SC1: Novel fibres, fibre devices and amplifiers
- Physics of light propagation in optical fibres
- Optical fibre design, fabrication and characterisation
- Specialty optical fibres for improved transmission performance
- Low-latency fibres and fibres for new wavelength ranges
- Microstructured fibres
- Fibre-based devices
- Fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers
- Multimode & multicore fibres and fibre amplifiers
- Highly nonlinear fibres and their applications
- Fibres for sensing applications
- Fibre installation, connectors, splicing, reliability
SC2: Discrete photonic devices and technologies
- Novel material platforms and structured materials
- Design, fabrication and characterisation of novel devices for integration and functionality
- Detectors and sources, directly modulated lasers and VCSELs
- Hybrid III-V/Group IV materials and devices for silicon photonics
- Nanophotonics
- Optoelectronic devices
- Nonlinear waveguides
- Ultrafast devices and technologies
- Optical switching devices
SC3: Photonic integrated circuits, assemblies and packaging
- Large-scale photonic integrated circuits
- Packaging of devices, testing of performance and reliability
- Co-packaged optical and electronic ICs (2D, 2.5D and 3D)
- System-on-a-chip (SoC) and on-chip networks
- Advanced analogue and digital electronic/optical co-integrated circuits
- Reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits
- Photonic integrated circuits for neuromorphic applications and artificial intelligence
- Frequency combs and microresonators
- Optical processors, neuromorphic and reservoir computing
SC4: Signal processing for optical communication and computing
- Algorithms for DSP in optical transmission systems
- Modelling and design of DSP
- Experimental demonstration of DSP
- Design, implementation and implications of reduced complexity DSP algorithms
- Comparison of machine learning techniques with conventional DSP
- Real-time DSP implementations for optical communications
- Analogue electrical and optical signal processing
- Novel error correction coding
- Novel constellation shaping approaches
- Implementation complexity analysis of DSP algorithms and computational effort
SC5: Optical transmission systems
- Lab/field demonstrations of optical transmission links deploying novel fibres, devices, subsystems and multiplexing techniques
- Link system demonstrations using novel signal modulation techniques
- Transmission enhancements by analogue and nonlinear signal processing subsystems
- Multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems for improved transmission
- Demonstration of spatially multiplexed transmission links
- Submarine links and cable deployment
- Novel transmission system modelling methods
- Capacity, reach, flexibility limits of optical transmission systems
- System level implications of physical impairments
- Impairment mitigation techniques
- Information theory for optical communications
SC6: Architecture, modelling and performance of optical networks
- Core, metro and transport optical network architectures
- Optical switching and routing architectures
- Submarine optical networks
- Satellite optical networks
- Optical network resilience and security
- Optical network deployments and field trials
- Inter data centre interconnection architectures
- Physical layer performance and technology integration in optical networks
- Multi-layer and multi-technology optical networks
- Planning and scaling of hybrid fibre/free space optical networks
- Performance monitoring techniques in optical networks
SC7: Access, indoor and short-reach systems for data centres and mobile networks
- Fibre-to-the-X and optical access networks
- Passive optical networks
- In-building optical networks
- Intra data centre interconnect networks
- Optical networks for high performance computing
- Backhaul, midhaul and fronthaul networks for mobile networks
- Highly parallel network and interconnect demonstrations
- Photonics for cloud and low latency services
- Optical switching and routing in short-reach networks
SC8: Sensing and microwave photonics
- Fibre-based optical sensing (e.g., DAS, OTDR)
- Free-space optical sensing (e.g., LiDAR, OCT)
- Joint communication and sensing
- Microwave photonics subsystems
- Millimetre-wave and THz photonics signal generation/detection
- Demonstration of optics-based THz wireless subsystems
- Demonstration of analogue radio-over-fibre systems for 5G/6G and beyond
SC9: Free-space optics and optical wireless technologies
- Deep space optical communications
- Satellite photonic communication links
- Space-air-ground optical wireless systems
- Pointing, acquisition and tracking
- LiFi and VLC communication systems and networks
- Lab/field demonstration of free-space optical wireless transmission
- Underwater optical wireless communication
- Atmospheric turbulence characterization and modelling
- Field trials and experiments of optical wireless technologies
- Control and management of optical wireless technologies
SC10: Control and management of optical networks
- Control, orchestration, and management of optical networks
- Multi-layer network control and management
- SDN/NFV enabled optical networking
- Protocols and signalling in optical network control and management
- Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in monitoring, control and management of optical networks
- Field trials and demonstrations with optical network hardware and software
- Protocols and software tools for network reliability, survivability, privacy, security and disaster recovery
- Open source testbeds, implementations and demonstrations
SC11: Quantum communications and quantum computing
- Quantum optics and quantum communication
- Quantum nanophotonics
- Quantum interfaces
- Coherent state transfer between the optical and the microwave domain
- Quantum memories for photons
- Quantum network architectures, switching, routing and protocols
- Quantum light sources and detectors
- Theory of quantum communication systems
- Use case and demonstration of quantum communication systems
- Quantum cryptography lab/field demonstration
- Quantum computing interconnect
- Quantum repeaters
- Quantum Internet
- Co-existence of quantum and classical network
- Comparison of classical and quantum physical layer security