Topic Categories

• SC1: Active Photonic Devices: Modulators, Detectors, Sensing, Lasers and other Emitters
• SC2: Photonic Materials and Hybrid integrated materials: Nonlinear materials, Topological Photonics, 2D materials, Colloidal materials and Organic materials
• SC3: Photonic Platforms: Si, SiN, III-V, AIN
• SC4: Photonic Circuits: Switch fabrics, Neural Networks and Optical Computing
• SC5: Microwave and Terahertz Photonics
• SC6: Quantum-Photonics: Emitters, Detectors, Computing and Sensors
• SC7: Memrisitive Photonics and Neuromorphic Photonics

SC1: Active Photonic Devices: Modulators, Detectors, Sensing, Lasers and other Emitters

• Active devices: lasers and laser arrays, amplifiers and detectors
• Modulators: ultrafast, nano and low energy
• Sensing (bio/chemical/other sensing transducers)
• Detectors
• Bio-photonic platforms for integrated devices
• High-speed Si/III-V modulators
• Electro-optic modulators
• Integrated photodetectors
• On-chip lasers
• Waveguide & microcavity sensors
• High-speed, low-power active device design

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SC2: Photonic Materials and Hybrid integrated materials: Nonlinear materials, Topological Photonics, 2D materials, Colloidal materials and Organic materials

• Plasmonics
• Nanophotonics, photonic crystals, subwavelength and metamaterials devices
• 2D materials and phase change materials
• Membrane photonics and photonic MEMs
• Dielectric and polymer photonics
• Novel material integration
• Non-linear materials and effects
• Novel devices based on magneto-optic, piezo-electric, and ferroelectric materials
  Optomechanical devices and micro-/nano-electro-mechanical systems
• Energy-efficient photonics materials
• Unconventional materials for photonics
• Ultra compact and nanoscale devices
• Enhanced light-matter interactions
• Raman and Brillouin gain
• Topological photonic device
• Quantum-dot & colloidal nanocrystals

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SC3: Photonic Platforms: Si, SiN, III-V, AIN

• Silicon photonics
• III-V optoelectronics
• Compound semiconductors
• LiNbO₃ and other electro-optic materials
• Wafer and die bonding technologies
• Hybrid & heterogeneous integration
• Silicon Nitride Photonics
• AlN Photonics

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SC4: Photonic Circuits: Switch fabrics, Neural Networks and Optical Computing

• Functional devices: programmable filters, switches, buffers, large-scale circuits, polarization management
• Inverse and computer-aided design
• Computational analysis and methods
• Optical connectivity – coupling techniques to photonic integrated circuits
• Production methods and (generic) foundry concepts
• Electronic-photonic convergence
• Plasmonic waveguides and devices
• Electronic connectivity
• Control layer for PICs
• Devices beyond conventional limits
• Novel modeling and simulation techniques

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SC5: Microwave and Terahertz Photonics

• Visible range, near-, mid-, far-infrared and THz waveguides and technologies
• Microwave photonics
• Microwave/terahertz sources
• Microwave/terahertz modulation
• Integrated microwave/terahertz devices
• Terahertz imaging/spectroscopy
• Terahertz/microwave communication

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SC6: Quantum-Photonics: Emitters, Detectors, Computing and Sensors

• Quantum and high precision photonics
• Generation, manipulation and detection of single photons in PICs
• Quantum computing and PICs for quantum communications
• Quantum dots and color center emitters
  Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
• Tunable quantum light sources
• Waveguide-integrated single-photon detectors
• Integrated single-photon sources
• Integrated photonic quantum circuits
• Integrated quantum transducer
• On-chip photon entanglement generation & manipulation

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SC7: Memrisitive Photonics and Neuromorphic Photonics

• Neuromorphic photonic processors
• Memristive photonics
• Programmable photonic circuits, neuromorphic, photonic processors
• Tunable optical non-volatile memories
• Integrated memristive photonic devices
• All-optical neuromorphic chips
• Photonic neural networks
• Phase-change materials for photonic memristors

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