Applications of Photonic Technology 2

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Photonic Engineering and Business

   1. Optical Chip Interconnections: Economically Viable ?

      • Maarten Kuijk, Kamel Ayadi, Roger Vounckx, Gustaaf Borghs, Gerhard Bickel, Paul Heremans

      Pages 1-6

   2. Photon Capital: A Subsidy for Photonic Entrepreneurs

      • Carl W. Nelson

      Pages 7-13

3. Optical Materials, Lasers and Applied Optics

   1. Materials

      1. Functionalized Polymers for Electro-Optic Modulation Through Grating-Induced Resonant Excitation of Guided Modes

         • G. Blau, G. Vitrant, P.-A. Chollet, P. Raimond, F. Kajzar

         Pages 15-21

      2. Graded Effective Index Planar Polymer Waveguides with Application to Erbium-Doped Waveguide Amplifiers

         • J. N. McMullin, D. W. Boertjes, M. Krishnaswamy, B. P. Keyworth

         Pages 23-28

      3. Nonlinear Polarization Shaping in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

         • Gary Galstian, Tigran Galstyan

         Pages 29-32

      4. Refractive Index Gratings in CA3MN2GE3O12

         • R. A. Rupp, B. Sugg, S. L. Gnatchenko

         Pages 33-34

      5. Ti:LiNbO3 Single-Mode Waveguide Fabrication Parameters

         • S. Fernández Fernández, J. Rodríguez García, S. L. Palacios Díaz, R. Díaz Crespo, J. M. Fernández Díaz, A. Guinea Rueda

         Pages 35-40

      6. Optical Parametric Processes in Crystalline Molecular Layered Confinement Structures: Second Harmonic Generation in Microcavities

         • Serge Gauvin, Joseph Zyss

         Pages 41-49

      7. PZT Thin Films by Radio Frequency Magnetron Sputtering

         • D. X. Lu, E. M. W. Wong, E. Y. B. Pun, P. S. Chung, G. C. Jia

         Pages 51-54

      8. Nonlinear Optical Effects In Surface Crystallized 0.50TeO2–0.50 LiNbO3 Glasses

         • M. V. Shankar, K. B. R. Varma

         Pages 55-60

   2. Lasers

      1. Solitons in Femtosecond Lasers

         • Michel Piché, Jean-François Cormier, Allaoua Belahlou, Isabelle Richard, Xiaonong Zhu, Simon Deblois

         Pages 61-68

      2. Fast Frequency Shift of Laser Diode by Optical Short Pulse Irradiation

         • Ryoji Ohba, Sasono Rahardjo, Seiichi Kakuma, Norihiko Takahashi, Toshiyuki Suzuki, Takushi Tanaka et al.

         Pages 69-74

      3. Threshold Condition of Single-Mode Gain-Coupled DFB Lasers

         • Jianyao Chen, Alain Champagne, Roman Maciejko, Toshihiko Makino

         Pages 75-80

      4. Demonstration of a Cold Start Procedure for a Laser Source Frequency-Locked to Molecular Absorption Lines

         • Jean François Cliche, Michel Têtu, Christine Latrasse, Claude Gamache, Normand Cyr, Bernard Villeneuve

         Pages 81-86

      5. Holographic Mirrors for Laser Mode Control

         • Reza Massudi, Jean-François Lepage, Geneviève Anctil, Sébastien Gilbert, Damien Stryckman, Nathalie McCarthy et al.

         Pages 87-92

      6. Phase-Noise Measurement of a Stabilized Single-Longitudinal-Mode Er3+-Doped-Fiber Laser

         • Véronique François, Gregory W. Schinn, Serguei Tchouragoulov, Marc Levesque

         Pages 93-98

      7. Theoretical Modeling of Er-Doped Waveguide Laser Using Time-Domain Algorithm

         • T. I. Yuk, Y. M. Ma, S. F. Yu, J. C. Palais

         Pages 99-104

   3. Applied Optics

      1. Airborne Obstacle Avoidance Lidar Using Q-Switched Erbium-Doped Fiber Lasers

         • François Séguin, Eric S. Johnstone, Franz Blaha

         Pages 105-111

      2. Diffractive Lens Dispersion Characteristic as Wavemeter for Optical Communications

         • Simon Thibault

         Pages 113-117

This book presents a current review ofphotonic technologies and their applications. The papers published in this book are extended versions of the papers presented at the Inter­ national Conference on Applications ofPhotonic Technology (ICAPT'96) held in Montreal, Canada, on July 29 to August 1, 1996. The theme of this event was "Closing the Gap Between Theory, Developments and Applications. " The term photonics covers both optics and optical engineering areas of growing sci­ entific and commercial importance throughout the world. It is estimated that photonic tech­ nology-related applications to increase exponentially over the next few years and will play a significant role in the global economy by reaching a quarter of a trillion of US dollars by the year 2000. The global interest and advancements of this technology are represented in this book, where leading scientists of twenty-two countries with advanced technology in photon­ ics present their latest results. The papers selected herein are grouped to address six distinct areas ofphotonic tech­ nology. The reader will find throughout the book a combination of invited and contributed papers which reflect the state of the art today and provide some insight about the future of this technology. The first two papers are invited. They discuss business aspects ofphotonic engineer­ ing. One examines if chip-to-chip interconnections by means of optical technology are a good economic choice, while the other discusses the photonic technology from entre­ preneurial viewpoint. Papers related to materials and considered for photonic applications, e. g.

• Laser
• Lidar
• SSI
• applied optics
• communication
• integrated circuit
• memory management unit

• A.U.G. Signals Ltd., Toronto, Canada

  George A. Lampropoulos

• Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada

  Roger A. Lessard

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