Topic Categories
General Guidelines:
Papers will be reviewed by the experts within the subcommittee (SC) you choose unless they get recategorized by the Program Chairs. To determine which Track (D-, S- or N-) to submit to, please carefully review the descriptions below and keep in mind the focus of each Track as outlined in their Titles. If you are unsure of which SC to choose, please select one that seems the closest. The Program Chairs review all submissions for correct SC categorization and make changes, if required.
The technical program is organized by three tracks: D-, N-, S- and the newly-formed Subcommittee Q (SC-Q).
- D-Track — In general, this track evaluates papers studying the design, fabrication and characterization of devices, components and fibers. Devices and PICs evaluated in a system should be submitted to the S-Track under the appropriate subcategory.
- N-Track — Focuses on the networking and service aspects of networks and systems.
- S-Track — Evaluates papers at the subsystem and system level at the areas outlined in the subcategory titles and the subcategory sub-bullets.
- SC-Q — Papers related to devices, systems and networks for quantum communications should be submitted to newly formed Subcommittee Q (SC-Q).
D-Track
Devices, Components and Fibers |
S-Track
Subsystems and Systems |
N-Track
Networks and Services |
| D1: Advanced Prototyping, Packaging and Integration |
S1: Datacom Subsystems and Systems |
N1: Advances in Development of Systems, Networks and Services |
| D2: Passive Components |
S2: Subsystems for Transmission |
N2: Optical Networking for Data Center and Computing Applications |
| D3: Active Components |
S3: Transmission Systems
|
N3: Architectures and Software-Defined Control for Metro and Core Networks |
| D4: Fibers and Propagation Physics |
S4: Optical Processing, Microwave Photonics and Fiber-sensing |
N4: Optical Access Networks for Fixed and Mobile Services |
| D5: Fiber Devices, Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, and Nonlinear Waveguides |
S5: Free-space (FSO), Ranging (LiDAR), and Radio-over-fiber (RoF) |
N5: Market Watch, Network Operator Summit & Data Center Summit (Invited Program) |
|
SC-Q: Quantum Devices, Systems and Networking
|
Subcommittee Q (SC-Q): Quantum Devices, Systems and Networking
- Quantum Communication Systems and Quantum Key Distribution
- Entanglement Routing and Quantum Networking
- Quantum Computing and Quantum Computing Interconnects
-
Quantum Optical Devices, Components, Integrated Photonics, Subsystems, Systems, Networks
-
Quantum Single or Entangled-Photon Sources, Detectors
- Photonic Devices in Support of Qubit Modalities (ions, defects in solids, single atoms, others)
- Optics for Quantum Transduction, Cryogenic Optical Interconnects
- Quantum Memories, Photonic Quantum Gates, and Quantum Repeaters
- Hybrid Quantum and Classical Systems/Networks and Teleportation
- Lab Demonstrations, Field Trials, Use Cases, Certification and Standarization
- Novel Quantum Protocols
D-Track: Devices, Components and Fibers
D1: Advanced Prototyping, Packaging and Integration
D2: Passive Components
D3: Active Components
D4: Fibers and Propagation Physics
D5: Fiber Devices, Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, and Nonlinear Waveguides
D1: Advanced Prototyping, Packaging and Integration
- Commercial or Engineering Samples (Optoelectronic or Passive Optical Chips and Modules, TOSA/ROSA, Amplifiers, other)
- Deployment Trends of new Fibers and Connectors
- High-capacity TX/RX Modules, Multi-mode, Single-mode, WDM, Parallel-channel, VCSELs
- Electronic Driver and Receiver Circuits for Energy-efficient Transmitters and Receivers
- Photonic Network Elements and Enabling Hardware (Wavelength-selective Switches, ROADMs, Other) and Performance Monitoring
- Advanced Co-packaging Technology and On-board Optics
- Large-scale Foundry PDK Development
- Large-scale Electro-optic Integration and Packaging
- Components, Devices, Modules, Integrated Circuits for Datacenters, Telecom, and LIDAR Applications
D2: Passive Components
- Free-space Passive Devices (Wavelength Selective Switches, Cross connects, other)
- MEMS
- Passive Fabrication Process
- Waveguide Design and Mode Convertors
- Fiber and Free-space to Chip Coupling
- Advanced Linear Passive Devices (Mach-Zehnder meshes, other)
- Filtering and Compensating Devices
- Wavelength-, Polarization-, and Space-division Filters, Multiplexers, Demultiplexers, Equalizers, Inter-leavers, Switches, Splitters, Add/drops, and Cross-connects
- Photonic Crystal, Ring resonator, Grating, and Other Nano-optic Devices
- Passive Plasmonic Waveguides, Devices, and Switches
- Conventional and ML-optimized Design, Fabrication and Evaluation
D3: Active Components
- Lasers and Amplifiers using Semiconductor Gain Material (excluding rare-earth doped or nonlinear)
- Modulators (incl. Plasmonic and LiNbO3)
- Detectors (incl. Plasmonic) and Receivers
- Active Wavelength Converters and Comb-sources
- Nonlinear Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors (SOA-based/resonant nonlinearity, other)
- Active Semiconductor-based Switches
- Small Scale Optoelectronic Hybrid and Monolithic Integration
- Optoelectronic Device Testing
- Optoelectronic Devices based on Graphene or Other 2D Metamaterials
D4: Fibers and Propagation Physics
- Optical Fiber and Fiber cables Design, Fabrication, Reliability and Testing
- Hollow-Core, Micro-structured, Multi-Core, and Multi-Mode Optical Fibers
- Nonlinear Effects, Scattering, and Propagation-related Transmission Impairments
- Propagation, Dispersion, and Polarization Properties in Fibers and Free-space
- Novel Optical Fiber Materials, incl. Non-silica and Multi-material Fibers
- Non-transmission Use of Specialty Optical Fibers
- Fiber Characterization and Measurement Techniques
Field Studies, Installation, Metrology, Connectors, Enclosures and Splicing
D5: Fiber Devices, Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, and Nonlinear Waveguides
- Spatial-mode Multiplexers and Multicore Multiplexers
- Doped Fiber and Waveguide Amplifiers
- Fiber Lasers and Short-pulse / Supercontinuum / Comb-sources
- Raman, Brillouin and Parametric Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices
- Phase-sensitive and -insensitive Amplifiers
- Off-resonance Nonlinearities-based Devices (Kerr/Raman/Brillouin)
- Fiber Gratings and Couplers
- Fiber- and Waveguide-based Sensing Devices
- Non-telecom Devices, Sensors for Bio-photonics, Astro-photonics, Imaging, Avionics, Automotive
S-Track: Subsystems and Systems
S1: Datacom Subsystems and Systems
S2: Subsystems for Transmission
S3: Transmission Systems
S4: Optical Processing, Microwave Photonics and Fiber-Sensing
S5: Free-Space (FSO), Ranging (LIDAR), and Radio-Over-Fiber (RoF)
S1: Datacom Subsystems and Systems
- Chip-scale, Rack-scale, Intra/Inter-Datacenter and High Performance Computing (HPC)
- Low-energy, Low-cost, Low-latency
- Modulation, Detection, Estimation (IM/DD, Coherent, other)
- Signal Processing (Analog, Digital, Hybrid) and Forward Error Correction (FEC)
- VCSEL, DML, EML and other CWL/Mod. Transceivers
- Wavelength, Space, and Time Division Multiplexing (WDM, SDM, TDM)
- Optical Switching
- Si PIC, InP PIC, GaAs VCSEL Array, other Integration Approaches
- Resource Disaggregation
- Co-packaged, Near-Packaged, On-Board
- Standards-driven
- Machine Learning
- Lab and Field Demonstrations
S2: Subsystems for Transmission
- Digital and electronic subsystems for optical transceivers
- Digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms for optical transmitters and receivers
- Forward Error Correction (FEC) techniques
- Modulation and demodulation techniques (Single-carrier or multi-carrier)
- Multiplexing and demultiplexing techniques
- Digital and analog data conversion and calibration techniques
- Signal characterization and signal integrity improvement based on digital and electronic techniques
- Modeling, design, and analysis of electronic and algorithmic subsystems
- Machine learning in digital and electronic subsystems for optical transceivers
- Digital and electronic subsystems demonstration with innovative components and devices
- Real-time implementation of advanced modulation formats, FEC, and DSP in ASICs and FPGAs
- Subsystems for access, metro, and long-haul systems
- Subsystems for coherent and direct-detection systems
S3: Transmission Systems
S4: Optical Processing, Microwave Photonics and Fiber-sensing
- Optical Signal Processing and Characterization
- Nonlinear Effects (Kerr, Raman, Brillouin, other)
- Optical Data Computing
- Configurable Photonics
- Optical AI and Accelerators
- Optical Packet and Burst Switching
- Microwave, mm-Wave and Terahertz Photonics
- Fiber Sensing Systems and Subsystems (OTDR, Interferometric, Distributed, other)
S5: Free-space (FSO), Ranging (LiDAR), and Radio-over-Fiber (RoF)
- Optical Wireless Communication (OWC), Free Space Optical Communication (FSOC)
- Visible Light Communication (VLC), Light Fidelity (LiFi), Optical Camera Communication (OCC)
- Satellite Laser Communication
- Radio-over-Fiber (RoF)
- Sensing, Positioning, Navigation
- Multi-Technology Converged Transmission
- Microwave, Millimeter-Wave, and THz Optical Fronthaul Systems
- PIC, Monolithic and Heterogenous Photonics Integration
- VCSELs and LiDAR Modules and Systems
- Beamforming (Analog, Digital, Hybrid)
- Machine Learning
- Intelligent Surfaces for Optical Wireless and THz Communication
N-Track: Networks and Services
N1: Advances in Developments of Networks and Services
N2: Optical Networking for Data Center and Computing Applications
N3: Architectures and Software-Defined Control for Metro and Core Networks
N4: Optical Access Networks for Fixed and Mobile Services
N5: Market Watch, Network Operator Summit & Data Center Summit (Invited Program Only)
N1: Advances in Development of Networks and Services
- Near- to Mid-Term Network Trends and Applications, and Deployable Network Solutions.
- Field Trials, Demonstrations and Pilots
- Network Engineering and Deployment, incl. Quality of Service, Performance Evaluation and Installation Techniques.
- Operational Aspects of Emerging Networks Applications, incl. SDN, NFV, Network Management, Monitoring, and Analytics (AIOps).
- Operational Aspects of Open and Disaggregated Networks, including Multi-Vendor Interoperability Tests.
- Non-Terrestrial and Space-Based Optical Networks.
- Sensing for Optical Networks, incl. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and Applications of Coherent transceivers to sensing.
- Multi-Band Optical Networks, incl. Non-Traditional Wavebands.
- Fixed and Mobile Converged Networks, incl. 5G/6G and Multi-Access Edge Computing.
- Networks to support High-Bandwidth Video and Low-Latency Virtual Reality (VR) & Augmented Reality (AR) Services.
- Demonstrations of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Optical Networks.
- Applications of Network Timing and Clock Distribution Services over Optical Networks.
N2: Optical Networking for Data Center and Computing Applications
- Photonic Interconnection Networks for Data Centers and Computing Systems.
- Disaggregated Architectures with Optical Connectivity and Networks.
- Intra-DC, Intra-HPC, and Micro-DC Architecture Design, Capacity Planning and Techno-Economic Studies.
- Accelerated Data Analytics and AI/ML Applications.
- Optical Networking using Fiber, Free-Space and Visible Light Communication (VLC) Techniques for DCs and HPCs.
- High-Bandwidth, Intelligent, Programmable Photonic Network Fabrics.
- Optical Network Interfaces for Computing and Information Processing Applications.
- Optical Routing, Packet/Circuit/Flow Switching, and Bandwidth Steering.
- Protocols, Arbitration and Flow Control.
- SDN and NFV for DC applications (Resource Orchestration, Co-Scheduling and Co-Optimization).
- Optical Networks supported by Photonic Neuromorphic and Reservoir Computing.
- Converged Edge/Fog and Cloud DC Networks and Applications.
- Edge/Fog and Cloud Computation Offloading for Low-Latency and Scalability.
N3: Architectures and Software-Defined Control for Metro and Core Networks
- Core, Metro, Inter-DC Architecture and Networks, for emerging Services incl. 5G/B5G/6G and Cloud/Edge Computing
- SDN and NFV in Optical and Multi-Layer Networks.
- Open/Disaggregated Optical Networks.
- Metro and Core Networks for Fixed and Wireless Convergence.
- Elastic Optical Path and Flexible Grid Networks.
- Space Division Multiplexed and Optical Multi-Band Fiber Networks.
- Satellite Optical Networks.
- Optical Node Architectures for High-Degree Connectivity with Multi-Fiber/Core/Band Networks.
- AI/ML, Data Analytics and Digital Twins for Optical Network Design, Control and Management.
- Optical Network Design incl. Planning, Optimization, and Techno-Economic Studies.
- Operational Aspects incl. Energy-Efficiency, Security and Assurance.
- Reliability, Service Restoration and Protection.
- Dynamic, On-Demand, and Scheduled Optical Networking Techniques and Algorithms, and Service Orchestration for Computing and Network Resource Allocation.
- Open and Intent-based APIs for functions such as Topology Discovery, Service Management, Path Calculation and Provisioning.
N4: Optical Access Networks for Fixed and Mobile Services
- High-speed Optical Access System Technologies (DSP, FEC and ML), Network Architectures, Applications, and Services to Residential and Business Customers.
- Optical X-haul Architectures supporting Mobile and IoT/Sensor Networks.
- Access Architectures and Technology for Heterogeneous Signal Transmission over Fibre in support of Future Mobile Networks.
- Operation Aspects of all PON variants incl. TDM-PON, TWDM-PON, and WDM-PON.
- Reliability, Protection and Security.
- PON Virtualization, incl. SDN and NFV.
- Low-latency Solutions for Time Sensitive Fronthaul and User Plane Services.
- Application of ML/AI techniques to Access Network Control and Orchestration
- Optical Wireless Indoor Networks and Applications.
- Technology, Architecture and Protocols for Energy Optimization in Optical Access Networks.Hybrid-Fiber-Coaxial (HFC) Access Networks and Applications.
- Architectures, Protocols, Control Planes and Physical Layer for Convergence of Access and Metro Networks and Convergence of Fixed and Mobile Networks.
- Optical Local Area Networks (LANs) and Applications.
- Multi-Dimensional (Time, Wavelength, Space, Polarization) Capacity Increase and Sharing.
- Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) Architectures.
N5: Market Watch, Network Operator Summit & Data Center Summit (INVITED PROGRAM ONLY)
The N5 programs takes place on the exhibit floor and comprise of the following:
- Market Watch – a 3-day series of panel discussions covering the latest technology, application, and business topics of significant interest to the optical communications professional community. Sessions highlight developments in equipment and components as they relate to all facets of the communications markets from submarine systems to data center networks.
- The Network Operator Summit* – a 1-day program covering current and emerging challenges and opportunities in telecom networks.
- The Data Center Summit* – a 1-day program covering current and emerging challenges and opportunities in data-centers and cloud networks.
*Summits will include a keynote speaker and several panel sessions, and will feature topics of interests to CTOs, network architects, network designers and technologists.