Inhaltsangabeto ultra-high-speed optical transmission technology.- Semiconductor mode-locked lasers as pulse sources for high bit rate data transmission.- Ultrafast mode-locked fiber lasers for high-speed OTDM transmission and related topics.- Ultra-high-speed LiNbO3 modulators.- High-speed optical signal processing using semiconductor optical amplifiers.- Optical signal processing using nonlinear fibers.- Ultrafast photodetectors and receivers.- Optical nonlinearities in semiconductor optical amplifier and electro-absorption modulator: their applications to all-optical regeneration.- Optical fibers and fiber dispersion compensators for high-speed optical communication.- Fiber Bragg gratings for dispersion compensation in optical communication systems.- Higher-order dispersion compensation using phase modulators.- PMD-compensation techniques.- Application of electroabsorption modulators for high-speed transmission systems.- Ultrafast OTDM transmission using novel fiber devices for pulse compression, shaping, and demultiplexing.- Ultrafast optical technologies for large-capacity TDM/WDM photonic networks.- New optical device technologies for ultrafast OTDM systems.- Optical sampling techniques.