1. Preface

   • Manfred Hammer
   • Hugo J. W. M. Hoekstra
   • Bastiaan P. de Hon

   EditorialNotes Open access 24 June 2009 Pages: 783 - 785

2. Dynamical systems in nonlinear optics: Maxwell-Bloch models

   • John M. Arnold

   OriginalPaper 09 April 2009 Pages: 787 - 799

3. Closed-loop modeling of silicon nanophotonics from design to fabrication and back again

   • Wim Bogaerts
   • Paul Bradt
   • Roel Baets

   OriginalPaper 10 January 2009 Pages: 801 - 811

4. Whispering gallery mode transformation in a switched micro-cavity with concentric ring geometry

   • Nataliya K. Sakhnenko
   • Alexander G. Nerukh
   • Phillip Sewell

   OriginalPaper 15 April 2009 Pages: 813 - 820

5. Chains of coupled square dielectric optical microcavities

   • Manfred Hammer

   OriginalPaper Open access 10 March 2009 Pages: 821 - 835

6. Refractive index profile optimisation for the design of optical fibres

   • R. W. Smink
   • B. P. de Hon
   • A. G. Tijhuis

   OriginalPaper Open access 20 May 2009 Pages: 837 - 852

7. Optimization studies of single-transverse-mode 980 nm ridge-waveguide lasers

   • Antti Laakso
   • Mihail Dumitrescu
   • Markus Pessa

   OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 853 - 861

8. Impact of waveguide sidewall roughness on the output uniformity and phase of MMI splitters

   • Kehinde O. Latunde-Dada
   • Frank P. Payne

   OriginalPaper 04 February 2009 Pages: 863 - 873

9. 2D Analysis of multimode photonic crystal resonant cavities with the finite volume time domain method

   • D. Pinto
   • S. S. A. Obayya

   OriginalPaper 18 March 2009 Pages: 875 - 890

10. Accurate radial basis function based neural network approach for analysis of photonic crystal fibers

    • M. F. O. Hameed
    • S. S. A. Obayya
    • M. I. Abo el Maaty

    OriginalPaper 09 April 2009 Pages: 891 - 905

11. Optical modeling of laterally-corrugated ridge-waveguide gratings

    • Antti Laakso
    • Mihail Dumitrescu
    • Markus Pessa

    OriginalPaper 22 April 2009 Pages: 907 - 920

12. Improved Dirichlet-to-Neumann map method for modeling extended photonic crystal devices

    • Zhen Hu
    • Ya Yan Lu

    OriginalPaper 21 March 2009 Pages: 921 - 932

13. Finite difference split step method for non-paraxial semivectorial beam propagation in 3D

    • Debjani Bhattacharya
    • Anurag Sharma

    OriginalPaper 11 March 2009 Pages: 933 - 942

14. Alternative calculations of initial value problem for electromagnetic field in dielectric waveguide

    • A. Nerukh
    • H. Semenova
    • N. Sakhnenko

    OriginalPaper 06 May 2009 Pages: 943 - 956

15. An improved perfectly matched layer for the eigenmode expansion technique

    • Niels Gregersen
    • Jesper Mørk

    OriginalPaper 17 February 2009 Pages: 957 - 966