2018 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)

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 fiber and fiber 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 Photonic 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-eletronic 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 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 VECSELs
• 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