Dr. Antao Chen is a Senior Scientist with the Applied Physics Laboratory and an Associate Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Washington.

Dr. Chen received his BS, MEng degrees from Beijing Institute of Technology, and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Southern California, in 1983, 1989, 1995, and 1998, respectively.

From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a lens designer for State Northwestern Optical Instrument Corporation in Xi'an, China. From 1989 to 1993, he was an engineer with the Chinese Academy of Electronics and Information Technology in Beijing, China. Dr. Chen joined Lucent Bell Labs Optoelectronics Center in 1998. His work on lithium niobate optical switches won the 1999 Bell Labs President Gold Award. His another work, a lithium niobate polarization controller, was selected by Photonics Spectra as one of the top 25 photonics products of year 2001, and won the Photonics Circle of Excellence Award. Dr. Chen joined University of Washington in 2004 as a senior staff scientist and associate professor.

Publications:

[121] Antao Chen, Haishan Sun, Anna Pyayt, and Xunqi Zhang, Jingdong Luo, Alex Jen, Philip A. Sullivan, Samy Elangovan, Larry R. Dalton, Raluca Dinu, Danliang Jin and Diyun Huang, “Chromophore-containing polymers for trace explosive sensors,” Journal of Physical Chemistry, accepted and to be published in 2008.

[120] Antao Chen, Haishan Sun, Anna Pyayt, Jingdong Luo, and Alex K.-Y. Jen,“Micro-ring resonators made in poled and un-poled chromophore-containing polymers for optical communication and sensors (Invited),” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, accepted and to be published in October, 2008.

[119] Haishan Sun, Benjamin C. Olbricht, Joshua A. Davies, Philip A Sullivan, Larry R. Dalton, Antao Chen, “Electro Optic Polymer Microring Resonators Patterned with Electron Beam Bleaching,” Applied Physics Letters, accepted and to be published in 2008.

[118] Haishan Sun, Antao Chen, Benjamin C. Olbricht, Joshua A. Davies, Philip A. Sullivan, Yi Liao, Zhengwei Shi, Jingdong Luo, Alex K.-Y. Jen, and Larry R. Dalton, “Polarization selective electro-optic polymer waveguide devices by direct electron beam writing,” Optics Express, accepted and to be published in 2008.

[117] M. Hassan Arbab, Antao Chen, Eric I. Thorsos, Dale P. Winebrenner, and Lisa M. Zurk, “Effect of surface scattering on terahertz time domain spectroscopy of chemicals,” Proc. SPIE, vol. 6893, pp. 68930C1-68930C8 (2008).

[116] Haishan Sun, Antao Chen, Benjamin C. Olbricht, Joshua A. Davies, Philip A. Sullivan, Yi Liao, and Larry R. Dalton, “Direct electron beam writing of electro-optic polymer microring resonators,” Optics Express, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 6592-6599 (2008).

[115] L. M. Zurk, G. Sundberg, S. Schecklman, Z. Zhou, A. Chen, and E. I. Thorsos, “Scattering effects in terahertz reflection spectroscopy,” Proc. SPIE, vol. 6949, pp. 694907-1-694907-8 (2008)

[114] P.A. Sullivan, H. Rommel, Y. Liao, B.C Olbricht, A.J.P. Akelaitis, K.A. Firestone, J.-W. Kang, J. Luo, J.A. Davies, H.C. Dong, B.E. Eichinger, P.J. Reid, A. Chen, A. K.-Y. Jen, B.H. Robinson, and L.R. Dalton, “Theory-guided design and synthesis of multichromophore dendrimers: An analysis of the electro-optic effect,” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 129, no. 24, pp. 7523-7530 (2007).

[113] Zhen Zhou, Antao Chen, John Zhang, Lisa M. Zurk, Brian Orlowski, Eric Thorsos, Dale Winebrenner, and Larry R. Dalton, “Impacts of terahertz scattering on the reflection spectrum for explosive detection,” Proc. SPIE, vol. 6772, pp. 67720T1-67720T7 (2007)

[112] Antao Chen, “Wavelength selective switches based on electro-optic micro-ring resonators,” presented at the International Conference on Molecular Photonics, Friday Harbor, WA, August 28-31, 2007.

[111] H. Sun, L. Dalton, and A. Chen, “Systematic design and simulation of polymer microring resonators with the combination of beam propagation method and matrix model,” 2007 Digest of the IEEE LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, pp.217-218, July 2007.

[110] Zhengwei Shi, Steven Hau, Jingdong Luo, Tae-Dong Kim, Neil M. Tucker, Jae-Won Ka, Haishan Sun, Anna Pyajt, Larry Dalton, Antao Chen, and Alex K.-Y. Jen , "Highly Efficient Diels-Alder Crosslinkable Electro-Optic Dendrimers for Electric-Field Sensors", Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 17, pp. 2557-2563 (2007)

[109] Anna Pyayt, Xuanqi Zhang, Jingdong Luo, Alex Jen, Larry Dalton, and Antao Chen, ”Optical micro-resonator chemical sensor,” Proceedings of SPIE, v. 6556, pp. 65561D1-65561D6 (2007)

[108] L. M. Zurk, B. Orlowski, G. Sundberg, D. P. Winebrenner, E. I. Thorsos, and A. Chen, “Electromagnetic scattering calculations for terahertz sensing,” Proceedings of SPIE, v. 6472, p.64720A1-9(2007).

[107] Anna Pyayt, Jun Zhou, Antao Chen, Jingdong Luo, Steven Hau, Alex Jen, and Larry Dalton, “Electro-optic polymer microring resonators made by photobleaching,”
Proceedings of SPIE, vol.  6470, pp. 64700Y1-64700Y7 (2007).

[106] Haishan Sun, Anna Pyajt, Jingdong Luo, Zhengwei Shi, Steven Hau, Alex Jen, Larry Dalton, and Antao Chen, “All-dielectric electro-optic sensor based on polymer micro-resonator coupled side-polished optical fiber,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol.7, no4. pp.515-524 (2007).

[105] L.R. Dalton, A. Jen, P. Sullivan, Y. Liao, B. Eichinger, B. Robinson, A. Chen, “Theoretically-inspired rational design of electro-optic materials,” Nonlinear Optics Quantum Optics, vol. 35, no. 1-3, pp. 1-19 (2006).

[104] James Westphal, Antao Chen, Nathaniel Burt, Lih Lin, Larry Dalton, Jingdong Luo, and Alex K.-Y. Jen, “Pulse poling of high performance nonlinear chromophores in polymers,” Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 6331, pp. 633110H1 – 633110H-11 (2006).

[103] L.M. Zurk, B. Jouni, F. Farahbakhshian, D.P. Winebrenner, E.I. Thorsos, A. Chen, M. R. Leahy-Hoppa, and L.M. Hayden, “Scattering Calculations for Evaluation of Terahertz Detection of Explosive Material,” presented at the 7^th International Symposium on Technology and Mine Problem, Monterey, CA, May 2-5, 2006.

[102] Antao Chen, Larry R. Dalton and Anna Pyajt, Jingdong Luo, Steven Hau and Alex K-Y Jen, “Fiber Optic Sensor Based on Conjugated Molecules for IED Detection,” presented at the 7^th International Symposium on Technology and Mine Problem, Monterey, CA, May 2-5, 2006.

[101] Jun Zhou, Anna Pyayt, Larry R. Dalton, Jingdong Luo, Alex K.Y. Jen and Antao Chen, “Photobleaching fabrication of microring resonator in a chromophore-containing polymer,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 18, pp. 2221-2223 (2006).

[100] H. Sun, A. Pyajt, J. Luo, Z. Shi, S. Hau, A. Jen, L. Dalton, and A. Chen, “Broadband electric field sensor with electro-optic polymer micro-ring resonator on side-polished optical fiber,” Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 6117, pp. 141-152 (2006).

[99] N.P. Bhatambrekar, L. Dalton, J. Luo, A.K.-Y. Jen, A. Chen, “Third-order nonlinearity contribution to electro-optic activity in polymer materials in a constant bias field,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 41115-1-3 (2006).

[98] L. Dalton, A. Scherer, Antao Chen, A. Jen, P. Reid, B. Robinson, B. Eichinger, M. Hochberg, T. Baehr-Jones, A. Pyajt, J. Takayesu, P. Sullivan, A. Akelaitis, R. Lawson, D. Bale, M. Haller, J. Luo, S. Liu, Y. Liao, K. Firestone, S. Bhattacharjee, J. Sinness, S. Hammond, A. Sgro, N. Buker, R. Snoeberger, M. Lingwood, and W. Steier, “Organic electro-optic glasses for WDM applications,” Proceedings of SPIE,  v. 6014, p. 60140P-1-15 (2005).

[97] L. Dalton, B. Robinson, A. Jen, P. Ried, B. Eichinger, P. Sullivan, A. Akelaitis, D. Bale, M. Haller, J. Luo, S. Liu, Y. Liao, K. Firestone, A. Sago, N. Bhatambrekar, S. Bhattacharjee, J. Sinness, S. Hammond, N. Buker, R. Snoeberger, M. Lingwood, H. Rommel, J. Amend, S.-H. Jang, A. Chen, W. Steier, “Optimizing electro-optic activity in chromophore/polymer composites and in organic chromophore glasses,”  Proc. of SPIE, vol. 5990, pp. 59900C1-5990C12 (2005)

[96] N.Bhatambrekar, S. Hammond, J. Sinness, O. Clot, H. Rommel, A. Chen, B. Robinson, A. K.-Y. Jen, L. Dalton, “Highly ordered pseudo-discotic chromophore systems for electro-optic materials and devices,” Organic and Nanocomposite Optical Materials. Symposium (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Vol.846), p 115-120 (2005).

[95] Antao Chen and Fred Heismann, “Polarization control,” Encyclopedic Handbook of Integrated Optics, Kenichi Iga and Yasuo Kokubun Eds., Boca Raton, CRC Press, p. 306-318 (2005).

[94] A. Chen, H. Sun, A. Pyajt, A. C. Young, A. Jen, and L. Dalton, "Micro resonators on side-polished fiber: A new fiber optic sensor platform," Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Conference on Sensors 2005, p. 735-738 (2005).

[93] Anna Pyajt, Larry Dalton, and Antao Chen, “Novel wavelength selective switch based on electro-optic polymer microrings,” Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5935, pp. 224-237 (2005)

[92] L. Dalton, B. Robinson, A. Jen, P. Ried, B. Eichinger, P. Sullivan, A. Akelaitis, D. Bale, M.Haller, J. Luo, S. Liu, Y. Liao, K. Firestone, N. Bhatambrekar, S. Bhattacharjee, J. Sinness, S. Hammond, N. Buker, R. Snoeberger, M. Lingwood, H. Rommel, J. Amend, S.-H. Jang, A. Chen, and W. Steier, “Electro-optic coefficients of 500 pm/V and beyond for organic materials,” Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5935, 1-12 (2005).

[91] L. Dalton, B. Robinson, A. Jen, P. Ried, B. Eichinger, P. Sullivan, A. Akelaitis, D. Bale, M. Haller, J. Luo, S. Liu, Y. Liao, K. Firestone, N. Bhatambrekar, S. Bhattacharjee, J. Sinness, S. Hammond, N. Buker, R. Snoeberger, M. Lingwood, H. Rommel, J. Amend, S.-H. Jang, A. Chen, W. Steier, “Acentric lattice electro-optic materials by rational design,” Proc. of SPIE, vol. 5912, pp. 1-12 (2005).

[90] T. Sherwood, A. C. Young, J. Takayesu, A. K.Y. Jen, L.R. Dalton, and A. Chen, “Micro-ring resonators on side-polished optical fiber,” Photonics Technology Letters, vol.17, no.10, pp.2107-2109 (2005) 

[89] S. Soggs, H. Sun, A. Chen, K. Kaviani, N. Bhatambrekar, A. Pyajt, J. Luo, L. Dalton, B. Parviz, and A. Jen, "Feasibility study of integration of electro-optic polymer waveguide device with MOSFET circuitry on silicon," Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5730, 125-132 (2005).

[88] N. P. Bhatambrekar, A. Pyajt, J. Luo, L. R. Dalton, A. K. Jen, and A. Chen, “A Biased Push-Pull Technique to Achieve Fractional Volt Half-Wave Voltage of Mach-Zehnder Modulators,” Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5724, pp.159-164 (2005).

[87] A. Chen, L. R. Dalton, T. J. Sherwood, A. K. Jen. P. Rabiei, W. H. Steier, Y. Huang, G. T. Paloczi, J. K. Poon, A. Scherer, and A. Yariv, "All-Organic and Organic-Silicon Photonic Ring Microresonators", Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5708, pp.187-197 (2005).

[86] T. J. Sherwood, A. C. Young, J. Takayesu, A. K. Jen, L. R. Dalton, and A. Chen, "Polymer Ring Resonator Made by Two-Photon Polymerization and Vertically Coupled to a Side-Polished Optical Fiber," Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5724, pp. 356-366 (2005).

[85] N. P. Bhatambrekar, S. Hammond, J. Sinness, O. Clot, H. Rommel, A. Chen, B. Robinson, A. K. Jen, and L. R. Dalton, "A Novel Approach to Achieve Higher Order Using Pseudo-Discotic Chromophores in Electro-Optic Materials and Devices," Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5724, pp. 322-327 (2005).

[84] J. Luo, S. Liu, M.A. Haller, J.-W. Kang, T.-D. Kim, S.-H. Jang, B. Chen,  N. Tucker,  H. Li, H.-Z. Tang, L.R. Dalton, Y. Liao, B.H. Robinson, and A.K. Jen, “Recent progress in developing highly efficient and thermally stable nonlinear optical polymers for electro-optics,” Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5351, pp. 36-43 (2004).

[83] L. Dalton, B. Robinson, A. Jen, P. Ried, B. Eichinger, S.-H. Jang, J. Luo, S. Liu, Y. Liao, K. Firestone, N. Bhatambrekar, D. Bale, M. Haller, S. Bhattacharjee, J. Schendel, P. Sullivan, S. Hammond, N. Buker, F. Cady, A. Chen, and W. Steier, “Organic electro-optic materials,” Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5621, pp. 93-104 (2004).

[82] N. Bhatambrekar, A. Chen, L. Dalton, and Alex Jen, “Electro-optic characterization of NLO polymers in a slab waveguide using the ATR technique,” Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, vol.91, pp. 687-688 (2004).

[81] A. Chen, "High performance lithium niobate polarization controller for PMD compensators," paper ThBB 4 (Invited Paper), presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (2002 LEOS Annual Meeting), Glasgow, Scotland, 10 - 14 November 2002.

[80] M. Boroditsky, C. F. Lam, S. L. Woodward, A. Smiljanic, N. J. Frigo, K. F. Dreyer, D. A. Ackerman, J. E. Johnson, L. J. P. Ketelsen, and A. Chen, paper THK1 (Invited Paper), "Composite packet switched WDM networks," Proceedings of LEOS 2001, vol. 2, pp. 738-739, presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, San Diego, CA, 11-15 November 2001.

[79] A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, F. I. Marti-Carrera, S. Garner, W. H. Steier, J. Chen, S. Sun, and L. R. Dalton, "Vertically tapered polymer waveguide mode size transformer for improved fiber coupling," Optical Engineering, vol. 39, no. 6, pp.1507-1516, ( 2000).

[78] T. Murphy, S.-Y. Suh, B. Comissiong, A. Chen, R. Irvin, R. Grencavich, and G. Richards, "A strictly non-blocking 16x16 electrooptic photonic switch module," Proceedings of 26th European Conference on Optical Communication, vol.4, pp.93-94, presented at the 26th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2000), Munich, Germany, September 3 - 7, 2000 .

[77] A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, H. Zhang, S. Garner, S.-S. Lee, W. H. Steier, J. Chen, F. Wang, J. Zhu, M. He, Y. Ra, S. S. H. Mao, A. W. Harper, L. R. Dalton, and H. R. Fetterman, "DC biased electro-optic polymer waveguide modulators with low half-wave voltage and high thermal stability," Optical Engineering, vol. 38, no. 12, pp. 2000-2008, (1999).

[76] A. Chen, R.W. Irvin, E.J. Murphy, R. Grencavich, T.O. Murphy, and G. Richards, "High performance LiNbO3 switches for multiwavelength optical networks," in Photonics in Switching, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 1999), pp.113-115, presented at the OSA Photonics in Switching conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, 21-23 July, 1999.

[75] W. H. Steier, A. Chen, S, Garner, H. Zhang, V. Chuyanov, L.R. Dalton, F. Wang, A.S. Ren, C.Zhang, G. Todorova, A. Harper, H.R. Fetterman, D. Chen, A. Udupa, D. Bhattacharya, and B. Tsap, "Polymer electro-optic devices for integrated optics," Chemical Physics, vol. 245, pp. 487-506, (1999).

[74] L.R. Dalton, W.H. Steier, B.H. Robinson, C. Zhang, A. Ren, S. Garner, A. Chen, T. Londergan, L. Irwin, B. Carlson, L. Fifield, G. Phelan, C. Kincaid, J. Amend, and A. Jen, "From molecules to opto-chips: organic electro-optic materials," Journal of Materials Chemistry, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 1905-1920, (1999).

[73] B.H. Robinson, L.R. Dalton, A.W. Harper, A. Ren, F. Wang, C. Zhang, G. Todorova, M. Lee, R. Aniszfeld, S. Garner, A. Chen, W.H. Steier, S. Houbrecht, A. Persoons, I. Ledoux, J. Zyss, and A.K.Y. Jen, "The molecular and supramolecular engineering of polymeric electro-optic materials", Chemical Physics, vol. 245, no.1-3, pp. 35-50, (1999).

[72] S.M. Garner, V. Chuyanov, A. Chen, A. Yacoubian, W.H. Steier, and L.R. Dalton, "Three-dimensional integrated optics using polymers," IEEE Journal Of Quantum Electronics, vol. 35, no.8, pp.1146-1155, (1999).

[71] S.M. Garner, V. Chuyanov, A. Chen, W.H. Steier, and L.R. Dalton, "Vertically integrated waveguide polarization splitters using polymers," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol.11, no.7, pp. 842-844, (1999).

[70] D. Chen, D. Bhattacharya, A. Udupa, B. Tsap, H.R. Fetterman, A. Chen, J. Chen, W.H. Steier, and L.R. Dalton, "High-frequency polymer modulators with integrated finline transitions and low V-pi," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol.11, no.1, pp. 54-56, (1999).

[69] A.W. Harper, S.S.H. Mao, Y. Ra, C. Zhang, J. Zhu, L.R. Dalton, S. Garner, A. Chen, and W.H. Steier, "Progress toward device-quality second-order nonlinear optical materials: 2. Enhancement of electric field poling efficiency and temporal stability by modification of isoxazolone-based high mu beta chromophores," Chemistry Of Materials, vol. 11, no.10, pp. 2886-2891, (1999).

[68] F. Wang, A.W. Harper, M.S. Lee, L.R. Dalton, H. Zhang, A. Chen, W.H. Steier, and S.R. Marder, "Progress toward device-quality second-order NLO materials: 3. Electrooptic activity of polymers containing E,E,E-[4-(N,N-dialkylamino)-phenyl] pentadienylidene-3-phenyl-5-isoxazolone chromophores," Chemistry Of Materials, vol.11, no. 9, pp. 2285-2289, (1999).

[67] W.H. Steier, S-S. Lee, S. Garner, A. Chen, H. Zhang, L.R. Dalton, H.R. Fetterman, A. Udupa, D. Bhattachaya, and Y. Shi, "Applications of polymers to integrated optics," Proceedings of LEOS'98, 1998 Annual Meeting, vol.2, pp. 3-4, Presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, Orlando, FL, USA, 1-4 December 1998.

[66] H.R. Fetterman, D. Chen, A. Udupa, D. Bhattachaya, B. Tsap, S. Lee, A. Chen, J. Chen, W.H. Steier, and L.R. Dalton, "High speed organic electro-optic modulators," 1998 IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting. Broadband Optical Networks and Technologies: An Emerging Reality. Optical MEMS. Smart Pixels. Organics Optics and Optoelectronics, Monterey, CA, USA, 20-24 July 1998.

[65] S.M. Garner, V. Chuyanov, S-S. Lee, A. Yacoubian, A. Chen, W.H. Steier, F. Wang, A.S. Ren, M. He, and L.R. Dalton, "Three dimensional integration of polymer electro-optic modulators," 1998 IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting. Broadband Optical Networks and Technologies: An Emerging Reality. Optical MEMS. Smart Pixels. Organics Optics and Optoelectronics, Monterey, CA, USA, 20-24 July 1998.

[64] H.R. Fetterman, A.Udupa, D. Chen, D. Bhattacharya, B. Tsap, S. Lee, A. Chen, J. Chen, W.H. Steier, L.R. Dalton, "Polymer modulators with bandwidth exceeding 100 GHz," Proceedings of ECOC '98 - 24th European Conference on Optical Communication, vol.1, pp. 501-502, presented at ECOCO '98, Madrid, Spain, 20-24 Sept. 1998.

[63] S.M. Garner, S-S. Lee, V. Chuyanov, A. Yacoubian, A. Chen, W.H. Steier, J. Zhu, J. Chen, F. Wang, A.S. Ren, L.R. Dalton, "Vertically integrated polymer waveguide device minimizing insertion loss and V/sub pi /," Proceedings of the SPIE, vol.3491, pp.421-426, presented at the 1998 International Conference on Applications of Photonic Technology III: Closing the Gap between Theory, Development, and Applications, Ottawa, Ont., Canada, 29-31 July 1998.

[62] S.-S. Lee, S. Garner, A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, W.H. Steier, L. Guo, and L.R. Dalton, and S.Y. Shin, "Patterned birefringence by photoinduced depoling in electro-optic polymers and its application to a waveguide polarization splitter," Applied Physics Letters, vol.73, no.21, pp.3052-3054, (1998).

[61] S. S. Sun, C. Zhang, Z. Yang, L.R. Dalton, S.M. Garner, A. Chen, and W.H. Steier, "Synthesis and characterisation of 1,3-bis(dicyanomethylidene)indane (BDMI)-based nonlinear optical polymers," Polymer, vol.39, no.20, pp. 4977-4981, (1998).

[60] F. Wang, A. Ren, M. He, M. Lee, L.R. Dalton, H. Zhang, S.M. Garner, A. Chen, and W.H. Steier, "Design, synthesis and characterization of a novel substituted dicyanomethylendihydrofuran based high-beta NLO chromophore and its polymers with exceptionally high electro-optic coefficients," Polymer Preprints, Division of Polymer Chemistry, American Chemical Society, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 1065-1066 (1998), presented at the 1998 American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, USA , August 23-27, 1998.

[59] J. Chen, J. Zhu, L.R. Dalton, S.-S. Lee, H. Zhang, A. Chen, and W.H. Steier, "Thermosetting polyurethanes with a trifunctionalized high mu beta chromophore," Polymer Preprints, Division of Polymer Chemistry, American Chemical Society, vol. 39 no. 2, pp. 1112-1113, presented at the 1998 American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, USA , August 23-27, 1998.

[58] J. Chen, J. Zhu, G. Todorova, L.R. Dalton, S.M. Garner, H. Zhang, A. Chen, and W.H. Steier, "New progress in isophorone related nonlinear optical chromophores for EO applications," Polymer Preprints, Division of Polymer Chemistry, American Chemical Society, vol. 39, no. 2, pp.1059-1060, presented at the 1998 American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, MA, USA , August 23-27, 1998.

[57] A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, S. Garner, H. Zhang, W. H. Steier, J. Chen, J. Zhu, F. Wang, M. He, S. S. H. Mao, and L. R. Dalton, "Low-Vpi electrooptic modulator with a high µb chromophore and a constant-bias field," Optics Letters, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 478-480, (1998).

[56] S.-S. Lee, S. Garner, A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, W. H. Steier, S.-W. Ahn, S.-Y. Shin, "TM-pass polarizer based on a photobleaching-induced waveguide in polymers," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol.10, no.6, p. 836-838, (1998).

[55] S. Garner, V. Chuyanov, A. Chen, S.-S. Lee, W. H. Steier, and L. R. Dalton, "Integrated optic, vertical polarization splitters using polymers," Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 3278, pp. 259-267, presented at Photonics West'98, San Jose, California, (1998).

[54] J. Chen, J. Zhu, G. Todorova, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, A. Chen, S.-S. Lee, V. Chuyanov, and William H. Steier, "Thermosetting polyurethanes with large and stable macroscopic nonlinearities for electro-optic applications," Abstracts Of Papers Of The American Chemical Society 215: 026-PMSE , Part 2, presented at ACS Polymer Materials Science and Engineering conference, Dallas, TX, (1998).

[53] J. Zhu, J. Chen, M. He, L.R. Dalton, S.M. Garner, A. Chen, and W.H. Steier, "A device quality crosslinked polyurethane polymer for electrooptic applications," Abstracts Of Papers Of The American Chemical Society 215: 043-POLY , Part 2, presented at ACS Polymer Materials Science and Engineering conference, Dallas, TX, (1998).

[52] F. Wang, A. S. Ren, M. He, A. W. Harper, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, H. Zhang, A. Chen, W. H. Steier, "High electro-optic coefficient from a polymer containing high µb chromophores," Abstracts Of Papers Of The American Chemical Society 215: 025-PMSE , Part 2 , presented at ACS Polymer Materials Science and Engineering conference, Dallas, TX, (1998).

[51] A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, S. Garner, H. Zhang, W. H. Steier, J. Chen, J. Zhu, M. He, S. S. H. Mao, and L. R. Dalton, "Low V_, high thermal stability electro-optic polymer waveguide modulators using the full potential of high mb chromophores with a DC bias voltage," Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 3281, pp. 94-105, presented at Photonics West '98 (Invited Paper), San Jose, California, (1998).

[50] C. Zhang, S. S. H. Mao, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, A. Chen, and W. H. Steier, "Incorporation of high µb chromophores into 3-D networks via double-end crosslinking (DEC)," Proceedings of LEOS '97, vol. 2, pp. 111-112, (1997).

[49] S. M. Garner, V. Chuyanov, A. Chen, A. Yacoubian, W. H. Steier, L. R. Dalton, "Design and fabrication of Y-branched vertical power splitters using polymers," Proceedings of LEOS '97, vol. 1, pp. 264-265, presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, San Fransisco, California, (1997).

[48] D. Chen, H.R. Fetterman, B. Tsap, A. Chen, W. H. Steier, L.R. Dalton, "Operation of integrated polymer electrooptic modulators above 100 GHz," Proceedings of LEOS '97, vol. 2, pp. 248-249, presented at presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, San Fransisco, California, (1997).

[47] A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, S. Garner, W. H. Steier, J. Chen, Y. Ra. S. S. H. Mao, G. Lan and Larry R. Dalton, "Maskless fabrication of electro-optic polymer devices by direct laser writing and simultaneous poling of channel waveguides," Proceedings of LEOS '97, vol. 2, pp. 250-251, presented at presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, San Fransisco, California, (1997).

[46] J. Zhu, M. He, J. Chen, S. Mao, L.R. Dalton, S. Garner, A. Chen, W. H. Steier, "A thermally stable crosslinked polymer network with large electrooptic coefficient," Proceedings of LEOS '97, vol. 2, pp. 252-253, presented at presented at the 10th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, San Fransisco, California, (1997).

[45] D. Chen, H.R. Fetterman, B. Tsap, A. Chen, W.H. Steier. L.R. Dalton, W. Wang, and Y. Shi, "High bandwidth polymer modulators," Proceedings of LEOS '97, vol.2, pp. 248-249, presented at the 10th Annual Meeting IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1997 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, 10-13 November 1997.

[44] A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, F. I. Marti-Carrera, S. Garner, W. H. Steier, S. S. H. Mao, Y. Ra, L. R. Dalton, and Y. Shi, "Trimming of polymer waveguide Y-junction by rapid photobleaching for tuning the power splitting ratio," Photonics Technology Letters, vol.9, no.11, pp. 1499-1501, (1997).

[43] A. Chen, F. I. Marti-Carrera, V. Chuyanov, S. Garner, W. H. Steier, S. S. H. Mao, Y. Ra, L. R. Dalton, and Y. Shi, "In situ trimming of polymer optical waveguide by rapid photobleaching for tuning device specifications," Technical Digest of the Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, (1997) OSA Technical Digest Series, vol. 14, pp. 211-213, presented at Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Long Beach, California, (1997).

[42] A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, F. I. Marti-Carrera, S. Garner, W. H. Steier, J. Chen, S. Sun, S. S. H. Mao, Y. Ra, and L. R. Dalton, "Vertical tapered mode size transformer in polymer waveguides for efficient fiber coupling," Technical Digest of the Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, 1997 OSA Technical Digest Series, vol. 14, pp. 8-10, presented at Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Long Beach, California, (1997).

[41] A. Chen, F. I. Marti-Carrera, S. Garner, V. Chuyanov, and W. H. Steier, "Fabrication of vertical tapers in polymer thin films by oxygen reactive ion etching with a shadow mask for photonic device applications," Technical Digest of the Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, 1997 OSA Technical Digest Series, vol. 14, pp. 152-154, presented at Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Long Beach, California, (1997).

[40] A. Chen, S. Garner, A. Yacoubian, W. H. Steier, J. Chen, A. Harper, J. Zhu, M. He, S. Sun, F. Wang, Y. Ra, S. S. H. Mao, C. Zhang, L. R. Dalton, D. Chen, and H. R. Fetterman, "Characterization of electro-optic polymer with high µb chromophores for photonic device applications," Technical Digest of the Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, 1997 OSA Technical Digest Series, vol. 14, pp. 173-175, presented at Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Long Beach, California, (1997).

[39] A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, S. Garner, W. H. Steier, and L. R. Dalton, "Modified attenuated total reflection for the fast and routine electro-optic measurement of nonlinear optical polymer thin films," Technical Digest of the Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, 1997 OSA Technical Digest Series, vol. 14, pp.158-160, presented at Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Long Beach, California, (1997).

[38] A. Chen, M. Ziari, and W. H. Steier, "Passive alignment of optic fiber array using silicon V-grooves monolithically integrated with polymer waveguide devices," Technical Digest of the Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, 1997 OSA Technical Digest Series, vol. 14, pp. 167-169, presented at Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Long Beach, California, (1997).

[37] S. M. Garner, V. Chuyanov, A. Chen, S. Kalluri, F. I. Marti-Carrera, W. H. Steier, and L. R. Dalton, "Three dimensional integrated optics using polymers," Technical Digest of the Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, 1997 OSA Technical Digest Series, vol. 14, pp. 11-13, presented at Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Long Beach, California, (1997).

[36] H. R. Fetterman, D. Chen, A. Chen, W. H. Steier, and L. R. Dalton, "Next generation of ultra-high frequency integrated polymer EO modulators," Technical Digest of the Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, 1997 OSA Technical Digest Series, vol. 14, pp. 224-225, presented at Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Long Beach, California, (1997).

[35] A. W. Harper, M. He, F. Wang, J. Chen, J. Zhu, S. S. Sun, L. R. Dalton, A. Chen, S. M. Garner, A, Yacoubian, W. H. Steier, D. Chen, and H. R. Fetterman, "Recent advances in the translation of large microscopic nonlinearities to large macroscopic nonlinearities in electro-optic polymer films," Technical Digest of the Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, 1997 OSA Technical Digest Series, vol. 14, pp. 232-234, presented at Organic Thin Films for Photonics Applications, Long Beach, California, (1997).

[34] D. Chen, H. R. Fetterman, A. Chen, W. H. Steier, and L. R. Dalton, "Demonstration of 110 GHz electro-optic polymer modulators," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 70, no. 25, pp. 3335-3337, (1997).

[33] A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, F. I. Marti-Carrera, S. Garner, W. H. Steier, L. R. Dalton, "Fast trimming of electro-optic polymer waveguide Y-branch by post-photobleaching for tuning the power splitting ratio," Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 3147, pp. 268-274, presented at Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials X (Invited Paper), (1997).

[32] L. R. Dalton, A. W. Harper, J. Chen, S. Sun, S. Mao, S. Garner, A. Chen, W. H. Steier, "The role of intermolecular interactions in fabricating hardened electro-optic materials", Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. CR68, pp. 313-321, (1997).

[30] W. H. Steier, A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, F. I. Marti-Carrera, S. Garner, M. Ziari, and L. R. Dalton, "Optical packaging of Organic polymer electro-optic guided-wave devices," presented at InterPack '97, Kohala Coast, Hawii, (1997).

[30] S. S. H. Mao, Y. Ra, L. Guo, C. Zhang, L. R. Dalton, A. Chen, S. Garner, and W. H. Steier, "Progress towards device-quality second-order NLO materials: 1. Influence of composition and processing conditions of chromophore-containing polyurethane networks on nonlinearity, temporal stability and optical loss," Chemistry of Materials, vol.10, no.1, pp. 146-155, (1998).

[29] A. W. Harper, S. Sun, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, A. Chen, S. Kalluri, W. H. Steier, and B. H. Robinson, "Translating microscopic optical nonlinearity into macroscopic optical nonlinearity: the role of chromophore-chromophore electro-static interactions," Journal of Optical Society of America B, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 329-337, (1998).

[28] A. W. Harper, S. Sun, L. R. Dalton, B. H. Robinson, S. M. Garner, A. Yacoubian, A. Chen, W. H. Steier, "The role of London forces, photoconductivity, and conductivity in defining order in poled polymer films incorporating high µb chromophores," Journal of American Chemistry Society, submitted.

[27] J. Chen, J. Zhu, G. Todorova, M. He, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, A. Chen, S.-S. Lee, V. Chuyanov, and W. H. Steier, "High EO coefficient polymers based on a chromophore containing isophorone moiety for second-order nonlinear optics," Proceedings of the Electrical, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Organic Solid-State Materials IV Symposium, pp. 151-156, presented at the Material Research Society Annual Meeting, MA, (1997).

[26] J. Chen, J. Zhu, A. W. Harper, F. Wang, M. He, S. S. H. Mao, L. R. Dalton, A. Chen, and W. H. Steier, "Synthesis and characterization of a high µb chromophore containing the isophorone moiety for electro-optic applications," Polymer Preprints, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 215-216, (1997).

[25] Y. S. Ra, S. S. H. Mao, B. Wu, L. Guo, L. R. Dalton, A. Chen, and W. H. Steier, "Thermoset second-order NLO materials from a trifunctionalized chromophore", Polymer Reprints, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 926-927, (1997).

[24] D. Chen, H. R. Fetterman, A. Chen, W. H. Steier, and L. R. Dalton, "High-bandwidth polymer modulators," Proceeding of SPIE, vol. 3006, pp. 314-317, presented at Photonics West '97, San Jose, California, (1997).

[23] A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, F. I. Marti-Carrera, S. Garner, W. H. Steier, J. Chen, S. Sun, and L. R. Dalton, "Integrated polymer waveguide mode size transformer with a vertical taper for improved fiber coupling," Proceeding of SPIE, vol. 3005, pp. 65-76, presented at Photonics West '97, San Jose, California, (1997).

[22] Y. Shi, W. Wang, A. Chen, S. Garner, S. Kalluri, W. H. Steier, D. Chen, H. R. Fetterman, L. R. Dalton, and L. Yu, "Fabrication and characterization of high-speed polyurethane-disperse red 19 integrated electro-optic modulators for analog system applications," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 289-299, (1996).

[21] Z. Liang, Z. Yang, B. Wu, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, S. Kalluri, A. Chen, and W. H. Steier, "Processible and thermally stable heterocyclic polymers for second-order nonlinear optical studies," Chemistry of Materials, vol. 8, pp. 2681-2685, (1996).

[20] A. Chen, K. Kaviani, A. W. Rempel, S. Kalluri, and W. H. Steier, "Optimized oxygen plasma etching of polyurethane-based electro-optic polymer for low loss optical waveguide fabrication," Journal of Electrochemical Society, vol. 143, pp. 3648-3651, (1996).

[19] D. Chen, H. R. Fetterman, A. Chen, W. H. Steier, L. R. Dalton, W. Wang and Y. Shi, "High bandwidth polymer modulators," Proceedings of IEEE/LOES '96, vol. 2, pp. 79-80, (1996).

[18] W. H. Steier, S. Kalluri, A. Chen, S. Garner, V. Chuyanov, M. Ziari, Y. Shi, H. R. Fetterman, B. Jalali, W. Wang, D. Chen, and L. R. Dalton, "Applications of electro-optic polymers in photonics," Material Research Society Symposium Proceedings, vol. 413, pp. 147-157, (1996).

[17] S. Kalluri, M. Ziari, A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, W. H. Steier, D. Chen, B. Jalali, H. R. Fetterman, and L. R. Dalton, "Monolithic integration of waveguide polymer electro-optic modulators on VLSI circuitry," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 644-646, (1996).

[16] S.-S. Sun, A. W. Harper, C. Zhang, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, A. Chen, A. Yacoubian, and W. H. Steier, "Synthesis and characterization of 1,3-bis(dicyanomethylene)indane (BDMI) derived second order NLO materials," Material Research Society Symposium Proceedings, vol. 413, pp. 263-268, (1996).

[15] S.-S. Sun, C. Zhang, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, A. Chen, W. H. Steier, "1,3-bis(dicyanomethylidene)inde-based second-order NLO materials," Chemistry of Materials, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 2539-2541, (1996).

[14] S. Kalluri, M. Ziari, A. Chen, V. Chuyanov, W. H. Steier, D. Chen, B. Jalali, H. R. Fetterman, and L. R. Dalton, "Integration of polymer electro-optic devices on nonplanar silicon-integrated circuits," Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 2527, pp. 375-383, (1995).

[13] Z. Liang, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, S. Kalluri, A. Chen, and W. H. Steier, "A heterocyclic polymers with thermally stable second-order optical nonlinearity," Chemistry of Materials, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 1756-1758, (1995).

[12] M. Ziari, A. Chen, S. Kalluri, W. H. Steier, Y. Shi, W. Wang, D. Chen, and H. R. Fetterman, "Polymer electro-optic waveguide fabrication," Polymers for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics, edited by G. A. Lindsey and K. D. Singer (ACS Symposium Series, (1995)), pp. 420-435.

[11] Z. Liang, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, S. Kalluri, A. Chen, and W. H. Steier, "A crosslinkable polyimide for second order optical nonlinearities," Chemistry of Materials, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 941-944 (1995).

[10] S.-S. Sun, C. Zhang, L. R. Dalton, S. M. Garner, A. Chen, and W. H. Steier, "Synthesis and characterization of some 1,3-bisdicyanovinylindane (BDVI) derived second order NLO materials," Material Research Society Symposium Proceedings, (1995).

[9] A. Chen, S. Fan, H. Ding, and C. Wu, "Extension of the velocity detection range of a tracking novelty filter that uses LiNbO3 and strontium barium niobate," Applied Optics, vol. 33, no. 14, pp. 2998-2302, (1995).

[8] A. Chen, H. Ding, and S. Fang, "Photorefractive temporal frequency band-pass, band-reject and high-pass filters using phase conjugate Michelson interferometry," Proceeding of SPIE, vol. 2237, pp. 372-378, (1994).

[7] A. Chen, "The bandwidth considerations of photoelectric detection systems," Chinese Journal of Applied Optics, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 47-50, (1993).

[6] A. Chen, "The compensation ability for the distortion caused by intense diffusion media using optical phase conjugation," Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 234-239, (1993).

[5] A. Chen, S. Fan, H. Ding, and C. Wu, "Low minimum detectable velocity optical tracking novelty filter with photorefractive crystals," Proceedings of CLEO/QELS '93, paper CMA7, pp. 6, (1993).

[4] A. Chen, S. Fan, H. Ding, and C. Wu, "Novelty filtering imaging with two photorefractive crystals greatly different in response time," Acta Optica Sinica, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 1-6, (1993).

[3] A. Chen, "Distortion-free viewfinder with plastic aspherical lens," Chinese Journal of Applied Optics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 13-16, (1993).

[2] A. Chen, "Time domain image processing with photorefractive crystals," Master Theses of Beijing Institute of Technology, (1989).

[1] A. Chen, "Design of a plastic aspheric compact camera viewfinder objective," Xi-guang Technical Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 1-5, (1985).