Call for Papers

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.