Tracks
The Organising Committee of the 29th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference 2024 (OECC2024) is pleased to confirm the following tracks.
Track 1: Optical Fibres, Cables and Fibre Devices
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
Track 2: Optical Active Devices and Modules
Topics covering following broad areas but not limited to:
- III-V compound and polymer-based active photonic devices and modules for optical communication and logic operations.
- High speed optical modulators (electrooptic-, semiconductor, polymer-, silicon-based).
- Semiconductor lasers- edge/surface emitting, high-power, and new wavelength regions.
- Semiconductor or waveguide or parametric optical amplifiers.
- Monolithic and heterogenous integration of semiconductor active optical devices -Quantum well, quantum dot and nano-structured photonic devices -High speed photodetectors, switching devices and electronic circuits.
- Wavelength tuneable active devices.
- Si photonic platform including active components, and its applications to signal processing, bio-sensing and other areas.
- New photonic active devices using two dimensional or topological materials.
- Optical devices and circuits for optical signal processing and computing.
Track 3: Optical Passive Devices and Modules
Topics covering following broad areas but not limited to:
- Optical waveguide integrated devices and planar lightwave circuits (PLC)
- Photonic and electronic hybrid/heterogeneous integration of passive devices and modules
- New waveguide materials and fabrication method
- Optical filters, demultiplexers, demodulators, equalizers, dispersion compensators, and other signal conditioning devices
- Glass/ferroelectric/polymer optical modulators and switching devices and modules
- Network elements including switches, add/drops, and cross connects
- Free-space optics or optical micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) for photonic networks
- Spatial division multiplexing (SDM) fibre devices
- Liquid crystal devices for photonic networks
- Optical interconnects and optical printed circuit board
- Micro-optics and related devices
- Optical polarization control devices, polarizer, rotator, polarization beam splitter (PBS), wavelength plates
- Optical isolator, circulator, variable attenuators
Track 4: Transmission Systems and Subsystems
Topics covering following broad areas but not limited to:
- High-speed or large-capacity optical transmission systems
- Multiplexing and demultiplexing techniques including OTDM, WDM, OFDM, OCDM, and SDM
- Advanced optical modulation formats
- Optical coherent systems
- Transmission impairments and their mitigations
- Modelling of optical transmission systems
- Information-theoretic aspects of forward error correction
- Microwave and terahertz photonic systems
- Free-space optical communications
- Visible light communications
- Optical transmitter and receiver subsystems
- Optical performance monitoring technologies and subsystems
- Photonic signal processing including ADC and DAC
- Digital signal processing techniques for optical communications
- Optical signal processing techniques for optical communications
- Systems for optical or photonic computing
- Photonic systems for space applications
Track 5: Core/Access/Data Center Networks
Topics covering following broad areas but not limited to:
- Optical core/metro network architecture, design, control, and management.
- Optical core/metro network reliability and protection & restoration.
- Optical packet/burst/flow switching networks.
- Optical cross-connects/add-drop multiplexers and switching subsystems Grid/cloud computing over optical networks Energy-efficient optical networks and technologies.
- Optical access network architecture, design, protection, and management.
- Survivability techniques and operational issues for resilient access networks.
- Future high capacity and long-reach access networks including WDM PON, OFDM PON, TWDM-PON and hybrid PON.
- Data centre, in-building/in-home, local area, and storage area optical networks.
- Radio-over-fibre access networks.
- Optical Xhaul networks.
- Hybrid wireless-optical access networks.
- Space networks.
- Field trials, testbeds, and interoperability demonstrations of optical networks.
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning for optical networks.
- Optical network design, modelling, management, and planning.
Track 6: Quantum Sensing, Communications and Computing
Topics covering following broad areas but not limited to:
- Quantum communications.
- Photonics for quantum computing.
- Quantum sensing.
- Photonics for quantum key distribution.
- Quantum cryptography.
- Photonics enabled quantum control.
- Quantum computing networks.