Topic Categories
Topic Categories
- Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Optical Materials and Waveguides (BGPP)
- Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)
- Nonlinear Photonics (NP)
- Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)
- Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)
- Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)
- Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)
- Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF)
Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Optical Materials and Waveguides (BGPP)
- Fundamentals of light-matter interactions, glassy and crystalline material processing and poling
- Photon-matter interactions (from below the UV to beyond the infrared, from single photon to multi-photon), the similarity between single and multiphoton processing, ablation regimes, optically induced plasmas and nanostructures, defects, densification, stress, phase transitions, transient index changes, optical invisibility, regeneration, annealing, radiation resistance, special fibers and waveguides processing, 3D printing of glass preform, hybrid and organic photonic platforms, optical localization, solid-state autocatalysis, linear and nonlinear behavior. Novel fabrication methods such as additive manufacturing and other processes are also explored
- Properties of light-written structures and techniques used in their fabrication
- Temperature and strain performance, calibration for high precision sensing, holographic writing and additive manufacture, point-by-point inscription, phase front tuning, new writing methods, short pitch gratings, long pitch gratings, volume gratings, random gratings, transient properties, non-linear properties, new poling methods, new materials for poling, new materials for waveguides or gratings, new materials for non-linear applications, radiation properties, annealing properties, long term stability, chemical properties, biomedical compatibility, electromagnetic proof.
- Industrial standardization and applications of light written structured and poled devices
- Harsh environmental applications, biomedical applications, diagnostics, structural health monitoring, intelligent networks, telecommunications devices, lasers, sensors, high intensity optical field applications, space applications, switching, routing, instrumentation, interrogation, oil and gas applications, industrial field trials, qualifications, international standards and standardization for different industries and applications, nuclear applications, new industry applications, supercontinuum generation, packaging. This includes optical metrology and sensing, emphasizing the role of Bragg gratings and poled structures in precision measurement, industrial qualification and monitoring technologies.
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPR)
- Materials and platforms for photonics integration and on-chip devices
- Active and passive photonic integrated devices, including:
- Light sources and lasers
- Modulators
- Detectors
- Phase shifters
- Isolators
- Amplifiers
- Switches
- Filters
- Resonators
- Waveguides
- Surface and edge couplers
- Nano- and meta-photonic devices, including:
- Topological photonic devices
- Photonic devices with exceptional points
- Photonic crystal devices
- Sub-wavelength and metamaterial devices
- Plasmonic devices
- Advanced material platforms for photonic integration, including:
- III-V compound semiconductors and wide-bandgap semiconductors
- Silicon, silicon carbide, silicon nitride and group IV semiconductors
- Dielectrics and polymers
- Lithium niobate and other Pockels-effect-based materials
- Silica-based glasses and chalcogenide glasses
- Phase change materials
- Non-volatile materials
- 2D materials
- Epsilon-near-zero and near-zero-index materials
- Materials for spatio-temporal modulation and time crystals
- Biomimetic and bio-inspired materials
- Advanced on-chip device design and modeling approaches, including:
- Device theory, modelling and design
- Machine learning and other advanced approaches for modeling and design
- Inverse design and optimization
- Novel device theories and physical insights
- AI-assisted physics reasoning
- AI-assisted compact model development
- Fabrication and characterization technologies for integrated photonics, including:
- Lithography and etching techniques
- Micromachining techniques
- Growth and deposition techniques
- Nanoimprint and micro-transfer printing
- Wafer and die bonding
- Self-organized fabrication methods
- Novel assembly, manufacturing and integration techniques
- Heterogeneous and hybrid integration of materials and structures
- Foundry-based fabrication for mass production
- Linear and electro-optic waveguide characterization
- Micro- and nano-structure characterization
- Reliability testing
- Packaging technologies and fiber-to-chip coupling
- Active and passive photonic integrated devices, including:
- Applications of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and devices
- Classical applications, including:
- Telecom and datacom
- Inter- and intra-chip optical communication and networking
- Classical computing and AI accelerators
- Neuromorphic computing, optical machine learning and edge computing
- LiDAR and integrated optical phased arrays
- All-optical signal processing
- Quantum applications, including:
- Optical quantum memories and computing
- Optical quantum communication and key distribution
- On-chip optical trapping
- Precision timing and atomic physics, including:
- Modelocked lasers and frequency combs
- Ultra-narrow linewidth oscillators
- Optical references
- Novel applications, including:
- On-chip biochemical sensors and transducers
- New functionalities implemented in PICs
- Classical applications, including:
- Integrated nonlinear and quantum optics
- On-chip nonlinear-optical pulse propagation and nonlinear-optical devices, including:
- Solitons, supercontinuum generation and frequency combs
- Nonlinear switching, modulation, memories and logic on-chip devices
- Nonlinear optics in devices based on novel materials including metamaterials, thin films, and 2D materials
- Nonlinear opto-mechanics
- On-chip nonlinear frequency conversion for classical and quantum applications, including:
- Frequency comb generation
- Harmonic generation
- Raman and Brillouin gain
- Frequency (up/down) conversion
- Frequency conversion-based generation of single/entangled photons
- On-chip quantum sources and detectors, including:
- Quantum dots and other single-photon sources
- Quantum state characterization including single photon detection and homo/heterodyne detection
- Quantum transduction approaches including microwave-optical bridging and hybridization
- Quantum opto-mechanics
- Squeezed states generation and detection
- On-chip nonlinear-optical pulse propagation and nonlinear-optical devices, including:
Nonlinear Photonics (NP)
- Novel / engineered nonlinear materials
- Dispersion / nonlinearity engineering
- Metasurfaces
- Lithium niobate, 2D materials, advances in SiN, other nonlinear materials / structures
- Poling and domain engineering
- Topological phenomena
- Nonlinear dynamics, solitons and ultrafast phenomena
- Mode-locked lasers, ultrafast laser oscillators / amplifiers
- Ultrashort pulse propagation and characterization (e.g., FROG, SPIDER)
- Resonator dynamics
- Micro-resonators
- Solitons (generation / propagation / characterization)
- Frequency conversion / generation
- Supercontinuum phenomena, harmonic generation, frequency conversion, UV and X-ray generation and optics of few-cycle pulses
- Stimulated brillouin and raman scattering
- Parametric processes
- Frequency combs / microcombs
- Applications of nonlinear photonic systems
- Multi-photon / nonlinear microscopy
- Nonlinear spectroscopy, dual-comb spectroscopy
- Measurement / characterization techniques
- Photonic computing, Ising machines and neuromorphic devices
- Nonlinear activation layers for neural networks
- Devices based on nonlinear interactions
- Microwave photonics
- Quantum applications
Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)
- Bioinspired and soft optics
- Natural structural coloration
- Living optical systems and materials
- Biomimetic and bioderived materials
- Polymeric and organic materials
- Liquids and liquid crystals
- Emerging multispectral and tunable materials
- Materials for passive radiative cooling
- Phase-change materials
- Reconfigurable ultraviolet to infrared materials
- Adaptive infrared materials for thermal applications
- Neuromorphic photonics and advanced imaging systems
- Nanophotonic and quantum materials
- Materials for quantum applications
- Metamaterials and metasurfaces
- Colloidal nanocrystals
- Plasmonics and polaritonics
- Two-dimensional materials
- Nanostructured materials
- Advances in design and fabrication
- Design of sustainable and recyclable systems
- Laser-assisted fabrication and processing of optics
- Artificially engineered and self-assembled optics
- AI and Machine Learning in optical material engineering flexible optoelectronics and photonics
- Advancements in conventional optical materials
- Sustainable materials
- Nonlinear and laser materials
- Fiber optic materials
- Fluorescent and luminescent materials
- Novel coatings
Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)
- Advanced optical networks and enabling technologies
- Multi-band and spatial-division multiplexed transmission systems
- Fiber networks for sensing applications
- Optical satellite networks and converged terrestrial/satellite networks
- Photonic integrated switches and neuromorphic photonic systems
- Free-space optical and wireless terahertz communications
- Cost and energy efficient network architectures and technologies
- Programmable optics and advanced transceiver technologies in support of optical networks
- AI for network and network for AI
- AI and ML techniques for supporting network control and management
- Optical network interconnected technology for GPU interconnect
- Optical and analogue processing technologies for AI
- Quantum networks
- Quantum security and quantum key distribution networks
- Integration of quantum and classical networks
- Dynamically switched quantum networks
- Quantum networks for quantum computing interconnects and distributed quantum computing
- Long haul and satellite quantum communication technologies
- Network design and operations
- Optical network architectures and protocols, including aspects of energy efficiency
- Optical routers, switches and cross-connects
- Reliability and resilience of optical networks
- Filterless optical networks
- End-to-end converged management, network control and orchestration
- Network performance monitoring and analytics
- Digital twin technology for network automation
- Control of heterogeneous access and metro networks, including analogue RoF transmission
- Technologies for data centers and high-performance computing
- Optical networks for inter-and intra-data center communication
- Disaggregated data center and HPC architectures and protocols
- Resource provisioning for intra- and inter-data centers
- Programmable photonics and photonic devices for data-center networks and computing applications
Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)
- Signal Processing in next generation transmission systems
- Advanced modulation schemes, forward error correction, and coding
- Algorithms for DSP in optical transmission systems
- Signal processing in coherent/direct detection systems
- Compensating nonlinear distortions, bandwidth limitation, chromatic dispersion, etc.
- Channel characterization and equalization
- Advanced data encoding and signal shaping
- Optical performance monitoring and sensing (Back scattering/feed-forward)
- Flexible and sliceable transceivers
- Real-time demonstration and field trials
- Space-division multiplexing (SDM)
- Digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters
- Signal processing for high capacity transmission
- Joint transmission and sensing
- Low carbon footprint transmission system
- Signal Processing in access networks - passive optical networks (PON)
- Advanced PON architectures (Coherent PON, WDM-PON, TWDM-PON, OFDMA-PON, etc.)
- In-building optical networks
- Digital, electronic and optical processing for PON systems
- Burst mode signal processing
- Fiber based in-building & in-premises transmission
- Signal processing for optical backhaul/fronthaul networks
- Signal processing for long-reach broadband access networks
- Energy efficient access networks
- Signal processing in AI/ML for optical communication
- Channel estimation and equalization
- Signal & component characterization, performance monitoring, failure prediction
- Physical layer optimization
- LLM for optical transmission
- Optical signal processing for neural networks
- Photonic neural networks, neuromorphic computing
- Digital twin
- Signal processing in photonics for MWP, mmWave and free space optical communication
- Analog radio-over-fiber systems for 6G
- Optical-wireless communication
- Visible light communication systems
- Lab and field demonstration of free-space optical wireless transmission
- Space and stratosphere optical communication (inter-satellite, inter-HAPS, ground-to-satellite/satellite-to-ground, etc.)
- Underwater optical wireless communication
- Signal processing in quantum communications
- QKD (signal processing, channel estimation, device calibration, error correction, and privacy amplification)
- Quantum random number generation
- Protocols beyond QKD (quantum digital signatures, quantum authentication)
- Quantum imaging
- Quantum repeaters
- Quantum networks
- Optical signal processing
- Passive and active all-optical signal processing subsystems
- Microwave photonic subsystems
- Optical signal processing with photonic integrated circuits
- Optical digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters
- Optical buffering, bit-, and label-processing subsystems
- Optical packet and burst switching subsystems
- Performance monitoring and signal characterization based on optical techniques
- Optics in computing
Solar, Lighting and Thermal Photonics (SOLITH)
- Solar energy categoriesLight management for solar cells and modules
- Concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) and solar power (CSP)
- Bifacial solar cells
- Semitransparent solar cells
- Integrated photovoltaics for buildings, infrastructure, vehicles and agriculture
- Space-based solar power
- Thermophotovoltaics
- Energy-yield analysis and modeling
- Economics of Solar Power
- Lighting categories
- Optics and photonics for light-emitting diodes
- Laser-based solid-state lighting
- Visual perception and color science of solid-state lighting
- Spectral tailoring for human-centric lighting
- Novel luminaire concepts
- LEDs with emission outside the visible spectrum (e.g. UV, NIR, MIR)
- Advanced concepts and mechanisms for light-emitting applications
- Thermal photonics categories
- Directional and spectral emissivity control
- Radiative cooling and thermoregulation of buildings and devices
- Near-field radiative heat transfer
- Thermal management for devices
- Wearable photonic textiles
- Thermal management for solar modules
- Nonreciprocal thermal emission
- Thermophotonic LEDs (i.e. electroluminescent cooling)
- Cross-cutting categories
- Optical nanostructures and metamaterials
- Up and down conversion of photons
- Optoelectronic devices based on perovskites and organic semiconductors
- Optoelectronic devices with quantum dots
- Advanced characterization and measurement techniques, e.g. luminescence-based
- Advanced modeling
Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF)
- Design and fabrication of advanced fiber structures
- Inverse- and AI-assisted design, 3D-printed/3D-structured preforms, hybrid fiber integration (i.e. glass + functional materials esp. nano-sized materials, new generation of dopants), nanostructured and metamaterial fibers, controllability of local structure, subwavelength confinement.
- Hollow-core & anti-resonant fibers - from fundamentals to applications
- Hollow core fiber theories, designs (including AI-assisted), fabrication and ultralong-length uniformity and scalability, telecom transmissions, nonlinear and laser applications, sensing applications.
- Novel & hybrid fiber materials
- Glass compositions and dopant profiles, intrinsic defects in fiber glasses & its impact on luminescence properties, nanocomposites, 2D materials integration (i.e., graphene, TMDs), glass-ceramic, engineered glass/microcrystal phases, and functional doping including quantum dots or rare-earth and nanoparticle dopants.
- Fibers and devices in harsh environments.
- Radiation-hard fibers, cryogenic or high-temperature stability, fibers for spaceborne applications (including quantum applications and elementary particles detectors), and fibers for high-stress / high-mechanical strain, shaping of luminescence properties with ionizing radiation.
- Fiber devices
- Including integrated devices and microresonators integrated with optical fibers, multimode/multicore devices and mode converters, multiplexers, gratings, couplers, beam combiners and fiber interconnects to PICs.
- Light propagation and dynamic effects in fibers
- Nonlinear effects, polarization and spatial modes, acousto-optic, thermo-optic, opto-mechanical effects.
- Fiber characterization, diagnostic and metrology methods
- Bidirectional OTDR / BI-OTDR, optical side leakage radiometry (OSLR), scattering loss analysis, Rayleigh/OFDR hybrid methods, in-situ / non-destructive measurement techniques, and algorithmic / AI-assisted diagnostic methods for novel fiber structures.
- Fiber lasers, amplifiers and hybrid sources
- Mode-locked, frequency comb, hybrid fiber lasers (i.e., nano-particle or nano-materials-doped fiber lasers), UV and visible fiber lasers, high power, coherent combining, random/vortex lasers, multicore and parametric amplifiers.
- Applications of optical fibers, lasers and systems
- Lidar, quantum networks and communication, anti-Stokes cooling, low-latency telecom, biomedical imaging, sensors, optoelectronics, spectroscopy, attosecond, XUV/MIR generation and transmission.
