Technical Conference: 15 - 19 March 2026
Exhibition: 17 - 19 March 2026
Los Angeles Convention Center | Los Angeles, California, USA

Technical Conference: 15 - 19 March 2026
Exhibition: 17 - 19 March 2026
Los Angeles Convention Center | Los Angeles, California, USA

Conference Programs

Attendees

The Technical Conference Program

OFC’s five-day, technical conference features peer-reviewed presentations and more than 120 invited speakers, representing thought leaders across the industry. Additional technical programming throughout the week includes symposia, short courses, demo zone and special events.

Symposia

Comprised of invited and contributed papers, on areas deemed to be of special interest to OFC conference attendees.

Short Courses (supplemental registration)

Covers a broad range of topic areas at a variety of educational levels, and taught by highly-regarded industry experts on a number of subjects. Whether you choose a course designed for beginners or for more advanced instruction, the small size of each class gives you an excellent opportunity for personalized instruction. Registrants receive one copy of the Course Notes, which will be distributed onsite.

Demo Zone

Featuring live demonstrations of research projects and proof-of-concept implementations in the space of optical communications devices, systems and networks. Demonstrations occur in dedicated booths in the Demo Zone as part of the OFC technical program.

Special Events

Make the most of your attendance at OFC with a range of networking and educational events. Special events range from receptions to career development programs.

Special Events

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Workshop: Will Coherent Pluggables Take Over Everything?

Initially proposed for datacenter interconnect applications, coherent pluggable modules are increasingly finding use throughout the network, as network operators seek to leverage them to save cost and power. In the set of emerging 1.6 Tb/s standards, we see coherent pluggable standards defined...

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Panel: Probabilistic Amplitude Shaping after 10 Years: Where Are we Now, and What is to Come?

Since its introduction a decade ago, probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) has evolved from a topic of academic interest to a mainstream, near ubiquitous technology adopted across a wide range of optical systems — from traditional long-haul deployments to compact pluggable transceivers. In...

Special Program

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Rump Session: From Short Hops to Long Hauls: What Parts of the Fiber Spectrum Shall we Use, and Why?

Fiber optics communications became practical when we found, for the first time, a match between the characteristics of the medium, the transmitters, and the receivers that we were able to build with repeatable characteristics.  Over the decades, we have developed several successful...

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Special Session: Rethinking Networking Convergence from operational perspective: Towards a Data and

The telecommunications industry stands at a critical crossroads. Despite years of effort and investment, telcos continue to struggle with transitioning to a truly cloud-native, data-centric operational model. Initiatives such as CORD, ETSI NFV, vRAN, virtual BNG/OLT, and cloud-native Mobile core...

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Symposia: Beyond the Atmosphere: Architectures and Technologies for Space-based Optical Networks

As satellite networks evolve to meet the demands of global connectivity, scientific investigation, and secure communications, optical technologies are emerging as key enablers of high-capacity, low-latency links across multiple orbits. This symposium will explore the architectures and innovations...

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Symposia: Next Generation Interconnects for AI scale up Systems

Current AI scale-up architectures rely heavily on high-speed PAM4-class SerDes and copper-based interconnects. As scale-up network needs grow in domain size and extend beyond a single rack, new challenges emerge—key among them are the need for high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity often...