Introduction to the Issue on High-Speed Photonic ... - IEEE Xplore

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, VOL. 13, NO. 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2007

1

Introduction to the Issue on High-Speed Photonic Integrated Circuits ELCOME to the issue on High-Speed Photonic Integrated Circuits. This issue represents today’s advancement in monolithic integration and high-level function integration of optoelectronic and all-optical circuits that enable transmission, switching, and signal processing at data rates from 40 to 160 Gbps and beyond. The issue consists of nine invited and five contributed papers that report on advancements in integration complexity of high-speed all-optical and optoelectronic integrated circuit (OEIC) wavelength converters and the performance of high-speed components for monolithic integration including tunable transmitters, photodetectors, lasers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, and modulators. Another important aspect that is covered in several papers is the application of integrated signal processing components and technologies for optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM) and wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) networks. The Guest Editors would like to take the opportunity to thank the authors and reviewers, without whom this issue would not

W

have been possible. They would also like to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of Chin Tan-yan of the IEEE LEOS office for her management of the review processes and editorial services. DANIEL J. BLUMENTHAL, Guest Editor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA HELMUT HEIDRICH, Guest Editor Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich-Hertz-Institut 10587 Berlin, Germany KENJI SATO, Guest Editor Numazu College of Technology Numazu-Shi 410-8501, Japan

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.889961 1077-260X/$25.00 © 2007 IEEE

2

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, VOL. 13, NO. 1, JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2007

Daniel J. Blumenthal (S’91–M’93–SM’97–F’03) received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, in 1981, the M.S.E.E. degree from Columbia University, New York, NY, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1993. During 1981, he was with StorageTek, Louisville, CO, and from 1993 to 1997, he was an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a co-founder of Calient Networks, an optical switching system company. His current research interests include optical communications, photonic packet switched and all-optical networks, all-optical wavelength conversion, ultrafast communications systems, integrated photonic circuits, and nanophotonic technologies. He is the author or coauthor of more than 240 papers in these and related areas. He is a coauthor of Tunable Laser Diodes and Related Optical Sources (IEEE/Wiley, 2005). He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS and an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS. He has been a Guest Editor for the special issue of the IEEE JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY on photonic packet switching systems (December 1998) and the special issue of the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS on high-performance optical/electronic switches/routers for high-speed Internet. Dr. Blumenthal is the Director of the LASOR center at UCSB, a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Data in the Optical Domain Network (DOD-N) program. He is a member of the Board of Directors for National LambdaRail (NLR). He is a Fellow of the IEEE LEOS and IEEE Communications Society and the Optical Society of America (OSA). He is the recipient of the 1999 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House, the 1994 National Science Foundation Young Investigator (NYI) Award, and the 1997 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award. He was the General Program Chair for the 2001 OSA Topical Meeting on Photonics in Switching and a Program Chair for the 1999 Meeting on Photonics in Switching. He has been a member of various technical program committees including the Conference on Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) from 1997 to 2000, the Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO) from 1999 to 2000, the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) from 2004 to 2005, and SIGCOMM 2006.

Helmut Heidrich received the Dipl. Phys. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in physics from the Technische Universit¨at Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 1973 and 1979, respectively. He has worked with Standard Electric Lorenz AG, Berlin. In 1982, he joined the Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), as the Head of a group working on integrated optics of LiNbO3 devices. He has headed several national and European projects within HHI on the development of complex photonic ICs (PICs), e.g., heterodyne receivers, optical millimeter-wave sources, bidirectional 1.5/1.3-µm transceivers, and mode-locked laser PICs. Currently, he is the Project Manager of a national project for the development of SOAs for 40-Gb/s DQPSK application, coordinator of the European IST-project WAPITI (Waferbonding and Active Passive Integration Technology and Implementation), and Workpackage Manager for active devices within the European IST-project FUNFOX (Functional Photonic Crystal Devices for Metropolitan Optical Networks). His current research interests include R&D on PICs based on InP.

Kenji Sato (M’95) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 1978, 1980, and 1992, respectively. In 1980, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Electrical Communications Laboratories. He has worked at NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan. He is currently a Professor of electrical and electronics engineering at Numazu College of Technology Numazu-Shi, Japan. His current research interests include semiconductor lasers and electromagnetic noise. Dr. Sato is a member of the Physical Society of Japan, the Japan Society of Applied Physics, and the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan.