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In addition to the description given for the topics in the CfP please regard some more detailed explanations submitted below:
1. Fibres, Fibre Devices and Amplifiers
This area focuses on optical fibres, their fabrication, the physics of light propagation in optical fibres and fibre sub-systems, optically-pumped fibre amplifiers and lasers, fibre based devices:
- Optical fibre design and fabrication
- Speciality optical fibres
- Dispersion compensating fibres
- Highly nonlinear fibres
- Microstructure fibres
- Fibre cabling issues
- Splices, connectors, and fibre coupling
- Fibre measurement techniques
- Fibre-based interferometers
- Non-linear loop mirrors
- Fibre-based sensors
- Fibre propagation effects
- Non-linear and polarization effects in fibres
- PMD emulation techniques
- Non-linear transmission emulation techniques
- Optical fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers
- Optical amplifier design
- Rare-earth doped fibre amplifiers
- Raman and Brillouin fibre amplifiers
- Optical parametric fibre amplifiers
- Hybrid fibre optical amplifiers
- Wavelength-flattened fibre amplifiers
- Fibre amplifiers with automatic gain control
- Fibre gratings and fibre grating-based devices
- Couplers - fused fibre devices
2.Waveguide and Optoelectronic Devices
This area focuses on device (incl. planar-waveguide optical components, bulk-optical technologies and photonic bandgap devices) and semiconductor components for processing of optical signals, optical signal generation, amplification, switching and detection. Technologies needed to develop commercial devices are also covered:
- Acousto-optic devices
- Lithium Niobate devices
- PLCs, planar lightwave circuits
- Waveguide materials
- Polymer waveguides
- Silicon Photonics
- Photonic bandgap devices
- MEMS-based devices
- Rare-earth doped waveguide amplifiers
- SC Optical amplifiers
- Optoelectronic fabrication and epitaxy
- Laser sources
- Detectors and modulators
- Non-linear semiconductor devices
- Semiconductor-based switches
- Optoelectronic integration
- Hybrid integration
- Device packaging
- Device testing and reliability
- Photonic modulation and switching devices
- Optical regeneration components
- Dispersion compensation devices
- Polarization control and monitoring devices
- Gain equalization filters and attenuators
- optical fixed or tuneable filters
- Core WDM devices
- Reconfigurable Add Drop Multiplexers technologies
- Interleavers
- Wavelength conversion
- Optical performance monitoring devices
- Wavelength monitoring and wavelength locking devices
- Switches
- Component measurement techniques
- Picosecond and femtosecond devices
- Quantum devices
- Semiconductor logical devices
3.Subsystems and Network Elements for Optical Networks
This area focuses on various aspects of modelling, design, and implementation of optical subsystems and network elements, including fixed & adaptive impairment compensation subsystems, performance monitoring:
- Transmitter and receiver subsystems
- Clock and data recovery
- Multiplexing/demultiplexing subsystems
- Signal processing techniques
- Photonic analogue-to-digital conversion
- Optical processing subsystems
- Optical regeneration subsystems
- Forward error correction (FEC) techniques
- Gain-equalization subsystems
- Subsystems for the emulation and compensation of dispersion (PMD and chromatic dispersion)
- Electronic subsystems for overcoming optical transmission impairments
- Optical parameter and performance monitoring subsystems
- Network elements and their performance
- Node Architecture and components of Cross-connects
- Fixed & reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers
- Optical memory
4. Transmission Systems
This area focuses on various aspects of modelling, design, and implementation of optical transmission systems(WDM, TDM, CDM) including transmission links.
- New/Improved transmission system modelling
- WDM transmission systems experiments
- High-speed transmission systems experiments
- Fibre non linearity impact on system performance
- Implications of modulation formats on systems
- Applications of optical and electronic compensation schemes in transmission systems
- Applicatuon of Adaptive impairment compensation in transmission systems
- System aspects of polarization effects
- Demonstrations of PMD mitigation
- Modulation formats and techniques
- Subcarrier multiplexed transmission systems
- Multimode fibre transmission
- New/improved algorithms and techniques for modelling transmission systems
- Quantum communications and cryptography
- Microwave photonics
- Analogue transmission systems
5. Backbone and Core Networks
This area focuses on various aspects of modelling, design, control, management, protocols, architectures and implementation of optical backbone and metro core networks, including WDM networks, as well as packet-based core networks. It also focuses on issues for successful commercial deployments, field trials and applications of optical communication technology in networks:
- Network architecture and performance
- Multitransport layer transport architecture
- Network modelling and design
- IP over optics architectures
- Ethernet enabeld networks
- 100G Ethernet
- Techno-economical assessment of different network architectures
- Economic analysis and business cases of optical network solutions
- Optical and Ethernet solutions for content delivery (Video etc)
- Optical Packet/Burst switching networks
- Algorithms and protocols (e.g., routing and wavelength assignment, grooming)
- Network control and management
- GMPLS applications
- Network reliability and availability
- Protection and restoration
- Network modelling, planning, and design for commercial deployment
- Optical network demonstrations, test beds and field trials
- Interoperability demonstrations
- Installation and testing Network management
- Traffic modelling and statistics
- Security in optical networks
6. Access and Local Area Networks
This area focuses on the exploration and demonstration of novel optical networks and networking aspects for broadband access and metro-access networks. This area covers specifically FTTx, PON and WDM-PON network solutions as well as local area networks. It also focuses on issues important to successful commercial mass deployments, field trials, business planning, and applications of optical fibre communication technology in public, private and enterprise networks :
- Optical access systems
- FTTx, x-PON and WDM-PON networks
- Cable – MSO networks
- Hybrid wireless-optical access networks
- Free-space optical systems
- Multichannel video systems
- Multiple access techniques
- Network architecture and performance
- Network control and management
- Optical access network experiments
- Optical Ethernet networks
- 10G and beyond 10G in LAN
- Usage of Multimode Fibre in High Speed LAN
- Networks with plastic optical fibres
- Optical networks for automotive applications
- Optics in Storage Area Networks
- Access network modelling, planning, and design for commercial deployment
- Access optical network demonstrations, test beds and field trials
- Interoperability demonstrations
- Access System reliability and availability
- Installation and testing Network management
- Techno-economical comparison between different network architectures
- Economic analysis and business cases