)

I feel extremely fortunate that the years of my tenure as editor were extremely exciting and productive times for lightwave communications and for our jour-

nal. The earlier breakthrough of the practical optical fiber amplifier had opened up the field of WDM transmission systems, and, driven by a growing demand

for bandwidth, commercial systems were being deployed. Furthermore, research teams around the world leveraged this new technology to achieve single

fiber transmission capacities exceeding 1 Terabit/sec over long, unregenerated distances.

The reality of optical transmission systems encouraged researchers to consider the feasibility and value proposition of wavelength-routed networks and their

enabling switching elements. Given that these networks required the functionality that integrated optical (IO) circuits could provide, research on IO elements

heated up as well. Moreover, the long distances enabled by amplifiers also drove research on techniques to mitigate the impact of transmission impairments.

While innovative lightwave technologies were enabling major advances in the capabilities of lightwave systems, the Internet suddenly appeared as the “killer” application that

could benefit from cost-effective bandwidth reaching around the world. All these exciting research and commercial developments built on each other, resulting in great energy in

the field and important papers for JLT. Through the dedicated and tireless efforts of the Associate and Guest Editors, volunteer peer reviewers, authors and JLT staff, we were able,

I believe, to capture the excitement, growth and impact of lightwave technology in the journal. I am honored and thankful to have been part of this important period in the his-

tory of JLT.

John N. Lee, Chair, JLT Coordinating and Steering Committees

The business aspects and publication policies of most journals are governed by a single society. However, volunteers to JLT’s multi-organization IEEE

Steering and IEEE/OSA Coordinating Committees govern JLT. I am privileged to have served with these selfless volunteers for most of JLT’s 25 years. JLT

was established to forestall a destructive proliferation of journals that threatened fragmented publication of results in lightwave technology areas, and its

governing committees have successfully established an unprecedented level of cooperation among the sponsoring societies. Over the years, JLT has also had

to address: (i) emerging new lightwave emphases, (ii) changeable publication costs, and (iii) the advent of electronic publishing.

Paul Shumate, I, and many others on the Steering Committee have had the privilege of helping JLT obtain good financial footing in its early growth

years. Now the challenge is to assure that the resources will be available to allow expansion. Moreover, the Coordinating Committee addresses publication

policy, chooses the Editor-in-Chief / Associate Editors, and is actively involved in the technical direction.

JLT is very enthusiastic about working with journals whose mainline emphasis is not lightwave, but which have a readership with specific interests in some lightwave topics. We

have been very pro-active in working with other journals to publish Joint Special Issues either under the JLT banner or under another journal’s banner, to be sent to both readerships.

Moreover, there has been discussion on how JLT can better serve our community by leveraging the journal with other activities. For example, Bernie Gollomp of the IEEE IMS has

organized conferences and joint publications with JLT in the area of optical measurements.

As JLT looks to the future, I anticipate further growth, but also new challenges.

Donald B. Keck, Editor-in-Chief (1989-1994)

It seems hard to believe that JLT has been serving our technology for a quarter century. The Journal was a wonderful creation by some far-sighted individu-

als. They saw the tremendous future of lightwave technology and the benefit of providing a single preeminent source of the latest peer reviewed technical

information in our rapidly moving science and technology arena. More importantly, they forged a collaborative effort among the relevant professional soci-

eties. JLT provides efficiency for the readership.

During my tenure as editor, our field experienced remarkable technological advancement. One of my great delights was to see the very latest break-

throughs unfolding as the papers came across my desk from around the world. The erbium amplifier was providing the second revolution in optical fiber

telecommunications. That ushered in the excitement of WDM devices and systems, and the beginning of optical networking. Several special issues were

assembled to chronicle the rapid progress.

I found it most gratifying that there were noted scientists from around the globe willing to serve as Associate Editors and reviewers. Perhaps it happens in any endeavor that friend-

ships are established. But it always seemed to me that the collegiality of our arena, being so new and vibrant, built more and stronger relationships on an international scale. The

Journal was and still is an important part in making that happen - a treasure for our technology.

We should all be proud of the role we have had in creating the Information Age and a truly better world. I can’t wait to read the 50th anniversary issue!

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IntroductionWhile electronics has enjoyed quite sophisticated computer basedsimulation and design tools for decades, only 15 years ago there werevirtually no professional commercial tools for the photonics design-er and most R&D laboratories were writing their own codes for eachspecific application. Things have moved a long way since those daysand now there is a good choice of tools available to the designer.Nevertheless, in many ways photonic modelling still poses signifi-cant challenges due in part to the much larger variety of technolo-gies employed in photonics compared to electronic circuits and thereexists no photonic simulation algorithm or even commercial toolthat is able to model every sort of photonic circuit. This article aimsto give the reader an introduction to the main algorithms of use inphotonics modelling, to highlight their strengths and weaknessesand discuss where photonics CAD is going next.

Passive Device AlgorithmsThis article will focus largely on the techniques for modelling pas-sive photonic devices, where light is propagating in a mediumwhose refractive index is constant or is at most somewhat depend-ent on the intensity of the light propagating – (so called non-lin-ear media). Active devices, where light interacts with electrons,play an important part in modern photonics in LEDs, laser diodesand the like but cannot be discussed in depth here for lack of space.

A wide variety of algorithms have been developed for thesimulation of passive photonic devices, though only a few have

achieved it to mainstream use. We will cover the followingmainstream algorithms here in detail:

BPM - Beam Propagation MethodEME – Eigenmode Expansion MethodsFDTD – Finite Difference Time DomainWe will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each

method and give the reader some helpful information onchoosing an appropriate tool for a given task.

Scoring an AlgorithmThe ideal algorithm would score well in all of the following aspects:• speed – obvious but crucial for efficient design work • low memory usage – no point if the simulation doesn’t fit

in your computer• numerical aperture – the range of angles that can be accu-

rately propagated. Ideally the algorithm would be com-pletely agnostic to angle.

• Δn – the refractive index contrasts in the device. Ideally thealgorithm would deal well with any contrast – Si to air is ~2.5.

• polarisation – it should model all polarisations of lightequally well.

• lossy materials – it should be able to model absorbingmaterials, even metals

• reflections – can it deal with reflections in the device?• non-linearity – it should be able to model non-linear mate-

rials such as Kerr effect.

Dominic Gallagher, Photon Design

Industry Research Highlights

Photonic CAD Matures

Score/10 Performance Aspect

FD-BPM scales linearly with area and can take fairly long steps in Speed

Table 1: Beam Propagation Method

propagation direction

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- Usage scales linearly with c/s area Memory

Best with low NA simulations. Versions using Pade approximants NA

can model a beam travelling at a large angle but still cannot deal

well with light simultaneously travelling at a wide range of angles.

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5 Best with low Δn simulations. Δn

Semi-vectorial versions work best. Still problems modelling mixed Polarisation

or rotating polarisation structures accurately

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Lossy

materials

Can model modest losses efficiently. Most versions cannot deal

well with metals

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Some success in implementing reflecting/bi-directional BPM but Reflections

generally avoided due to low speed and stability problems

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9 FD-BPM can model non-linearity. Non-linearity

10 Being a frequency-domain algorithm this is easy Dispersive

The BPM grid allows diffuse structures to be modelled easily. Geometries

Problems modelling non-rectangular structures accurately on the

rectangular grid

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9 PMLs available and work well ABCs

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• dispersive materials – it should be able to model structureswhere the refractive index is varying with wavelength.

• arbitrary geometries – some algorithms can model circularstructures well, others rectangular. The ideal algorithmwould model all geometries equally well.

• ABCs – a good algorithm should be capable of implement-ing an absorbing boundary condition such as the PML toabsorb light hitting the boundaries of the computationdomain.

We will judge our contenders against these criteria.

The Beam Propagation Method (BPM)This is perhaps the first widely used algorithm and remainstoday a workhorse for the industry. There are two main vari-ants of the algorithm, the so called FT-BPM (FourierTransform-BPM) and the FD-BPM (Finite Difference-BPM).BPM is an axial algorithm in that it assumes that the lightis travelling more or less in one direction. Newer so calledwide-angle BPM algorithms significantly improve accuracyfor off-axis propagation. First BPM algorithms were scalar inthat they ignored the polarisation of light. These were fol-lowed by algorithms that could model TE-like and TM-likepolarisations successfully and the newest algorithms have

some success at modelling light of arbitrary and changingpolarisation.

The key idea of BPM is to remove the fast varying termexp( jb̂z)from the fields (where β̂ is some characteristicpropagation constant) and then to solve the now slower


EME scales poorly with cross-section area – as A3 (A is c/s area).Speed

Table 2. Eigenmode Expansion Methods

However it can efficiently model very long structures especially if

their cross-section changes only slowly or occasionally. Periodic

structures scale as log(number of periods) – so can compute

efficiently. S-matrix approach allows a set of similar simulations to

be done very quickly – parts of previous calculation can be

reused.

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Memory increases at rate between A2 and A3 (A is c/s area), but Memory

very efficient for long or periodic devices.

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Can model wide-angle beams by increasing the number of modes NA

in the basis set at expense of speed and memory.

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8 Rigorous Maxwell Solver can accurately model high delta-n Delta-n

10 Rigorous Maxwell Solver is polarisation agnostic Polarisation

Lossy

materials

7 Depends on mode solver used.

Yes – easy and stable even when there are many reflecting Reflections

interfaces.

10

Difficult – have to iterate, and then only modest non-linearity Non-linearity

levels will converge

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10 Being a frequency-domain algorithm this is easy Dispersive

Depends on the mode solver used. Can use different structure Geometries

discretisations in different cross-sections, so solver can better

adapt to the geometry.

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Depends on the mode solver used. E.g. a finite-difference solver ABCs

can be readily constructed to implement PMLs. However, PML’s

are more difficult to use with EME than with BPM or FDTD.

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A B C D E

Figure 1 Modelling an MMI using EME. Within each section thefields are represented as a sum of local modes. Coupling betweenmodes occurs only at the interfaces. The MMI can be decomposedinto 5 simpler s-matrices as shown, so that even if one changesyou can re-use the others, saving much time when doing a set ofsimilar simulations.

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varying fields. It works well for modelling waveguidecomponents such as tapers and y-junctions especially withmodest Δn (refractive-index contrast). It struggles to giveaccurate results for silicon nanowire technologies, whereboth Δn is high and, because of tight confinement thelight is effectively travelling at a large range of anglesfrom the device axis.

Table 1 summarises different aspects of BPM performance,with scores out of 10 for each aspect. Speed and memory per-formance are not given scores since these depend too much onthe application – BPM might be fastest for one applicationand FDTD for another.

Eigenmode Expansion Methods (EME)This term covers a variety of algorithms that decompose theelectromagnetic fields in terms of a sum of local eigenmodes.Bidirectional eigenmode propagation (BEP) has been widelydeveloped by our company into a viable alternative to theBPM algorithm and provides several advantages for certainapplications. We will discuss here the BEP variant.

The principle of EME can be encapsulated in the followingequation for the propagation of light in a waveguide (i.e. thatis not varying in the z-direction):

electric field

magnetic field

where Em(x,y) is the electric field profile of the mth mode, βm

is its propagation constant, and c+m , c−m , are the amplitudes ofthe mode in the +z and –z directions respectively. Having anexpansion in terms of a complete set of modes permits one towrite a scattering matrix for any component in the form:

where ulhs and vlhs are the vector of amplitudes of the modesentering and exiting (respectively) the left hand side. These fewequations immediately illustrate some useful features of EME:• it is fully bi-directional; in fact it can be made almost

omni-directional if sufficient modes are used.• it is a fully vectorial algorithm, making no approximations

of the polarisation of the light.• it is a rigorous solution to Maxwell’s Equations; the main

approximation being the finite number of modes used.• The scattering matrix approach means that you solve the problem

for all inputs simultaneously, so you can for example get theresponse for both TE and TM polarisations in one go. It also allowsyou to divide a large circuit into multiple parts and then re-use thes-matrix of the parts again potentially saving a lot of time.

• It allows efficient modelling of periodic or repeating struc-tures since one can evaluate the s-matrix of one period andthen re-use it.

Table 2 summerizes various aspects of EME methods.

The Finite-Difference Time Domain (FDTD) AlgorithmThis is perhaps now the most widely used algorithm for thesolution of Maxwell’s Equations. It is a brute force finite-differ-ence discretisation of Maxwell’s Equations in time and space. Inprinciple it can model virtually anything, given enough com-puting power. It is also very simple to implement – the basicalgorithm can be written in 30 lines of code.

The dominant FDTD algorithm dates back to Kane Yee in1966 but variants with e.g. triangular grids have appeared morerecently. Table 3 summerizes FDTD aspects.

Comparing BPM, EME, FDTDThe score tables given above do not of course tell the wholestory. The following “applicability diagrams” show graphical-ly how the three algorithms fair in response to varying numer-ical aperture, cross-section and length.

Figure 4 shows how the FDTD, BPM and EME algo-rithms fare with varying Δn and device length. FDTD due


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Figure 3 A photonic crystals laser oscillating in a “Littrow” mode;simulated using CrystalWave’s active FDTD algorithm which cou-ples the light to the electron population of the laser’s active region.

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to its small grid size cannot do very long things. Howeverit can deal with high Δn structures. BPM can do muchlonger things but cannot deal well with high Δn struc-tures. EME can model the longest structures such as a fibretaper efficiently and can also deal with high Δn devicesaccurately.

Figure 5 shows how the FDTD, BPM and EME algorithmsfare with varying numerical aperture (range of angles) andcross-section size. FD-BPM can cope with the largest cross-sec-tion sizes due to its order-N algorithm, but cannot cope wellwith light travelling at a wide range of angles. FDTD can doomnidirectional simulations (large NA), but smaller cross-sec-


Scales as V (device volume) but grid size is small so not as good as BPM or EMEfor long devices.

Speed

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Scales as V (device volume) but grid size is small so not as good as BPM or EMEfor long devices.

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Omni-directional algorithm is agnostic to direction of light – great when light istravelling in all directions

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Rigorous Maxwell solver, happy with high delta-n, but slows down somewhat withhigh index.

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Can model even metals accurately with a fine enough grid and

small modifications to the algorithm.

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interfaces.

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Have to approximate the dispersion spectrum with one or more Dispersive

Lorentizans but exact fit to the spectrum over a wide wavelength

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tions than BPM due to its fine grid.EME can do high NA or large cross-sec-tion but not both, since high NA andlarge sections both require one toincrease the number of modes used andthis number would become impractical.

Evolving BPMDespite its age, significant advances arestill being made in the BPM algorithm.For example in recent times, the effi-cient ADI technique has been combinedwith Pade approximation methods tosignificantly speed up the speed of com-putation at some expense of accuracyand even this accuracy cost has now beenreduced substantially. Hadley, responsi-ble for the original Pade modificationsof BPM, has demonstrated work onslanted meshes that are able to conformto the boundaries of the structure – seeFigure 6. Many other workers are stillactively engaged in developing BPMfurther.

Evolving FDTDOne of FDTD’s big limitations is it’s reg-ular rectangular grid. This means thatone is limited to using the same resolu-tion everywhere, unlike a finite elementalgorithm which can reduce the resolu-tion locally and also allow the grid to fol-low the contours of a structure. One solu-tion to this is sub-gridding which wehave implemented in our own FDTDtools – see Figure 7. The sub-griddingcan be cascaded so that you could have1/4, 1/8 or smaller local grids. For a 3Dsimulation, using a 1/4 subgrid over asmall part of your structure can increasethe speed of the simulation by up to 64times over a uniform grid. The challengehowever in sub-gridding is to preventartificial reflections occurring at the

boundaries of the sub grid and main grid. However we haverecently demonstrated algorithms that exhibit reflections below10-8 effectively eliminating this problem – see Figure 7.

Another promising alternative to the FDTD algorithm isthe so-called pseudo-spectral time domain method (PSTD).The structure is broken down into sub-domains of uniformindex so that the domains follow the boundaries of the deviceas shown in Figure 8. Within each domain the fields are rep-resented by expanding in an appropriate basis set φn, typical-ly Chebyschev polynomials

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Figure 4 Showing the domains of applicability of FDTD, BPM and EME to varying Δn anddevice length.

Figure 6 Improved meshes for BPM. A mesh (black) able to conformto the structure (green) substantially improves accuracy.

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The method allows a varying grid size and conformation tocurved surfaces and is ideal for circular or spherical metalobjects where FDTD struggles.

Photonic ICs – the next stageEME and associated scattering-matrix algorithms are ideal forthe next level in photonics CAD – modelling not just indi-vidual components but whole circuits of components. Once ascattering matrix for a linear component has been evaluatedthen any signal can be propagated through the device.However active components can not be easily modelled usingfrequency domain algorithms and a circuit including activeelements must be simulated in the time domain. A powerfultechnique for doing this is the so called time domain travel-ling wave (TDTW) algorithm, which we have pioneered overa number of years and have now developed into a flexible pho-tonic circuit simulator .

The basis of the algorithm is beautifully simple. Weassume that light is travelling forward or backward along awaveguide. We then remove the fast changing part ei(βz−ωt) toleave forward A(z) and backward B(z) fields that vary slowly inboth time and space. We can then write the advection equa-tions for these fields as follows:

This can be solved in the time domain rather like FDTDbut now with much larger time and space steps because we

have removed the fast varying parts. The cost is of course thatit can only model fields propagating in +z or –z directions.However just like FDTD it can propagate many wavelengthsat a time. Noise sources such as from spontaneous emissioncan be readily supported and propagated through the circuitby setting the forcing terms F in the previous equation.

We illustrate the flexibility of the approach by the simula-tion of an all-optical 2R regenerator . The circuit is shownschematically in Figure 9. It consists of a Mach-Zehnder inter-ferometer with an SOA in each arm. Blue rectangles are wave-guides and green rectangles are power splitters/combiners.Figure 10 shows the input to the regenerator – with a slow risetime, on/off ratio of just 5 and amplitude of 1mW. On theright is the regenerated signal, with >20mW signal, on/offratio of >30:1 and improved timing. The increased noise is

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Figure 7 (left) scheme for sub-gridding FDTD, allowing additional resolution where needed; (right) different interpolating schemes forstitching sub-grids to main grid.

Figure 8 Discretisation of a square in a circular in a rhombus forthe Chebyshev method. The grid follows the structure, giving betterperformance.

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due to the spontaneous emission in the SOAs illustrating thepower of the algorithm to realistically model real devices.

Where to next?The perfect algorithm has yet to be written. In fact it never will– there will always be one algorithm better for one applicationand another for a different one. Thus we are likely to seeincreasing development of multi-algorithm simulation toolsthat use different algorithms for different parts of a simulation,perhaps even automatically.

Will photonics ever see the existence of tools equivalent tothose in electronics that can accurately and readily model millionsof transistors? Probably not – photonics uses a much more diverserange of technologies than electronics and the market is muchsmaller, but certainly we are likely to see some great improvementsin the usability, speed and accuracy of photonics CAD in the nextfew years, as the photonics IC becomes established.

References[1] Chung, Y. and N. Dagli (1990). “Explicit finite dif-

ference beam propagation method: application tosemiconductor rib waveguide Y-junction analysis.” EL26: 711-713.

[2] Sztefka, G. and H. P. Nolting (1993). “Bidirectionaleigenmode propagation for large refractive indexsteps.” PTL 5: 554-557.

[3] http://www.photond.com/products/fimmprop.htm[4] See A.Tavlov and S. Hagness “Computational

Electrodynamics: the Finite Difference Time DomainMethod” for an excellent review.

[5] Bekker, E., Vukovic, A. et al, 2007. “Wide-AngleAlternating-Direction Implicit Finite Difference BPM”Proc. 9th International Conference of Transparent OpticalNetworks, (ICTON). Rome, Italy. Vol. 1. pp. 250 – 253.

[6] Hadley G.R, “Slanted-Wall Beam Propagation”, JLT,vol. 25, Issue 9, pp. 2367-2375, 2007.

[7] http://www.photond.com/products/omnisim.htm[8] W. Pernice, “Pseudo-spectral time-domain simulation of

metallic structures”, Proc. OWTNM, Copenhagen, 2007.

[9] http://www.photond.com/products/picwave.htm[10] G. Maxwell et al, "Very low coupling loss, hybrid-integrated all-optical

regenerator with passive assembly", paper PD3.5, ECOC 2002,Copenhagen (2002).

Biography:Dominic Gallagher was born in Wales in 1962 and received aBA degree in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1984.In 1987 he obtained a PhD also from the University ofCambridge, for a thesis in optoelectronics. The next two years hewas a Research Fellow at Cambridge, working on optical logicdesigns. In 1989 he moved to Germany to work for the FraunhoferIAF in Freiburg, providing design support for a project to develophigh speed laser diodes and another on inter sub-band photode-tectors employing novel grating techniques. In 1992 he returnedto the UK to start up Photon Design which he has grown into amajor international player in the photonics CAD tools market inthe intervening years.


Figure 11 showing input (left) and output (right) from the 2R regenerator.

Figure 10: a 2R optical regenerator, consisting of a Mach-Zehnder interferometerwith an SOA in each arm.

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works extensively with several societiesand is a member of the NanotechnologyCouncil and of the newly formedBiometrics Council. It also works close-ly with Societies outside IEEE such asOSA but there is opportunity for it tobecome more visible as a source ofinformed advice to Government andpublic bodies around the world.

LEOS MembershipOrganizationThere has been one immediate changeresulting from the Strategy PlanningRetreat. Given LEOS is first and foremosta community, it was felt that theMembership structure should bereformed. LEOS has had three VicePresidents for Membership and RegionalActivities covering the Americas; Asiaand Pacific Rim; and Europe, MiddleEast and Africa. This structure has servedLEOS well, particularly in building apresence in new countries and formingChapters. It has been less good at identi-fying and building member benefitsacross the Society. A new structure hasbeen put in place, starting from January2008, with a single Vice President forMembership and Regional Activitiessupported by three Associate VicePresidents for Regional Activities cover-ing the same geographic areas as before.The web portal and Newsletter are theprimary media for communicating withmembers and these have been movedfrom being the responsibility ofPublications to the new Membership VP.

This change was made with the strongsupport of the three existing MembershipVice-Presidents and supported unanimous-ly by the BoG. I am delighted to report thenew membership team will beVice President - Membership andRegional Activities• Amr Helmy, University of TorontoAssociate VPs for Regional Activities• Selim Unlu, Boston University

(Americas)• Roel Baets, Gent University (Europe,

Mid-East, Africa)• Jagadish Chennupati, Australian

National Univ., (Asia and Pacific)

Both Selim and Jagadish are continuingfor a third year, having previously servedas Vice Presidents in the old membershipstructure.

In addition the BoG gave its strong sup-port to the formation of a GOLD com-mittee under the leadership of LianshanYan who already represents GOLD onthe BoG.

Building the LEOS Community– a Plea for HelpI would finally like to renew a requestmade by Phil Anthony when he wasPresident in 2001. Although the orga-nizational structure of LEOS is impor-tant to the working of the Society, itsmembers are its community. The best

recommendation in recruiting newmembers is a personal one, and Iwould like to invite you recruit onenew member each in 2008. When Philmade this request in 2001, the pho-tonics industry was close to melt-down, but LEOS membership stillgrew by 20%. If we can focus again onmembership growth in 2008, againstthe background of a robust and grow-ing international photonics industry,it should be possible to exceed the2001 growth rate by a large margin.As I hope I have illustrated above, theLEOS community is built from smallas well as large personal contributions– and by recruiting only one membereach the impact of the LEOS commu-nity will be enormous.

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News

2008 IEEE LEOS FellowsCongratulations!


Please join us in congratulating the 24 LEOS memberswho became IEEE Fellows this year. It’s a significant honorthat is based on major technical contributions, leadership,and service to the Institute and the profession.

The deadline for Fellow nominations is March 15. Formore information, and to learn how to submit a nomination,check out the Fellows page on the IEEE Web Portal at:www.ieee.org/about/awards/fellows/fellows.html

IEEE SOCIETY REPORT -IEEE FELLOWS ELEVATED AS OF JANUARY 2008Jinyun ZhangMitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge MA, USAFor contributions to broadband wireless transmission and net-working technology

Kit Lai Paul YuUniversity of California, San Diego CA, USAFor contributions to semiconductor waveguide modulators anddetectors

Han-Ping ShiehNational Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, TaiwanFor leadership in the display and optical data storage industries

Yong LeeKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,Daejeon, KoreaFor contributions to photonic devices based upon vertical cavitysurface emitting lasers and photonic crystals

Fumio KoyamaTokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, JapanFor contributions to semiconductor optical devices for broadbandoptical communications

Kazuo HagimotoNippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT),Kanagawa, JapanFor contributions to very large capacity optical transmission systems

Akihiko KasukawaFurukawa Electric Company, Ltd., Yokohama, JapanFor contributions to high power semiconductor lasers as pumpsources for optical amplifiers

Hiroki HamadaSanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JapanFor contributions to red semiconductor laser diodes and polycrys-talline silicon thin-film transistors

Susumu NodaKyoto University, Kyoto, JapanFor contributions to photonic crystals and nanophotonics

Patrick IannoneAT&T Laboratories, Red Bank NJ, USAFor contributions to network architectures and enabling technolo-gies for fiber access

Ann Von LehmenTelcordia Technologies, Red Bank NJ, USAFor contributions to optical network architectures and technologies

Janet JackelTelcordia Technologies, Red Bank NJ, USAFor contributions to optical communications

Eric VanStrylandUniversity of Central Florida, Orlando FL, USAFor contributions to nonlinear optics and the development ofKramers-Kronig relations to ultrafast nonlinearities

Naomi HalasRice University, Houston TX, USAFor contributions to metallic nanoshells and nanoparticles withtailorable optical properties and applications in biotechnology andchemical sensing

Diana HuffakerUniversity of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, USAFor development of optoelectronic materials and processing

Jia-Ming LiuUniversity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA, USAFor contributions to the control and applications of nonlineardynamics of lasers

David WelchInfinera Corporation, Sunnyvale CA, USAFor contributions to semiconductor lasers and photonic integrated circuits

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Radhakrishnan NagarajanInfinera, Sunnyvale CA, USAFor contributions to high-bandwidth semiconductor laser and pho-tonic integrated circuit technologies

Milton ChangIncubic Venture Fund, Mountain View CA, USAFor technical entrepreneurship and leadership in photonic technologies

Martin FejerStanford University, Palo Alto CA, USAFor contributions to nonlinear optical materials and guided wave optics

Ann BryceUniversity of Glasgow, Glasgow, UKFor contributions to compound semiconductor integrated optoelec-tronic devices

Peter BloodCardiff University, Cardiff, UKFor contributions to quantum confined lasers

Jose CapmanyUniversidad Politechnica De Valencia, Valencia, SpainFor contributions to photonic processing of microwave signals

Avraham GoverTel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, IsraelFor contributions to free electron lasers and superradiant bunchede-beam radiators

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Nominations for 2008 LEOS William Streifer Award forScientific Achievement, the Engineering AchievementAward, the Aron Kressel Award, and the DistinguishedService Award are now being solicited for submission to theLEOS Executive Office. The deadline for nominations is 30April. In order to facilitate the nomination procedure, anomination form is found on page 19. Full nominations arerequired at the time of submission, and include, the state-ment of contributions, curriculum vitae, and endorsers’ let-ters (which may be sent separately).

IEEE/LEOS William Streifer ScientificAchievement AwardThe IEEE/LEOS William Streifer Scientific AchievementAward is given to recognize an exceptional single scientif-ic contribution, which has had a significant impact in thefield of lasers and electro-optics in the past 10 years. Theaward is given for a relatively recent, single contribution,which has had a major impact on the LEOS research com-munity. It may be given to an individual or a group for asingle contribution of significant work in the field. Nocandidate shall have previously received a major IEEEaward for the same work. Candidates need not be membersof the IEEE or LEOS. The award is administered by theStreifer Awards Committee and presented at the LEOSAnnual Meeting.

IEEE/LEOS Engineering AchievementAwardThe IEEE/LEOS Engineering Achievement Award is givento recognize an exceptional engineering contribution thathas had a significant impact on the development of lasersor electro-optics technology or the commercial applicationof technology within the past 10 years. It may be given toan individual or a group for a single contribution of sig-nificant work in the field. The intention is to recognizesome significant engineering contribution which hasresulted in development of a new component, a new pro-cessing technique, or a new engineering concept which hashad a significant impact in either bringing a new technol-ogy to the market, significantly improving the manufac-turability of a component or device, or creating a new

technology which will greatly accelerate or stimulateR&D. No candidate shall have previously received a majorIEEE award for the same work. Candidates need not bemembers of the IEEE or LEOS. The award is administeredby the Engineering Awards Committee and presented atthe LEOS Annual Meeting.

IEEE/LEOS Aron Kressel AwardThe Aron Kressel Award is given to recognize those indi-viduals who have made important contributions to opto-electronic device technology. The device technology cited isto have had a significant impact on their applications inmajor practical systems. The intent is to recognize key con-tributors to the field for developments of critical compo-nents, which lead to the development of systems enablingmajor new services or capabilities. These achievementsshould have been accomplished in a prior time frame suffi-cient 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 pro-fessional community that the individual cited is the agreedupon originator of the advance upon which the award deci-sion is based. The award may be given to an individual orgroup, up to three in number. The award is administeredby the Aron Kressel Awards Committee and presented atthe LEOS Annual Meeting.

IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Service AwardThe Distinguished Service Award was established to recog-nize an exceptional individual contribution of service thathas had significant benefit to the membership of the IEEELasers and Electro-Optics Society as a whole. This level ofservice will often include serving the Society in severalcapacities or in positions of significant responsibility.Candidates should be members of LEOS. The award isadministered by a committee consisting of the President-Elect, Chair; two Past Presidents, and the Vice President ofFinance & Administration and is presented at the LEOSAnnual Meeting.

A list of previous winners and awards information can befound on the LEOS Home Page at www.i-LEOS.org.

IEEE/LEOS AwardsCall for Nominations

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The John Tyndall Award is jointly sponsored by the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society and theOptical Society of America. The award is presented annually to a single individual who has made out-standing contributions in any area of optical-fiber technology, including optical fibers themselves, theoptical components used in fiber systems, as well as transmission systems and networks using fibers.The contributions which the award recognizes should meet the test of time and should be of provenbenefit to science, technology, or society. The contributions may be experimental or theoretical. Thisaward Nominees need not be members of the sponsoring societies. Corning Inc. endorses the awardwhich consists of a glass sculpture, a scroll, and an honorarium. The deadline for nominations isAugust 10.

ROBERT W. TKACH is Director of the Transmission Systems Research department at BellLaboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Crawford Hill Location. His research has involved dispersion manage-ment, optical amplification, optical networking, and high-speed DWDM transmission systems. Priorto joining Bell Laboratories, he has been: Chief Technical Officer of Celion Networks, Division

Manager of the Lightwave Networks Research Division at AT&T Labs, and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T BellLaboratories. He has served as Chair of the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) Steering Committee and on the IEEELEOS Board of Governors. He has been General Co-Chair of OFC, Vice-President of the Optical Internetworking Forum, andAssociate Editor of the Journal of Lightwave Technology. He has received the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Researchand Development Council of New Jersey and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the IEEE, and AT&T.

2008 John Tyndall Award Recipient:Robert W. Tkach

Robert W. Tkach

The IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society established the Graduate Student Fellowship Program to provide GraduateFellowships to outstanding LEOS student members pursuing graduate education within the LEOS field of interest.Applicants are normally in their penultimate year of study and receive the award for their final year and must be LEOS stu-dent members. Recipients are apportioned geographically in approximate proportion to the numbers of student membersin each of the main geographical regions (Americas, Europe/Mid-East/Africa, Asia/Pacific). There are 12 Fellows per year.Each LEOS Graduate Fellow receives $5000 and a travel grant of up to $2500 to attend the LEOS Annual Meeting toaccept their award. The deadline for nominations is 30 May.

LEOS is proud to present profiles of our 2007 LEOS Graduate Student Fellows:

2007 LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship Recipients:

Amit AgrawalMaria Ana CatalunaIgnace Gatare Gahangara

Maria Garcia LarrodeZhensheng JiaHannah Joyce

Yannick Keith LizeCicero MartelliHouxun Miao

Joris Van CampenhoutDirk van den BorneLin Zhu

AMIT AGRAWAL received his Bachelor of Engineeringdegree in Electronics and Telecommunications in 2002 withHonors from Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University,India. In 2005, he received M.S. degree in ElectricalEngineering from the University of Utah. HisMasters thesis work titled, “Fiber-optic LaserDoppler Velocimeter to Measure MicrocirculatoryFlow Measurements” was carried out under theguidance of Prof. Douglas Christensen.

Since 2005, he has been working towards hisPh.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at theUniversity of Utah, and expected to finish in2008. He is working with Prof. Ajay Nahata,and his current research interest lies in exploringthe physics and applications of resonance phenomena atTHz frequencies. In particular, his current research is

focused on the fabrication and characterization of plasmon-ic metamaterials and guided-wave devices, and using this

information to develop unique and useful appli-cations. His work on the transmission propertiesof aperiodic aperture arrays was published inNature and news articles discussing this workappeared in MIT Technology Review,NewScientist, EE Times, MSNBC, LiveScienceetc. His work on coupling shaped THz pulses tometal wire waveguides was highlighted in LaserFocus World. Based on the knowledge gainedthrough these investigations, he is currentlyextending this work to develop surface plasmonbased waveguide devices, which could be used to

create THz guided-wave optoelectronic circuits. He is anauthor and coauthor of 15 journal papers and >40 invited/

Amit Agrawal

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contributed conference papers. Amit is a recipient of the2006 University of Utah Graduate Research Fellowshipand is IEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellow. He is also

the recipient of the prestigious 2007 D. J. LovellScholarship from the International Society of OpticalEngineering (SPIE).

MARIA ANA CATALUNA received the PhysicsEngineering degree from the Instituto Superior Técnico(IST), Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001. She hasbeen committed to research in ultra-fast laserphysics since her time as an undergraduateand worked as a research assistant from 2000to 2003 in the Group of Lasers and Plasmasat IST. In 2003, she obtained a scholar-ship from the Portuguese Government(Foundation for Science and Technology)that enabled her to pursue her Ph.D. studiesat the University of St Andrews, Scotland. InDecember 2007, she concluded her Ph.D. inPhysics, where her research work focused onthe ultrashort-pulse generation from quantum-dot semi-conductor diode lasers.

Maria Ana has authored and co-authored over 30 peerreviewed journal publications and conference presentations,

including a review paper in Nature Photonics and aninvited contribution to the Encyclopaedia ofNanoscience and Nanotechnology (second edition),on the subject of ultrafast lasers based on quantum-dot materials.

She also serves as an active reviewer for theIEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and AppliedPhysics Letters.

Maria Ana is currently a post-doctoral researchfellow at the University of Dundee, Scotland,where she is engaged in the investigation of inno-vative mode-locking regimes in quantum-dot

lasers and also in the generation of mid-IR radiation usingnovel quasi phase-matched semiconductor crystals.

Maria Ana Cataluna

GATARE GAHANGARA IGNACE received his M.Sc.degree in Electrical Engineering from the FacultéPolytechnique de Mons, Mons, Belgium, in 2004.Since 2004, he is working towards his Ph.Djointly at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB),Belgium, and the CNRS Laboratoire desMatériaux Optiques, Photonique et Systèmes(LMOPS), a common laboratory between theEcole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec) and theUniversité Paul Verlaine, Metz, France. His cur-rent research interests include experimentaland theoretical investigations of polarizationswitching dynamics, injection-locking andchaos synchronization in vertical-cavity sur-face-emitting lasers (VCSELs) subject to opticalinjection. He has authored about 8 research papers in inter-national journals and contributed to about 20 internationalconferences. He served as reviewer for the IEEE Journal of

Quantum Electronics and the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics inQuantum Electronics.

He carried out (summer 2003) an internship in theresearch and development department of SEE Telecom,a Belgian telecom equipments provider. His activitiesinvolved technical test and specifications of the opticalamplifier and the add-drop multiplexer modules forthe MANSYS (Metropolitan Access Network System)project. After completion of his M.Sc degree, hereceived the Faculty Prize of “Best Master Thesis inTelecommunications” granted by SEE telecom (2004) andthe Nick Forbat Prize awarded to the “MeritoriousStudent of the Year” (2004).

Currently, he is a student member of the IEEELasers and Electro-Optic Society (LEOS) and of the

Optical Society of America (OSA). “It was a great honor for meto receive the 2007 LEOS Graduate Student Fellowshipwhich is, indeed, highly motivating.”

Gatare GahangaraIgnace

MARÍA GARCÍA LARRODÉ was born inZaragoza (Spain) in 1977. She receivedthe M.Sc. degree in TelecommunicationsEngineering from the Centro PolitécnicoSuperior, University of Zaragoza, in 2001,after having carried out her Masters thesis atSiemens AG in Munich (Germany) in 2000.Her Masters thesis dealt with enhanced-GPRS performance in GSM radio networks,study for which she carried out simulations,

analysis and evaluation of EGPRS on link andsystem level.

From 2000 to 2004, she worked as a systemsengineer in mobile radio access networks at

Siemens AG Germany, focusing on systemanalysis and design for the base station subsys-tem of GSM and GPRS networks, radioresource management and signaling, perform-ance evaluation of GSM/GPRS/EDGE andUMTS networks, and conformance assessmentMaría García Larrodé

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of mobile devices. She also contributed to standardiza-tion activities and to patent applications on channelallocation strategies for radio communication systems.

In March 2004, María joined the COBRA ResearchInstitute at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TheNetherlands) where she has conducted research work towardthe Ph.D. degree in the area of broadband wireless access net-works employing radio over fiber techniques. Her Ph.D.work has been defined within the framework of a Dutchnational IOPGenCom project and has also delivered contri-butions to other international projects like IST-Nefertiti, IST-MUSE and IST-ISIS. She has published the main results ofthis work in 7 IEEE/IEE/OSA journal articles and 10 inter-

national conference papers. In addition, she has contributedto over 18 papers as a co-author. She has also acted as apeer-reviewer for IEE Procedings in Optoelectronics and IEEEJournal of Lightwave Technology.

María's work has been recognized with the KIvINiria Telecommunication Prize 2006, to the best Ph.D.research work in the field of Telecommunications in aDutch University, awarded by the Royal Institute ofEngineers and supported by the Dutch Ministry ofEconomics Affairs, and with the IEEE LEOS – GraduateStudent Fellowship Award 2007, awarded by the IEEELasers & Electro-Optics Society to outstanding LEOSstudent members.

ZHENSHENG JIA received the B.E. and M.S.E degree inPhysical Electronics and Optoelectronics from the ElectronicEngineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing,China, in 1999 and 2002, respectively. He is cur-rently working toward the Ph.D. degree under thesupervision of Prof. Gee-Kung Chang in theSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering,Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.

During 2002–2004, Jia worked as aResearch Engineer on transport and access net-works in the Optical System and Network Lab,China Telecom Beijing Research Institute(CTBRI), Beijing. He spent two summerinternships in the field of chirp-controlleddirect modulated transmitter and opticalequalizers for metro optical links at NEC Laboratories,America in 2006 and 2007. His research interestsinclude optical millimeter-wave signal generation, trans-mission and processing for symmetric optical-wireless

access networks, high-speed TDM/WDM PON, ultra-high data rate (>=100 Gb/s) optical transmission sys-tems, and nonlinear optical signal processing. He has

been author or co-author of over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and conferencepapers. He also serves as an active reviewer forIEEE Photonics Technology Letters,IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology,IEEE Microwave and Wireless ComponentsLetters, IET Optoelectronics, and OpticsCommunications. He was one of the recipientsof the 2007 IEEE/LEOS Graduate StudentsFellowship.

“It is a great honor to receive the 2007 LEOSGraduate Student Fellowship Award! This

recognition will encourage me to work harder and contin-ue my Ph.D. research and future career in this field.Additionally, I would like to express my sincere gratitudeto IEEE/LEOS for being supportive to students!”

HANNAH JOYCE received her B.E.(Electrical and Electronic Engineering) andB.Sc. (Pharmacology) degrees from theUniversity of Western Australia, Perth,Australia, in 2004. She is currently workingtowards her Ph.D. with the SemiconductorOptoelectronics and NanotechnologyGroup at The Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, Australia. Her proj-ect aims to develop III-V semiconductor

nanowires and nanowire heterostructures forapplications in optoelectronic devices. “Ifeel honoured and I am very grateful toreceive an IEEE-LEOS Graduate StudentFellowship - 2007. I wish to give my heart-felt thanks to my supervisors Prof. C.Jagadish and Dr. H. H. Tan, and to mycoworkers and collaborators, for their greatsupport, guidance and mentoring through-out my Ph.D. studies.”

Zhensheng Jia

Hannah Joyce

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YANNICK KEITH LIZE obtained the BSc in AppliedPhysics from Concordia University in Montreal in 2001 andthe M.Sc. in Physics from École Polytechnique in 2004under the supervision of Prof. Suzanne Lacroix, Prof. NicolasGodbout and Dr Christian Malouin. He is soon to defend histhesis on optical differential phase shift keyinggeneration, transmission and demodulation fromÉcole Polytechnique de Montreal under Prof.Nicolas Godbout with a co-supervision from Prof.Alan E. Willner at the University of SouthernCalifornia.

During his Ph.D. work, Yannick has doneinternships at the Centre for Ultrahigh band-width Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) inSydney, Australia under Prof. Benjamin J.Eggleton working on silica nanostructurednanowires, at the Centre for Ultra-BroadbandInformation Networks (CUBIN) in Melbourne, Australiaunder Prof. Rod Tucker and Thas Nirmalathas working onPMD emulation, at Alcatel/Lucent Bell Labs CrawfordHill, NJ, under Dr Randy Giles and Dr Xiang Liu onDPSK optical packet encoding, and at the University ofSouthern California under Prof. Alan E. Willner on DPSKdemodulation and optical error correction.

Besides being a recipient of the IEEE LEOS GraduateStudent Fellowship in 2007, he has also received theCanadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI) student

exchange grant in 2004, 2005 and 2006, the SPIEScholarship in Optical Science and Engineering in 2005and 2006, the OSA/Milton Chang student travel grant in2005 and 2006, the 2003 and 2005 Student Presenteraward of the Canadian Association of Physicists, the 2004

New Focus student travel grant and the NaturalSciences and Engineering Research Council ofCanada eMPOWR research bursary in 2004. Hehas 20 peer-reviewed publications to his creditas well as 40 international conference papersincluding 2 invited papers, and 5 patents.

Yannick is currently director of R&D foradvanced modulation format devices at ITFLaboratories in Montreal leading the develop-ment efforts on next generation DPSK, DQPSKand coherent demodulation devices. He is amember of the IEEE LEOS, IEEE ComSoc, OSA

and SPIE. Yannick is a member of the OSA Membershipand Education Services (MES) and the technical programcommittee of the IEEE 7th International Conference onOptical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2008).

“I want to thank the IEEE LEOS for awarding me oneof the 2007 Graduate Student Fellowships. It is a tremen-dous honor and I sincerely thank all my friends and collab-orators but especially my PhD supervisors, Prof. NicolasGodbout at École Polytechnique de Montreal and Alan E.Willner at the University of Southern California.”

CICERO MARTELLI was born in Curitibanos (SC,Brazil) and holds BEE and MSc degrees from the FederalUniversity of Technology-Parana. In February 2008 hewill submit his PhD thesis in photonics onthe work he carried out at theInterdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories with-in University of Sydney’s School of Chemistryand Optical Fibre Technology Centre. Duringhis career Cicero has been an exchange studentat the University of Applied Sciences – Berlinand a visiting researcher at the University ofAarhus. In March 2008 he will join theLaboratory of Fiber Optic Sensors within thenewly established Centre of SensorsTechnology for the Petroleum Industry andthe Department of Mechanical Engineering at PUC-Rioas an assistant professor. Cicero has co-authored over 70journal and conference papers and is a reviewer for theIEEE Photonics Technology Letters and Semina. His

research interest includes optical communications, dif-fractive structures, optical sensors, waveguides, por-phyrins and surface science.

In 2007 he was awarded an IEEE LEOSGraduate Student Fellowship and for this thefollowing people/institutions should bethanked:• IEEE LEOS for promoting this important

award and acknowledging student achieve-ments;

• Prof. John Canning, PhD supervisor, for hisguidance, support and tireless and timelessassistance;

• CAPES-Brazil for a full student scholarshipand ARC-Australia for general research sup-port during the PhD project;

• Prof. Maxwell J. Crossley, Prof. Martin Kristensen andDr. Mattias Aslund for support and assistance to devel-op some of ideas behind the PhD project.

Cicero Martelli

Yannick Keith Lize

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HOUXUN MIAO received the B. S. degree inMechanical Engineering and the M. S. degree inOptical Engineering from Tsinghua University,Beijing, China, in 2002 and 2004, respectively.He is currently working toward the Ph.D.degree in the School of Electrical and ComputerEngineering under the supervision of Prof.Andrew M. Weiner at Purdue University.

His research focuses on polarization modedispersion (PMD) compensation in optical fibertransmissions and ultralow-power optical pulsemeasurements. He proposed and experimentally demon-strated the concept of all-order PMD compensation via

wavelength parallel Jones matrix characteriza-tion and correction. He demonstrated polariza-tion insensitive ultralow-power second-harmon-ic generation frequency-resolved optical gatingby using an aperiodically poled lithium niobate(A-PPLN) waveguide as the nonlinear medium.Currently, he is working on single-shot single-frame characterization of arbitrarily shaped opti-cal waveforms.

He received the Andrews Fellowship fromPurdue University (2004-2006). He is one of

the recipients of the 2007 IEEE/LEOS Graduate StudentFellowships.

JORIS VAN CAMPENHOUT was born inBrussels, Belgium, in 1979. He received theM.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics in 2002,from Ghent University, Belgium. SinceOctober 2002, he has been working towardsa Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, atthe Photonics Research Group at the sameUniversity. His research interests include thedesign and fabrication of on-chip optical net-works, based on silicon-on-insulator and the

heterogeneous integration with indiumphos-phide through bonding technology. For hisPh.D. work, his focus is on the developmentof an electrically driven silicon-integratedmicrodisk laser. He has been author or co-author of over 10 peer-reviewed journalpapers. Joris Van Campenhout acknowledgesthe support from the Research Foundation –Flanders, Belgium for a doctoral grant.

Houxun Miao

DIRK VAN DEN BORNE was born in Bladel, TheNetherlands, on October 7, 1979. He received his M.Sc.degree in Electric Engineering from theEindhoven University of Technology, TheNetherlands, in 2004.

During his Master studies he has done research atFuijtsu laboratories Ltd. in Kawasaki, Japan and theSiemens AG in Munich. Currently, he is workingtowards a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering atthe Eindhoven University of Technology in collabo-ration with Nokia Siemens Networks (beforeSiemens AG) in Munich. He focuses on improve-ments in long-haul transmission systems usingrobust modulation formats, alternative dispersioncompensation schemes and electronic impairment mitigation.He has authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed

papers and conference contributions of which 10 where invitedcontributions. In addition he wrote 5 patents related to fiber-

optic communications. In 2007 he received theKIVI-NIRIA Telecommunication Award and theIEEE/LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship.

“It is a great honor to receive the IEEE/LEOSGraduate Student Fellowship. This recognitionfor my Ph.D. work is a strong encouragement tofurther pursue a career in the fiber-optic commu-nication industry. I would like to thank my col-leagues at the Eindhoven University ofTechnology and Nokia-Siemens networks for thesupport and significant contributions to myresearch. As well, I would like to thank LEOS for

their active support of student members, which can trulymake a difference in opening up career opportunities.”

LIN ZHU received a B.S. and M.S. degrees inElectrical Engineering from Tsinghua University,Beijing, China, in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Healso received the M.S. degree in ElectricalEngineering from California Institute of Technology(Caltech), Pasadena, in 2004. He is currently work-ing toward the Ph.D. degree in ElectricalEngineering under the supervision of Prof. AmnonYariv, and Prof. Axel Scherer at Caltech.

His research interests include semiconductorlasers, periodic photonic structures, optical res-

onators and hybrid integration of optical systemswith microfluidic systems. His recent projectfocus on using two dimensional photonic crystalBragg structures to control the spectral and spatialmode of large-area semiconductor lasers. He hasbeen author or co-author of more than 30 refereedjournal articles and conference papers. He alsoserves as an active reviewer for IEEE/OSA Journalof Lightwave Technology, IEEE PhotonicsTechnology Letters, Optics Communications,Optics Letters, and Optics Express.

Dirk Van den Borne

Lin Zhu

Joris Van Campenhout

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The LEOS Best Student Paper Awards are open to students from universities whose papers have been accepted for presen-tation at the LEOS Annual Meeting. The top five finalists receive certificates of recognition and monetary awards rangingup to $1000.The results for the 2007 LEOS Best Student Paper Award are as follows:

1st Place - Koji Otsuka2nd Place - Tomohiro Amemuya3rd Place - Christophe Antoine

Runner Up - Chen-Bin HuangRunner Up - Yoshiaki TakataRunner Up - Kai Zhao

TOMOHIRO AMEMIYA received the B.S.and M.S. degrees in Electronic Engineeringfrom the University of Tokyo in 2004 and2006. He is now a Ph.D. student inIntegrated Photonics Laboratory at ResearchCenter for Advanced Science and Technology(RCAST), the University of Tokyo. Hisresearch interests are in the physics of semi-conductor light-controlling devices, opticalspin-related devices, and photonic integrated

circuits, and in the processing technology tofabricate these devices. His Ph.D. researchmainly focuses on semiconductor waveguideoptical isolators that can be monolithicallycombined with other optical devices in pho-tonic integrated circuits.

Tomohiro Amemiya is a student member ofthe IEEE/LEOS, the Optical Society of America(OSA), and the Japan Society of AppliedPhysics (JSAP).Tomohiro Amemiya

KOJI OTSUKA received his B.S. degree inElectric and Electronic Engineering from theKyoto University in 2007. He is now a M.S.student at the Department of ElectronicEngineering, Kyoto University. Koji is a stu-dent member of the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optic Society (IEEE/LEOS) and the JapaneseSociety of Applied Physics (JSAP).His current

research is focused on high power operation ofphotonic crystal surface emitting laser byincreasing lasing area. He has designed the newlaser structure which enables ten-fold enlarge-ment of lasing area. “It was such an honor toreceive the LEOS 2007 Best Student PaperAward. It encourages me to continue strivingin this exciting field.”

Koji Otsuka

CHRISTOPHE ANTOINE received theDiplôme d'Ingénieur from the ÉcoleSupérieure d'Électricité (Supélec), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and the M.S. and PhD degreesin Electrical Engineering from StanfordUniversity, Stanford, CA. During his gradu-ate work at Stanford, he worked with Prof.Olav Solgaard on micromachined deformableoptical gratings. His research interestsinclude the design, fabrication, and character-

ization of diffractive optical microsystemsusing MEMS technology for applications inpassive components of optical fiber networks,tunable lasers, and spectroscopy. His academ-ic career was completed by field work atresearch institutions (CNRS-LGEP, Gif-sur-Yvette, France and CSIC-IMM, Tres Cantos,Spain) and at major consumer electronicscompanies (Philips, Aachen, Germany andSony, Tokyo, Japan).Christophe Antoine

2007 LEOS Best Student Paper Award Recipients:

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CHEN-BIN HUANG was born in Taipei,Taiwan, in August, 1975. He received a B.S.degree in Electrical Engineering from NationalTsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1997,and a M.S. degree in Electro-Optical Engineeringfrom National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu,Taiwan in 1999. He is currently working towardsthe Ph.D. degree at the School of Electrical andComputer Engineering, Purdue University, WestLafayette, IN. His current research interestsfocuses on applications of spectral line-by-line

pulse shaping and characterizations of optical fre-quency combs.

From 1999 to 2003, he joined the Opto-Electronics & Systems Laboratories (OES), IndustrialTechnology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan as aresearch engineer, developing passive optical fiberdevices. In summer 2002, he was a visiting scientistat the Materials Research Institute, NorthwesternUniversity, Evanston, IL. He has been an author/co-author of 8 journal papers and 16 conference papers.He holds 6 U.S. patents and 13 Taiwan patents.

Chen-Bin Huang

YOSHIAKI TAKATA received the Bachelorof Engineering degree from University ofTsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan,in 2006. He is now aM.E. student at department of Pure andApplied Sciences, University of Tsukuba.Since 2005, he has been a member of theCenter of Tsukuba Advanced Research

Alliance (TARA), University of Tsukuba. Hiscurrent research is focused mainly on selectivearea growth of InAs-QDs towards photoniccrystal and quantum dots based all opticalintegrated circuit devices.Mr. Takata is a student member of the JapanSociety of Applied Physics (JSAP).

Yoshiaki Takata

KAI ZHAO received his B.S and M.S with honordegrees in Applied Physics in 1999 and 2002from University of Science and Technology ofChina. In 2002, he started his Ph.D. study inphysics department at University of CaliforniaSan Diego, where he works in Prof. Yu-hwa Lo’sresearch group. His research interests includecharacterization of semiconductor quantum dots,

developing advanced III-V Single PhotonAvalanche Detectors. For the III-V SPADs proj-ect, he developed the first negative feedback III-V Single Photon Avalanche Detector which hasdemonstrated the self-quenching self-recoverycapability and has achieved ultra low excess noisein Single Photon detection Mode. He is currentlya student member of IEEE.

Kai Zhao

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The IEEE Photonics Award was established in 2002. The award is presented for outstanding achievements in photonics. Itmay be presented to an individual or a team of not more than three. Photonics is defined as the science and technology ofgenerating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. It is awarded for, butnot limited to: light-generation, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection and the optical/electro-optical compoentry and instrumentation used to accomplish these functions. Also included are storage technologies utilizing photonicsto read or write data and optical display technologies. It also extends from energy generation/propagation, communications,information processing, storage and display, biomedical and medical uses of light and measurement applications. Recipientselection is administered by the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board.

JOE CHARLES CAMPBELL is a leading innovator in the field of photonics for his role in the devel-opment of laser light detectors used in fiber optics systems in telephone and other telecommunicationsystems to receive voice and data over fiber optics. Dr. Campbell is recognized for his significant con-tributions in high-speed, low-noise avalanche photodiodes (APDs), which have led to key advance-ments in this field. Dr. Campbell’s avalanche photodiodes are able to convert pulses of light into elec-trical information during long distance telecommunications at high speeds with very low distortionor noise. He is currently a Lucien Carr Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at theUniversity of Virginia, Charlottesville. An IEEE Fellow, he has co-authored eight book chapters, 330articles for refereed technical journals and more than 300 conference presentations. Dr. Campbell haspreviously received the IEEE Millennium Medal, the IEEE William Streifer Achievement Awardfrom the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, the Nicholas Holonyak Award from the Optical

Society of America, AT&T Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member Award, and was inducted into the National Academy ofEngineering. Dr. Campbell received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin, and hisMaster of Science and Doctorate degrees in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The 2008 IEEE Photonics Award Recipient:Joe C. Campbell

Joe Charles

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JANET JACKEL is head of the Optical Networking SystemsEngineering Research group within Applied Research atTelcordia, in Red Bank, NJ. Dr. Jackel earned her BA inPhysics from Brandeis University in 1969, and the Ph.D.degree, also in Physics, from Cornell University in 1976, witha thesis on “Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy in the ExcitonicRegion of Cadmium Sulfate.” In 1976 she joinedBell Laboratories, in Holmdel, NJ, where herresearch was aimed at improving the processing ofoptical materials, primarily lithium niobate andglass waveguides; during this time she inventedproton exchange in lithium niobate. After thebreakup of AT&T in 1984, she moved to Bellcore(now Telcordia) where her research evolved withthe needs of the rapidly evolving optical commu-nications industry. During this time she movedfrom an emphasis on materials and devices to sys-tems, networks, and applications of optical com-munications technology. For example, she took a lead role inthe DARPA-supported MONET project, which designed,built, and carried out experiments on a then-novel WDM net-work connecting several US government agencies. For the pastseven years she has managed a group that targets research inoptical communications and technology, while continuing tocarry out her own research, most recently in OCDMA, avion-ics and the use of optics for processing RF signals.

Dr. Jackel has published over 100 papers in technicaljournals and has presented much of this work in talks(including numerous invited talks) at professional confer-ences. She holds about fifteen patents for waveguide pro-

cessing, optical device design, and communications archi-tectures, with further patents pending. Dr. Jackel is aFellow of the IEEE and of the Optical Society of America.She has received an IR&D 100 award and severalBellcore/Telcordia CEO Awards.

In the past Dr. Jackel has been an associate editor forPhotonics Technologies Letters, and hasserved on program committees for the OpticalFiber Communications (OFC) Conference, forthe Optical Society’s Integrated PhotonicsResearch and Applications (IPRA) Conferenceas well as its predecessor, the Integrated andGuided Wave Optics (IGWO) Conference,and for years was on the program committeefor NIST’s Symposium on Optical FiberMeasurements. Last fall she was editor for afeature issue of the Optical Society’s Journalof Optical Networking (JON) which targeted

Optical CDMA. Currently she is an Associate Editor forthe IEEE/LEOS Journal of Lightwave Technology.

As a new member of the BoG, Dr. Jackel would like toconcentrate on the accessibility of online technical litera-ture. To achieve this we will need to develop a model whichmakes economic sense: to make information available atcosts that will be acceptable to those who need it whilesupporting the costs of publishing. This requires morethan simply moving the existing journals to electronicpublication; we should consider different ways to organizethe journals and perhaps expansion of the topics covered, asthe applications of optics expand.

Janet Jackel

Newly Elected Members to the Board of Governs:

TON (A.M.J.) KOONEN was born in Oss, The Netherlands,in 1954. He obtained his M.Sc. degree cum laude in ElectricalEngineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, TheNetherlands, in 1979. In the same year, he startedhis career in Philips Telecommunication Industry,in applied research on high-speed optical commu-nication devices and systems. After the merger, hebecame a member of technical staff and in 1987 thetechnical manager of an applied research group onbroadband fibre-optic systems at Bell Laboratoriesin Lucent Technologies. He and his team of up to25 technical staff members worked on wavelength-multiplexing techniques for access and metro sys-tems, analog and burst-mode optical amplifiers,CATV fibre-optic distribution networks, ATM-PON systems,VB5 broadband interfaces, and on high-speed transmissionsystem electronics. Next to his industrial position, he has beena part-time professor in photonic networks at TwenteUniversity, The Netherlands, from 1991 to 2000. Since 2001,

he is a full professor in the Electro-Optical CommunicationSystems group, a partner in the COBRA Institute, atEindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. In

2004, he became the chairman of this group.Ton’s main research interests are currently in

broadband fibre access and in-building networks,and in optical packet-switched networks. He hasinitiated and led several European and nationalR&D projects in this area, a.o. on label-controlledoptical packet routed networks (the EC projectSTOLAS), on dynamically reconfigurable fibreaccess networks (fibre-coax, fibre-wireless, FTTH;in the EC projects TOBASCO, PRISMA, andHARMONICS), and on short-range multimode

(polymer) optical fibre networks for in-building applications.He has published more than 250 conference and journalpapers, and holds 3 US patents plus some national/Europeanones. Presently, he is involved in a number of access/in-homeprojects in the European FP6 IST Broadband for All pro-

Ton (A.M.J.) Koonen

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PETER WINZER was born in January 1973 inVienna, Austria, he studied Electrical/Communications Engineering at the ViennaUniversity of Technology where he received aPh.D. degree in 1998. His academic work waslargely supported by the European SpaceAgency (ESA) and was related to space-borneDoppler laser measurement and communicationsystems. It was back then that he specialized inadvanced digital optical modulation and high-sensitivity detection. In November 2000 he

joined Bell Labs (Holmdel, NJ, USA) as aMember of Technical Staff and was promotedto a Distinguished Member of Technical Staffin 2007. Living in the United States since2000, he and his wife Andrea have been rais-ing their three kids Karoline (2000), Benedikt(2002), and Nikolaus (2005). When timeallows, he enjoys skiing, skating, hiking, andplaying the piano.

He very much likes, the fruitful, problem-rich environment he found at Bell Labs, with its

Peter Winzer

gramme (MUSE, e-Photon/ONe+, POF-ALL), and in theDutch programmes Freeband and IOP GeneriekeCommunicatie. He also will be involved in a number of proj-ects in the new European FP7 programme (ALPHA, BONE,…), starting early 2008. He has served numerous times as anauditor and project proposal reviewer for the EuropeanCommission R&D programmes. He also is a member of theprogramme committee of several Dutch research initiatives.

Ton Koonen is an IEEE Fellow since 2007. When withLucent Technologies, in 1999 he was awarded the Bell LabsFellow title (the first one in Europe). He is a Member of LEOSCommittee on Optical Networks and Systems since 2006, anda Member of Board of IEEE LEOS Benelux Chapter since2000. He has been a member of the Technical ProgrammeCommittee of several conferences, and is a TechnicalProgramme Committee co-chair of ECOC 2008. He has been

a short course presenter on Metro and Access Networks atECOC from 2002 to 2006. He is a reviewer for JLT, PTL,JSTQE, JON, Electronics Letters, Optics Express, and aneditor for OSN.

Ton is married and has three teenage sons.On the LEOS Board of Governors, Ton Koonen hopes

to contribute to involve more young people, as they arethe future of our community, and so to stimulate theinflux of students in our field. Furthermore he would liketo extend the LEOS relations outside the US, notably withthe large R&D programmes ongoing in Europe which area fruitful interaction of many academia and industries.The cross-fertilization of LEOS’ field with other disci-plines, such as wireless and computer technologies, canfurther increase LEOS’ prominence and stimulate youngpeople into our field.

JERRY R. MEYER completed his Ph.D. in Physics at BrownUniversity in 1977. The same year he took a position at theNaval Research Laboratory in Washington DC,where he is now Head of the QuantumOptoelectronics Section. His research has cen-tered on fundamental and applied studies of theoptical and transport properties of semiconduc-tors, as well as the design and development ofnovel optoelectronic devices. His recent researchhas sought to advance the performance ofinfrared lasers based on quantum heterostruc-tures such as the type-II “W” laser, interbandand quantum cascade lasers, large-area photonic-crystal distributed-feedback lasers, type-II anti-monide photodiodes, and negative luminescence devices.He is co-inventor of the Quantitative Mobility SpectrumAnalysis (QMSA), a comprehensive magneto-transportanalysis technique which is marketed by Lake ShoreCryotronics. He has published more than 300 refereed jour-nal articles, which have been cited over 5400 times, and hasco-authored 20 patents and over 100 invited conference pre-sentations. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America(2000), the American Physical Society (2001), the Institute

of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2004), and theInstitute of Physics (2005). He received the NRL Edison

Patent Award (2005), the NRL Edison ChapterSigma Xi Award for Pure Science (2003), theDepartment of the Navy Technology TransferRoyalty Award (2003), the Federal LaboratoryConsortium Award for Excellence in TechnologyTransfer (2001), the NRL DistinguishedContribution Allowance Award (1999), 4 NRLSpecial Act Awards (2001-2007), and 5 NRLResearch Publication Awards. Dr. Meyer was Program Co-Chair of CLEO 2007,and will be General Co-Chair in 2009. He servedon the LEOS Program Committee from 1993 to

2003, and was Chair of the Semiconductor LaserSubcommittee in 2000 and 2001. He Chaired the Journal ofApplied Physics Editor Search Committee (2000), and Co-Chair the International Conference on Narrow GapSemiconductors (2003), Mid-IR Optoelectronics: Materials &Devices (2002), and SPIE Photonics West Conference on In-Plane Semiconductor Lasers (2002). He has served on theProgram Committee for numerous other meetings, and in atypical year referees 25-30 journal articles.

Jerry R. Meyer

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enormous scientific breadth and depth. At Bell Labs,“implementing the impossible” has become his guidingprinciple, regardless of seemingly insurmountable obsta-cles. He first focused on Raman amplification, but eventu-ally returned to his favorite fields: optical modulationadvanced optical receiver concepts, and digital signal pro-cessing techniques. He also spent some time on higher-layer data network architectures for dynamic data services.Since 2005 he has been heavily involved in 100-Gb/s elec-tronically multiplexed optical transmission demonstra-tions for next-generation Ethernet and Optical TransportNetwork applications.

He is actively involved in the scientific community as

an author, reviewer, editor, and conference/workshoporganizer, currently chairing the Optical Communicationssubcommittees of both LEOS and CLEO. As a Member ofthe Optical Society of America (OSA) and a Senior Memberof the IEEE, he highly values these scientific communitiesas a valuable platform for high-quality scientific exchange.He is a strong advocate of “quality instead of quantity”,and his interest in serving on the LEOS BoG is fueled bythe desire to foster the technical quality of LEOS in itsjournals, conferences, and meetings through establishingand maintaining effective quality control mechanisms andsupporting means for rapid and wide dissemination of sci-entifically and professionally relevant material.

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There are many benefits to becoming an IEEE Senior Member:• The professional recognition of your peers for technical and professional excellence• An attractive fine wood and bronze engraved Senior Member plaque to proudly display.• Up to $25 gift certificate toward one new Society membership.• A letter of commendation to your employer on the achievement of Senior member grade

(upon the request of the newly elected Senior Member.)• Announcement of elevation in Section/Society and/or local 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 Member applications.

The requirements to qualify for Senior Member elevation are, a candidate shall be an engineer, scientist, educator, technical execu-tive or originator in IEEE-designated fields. The candidate shall have been in professional practice for at least ten years and shall haveshown significant performance over a period of at least five of those years.”To apply, the Senior Member application form is available in 3 formats: Online, downloadable, and electronic version. For moreinformation or to apply for Senior Membership, please see the IEEE Senior Member Program website: http://www.ieee.org/organi-zations/rab/md/smprogram.html

The following individuals were elevated to Senior Membership Grade thru November - December:

Ekaterina A. GolovchenkoAman Al-ImariVipul BhatnagarJames DreilingBenjamin J Eggleton

Mary A. FlavinJacob LasriKa Suen LeeRobert LutwakThomas E. Murray

Willie W. NgAlexei N. PilipetskiiRadan SlavikPhilip A. SlaymakerB. Thomas Smith

Peter M. SmowtonAndreas StohrHin Yong WongSergey V. ZaitsevXiupu Zhang

Benefits of IEEE Senior Membership

New Senior Members

The Largest Membership Increase Award of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society for the IEEE LEOS Poland ChapterOn October 22, 2007, during theAwards Banquet of the IEEE LEOSConference in Lake Buena Vista,Florida, the IEEE LEOS PolandChapter received the LargestMembership Increase Award of theIEEE Lasers & Electro-OpticsSociety. Membership of the Chapterincreased from 24 to 31 (i.e. by29%) between 2006 and 2007

The Chapter was organized in2001 (approved by IEEE LEOS onFebruary 7 of that year), as a resultof the efforts of Professor MarianMarciniak from the NationalInstitute of Telecommunication,Warsaw, Poland. This effort was ini-tiated in 1998. Professor Marciniakwas the first Chapter Chairman, andwas re-elected in 2002. Professor

Krzysztof Abramski, WroclawUniversity of Technology, was elect-ed in 2003 and re-elected in 2004 asthe second Chairman, and ProfessorW_odzimierz Nakwaski, TechnicalUniversity of Lodz, became thethird in 2005 and 2006. ProfessorSergiusz Patela, WroclawUniversity of Technology, is nowChairman-Elect.

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The Chapter has concentrated on theorganization of scientific conferencesand facilitation of lectures fromDistinguished LEOS Lecturers andother professors from leading researchcenters working in photonics, mostly onlaser technology, theory and applica-tions, and describing the latest achieve-ments in this area. During last twoyears, the following researchers havegiven lectures for the Chapter members:

1. Petr G. Eliseev, Center for HighTechnology Materials, Universityof New Mexico, Albuquerque,USA (two lectures)

2. Jorge C. Rocca, Colorado StateUniversity, Fort Collins, Colorado,USA

3. Philip Russel, University ofErlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen,Germany (LEOS DL)

4. Tomasz Rogowski, ScuolaSuperior, Santa Anna, Pisa, Italy

5. Chennupati Jagadish, AustraliaNational University, Canberra,Australia (LEOS DL)

6. Marek Wartak, Wilfrid LaurierUniversity, Waterloo, Ontario,Canada

7. Toshihiko Baba, YokohamaNational University, Japan(LEOS DL)

8. Hussein T. Mouftah, University ofOttawa, Ontario, Canada (IEEEComSoc DL)

9. Krassimir Panajotov, Vrije

Universiteit Brussel, Brussels,Belgium

10.John O’Brien, University ofSouthern California, Los Angeles,California, USA (LEOS DL)

11.Masaya Notomi, NTT BasicResearch Laboratories, Atsugi,Japan (LEOS DL)

The picture shows Professors Notomiand Nakwaski during a visit to thecenter of Lodz, the second greatestcity of Poland, strictly speaking – thefamous Piotrkowska Street, with theaid of ‘riksha’, the only accepted vehi-cle in this area.

The IEEE LEOS Poland Chapterwas also a technical sponsor of theInternational Conferences onTransparent Optical Networks(ICTON), our flagship conference. Thefirst six conferences were organized inPoland in Kielce (1999), Gdansk(2000), Kraków (2001), Warsaw (2002and 2003), and Wroclaw (2004). Theirinternational character has beenenhanced by organizing subsequentICTON conferences in Barcelona(Spain) in 2005, in Nottingham (UK)in 2006 and in Rome (Italy) in 2007.The next 10th Anniversary ICTONConference, is going to be held in 2008in Athens (Greece). Currently theICTON conference is composed ofmany symposia and workshops andduring the last 9th ICTON Conferencein Rome, the following were organized:

• 6th European Symposium onPhotonic Crystals (ESPCSymposium)

• 6th Workshop on All-OpticalRouting (WAOR Workshop)

• 4th Global Optical & WirelessNetworking Seminar (GOWNSeminar)

• 3rd Workshop on ReliabilityIssues in Next Generation OpticalNetworks (RONEXT Workshop)

• 3rd Photonic Integrated Com-ponents & Application Workshop(PICAW Workshop)

• 2nd Nanophotonic for All-Optical

Networking Workshop (NAONWorkshop)

• 2nd Conference on Graphs andAlgorithms in CommunicationNetworks (GRAAL Conference)

with special sessions on:

• Microresonators and PhotonicMolecules (MPM): trapping, har-nessing, and releasing light NovelGlasses for Photonic Devices

• Broadband Access: making use ofoptical transparency for user access

The number of ICTON participantshas steadily increased from 87 in1999 to 346 in 2007. At the sametime, the number of conference con-tributions has increased from 70 in1999 to 350 in 2007. Participantsfrom as many as many as 48 countrieshave taken part in the ICTON con-ferences, some of them have comefrom very distant and exotic coun-tries: 8 participants from Armenia,15 from Australia, 6 from Brazil, 24from Canada, 1 from Chile, 12 fromChina, 3 from India, 7 from Iran, 59from Japan, 28 from Korea, 2 fromMalaysia, 1 from Mexico, 1 fromMorocco, 3 from New Zealand, 1from Singapore, 2 from Taiwan, and24 from USA.

In addition, the IEEE LEOSPoland Chapter was a technical spon-sor of the International ConferenceMicroTherm’2007, “Thermal Problemsin Electronics” in Lodz, Poland, June24-28, 2007 and the 2007 ICTONMediterranean Winter Conference inSousse, Tunisia, December 6-8, 2007, anew satellite event to ICTON confer-ences, which brings ICTON and LEOSfield of interest to this area.

More information may be found inhttp://phys.p.lodz.pl/leos

Biography:Wlodzimierz Nakwaski, full professorin Physics since 1996, is a director ofthe Institute of Physics, TechnicalUniversity of Lódz, Lódz, Poland. In

Marian Marciniak receives the award forLargest Membership Increase on behalf ofthe IEEE/LEOS Poland Chapter fromAlan Willner at the 2007 LEOS Annual.

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1996-2002 he has served as a Dean ofthe Faculty of the Technical Physics,Computer Science and AppliedMathematics. His research interestincludes physical self-consistent mod-eling of an operation of opto-electronicdevices, mostly semiconductor lasers,and optimization of their designs forvarious applications. He is an author orco-author of over 400 publications, 6chapters in books and 2 books(Semiconductor Lasers (in Polish), PWN,Warsaw and Physics of SemiconductorLasers, North Holland, Amsterdam)which have been more than 600 timesquoted by other authors. For his scien-tific achievements, he has been 7 timesawarded the Prize of the Minister ofNational Education. He is a SeniorIEEE LEOS Member and has been in2005-2007 a chairman of the IEEELEOS Poland Chapter. In 1990-1998, he spent nearly six years at theCenter for High Technology

Materials, University of New Mexico,Albuquerque, USA, initially as aResearch Senior Scientist and later asa Research Associate Professor. He is

a co-editor of the Opto-ElectronicsReview. He is a nominator of theKyoto Prize in Science and the NobelPrize in Physics.

The IEEE Fellow Program wasestablished to recognize and honoroutstanding members for their sig-nificant accomplishments in theadvancement or application ofengineering, science, and technol-ogy and for their contributions tothe mission of the IEEE. The IEEEFellows form an elite group fromall around the globe. They sharethe fact that they possess the high-est possible membership grade.

The IEEE looks to the Fellowsfor guidance and leadership as theworld of electrical and electronictechnology continues to evolve.The grade of Fellow is conferred bythe Board of Directors upon a per-son with an extraordinary record ofaccomplishments in any of theIEEE fields of interest. The accom-plishments honored have con-

tributed importantly to theadvancement or application ofengineering, science, and technol-ogy, and have provided significantvalue to society. Election to thegrade of Fellow occurs the year fol-lowing approval by the Board ofDirectors conferring the honor.Members elected to the Fellowgrade may use the title immediate-ly following approval by the Boardof Directors. All those electedreceive a certificate and pin.

Nominator: Nominators need notbe IEEE members. Furthermore,members who belong to the IEEEBoard of Directors, FellowCommittee, Technical SocietyFellow Evaluations Committee, orIEEE Staff are not eligible to benominators. A nominee must be an

IEEE Senior Member whose mem-bership is current and who has com-pleted five years of service in anygrade of membership. Note: IEEEaffiliate membership does not counttowards the five-year threshold. Thenominee can come from any field,including academia, government,and industry. He/she cannot be amember of the IEEE Board ofDirectors, Fellow Committee,Technical Society Fellow EvaluationsCommittee, or IEEE Staff. It is alsoimportant to note that a nomineemay not self-nominate for considera-tion as a Fellow.

The nominator plays a majorrole in the Fellow Process, gather-ing enough information about thenominee to complete details of thenomination form, including a con-cise and accurate description of the

Professors Notomi and Nakwaski during a visit to the center of Lodz, the secondgreatest city of Poland.

FELLOW PROGRAM PRESENTATIONIEEE CONFERENCES / MEETINGS

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technical contributions of thenominee such as awards, publishedpapers, books, or patents. He/shemust also present a proposed cita-tion of no more than 20 words thatdescribe the nominee’s contribu-tions. The nominator must alsosolicit at least five references whocan provide detail as to the nomi-nee’s accomplishments. The nomi-nator may opt to provide up tothree endorsers to strengthen thenomination and contribute to theevaluation process. An endorsercan be a person, IEEE Section,Chapter, Committee or Board towhich the nominee has contributedtime and talent. In addition, thenominator needs to identify theIEEE Technical Society or Councilthat best reflects the nominee’sfield of technical accomplish-ments. Finally, the nominatorneeds to submit the Nominationby the March 1 deadline.

Reference: A reference must be anIEEE Fellow whose membership iscurrent. There are restrictions sim-ilar to those for a nominator inthat he/she cannot belong to theIEEE Board of Directors, FellowCommittee, and Technical SocietyFellow Evaluations Committee.Furthermore, neither a member ofthe IEEE Staff nor the nominatorfor that nominee is eligible to be areference. The reference form is animportant contribution to theIEEE Fellow Committee’s decisionwhether to recommend a nomineeto the IEEE Board of Directors forelevation to the grade of Fellow.References must cite specific evi-dence of the uniqueness andimpact of at least one of the contri-butions of the nominee. Commentsabout the relative contributions bythe nominee to any work attrib-uted to more than the nominee, forexample, if the nominee is a co-author of a listed work, are alsovery valuable. All References must

be submitted on an IEEEReference Form by the March 1deadline.

Endorser: In some cases, the sig-nificance of a nominee’s contribu-tions and/or achievements may bebest understood and evaluated by arecognized individual inside or out-side the electrical and electronicsengineering profession, who is notan IEEE Fellow or even an IEEEmember. Any IEEE Section,Chapter, Committee, or Board towhich the nominee has contributedtime and talents, may endorse thenomination through its executivebody. A non-IEEE organization orindividual may also provide anendorsement. Similar exceptionsexist as those for the nominee, nom-inator, and reference. Although anendorsement of a nominee isoptional, the submission of suchmaterial will contribute to the eval-uation process and should not beoverlooked. An endorsement willstrengthen a nomination if it con-tains information on specific contri-butions that, in the opinion of theendorsement, qualify the nomineefor IEEE Fellow grade. All endorse-ments must be submitted on anIEEE Endorsement Form andreceived by that March 1 deadline.

Role of Technical Society/Council:The Technical Society/CouncilFellow Evaluating Committee Chairmust be an IEEE Fellow, but cannotbe a nominator for any of the presentcycle’s nominees nor a reference orendorser for a nominee who will beevaluated in that TechnicalSociety/Council. No IEEE Board ofDirectors member or IEEE FellowCommittee member may also serveas a Technical Society/Council FellowEvaluating Committee Chair. TheTechnical Society/Council FellowEvaluating Committee Chair alsohas an important role in theprocess. He/she must organize and

chair a committee of experts withbalanced backgrounds (research,teaching, design/development, tech-nical management, manufacturing,etc.) to review IEEE Fellow gradenominations referred for evaluation.The Technical Society/CouncilCommittees needs to be largeenough to truly represent the com-position of the Society in order toensure that all individuals are receiv-ing evaluations that adequatelyreflect the diversity of backgroundsand interests within a particularTechnical Society/Council. TheSociety/Council evaluation isextremely important, because it is animpartial and even-handed view ofthe nominee’s merit, by persons whoare familiar with his or her work. Inaddition to the evaluation, theTechnical Society/Council reviewscopies of the endorsements as well asthe original citation, having theopportunity to propose an enhancedone if necessary. Finally, they providethe Fellow Committee with scoresfor each nominee and ranks themaccordingly.

Fellow Committee: In accordancewith the IEEE Bylaws, the FellowCommittee is comprised of a Chairand not more than 52 members, allof whom shall hold the grade ofFellow. The committee shall beresponsible to the Board ofDirectors, who shall appoint themembers annually for one-yearterms. Each of the Committee mem-bers judge, evaluate and rank almost80 nominees each. They look at fourmajor areas: individual contribu-tions, Technical Society/Councilevaluation, references, andendorsers, in addition to the profes-sional activities of the nominee.Total years in the profession are alsoconsidered.

Nominee Individual Contribution:The Individual Contribution of anominee is a major part of the evalu-

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ation process, and refers to the attrib-utes and level of involvement in thekey activities associated with each ofthe Categories as described here:• Application Engineer/Practitioner:

Responsible for product develop-ment, advancement in system, appli-cation or operation, project manage-ment or construction activity, processdevelopment, manufacturing inno-vation, codes or standards develop-ment, or other application of technol-ogy. For the most part, nominees inthis category are found in industry

• Educator: Responsible foradvancing electrical engineer-ing and scientific technologythrough education by the devel-oping curricula and/or coursesthat are innovative and unique

• Research Engineer/Scientist:Responsible for inventions, dis-coveries or advances in the stateof the art technological advances

• Technical Leader: Responsiblefor a managerial, team, or com-pany-wide effort using techni-cal innovation, and resulting in

outstanding performance, eco-nomic enhancements, or otheradvantages to benefit society

It should be noted here that eventhough nominations have been accept-ed for the newest Fellow category(Application Engineer/Practitioner)for nearly three years, the number ofFellows in this group is surprisinglylow. Out of the 295 Fellows named forthe Class of 2008, 20 were from thepractitioner group compared to the 15in the 268 member Class of 2007.

One reason for this low numbermight be that nominators are stillunsure about the type of work thatwould qualify someone for this cate-gory. Many nominators are checkingoff the Research Engineer/Scientistbox on the nomination form whenperhaps they should be marking theApplication Engineer/Practitionercategory. The position of some nom-inees is identified to be that of aresearch scientist or engineer, but thework for which they are being citedcould be considered that of a practi-

tioner. There were 225 Fellows fromthe scientist group in the 2008 class.

Role of the Fellow Committee: Thefifty-two members are divided into nom-ination evaluation groups and each ofthese groups evaluates an equal portion ofthe nominees under consideration. Asmentioned earlier, the norm is about 80per group. The criteria mentioned earlier– Individual Contributions / Evidence ofTechnical Accomplishment, TechnicalSociety/Council Evaluation, References /Endorsements and Professional Activities– are evaluated and scored. The IEEEBylaws specify that the maximum num-ber of Fellows that may be elected in anyyear is one tenth of one percent of the vot-ing membership. The Committee deter-mines that number through the scor-ing/ranking process.

Milestone Dates: The milestonedates for the Fellows Program are listedbelow. It should be noted that thesedates are firm, so as to provide appropri-ate time for each portion of the cycle andmaintain the integrity of the Program.

Contributor Activity Deadline Date

Nominator Nomination Form March 1

Reference Reference Form March 1

Endorsement Endorsement Form March 1

Society/Council Chair Submit Scores June 15

Fellow Committee Final Review Late September

Board of Directors Approve Slate November

The Fellow Activities Staff and Fellow Committee are ready to respond in a timely fashion to any questions, issues, andconcerns that all interested parties may have. Details about the program and the nomination process may be found athttp://www.ieee.org/fellows. The Fellow Staff may be reached via email at [email protected].

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Publication Section

Announcing a Special Issue of theIEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technologyfor Flexible Electronics and DisplaySubmission Deadline: 31 March 2008

The IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology (JDT)invites manuscript submissions for a special issue coveringthe Flexible Electronics and Display. The purpose of thisspecial issue is to document the latest frontiers in funda-mental research and technological development of flexibleelectronics and displays. The scope of this special issue cov-ers but not limited to Flexible Thin Film Transistors,Organic photovoltaic and sensors, Materials and process ofOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes, and other flexible displaytechnologies. All submissions will be reviewed in accor-dance with the normal procedures of the Journal.

The Primary Guest Editors for this issue is ProfessorHsin-Lung Chen, National Tsing Hua University,Taiwan and Dr. Jack Hou, Industrial TechnologyResearch Institute, Taiwan. Associate Guest Editors areProfessor Iain McCulloch, Imperial College, UK,Professor Gregory Raupp, Arizona State University andProfessor Vivek Subramanian, University of CaliforniaBerkeley.

The deadline for submission of manuscripts is 31March 2008 and publication is tentatively scheduled forthe September 2008 issue. Manuscripts should conformto requirements for regular papers (up to 8 double-column,single-spaced journal pages in length, keywords, biogra-

phies, etc.). The IEEE Copyright Form should be submit-ted after acceptance. The form will appear online in theAuthor Center in Manuscript Central after an acceptancedecision has been rendered.

For all papers published in JDT, there are voluntarypage charges 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.

Authors may opt to have figures displayed in color onIEEE Xplore at no extra cost, even if they are printed inblack and white in the hardcopy edition. Additionalcharges will apply if figures appear in color in the hardcopyedition of the Journal.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronicallythrough IEEE’s Manuscript Central:

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/leos-ieee. Be sure toselect “Special Issue” as the Manuscript Type, rather than“Original Paper.” This will ensure that your paper isdirected to the special issue editors. IEEE Tools forAuthors are available online at: http://www.ieee.org/organ-izations/pubs/transactions/information.htm

Inquiries can be directed to Lisa Jess, PublicationsAdministrative Assistant, IEEE LEOS Editorial Office,[email protected] (phone +1-732-465-6617; fax +1 732981 1138).

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