Organizers:

Lawrence C. Cowsar
Bell Laboratories
Lucent Technologies
cowsar@bell-labs.com
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/cowsar/

and

William L. Kath
Northwestern University
Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics
kath@nwu.edu
http://asp.esam.nwu.edu/kath/

The goal of this 2-day workshop is to discuss progress and challenges in modeling and analysis of optical devices. Workshop participants will consist of industry representatives and applied mathematicians from academia. The goal is to provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-arts, and to discuss the open problems, challenges, and industry needs that remain. Topics to be addressed in the workshop includes: nonlinear optics, optical waveguides, optimal design, diffractive gratings, fibre-optical couplers, amplifiers. The workshop should articulate current research direction and open problems, and provide directions for future research in this important area.

The format of the workshop will be presentations and discussions. The workshop has been designed to be small and informal to maximize the opportunities for collaboration.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.

Thursday

Friday

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
8:30 am	Coffee and Registration	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:00 am	<> Fadil Santosa, Fred Dulles, and William L. Kath	Introduction
Optical Interconnects and Local Area Networks
9:30 am	<>J. Allen Cox Honeywell Technology Center	Role of Optics in Very High Throughput Communication for Parallel Processing
10:00 am	<>John S. Abbott Corning Incorporated	Modeling of Light Propagation in 1- and 10- Gigabit LANS
10:30 am	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
Optical Modeling Techniques
11:00 am	<>Curtis R. Menyuk University of Maryland Baltimore County	Advances in Modeling Optical Fiber Transmission Systems
11:30 am	<>Dipak Chowdhury Corning Incorporated	Component Modeling at Corning Incorporated
1:30 pm	<>Charles Haggans CIENA Corporation	Application of Optical Simulations from the Perspective of a Device and Module Designer
2:00 pm	<> Robert Indik University of Arizona	Modeling Semiconductor Lasers: From Microsopic Physics to Device Applications
2:30 pm	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
Diffractive Optics I
3:00 pm	<>Fernando Reitich University of Minnesota	Calculation of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Scattering via Boundary Variations and Analytic Continuation
3:30 pm	<>David Yevick University of Waterloo	Studies of Absorbing, Impedance-Matched and Transparent Boundary Conditions for Schrödinger-Type Equations
4:00 pm	Discussion
5:00 - 7:00 pm	<>Poster Session and Pizza Party	Lind Hall 4th Floor
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
8:45 am	Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
Optical Waveguides
9:00 pm	<>David Dobson Texas A&M University	Numerical Modeling and Design Optimization of Periodic Dielectric Structures
9:30 am	<>Chris White Lucent Technologies	Understanding Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Structured Photonic Crystals
Diffractive Optics II
10:00 am	<>Alessandra Chiareli 3M	Troubleshooting Fiber Bragg Grating Fabrication with Modeling
10:30 am	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
Optical Solitons
11:00 am	<>Alejandro Aceves University of New Mexico	Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Fiber Gratings, Theory and Experiment
11:30 am	<>Matthew L. Mitchell Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies	Coherent and Incoherent Spatial Solitons
Reduced Models
1:30 pm	<>Vladimir S. Grigoryan University of Maryland Baltimore County	Comparison of Theory and Experiment for Long Distance Dispersion-managed Soliton Transmission
2:00 pm	<>William L. Kath Northwestern University	Reduced Model for Return-to-zero Pulse Propagation in Dispersion-managed Optical Fibers
2:30 pm	Break	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
3:00 - 4:30 pm	Discussions

Thursday

Friday

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

as of 9/9/99

Name	Department	Affiliation
John Abbott		Corning Inc.
Alejandro Aceves	Mathematics & Statistics	University of New Mexico
Gang Bao	Mathematics	University of Florida/Michigan State University
William Berglund	Electrical Engineering	University of Minnesota
Rob Brott	Microreplication Technology Center	3M
Oscar Bruno	Applied Mathematics	Caltech
Alessandra Chiareli	Corporate Research Labs	3M
Dipakbin Qasem Chowdhury		Corning Ins.
Lawrence Cowsar		Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Allen Cox		Honeywell
Palle G. Dinesen	Applied Math	Brown University
David Dobson	Mathematics	Texas A&M University
Fred Dulles		Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Avner Friedman	MCIM	University of Minnesota
Anand Gopinath	Electrical & Computer Engr.	University of Minnesota
Vladimir S. Grigoryan	Computer Science & Electrical Engineering	University of Maryland
Charles W. Haggans	Photonic Technologies	CIENA Corporation
Jan S. Hesthaven	Applied Mathematics	Brown University
Thomas Hoffend		3M
Robert Indik	Mathematics	University of Arizona
Bill Kath	Engineering Science & Applied Math	Northwestern University
Prakash Koonath	Electrical Engineering	University of Minnesota
Nathan Kutz	Applied Mathematics	University of Washington
Chanin Laliew	Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	University of Minnesota
Gregory G. Luther	Process Engineering and Modeling	Corning Inc.
Brian Marks	ESAM Department	Northwestern University
Curtis Menyuk	Computer Science & Electrical Engineering	University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Willard Miller		Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
David Misemer		3M
Matthew Mitchell	Bell Laboratories	Lucent Technologies
Peter Monk	Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Arje Nachman		AFOSR/NM
T. Craig Poling		Lockheed Martin
Fernando Reitich	Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Fadil Santosa	MCIM	IMA & Minnesota Center for Industrial Math
Noel Smyth	Mathematics and Statistics	University of Edinburgh
Roger Strharsky	Film/Light Management Technology Center	3M
Tri Van	Mathematics	Air Force Institute of Technology
Martin J. Vos	CRL SEMS	3M
Michael I. Weinstein	Fundamental Mathematics Research	Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies
Chris White	Materials Chemistry Research	Lucent Techologies
David Yevick		University of Waterloo
Vadim Zharnitsky	Applied Mathematics	Brown University

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