. Foreword: Changes in the Editorial Committee ...................... 1
        Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI and Osamu MIKAMI

Special Issue on Ultrafast Optoelectronics
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 . FOREWORD .......................................................... 3
        Tetsuro KOBAYASHI and Masamichi YAMANISHI

INVITED PAPERS
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 . Soliton Transmission Control for Ultra High Speed System .......... 5
        Hirokazu KUBOTA and Masataka NAKAZAWA

 . Long-Distance Soliton Transmission up to 20 Gbit/s Using
   Alternating-Amplitude Solitons and Optical TDM ................... 12
        Masatoshi SUZUKI, Noboru EDAGAWA, Hidenori TAGA, Hideaki
        TANAKA, Shu YAMAMOTO, Yukitoshi TAKAHASHI and Shigeyuki AKIBA

 . A Multiple Wavelength Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL)
   Array for Optical Interconnection ................................ 22
        Ichiro OGURA, Kaori KURIHARA, Shigeru KAWAI, Mikihiro KAJITA
        and Kenichi KASAHARA

PAPERS
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 . Polarization Dependence of Soliton Interactions in Femtosecond
   Soliton Transmission ............................................. 28
        Tomoki SUGAWA, Kenji KUROKAWA, Hirokazu KUBOTA and Masataka
        NAKAZAWA

 . Stable Light-Bullet Formation in a Kerr Medium: A Route to
   Multidimensional Solitons in the Femtosecond Regime .............. 38
        Kazuya HAYATA, Hiroyuki HIGAKI and Masanori KOSHIBA

 . 10-Gb/s Repeaterless Transmission Using Standard Single-Mode Fiber
   with Pre-Chirping and Dispersion Compensation Techniques ......... 43
        George ISHIKAWA, Motoyoshi SEKIYA, Hiroshi ONAKA, Terumi
        CHIKAMA and Hiroshi NISHIMOTO

 . Short Optical Pulse Generation and Modulation by a Multi-Section MQW
   Modulator/DFB Laser Integrated Light Source ...................... 50
        Koichi WAKITA, Kenji SATO, Isamu KOTAKA, Yasuhiro KONDO and
        Mitsuo YAMAMOTO

 . Band Operation of Guided-Wave Light Modulators with Filter-Type
   Coplanar Electrodes .............................................. 55
        Masayuki IZUTSU, Takashi MIZUOCHI and Tadasi SUETA

 . Numerical Analysis of an Optical X Coupler with a Nonlinear
   Dielectric Region ................................................ 61
        Hirohisa YOKOTA, Koichi KIMURA and Sadao KURAZONO

 . Highly Sensitive Real Time Electro-Optic Probing for Long Logic
   Pattern Analysis ................................................. 67
        Hironori TAKAHASHI, Shin-ichiro AOSHIMA, Kazuhiko WAKAMORI,
        Isuke HIRANO and Yutaka TSUCHIYA

 . Electrooptic Vector Sampling --Measurement of Vector Components of
   Electric Field by the Polarization Control of Probe Light-- ...... 73
        Taro ITATANI, Tadashi NAKAGAWA, Fumihisa KANO, Kimihiro OHTA
        and Yoshinobu SUGIYAMA

 . Optical Switching Networks Using Free-Space Wavelength-Division
   Multiplexing Interconnections .................................... 81
        Shigeru KAWAI, Hisakazu KURITA and Ichiro OGURA

LETTERS
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 . Low-Threshold Self-Mode-Locked Ti:Sapphire Laser ................. 85
        Kenji TORIZUKA, Hideyuki TAKADA and Kenzo MIYAZAKI

 . FM Laser Operation of a Ti:Sapphire Laser ........................ 88
        Akihiro MORIMOTO, Tadao OKIMOTO, Akira SOGA and Tetsuro
        KOBAYASHI

 . High-Speed Modulation with Low-Threshold 1.3 ƒÊm-Wavelength MQW
   Laser Diodes ..................................................... 91
        Kazuhiro TANAKA, Kaoru NAKAJIMA, Tetsufumi ODAGAWA, Hiroyuki
        NOBUHARA and Kiyohide WAKAO

Regular Section
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PAPERS
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[Integrated Electronics]

 . LSI Neural Chip of Pulse-Output Network with Programmable Synapse  94
        Shigeo SATO, Manabu YUMINE, Takayuki YAMA, Junichi MUROTA, Koji
        NAKAJIMA and Yasuji SAWADA

 . Hardware Implementation of New Analog Memory for Neural Networks  101
        Koji NAKAJIMA, Shigeo SATO, Tomoyasu KITAURA, Junichi MUROTA
        and Yasuji SAWADA

[Electronic Displays]

 . Light Scattering and Reflection Properties in Polymer Dispersed
   Liquid Crystal Cells with Memory Effects ........................ 106
        Rumiko YAMAGUCHI and Susumu SATO

[Electromagnetic Theory]

 . Analysis of Highly-Birefringent Fibers with a Hollow Layer outside
   an Elliptical Core .............................................. 111
        Zygmunt KRASIN�LSKI, Takashi HINATA, Shin-ichiro YAMASHITA and
        Adam MAJEWSKI

 . ABSTRACTS (IEICE Trans., Vol.J78-C-I, J78-C-II, No.1 in Japanese)
            ........................................................ 117