Technical Scope

P1. Photonic Switching Devices, Systems, and Networks

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

1) Photonics for Innovative Computing

Photonics in neuromorphic computing and machine learning devices
Optical neural networks and reservoir computing
Silicon photonic and nanophotonic devices for computing applications
Highly parallelized scalable photonic computing architectures and devices
Ising machines and building blocks
Photonic enabling technologies and devices for quantum computing and communication
Optics to memory and optical RAM
Photonic ASIC/FPGA for computing

2) Photonic Technologies for Datacenter and High-Performance Computing

On-chip optical interconnection and networking
On-board optics and co-packaged optics for high-capacity interconnects
Parallel data links and space division multiplexing for high-density interconnection
Large-scale switching technologies for data center (DC) and high-performance computing (HPC) systems
Inter- and hyper-scale intra-DC networks

3) Photonic Networks for Computing and Big Data Applications

Fog/edge computing infrastructure and applications
Network function virtualization (NFV) at edges/datacenters
Internet of Things (IoT) aware systems and applications
Photonic networking/switching system designs and architectures for computing and big data
Availability/reliability/disaster recovery in big data-oriented computing systems
Resource provisioning/metering/monitoring of computing and big-data-oriented systems
Software defined networking (SDN) for computing and big data control
Green systems for computing and big data environment
Optical network requirements for machine learning and distributed deep learning