Topics covering following broad areas but not limited to:
- Optical fibre design, fabrication, installations, and maintenance
- Optical fibre characterization and measurement techniques
- Photonic crystal fibres and related topics
- Polymer fibres, non-silica fibres, and multi-material fibres
- Fibres for interconnects, interfacing between optical fibre and planar devices
- Fibre gratings
- Active/passive multi-core/mode optical fibres for special mode multiplexing
- Multi-core/mode fibre devices, passive and active
- Fibres for high power laser generation and transmission
- Raman and Brillouin fibre amplifiers
- Optical parametric fibre amplifiers, phase-sensitive amplification, and their applications
- Novel nonlinear fibreoptic devices and applications
- Fibre/waveguide devices for sensor applications
- Fibre/waveguide devices for biomedical applications
- Optical imaging fibres
- Other novel fibre devices