Authors are invited to submit 2-page papers in the
form of an electronic file in PDF. The title of the paper,
author's name, affiliation, complete return address, telephone
number and email address must appear at the top of the first page,
followed by a 35-word abstract. Please CLICK HERE for the sample template.




Technical Categories:

1. Optical Networks and Broadband Access
Optical network architecture and performance, optical access network, network protection and restoration, optical packet switching, optical burst switching, hybrid wireless-optical solutions, novel access techniques.

2. Transmission Systems and Switching Technologies
Optical transmission / switching systems, high speed / capacity transmission, optical / electrical impairment compensation, performance monitoring, optical switching subsystems, optical add-drop multiplexers, optical cross-connects, optical multiplexing techniques, radio over fiber systems, microwave photonics, quantum communications.

3. Optical Signal Processing
Wavelength conversion, optical signal regeneration, optical clock recovery, optical packet processing, optical switching, optical sampling, optical pulse shaping and compression, optical logic devices, optical format conversion, supercontinuum generation, fiber optical parametric amplifier, optical processing for multiplexing and demultiplexing, photonic ADC and DAC, optical delay lines, optical waveform generation, nonlinear optical materials and devices.

4. Optical Sensors and Systems
Optical fiber sensors, sensor multiplexing, distributed sensors, optical biomedical sensors, sensor systems and networks.

5. Optical Fiber and Waveguide Devices
Optical fibers and cables, passive and active fiber devices, fiber amplifiers, fiber lasers, fiber gratings, photonic crystal fibers, polymer fibers, polymer waveguides, passive and active waveguide devices, photonic integrated circuits, modules and subsystems, silicon photonics, photonic device packaging.

6. Optoelectronic Materials, Devices and Modules
Light emitting devices, semiconductor lasers, amplifiers, detectors, modulators, switching devices, optoelectronic integrated circuits and modules, optoelectronic materials.

7. Emerging Technologies
Novel developments in nonlinear optics, novel materials and structures (photonic crystals, plasmons, metamaterials, and nano-photonics), novel optical network concepts.

Please CLICK HERE for Paper Submission.