Emmanuel Drouard received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Aix-Marseille III, France, in 2003, on the design and experimental study of integrated optics devices made by Ti ion implantation in silica. In 2003, he joined LEOM (now INL). He is currently an Associate Professor at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Ecully, France. His current research interests include the modeling and simulation of integrated optics refractive and diffractive devices for optical interconnects.