ECOC 2018 Sub Committee Topics
SC1 – Fibres, Fibre Devices and Fibre Amplifiers
- Optical fibre design, fabrication and characterisation
- Physics of light propagation in optical fibres
- Fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers
- Fibre based devices for telecommunication, sensing and other applications
- Highly nonlinear fibres and their applications for nonlinear optical signal processing
- Specialty optical fibres for improved linear and/or nonlinear transmission performance
- Low-latency fibres and fibres for new wavelength ranges
- Multimode and multicore fibre and fibre amplifiers for spatial division multiplexing
SC2 – Integrated Optoelectronic Devices and Optical Processors
- Design, fabrication and characterisation of novel integrated devices and functionalities
- Integrated light sources, directly modulated lasers and VCSELs in bulk, quantum well, quantum dot or other materials
- Integrated III-V, including InP and GaAs, data modulators, detectors, amplifiers and switches
- Silicon and hybrid III-V/silicon photonics for data modulation, detection, amplification, switching and interconnecting
- Sources and detectors for quantum communication systems
- Packaging of advanced novel devices, testing of performance and reliability
- Novel material platforms and structured materials such as photonic crystals, plasmonics, graphene and others
- Integrated nonlinear waveguides on various material platforms for optical signal processing
- Large-scale photonic integrated circuits for flexible, reconfigurable and scalable communication and processing systems
SC3 – Digital Signal Handling Techniques for Optical Communication Systems
- Modelling, design, and implementation of digital signal processing for long-haul, medium- and short-range optical communication systems
- Novel digital signal processing algorithms for optical transmitters and receivers, and DSP algorithms with reduced complexity
- Novel error correction coding, advanced data encoding and signal shaping for optical communication links
- Schemes for impairment mitigation, increased spectral efficiency and mutual information, including nonlinear Fourier transformation and digital back-propagation
SC4 – Point-to-Point Optical Transmission Systems, Subsystems and Technologies
- Modelling, design, implementation and test of optical, optoelectronic, or electrical (incl. DAC/ADC) subsystems
- Line terminals, optical transmitter and receiver subsystems for advanced modulation formats and increased speed and/or capacity
- Multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems for advanced and/or spectrally efficient data formats including DMT, OFDM, OCDMA and Nyquist-WDM
- Optical performance monitoring techniques and subsystems
- Transmission system modelling
- Lab and field implementation of optical fibre transmission links
- Lab and field implementation of free-space optical and optics-based THz wireless transmission links
- Satellite communication links
- Transmission system level implications of physical impairments and impairment mitigation techniques
- Capacity, reach, flexibility limits of optical transmission systems and solutions to overcome the current limitations
- Demonstrations of combined novel fibres, devices, subsystems and multiplexing techniques in transmission experiments
- Quantum communication systems
SC5 – Photonic and Microwave Photonics Subsystems
- Subsystems for network functionalities, including e.g. wavelength-selective switching, add-drop multiplexing, optical switching, optical packet routing, system-on-a-chip (SoC) and on-chip networks
- Analog signal processing subsystems and novel schemes of nonlinear optical signal processing for subsystem-functionalities
- Machine learning for optical signal processing
- Microwave Photonics Subystems for 5G e.g. optical beamforming, opto-electronic oscillators, clock distribution, photonics-based RF signal up- and down- conversion, photonics-based RF filtering
- Millimeter-wave and Terahertz photonics
- Photonic Subsystems for dual use in RF systems i.e. communication and sensing
SC6 – Datacentre and Computercom Networks
- Demonstrations, network deployments and field trials using novel architectures and/or novel switching schemes and technologies, including SDN over WDM, TDM, SDM optical switching and/or hybrid electronic/optical or all-electronic switching
- Architecture and control of data centre and HPCS (High Performance Computing System) specific hardware, including VCSEL based parallel links with advanced modulation, hybrid integrated electronic/optical engines for broadband interconnecting and WDM/CWDM interconnects
- Demonstrations using novel network devices, including nanophotonic high-density components for on-chip networks, as well as integrated spatial multiplexers for high-density parallelism, novel interconnects and transceivers
- High capacity optical transmission for data center intra-connections
- Architecture, planning and scaling of optical transport for data centre and HPCS networks
- Network management, control plane design and orchestration of data centres and HPCS for photonic and hybrid photonic/electronic interconnects
- Energy, scalability, latency considerations for data centre and HPCS networks
SC7 – Core, Metro, and Convergent Networks
- Networking aspects of architecture, planning and scaling of broadband optical transport for optical circuit- and packet-switched core, metro and inter-data centre networks, including cost and energy considerations
- Control, orchestration, and management functions, as well as integration with higher layer network services
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence for advanced networking and monitoring
- Design of high connectivity contentionless node architectures, including protection and failure recovery
- Network deployments and field trials
- Energy efficiency considerations
SC8 – 5G, Access, Local Area and Indoor Networks
- Optical backhaul/fronthaul networks
- Photonics for Cloud services
- Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTx)
- Passive optical access networks
- In-building optical networks
- Radio-over-fibre systems
- Optical wireless communication networks
- Hybrid wireless/optical wireless communication network solutions
CLEO/Europe Focus Meeting:
- Digital and optical signal processing
- Nano- and microphotonics
- Optoelectronics
- Metamaterials
- Novel devices
- Silicon photonics
- Waveguide and fiber optics
- Nonlinear optics
- Plasmonics
- Nonlinear dynamics and quantum optics
- Quantum cryptography and communication
- Emerging ultrafast technologies
- New concepts in optical generation including supercontinuum sources and VCSELs
- Big data and optical real-time data analytics and compression
- Frequency combs
- Monolithic microresonators
- Coherent transfer from the optical domain to microwave signals
- Novel diagnostic and metrology techniques, and other optical communication and processing related topics