About the Authors Yaakov Achiam has over 32 years of experience in photonics research and develop- ment at world-class academic and industrial institutions. Dr. Achiam has served for the last 10 years as the Vice President of Photonics, for CeLight Inc., a company that specializes in coherent optical technologies. During this period he has been involved in the development of components and systems for coherent optical communication, standoff detection of explosives, and signal analysis. Collaboratively with CeLight, he holds patents on the QPSK modulator and Coherent Receiver. Prior to joining CeLight, Dr. Achiam served as the Joint Head of the Coherent Light Source Lab- oratory for Ben Gurion University and Israel’s Nuclear Research Center, where he conducted work on advanced lasers and materials. From 1992 to 1999, Dr. Achiam was the Director of the Laser Department for the Nuclear Research Center in Is- rael. Dr. Achiam received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. Masahiro Aoki received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in physical electronics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1987, 1989, and 1999, respectively. In 1989, he joined the Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, where he has been engaged in the research, development and commercialization of semiconductor lasers and related monolithic/hybrid integrated components/modules for telecommunications/data communications, information, and industry applica- tions. From 1999 to 2000, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Heinrich-Hertz- Institute, Berlin, Germany, where he was engaged in the advanced monolithic in- tegration of Indium Phosphide-based photonic ICs. From 2006, he headed a Nano- Electronics R&D team and his interests extended to new material and new functional devices such as organic electronics, power electronics, and Micro Electro Mechan- ical Systems (MEMS) and related subsystems. He is now with the Telecommuni- cations & Network Systems Division of Hitachi Ltd., Yokohama, Japan, and his current focus is on global business development and operation in the field of com- munication networks. H. Venghaus, N. Grote (eds.), Fibre Optic Communication – Key Devices 665 Optical Sciences 161. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20517-0, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 666 About the Authors Dr. Aoki is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics and the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan. He re- ceived Best Paper Awards from the Third Optoelectronics Conference in 1990, the Second Optoelectronics and Communication Conference in 1997, and the Seventh Optoelectronics and Communication Conference in 2004. He also received the Sci- entific Encouragement Award in 1994, the Excellent Paper Award in 1995, and the Achievement Award in 2007, all from IEICE, the R&D100 Award in 1996, and the IPRM 10th Anniversary Paper Award in 1998 from the IEEE Lasers and Electro- Optics Society. Andreas Beling received the Dipl.-Phys. degree (M.Sc.) in physics from the Uni- versity of Bonn, Germany, in 2000 and the Dr.-Ing. degree (Ph.D.) in electrical engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany, in 2006. In 2000 he worked as a Research Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany. From 2001 to 2006 he was a staff scientist in the photonics division at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (HHI) in Berlin, Germany. At HHI, he was engaged in the design and characterization of high-speed optoelec- tronic circuits. From 2006 to 2008 he was a Research Associate in Prof. Joe C. Campbell’s group at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. At UVa he worked on high-power high-linearity photodiodes and microwave photonics. He joined u2t Photonics AG in Berlin, Germany, in late 2008 where he worked as a project man- ager on the development of new optoelectronic receivers for 40 and 100 G applica- tions. He returned to UVa in 2010 where he is currently a Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Andreas Beling has authored or co-authored more than 65 technical papers and was a member of the technical program committee of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference in 2010 and 2011. Andreas Beling is a member of the IEEE Photonics Society (formerly IEEE LEOS). René Bonk was born in August 1979 in Germany. In 2006 he received the Diploma degree in Physics from the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany) for work in the field of quantum transport in low-dimensional electronic systems. In 2012 he received the Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). From 2006 to 2009 he managed the Eu- ropean FP6 project “TRIUMPH” (Transparent Ring Interconnection Using Multi- wavelength PHotonic switches). During his Ph.D. studies he was working in the area of all-optical signal processing and linear and non-linear semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA). Currently, he is with Alcatel-Lucent Deutschland AG, Bell-Labs Germany, where he is working as a research engineer in the field of optical access networks. Anna Borghesani obtained the degree of Doctor in Physics at the University of Genova (Physics Department), Italy, in 1999, following the completion of a one year thesis project on particle physics experiments in Italy and in the US. She has worked in the photonics industry for 12 years. She joined Corning Research Cen- About the Authors 667 tre in Ipswich, UK, in 2000 where she worked as a System Scientist working on high-speed 10 and 40 Gbit=s tests of optoelectronic components. She then joined CIP Technologies in Ipswich, UK, at its foundation in 2003 as a High-Speed Sys- tems Scientist and product manager for CIP’s Monolithic R-SOA-EAM Product. Her expertise in photonics has focused on optoelectronic device characterisation and optical high speed systems up to 40 Gbit=s, implementing new test-beds and measurement techniques. Her work also focused on high frequency component test- ing including high speed detector and modulator characterisation up to 110 GHz. She has been strongly involved in ongoing EU research projects studying semicon- ductor optical amplifiers, electro-absorption modulators and ultra high speed photo detectors. She has continued her work since CIP’s acquisition by Huawei in early 2012, taking the role of Test and Measurement manager. She is author and co-author of over 30 several technical papers. John E. Bowers holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology, and is the Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a Professor in the Department of Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at UCSB. He is a co-founder of Aurrion, Aerius Photonics and Calient Networks. Dr. Bowers received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories and Honeywell before joining UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Bowers is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the IEEE, OSA and the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the OSA Holonyak Prize, the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has published eight book chapters, 450 journal papers, 700 conference papers and has received 52 patents. He and coworkers received the EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award for Most Promising Technology for the hybrid silicon laser in 2007. François Caloz received a diploma in applied physics from the Swiss Federal In- stitute of Technology in Zurich in 1991 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 1997. From 1997–1999 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, Los An- geles, CA), and since 1999 he has been with Diamond SA, a worldwide leader in developing and supplying passive fibre optic components and high-precision fibre optic solutions. François Caloz was employed by Diamond SA as the fibre optic laboratory manager, where he was mainly involved in the development, test and measurement of passive optical components, as well as in the implementation and development of new test and measurement equipment. He is currently involved in the standardization of fibre optic connectors with the IEC 86B committee “Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components,” which is responsible for the preparation of international standards for fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components, related test and measurement methods and functional inter- faces, including all mechanical, environmental and optical requirements to ensure interoperability and reliable performance of fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components. 668 About the Authors Joe C. Campbell received the B.Sc. Degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1969, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971 and 1973, respectively. From 1974 to 1976 he was employed by Texas Instruments where he worked on integrated optics. In 1976 he joined the staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. In the Craw- ford Hill Laboratory he worked on a variety of optoelectronic devices including semiconductor lasers, optical modulators, waveguide switches, photonic integrated circuits, and photodetectors with emphasis on high-speed avalanche photodiodes for high-bit-rate lightwave systems. In January of 1989 he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering. In January of 2006, Professor Campbell joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville as the Lucian Carr, III Chair of Electrical Engineering and Applied Science. Professor Campbell’s research has focused on the optoelectronic components that are used to generate, modulate, and detect the optical signals.