Analysis and Modeling of Optical Devices

September 09 - 10, 1999

Content

Overview

Organizers:

Lawrence Cowsar	Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories
William Kath	Northwestern University

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.

Schedule

Thursday, September 09, 1999

8:30 am - 9:00 am	Coffee and Registration	Keller 3-176
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Introduction	Keller 3-180
9:30 am - 10:00 am	Role of Optics in Very High Throughput Communication for Parallel Processing J. Allen Cox (Honeywell)	Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Modeling of Light Propagation in 1- and 10- Gigabit LANS John Abbott (Corning Incorporated)	Keller 3-180
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Advances in Modeling Optical Fiber Transmission Systems Curtis Menyuk (University of Maryland Baltimore County)	Keller 3-180
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Component Modeling at Corning Incorporated Dipak Chowdhury (Corning Incorporated)	Keller 3-180
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Application of Optical Simulations from the Perspective of a Device and Module Designer Charles Haggans (Ciena Corporation)	Keller 3-180
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Modeling Semiconductor Lasers: From Microsopic Physics to Device Applications Robert Indik (University of Arizona)	Keller 3-180
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Break	Keller 3-176
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Calculation of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Scattering via Boundary Variations and Analytic Continuation Fernando Reitich (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Keller 3-180
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Studies of Absorbing, Impedance-Matched and Transparent Boundary Conditions for Schrödinger-Type Equations David Yevick (University of Waterloo)	Keller 3-180
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Discussion	Keller 3-180
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Poster Session and Pizza Party	Lind 400

Friday, September 10, 1999

8:45 am - 9:00 am	Coffee	Keller 3-176
9:00 am - 9:30 am	Numerical Modeling and Design Optimization of Periodic Dielectric Structures David Dobson (Texas A & M University)	Keller 3-180
9:30 am - 10:00 am	Understanding Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Structured Photonic Crystals Chris White (Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories)	Keller 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Troubleshooting Fiber Bragg Grating Fabrication with Modeling Alessandra Chiareli (3M)	Keller 3-180
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Break	Keller 3-176
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Pulse Propagation in Nonlinear Fiber Gratings, Theory and Experiment Alejandro Aceves (University of New Mexico)	Keller 3-180
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Coherent and Incoherent Spatial Solitons Matthew Mitchell (Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories)	Keller 3-180
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Comparison of Theory and Experiment for Long Distance Dispersion-managed Soliton Transmission Vladimir Grigoryan (University of Maryland)	Keller 3-180
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Reduced Model for Return-to-zero Pulse Propagation in Dispersion-managed Optical Fibers William Kath (Northwestern University)	Keller 3-180
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Break	Keller 3-176
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Discussions	Keller 3-180

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
John Abbott		Corning Incorporated
Alejandro Aceves	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	University of New Mexico
Todd Ballen	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Gang Bao	Department of Mathematics	Michigan State University
William Berglund	Department of Electrical Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Rob Brott	Microreplication Technology Center	3M
Oscar Bruno	Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics	California Institute of Technology
Alessandra Chiareli		3M
Dipak Chowdhury	SP TD-01-2	Corning Incorporated
Lawrence Cowsar	Bell Laboratories	Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories
J. Allen Cox	Honeywell Sensors & Wireless Lab	Honeywell
Palle Dinesen	Division of Applied Mathematics	Brown University
David Dobson	Department of Mathematics	Texas A & M University
Fred Dulles	Institute for Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yalchin Efendiev	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Avner Friedman	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jay Gopalakrishnan	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Anand Gopinath	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Vladimir Grigoryan	Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering	University of Maryland
Charles Haggans	Photonic Technologies	Ciena Corporation
Takumi Hawa	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jan Hesthaven	Division of Applied Mathematics	Brown University
Thomas Hoffend Jr.	Display and Graphics Business Laboratory	3M
Robert Indik	Department of Mathematics	University of Arizona
William Kath	Department of Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics	Northwestern University
Prakash Koonath	Department of Electrical Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Rachel Kuske	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Nathan Kutz	Department of Applied Mathematics	University of Washington
Chanin Laliew	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jim Leger	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Gregory Luther	Process Engineering and Modeling	Corning Incorporated
Brian Marks	ESAM	Northwestern University
Curtis Menyuk	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	University of Maryland Baltimore County
Willard Miller Jr.	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
David Misemer	Department of Research and Development	3M
Matthew Mitchell	Bell Laboratories	Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories
Peter Monk	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Arje Nachman	AFOSR	US Air Force Research Laboratory
David Nicholls	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Nilima Nigam	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Alexei Novikov		California Institute of Technology
Daniel Olson	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Fernando Reitich	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Eric Shields	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Noel Smyth		University of Edinburgh
Roger Strharsky	Film/Light Management Technology Center	3M
Tri Van	Department of Mathematics	Air Force Institute of Technology
Martin Vos		3M
Chris White		Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories
David Yevick	Department of Physics	University of Waterloo
Qiwen Zhan	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Shuxia Zhang	Minnesota Supercomputing Institute	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Vadim Zharnitsky	Department of Applied Mathematics	Brown University