Space Division Multiplexed and multi-dimensional devices, systems and networks

• Transmission systems with record capacity

• SDM-based network applications

• Components and devices utilizing space for a higher degree of integration

• Unique applications using the spatial dimension

• Specialty fibers

• Digital signal processing for SDM applications

Technologies, systems and interconnects for Data Centers and High Performance Computing

• Optical networks to support inter data center communication and cloud applications

• Disaggregated Data Center and HPC architectures, algorithms and protocols

• Flexible bandwidth assignment schemes for intra- and inter-datacenter communication

• Cost effective and energy efficient devices for on-chip and chip-to-chip interconnects

Network design and operations

• Optical network architectures for metro, access and backbone networks

• Routing and spectrum assignment for WDM and flexible grid / elastic optical networks

• Optical access network architectures and protocols

• Energy efficiency and sustainability of optical networks and devices

• Resiliency and security of optical networks

• Techno-economic studies

Network control and management

• Software-defined networks and network function virtualization

• Network control, orchestration and monitoring

• Open optical transport and open network operating systems

• Optical white box systems for deeply programmable networks

Advanced high-capacity transmission systems and enabling technologies

• Methods to achieve multi-terabit capacity networking 

• Point-point transmission or shared bus/tree topologies, burst transmission

• 5G convergence applications

• Advanced optical modulation formats