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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
- Fibre-based devices
- Fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers
- Multimode & multicore fibre and fibre amplifiers
- Highly nonlinear fibres and their applications
- Fibres for sensing applications
- Fiber 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
- Ultrafast devices and technologies
SC3: Photonic Integrated Circuits, assemblies and packaging
- Integrated III-V devices
- 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 analog and digital electronic/optical co-integrated circuits
- Nonlinear waveguides for optical signal processing
- Reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits
- Photonic integrated circuits for neuromorphic applications and Artificial Intelligence
- Frequency combs and microresonators
SC4: Signal processing for optical communication systems
- 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 conventional DSP with neuromorphic or machine learning techniques
- Real-time DSP implementations for optical communications
SC5: Theory of optical communications
- New transmission system modelling methods
- Capacity, reach, flexibility limits of optical transmission systems
- System level implications of physical impairments and impairment mitigation techniques
- Novel error correction coding
- Advanced data encoding and signal shaping
- Information theory for optical communications
SC6: 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
- Analog and nonlinear signal processing subsystems demonstrating transmission enhancements
- Multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems for improved transmission
- Demonstration of spatially multiplexed transmission links
- Subsea links and cable deployment
- Sensing and optical performance monitoring techniques and subsystems
SC7: Core and Metro networks
- Core and metro optical network architectures
- High capacity optical transport networks
- Submarine optical networks
- Optical node architectures supporting also fast reconfigurability
- Optical layer resilience and security
- Optical network deployments and field trials
- Inter data centres interconnection
- Systems and nodes supporting optical switching and regeneration functionalities
- Optical switching and routing in long haul and core networks
SC8: Access, indoor and short-reach for data centres and mobile networks
- Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTx) and optical access networks
- Passive optical networks
- In-building optical networks
- Intra data centre interconnect networks
- High performance computer networks
- Backhaul, midhaul and fronthaul networks for mobile applications
- Highly parallel network and interconnect demonstrations
- Photonics for Cloud and low latency services
- Optical switching and routing in short-reach networks
SC9: Photonics for RF and Free-Space optics applications
- Microwave photonics subsystems
- Millimetre-wave and THz photonics signal generation/detection
- Demonstration of optics-based THz wireless subsystems
- Demonstration of analog radio-over-fibre systems for 5G and beyond
- Optical wireless communication (subsystems and networks)
- LiFi and VLC communication networks
- Satellite photonic communication links
- Lab/field demonstration of free-space optical wireless transmission
- Photonic wired/wireless communication network solutions
SC10: Architecture, control and management of optical networks
- Control, orchestration, and management of optical networks
- Multi-layer network architecture, design and modelling
- SDN/NFV enabled optical networking
- Planning and scaling of hybrid optical/optoelectronic networks
- Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in monitoring, control and management of optical networks
- Zero-touch network and Service Management (ZSM) for optical networks and interfaces
- Network reliability, survivability, security and disaster recovery
SC11: Quantum technologies, systems and networks
- Quantum optics and quantum communication
- Quantum nanophotonics
- Quantum interfaces
- Coherent transfer from the optical to the microwave domain
- Quantum memories for photons
- Quantum networks architecture, 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
- Co-existence of quantum and classical network
- Quantum Internet architecture