ADOPT results July 2008-December 2009 New staff Srinivasan Anand (position partially supported by Linnea center) Shagufta Naureen. PhD student; since Jan 2008 Naeem Shahid, PhD student; since Jan 2008 Mingyu Li, post-doc, funded by China Scholarship Council (1 year), since Jan 2009 Reza Sanatinia, PhD student, since June 2009 Samuel Olsson, Ph.D. student since April. 2009. Yi Song, Ph.D. student since Sept. 2008 Qiang Li, Ph.D. student since Sept. 2008 Jiaming Hao, Research Associate (post-doc) since Sept. 2008 Katia Gallo, Research Associate, Sept. 2008-April 2009 Andrius Zukauskas, Ph.D. student since Jan. 2009 Wondwosen Metaferia, Research associate (Aug 2009- Jan 2010) Nicky Thilmann, Ph D student since Sep 2008. Martin Lewenius, Ph D student since Sep 2009. Doctoral theses Zhangwei Yu, Acreo/KTH/Zheijang Univ (2008), ¨Fibre Bragg Grating Components for Filtering, Switching and Lasing¨. Per Martinsson, “Structural information content of the optical field”, TRITA-ICT/MAP AVH, Report 2009:02. Jonas Tidström, “Slow and stopped light by light-matter coherence Control” Ning Zhu, “Design, Fabrication and Characterization of Planar Lightwave Circuits Based on Silicon Nanowire Platform”, TRITA-ICT/MAP AVH, Report 2009:01. Jan Bogdanski, ¨Experimental Multi-user secure quantum communications¨, Physics department, Stockholm University, April 2009 Pär Jelger, ¨High Performance Fiber Lasers With Spectral. Thermal and Lifetime Control¨, TRITA-FYS 2009:65. Licentiate theses Dzmitry Dzibrou, ¨Complex Oxide Photonic Crystals¨, TRITA-FYS 5305, September 21, 2009. Magnus Rådmark, ¨High visibility six-photon entanglement¨, Physics department, Stockholm University, April 2009 Master theses Reza Sanatinia, “Nanostructured Surfaces as Anti-reflectors”, May 2009, KTH/ICT/HMA/2009-1 Shuqing Yu, “High-Efficiency surface-plasmon-polariton coupler”, ICT-MAP-FMI, 2008. (Examinator/Supervisor: Min Qiu) Simeon Bogdanov ¨Fabrication, Characterization and Analysis of Type-II InAs/GaSb Superlattice Photodiodes¨, [Proc. SPIE 7222, 72220W (2009); Proc. SPIE 7222, 722215 (2009)]. TRITA-FYS 5304, May 11, 2009. Carried out at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL). Laila Nahidi Azar, “Epitaxial lateral overgrowth of indium phosphide on silicon – characterisation and analysis,” School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH, 2008. Mengyao Xie, Characterisation and anlysis of epitaxially and laterally overgrown InP on Si, School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH, 2008 Yu Xiang, Photoluminescence and cathodoluminescence studies on InP/Si grown by nano epitaxial lateral overgrowth, KTH, 2008. Robert Chabo, “3D modeling of polarization and gain properties of dye-polymer material in strong electrical field within nano-sized volumes” Alex Kravchenko, “Optimization of UV-NIL process for fabrication of nanoscale optoelectronic components” Gökberk Bayraktar, ”Form-birefringent, fiber based polarization controller” Zhongjie Huo, “Design, fabrication and characterization of microlenses and microlens arrays” Alley Hameedi, “Modeling and design of micro-scaled spectrum analyzer using the properties of 2D photonic crystals” Rizwan Bhatti, “Resolution and efficiency of diffractive optical element based on spatial light modulator providing tunability of broadband laser radiation” Sohail Abbas, “Rare-earth-doped ZBLAN upconversion fibre laser” Mewael Giday, “Dynamics of solid-state microcavity organic dye lasers” Nicolas Innocenti, “What microcavities can do for photonics: coupling resonances and optical gain” Augustinas Vizbaras “Development of a Terahertz laser source based on intracavity difference frequency generation in quantum cascade lasers,” ICT/MAP/Optics 2009-1. Kristijonas Vizbaras, “Development of active regions of GaSb based VCSELs, emitting at wavelengths above 2.3 µm,” ICT/MAP/Optics 2009-2. Patrik Rugeland, “Tunable Phaseshifted fiber Bragg gratings and its applications in the microwave region” Aziza Sudirman, “Combining Reflectometry, Ablation and Fluid Collection in a Microstructured Fiber” Andreas Eriksson, “High power fiber coupling for solid state laser pumping” Özlem Gürel, ¨Development of a UV source based on frequency quadrupling of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser¨ Grigori Grozman, "Investigation of CW and pulse amplification of QD SOAs" Wondwosen Tilahun Metaferia, “Nano-Photonics and the Clausius–Mossotti Relation” Amine Laghaout, “Feasibility of Bell Tests with the W State” Hülya Kirma, “Ferroelectric Patch Antenna” TRITA-ICT-EX-2009:179, October 26, 2009. Vanderputten Vincent, Simulation of Multiple Quantum Well Structures for Multi-Junction Solar Cells, KTH, 2009 Amit Solanki, Electrical Transport in Unintentionally doped and Al-doped Silicon Nanowires, KTH, 2009. Veerendra Kumar Guduru, Deposition and characterization of hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon thin films for flexible solar cell applications, KTH, 2009. Charles Adagbon, Polycrystalline GaAs for solar cells - Survey and Assessment, KTH, 2009. Aleksandr Kuznetsov, ”Blinking statistics of non-spherical silicon quantum dots”, KTH/ICT/MAP/MF/2009-02. Axel Hundertmark, “The size distribution and photoluminescence spectroscopy of silicon nanocrystals”, KTH/ICT/MAP/MF/2008-4. “Electron transport across silicon nanocrystals” Diplomarbeit, Univesität Karlsruhe (performed at KTH – Electrum). Sohaib Afzal, “Performance testing methods and characterization of vertical cavity emitting laser (VCSEL), KTH/ICT/MAP/FTE/2008-1. Theses Project work by Noud Speijchen (exchange, Erasmus) from Technical University, Eindhoven completed. Topic "mini-stop bands in photonic crystal waveguides" Journal publications I. Sainz and G. Björk, Quantum error correction may delay, but also cause, entanglement sudden death, Phys. Rev. A 77, 052307 (2008), arXiv:0803.0406 (2008). Qin Wang, Wei Chen, Guilherme Xavier, Marcin Swillo, Tao Zhang, Sebastien Sauge, Maria Tengner, Zheng-Fu Han, Guang-Can Guo, Anders Karlsson, Experimental decoy-state quantum key distribution with sub-poissionian heralded single-photon source, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 090501 (2008). Isabel Sainz and Gunnar Björk, Erratum: Entanglement invariant for the double Jaynes-Cummings model [Phys. Rev. A 76, 042313 (2007)], Phys. Rev. A 78, 049905 (2008). S. Sauge, M. Swillo, M. Tengner, A. Karlsson, A single-crystal source of path-polarization entangled photons at non-degenerate wavelengths, Optics Express, Vol. 16 (2008) pp 9701-9707, arXiv:0806.2842 (2008). I. Sainz and G. Björk, Combating entanglement sudden death with non-local quantum-error correction, Int. J. Quantum Info., vol. 7, no. 1 supp., pp. 245-255, (2009). C. Muñoz, A. B. Klimov, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, and G. Björk, Discrete coherent states for n qubits, arXiv:0809.4995, Int. J. Quantum Info., vol. 7, no. 1 supp., pp. 17-25, (2009). A. B. Klimov, J. L. Romero, G. Björk, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto, Discrete curves and mutually unbiased bases, arXiv:0806.0726, Ann. Phys., vol. 324, pp. 53-72, (2009). G. Björk, J. Almlöf, and I. Sainz, “On the efficiency of nondegenerate quantum error correction codes for Pauli channels”. arXiv:0810.0541 H. Blom and G. Björk, Lorenzian spatial intensity distribution in fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, Appl. Opt., vol. 48, pp. 6050-6058, (2009). Y. Shi, S. He, and S. Anand, Ultracompact directional couplers realized in InP by utilizing feature size dependent etching, Optics Letters 33, 1927 (2008). A. Berrier, M. Swillo, N. Le Thomas, R. Houdré and S. Anand, Bloch mode excitation in two-dimensional photonic crystal imaged by fourier optics, Phys. Rev. B79, 165116 (2009). Y. Shi, S. Anand, and S. He, Design of a polarization insensitive triplexer using directional couplers based on sub-micron silicon rib waveguides, J. Lightwave Technol. 27, 1443 (2009). A. Berrier, Y. Shi, S. Marcinkevicius, S. He and S. Anand, Accumulated sidewall damage in dry etched photonic crystals, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 27, 1969 (2009). J.M. Hao, Q.J. Ren, Z.H. An, X.Q. Huang, Z.H. Chen, M. Qiu, and L. Zhou, “Optical metamaterial for polarization control”, Phys. Rev. A, 80, 023807, 2009. H.K. Yu, S.S. Wang, J. Fu, M. Qiu, Y.H. Li, F.X. Gu, and L.M. Tong, ”Modeling bending losses of optical nanofibers or nanowires”, Appl. Opt., Vol. 48, No. 22, pp. 4365-4369, 2009. S.S. Wang, Z.F. Hu, H.K. Yu, W. Fang, M. Qiu, and L.M. Tong, “Endface reflectivities of optical nanowires”, Opt. Express, Vol. 17, Issue 13, pp. 10881-10886, 2009. J. Tian, S.Q. Yu, W. Yan, and M. Qiu, “Broadband high-efficiency surface-plasmon-polariton coupler with silicon-metal interface”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 95, 013504, 2009. W. Yan, M. Yan, and M. Qiu, “Achieving perfect imaging beyond passive and active obstacles by a transformed bilayer lens,” Phys. Rev. B, 79, 161101(R), 2009. (Rapid Communication) Q. Li, T. Ye, Y.Y. Lu, Z.Y. Zhang, M. Qiu, and Y.K. Su, "All Optical NRZ-to-AMI Conversion Using Linear Filtering Effect of Silicon Microring Resonator," Chin. Opt. Lett., Vol 7, No. 1, pp. 12-14, 2009. Q. Li, Z.Y. Zhang, J. Wang, M. Qiu, and Y.K. Su, "Fast light in silicon ring resonator with resonancesplitting," Opt. Express, Vol. 17, Issue 2, pp. 933-940, 2009. Q. Chang, Q. Li, Z.Y. Zhang, M. Qiu, T. Ye, and Y.K. Su, "A Tunable Broadband Photonic RF Phase Shifter Based on a Silicon Microring Resonator," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett,vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 60-62, Jan. 2009. Q. Li, F.F. Liu, Z.Y. Zhang, M. Qiu, and Y.K. Su, "System performances of on-chip silicon microring delay line for RZ, CSRZ, RZ-DB and RZ-AMI signals," J. Lightwave Technol., Vol. 26, No. 21-24, pp. 3744-3751, 2008. Y. Fu, H. Ågren, L. Höglund, J.Y. Andersson, C. Asplund, M. Qiu, and L. Thylén, "Optical reflection from excitonic quantum-dot multilayer structures", Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 183117 (2008). J. Tian, M. Yan, M. Qiu, C. G. Ribbing, Y.Z. Liu, D.Z. Zhang, and Z.Y. Li, "Direct characterization of focusing light by negative refraction in a photonic crystal flat lens", Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 191114 (2008). F.F. Liu, T. Wang, Q. Li, T. Ye, Z.Y. Zhang, M. Qiu, and Y.K. Su, "Compact optical temporal differentiator based on silicon microring resonator," Optics Express, Vol. 16, No. 20, pp. 15880-15886, 2008. M. Yan, W. Yan, and M. Qiu, “Cylindrical superlens by a coordinate transformation”, Phys. Rev. B, 78, 125113, 2008. L.Y. Zhang, M. Yan, and M. Qiu, “The effect of transformation order on the invisibility performance of a practical cylindrical cloak”, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 10, 095001, (2008). Q. Li, Z.Y. Zhang, F.F. Liu, M. Qiu, and Y.K. Su, "Dense wavelength conversion and multicasting in a resonance-split silicon microring", Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 081113 (2008). W. Yan, M. Yan, and M. Qiu, “Non-magnetic simplified cylindrical cloak with suppressed zeroth order scattering”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 021909 (2008). “Bragg diffraction of guided optical waves by spin dipole waves in a ferromagnetic heterostructure” O.V. Kolokoltsev, A.M. Grishin, O. Cortes-Pérez, C. L. Ordóñez-Romero J. Appl. Phys. 105, 093112 (2009). “Nonlinear magneto-optical effects in all-garnet magnetophotonic crystals” T.V. Murzina, I.E. Razdolski, O.A. Aktsipetrov, A.M. Grishin, S.I. Khartsev, J. Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 321, 836 (2009). “UV laser modification and selective ion-beam etching of amorphous vanadium pentoxide thin films” Alexander Cheremisin, Vadim Putrolaynen, Andrey Velichko, Alexander Pergament, Nikolay Kuldin, Alexander Grishin, Physica Status Solidi A 206, 1484-1487 (2009). “Enhanced photoluminescence in [Er203/TiO2]m photonic crystals” A.M. Grishin, S.I. Khartsev, D.O. Dzibrou, J. Appl. Phys 105, 113122 (2009); Virtual Journal of Laser (2009). “Fitting transmission and Faraday rotation spectra of [Bi3Fe5O12/Sm3Ga5O12]m magneto-optical photonic crystals” D.O. Dzibrou, A.M. Grishin, J. Appl. Phys. 106, 043901 (2009). “Highly luminescent garnets for magneto-optical photonic crystals” A.M. Grishin, S.I. Khartsev To appear in Appl. Phys. Lett. 95 (2009). F.Olsson, M.Xie, S.Lourdudoss, I.Prieto and P.A.Postigo, Epitaxial lateral overgrowth of InP on Si on Si from nano-openings - Theoretical and experimental indication for defect filtering throughout the grown layer, J. Appl. Phys., vol. 104, pp. 093112, 2008. M. Nadeem Akram, O. Kjebon, M. Chacinski, R. Schatz, J. Berggren, F. Olsson, S. Lourdudoss, and A. Berrier, Experimental characterization of high-speed 1.55 µm buried heterostructure InGaAsP/InGaAlAs quantum-well lasers, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B/Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 318-327, 2009. T.G.Andersson, X.Y.Liu, T.Aggerstam, P.Holmström, S.Lourdudoss, L.Thylen, Y.L.Chen, C.H.Hsieh, I.Lo, Macroscopic defects in GaN/AlN multiple quantum well structures grown by MBE on GaN templates, Microelectronics Journal, vol. 40, pp 360–362, 2009. J.H.Baek, F.M.Soares, S.W.Seo, W.Jiang, N.K.Fontaine, R.G. Broeke, J.Cao, F.Olsson, S.Lourdudoss, and S.J.Ben Yoo, 10-GHz and 20 GHz channel spacing high-resolution AWGs on InP, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 298-300, 2009. Elias Estephan, Marie-belle Saab, Christian Larroque, Marta Martin, Fredrik Olsson, Sebastian Lourdudoss and Csilla Gergely, Peptides for functionalization of InP semiconductors, J. of Colloid and Interface Science, vol. 337, no. 2, pp. 358-363 (2009) in press, 2009, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2009.05.040. Carl Junesand, Fredrik Olsson, Yu Xiang, Ming-Horng Gau and Sebastian Lourdudoss, Surface morphology of indium phosphide grown on silicon by nano-epitaxial lateral overgrowth, Physica status solidii (c), 2009 (in press) T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Polarization time”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 139, 012011 (2008). S. Sergeyev, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Spun fiber Raman amplifiers with reduced polarization impairments”, Optics Express 16, 14380-14389 (2008). T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Polarization time and length for random optical beams”, Physical Review A 78, 033817 (2008). R. Zhang, S. Popov, S. Ricciardi, A.T. Friberg, and S. Sergeyev, “Distortion tolerance against geometry imperfections in polymeric microcavity dye laser”, Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials 17, 367-375 (2008). A. Pinos, S. Marcinkevicius, K. Liu, M. S. Shur, J. Yang, M. Shatalov, and R. Gaska, “Carrier lifetimes in AlGaN quantum wells: electric field and excitonic effects”, Journal of Physics D – Applied Physics 41, 155116 (2008). S. Gautier, T. Aggerstam, A. Pinos, S. Marcinkevicius, K. Liu, M. Shur, S.M. O’Malley, A.A. Sirenko, Z. Djebbour, A. Migan-Dubois, T. Moudakir, and A. Ougazzaden, AlGaN/AlN multiple quantum wells grown by MOVPE on AlN templates using nitrogen as a carrier gas,” Journal of Crystal Growth 310, p. 4927-4931 (2008). Y. Lu, S. Popov, A.T. Friberg, and S. Sergeyev, “Rigorous modeling and physical interpretation of terahertz near-field imaging”, Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications 4, 09007 (2009). H. Lajunen, V. Torres-Company, J. Lancis, and A.T. Friberg, “Resolution-enhanced optical coherence tomography based on classical intensity interferometry”, Journal of the Optical Society of America A 26, 1049-1054 (2009). V. Torres-Company, H. Lajunen, and A.T. Friberg, “’Nonlocal’ dispersion cancellation with classical light ”, New Journal of Physics 11, 063041 (2009). A. Shevchenko, T. Setälä, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Characterization of polarization fluctuations in random electromagnetic beams”, New Journal of Physics 11, 073004 (2009). A. Berrier, Y. Shi, J. Siegert, S. Marcinkevicius, S. He, and S. Anand, “Accumulated sidewall damage in dry etched photonic crystals", Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 27, p. 1969-1975 (2009). S. Popov, L. Dong, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “Spatial light modulator as reconfigurable intracavity dispersive element for tunable lasers”, Central European Journal of Physics (in press). S. Popov, R. Zhang, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “Efficiency enhancement in microcavity solid-state dye laser with Bragg grating reflectors”, Central European Journal of Physics (in press). S. Sergeyev, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Raman amplification with reduced polarization impairments in the fibre with tailored spin profile”, Central European Journal of Physics (in press). S. Sergeyev, K. O’Mahoney, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Upconversion assisted self-pulsing in a highconcentration erbium doped fiber laser”, Central European Journal of Physics (in press). J. Tervo, T. Setälä, A. Roueff, Ph. Réfrégier, and A.T. Friberg, “Two-point Stokes parameters: interpretation and properties”, Optics Letters (in press). T. Setälä, F. Nunziata, and A.T. Friberg, “Differences between partial polarizations in the space-time and space-frequency domains”, Optics Letters (in press). T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “Subwavelength electromagnetic near-field imaging of point dipole with metamaterial nanoslab”, Journal of the Optical Society of America A (in press). V. Liuolia, S. Marcinkevicius, A. Pinos, R. Gaska, and M.S. Shur, “Dynamics of carrier recombination and localization in AlGaN quantum wells studied by time-resolved transmission spectroscopy,” Applied Physics Letters (in press). A. Pinos, S. Marcinkevicius, M. Usman, and A Hallén, “Time-resolved photoluminescence studies of protonimplanted GaN”, Applied Physics Letters (in press). Yan, Min; Thylen, Lars; Qiu, Min; Parekh, Devang, "Feasibility study of nanoscaled optical waveguide based on near-resonant surface plasmon polaritons", Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 10, pp.7499-7507, 2008. Kevin J. Webb, Lars Thylen, "Perfect-lens-material condition from adjacent absorptive and gain resonances", Optics Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 7, pp. 747-749 Y. Fu, L. Thylen, and H. Ågren, "A Lossless Negative Dielectric Constant from Quantum Dot Exciton Polaritons", Nano Letters vol 8, no 5, (2008) pp 1551 - 1555; A Bratkovsky, E Ponizovskaya, SY Wang, P HolmstrÄom, L Thylen,Y Fu and H Agren, "A metalwire/quantum-dot composite metamaterial with negative " and compensated optical loss", Applied Physics Letters 93, 193106 (2008). P. Holmstrom, P. Janes, U. Ekenberg, and L. Thylen: "E±cient infrared electroabsorption with 1 V applied voltage swing using intersubband transitions", Appl. Phys. Lett., vol.93, pp.191101-1-3, 2008. Marek Chacinski, Urban Westergren, Bo Willen, Bjorn Stoltz, and Lars Thylen: "Electroabsorption Modulators Suitable for 100-Gb/s Ethernet", IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS, vol. 29, no. 9, (2008), pp. 1014-1016. Marek Chacinski, UrbanWestergren, Bjorn Stoltz, and Lars Thylen: "Monolithically Integrated DFB-EA for 100 Gb/s Ethernet", IEEE ELECTRON DEVICE LETTERS, vol. 29, no. 12, (2008) pp. 1312-1314. Ekaterina Ponizovskaya, Lars Thylen, Alexander Bratkovsky, Ying Fu, "Binary metal and semicon-ductor quantum dot metamaterials with negative optical dielectric constant and compensated loss for small volume waveguides, modulators and switches" , Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, Volume 95, Number 4, June, 2009. Urban Westergren, Marek Chacinski, and Lars Thylen,"Compact and efficient modulators for 100 Gb/s ETDM for telecom and interconnect applications " Applied Physics A, Vol. 95, No.4, pp.1039-1044 (June 2009). Zhili Lin and Lars Thylen, "On the accuracy and stability of several widely used FDTD approaches for modeling Lorentz dielectrics," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 57(10), pp. 1-3 , 2009. Zhili Lin and Lars Thylen, "An analytical derivation of the optimum source patterns for the pseu-dospectral time-domain method," Journal of Computational Physics, 228(19), pp. 7375-7387, 2009. Jingjing Li, Lars Thylen,and Shih-Yuan Wang ,"Comment on 'Stability and quality factor of a onedimensional subwavelength cavity resonator containing a left-handed material'", Phys. Rev. B 79, 207101 (2009). Jingjing Li, Lars Thylen, Alexander Bratkovsky, Shih-Yuan Wang, and R. Stanley Williams, "Optical magnetic plasma in artificial flowers", Optics Express, 17, 10800 (2009). V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, G. Strömqvist, and F. Laurell, “Mirrorless OPO: first steps towards unlocking the potential of counter-propagating three-wave interactions”, Proc. SPIE 6875, 687508 (2008). J. E. Hellström, B. Jacobsson, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, ”Finite beams in reflective volume Bragg gratings: theory and experiments,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron, 44, 81 (2008). B. Jacobsson, J. E. Hellström, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, “Tunable Yb:KYW laser using volume Bragg grating in s-polarization”, Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics, 91, 85 (2008). C. S. Carvalho, M. Fokine, R. Kashyap, “Borosilicate glass for photonics applications,” Opt. Mat., 30, 18161821 (2008). R. Hartke, V. Baev, K. Seger, O. Back, E. Heumann, G. Huber, M. Kühnelt and U. Steegmüller. ”Experimental study of the output dynamics of intracavity frequency doubled optically pumped semiconductor disk lasers.” Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 101107 (2008). K. Gallo, A. Pasquazi, S. Stivala, G. Assanto, “Parametric Solitons in Two-Dimensional Lattices of Purely Nonlinear Origin”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 053901 (2008). G. Assanto, K. Gallo, A. Pasquazi, S. Stivala, “Spatial simultons in two-dimensional lattices of a nonlinear nature”, Optics and Photonics News, 19, 28 (2008). P. Jelger, Pu Wang, J. Sahu, F. Laurell and W. A. Clarkson, “High-power linearly-polarized operation of a cladding-pumped Yb fibre laser using a volume Bragg grating for wavelength selection”, Opt. Express 16, 9507-9512 (2008). J. W. Kim, P. Jelger, J. K. Sahu, F. Laurell, and W. A. Clarkson, "High-power and wavelength-tunable operation of an Er,Yb fiber laser using a volume Bragg grating", Opt. Lett. 33, 12041206 (2008). Z. Yu, O. Tarasenko, W. Marguilis, and P.-Y. Fonjallaz. “Birefringence switching of Bragg gratings in fibers with internal electrodes”. Opt. Express, 16(11):8229-8235, May 2008. M. Stjernström, F. Laurell, H. Brismar, “Diode-pumped solid state laser light sources for confocal laser scanning fluorescence microscopy”, J. Laser Appl. 20, 160 (2008). G. K. Samanta, S. Chaitanya Kumar, M. Mathew, C. Canalias, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, M. EbrahimZadeh, “High-power, continuous-wave, second-harmonic generation at 532 nm in periodically poled KTiOPO4”, Opt. Lett. 33, 2955 (2008). M. Nordlöf, C. Canalias, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, “Fabrication and characterization of two-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal in KTiOPO4”, Ferroelectrics 373, 22 (2008). A. García-Cortés, M. D. Serrano, C. Zaldo, C. Cascales, G. Strömqvist and V. Pasiskevicius, “Characterization of nonlinear refractive indices of disordered scheelite-derived tungstate and molybdate femtosecond laser crystals,” SPIE Proc. v. 6998, (2008). García-Cortés, M. D. Serrano, C. Zaldo, C. Cascales, G. Strömqvist and V. Pasiskevicius, “Nonlinear refractive indices in disordered NaT(XO4)2 T = Y, La, Gd, Lu and Bi, X = Mo, W laser crystals,” Appl. Phys. B, 91, 507-510 (2008). S. Bjurshagen, P. Brynolfsson, V. Pasiskevicius, I. Parreu, A. Peña, M. C. Pujol, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, “Crystal growth, spectroscopic characterization and eye-safe laser operation of Er and Yb-doped KLu(WO4)2,” Appl. Opt. 47, 656-665 (2008). N. Thilmann, G. Strömqvist, M. C. Pujol, V. Pasiskevicius, V. Petrov, F. 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Su, "Modeling of quasi-grating sidewall corrugation in SOI microring add-drop filters", Opt. Communications, Vol. 282, No. 17, pp. 34643467, 2009. Elias Amselem, Mohamed Bourennane, Experimental four-qubit bound entanglement, Nature Physics, 5, 748 (2009). Selected for News and Views, Entanglement: Entangled and bound Antonio Acín, Nature Physics 5, 711 - 712 (2009), do10.1038/nphys1401. Selected also for Journal of Quantum Information, October 2009 Magnus Radmark, Marcin Wiesniak, Marek Zukowski, Mohamed Bourennane, Experimental filtering of two-, four-, and six-photon singlets from single PDC source, Physical Review. A (Rapid comm.), 80, 040302 (2009). Magnus Radmark, Marek Zukowski, Mohamed Bourennane, Experimental Test of Fidelity Limits in SixPhoton Interferometry and of Rotational Invariance Properties of the Photonic Six-Qubit Entanglement Singlet State, Physical Review Letters, 103, 150501 (2009). Spotlighted as exceptional research, Protecting quantum superpositions from the outside world, Alexander Lvovsky, Physics 2, 83 (2009), DOI: 10.1103/Physics.2.83. Selected also for journal of Quantum Information, October 2009. Magnus Radmark, Marek Zukowski, Mohamed Bourennane, Experimental high fidelity six-photon entangled state for telecloning protocol, New J. Phys., 11 103016 (2009). Elias Amselem, Magnus Radmark, Mohamed Bourennane, Adan Cabello, State-independent quantum contextuality with single photons, Physical Review Letters 103 160405 (2009). Christian Kothe, Gunnar Björk, Mohamed Bourennane, Arbitrarily High Super-Resolving Phase Measurements at Telecommunication Wavelengths, submitted to Physical Review Letters, (2009). Jan Bogdanski, Johan Ahrens, Mohamed Bourennane, Single mode fiber birefringence compensation in Sagnac and "plug & play" interferometric setups, Opt. Express 17, 4485 (2009). Jan Bogdanski, Johan Ahrens, Mohamed Bourennane, Sagnac quantum key distribution over telecom fiber networks, Opt. Comm. 282, 1231, (2009). Jan Bogdanski, Johan Ahrens, Mohamed Bourennane, Sagnac secret sharing over telecom fiber networks, Opt. Express 17, 1055, (2009). Newsbreaks, Phase-encoded photons enable secret Sagnac communications, Laser focus world, March 2009. Selected also for journal of Quantum Information, Feb. 2009. Wieslaw Laskowski, Marcin Wiesniak, Marek Zukowski, Mohamed Bourennane, Harald Weinfurter, Interference contrast in multi-source few photon optics, J. Phys. B 42, 114004 (2009). Jan Bogdanski, Nima Rafiei, Mohamed Bourennane, Multiuser quantum Key distribution over telecom fiber networks, Opt. Comm. 282, 258, (2009). Jan Bogdanski, Nima Rafiei, Mohamed Bourennane Experimental quantum secret sharing using telecommunication fibe, Physical Review A 78, 062307 (2008). Selected also for journal of Quantum Information, Dec. 2008. Sascha Gaertner, Mohamed Bourennane, Christian Kurtsiefer, Adan Cabello and Harald Weinfurter, Addendum to "Experimental demonstration of a quantum protocol for Byzantine agreement and liar detection", Physical Review Letters 101, 208902, (2008). Sascha Gaertner, Mohamed Bourennane, Christian Kurtsiefer, Adan Cabello, Harald Weinfurter, Experimental Demonstration of a Quantum Protocol for Byzantine Agreement and Liar Detection, Physical Review Letters 100, 070504, (2008). Selected also for journal of Quantum Information, Feb. 2008. N. Zhu, J. Song, L. Wosinski, and S. He, "Design of a polarization-insensitive echelle grating demultiplexer based on silicon nanophotonic wires", Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 20 Issue 10, pp. 860-862 (2008). L. Wosinski, L. Liu, N. Zhu and L. Thylen, "Technology challenges for monolithically integrated waveguide demultiplexers", Chinese Optics Letters, invited paper for Focus Issue on Silicon Photonics, 7 (4) (2009). N. Zhu, J. Song, L. Wosinski, S. 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Linnros, “Controlled fabrication of individual silicon quantum rods yielding high intensity, polarized light emission”, Nanotechnology 20, 505301 (2009), featured on front cover of December 16 issue. Books A.T. Friberg and Rene Dändliker, eds., Advances in Information Optics and Photonics (SPIE Press, Bellingham, WA, USA, 2008). Book chapters G. Björk, A. B. Klimov, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto, The discrete Wigner function, in Progress in Optics 51, ed. E. Wolf (Elsevier B.V., 2008). M. Yan, W. Yan, and M. Qiu, “Chapter 4: Invisibility Cloaking by Coordinate Transformation”, Progress in Optics, Vol. 52, Ed. Emil Wolf, Elsevier, 2008. (ISBN: 978-0-444-53350-0, ISSN: 0079-6638) (Book Chapter) Bozena Jaskorzynska, Lech Wosinski: “Silicon-based photonic crystals and nanowires”, Chapt. 8 in Photonic Crystals: Physics and Technology, Springer 2008, ISBN: 978-88-470-0843-4 J. Salo and A.T. Friberg, “Propagation-invariant fields: Rotationally periodic and anisotropic nondiffracting waves”, in Localized Waves, eds. M. Zamboni-Rached, H.E. Hernandez, and E. Recami (Wiley, New York, 2008), Chapter 5. J. Turunen and A.T. Friberg, “Propagation-invariant optical fields”, in Progress in Optics, ed. E. Wolf (Elsevier, Netherlands, in press, 2009) L. Thylen, U. Westergren, P. Holmstrom, R. Schatz and P. Janes, "Recent developments in high-speed optical modulators", in "Optical Fiber Telecommunications V", I. P. Kaminow, T. Li, and A. E. Willner, eds., Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Oxford, U.K (2008) V. Pasiskevicius and F. Laurell, “Optical parametric generators and amplifiers”, Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications, ISBN 978-1-4020-6439-5, 393-418 (2008) Springer Verlag. Yu, Z., Margulis, W., Fonjallaz, P-Y., Manipulating Light with Fibre Bragg Gratings: Nanosecond Switching Using In-Fibre Electrodes and Ultra-Narrow Filtering of Millimetre-wave Signals, ISBN 978-363-901027-5; VDM Verlag. 2008. W. Margulis, “Poling of glasses and optical fibers”, chapter 12 in Fiber Bragg Gratings by R. Kashyap, 2 nd ed, Elsevier/Academic Press, (2009). Chapter in book. J. Valenta and J. Linnros, Optical spectroscopy of individual silicon nanocrystals, in ‘Silicon nanophotonics’, edited by L. Khriachtchev (World Scientific, 2008). I. Sychugov and J. Linnros, Optical properties of a silicon nanocrystal, in ‘Nanocrystals: Properties, Preparation and Applications’, edited by Hongquig Hu (Nova Science Publishers, 2008). Prizes Best student paper award for PhD student Ning Zhu at the Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference (APOC), Hang Zhou, China, 26 – 30 October 2008. Best student paper award for PhD student Zhechao Wang at the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 Nov. 2009. Swedoptronics best MSc thesis of the year 2009 (Patrik Rugeland) 1 st prize, Walter Margulis Supervisor. Swedoptronics best MSc thesis of the year 2009 (Aziza Sudirman) 2 nd prize, Walter Margulis Supervisor. Sponsorship (for conference) Sponsorship for the 2009 International nanooptoelectronic workshop, iNOW, inSaltsjöbaden, http://www.kth.se/polopoly_fs/1.45681!Conference%20report%20-%20iNOW%202009.pdf In total 500 kSEK Conferences G. Björk, J. Almlöf, and I. Sainz, Are multiple-error correcting codes worth the trouble?, contributed poster at the 19th Quantum Information Technology Symposium, Osaka, Japan, November 20-21, 2008. Isabel Sainz, Gunnar Björk, and Jonas Almlöf, Efficency and success of quantum error correction, talk at Quantum Optics IV, Florianópolis, Brazil, october 13-17, 2008. S. Sauge, M. Swillo, M. Tengner, A. Karlsson, A single-crystal source of path/polarization entanglement at non degenerate wavelength, invited talk at the XII International Conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (ICQO~2008), Vilnius, Lithuania, September 20-23, 2008. I. Ghiu, G. Björk, P. Marian, and T. A. Marian, ”Quantum Chenoff bound as a measure of the polarization for a quantized field”, contributed poster at the Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics, Turku, Finland, May 23-27, 2009. G.Björk, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, J. Söderholm, A. B. Klimov, I. Ghiu, P. Marian, and T. Marian, ”Quantifying the degree of polarization in quantum optics”, invited talk at Koli workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May, 2009. S. Sauge, V. Makarov, and A. Anisimov, “Quantum hacking: how Eve can exploit component imperfections to control yet another of Bob's single-photon qubit detectors”, contributed talk at CLEO Europe, Munchen, Germany, June 14-19, 2009. G. Björk and J. Almlöf, “Quantum codes, fidelity and information”, invited talk at the 18th International Laser Physics Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, July 12-17, 2009. M. Swillo, G. Björk, and S. Sauge, “Semiconductor quantum dots for single photon emission in quantum key distribution”, contributed talk at the 2009 Sino-Swedish Workshop on Nanophotonics, Stockholm, Sweden, July 30-August 1, 2009. M. Swillo, S. Sauge, Q. Wang, A. Karlsson, and G. Björk, “Secure quantum communications: An overview and selected recent results”, invited talk at the International Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop 2009, Stockholm, Sweden and Berlin, Germany, August 2-16, 2009. A. Sudirman, G. Björk, and W. Margulis, Combining low-coherence reflectometry, laser ablation and fluid collection in fiber, contributed talk at Nordic Optics 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania, August 26-28, 2009. Q. Liu and S. Sauge, How you can build an eavesdropper for a quantum cryptosystem, contributed talk at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Germany, December 27-30, 2009. S. Anand, Nanoscale electrical characterization of III-V materials/optoelectronic devices, Invited, Optoschool 2008, Mumbai Jul 27-2 Aug (2008) Y. Shi, S. Anand and S. He, An ultra-compact polarization insensitive directional coupler, Asia Opt. Fiber Commun. and Optoelectronic exposition and Conf. (AOE) Oct. 30 – Nov. 2, Shanghai (2008) S. Anand, Invited, Two dimensional photonic crystals and self-organized nano-pillars in InP-based materials, Sweden-Japan workshop on Nanophotonics and related technologies Stockholm, June 29-30, 2009 S. Anand, Invited, Nanostructured InP-based materials: Process Technology and Applications, SinoSwedish SIDA workshop on Nanophotonics, Stockholm, July 30-31, 2009 M. Qiu, “High-Efficiency surface-plasmon-polariton coupler”, The 8th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN 2009), Beijing, China, Sept. 2009. (Invited talk). M. Qiu, M. Yan, J.M. Hao, W. Yan, J. Wang, “Transformation optics for designing superlenses”, International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA ‘09), Torino, Italy, Sept. 2009. (Invited talk) M. Qiu, “Silicon photonic devices and their system applications”, International Nano-optoelectronics Workshop (iNOW 2009), Stockholm and Berlin, 2-15 Aug. 2009. (Invited talk) M. Qiu, “Transformation optics and its perspectives”, The 8th International Conference on Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media (ETOPIM 8), Crete, Greece, 7-12 June, 2009. (Plenary talk) M. Qiu, “Silicon micro-cavities and their system applications”, SPIE Photonics West 2008, "Photonics Packaging, Integration, and Interconnects IX" conference, San Jose, California, 24-29 Jan. 2009 (Invited talk) M. Qiu, “Silicon Photonic Crystal Surface Mode Microcavities”, Nanophotonics Symposium, IEEE Global Photonics 2008, Singapore, 8-11, Dec. 2008. (Invited talk) M. Qiu, “Transformation Optics and its Applications”, International Workshop on Meta-materials and Plasmonics, Nov. 2008, Shanghai, China. (Invited talk) M. Qiu, M. Yan, and W. Yan, “Transformation Optics and Invisibility Cloaks”, SPIE international conference on Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications (APOC 2008), 7315-52, Oct. 2008, Hangzhou, China. (Invited talk) M. Qiu, “Silicon nanophotonic devices and their system applications”, Workshop on "Tunable and Active Silicon Photonics", Hamburg, September 28-30, 2008. (Invited talk) J. Wang and M. Qiu, “High-Q Optical Filter Based on Photonic Crystal Surface-Mode Microcavity”, MA3.4, Nanophotonics meeting, IEEE LEOS Winter Topicals, Innsbruck, Austria, Jan, 2009. Q. Li, J. Wang, L. O’Faolain, T.F. Krauss, and M. Qiu, “Sharp Asymmetric Fano Resonance with a SideCoupled Photonic Crystal Microcavity”, MA3.1, Nanophotonics meeting, IEEE LEOS Winter Topicals, Innsbruck, Austria, Jan, 2009. X. Li, Z.Y. Zhang , S. Qin, M. Qiu , Y.K. Su, "Label-free Biosensor Based on Silicon-On-Insulator Concentric Micro-Ring Resonators" in Proc. IEEE Photonics Global 2008, conf197a3, Singapore, Dec. 2008. X. Li, Z.Y. Zhang, S. Qin, M. Qiu, Y.K. Su,"Ultra-Compact Parallel Label-Free Biosensors Based on Concentric Micro-Ring Resonators in Silicon-on-Insulator", in Proc. IEEE/OSA AOE 2008, SaI3. J. Wang, Q. Li, F.F. Liu, Y.K. Su and M. Qiu, “Pulse Delay and Advancement in Ring Resonator with Mutual Mode Coupling2, SPIE international conference on Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications (APOC 2008), paper 7136-8, Hangzhou, Oct. 2008. J. Tian, and M. Qiu, “Partial Suspended Micro-Ring Resonator Fabricated by Focused-Ion-Beam on SOI”, SPIE international conference on Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications (APOC 2008), paper 7136-87, Hangzhou, Oct. 2008. W. Yan, M. Qiu and L. Shen, “High Directive Antenna Based on Metamaterial Slab with Zero Permittivity”, SPIE international conference on Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications (APOC 2008), paper 7135-103, Hangzhou, Oct. 2008. F.F. Liu, Q. Li, Z.Y. Zhang, M. Qiu, and Y Su, “Ultra-compact mode-split silicon microring resonator for format conversion from NRZ to FSK”, SPIE international conference on Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications (APOC 2008), paper 7135-119, Hangzhou, Oct. 2008. X. Li, Z.Y. Zhang, Q. Li, M. Qiu, Y.K. Su,"Concentric silicon micro-ring resonators with enhanced transmission notch depth," SPIE international conference on Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications (APOC 2008), paper 7135-25, Hangzhou, Oct. 2008 Y.K. Su, Q. Li, F.F. Liu, and M. Qiu, "Phase modulated signals through slow-light silicon microrings," in Proc. APOC 2008. (Invited) Q. Li, Q. Chang, F.F. Liu, Z.Y. Zhang, M. Qiu, Y.K. Su, "Optically Tuneable Microwave Photonic Phase Shifter Based on Silicon Microring Resonator," in Proc. ECOC 2008, P.2.12 Bozena Jaskorzynska, Yi Song, Ning Zhu, Zhechao Wang, Min Qiu, Lech Wosinski, “Dielectric and plasmonic slot waveguides for photonic integration”, 11th Int. Conf. Transparent Opt. Networks, ICTON 2009, Island of São Miguel, Portugal, June 28 - July 2, 2009 (invited paper) Lech Wosinski, Ning Zhu and Bozena Jaskorzynska, “Silicon-based integrated multiplexers for WDM systems”,11th Int. Conf. Transparent Opt. Networks, ICTON 2009, Island of São Miguel, Portugal, June 28 - July 2, 2009 (invited paper) A.M. Grishin, S.I. Khartsev, “Magneto-optical photonic crystals” Invited talk J1.5, Materials Research Society 2009 Spring Meeting. Symposium J: “High-Temperature Photonic Structures”. A.M. Grishin, “Heterogeneous multiferroics: Towards tunable metamaterials” Invited talk, Int. Conference on Functional Materials for Advanced Technology (ICFMAT2009), Chennai, Jan. 29-30, 2009. A.M. Grishin, S.I. Khartsev, “Highly luminescent rare earth oxide magneto-optical films” IEEE Int. Magnetic Conference (INTERMAG2009), Digest EP-04, Sacramento, CA, May 4-8, 2009. Sebastian Lourdudoss and Fredrik Olsson, Nano epitaxial lateral overgrowth for monolithic integration of indium phosphide and silicon, Invited – 214th Electrochemical Society Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, October 2008. Sebastian Lourdudoss, International Perspectives on Formal and Informal Nanoscale Science Engineering and Education Programs, Best practices from PhOREMOST (NANOPHOTONICS TO REALIZE MOLECULAR-SCALE TECHNOLOGIES) EU Network of Excellence, Invited- Global Nanoscale Science Engineering and Education Workshop, Washington D.C., 2008. Carl Junesand, Fredrik Olsson, Yu Xiang, Ming-Horng Gau and Sebastian Lourdudoss, Heterogeneous integration of indium phosphide on silicon by nano-epitaxial lateral overgrowth, IEEE 21st Int. conf. on Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, Newport Beach, CA, USA, 2009. C.Junesand, M-H. Gau, Y.Xiang, F.Olsson, J.Ahopelto and S.Lourdudoss, Indium phosphide on silicon for nanophotonics and silicon photonics, 15th Semiconducting and Insulating Materials Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2009. F. M. Soares, J. H. Baek, N. K. Fontaine, C. Junesand, S. Lourdudoss, K.Y. Liou, R. A. Hamm, W. Wang, B. Patel, W.S. Hobson, J. R. Lothian, S. Vatanapradit, L. A. Gruezke, W. T. Tsang, and S. J. B. Yoo, InPBased 100-Channel 10-GHz Arrayed Waveguide Grating for 1-THz-Bandwidth Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation, OFC, 2009. L. Thylén and S. Marcinkevicius, “Nanophotonics Devices for Optical Communications”, Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, Hangzhou, China, 26-30 October, 2008 (invited short course). S. Sergeyev, K. O’Mahoney, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Upconversion assisted self-pulsing in a highconcentration erbium doped fiber laser”, International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT’2008), Siofok, Hungary, September 13-18, 2008. T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Polarization dynamics in partially polarized light beams”, Photonics 2008 – International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, New Delhi, India, 1517 December 2008, paper TB2-AI1. A. Shevchenko, T. Setälä, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, ”Polarization fluctuation in stationary light beams”, VI International Workshop Tecnolaser & II International Meeting Optics, Life, and Heritage, Havana, Cuba, 13-16 April 2009. A. Shevchenko, T. Setälä, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, ”Polarization time and length of fluctuating electromagnetic beams”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. T. Setälä, F. Nunziata, and A.T. Friberg, “Partial polarization of light beams in time and frequency domains”, Workshop on Information Optics (WIO’09), Paris, France, 20-24 July 2009. J. Tervo, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “Coherence theory of electromagnetic fields”, 8th Japan-Finland Joint Symposium on Optics in Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, 3-5 September 2009. T. Setälä, J. Tervo, and A.T. Friberg, “Polarization modulations and electromagnetic coherence”, 9th International Conference on Correlation Optics, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 20-24 September 2009. V. Torres-Company, H. Lajunen, J. Lancis, and A.T. Friberg, “Temporal ghost imaging and nonlocal dispersion cancellation with classical light”, Emerging Trends and Novel Materials in Photonics (ICO Topical Meeting), Delphi, Greece, 7-9 October 2009. V. Torres-Company, H. Lajunen, and A.T. Friberg, “Coherence theory of noise in Optical frequency combs”, ICO-21 Congress (Optics for the 21st Century), Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 2008. V. Torres-Company, H. Lajunen, J. Lancis, and A.T. Friberg, “Temporal ghost interference with classical light pulses”, ICO-21 Congress (Optics for the 21st Century), Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 2008. V. Torres-Company, J. Lancis, H. Lajunen, and A.T. Friberg, “Intensity-correlation optical coherence tomography”, ICO-21 Congress (Optics for the 21st Century), Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 2008. A.T. Friberg, J. Tervo, and T. Setälä, “Pancharatnam-Berry phase in the interference pattern in Young’s experiment”, ICO-21 Congress (Optics for the 21st Century), Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 2008. T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Polarization time and length”, ICO-21 Congress (Optics for the 21st Century), Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 2008. S. Marcinkevicius, A. Gushterov, and J.P. Reithmaier, “Transient electromagnetically induced transparency in an inhomogeneously broadened quantum dot ensemble,” 29th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 27 July - 1 August 2008 S. Marcinkevičius, A. Pinos, K. Liu, M.S. Shur, J. Yang, M. Shatalov, and R. Gaska, “Carrier recombination in deep UV AlGaN quantum wells,” 15th International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices, Natal, Brazil, 3-8 August 2008. S. Popov, R. Zhang, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “Efficiency enhancement in microcavity solid-state dye laser with Bragg-grating reflectors”, International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT’2008), Siofok, Hungary, 13-18 September 2008. S. Popov, L. Dong, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “Spatial light modulator as reconfigurable intracavity dispersive element for tunable lasers”, International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT’2008), Siofok, Hungary, 13-18 September 2008. S. Sergeyev, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Raman amplification with reduced polarization impairments in the fiber with tailored spin profile”, International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT’2008), Siofok, Hungary, 13-18 September 2008. A. Shevchenko, T. Setälä, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Characterization of polarization fluctuation dynamics of beam-like electromagnetic fields”, EOS Annual Meeting, Paris, France, 29 September - 2 October 2008. T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, A.T. Friberg, and M. Kaivola, “Subwavelength electromagnetic imaging of dipole field with metamaterial nanoslab”, EOS Annual Meeting, Paris, France, 29 September - 2 October 2008. H. Lajunen, V. Torres-Company, J. Lancis, and A.T. Friberg, “Intensity-correlation optical coherence tomography”, EOS Annual Meeting, Paris, France, 29 September - 2 October 2008. A. Pinos, S. Marcinkevicius, K. Liu, Ms. S. Shur and R. Gaska, “Excitons and carrier lifetime in high Al fraction AlGaN quantum wells”, International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors, Montreux, Switzerland, 6-10 October 2008, S. Sergeyev, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Spun fiber Raman amplifiers”, Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science XXIV, Rochester, NY, USA, 19-23 October 2008. S. Popov, R. Zhang, A.T. Friberg, and S. Sergeyev, “Mode stability in robust microcavity solid-state dye laser”, Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science XXIV, Rochester, NY, USA, 19-23 October 2008. K. Khamaillard, A.T. Friberg, and C. Dainty, “Statistical study of light scattering by small particles: coherence matrix application”, Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science XXIV, Rochester, NY, USA, 19-23 October 2008. Q. Wang, S. Savage, S. Person, B. Noharet, S. Junique, J.Y. Andersson, V. Liuolia, and S. Marcinkevicius, “Multiple functional UV devices based on InGaN/AlGaN and AlxGa1-xN/AlyGa1-yN quantum wells for biological warfare agents detections”, SPIE Photonics West 2009, San Jose, CA, USA, 24-29 January 2009. S. Sergeyev, K. O’Mahoney, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Pump-to-signal noise transfer as the mechanism of self-pulsing in Erbium doped fiber laser”, Optical Fiber Communication Conference and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), San Diego, CA, USA, 22-26 March 2009, paper OWT4. T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, ”Subwavelength electromagnetic imaging of point dipole with metamaterial nanoslab”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. T. Hassinen, J. Tervo, and A.T. Friberg, ”Cross-spectral purity of electromagnetic fields and the concept of cross-polarization purity”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. T. Setälä, F. Nunziata, and A.T. Friberg, ”Distinctions between partial polarizations in the space-time and space-frequency domains”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. T. Setälä, J. Tervo, and A.T. Friberg, ”Polarization modulations in Young’s interference experiment and electromagnetic coherence”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. K. Lindfors, A. Priimagi, T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, ”Local polarization of tightly focused unpolarized light”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. J. Tervo, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, ”Definition and measurement of Pancharatnam-Berry phase in Young’s experiment”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. S. Popov, Y. Li, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “Terahertz near-field imaging: rigorous model for interpreting ‘antenna approach’”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/QELS 2009), Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 5 June 2009, paper JWA18. S. Sergeyev, K. O'Mahoney, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Upconversion assisted auto-oscillations in Erbium doped fiber laser”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/QELS 2009), Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 5 June 2009, paper JWA55. S. Sergeyev, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Fiber Raman amplifiers with suppressed polarization impairments”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/QELS 2009), Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 5 June 2009, paper JWA57. T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “Subwavelength electromagnetic imaging of point dipole with metamaterial nanoslab”, 4th EOS Topical Meeting on Advanced Imaging Techniques, Jena, Germany, 1012 June 2009. A. Shevchenko, T. Setälä, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Correlations of polarization fluctuations in stationary electromagnetic beam fields”, 4th EOS Topical Meeting on Advanced Imaging Techniques, Jena, Germany, 10-12 June 2009. N. Innocenti, S. Popov, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “External field enhancement in coupled polymer microcavities – new options for integrated photonic components”, Conference on Lasers and ElectroOptics/Europe (CLEO/Europe 2009), Munich, Germany, 14-19 June 2009, paper CK1.4. S. Popov, Y. Li, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “Modeling of terahertz near-field imaging: rigorous simulation and antenna approach”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe (CLEO/Europe 2009), Munich, Germany, 14-19 June 2009, paper EI.P.15. S. Sergeyev, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Two section fibre approach to suppression of polarization dependent gain in low PMD distributed fibre Raman amplifier”, Conference on Lasers and ElectroOptics/Europe (CLEO/Europe 2009), Munich, Germany, 14-19 June 2009, paper CJ.P.34. V. Torres-Company, H. Lajunen, and A.T. Friberg, “’Non-local’ dispersion cancellation with classical light”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe (CLEO/Europe 2009), Munich, Germany, 14-19 June 2009, paper ED.P.2. A. Pinos, M. Usman, S. Marcinkevicius, and A Hallén, “Time-resolved photoluminescence studies of proton-implanted GaN,” 15th Semiconductor and Insulating Materials Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1519 June 2009. A. Pinos, S. Marcinkevicius, J. Yang, Y. Bilenko, M. Shatalov, R. Gaska, and M S. Shur, “Near-field investigations of light emission from AlGaN-based LED”, 36th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 30 August – 2 September 2009. J. Tervo, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “Degree of coherence for electromagnetic fields”, 9th International Conference on Correlation Optics, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 20-24 September 2009. T. Setälä, F. Nunziata, and A.T. Friberg, “Partial polarization in the space-time and space-frequency domains”, Emerging Trends and Novel Materials in Photonics (ICO Topical Meeting), Delphi, Greece, 7-9 October 2009. T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “Subwavelength electromagnetic near-field imaging of point dipole with metamaterial nanoslab”, Emerging Trends and Novel Materials in Photonics (ICO Topical Meeting), Delphi, Greece, 7-9 October 2009. S. Marcinkevicius, V. Liuolia, J. Yang, W. Sun, R. Gaska, and M. Shur, “Carrier localization and recombination in AlGaN quantum wells”, 8th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors, Jeju, Korea, 18-23 October 2009. L. Dong, J. Hu, F. Ye, S. Popov, A.T. Friberg, and M. Muhammed, “Influence of nanoparticles concentration on fluorescence quenching in gold/rhodamine 6G nanoassemblies”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 November 2009, paper ThBB-5. L. Dong, A. Pinos, A. Sugunan, S. Li, S. Popov, M. Toprak, A.T. Friberg, and M. Muhammed, “Measurement of radiative lifetime in CdSe/CdS core/shell structured quantum dots”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 November 2009, paper FW-6. K. Wang, J. Li, A. Djupsjöbacka, S. Popov, G. Jacobsen, R. Makon, R. Driad, H. Walcher, A.G. Steffan, and H.G. Bach, “100 Gb/s OOK transmission through 212 km field SSMF using monolithically integrated ETDM receiver module”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-5 November 2009, paper TuE-1. K. Wang, J. Li, S. Popov, and G. Jacobsen, “4x40 GHz multi-colored optical pulse generation using single two-arm modulated Mach-Zehnder modulator”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 November 2009), paper TuE-4. T.G. Andersson, X.Y. Liu, T. Aggerstam, P. Holmstrom, S. Lourdudoss, L. Thylen, Y.L. Chen, C.H. Hsieh, and I. Lo, "Defects in GaN/AlN multiple quantum well structures grown by MBE on GaN templates", Paper P2-12, E-MRS 2008 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, May 2008. L Thylen, E, Ponizovskaya, A, Bratkovsky, "Nanophotonics in integrated photonics : A view on metamaterials and devices", Proc International workshop on Nanooptoelectronics, Japan (2008), invited paper Lars Thylen, "Status and prospects of integrated nanophotonics circuits", Proc 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electrooptoc Society, Paper ThP1 (2008), invited paper P. Holmstrom, P. Janes, U. Ekenberg, and L. Thylen, "Effcient electroabsorption for mid-infrared wavelengths using intersubband transitions", J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 100, pp. 042009-1-4, 2008 C. Silfvenius, M. Swillo, E. Forsberg, N. Akram, M. Chacinski and L. Thylen, "InP-based monolithically integrated 1310/1550nm diplexer/triplexer", Proc APOC 2008 , Hangzhou China. Marek Chacinski, Urban Westergren, Lars Thylen, Richard Schatz, Bjorn Stoltz, "50 Gb/s Modula-tion and/or Detection with a Travelling-Wave Electro-Absorption Transceiver", OFC 2008 pp. JThA32, San Diego, California Marek Chacinski, Urban Westergren, BjÄorn Stoltz, Lars Thylen, "Monolithically Integrated DFB-EAT for ¸ 50 Gb/s Transmission", ICTON MW 2008 pp. Th2A.3, Marrakech, Marroco 2008 M. Yan, L. Thylen, M. Qiu, D. Parekh, "Deep-Subwavelength Optical Waveguides Based on NearResonant Surface Plasmon Polariton", Proc ECIO (2008) Jingjing Li, Lars Thylen, Alexandre M. Bratkovski, Shih-Yuan Wang and Stanley Williams, "Magnetic Resonance on a “Petals" Structure and the Associated Surface Plasmon Polariton" USNC/URSI January 2009, Colorado, Boulder Jingjing Li, Lars Thylen, Alexandre M. Bratkovski, Shih-Yuan Wang and Stanley Williams, "Ultracompact Optical Cavity Resonator with Fishnet Structure", USNC/URSI January 2009, Boulder, Colorado Jingjing Li, Lars Thylen, Alexandre M. Bratkovski, Shih-Yuan Wang and Stanley Williams, "Application of Fishnet Structure in Optical Modulators and Deep Sub-wavelength Sized Optical Cavities", SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, CA, 2009 Jingjing Li, Lars Thylen, Alexandre M. Bratkovski, Shih-Yuan Wang and Stanley Williams, "An optical metamaterial with a negative permeability from an array of arti¯artificial flowers ", SPIE Optics and Photonics, San Diego, CA, 2009 Lars Thylen, " Loss Compensation by Amplification in Nanoplasmonic Waveguides: Possibilities and Limitations ", Proc Annual Meeting of the IEEE Photonics Society, Paper MJ 2, (2009), invited paper Lars Thylen, "Status and prospects of integrated nanophotonics circuits" , IEEE San Francisco Bay Area Nanotechnology Council Symposium, 2009, invited paper V. Torres-Company, H. Lajunen, and A.T. Friberg, “Coherence theory of noise in Optical frequency combs”, ICO-21 Congress (Optics for the 21st Century), Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 2008. V. Torres-Company, H. Lajunen, J. Lancis, and A.T. Friberg, “Temporal ghost interference with classical light pulses”, ICO-21 Congress (Optics for the 21st Century), Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 2008. V. Torres-Company, J. Lancis, H. Lajunen, and A.T. Friberg, “Intensity-correlation optical coherence tomography”, ICO-21 Congress (Optics for the 21st Century), Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 2008. A.T. Friberg, J. Tervo, and T. Setälä, “Pancharatnam-Berry phase in the interference pattern in Young’s experiment”, ICO-21 Congress (Optics for the 21st Century), Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 2008. T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Polarization time and length”, ICO-21 Congress (Optics for the 21st Century), Sydney, Australia, 7-10 July 2008. S. Sergeyev, K. O’Mahoney, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Upconversion assisted self-pulsing in a highconcentration erbium doped fiber laser”, Int’l Conf. on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT’2008), Siofok, Hungary, 13-18 September 2008. (Invited paper) S. Popov, R. Zhang, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “Efficiency enhancement in microcavity solid-state dye laser with Bragg-grating reflectors”, Int’l Conf. on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT’2008), Siofok, Hungary, 13-18 September 2008. S. Popov, L. Dong, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “Spatial light modulator as reconfigurable intracavity dispersive element for tunable lasers”, Int’l Conf. on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT’2008), Siofok, Hungary, 13-18 September 2008. S. Sergeyev, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Raman amplification with reduced polarization impairments in the fiber with tailored spin profile”, Int’l Conf. on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT’2008), Siofok, Hungary, 13-18 September 2008. A. Shevchenko, T. Setälä, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Characterization of polarization fluctuation dynamics of beam-like electromagnetic fields”, EOS Annual Meeting, Paris, France, 29 September - 2 October 2008. T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, A.T. Friberg, and M. Kaivola, “Subwavelength electromagnetic imaging of dipole field with metamaterial nanoslab”, EOS Annual Meeting, Paris, France, 29 September - 2 October 2008. H. Lajunen, V. Torres-Company, J. Lancis, and A.T. Friberg, “Intensity-correlation optical coherence tomography”, EOS Annual Meeting, Paris, France, 29 September - 2 October 2008. S. Sergeyev, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Spun fiber Raman amplifiers”, Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science XXIV, Rochester, NY, USA, 19-23 October 2008. S. Popov, R. Zhang, A.T. Friberg, and S. Sergeyev, “Mode stability in robust microcavity solid-state dye laser”, Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science XXIV, Rochester, NY, USA, 19-23 October 2008. K. Khamaillard, A.T. Friberg, and C. Dainty, “Statistical study of light scattering by small particles: coherence matrix application”, Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science XXIV, Rochester, NY, USA, 19-23 October 2008. T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Polarization dynamics in partially polarized light beams”, Photonics 2008 – International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, New Delhi, India, 1517 December 2008, paper TB2-AI1. (Invited paper) S. Marcinkevicius, A. Gushterov, and J. P. Reithmaier, “Transient electromagnetically induced transparency in an inhomogeneously broadened quantum dot ensemble,” 29th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, July 27 – August 1, 2008, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. S. Marcinkevicius, A. Pinos, K. Liu, M. S. Shur, J. Yang, M. Shatalov and R. Gaska, “Carrier recombination in deep UV AlGaN quantum wells,” 15 th International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices, August 3 – 8, 2008, Natal, Brazil. A. Pinos, S. Marcinkevicius, K. Liu, Ms. S. Shur and R. Gaska, “Excitons and carrier lifetime in high Al fraction AlGaN quantum wells”, International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors, October 6-10, 2008, Montreux, Switzerland. L. Thylén and S. Marcinkevicius, “Nanophotonics Devices for Optical Communications”, short course, Asia-Pacific Optical Communications, 26-30 October, 2008, Hangzhou, China. S. Sergeyev, K. O’Mahoney, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Pump-to-signal noise transfer as the mechanism of self-pulsing in Erbium doped fiber laser”, Optical Fiber Communication Conference and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), San Diego, CA, USA, 22-26 March 2009, paper OWT4. A. Shevchenko, T. Setälä, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, ”Polarization fluctuation in stationary light beams”, VI Int’l Workshop Tecnolaser & II Int’l Meeting Optics, Life, and Heritage, Havana, Cuba, 13-16 April 2009. (Invited paper) A. Shevchenko, T. Setälä, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, ”Polarization time and length of fluctuating electromagnetic beams”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. (Invited paper) T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, ”Subwavelength electromagnetic imaging of point dipole with metamaterial nanoslab”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. T. Hassinen, J. Tervo, and A.T. Friberg, ”Cross-spectral purity of electromagnetic fields and the concept of cross-polarization purity”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. T. Setälä, F. Nunziata, and A.T. Friberg, ”Distinctions between partial polarizations in the space-time and space-frequency domains”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. T. Setälä, J. Tervo, and A.T. Friberg, ”Polarization modulations in Young’s interference experiment and electromagnetic coherence”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. K. Lindfors, A. Priimagi, T. Setälä, A. Shevchenko, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, ”Local polarization of tightly focused unpolarized light”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. J. Tervo, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, ”Definition and measurement of Pancharatnam-Berry phase in Young’s experiment”, Workshop on Partial Electromagnetic Coherence and 3D Polarization, Koli, Finland, 24-27 May 2009. S. Popov, Y. Li, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “Terahertz near-field imaging: rigorous model for interpreting ‘antenna approach’”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/QELS 2009), Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 5 June 2009, paper JWA18. S. Sergeyev, K. O'Mahoney, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Upconversion assisted auto-oscillations in Erbium doped fiber laser”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/QELS 2009), Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 5 June 2009, paper JWA55. S. Sergeyev, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Fiber Raman amplifiers with suppressed polarization impairments”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/QELS 2009), Baltimore, MD, USA, 31 May - 5 June 2009, paper JWA57. T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “Subwavelength electromagnetic imaging of point dipole with metamaterial nanoslab”, 4th EOS Topical Meeting on Advanced Imaging Techniques, Jena, Germany, 1012 June 2009. A. Shevchenko, T. Setälä, M. Kaivola, and A.T. Friberg, “Correlations of polarization fluctuations in stationary electromagnetic beam fields”, 4th EOS Topical Meeting on Advanced Imaging Techniques, Jena, Germany, 10-12 June 2009. N. Innocenti, S. Popov, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “External field enhancement in coupled polymer microcavities – new options for integrated photonic components”, Conference on Lasers and ElectroOptics/Europe (CLEO/Europe 2009), Munich, Germany, 14-19 June 2009, paper CK1.4. S. Popov, Y. Li, S. Sergeyev, and A.T. Friberg, “Modeling of terahertz near-field imaging: rigorous simulation and antenna approach”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe (CLEO/Europe 2009), Munich, Germany, 14-19 June 2009, paper EI.P.15. S. Sergeyev, S. Popov, and A.T. Friberg, “Two section fibre approach to suppression of polarization dependent gain in low PMD distributed fibre Raman amplifier”, Conference on Lasers and ElectroOptics/Europe (CLEO/Europe 2009), Munich, Germany, 14-19 June 2009, paper CJ.P.34. V. Torres-Company, H. Lajunen, and A.T. Friberg, “’Non-local’ dispersion cancellation with classical light”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Europe (CLEO/Europe 2009), Munich, Germany, 14-19 June 2009, paper ED.P.2. T. Setälä, F. Nunziata, and A.T. Friberg, “Partial polarization of light beams in time and frequency domains”, Workshop on Information Optics (WIO’09), Paris, France, 20-24 July 2009. (Invited paper) J. Tervo, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “Coherence theory of electromagnetic fields”, 8th Japan-Finland Joint Symposium on Optics in Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, 3-5 September 2009. (Invited paper) T. Setälä, J. Tervo, and A.T. Friberg, “Polarization modulations and electromagnetic coherence”, 9th Int’l Conference on Correlation Optics, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 20-24 September 2009. (Invited paper) J. Tervo, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “Degree of coherence for electromagnetic fields”, 9th Int’l Conference on Correlation Optics, Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 20-24 September 2009. V. Torres-Company, H. Lajunen, J. Lancis, and A.T. Friberg, “Temporal ghost imaging and nonlocal dispersion cancellation with classical light”, Emerging Trends and Novel Materials in Photonics (ICO Topical Meeting), Delphi, Greece, 7-9 October 2009. (Invited paper) T. Setälä, F. Nunziata, and A.T. Friberg, “Partial polarization in the space-time and space-frequency domains”, Emerging Trends and Novel Materials in Photonics (ICO Topical Meeting), Delphi, Greece, 7-9 October 2009. T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “Subwavelength electromagnetic near-field imaging of point dipole with metamaterial nanoslab”, Emerging Trends and Novel Materials in Photonics (ICO Topical Meeting), Delphi, Greece, 7-9 October 2009. L. Dong, J. Hu, F. Ye, S. Popov, A.T. Friberg, and M. Muhammed, “Influence of nanoparticles concentration on fluorescence quenching in gold/rhodamine 6G nanoassemblies”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 November 2009, paper ThBB-5. L. Dong, A. Pinos, A. Sugunan, S. Li, S. Popov, M. Toprak, A.T. Friberg, and M. Muhammed, “Measurement of radiative lifetime in CdSe/CdS core/shell structured quantum dots”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 November 2009, paper FW-6. K. Wang, J. Li, A. Djupsjöbacka, S. Popov, G. Jacobsen, R. Makon, R. Driad, H. Walcher, A.G. Steffan, and H.G. Bach, “100 Gb/s OOK transmission through 212 km field SSMF using monolithically integrated ETDM receiver module”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 November 2009, paper TuE-1. K. Wang, J. Li, S. Popov, and G. Jacobsen, “4x40 GHz multi-colored optical pulse generation using single two-arm modulated Mach-Zehnder modulator”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 November 2009, paper TuE-4. T. Xu, G. Jacobsen, S. Popov, J. Li, K. Wang, A. T. Friberg, “Digital Compensation of Chromatic Dispersion in 112-Gbit/s PDM-QPSK System”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 November 2009, paper TuE-2. Q. Wang, S. Savage, S. Person, B. Noharet, S. Junique, J. Y. Andersson, V. Liuolia and S. Marcinkevicius, “Multiple functional UV devices based on InGaN/AlGaN and AlxGa1-xN/AlyGa1-yN quantum wells for biological warfare agents detections”, SPIE Photonics West 2009, January 24-29, 2009, San Jose, USA. V. Liuolia, S. Marcinkevicius, R. Gaska, J. W. Yang and W. Sun, “Differential transmission dynamics in AlGaN quantum wells,” 15th Semiconductor and Insulating Materials Conference, June 15-19, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania. A. Pinos, M. Usman, S. Marcinkevicius and A Hallén, “Time-resolved photoluminescence studies of proton-implanted GaN,” 15th Semiconductor and Insulating Materials Conference, June 15-19, 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania. A. Pinos, S. Marcinkevicius, J. Yang, Y. Bilenko, M. Shatalov, R. Gaska and M. S. Shur, “Near-field investigations of light emission from AlGaN-based LED”, 36th International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, August 30 - September 2, 2009, Santa Barbara, USA, paper S6.3. T. Setälä, T. Hakkarainen, A.T. Friberg, and B.J. Hoenders, “Object-dependent cloaking in the first-order Born approximation”, EOS Topical Meeting on Diffractive Optics 2010, Koli, Finland, 14-18 February 2010. T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “3D electromagnetic imaging of dipole field with silver superlens”, 2nd Int’l Conf. on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, and Plasmonics (META’10), Cairo, Egypt, 22-25 February 2010. T. Setälä, T. Hakkarainen, A.T. Friberg, and B.J. Hoenders, “Object-dependent cloaking in the first-order Born approximation”, 2nd Int’l Conf. on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, and Plasmonics (META’10), Cairo, Egypt, 22-25 February 2010. T. Hakkarainen, T. Setälä, and A.T. Friberg, “Subwavelength electromagnetic near-field imaging of point dipole with metamaterial nanoslab”, 2nd Int’l Conf. on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, and Plasmonics (META’10), Cairo, Egypt, 22-25 February 2010. K. Wang, J. Li, A. Djupsjöbacka, M. Chacinski, U. Westergren, S. Popov, G. Jacobsen, V. Hurm, R. E. Makon, R. Driad, H. Walcher, J. Rosenzweig, A. G. Steffan, G. G. Mekonnen, H.-G. Bach, “100 Gb/s Complete ETDM System Based on Monolithically Integrated Transmitter and Receiver Modules”, Optical Fiber Communication Conference and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), San Diego, CA, USA, 21-25 March 2010. A. Pinos and S. Marcinkevicius, “Aging of deep UV AlGaN quantum well LED studied by scanning nearfield optical spectroscopy,” SPIE Photonics West 2010, January 23–28, 2010, San Francisco, USA. Jan Bogdanski, Johan Ahrens, Mohamed Bourennane, Birefringence compensation in Sagnac and its quantum communication applications, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7465, 74650Z (2009). Jan Bogdanski, Johan Ahrens, Mohamed Bourennane, Sagnac quantum key distribution and secret sharing, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7236, 72360M (2009). Jan Bogdanski, Nima Rafiei, Mohamed Bourennane Five-user QKD over switched fiber networks, SPIE Proceedings 7092, 70920K (2008). Jan Bogdanski, Nima Rafiei, Mohamed Bourennane Five-user QKD over switched fiber networks, SPIE conference, August 2008, San Diego, CA, USA Nima Rafiei, Jan Bogdanski, Marek Zukowski, Mohamed Bourennane, Quantum key distribution with undefined encoding bases, poster presentation, Quantum network demonstration scientific conference, October 2008, Vienna, Austria. Jan Bogdanski, Johan Ahrens, Mohamed Bourennane, Sagnac quantum key distribution and secret sharing, Oral presentation, SPIE conference, January 2009, San Jose, CA, USA. Jan Bogdanski, Johan Ahrens, Nima Rafiei, Alma Imamovic, and Mohamed Bourennane, Secure multiparty quantum communication over telecom fiber networks, poster presentation, CLEO, EuropeEQEC, June 2009, Munich, Germany. Magnus Rådmark, Marek Zukowski, and Mohamed Bourennane, Generation of a high visibility rotationally invariant six-photon entangled state, oral presentation, CLEO, Europe-EQEC, June 2009, Munich, Germany. Wieslaw Laskowski, Marcin Wiesniak, Marek Zukowski, Mohamed Bourennane, Harald Weinfurter, Interference contrast in multi-source few photon optics Part I, poster presentation, The 16 th central European workshop on quantum optics, May 2009, Turku, Finland. Wieslaw Laskowski, Marcin Wiesniak, Marek Zukowski, Mohamed Bourennane, Harald Weinfurter, Interference contrast in multi-source few photon optics Part II, poster presentation, The 16 th central European workshop on quantum optics, May 2009, Turku, Finland. Magnus Rådmark, Marek Zukowski, and Mohamed Bourennane, High visibility rotationally invariant sixphoton entangled state, oral presentation, QIPC 2009, September 2009, Roma, Italy. M. Rådmark, M. Zukowski, and M. Bourennane, Generation of a high visibility rotationally invariant sixphoton entangled state, Oral presentation, CLEO-EQES 2009, June,14-18, 2009, Munich. M. Bourennane, Secure multiparty quantum communication, Invited talk XII International Conference on Quantum Optics and Quantum Information September 20–23, 2008, Vilnius, LITHUANIA. N. Zhu, J. Song, L. Wosinski, and S. He, "Cross-order Echelle grating triplexer based on amorphous silicon nanowire platform", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN2008), 14 - 16 October 2008, Tokyo, Japan. N. Zhu, J. Song, L. Wosinski, and S. He, "Total internal reflection type echelle grating demultiplexer based on amorphous silicon nanowire platform”, Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference (APOC), Hang Zhou, China, 26 – 30 October 2008, Proc. SPIE 7134, pp 71340V-71340V-9 (2008). N. Zhu, J. Song, L. Wosinski, and S. He, " Etched Diffraction Grating Demultiplexers Based on Amorphous Silicon Nanowire”, Asia Optical Fiber Communication & Optoelectronic Exposition & Conference (AOE), Shanghai, China, Oct. 30 - Nov. 2 2008. B.Jaskorzynska, Y. Song, N. Zhu, Z. Wang, M. Qiu and L. Wosinski, "Dielectric and plasmonic slot waveguides for photonic integration", invited talk, 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2009, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, June 28 – July 2, 2009, Proceedings of the IEEE. L. Wosinski, N. Zhu and B. Jaskorzynska, "Silicon-based integrated multiplexers for WDM systems", invited talk, 11th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, ICTON 2009, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, June 28 – July 2, 2009, Proceedings of the IEEE. Z. Wang, Y. Tang, N. Zhu, L. Wosinski, D. Dai, U. Westergren and S. He, “Experimental Demonstration of a Bidirectional Grating Coupler-Based Polarization Beam Splitter”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 Nov. 2009. N. Zhu, Z. Wang, L. Wosinski and S. He, “Bragg grating-assisted optical triplexer using two silicon nanowire-based directional couplers”, Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition (ACP), Shanghai, China, 2-6 Nov. 2009. L. Wosinski, N. Zhu and Z. Wang, “Wavelength selective devices for WDM communication systems”, invited talk, Third IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS), Delhi, India, Dec. 14-16, 2009. O. Svenonius, A. Sahlholm, P. Wiklund and J. Linnros, “Performance of an X-ray imaging detector based on a structured scintillator”, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 607, 138-140 (2009) (IWORID, 2008). U.L. Olsen, S. Schmidt, H.F. Poulsen, J. Linnros, S. Yun, M. Di Michiel, and T. Martin, “Structured scintillators for X-ray imaging with micrometer resolution”, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A 607, 141-144 (2009) (IWORID, 2008). V. Grivickas, K. Gulbinas, P. Grivickas, G. Manolis and J. Linnros, “Fundamental band edge absorption in 3C-SiC”, Mater. Sci. Forum (2010), accepted. V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, G. Strömqvist, F. Laurell, “Mirrorless OPO: first steps towards unlocking the potential of counter-propagating three-wave interactions”, Photonics West 2008, San Jose, CA, January 1924 2008, Proc. SPIE 6875, 687508. F. Laurell, B. Jacobsson and V. Pasiskevicius, “Controlling laser radiation with volume Bragg gratings”, 16th International Conference on Advanced Laser Technologies (ALT-2008), Siofok, Hungary, September 14 - 17 (2008). Invited. F. D. Moreira, M. Fokine, H. R. Carvalho, I. C. S. Carvalho, “Poled glasses for optical devices”, Photonics North, June 2-4, Montréal (2008). M. Fokine, “Manipulating Glass for Photonics,” 3rd International conference on Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Materials and Applications (ICOOPMA) 2008, Edmonton, July 20-25 (2008). Markus Henriksson, Lars Sjöqvist, Valdas Pasiskevicius, Fredrik Laurell, ¨Narrow Bandwidth High Power IR OPOs with Volume Bragg Gratings¨, paper 4.8.2, "Physics of Lasers" of the 8 th International Laser Physics Workshop 2008 in Trondheim, Norway, June 29 - July 4, 2008, paper 4.8.2. V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, F. Laurell, “Advances in structuring technology and applications of nonlinear materials from KTiOPO4 family”, "Physics of Lasers" of the 8 th International Laser Physics Workshop 2008 in Trondheim, Norway, June 29 - July 4, 2008, paper 4.9.3. Invited. K. Seger, J. Rautiainen, V. Pasiskevicius, O. G. Okhotnikov, “Narrowband intracavity frequency-doubled semiconductor disk laser with a volume Bragg grating”, "Physics of Lasers" of the 8 th International Laser Physics Workshop 2008 in Trondheim, Norway, June 29 - July 4, 2008, paper 4.10.5. G. Strömqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, and C. Canalias, “Picosecond stimulated backward Raman scattering in periodically poled KTiOPO4”, "Physics of Lasers" of the 8 th International Laser Physics Workshop 2008 in Trondheim, Norway, June 29 - July 4, 2008, paper 5.2.6. . Invited. B. Jacobsson, F. Laurell, V. Pasiskevicius, “Spectral control of solid-state lasers using volume Bragg gratings”, "Physics of Lasers" of the 8 th International Laser Physics Workshop 2008, in Trondheim, Norway, June 29 - July 4, 2008, paper 1.3.1. . Invited. P. M. P. Gouvêa, I. C. S. Carvalho, M. Cremona, A. M. B. Braga, M. Fokine, “Fiber optic sensor based on Au plasmon resonance,” XXXI ENFMC, 405-1, Águas de Lindóia, Sao Paulo, May (2008). G. Assanto and K. Gallo, “Spatial simultons in two-dimensional purely nonlinear lattices”, ECAPD’9 (European Conference on Applications of Polar Dielectrics), Rome (Italy), 26-29 Aug 2008. V. Pasiskevicius, G. Strömqvist, C. Canalias, Nonlinear devices with submicrometer-periodicity quasiphase-matched structures, EOS Annual Meeting 2008, September 29 - October 3, Paris, France. K. Gallo,, “Nonlinear wave dynamics in 2D periodically poled waveguides”, IEEE/LEOS Winter Topical Meeting, Innsbruck, Austria, 12-14 Jan 2009 (invited). F. Parmigiani, K. J. Lee, S. Liu, J. Kakande, P. Petropoulos, K. Gallo, D. J. Richardson, “Phase sensitive amplification based on cascaded SHG / DFG process in a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide”, Institute of Physics Meeting, London, UK, 21 Sep 2009. S. Liu, K. J. Lee, F. Parmigiani, M. Ibsen, P. Petropoulos, D. Richardson and K. Gallo, “OTDM to WDM Format Conversion Based on Cascaded SHG/DFG in a Single PPLN Waveguide”, accepted at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2010, 21-25 Mar 2010, San Diego, US. V. Pasiskevicius, G. Strömqvist, C. Canalias, “Counter-Propagating Nonlinear Interactions in SubMicrometer-Structured Ferroelectrics”, OSA Topical Meeting Nonlinear Optics, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA July 12-17, (2009). C. Canalias, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell “"Periodical domains gratings go nano" Mini-symposium on Periodically-Modulated and Artificially Hetero-Structured Electrooptic Devices - 18-21 May 2009. Rank Prize Meeting, Grasmere, England. P. Jelger and F. Laurell, “Spectral control for high power fiber lasers”, Laserphysics Workshop, Barcelona, 2009, (invited). F. Laurell and P. Jelger, “'Applications of Volume Bragg Gratings in High-Power Fiber Laser Systems”, Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference, San Diego, California, USA, 2010 V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, V. Pasiskevicius, “Nonlinear optical devices with nanostructured ferroelectrics,” Japan-Sweden workshop on Nanophotonics and related technologies, June 29-30, Kista, Sweden (2009). (invited) G. Strömqvist, C. Canalias, F. Laurell, V. Pasiskevicius ”Modifying of stimulated Raman scattering by electric field poling of ferroelectric crystals,” LPHYS´09 18th International Laser Physics Workshop, Barcelona, July 13 - 17 (2009) (invited) C. Canalias, V. Pasiskevicius, and F. Laurell “Sub-µm periodically poled KTiOPO4” 9th Mediterranean Workshop and Topical meeting Novel Optical Materials and Applications NOMA, Cetrato, Italy, June 8-13 (2009). (invited). G. Strömqvist, C. Canalias, V. Pasiskevicius ”Counter-propagating parametric interactions in nanostructured ferroelectrics” Northern Optics 2009, August 26-28 Vilnius Lithuania (2009) (invited). V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, V. Pasiskevicius, “Nonlinear optical devices with nanostructured ferroelectrics,” Sino-Swedish workshop in Nanophotonics July 30-31 (invited) V. Pasiskevicius, V. Pasiskevicius, “Solid-state and fiber laser development with nano and microtechnologies,” Sino-Swedish workshop in Nanophotonics July 30-31 (invited) J. E. Hellström, H. Henricsson, V. Pasiskevicius, U. Bünting and D. Haussman, “Polarization-tuning of Yb:KGW by use of internal conical refraction,” ASSP’08 - Advanced Solid-State Photonics, 27-30 January, 2008, Nara, Japan, WB20. B. Jacobsson, J. E. Hellström, V. Pasiskevicius and F. Laurell, “Quasi-two-level Yb:KYW laser with a volume Bragg grating”, ASSP’08 - Advanced Solid-State Photonics, 27-30 January, 2008, Nara, Japan, MD3. P. Jelger and F. Laurell, “Volume Bragg Grating Tuned Large Mode Area Fiber Laser”, ASSP’08 Advanced Solid-State Photonics, 27-30 January, 2008, Nara, Japan, WB3. S. Bjurshagen, V. Pasiskevicius, I. Parreau, M. C. Pujol, M. Aguiló, F. Diaz, “Crystal growth, spectroscopic characterization and eye-safe laser operation of Er and Yb doped KLu(WO4)2”, ASSP’08 Advanced Solid-State Photonics, 27-30 January, 2008, Nara, Japan, WE12. A. Garcia-Cortes, M. D. Serrano, C. Zaldo, C. Cascales, G. Strömqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, “Nonlinear refractive indices in disordered NaT(XO4)2 T=Y, La, Gd, Lu and Bi, X=Mo, W laser crystals,” ASSP’08 Advanced Solid-State Photonics, 27-30 January, 2008, Nara, Japan, MC26. A. Garcia-Cortes, M. D. Serrano, C. Zaldo, C. Cascales, G. Strömqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, “Z-scan measurements of nonlinear refractive indices of disordered NaT(XO4)2 T=Y, La, Gd, Lu and Bi, X=Mo, W femtosecond laser crystals”, SPIE Photonics Europe2008, April 7-11, Strasbourg, Proc SPIE 6998. J. W. Kim, P. Jelger, P. Wang, J. K. Sahu, F. Laurell, W. A. Clarkson, “Wavelength selection in highpower cladding-pumped Er,Yb and Yb fibre lasers using volume Bragg gratings”, CLEO’08 - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2008, 4-9 May, San-Jose, USA, CMA2. B. Jacobsson, V. Pasiskevicius., F. Laurell, V. Smirnov, L. Glebov, “Tunable optical parametric oscillator controlled by a transversely chirped Bragg grating”, CLEO’08 - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2008, 4-9 May, San-Jose, USA, CTuY3. M. Henriksson, L. Sjöqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, “Longitudinal mode structure of degenerate OPO with volume Bragg grating output coupler”, CLEO’08 - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2008, 4-9 May, San-Jose, USA, CTuY4. V. Pasiskevicius, G. Strömqvist, C. Canalias, “Noncollinear mirrorless optical parametric oscillator”, CLEO’08 - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2008, 4-9 May, San-Jose, USA, CWC6. P. Jelger, M. Stjernström, W. Margulis, V. Pasiskevicius and F. Laurell, “Allfiber capillary electrophoresis with novel axial in-line detection”, CLEO – Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 4-9 May, San Jose, USA, CMJ3, 2008. Z. Yu, W. Margulis, P.-Y. Fonjallaz, and O. Tarasenko. “Physics of electrically switched fiber Bragg gratings. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies”, (CLEO-QELS), San Jose, USA, May 2008, paper CMK1. P. M. P. Gouvêa, I. C. S. Carvalho, M. Cremona, A. M. B. Braga, M. Fokine “Fiber optic sensor based on Au plasmon resonance” XXXI Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, May (2008). G. Chesini, C. M. B. Cordeiro, M. Fokine, C. J. S. Matos, I. C. S. Carvalho, J. C. Knight, “Externallycontrolled polarization properties of photonic crystal fibers,” XXXI Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, May (2008). F. E. P. dos Santos, A. S. L. Gomes, F. C. Favero, I. C. S. Carvalho, M. Fokine, J. Xing, Q. Chen, “Femtosecond nonlinear optical properties tellurite glass tellurite glasses obtained by thermally managed eclipse Z-scan”, XXXI Encontro Nacional de Física da Matéria Condensada, 374, Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, May (2008). Ove Steinvall, Lars Sjöqvist, Markus Henriksson and Per Jonsson , “High resolution ladar using timecorrelated single-photon counting”, Proc. 6950, 695002, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 16 - 20 March 2008. Orlando Orlando, Florida, USA. Markus Henriksson, Lars Sjöqvist, Gustav Strömqvist, Valdas Pasiskevicius, FredrikLaurell, “Tandem PPKTP and ZGP OPO for mid-infrared generation”, SPIE European symposium optics & photonics in Defence & Security 7115, 71150O, 15 - 18 September 2008, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Markus Henriksson, Lars Sjöqvist, Dirk Seiffer, Norbert Wendelstein, Eric Sucher, “Laser beam propagation experiments along and across a jet engine plume”, SPIE european symposium optics & photonics in Defence & Security 7115, 71150E, 15 - 18 September 2008, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. Lars Sjöqvist, Christina Grönwall, Markus Henriksson, Per Jonsson and Ove Steinvall, “Atmospheric turbulence effects in single-photon counting time-of-flight range profiling”, SPIE european symposium optics & photonics in Defence & Security 7115, 71150G, 15 - 18 September 2008, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. C. Fureby, M. Henriksson, O. Parmhed, L. Sjökvist and J. Tegnér, ”CFD Predictions of Jet Engine Exhaust Plumes,” AIAA 2008-3727, (2008) Chesini, C. M. B. Cordeiro, C. J. S. de Matos, M. Fokine, I. C. S. Carvalho,J. C. Knight, “All-fiber Devices Based on Photonic Crystal Fibers with Integrated Electrodes”, 1 st workshop on specialty optical fibers and their applications, AIP Conf. Proc., 1055, 109-112 (2008). Pu Wang, Par Jelger, Ji Won Kim, Jayanta Sohu, Fredrik Laurell, Andy Clarkson,“High-power linearlypolarised Yb fibre laser and tunable Er,Yb fibre laser using Volume Bragg Gratings for wavelength selection”, Europhoton Conference, 31 August - 5 September 2008, Paris, France, TUoC.5. J. Rautiainen, K. Seger, E. J. Saarinen, J. Lyytikäinen, V. Pasiskevicius, O. Okhotnikov, “Spectral control of frequency-doubled semiconductor disk laser using volume Bragg grating”, Europhoton Conference, 31 August - 5 September 2008, Paris, France, WEoC.4. G. Strömqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, “Picosecond stimulated backward Raman generator with periodically poled KTiOPO4”, Europhoton Conference, 31 August - 5 September 2008, Paris, France, FRoA.3. Gilles Feugnet , Eric Lallier, Arnaud Grisard, Thales Research & Technology (France) Lee McIntosh, Jonas E. Hellström, Cobolt AB,Sweden, Pär Jelger, Fredrik Laurell, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan,Sweden Christer Albano, Umetrics AB,Sweden Miron Kaliszewski, Miroslaw Kwasny, Krzysztof Kopczynski, Zbigniew Zawadzki, Zygmunt Mierczyk, Jaroslaw Mlynczak, Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna,Poland Antti Rostedt, Matti Putkiranta, Marko Marjamäki, Jorma Keskinen, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland Juha Enroth, Kauko Janka, Riku Reinivaara, Leo Holma, Dekati Ltd, Finland Tarmo Humppi, The Finnish Defence Forces,Finland Enrico Battistelli, Galileo Avionica S.p.A, Italy Evangelos Iliakis, George Gerolimos, Teletel S.A, Greece, “Improved laserinduced fluorescence method for bio-attack early warning detection system”,SPIE, security and defense, 2008. Zhangwei Yu, R. Koch, Walter Margulis, O. Tarasenko, H. Knape, P.Y. Fonjallaz, “Nanosecond All-Fiber Polarization Switch”, Asia Optical Fiber Communication & Optoelectronic Exposition & Conference (AOE 2008), Shanghai, China (Oct 2008), paper SaM5. Zhangwei Yu, P-Y. Fonjallaz, W. Margulis, O. Tarasenko, "High-speed switching of a DFB grating in a twin-hole fibre", Asia Pacific Optical Communications 2008 (APOC), Hangzhou, China 2008, Proceedings of the SPIE 7134, 71341X (2008) Z. Yu, O. Tarasenko, H. Knape, R. Koch, and W. Margulis. “Versatile all-fiber polarization switch”. 3rd EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference, Paris, France, 2008. S. Stivala, A. Pasquazi, G. Assanto, K. Gallo, “Solitoni spaziali mediante interazione parametrica in cristalli fotonici nonlineari”, ElettroOttica 2008, Milano, Italy, 10–12 June 2008. K. Seger, B. Jacobsson, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, “Tunable Yb:KYW laser using a transversely chirped volume Bragg grating”, ASSP – Advanced Solid-State Photonics, 1-4 February, Denver , Colorado, USA 2009, TuB15. G. Strömqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, F. Laurell, “Suppression of forward stimulated Raman scattering in periodically poled nonlinear crystals”, ASSP – Advanced Solid-State Photonics, 1-4 February, Denver , Colorado,USA 2009, TuC4. Pär Jelger, Valdas Pasiskevicius and Fredrik Laurell, “Narrow Linewidth Dual Volume-Bragg-Grating Locked Ytterbium-Doped Fiber-Laser”, ASSP – Advanced Solid-State Photonics, 1-4 February, Denver , Colorado,USA, 2009, TuB26. P. Jelger, K. Seger V. Pasiskevicius and F. Laurell, “Spectral Narrowing of Highly Efficient Cryogenically Cooled Ytterbium Doped Fiber Lasers”, CLEO - Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 30 May-5 June, Baltimore, USA, 2009, CThGG4. G. Strömqvist V. Pasiskevicius, and C. Canalias, “Spectral properties of a mirrorless optical parametric oscillator,” CLEO 2009 Baltimore, MD, USA May (2009), Accepted. C. Canalias, V. Pasiskevicius, M. Fokine, and F. Laurell, “Progress in sub-micrometer periodicity of quasiphase matching structures”, CLEO 2009 Baltimore, MD, USA May (2009), Accepted. K. Seger, P. Jelger, B. Jacobsson, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, “Tunable and Passively Q-Switched Nd:YVO4 Laser Using a Chirped Volume Bragg Grating”, CLEO 2009 Baltimore, MD, USA May (2009), CTuB6. N. Thilmann, G. Strömqvist, M.-C. Pujol, V. Pasiskevicius, V. Petrov, and F. Díaz, “Nonlinear refractive indices in undoped Yb-doped and KT(WO4)2 T=Y, Yb, Gd, Lu crystals,” CLEO 2009 Baltimore, MD, USA May (2009), JWA27. N. Thilmann, B. Jacobsson, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, E. Rotari, V. Smirnov, and L. Glebov, “Study of a narrowband optical parametric oscillator at degeneracy with a transversely chirped Bragg grating,” CLEO 2009 Baltimore, MD, USA May (2009), CWC1. K. Gallo, “Nonlinear Nonlinear optical devices in periodically poled waveguides”, Rank Prize Meeting, Grasmere, UK, 18-21 May 2009. P. Jelger, K. Seger, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell “Spectral Narrowing of Highly Efficient Cryogenically Cooled Ytterbium Doped Fiber Lasers,” CLEO 2009 Baltimore, MD, USA May (2009), Accepted. G. Strömqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, C. Montes, “Phase modulation transfer in mirrorless optical parametric oscillators” submitted to CLEO/EQEC Europe , Munich, Germany, June (2009). Submitted. G. Strömqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, F. Laurell, “Control of Stimulated Polariton Scattering in Periodically Structured KTiOPO4”, submitted to CLEO/EQEC Europe, Munich, Germany, June (2009). Submitted. V. Pasiskevicius “Quantum dots in lasers for nanosurgery and sub-diffraction imaging”, Japan-Sweden workshop on Nanophotonics and related technologies, June 29-30, Kista, Sweden (2009). Accepted. G. Strömqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, C. Montes “Transform-Limited Mid-Infrared Pulses by Mirrorless Optical Parametric Oscillator”, Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources, MICS2009, June 8-12, Trouville, France (2009). M. Henriksson, L. Sjökvist, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell “Near-degenerate volume Bragg grating PPKTP OPO in tandem OPO mid-IR sources” Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources, MICS2009, June 8-12, Trouville, France (2009), PO8. Pär Jelger, Valdas Pasiskevicius and Fredrik Laurell, “Increased spectral density in an Yb-doped fiber laser using two identical volume Bragg gratings”, 1st EOS Topical Meeting on Lasers, Capri, Italy, 2009 - J. Rautiainen, K. Seger, E. J. Saarinen, J. Lyytikäinen, V. Pasiskevicius, O. G. Okhotnikov, "Spectral control of frequency-doubled semiconductor disk laser using volume Bragg grating", Europhoton 2008 (Paris, France) M. Henriksson, L. Sjöqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, "Tandem optical parametric oscillator midinfrared laser source," Paper O-10, Northern Optics, Vilnius, 2009. L. Sjöqvist, M. Henriksson, P. Jonsson, O. Steinvall, "Time-correlated single-photon time-of-flight range profiling and imaging," Paper O-20, Northern Optics, Vilnius, 2009. F. Kullander, P. Jonsson, M. Henriksson, G. Olofsson, P. Wästerby, "Short-range ultraviolet laser based standoff detection of chemical warfare agents," Paper P2-6, Northern Optics, Vilnius, 2009. O. Gustafsson, M. Henriksson, L. Sjöqvist, "Wallinduced turbulence distortions of optical measurements," Proc. SPIE 7482, 74820E (2009) (SPIE Europe Security and Defence, 31 August - 3 September 2009, Berlin, Germany.) K. Seger, B. Jacobsson, V. Pasiskevicius and F. Laurell, "Tuning and locking of a Yb:KYW laser with a transversally chirped volume Bragg grating", EOS Topical meeting on Lasers 2009, Capri, Italy. K. Seger, P. Jelger, B. Jacobsson, V. Pasiskevicius and F. Laurell, "Using a Chirped Volume Bragg Grating to Tune a Passively Q-Switched Nd:YVO4 Laser", EOS Topical meeting on Lasers 2009, Capri, Italy. K. Seger, B. Jacobsson, V. Pasiskevicius and F. Laurell, "Use of a Transversely Chirped Volume Bragg Grating for Tuning a Yb:KYW Laser", Northern Optics 2009, Vilnius Lithuania. N. Thilmann, G. Strömqvist, M.-C. Pujol, V. Pasiskevicius, V. Petrov, and F. Díaz ” Characterization of Kerr nonlinearities in undoped and Yb-doped KRE(WO4)2 RE=Y, Yb, Gd, Lu crystals,” Northern Optics 2009, August 26-28 Vilnius Lithuania (2009). W. Bolaños, J.J. Carvajal, X. Mateos, M. C. Pujol, V. Pasiskevicius, N. Thilmann, M. Aguiló and F. Díaz; Fabrication and characterization of epitaxial layers of the KY1-xyGdxLuy(WO4)2 system for waveguide lasers; MICS 2009. S. Chaitanya Kumar, G. K. Samanta, C. Canalias, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, M. Ebrahim-Zadeh, “6.2 W, Continuous-Wave, Single-Frequency, Yb-Fiber-Based Green Source at 532 nm Using Periodically-Poled KTiOPO4” EOS Topical Meeting on Lasers 2009, September 27-30, Capri, Italy (2009). B. Jacobsson, N. Thilmann, V. Pasiskevicius and F. Laurell, “Narrowband and tunable optical parametric oscillator near and at degeneracy using a transversely chirped Bragg grating” EOS Topical Meeting on Lasers 2009, September 27-30, Capri, Italy (2009) G. Strömqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, C. Canalias, C. Montes, ”Impulsions limitées par transformée de Fourier dans un oscillateur paramétrique optique contrapropagatif”, Le colloque sur les Lasers et l’Optique Quantique, COLOQ’11, 7-9 September, Mouans-Sartoux, France (2009) M. Henriksson, L. Sjöqvist, V. Pasiskevicius, F. Laurell, "Cavity Length Resonances in a Singly Resonant Optical Parametric Oscillator with a Volume Bragg Grating", Advanced Solid State Photonics, Feb. 2010, San Diego, USA, paper AMB21. Accepted. W. Margulis, “Special fibers for sensor applications”, Invited paper, European Optical and Photonics Congress , Karlsruhe, Germany, June (2010). W. Margulis, “Poling of optical fibers: Present and future opportunities”, Invited paper, ACOFT, Adelaide, Australia (2009). P. Rugeland, Z. Yu, O. Tarasenko, G. Tengstrand and W. Margulis, “Tunable microwave generation using novel fiber laser cavity”, Invited paper, Northern Optics 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania. W. Margulis, “Applications of electrically controlled silicate fibers with internal electrodes”, invited talk, 6th Annual Meeting of the MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems (CIPS), Boston 21-22 May (2009). W. Margulis, “Fibers and fiber components” W. Margulis, invited series of lectures, IX School of Modern Optics, Puebla, Mexico, 13 to 16 April 2009. W. Margulis, O. Tarasenko, Z. Yu, P-Y Fonjallaz and H. Knape,”High-speed fiber switches”, Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers, WSOF08, Campinas, Brazil Aug 2008. Invited. Mikael Malmström, Walter Margulis, Zhangwei Yu, Oleksander Tarasenko, Fredrik Laurell, “All fiber Qswitched and cavity dumped laser using an electrically addressed microstructured fiber”, Advanced SolidState Photonics, paper AMB8, San Diego, California 2010. E. Zetterlund, A. Loriette, C. Sterner, M. Eriksson. H. Eriksson-Quist, W.Margulis, “Temperatureindependent bend sensor using Bragg gratings in Gemini fiber”, Optical Fiber Sensors Conference OFS20, paper OF101-104, Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct 2009. A. Sudirman, G. Björk and W. Margulis, "Combining low-coherence reflectometry, laser ablation and microfluidics in a fiber", 3rd EOS Topical Meeting on Optical Microsystems (OµS 09), Capri, Italy (2009). C. Sterner, J. Zhou, W. Wei, X. Yu, P. P. Shum, O. Tarasenko, W. Margulis and P.-Y. Fonjallaz, “Eclipse-fiber for Evanescent Field Sensing”, International Conference On Advanced Infocomm Technology 2009 (ICAIT09), Paper P2A-147-9, July 2009, Xi’an, China. P. Rugeland, Z. Yu, O. Tarasenko, G. Tengstrand and W. Margulis, “Rapid photonic microwave measurement using ultranarrow DFB FBG”, Northern Optics 2009, Vilnius, Lithuania 2009. Workshops 2009 Sino-Swedish Workshop on Nanophotonics, 30 July - 1 August 2009, Stockholm, Sweden. Most of senior researchers from the Linne ADOPT center gave invited talks. (Workshop organizer: Min Qiu, Sponsors: SIDA and Linne ADOPT center). Website: http://www.ict.kth.se/info/FOFU/PC/Workshop.htm J. Linnros, Synthesis and properties of single silicon quantum dots, SIBET workshop, Manchester 2009. J. Linnros, Silicon nanostructures: nanowires, nanopores and quantum dots, Sino-Swedish workshop 2009. J. Linnros, Silicon Quantum Dots – Do they Exist?, 2009 Sweden-Japan workshop on Nanophotonics, Stockholm 2009. J. Linnros, Silicon Quantum Dots – Do they Exist?, Applied Physics Seminar 2009, Albanova, KTH. J. Linnros, Fabrication and characterization of single silicon quantum rods, IBEDM, Tossa de Mar 2009. J. Linnros, Fabrication and characterization of single silicon quantum rods, QNANO workshop, also given at Inst of Mat Science, Tsukuba 2009 and at Kyoto University 2009. Lech Wosinski and Liu Liu, “Si photonics for WDM networks and interconnects,” Japan-Sweden workshop on Nanophotonics and related technologies, June 29-30, Kista, Sweden (2009). Ning Zhu and Lech Wosinski, “Multi/demultiplexers based on Echelle gratings,” Japan-Sweden workshop on Nanophotonics and related technologies, June 29-30, Kista, Sweden (2009). Zhechao Wang, Ning Zhu and Lech Wosinski, “Novel nanophotonic components,” Japan-Sweden workshop on Nanophotonics and related technologies, June 29-30, Kista, Sweden (2009). S.Lourdudoss, C.Junesand, M-H. Gau, Y.Xiang, F.Olsson and J.Ahopelto, Indium phosphide on silicon for nanophotonics and silicon photonics - A monolithic approach, Sweden-Japan Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009. C. Junesand, Z. Wang, M-H. Gau, F. Olsson , W. Metaferia, L. Wosinski, I. Lo and S. Lourdudoss, Monolithic integration of indium phosphide on silicon for silicon photonics through nanoepitaxial lateral overgrowth, The 9th Sweden-Japan Workshop on Quantum Nanophysics and Nanoelectronics (QNANO), Tokyo, Japan, 2009. S.Lourdudoss, C.Junesand, M-H. Gau, Y.Xiang, F.Olsson and J.Ahopelto, Indium phosphide on silicon for nanophotonics and silicon photonics - A monolithic approach, Sweden-China Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009. Miscellaneous Walter Margulis blev invald som Elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America in 2009/2010. Gunnar Björk blev i februari 2008 som en av tre svenskar utnämnd till Outstanding Referee av American Physical Society. Gunnar Björk blev i mars 2009 som första svensk invald som European Physical Society Fellow. ADOPT var genom Gunnar Björk representerade på Kista arbetsmarknadsdagar, en ”jobbmässa” organiserad av KTH och SUs studenter i Kista. ADOPT var medorganisatör till Sweden-Japan Workshop on Nanophotonics and Related Technologies, June 29-30, 2009 tillsammans med våra “systercentra” AFOC (Acreo Fiber Optics Center) och IMAGIC (Imaging Integrated Components). ADOPT medverkade vid 2009 Sino-Swedish Workshop on Nanophotonics, Stockholm, Sweden July 3031, 2009. Min Qiu vid ADOPT organiserade workshopen. ADOPT medverkade vid International Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop 2009, Stockholm, Sweden and Berlin, Germany, August 2-16, 2009. Lars Thylén vid ADOPT var en av workshopens arrangörer. ADOPT medfinansierade ett initiative till att som led i Laserfest 2010 (som är ett internationellt initiativ för att uppmärksamma att lasern blir 50 år) försöka ordna filmvisning med laserprojektion i centrala Stockholm. Bozena Jaskorzynska Expert on evaluation committee for Professorship in Physics, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, 2009 Bozena JaskorzynskaTechnical Comm. for International conferences: European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics & Quantum Electronics (CLEO Europe-EQEC) 2009, chair of the European Symposium on Photonic Crystals, (ESPC), co-chair / member of Technical Committees for “Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications”, “Transparent Optical Networks”. Bozena Jaskorzynska Swedish delegate to Cost Action MP0702, leader of WG2, since 2008 Saulius Marcinkevicius has been promoted to a professor position. Min Qiu has been promoted to a professor position. Ari T. Friberg has also served as Finland Distinguished Professor at Helsinki University of Technology (TKK, Espoo) and the University of Joensuu, Finland. A.T. Friberg and J. Turunen, guest editors, Special Issue on Electromagnetic Coherence and Polarization, Optics Communications (2010). Patent Sebastian Lourdudoss and Fredrik Olsson, Semiconductor heterostructures and manufacturing thereof, International application nr. PCT/SE2008/050288) Alameh Kamal and Grishin Alex, Magneto-Opto Photonic Crystal Multilayer Structure Having Enhanced Faraday Rotation With Visible Light, Korean patent application KR20080110767, 2008-12-19; Alameh Kamal and Grishin Alex, Magneto-Opto Photonic Crystal Multilayer Structure Having Enhanced Faraday Rotation With Visible Light, Japanese patent application JP2009530656, 2009-08-27. 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