Optical Switching Technology & Devices

• Optoelectronic and all-optical switches

• Optoelectronic and all-optical wavelength converters

• Photonic memory and optical buffers

• Integrated photonic switching technologies

• 2D and 3D MEMS switches

• Silicon photonic switching devices

• Tunable devices for wavelength switching and routing

• Nanophotonic metamaterials and devices for switching and routing

• Wavelength selective switches

• Split and select switches

• Plasmonic switches

• Optical switches for multi-core fibers

• Mode switching and control devices

• Optical reconfiguration techniques and technologies for computing systems

• Optical reconfiguration techniques and technologies for datacenters

Optical Switching Functions & Building Blocks

• Optoelectronic and all-optical signal processing, wavelength conversion, label swapping, code translation/processing, and header recognition.

• Optoelectronic- and all-optical signal regeneration, impairment compensation, and performance monitoring

• Optical grooming and aggregation techniques

• Photonic memory and optical buffering functionality

• 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 cross-connects

• Reconfigurable optical add-drop mux/demux

• Photonic packet switching and routers

• Photonic burst switching routers

Optical Networks & Systems

• Rapidly reconfigurable networks

• Software defined optical networks and data centers

• 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

• High-performance data server, computing networks and Data Centers

• OCS/OTDM/OPS/OSDM systems and their networking

• Optical interconnects

• Optical access systems

• Optics in Data Centers