July 3 - 7, 2016
Niigata, Japan
It will be held jointly with the 21st Optoelectronics and Communications Conference and Photonics in Switching 2016. This joint conference offers a great opportunity to seek out and explore a wide variety of R&D topics from basic research to system technologies.
Scope (Details please refer to the web)
Cat.1 Core/Access Networks and Switching Subsystems
- Optical access network architecture, design, protection, and management
- Survivability techniques and operational issues for resilient access
networks
- Future high capacity and long-reach access networks including WDM
PON, OFDM PON, TWDM-PON
- Radio-over-fiber access networks
- Hybrid wireless-optical access networks
- Optical core/metro network architecture, design, control and management
- Optical core/metro network reliability and protection & restoration
- Optical cross-connects/add-drop multiplexers and switching subsystems
- Cloud computing over optical networks
- Energy-efficient optical networks and technologies
- Field trials, testbeds, and interoperability demonstrations of optical networks
Cat.2 Transmission Systems and Subsystems
- Transmission experiments for long haul, core and metro application
- Multiplexing and demultiplexing techniques including OTDM, OFDM, OCDM and SDM
- Advanced modulation and demodulation
- Transmission impairments and their mitigations
- Coding and forward error correction for optical communications
- Optical transmitter and receiver subsystems
- Optical performance monitoring technologies and subsystems
- Digital signal processing techniques for optical communications
- Optical signal processing techniques for optical communications
Cat.3 Optical Fibers, Cables and Fiber Devices
- Fiber design and fabrication
- Fibers for space division multiplexing
- Fiber based devices for space division multiplexing
- Fibers for high power applications
- Fibers for optical interconnection
- Fibers for switching and nonlinear optical processing
- Fiber characterization and measurement techniques
- Fiber cabling, installation, and maintenance
- Connectors and splicing technology
- Fiber gratings
- Fiber/waveguide amplifiers and lasers
- Fiber sensing
- Other novel fiber devices
Cat.4 Optical Active Devices and Modules
- Semiconductor lasersedge/surface emitting, high-power, and new wavelength.
- High speed optical modulators.
- Semiconductor optical amplifiers.
- High speed photodetectors.
- Switching devices.
- Wavelength tunable active devices.
- Monolithic integration of semiconductor active optical devices
- Si photonic platform including active components
Cat.5 Optical Passive Devices and Modules
- Passive devices and platforms with Si photonics, photonic crystals,
plasmonics and metamaterials.
- Optical waveguide integrated devices and planar lightwave circuits (PLC)
- Photonic and electronic hybrid/heterogeneous integration devices and modules
- Emerging materials and fabrication method for passive platforms
- Optical filters, demultiplexers, demodulators, equalizers,
dispersion compensators, and other signal conditioning devices.
- Glass/ferroelectric/polymer optical modulators and switching devices
and modules
- Network elements including switches, add/drops, and cross connects.
- Free-space optics or optical micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS)
for photonic networks
- Spatial division multiplexing (SDM) fibre devices
- Liquid crystal devices for photonic networks
- Optical interconnects and optical printed circuit board
- Microand nano-optics and related devices
- Optical polarization control devices, polarizer, rotator,
polarization beam splitter (PBS), wavelength plates
- Optical isolator, circulator, variable attenuators
Cat.6 Photonics in Switching Systems and Related Technology
- Silicon photonic and nanophotonic switching devices and technologies
- Integrated optical and optoelectronic switching devices and technologies
- All-optical, electronic, and hybrid-optoelectronic switching devices
and technologies
- Tunable filter, laser, and receiver technologies
- Optoelectronic and all-optical signal processing technologies
- Optical interconnects and cross-connect technologies in high
performance computer, storages, and data center
- Advanced modulation techniques and coding/decoding technologies
- Optical cross-connects/add-drop multiplexers and switching subsystems
- Optical circuit switching technologies and architecture
- Optical packet switching technologies and architecture
- Optical burst/flow switching technologies and architecture
- Photonic memory and buffering technologies
- Optical technologies in data center
- Energy efficient technologies for photonics switching systems
- Microwave photonics for optical processing and transmission
- Optical reconfiguration in computing systems
- Optical integrated switching systems for dynamic reconfiguration and protection
- Optical/electrical hybrid node architecture
- Algorithm and protocols for optical switching systems