OECC/PSC 2025 30th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference/
International Conference on Photonics
in Switching and Computing 2025

Date
Technical conference: June 29-July 3, 2025 Exhibition: June 30-July 2, 2025
Location
Sapporo
Convention Center,
Sapporo, Japan
Paper Submission Deadline
23:59:59 February 28, 2025 (JST, UTC+9)

OECC SCOPE

O1. Core/Access/Data Center Networks and Subsystems

O1-1. Core/Metro Network and Subsystem

  • Optical core/metro network architecture, design, control, and management
  • Optical core/metro network reliability and protection & restoration
  • Optical packet/burst/flow switching networks
  • Optical cross-connects/add-drop multiplexers and switching subsystems Grid/cloud computing over optical networks
  • Energy-efficient optical networks and technologies

O1-2. Access Network and Subsystem

  • Optical access network architecture, design, protection, and management
  • Access network disaggregation and virtualization
  • Survivability techniques and operational issues for resilient access networks
  • Future high capacity and long-reach access networks including Coherent PON, WDM PON, OFDM PON, TWDM-PON and hybrid PON
  • Radio-over-fiber access networks

O1-3. Data Center (DC) Network, Converged Network and Subsystem

  • Data center, in-building/in-home, local area, and storage area optical networks
  • Optical xHaul networks
  • Hybrid wireless-optical access networks including fixed mobile convergence and Metro access convergence
  • Space and NTN(non-terrestrial network) networks
  • Field trials, testbeds, and interoperability demonstrations of optical networks
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning for optical network design, control, and management
  • End-to-end all photonics network; architecture, system design and enabling technologies
  • Optical network security management

O2. Transmission Systems and Subsystems

O2-1. Transmission and propagation

  • Laboratory and field transmission experiments including long haul, core, metro and data-center interconnect application
  • Multiplexing and demultiplexing techniques including OTDM, OFDM, OCDM and SDM
  • Free-space optical transmission
  • Transmission impairments and their mitigations
  • Modeling of transmission, of capacity or reach limits of transmission systems
  • Quantum communication and quantum cryptography

O2-2. Digital signal processing, advanced modulation, coding and multiplexing

  • Digital signal processing algorithms for optical communications
  • Advanced modulation and demodulation for optical communications
  • Coding and forward error correction for optical communications
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning for optical transmission systems and subsystems

O2-3. Transmission subsystems

  • Optical transmitter and receiver subsystems
  • Implementation of digital signal processing subsystems for optical communications
  • Optical signal processing subsystems for optical communications

O3. Optical Fibers, Cables, Fiber Devices and Fiber Sensing

O3-1. Fibers & Cables for Communication

  • Fiber design, fabrication and characterization
  • Fiber cabling, installation, and maintenance
  • Fibers for space division multiplexing
  • Hollow core and microstructured fibers
  • Fibers for optical interconnection
  • Materials for fibers

O3-2. Fiber based Devices

  • Fiber/waveguide amplifiers and lasers
  • Fiber gratings
  • Fiber based devices for space division multiplexing
  • Connectors, splicing and interconnection technology

O3-3. Fiber sensing and other applications

  • Distributed fiber optical sensing, fibers and fiber devices for sensing
  • Fiber sensing application incl. environmental monitoring using optical network
  • Fiber characterization and methodology
  • Fibers for high power applications
  • Fibers for nonlinear optical processing
  • Other novel fibers, fiber devices and applications

O4. Optical Active Devices and Modules

O4-1. Photonic integration*

  • Photonic integrated circuits*
  • Si photonic and heterogeneous platform*
  • Photonics-Electronics integration*
  • Packaging technology of photonic devices and circuits*

O4-2. Advanced active devices

  • Semiconductor lasers, optical amplifiers, and light emitting diodes
  • Optical modulators
  • Photodetectors
  • Optical sensing and processing devices
  • mm/THz devices
  • New functional active devices

O4-3. Novel materials and structures

  • Novel photonic materials for active devices
  • Si/Ge, polymer, and novel III-V based active devices
  • Quantum well, quantum dot, and nano-structured photonic devices
  • Photonic crystal, topological, and related devices

* The presentations of these topics will be programmed in Joint Sessions with Category O5.

O5. Optical Passive Devices and Modules

O5-1. Photonic integration*

  • Photonic integrated circuits*
  • Si photonic and heterogeneous platform*
  • Photonics-Electronics integration*
  • Packaging technology of photonic devices and circuits*

O5-2. Advanced passive devices

  • Planar lightwave circuits (PLCs)
  • Optical filters, demultiplexers, demodulators, equalizers, programmable circuits/filters, dispersion compensators, and other signal conditioning devices
  • Optical polarization control devices, polarizer, rotator, and polarization beam splitter
  • Optical switches and channel selecting/routing devices for photonic networks
  • Optical isolator and circulator
  • Spatial division multiplexing (SDM) waveguide devices
  • Tapered and grating waveguides for optical coupling
  • Free-space optics including optical micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and liquid crystal devices for photonic networks
  • Thin film lithium niobate passive devices
  • Flat optics and meta surface devices
  • Emerging non-telecom applications including sensing and imaging

O5-3. Novel materials and platform for passive devices

  • Micro- and nano-optics and related devices
  • Emerging materials and fabrication method for passive photonic platforms
  • Optical printed circuit board

* The presentations of these topics will be programmed in Joint Sessions with Category O4.

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