WECS Schedule
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Tuesday Jan. 5, 1999
6:00 PM
7:00 PM
Pre-Registration
7:00 PM
9:00 PM

Welcome Reception

 
 
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1999
7:30 AM
8:40 AM

Continental Breakfast & Registration

8:40 AM
9:00 AM
Eli Yablonovitch
Welcome Greeting
I. Self-Assembled Optical-Scale Fcc Photonic Crystals
Chairman: Ad Lagendijk, Univ. of Amsterdam
9:00 AM
9:20 AM
Ray Baughman
AlliedSignal Inc., Res.& Tech. 
"Optical Photonic Crystals by Self-Assembly: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties"
9:20 AM
9:40 AM
Sajeev John
University of Toronto 
"Photonic Band Gap Formation And Tunability In Certain Self-Organizing Systems"
9:40 AM
10:00 AM
Sergey Gaponenko
National Academy of Science 
"Spontaneous Emission of Organic Molecules and Semiconductor Nanocrystals in a Photonic Crystal"
10:00AM
10:20AM
Willem Vos
University of Amsterdam 
"Optical Experiments on 3D Photonic Crystals"
10:20 AM
10:40 AM
Coffee Break
II. Physical Effects In Confined Photonic Structures
Chairman: Axel Scherer, Caltech
10:40 AM
11:00 AM
Claude Weisbuch
Ecole Polytechnique 
"Nanoscale Optoelectronic Devices"
11:00 AM
11:20 AM
Roel Baets
Univ. of Ghent-IMEC 
"Cavity Enhanced Light Emitting Diodes"
11:20 AM
11:40 AM
J. M. Gérard
CNET France 
"Purcell Enhancement in Semiconductor Quantum Dots"
11:40 AM
12:00 AM
Mark Bloemer
U. S. Army Aviation & Missile Command
"Transparent, One-Dimensionally Layered Metallic Optical Filters"
12:00 AM
1:20 PM

Lunch

III. 2-d Semiconductor Photonic Crystals
Chairman: Thomas Krauss, Univ. of Glasgow
1:20 PM
1:40 PM
J. F. Young
University of British Columbia 
"Bound and Quasi-Bound Electromagnetic Excitations in Two Dimensionally-Textured Slab Waveguides"
1:40 PM
2:00 PM
M. Skolnick
The University of Sheffield 
"White Light Reflectivity of Photonic Band Structure Waveguides"
2:00 PM
2:20 PM
M. Boroditsky
UCLA
"Spontaneous Emission from Thin-slab 2-d Photonic Crystals"
2:20 PM
2:40 PM
T. Baba
Yokohama National University
"Photoluminescence from GaInAsP/InP 2-d Photonic Crystals"
2:40 PM
3:00 PM
Oral Snapshots of Posters
3:00 PM
4:40 PM
Break, Poster Viewing & Refreshments
IV. Novel Electromagnetic Crystal Concepts
Chairman: Anthony J. Campillo, Naval Research Lab
4:40 PM
5:00 PM
P. St. J. Russell
University of Bath 
"Photonic Crystal Fibres"
5:00 PM
5:20 PM
Hideo Kosaka
NEC
"Super Prism Phenomena in Photonic Crystal Integrated Optics on Silicon"
5:20 PM
5:40 PM
Kazuo Ohtaka
Chiba University 
"Density of States of a Slab Photonic Crystal of Arrayed Spheres"
5:40 PM
6:00 PM
C.T. Chan
Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech.
"Photonic Band Gaps In Two Dimensional Photonic Quasicrystals"
6:00 PM

Free Evening: Dinner in Laguna Beach

 
 
Thursday, Jan. 7, 1999
7:30 AM
8:40AM

Continental Breakfast

V. Two-Dimensional Plasmon Band Structure
Chairman: Eli Yablonovitch, UCLA
8:40 AM
9:00 AM
Tineke Thio
NEC Research Institute
"Surface Plasmons Enhance Transmission of Metal Films Perforated with Hole Arrays"
9:00 AM
9:20 AM
Bill Barnes
University of Exeter 
"Surface Plasmon Band Structure"
9:20 AM
9:40 AM
J.M. Pendry
Imperial College
"Plasmon Band Structure at Microwave and Optical Frequencies"
9:40 AM
10:00 AM
Vladimir Shalaev
New Mexico State University 
"Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Radiation Effects in Confined Photonic Systems"
10:00 AM
10:20 AM
Coffee Break
VI. Optical and Acoustic Band Structure
Chairman: John Joannopoulos, MIT
10:20 AM
10:40 AM
Shanhui Fan
MIT Physics Dept.
“Measuring Photonic Bandstructure with Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy”
10:40 AM
11:00 AM
Yoel Fink
MIT Materials Sci. & Eng. Dept.
"A Dielectric Omnidirectional Reflector" 
11:00 AM
11:20 AM
Jose Sanchez-Dehesa
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 
"The Existence of Full Gaps and Deaf Bands in 2D Sonic Crystals"
11:20 AM
11:40 AM
William M. Robertson
Middle Tennesse State University 
"Two-Dimensional Acoustic Stop Bands"
11:40 AM
1:00 PM

Lunch

VII. Stimulated Emission In 2-D Photonic Crystals
Chairman: Amnon Yariv, Caltech
1:00 PM
1:20 PM
Leslie Kolodziejski
MIT Elec Eng & Comp Sci. Dept.
"GaAs-Based Photonic Bandgap Devices"
1:20 PM
1:40 PM
Ananth Dodabalapur
Bell Laboratories 
"Organic-based 2-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Lasers"
1:40 PM
2:00 PM
Oskar Painter
Caltech Electrical Engineering Dept. 
"Optical Microcavities in 2D Patterned Waveguides"
2:00 PM
2:20 PM
Joseph Haus
RPI Physics Dept. 
"Mode Symmetry And Its Consequences In Photonic Lattices"
2:20 PM
4:10 PM

Long Break--Walk on the Beach

VIII. Fabrication of 3-d Optical Bandgap Structures
Chairman: Toshihiko Baba, Yokohama Nat'l Univ.
4:10 PM
4:30 PM
Kai-Ming Ho
Iowa State University 
"Photonic crystals at higher frequencies"
4:30 PM
4:50 PM
S. Noda
University of Kyoto 
"Alignment and Stacking Of Semiconductor Photonic Band Gaps By Wafer Fusion"
4:50 PM
5:10 PM
Shawn Lin
Sandia National Laboratory 
"Photonic Band Gap Prisms"
5:10 PM
5:30 PM
Oral Snapshots of Posters
5:30 PM
7:00 PM

Poster Viewing

7:00 PM
8:30 PM

Banquet

8:30 PM
9:30 PM

Panel Discussion chaired by Henry Everitt, Claude Weisbuch, John Joannopoulos, and Axel Scherer.

 
 
 
Friday, Jan. 8, 1999
7:30 AM
8:40 AM

Continental Breakfast

IX. Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Crystal Structures
Chairman: Will McKinzie, Atlantic Aerospace, Md.
8:40 AM
9:00 AM
Kevin Malloy
University of New Mexico 
"Compact Microstrip Patch Antennas on EM Crystal Substrates"
9:00 AM
9:20 AM
Alain Priou
University of Paris X Nanterre 
"Improving Microwave Antennas (reflector and arrays) by using PBG Materials"
9:20 AM
9:40 AM
Costas M. Soukoulis
Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University 
"Metallic and Dielectric Applications in the Microwave and Millimeter Regime"
9:40 AM
10:00 AM
Dan Sievenpiper
UCLA
"High-Impedance Electromagnetic Crystal Ground Planes"
10:00 AM
10:20 AM
Aiden Higgins
Rockwell Science Center 
"Photonic Structures for Waveguide Field Shaping"
10:20 AM
10:40 AM
Coffee Break
X. Microwave Electromagnetic Crystal Devices
Erland Wikborg, Ericsson, Sweden
10:40 AM
11:00 AM
Linda Katehi
University of Michigan 
"Microwave & mmWave Circuit Applications of Electromagnetic Crystal Structures"
11:00 AM
11:20 AM
Jean-Michel Lourtioz
Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale 
"Towards Controllable PBGs for Centimeter and Millimeter Wave Devices"
11:20 AM
11:40 AM
Hector De Los Santos
Hughes Space & Comm. Co. 
"Design of Electromagnetic Crystal RF Filters"
11:40 AM
12:00 AM
Shelley Schultz
UCSD
"Electromagnetic Crystal Resonators for LINAC Accelerators"
12:00 AM
1:00 PM

Lunch

XI. Self-Assembled Optical-Scale Photonic Crystals
Chairman: Francisco Meseguer, Univ. Politecnica Valencia
1:00 PM
1:20 PM
Samson A.Jenekhe
University of Rochester
"Self-Assembly of Photonic Band Gap Mesostructures From Rod-Coil Block Copolymers"
1:20 PM
1:40 PM
Edwin L. Thomas
MIT Dept. of Mat Sci & Eng. 
"Block Copolymer Based Photonic Band Gap Materials"
1:40 PM
2:00 PM
Shojiro Kawakami
Tohoku University 
"Autocloning: a New Concept of Fabricating Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals"
2:00 PM
2:20 PM
Coffee Break
XII. Novel Electromagnetic Crystal Concepts
Jon P. Dowling, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech
2:20 PM
2:40 PM
Daozhong Zhang
Academia Sinica 
"Silica Photonic Crystals in the Visible Region"
2:40 PM
3:00 PM
Chul-Sik Kee
Korea Advanced Institute of Sci. & Tech. 
"Heliconic Band Structure of 1-d Periodic Metallic Composites"
3:00 PM
3:20 PM
Amnon Yariv
CalTech 
"Mode Conversion in Multimode Periodic Waveguides-Theory and Applications"
3:20 PM
3:40 PM
G. Kurizki
Weizmann Institute of Science 
"Optically-Induced Transparency In Amplifying Photonic Crystals"
3:40 PM
4:40 PM

Panel Discussion & Conclusions: chaired by E. Yablonovitch: Amnon Yariv, Toshi Baba, Alain Priou, and Hector De Los Santos.

4:40 PM
6:00 PM

Departures

 

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