October 9, 10, 2003 IAB Fall Meeting Table of Contents

 ODSC Overview

Dror Sarid, Optical Data Storage Center

Viewgraphs

Computer Simulations with DIFFRACT^TM and Sim3D_Max^TM

A. Zakharian, A. Cazan, J. V. Moloney and M. Mansuripur

Novel Method of Optical Disk Readout by Measuring Optical Phase at the Exit Pupil of the Objective

K. Uemura and M. Mansuripur

Multimode Interference-Based Photonic Crystal Beam-Splitter

T. Liu, A. R. Zakharian, M. Fallahi and M. Mansuripur

Sub-Nanosecond Melting and Amorphization of Phase-Change Media

K. Watabe, P. Polynkin and M. Mansuripur

 Progress on Multi-level Run-Length Limited (Ml-RLL) Recording

K. (Angus) Wu and D. Howe

 Study of Light Transmission Through Sub-Wavelength Apertures in Metal Films

J. Olkkonen and D. Howe

High-Density Recording and Related Topics

T. Milster and Milster Research Group

Photonic Components for Data Storge Networks

A. Kost, N. Eradat, K. Rausch, N. Yurt, X. Sun C.-H. Chen, A. Abdi, G, Erik, D. Geraghty, S. Honkanen

 Control Techniques for Predictable Network Storage Performance

E. de la Rosa, H. Hartman, T. Hurst