New Dates for the 2021 OFC Conference
OFC, the premier event in telecom and data center optics, will now take place Sunday, 06 June to Thursday, 10 June 2021. (Exhibition dates are Tuesday, 08 June – Thursday, 10 June). The venue remains the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, USA.
The conference, originally scheduled in March, has been rescheduled to ensure a most favorable conference experience for all participants. The OFC co-sponsors plan to deliver a blended in-person and virtual format to provide attendees the greatest opportunity to reach customers, reconnect with colleagues and demonstrate innovative solutions to this dynamic community.
Health and safety measures will be implemented at the Moscone Center and all associated properties. Further details about the conference and exhibition will be forthcoming.
About the Technical Conference
OFC, The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition, is the premier international event for the latest advances in optical communications and networking.
A High-Quality Technical Program
- Covers recent progress in research (near- and long-term) and technology
- Features invited presentations by experts in the field
- Includes peer-reviewed technical presentations
- Hear from luminaries in industry and academia
- Presented in a variety of formats
- 1 hour in-depth tutorials
- Demo Zone
- Half-day short courses (separate fee required)
- In-depth symposia on hot topics
- Interactive workshops
- Panel discussions
- Special Sessions
Comprehensive Peer Reviewed Presentations in Key Topic Areas
- Active optical devices and photonic integrated circuits
- Advances in prototypes and product developments of components and subsystems for data centers and optical networks
- Advances in system, network and service developments and field trials in commercial data centers and networks
- Architectures and software-defined control for metro and core networks
- Digital subsystems and systems for data centers
- Digital and electronic subsystems
- Digital transmission systems
- Fibers and propagation physics
- Fiber-optic and waveguide devices and sensors
- Optical access networks for fixed and mobile services
- Optical networking for data center and computing applications
- Optical, photonic and microwave photonic subsystems
- Passive optical devices for switching and filtering
- Radio-over-fiber, free-space and sensing subsystems and systems