Electronic versions of our Annual Reports 2010 can be downloaded here. Wave propagation in asymmetric plasmonic waveguides Filtering structures using plasmonic multimode waveguides Longitudinal Structured Plasmonic Waveguides Application of the Method of Lines (MoL) to time domain calculations Filter design using periodic dielectric multimode waveguide structures Influence of the layer thickness and the dielectric medium to the self-imaging distance Staircase approximation of oblique boundaries to compute band structures of photonic crystals Design of diamond turned holograms by the nonlinear conjugate gradients method ZEMAX -simulations of the polarization properties of a 1x4 PIFSO signal distribution system Part II: tilted input beams Characterization of a micro-retroreflector 3D fiber-optical crossbar interconnections for gigabit/s board level communication Three-dimensional crossbar interconnections using planar-integrated free-space optics and MEMS device Simulation and Optimization of Optical Crossconnections for Massively Parallel Computing Architectures Micro optical integration of a programmable multiwavelength holographic interconnection based on a PIFSO-DMD combination