• Conference Chair:
  • Yi Luo, Tsinghua Univ. (China)
    
• Cochairs:
  • Jens Buus, Gayton Photonics Ltd. (United Kingdom);
  • Fumio Koyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan);
  • Yu-Hwa Lo, Univ. of California/San Diego
    
• Program Committee:
  • Alfred R. Adams, Univ. of Surrey (United Kingdom);
  • Markus-Christian Amann, Technische Univ. Muenchen (Germany);
  • Dan Botez, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison;
    
  • Kent D. Choquette, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
  • Jen-Inn Chyi, National Central Univ. (Taiwan);
    
  • David S. Citrin, Georgia Institute of Technology;
  • Yong-Zhen Huang, Institute of Semiconductors (China);
    
  • Akihiko Kasukawa, The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (Japan);
  • Yong-Hee Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea); Kikuo Makita, NEC Corp. (Japan); Yoshiaki Nakano, The Univ. of Tokyo (Japan);
  • Markus Pessa, Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland);
  • Min Qiu, The Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden);
  • Berthold E. Schmidt, Bookham AG (Switzerland);
  • Meint K. Smit, Technische Univ. Eindhoven (Netherlands);
  • Shinji Tsuji, Hitachi, Ltd. (Japan);
  • Shih-Yuan Wang, Hewlett-Packard Labs.;
    
  • Lech Wosinski, The Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden);
  • Ming C. Wu, Univ. of California/Berkeley;
    
  • Chih-Chung Yang, National Taiwan Univ. (Taiwan);
  • Siyuan Yu, Univ. of Bristol (United Kingdom)
• Subjects:
  • Semiconductor diode lasers, DFBs, VCSELs, Fabry-Perot, arrays, tunable and multiple wavelength lasers
  • Semiconductor optical amplifiers
  • Photonic crystals
  • Plasmonics
  • Nanostructured materials and Quantum Dots
  • GaN related materials and devices
  • Rare-earth-doped materials and devices
  • Photodetectors and receivers
  • Wavelength conversion
  • Non-linear devices
  • Ultra-high-speed and ultrafast devices, 40 Gb/s and beyond
  • Optoelectronic, OE device fabrication, modeling and characterization
  • OE integrated circuits, hybrid, monolithic and packaging
• Confirmed invited papers:
  • Mehdi Asghari, Kotura Inc. (USA), to be determined
  • Connie Chang-Hasnain, University of California-Berkeley (USA), “Nano-mechanical tunable VCSELs”
  • Fumio Koyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, (Japan), “VCSEL: it’s 30 years history and new challenge”
  • Yong-Zhen Huang, Institute of Semiconductors/CAS (China), “Mode behavior in microcavity”
  • Hiroshi Ishikawa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), “Ultra-high speed photonic switching based on sub-band transition of QWs”
  • Gustav Kalbe, European Commission/Directorate General Information Society and Media (European Union), “Research on Photonic Components - the perspective of the European Commission”
  • Tsutomu Kitoh, NTT (Japan), “Recent advances of planar lightwave circuits”
  • Yasuo Kokubun, Yohohama National University (Japan), “Micro-ring resonators for optical crossconnects”
  • Yuhwa Lo, University of California - San Diego (USA), “Microfl uidic photonic integrated circuits”
  • Hong-Gyu Park, Korea University (South Korea), “Hybrid single nanowire photonic structures”
  • Matsuo Shinji, NTT (Japan), “Frequencymodulated lasers for high-speed and long-haul data transmission”
  • Chang-Zheng Sun, Tsinghua University (China), “40 Gb/s InGaAlAs EML”
  • Si-yuan Yu, University of Bristol (UK), “Digital photonic functions of semiconductor micro-ring laser