Conference

Technical scope

The technical scope is organized into three areas covering photonic switching, advanced computing, and quantum technologies.

P1

Photonic Switching Devices, Systems and Networks

Salvatore Spadaro
Co-chairSalvatore SpadaroUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
  • Photonic devices for switching and interconnects
  • On-chip optical interconnection and networking
  • On-board optics and co-packaged optics (CPO) for high-capacity interconnects
  • Silicon photonics and heterogeneous/hybrid integration technologies for switching
  • Switching devices using nanophotonic material, plasmonic, or novel material platforms
  • Photonic switches for fast, broadband, and/or large-scale switching
  • Photonic switching devices for space/mode division multiplexing
  • Parallel data links and space division multiplexing for high-density interconnection
  • Novel materials and phenomena for switching
  • Novel optical devices for amplification, monitoring, filtering, shaping, and/or routing
  • Large-scale switching technologies for data center (DC) and high-performance computing (HPC) systems
  • Photonic switching systems and networks
  • Switching systems, architectures, and network integration for emerging applications, including intra/inter-DC, fog/cloud/edge computing, converged mobile and optical access, non-terrestrial networks (NTN), and IoT
  • ML/AI-aided optical network systems enhancing availability, reliability, programmability and/or disaster recovery
  • Quality of transmission (QoT) estimation and/or management
  • Advanced modulation and coding/decoding techniques
  • Optical network virtualization technologies, including software defined networking (SDN), OpenFlow, GMPLS, network function virtualization (NFV), and network digital twin technologies
  • Optical network design, control, management, and security
  • Photonic network testbeds and field trials
P2

Photonics for Advanced Computing Systems and Applications

Mahdi Nikdast
Co-chairMahdi NikdastColorado State University, USA
  • Photonic devices for innovative computing
  • Silicon photonic and nanophotonic devices for computing applications
  • Optical signal processing devices
  • Ising machines and building blocks
  • Photonic ASIC/FPGA for computing
  • Programmable, reconfigurable photonics
  • Optical memory and nonvolatile photonic devices
  • Photonics for neuromorphic computing and deep learning
  • Photonics in neuromorphic computing and machine learning devices
  • Optical neural networks and reservoir computing
  • Highly parallelized scalable photonic computing architectures and devices
  • Deep learning for photonic devices and applications
P3

Quantum technologies for networks and computing

Co-chair to be announced

  • Quantum devices and photonics for quantum switching and computing
  • Single-photon and quantum entangled photon-pair sources and detectors
  • Photonics for quantum devices and integrated quantum photonic circuits
  • Quantum random number generators
  • Photonic quantum computing and quantum computing interconnects
  • Quantum information processing
  • Quantum-enhanced data centers
  • Quantum switching and routing, including optical switches for quantum states
  • Quantum systems and networks
  • Quantum communication systems
  • Photonic quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution (QKD)
  • QKD/quantum networks and integration with classical/photonic networks
  • Quantum network architectures, routing and protocols
  • Dynamically switched quantum networks
  • Long haul and satellite quantum communication technologies
  • Standardization and interoperability in quantum photonic networks
  • Testbeds and field demonstrations for quantum systems/networks