1) Photonic Switching Devices and Building Blocks
- Integrated photonic technologies for switching subsystems and modules
- Silicon photonic switching devices using monolithic and heterogeneous integration technologies
- Nanophotonic metamaterial and plasmonic switching devices
- Novel materials and phenomena for switching
- Tunable devices for wavelength switching and routing
- All-optical, electronic, and hybrid-optoelectronic technologies for switching
- 2D and 3D MEMS/LCOS switches and wavelength-selective switches
- Optical cross-connects and ROADMs
- Optical switches for space/mode division multiplexing and multiband networks
- Optical switching solutions for quantum networks
2) Photonic Switching Systems and Functionalities
- Optical signal processing, regeneration and impairment compensation
- Performance monitoring and sensing technologies
- Advanced modulation and coding/decoding techniques
- Modelling, design, implementation, impairment mitigation, algorithms for advanced switching functionalities
- Microwave photonic devices and systems
- Converged mobile and optical access networks
- SDM and multiband technologies for photonic switching and networking
- Quantum communication systems
3) Photonic Switching Networks and Controls
- Energy-efficient switches, network architectures, and algorithms
- Optical circuit-, burst-, slot-, and packet-switching systems and networking
- Optical grooming and aggregation techniques
- Software defined networking (SDN) and control plane integration for photonic networks
- Optical network control, management, and security
- Machine learning in optical communication network
- Quantum networks
- Photonic network testbeds and field trials