The purpose of the Special session is to provide a forum for exchange of latest research and development results on optical micro-resonator theory, design and fabrication, with applications in many disciplines ranging from filters for WDM networks to low-threshold microlasers to quantum computing to optical biosensors. All scientists and engineers working in this broad area are invited to submit their research to the program of the special session. The program will include invited and contributed papers as well as poster presentations.

The suggested session topics include but are not limited to the following:

Whispering-gallery modes Microsphere and microdisk resonators Photonic crystal microcavities Microcavity shape engineering Photonic molecules Microcavity lasers and LEDs Coupled-cavity waveguides Microresonator-based bio(chemical)sensors Optical information processing with microresonators Nonlinear processes in microcavities and coupled-cavity structures Cavity solitons

Session Program Committee

Confirmed invited presentations by:

Vasily Astratov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Optical transport phenomena in coupled spherical cavities

Alexander Burin, Tulane University, USA
Bound whispering gallery modes in circular arrays of dielectric spherical particles

Takahisa Harayama, ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Japan
Theory and applications of 2D microcavity lasers

Andrey Matsko, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Fabrication, characterization, and application of crystalline whispering gallery mode resonators

Francesco Morichetti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Enhanced frequency shift in optical slow-wave structures

H. E. Tureci, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Theory of the spatial structure of non-linear modes in novel and complex laser cavities

Contributions announced by:

V. N. Astratov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
High-quality-factor WG modes in semiconductor microcavity pillars with circular and elliptical cross section

G. Blaustein, Tulane University, USA
Optical modes in linear arrays of dielectric spherical particles: a numerical investigation

M. Choi, ATR Wave Engineering laboratories, Japan
Two mode interactions in quasi-stadium laser

Joannis Chremmos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Matrix Analysis of Coupled Microring Resonator Polygons

L. I. Deych, City University of New York, USA
Propagation of the fundamental whispering gallery mode along a chain of coupled microspheres

G. Fasching, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
'Single-Mode' Whispering-Gallery Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Lasers with Controlled Degeneracy

M. Gerlach, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Radiation-pressure-induced mode splitting in a spherical microcavity with an elastic shell

Y.-Z. Huang, Institute of Semiconductors, China
Room-temperature continuous-wave electrically injected InP/GaInAsP equilateral-triangle-resonator lasers

S. W. Kim, Pusan National University, Korea
What determines the direction of far-field emission in chaotic microcavities?

S.-B. Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Far-field emission patterns and the emission positions of individual cavity modes in a highly deformed microcavity

S.-Y. Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Effect of openness on resonance patterns in chaotic microcavities

J.-J. Li, Huaqiao University and Institute of Semiconductors, China
Mode coupling between coupled first and second order whispering-gallery modes in coupled two microdisks

A.B. Matsko, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Matrix Analysis of Coupled Microring Resonator Polygons

H.-J. Moon, Sejong University, Korea
Strong mode selection scheme in a layered cylindrical microcavity laser with a thin dielectric inner coating

Y. Nakae, ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Japan
Beam mode observation in quasi-stadium laser diodes

S. V. Pishko, Kharkov National University, Ukraine
Pre- and post-fabrication tuning of bends in microdisk CROW sections: a numerical study

A. K. Popov, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, USA
Quantum switching in doped negative-index metamaterials

J.-W. Ryu, Pusan National University, Korea
Symmetric and asymmetric interacting whispering gallery modes in coupled dielectric microdisks

N. K. Sakhnenko, Kharkov National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine
Early time fields in stratified microdisk resonators with time discontinuity in permittivity

T. K. Sasaki, ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Japan
Optical control of ring modes using tandem quasi-stadium laser diodes

C. Schmidt, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Nonlinear effects due to thermo-optical instability in microsphere resonators

Q. Song, Fudan University, China
Tunable high-Q directional random laser from a planar random microcavity

S. Sunada, ATR Wave Engineering Laboratories, Japan
Generalized Sagnac effect in rotating optical cavities

X. Wu, Fudan University, China
High quality direct photo-patterned microdisk lasers with organic/inorganic hybrid materials

Y.-D. Yang, Institute of Semiconductors, China
Investigation of vertical radiation loss for whispering-gallery modes in 3-D microresonators by FDTD simulation

J. Yang, Seoul National University, Korea
Efficient nonresonant optical pumping of a deformed microcavity based on ray and wave chaos

Full paper submissions:

Invited speakers are cordially asked to submit the full papers (4-6 pages in electronic form, Word 6.0 or later version accompanied by a PDF version) to the ICTON Organiser, Marian Marciniak (M.Marciniak@itl.waw.pl), with a copy to the Special Session Organiser, Svetlana Boriskina (SBoriskina@gmail.com).

Authors of the contributed papers please send your submissions (4 pages in electronic form, Word 6.0 or later version accompanied by a PDF version) to Svetlana Boriskina (SBoriskina@gmail.com).

All authors are asked to follow ICTON submission rules available at www.itl.waw.pl/icton/

Full paper due: April 30, 2007

Questions should be addressed to Svetlana V. Boriskina
tel: 380 (57) 7040373, fax: 1 (831) 3087657, e-mail: SBoriskina@gmail.com