Conference Program

Scope

Category 1: Core/Access Networks and Switching Subsystems

  • Optical core network architecture, design, control, and management
  • Optical cross-connects/add-drop multiplexers and switching subsystems
  • Optical core network reliability and protection & restoration
  • Optical packet/burst/flow switching networks and switching subsystems
  • Optical access network architecture, design, control, and management
  • Optics in home area networks, local area networks, storage area networks
  • Optical access system reliability and security
  • Hybrid wireless-optical access networks
  • Grid/cloud computing over optical networks
  • Energy efficient optical networks
  • Field trials and interoperability demonstrations of optical networks

 

Category 2: Transmission Systems and their Subsystems

  • Large capacity optical transmission, wavelength-division multiplexing
  • High speed optical transmission, optical time-division multiplexing
  • Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing in photonic systems
  • Optical code-division multiplexing
  • Advanced optical modulation formats
  • Dispersion/PMD compensation/management techniques
  • Optical coherent systems
  • Digital signal processing in photonic systems: signal estimation, error correction, electrical equalization techniques for optical transmission impairment
  • Physics of optical fiber transmission, transmission impairments by dispersion and/or nonlinearities
  • Quantum communications, quantum cryptography
  • Free-space optical communications
  • Novel concepts for photonic systems/subsystems

 

Category 3: Optical Fibers, Cables and Fiber Devices

  • Fiber design, fabrication, installations and maintenance
  • Fiber characterization and measurement techniques
  • Photonic crystal fibers and related topics
  • Polymer fibers, non-silica fibers
  • Fiber Bragg gratings
  • Fiber/waveguide amplifiers and lasers
  • Fibers for switching and non-linear optical processing
  • Fibers for high power applications
  • Fibers for optical interconnection
  • Fiber sensing
  • Other novel fiber devices

 

Category 4: Optical Active Devices and Modules

  • III/V-based and silicon-based active photonic devices and modules for optical communication/interconnection
  • Light emitters, semiconductor lasers, amplifiers
  • Semiconductor detectors, modulators, switching devices
  • Optoelectronic integrated circuits and modules
  • Photonic materials, devices and modules for information, industry and biomedical applications
  • New wavelength light emitters/detectors
  • Optical sensors, sensor systems and networks
  • Display applications
  • New/novel photonic/optoelectronics materials and structures
  • Quantum dot, nano-structured photonic devices
  • Photonic crystals, plasmons, metamaterials, and nano-photonics
  • Nonlinear optics

 

Category 5: Optical Passive Devices and Modules

  • Optical waveguide integrated devices and planar lightwave circuits
  • New waveguide materials and fabrication method
  • Glass/ferroelectric/polymer optical modulators and switching devices
  • Optical filters, demultiplexers and demodulators
  • Photonic crystals
  • Optical MEMS
  • Micro-optics and related topics
  • Silicon photonics
  • Liquid crystal devices for photonic networks

 

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