Introductory -- Scanning the symposium -- Photonics in telecommunications -- LiNbO3 Devices -- Development and applications of commercial LiNbO3 guided-wave devices -- Field induced waveguides in LiNbO3: New developments -- Electrooptic tunable filters for WDM networks -- Demonstration of 250 Gb/s all-optical routing control of a photonic crossbar switch -- An electrode-less integrated Mach-Zehnder interferometer electric field sensor -- Laser Devices -- Monolithic semiconductor MOPAs: How the Watt was won -- Multi-wavelength vertical cavity laser arrays grown on a patterned backup substrate -- Polarization induced enhancement of relative intensity noise and modulation distortion of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers -- InP based multiple quantum well lasers with an integrated tapered beam expander waveguide -- Optimal design of combined distributed-feedback/Fabry-Perot structures for vertical cavity surface emitting semiconductor lasers -- Transmission-line modeling of multi-section DFB lasers -- Analysis of gain coupled DFB semiconductor lasers with absorption grating -- Linewidth reduction by the formation of a fiber external cavity with the vertical emission of a distributed Bragg reflector laser -- Distributed feedback lasers for diode laser gas sensing -- Modeling of optical gain due to excitonic transitions in index-guided ZnCdSe/ZnMgSSe multiple quantum well blue-green lasers -- Low threshold current density wavelength shifting between N=1 and N=2 transitions in n-type modulation doped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well lasers -- Switches and Coupling Devices -- High-speed photonic waveguide switch arrays and optical amplifier gates in InGaAsP/InP for communications applications -- Analysis of N × M waveguide splitters and couplers with multimode guiding sections -- Wavelength-flattened three core optical coupler power splitters in ion-exchanged glass -- Single-band and multi-band optical waveguide wavelength filters using ion-exchange process -- Synthesis of optical interconnects and logic gates -- Modelling of a versatile all-optical Mach-Zehnder switch -- A guide/antiguide structure for implementing self-imaging waveguide beamsplitters -- Strained-layer superlattices for polarization-insensitive integrated waveguide applications -- Power coupling efficiency for electro-optic directional coupler switch -- Design optimization and fabrication of a widened X-branch demultiplexer by ion-exchange in glass -- Modulators -- Recent progress in the development of traveling wave LiNbO3 modulators -- Integrated magnetooptic Bragg cell modules and applications -- High-speed wideband integrated magneto-optic frequency shifter and modulator -- GaAs VLSI-compatible OEIC technology: Design for a quantum well n-i-p-i phase modulator -- Design and analysis of surface-normal Fabry-Perot optical modulators in the near infrared (InGaAs/GaAs) and blue-green (ZnCdSe/ZnMgSSe) regions -- Optical phase modulation of a quantum well-dielectric slab waveguide -- Characterization of optical modulators for application in lightwave links at CERN -- Periodic Structures -- Periodic waveguide structures: 101 varieties! -- Waveguide grating router components for WDM networks -- Distributed feedback channel dropping filters -- Periodically segmented waveguides -- Guided wave deflectors using gratings with slowly-varying groove depth for beam shaping -- Waveguide coupling gratings: Attractive features and dangerous pitfalls -- Integrated-optic displacement sensor using a pair of grating couplers -- Rigorous guided-wave solutions for planar grating structures -- Nonlinear Techniques -- Cascading: Modelling a new route to large optical nonlinearities and all-optical devices -- Nonlinear phase-shifts by cascading in the ?erenkov regime -- Ultrashort pulse propagation in nonlinear planar optical waveguides -- ?/4-shifted nonlinear periodic structure: Theory of low-intensity switching -- Frequency conversion in Ti:LiNbO3 channel waveguides -- Spatial solitons in superlattice with near resonant nonlinearity -- Numerical Methods -- Computer-aided analysis and design in guided-wave optoelectronics -- Parallel-processing finite-difference beam propagation methods -- An explicit and stable finite difference BPM for applications to device analysis and design -- An OEIC CAD system for passive and active planar waveguide circuits -- Finite element solution of nonlinear optical waveguides -- Photonic Bandgaps and Resonances -- Highly efficient light-emitting diodes with microcavities -- Wide stop band optical filters from photonic band gap air bridges -- Applications and characterization of a new face-centered-cubic photonic crystal -- Microparticle photonics: Fiber optic excitation of MDRs.