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S guest editors, we are pleased to introduce the JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY (JLT) Special Issue on Nano-Optoelectronics and Applications. This special issue features invited papers as well as papers received based on an open call for papers. All the papers were reviewed by experts in the field. Nanotechnology is expected to play a significant role in many industry sectors including health, energy, water, environment, defense, computing, electronics, communications, and optoelectronics. There has been a significant global investment in this field by both the governments and the private sector. Nano-optoelectronics is the field of study featuring the interaction of light with nanostructures, such as quantum dots, nanocrystals, nanowires, nanotubes, photonic crystals, metamaterials, plasmonics. This includes generation, detection, manipulation, and control of light based on nanostructures. This special issue on nano-optoelectronics features recent developments in photonic crystals microcavity laser arrays and waveguides, high Q-factor photonic crystal nanocavities, quantum dot photonic crystal vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, photonic crystal nanocavity optical switches, photonic crystal 3D microcavities, tunable photonic crystal microcavity devices, quantum dot doped optical fiber amplifiers, nanoprocessed GaN light-emitting diodes, plasmonic metal nanowire structures, optical interconnects, silicon nanocrystal light

emitters, and quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifiers. This issue also features 40-Gb/s electroabsorption modulated lasers, 10-Gb/s optical modules for optical interconnects, all optical WDM networks, terahertz emitters from semiconductor nanostructures, and sensors. We would like to thank Prof. Connie Chang-Hasnain, Editor-in-Chief of the JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY for suggesting this special issue and for her guidance and help with various issues related to this special issue. Our special thanks are due to Mr. Douglas Hargis, Publication Coordinator of JLT, for his enthusiastic support and help in dealing with various matters related to this special issue. Finally, we thank all the authors and reviewers for their contribution to this special issue.

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YI LUO, Guest Editor Tsinghua University Beijing 100084, China DENNIS G. DEPPE, Guest Editor University of Central Florida Orlando, FL 32816 USA CHENNUPATI JAGADISH, Guest Editor Australian National University Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia

Yi Luo received the B.E. degree in engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1983, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1987 and 1990, respectively. From April 1990 to March 1992, he was with the Optical Measurement Technology Development Company, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. In 1992, he returned to Tsinghua University and was appointed as a Lecturer of the Department of Electronic Engineering. Since the end of 1992, he has been a full Professor of the same department. From 1997, he has also been the Director of the State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics. His research interests include DFB lasers, including those with gain coupling and monolithic integration of DFB laser with other semiconductor optoelectronic devices, key technologies for solid state lighting, materials growth technology using MOCVD and MBE, devices fabrication technology such as dry etching, thin film deposition, packaging technologies for high-speed optoelectronic devices and solid state lighting such as 40-Gb/s EML transmitter and modules of white LEDs for lighting applications. He has published more than 200 technical articles, including 68 peer-reviewed international journal papers and about 80 international conference papers.

Dennis G. Deppe (S’85–M’90–SM’97–F’00) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981, 1985, and 1988. His Ph.D. work centered on atom diffusion in III–V semiconductor heterostructures and its use in superlattice disordering and laser fabrication. He is a Professor in the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, and holds the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence Endowed Chair in Nanophotonics. After receiving the Ph.D. degree, he was employed as a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, where he researched and developed vertical-cavity surface-emit0733-8724/$25.00 © 2008 IEEE

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ting lasers. From December 1990 to November 2005, he was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin, where he became Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and held the Cullen Trust Endowed Professorship in Engineering. He joined the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida in November of 2005. His research specialties include optoelectronics, laser physics, epitaxial crystal growth, and quantum optics. His research has included a number of breakthroughs, including the identification of the Si-vacancy complex as responsible for Si diffusion in GaAs and AlGaAs, the identification of the p-dopant base diffusion mechanism in III–V bipolar transistors, the first demonstration of a continuous-wave laser on Si, the first oxide-confined VCSEL, the first GaAs-based 1.3- m quantum dot laser diode, and the first demonstrations of high To quantum dot laser diodes. He has published over 200 journal articles and presented over 200 conference papers in area of III-V semiconductors. Dr. Deppe has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research, the Nicholas Holonyak, Jr. Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA), the IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer Award, and the IEEE LEOS Engineering Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the OSA.

Chennupati Jagadish (S’84–M’89–SM92–F’02) was born and educated in India, where he received the B.Sc., M.Sc.(tech.), M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees. He has worked in India and Canada prior to moving to Australia in 1990, where he established a major research program in the field of semiconductor optoelectronics and nanotechnology. He is currently a Federation Fellow, Professor and Head of the Semiconductor Optoelectronics and Nanotechnology Group in the Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. His research interests include compound semiconductor optoelectronics and nanotechnology including quantum dots, nanowires, lasers, photodetectors, photonic integrated circuits, photonic crystals, THz photonics. Prof. Jagadish is a winner of the 2000 IEEE Millennium Medal, the Peter Baume Award from the ANU, and served as a Distinguished Lecturer of both IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) and IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS). He has published more than 530 research papers (350 journal papers), holds 5 U.S. patents, coauthored a book, coedited a book, edited ten conference proceedings, and guest edited many journal special issues. He is serving currently as President of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (2008-2009), Associate Vice-President (Membership and Regional Activities—Asia-Pacific) of IEEE LEOS (2008) and is also a member of the IEEE Fellow Selection Committee (2006-2008). He is a Fellow of the APS, OSA, SPIE, ECS, AAAS, IET, AIP, IoP, IoN, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and the Australian Academy of Science. He has also served as Vice-President (Publications) of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) from 2004-2005, Chair of the Nano-Optoelectronics and Nano-Photonics Technical Committee of NTC (2003-2006), Chair of the NTC Awards Committee and Vice-President (Membership and Regional Activities of LEOS (2006-2007)). He served as an elected member of EDS AdCom (1999-2004), and as Chair of Optoelectronic Devices Technical Committee of EDS (1998-2003). He also served as a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Committee (TC), compound semiconductor devices and circuits TC of EDS. He served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2001-2005) and is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY (2003-2008) and Editor of IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS (2008). He is also Founding Editor of On-Line Journal of Nanotechnology and a member of editorial boards of Applied Physics Reviews, J.Physics D: Applied Physics, Nanoscale Research Letters, Nanotech Briefs, Ethics in Nanotechnology, Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, and several other journals. He is the Convener of the Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network and chaired many conferences (Chair of ICONN 2006, Program Chair of IEEE NANO2003, Program Chair, IEEE LEOS 2008) and served on many international professional society committees. He advises high-tech industries in Australia and overseas in the field of photonics and nanotechnology and has collaborated with researchers from 20 different countries.