III-V Photonic Integration Outside Telecommunications - Does InP Have A Role?
Photonic products are now appearing that make extensive use of monolithic 
integration in III-V semiconductors. Many products use GaAs-based alloys 
either because the operation wavelength is important or because the physical 
properties of such alloys result in improved performance. Integration activity 
will be reviewed and the role for InP analysed.
High extinction ratio GaAs/AlGaAs electroabsorption modulators integrated with passive waveguides using impurity-free vacancy diffusion
Electroabsorption optical modulators integrated with passive waveguides have been fabricated on GaAs/AlGaAs multiquantum well material using the impurity-free vacancy diffusion technique with SrF2 and SiO2 capping layers. At a wavelength of 861.6 nm, devices with a 400 µm long modulator section showed ON/OFF ratios greater than 35 dB for a reverse bias voltage of 3 V.
Women's health in prison: urgent need for improvement in gender equity and social justice.
The needs of women held in detention have received little attention and con-tinue to be neglected by health systems and prison authorities. One reason for this, too readily accepted until now, is that women prisoners are a clear minor-ity group within prisons all over the world. It is only recently that attention has been drawn to the fact that a minor-ity status does not justify the widespread ignorance of women’s basic rights and the considerable gender insensitivity still dominating criminal justice systems.In Europe alone, there are about 100 000 women and girls in prison.