Date

Speaker

Title

Jan. 28

Dr. Ivan Kaminow

UC Berkeley

Growth of the Glorious Internet: Technology, Economics & Society

[ppt]

[pdf]

Feb. 4

Dr. Long Yang

MicroDisplay Corporation, San Pablo , CA

Introduction of Liquid crystal-on-Silicon
display for projection TV

Feb. 11

Dr. David Leuenberger

UC Berkeley

Photonic Crystals in Integrated Optics: the Bumpy Way towards Optical Circuits

[ppt]

[pdf]

Feb. 18

Dr. Peter Seitz
Swissnex &
Univ. Neuchatel, Switzerland

Smart Pixels for Novel Optical Imaging Techniques

[pdf]

Feb. 25

Dr. Christopher Lin
Avanex

Virtually Imaged Phased Array (VIPA): Operation and Applications

Mar. 4

Q>100 million microresonators on silicon chips and application to micro-Raman and -OPO sources, and new opto-mechanical RF oscillators

Mar. 11

OFC

No seminar

Mar. 18

Dr. Yan Sun

Onetta

Optical amplifier dynamics and its applications for WDM optical networks

Mar. 25

Spring Break

No seminar

Apr. 1

Apr. 8

Prof. Ehud Isacoff

UC Berkeley

Bioelectricity under optical detection and manipulation: optical probes on ion channel proteins

Special schedule: 3 - 4:30 p.m. in Hogan room (521 Cory)

Apr. 15

Dr. Alferov

Apr. 22

Dr. Mario Paniccia

Intel

Silicon Photonics Research  : Opportunity, applications &   Recent Results

[pdf]

Apr. 29

Wendy Xiaoxue Zhao
&
Mike Huang

BSAC, UC Berkeley

Talk 1: Optical Injection Locking on VCSELs

Talk 2: Highly Reflective and Ultra Broadband Mirror Using Sub-Wavelength Grating (SWG)

May 6

Dr. Waguih Ishak

Agilent

“The Society of the Future”
“The Mega Trends of the 21^st Century and their Implications on the Global Research Community”

Rescheduled to Fall 2005

Prof. Michal Lipson

Cornell University