Optical Switching Technology & Devices

Optical reconfiguration techniques and technologies for computing systems
Optoelectronic and all-optical switching and flip-flops
Photonic memory and optical buffers
On-chip integration of photonic switching and control and logic electronics
Fast MEMS switches
Silicon photonic switching technologies using monolithic and heterogeneous integration
Tunable laser technologies
Tunable receiver technologies
Tunable filter technologies
Nanophotonic metamaterials and devices for switching and routing
All-optical, electronic, and hybrid-optoelectronic technologies

Optical Switching Functions & Building Blocks

Optoelectronic, all-optical, or hybrid wavelength conversion technologies
Optoelectronic and all-optical signal processing, including header recognition, label swapping, code translation and processing
Optical grooming and aggregation techniques
Photonic memory and optical buffering functionality
Optoelectronic- and all-optical signal regeneration, impairment compensation, and performance monitoring
Optical receiver pre-processing and signal conditioning
Optical pre-compensation and pre-distortion
Advanced modulation techniques and coding/decoding subsystems
RF over optical processing and transmission
Microwave photonics
Comparison of all-optical, electronic, and hybrid-optoelectronic functionality
Burst switching compatible transceiver technology

Optical Networks & Communication Systems

Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers/demultiplexers
Photonic packet switching and routers
Photonic burst switching routers
Photonic circuit switching
Optical cross-connects
Optical time domain multiplexed systems
Optical multiple access systems (WDMA, TDMA, and CDMA)
Parallel data links and space division multiplexing
Optical access systems
Rapidly reconfigurable networks
Software defined optical networks and OpenFlow
Optical network control and management
Wavelength routing and assignment
Physical layer design and control
Next-generation GMPLS, ASON, Photonic MPLS, OpenFlow
Software defined networking for photonic systems
Optoelectronic label switching networks
IP-over-optical architectures
Energy efficient architectures and algorithms
Cross-layer architectures and algorithms
Application-aware and service-oriented architectures
Converged mobile and optical networks
Optical network testbeds and field trials
Optical access and aggregation networks

Photonics in Computing Systems

Optics in Data Centers and HPC systems
Photonic Switching for DC and HPC
Networks, topologies, architectures, control and DC integration
Phy layer trends in DC and HPC
Beyond electronic switch roadmap
Optics integration, optical interconnects
On chip optics/networks
Optics to memory
Inter-DC networks (phy aspects)
Network needs for emerging workloads
Machine Learning and Distributed Deep Learning
Streaming, big data
Specialized networks in systems/appliances for specific workloads
Photonics in Emerging Computing paradigms
Quantum
Optical ML, Optical DNN (e.g. reservoir computing)
Signal processing