WORKSHOP: ORGANIZATION OF THE 1996 INTEGRATED PHOTONICS RESEARCH TOPICAL MEETING, APRIL 28-MAY 3, 1996, BOSTON MA

9625762 Hennage这是一份用于支付出席OSA/IEEE集成光子学研究会议（IPR）的选定美国学生的费用的申请，否则他们将无法参加会议。预计参加会议将大大促进会议的教育和研究影响。知识产权的一个非常重要的方面是它在导波光电子学领域的教育和培训中的独特作用。会议向学生和研究人员展示了最新的想法和结果，并提供了一个论坛，供同事和主要科学家讨论和分享贡献。因此，我们在此提议拨款的目的是帮助研究生继续参与会议。目前，诸如LEOS年会、OFC年会、OSA年会、CLEO年会和SPIE会议等大型会议越来越多地征集集成光学论文。不幸的是，能够参加所有这些论坛的研究人员相对较少，而每年参加IPR的人数相对稳定在200-250人之间，其中15- 20%是学生。这引起了集成光学界许多成员的不满。为了扭转这一趋势，加强知识产权的教育和研究内容，今年的会议进行了几项重大变化。首先，技术项目委员会的成员从44名增加到59名。许多新成员的加入是为了帮助组织八个关于导波光学关键新兴领域的半自主研讨会，从硅光子学和并行光学互连到光学系统建模和集成光学和微加工。在未来几年，更成功的专题讨论会有望发展成为会议的常设分会，并将根据需要建立更多的专题讨论会。由于专题讨论会论文和普通的投稿论文一样经过仔细的审查过程，我们希望通过这种方式将小型专题会议形式的灵活性与通常与大型专业会议相关的高科学标准结合起来。同时，IPR将继续在其核心领域-数值模拟与设计，有源半导体器件，介电波导和波导器件以及光子元件制造和封装技术方面提供完整的定期提交论文计划。传统上，这些会议吸引了许多来自不同组织背景的导波光学领域的顶级国际科学家。事实上，1995年知识产权注册人的地理分布是：北美/南美：54%，欧洲：25%，环太平洋地区：60%。* * *

9625762 Hennage This is a request for a grant towards defraying the cost of attendance at the OSA/IEEE Integrated Photonics Research Conference (IPR) for selected American students who would otherwise be unable to come to the meeting. It is expected that participation will significantly advance the educational and research impact of the conference. A very important aspect of IPR is its unique role in education and training in the field of guided-wave optoelectronics. The conference presents students and researchers with the latest ideas and results, and provides a forum for discussion and sharing contributions with colleagues as well as leading scientists. The purpose of the grant we propose here is therefore to help sustain the participation of graduate students in the meeting. At present large conferences such as the LEOS Annual, OFC, OSA Annual, CLEO and SPIE meetings are increasingly soliciting integrated optics papers. Unfortunately, relatively few researchers are able to attend all these forums, while yearly attendance at IPR has remained relatively constant at 200-250 attendees with 15-20 % being students. This has led to some dissatisfaction among many members of the integrated optics community. To reverse this trend by strengthening the educational and research content of IPR, the conference this year has undergone several major changes. First, the technical program committee has been expanded from 44 to 59 members. Many of the new members were added to help organize eight semi-autonomous symposia on key emerging areas in guided-wave optics ranging from Silicon Photonics and Parallel Optical Interconnects to Optical System Modeling and Integrated Optics and Micromachining. In future years, the more successful symposia will hopefully develop into permanent sub-units of the conference and additional symposia will be established as warranted. Since symposia papers undergo the same careful review process as normal contributed papers, we hope in this mann er to combine the flexibility of a small topical meeting format with the high scientific standards normally associated with large professional meetings. At the same time, IPR will continue to offer a full program of regular submitted papers in its core areas - numerical simulation and design, active semiconductor devices, dielectric waveguides and waveguide devices and photonic component manufacturing and packaging technology. These sessions traditionally have attracted many of the top international scientists in the guided-wave optics field from a wide cross-section of organizational backgrounds. Indeed, the geographic distribution of registrants for IPR'95 was - North/South America: 54%, Europe: 25%, and Pacific Rim: 60%. ***