SC1 - Fibres, Fibre and Free Space Devices and Fibre Amplifiers
- Physics of light propagation in optical fibres
- Optical fibre design, fabrication and characterisation
- Specialty optical fibres for improved transmission performance
- Multimode &multicore fibre and fibre amplifiers for spatial division multiplexing
- Low-latency fibres and fibres for new wavelength ranges
- Fibre and free space based devices
- Fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers
- Highly nonlinear fibres and their applications
SC2 - Integrated Optoelectronic Devices and Optical Processors
- Novel material platforms and structured materials
- Integrated III-V devices
- Advanced receiver technologies
- Design, fabrication and characterisation of novel integrated devices and functionalities
- Integrated light sources, directly modulated lasers and VCSELs
- Silicon and hybrid III-V/silicon photonics
- Large-scale photonic integrated circuits
- Sources and detectors for quantum communication systems
- Nonlinear waveguides for optical signal processing
- Packaging of advanced novel devices, testing of performance and reliability
SC3 - Digital Signal Handling Techniques
- Algorithms for DSP in optical transmission systems
- Modelling, design, and implementation of digital signal processing
- Novel digital signal processing algorithms for optical transmitters & receivers
- Design, implementation &implications of reduced complexity DSP algorithms
- Optical MIMO DSP
- Machine Learning based DSP for optical transmission
- Digital subsystems for nonlinear transmission enhancement
- Electronic subsystems for optical communication systems
SC4 - Point-to-Point Optical Transmission
- Demonstrations of transmission benefit from combined novel fibres, devices, subsystems and multiplexing techniques
- Lab and field implementation of optical fibre transmission links
- High capacity optical transmission for data center intra-connections
- Analog and nonlinear signal processing subsystems demonstrating transmission enhancement
- Line terminals, optical transmitter and receiver subsystems
- Optical, optoelectronic, or electrical (incl. DAC/ADC) subsystems
- Multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems
- Demonstration of point-to-point quantum communication systems
SC5 - Theory of Optical Communications
- Transmission system modelling
- 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
- Schemes for impairment mitigation increasing data throughout and/or mutual information
- Quantum communication system theory
SC6 - Photonics for Free Space, 5G, and Microwave Applications
- Microwave Photonics Subsystems for 5G
- Millimetre-wave and Terahertz photonics
- Optical wireless communication networks
- LiFi and VLC communication networks
- Satellite communication links
- Demonstration of free-space optical and optics-based THz wireless transmission
- Demonstration of radio-over-fibre and 5G systems and subsystems including front-haul/back-haul optimisation
- Hybrid wireless/optical wireless communication network solutions
- Photonic Subsystems for dual use in RF systems i.e. communication and sensing
- Free space quantum communication systems
SC7 - Fibre Based Networks
- Covers the following topics for:
- Core, metro and convergent networks
- Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTx) and optical access networks
- Passive optical networks
- In-building optical networks Intra and inter data centre networks
- High performance computer networks
- Subsystems for network functionalities, system-on-a-chip (SoC) and on-chip networks
- Design of high connectivity node architectures including protection and failure recovery
- Network deployments and field trials
- Highly parallel network and interconnect demonstrations
- Energy efficiency
- Photonics for Cloud services
- Optical performance monitoring techniques and subsystems
- Network demonstrations of quantum communication systems
SC8 - Network Architecture, Control and Management
- Covers the following topics for:
- Core, metro and convergent networks
- Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTx) and optical access networks
- Passive optical networks
- In-building optical networks
- Intra and inter data centre networks
- High performance computer networks
- Control, orchestration, and management of optical networks
- Optical Network Architectures
- Planning and scaling of hybrid optical/optoelectronic networks
- Network latency
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence for advanced networking and monitoring
- Integration of optical transmission and networks with higher layer network services
- Network reliability, survivability, security and disaster recovery
- Network energy efficiency