| A. Fibers and Optical Propagation Effects |
B. Fiber and Waveguide Based Devices: Amplifiers, Lasers, Sensors and Performance Monitors |
This category focuses on optical fibers, including their design, fabrication, and characterization; and on the physics of light propagation in optical fibers and free space, including transmission aspects in fiber and space communication systems.
Topics include:
- Optical fiber design and fabrication
- Specialty optical fibers
- Fibers for high power applications
- Microstructured fibers
- Photonic bandgap fibers
- Non-silica fibers
- Sub-micron waveguides
- Propagation effects in fiber and free space
- Nonlinear effects including solitons and scattering in fibers
- Propagation related transmission impairments
- Dispersion and polarization related effects in fibers
- Fiber characterization and measurement techniques
- Fibers for switching and non-linear optical processing
- Short-range optical interconnects
- Optical meta-materials
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This category covers all aspects of fiber and waveguide based optically pumped amplifiers, lasers, and other light sources. It also includes all types of sensors and performance monitoring devices.
Topics include:
- Optical fiber amplifiers
- Optical fiber lasers for telecom and non-telecom applications
- Glass planar waveguide amplifiers and lasers
- Rare-earth doped fiber and waveguide amplifiers
- Raman and Brillouin fiber amplifiers
- Optical parametric fiber amplifiers
- Hybrid fiber optical amplifiers
- Fiber amplifiers with automatic gain control
- Optical amplifier design
- Supercontinuum sources
- Silicon lasers, amplifiers and sensors
- Optical sensors, including lidar
- Biophotonic devices, including internal sensors and external monitoring systems
- Optical performance monitoring techniques and devices
- Measurement of wavelength, power and state of polarization
- Fiber gratings for signal measurement and sensing
- Other novel devices for signal measurement and sensing
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| C. Optical Devices for Switching, Filtering, and Signal Compensation |
D. Optoelectronic Devices |
This category focuses on devices and techniques for switching and filtering optical signals, including active and passive wavelength routing and demultiplexing, all based on planar waveguide and free space optics. It also includes optical signal distortion compensation devices and technology such as etalons, ring resonators and planar waveguides.
Topics include:
- Photonic bandgap and nano-optic devices
- Attenuators and gain equalization filters
- Spectral interleavers and banding filters
- CWDM and DWDM multiplexers and demultiplexers
- Wavelength add/drop switches and tunable filters
- Wavelength-selective switches
- Optical switches including cross connects
- Thin film filters
- Passive optical interconnects
- Waveguide power splitters and couplers
- Optical devices for dispersion or distortion compensation
- PMD compensation and emulation techniques
- Characterization of photonic components
- Other novel devices for signal compensation
- Polarization control and polarization conversion devices
- Etalon and ring resonator based devices
- Planar lightwave circuit devices
- Hybrid integrated devices
- Waveguide materials and theory
- Free-space optical devices
- Microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices
- Devices for OCDMA
- Acousto-optic devices
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This category covers optoelectronic techniques for lasers, amplifiers, detectors, modulators and ultrafast switching devices, including both semiconductor and lithium niobate technologies.
Topics include:
- Lasers (including external cavity lasers)
- Modulators
- Detectors
- Semiconductor optical amplifiers
- Wavelength converters
- Nonlinear devices
- Semiconductor-based switches
- Optoelectronic hybrid and monolithic integration
- Optoelectronic fabrication and epitaxy
- Device packaging
- Optoelectronic device testing and reliability
- Optical burst/packet switching devices
- Picosecond and femtosecond devices
- Sources and modulators for optical interconnects
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| E. Digital Transmission Systems |
F. Transmission Subsystems and Network Elements |
This category focuses on various aspects of modeling, demonstration and implementation of digital optical communication transmission systems.
Topics include:
- Transmission system modeling
- New/improved algorithms for modeling transmission systems
- Transmission system experiments
- WDM and high-speed transmission systems
- System impact of fiber nonlinearities
- Electronic signal processing and compensation devices and their system impact
- System implications of modulation formats
- System aspects of polarization effects (PDL, PMD)
- System demonstrations of PMD mitigation and emulation
- Free-space optical communication experiments
- Forward error correction (FEC)
- Quantum communications
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This category focuses on subsystems and network elements used to implement optical communications systems and networks.
Topics include:
- Network elements and their performance
- Transmitter and receiver subsystems
- Modulation techniques
- Electrical multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems
- Cross-connect and add-drop multiplexer subsystems
- Gain-equalization subsystems
- Optical parameter and performance monitoring methods and subsystems
- Electrical methods of impairment compensation and adaptation, including PMD
- Electrical signal processing techniques for transmission systems
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| G. Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems |
H. Core Networks |
This category covers subsystems and techniques for all-optical processing of signals, analog subsystems, and optical subsystems for non-telecom applications.
Topics include:
- Optical wavelength conversion subsystems
- Optical regeneration and clock recovery subsystems
- Optical multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems
- Optical adaptive impairment compensation subsystems, including GVD and PMD
- Optical packet switching/burst switching subsystems
- Photonic signal processing including ADC and DAC
- Non-linear optical signal processing
- Microwave photonics
- Multichannel video subsystems
- Optical subsystems for defense and non-telecom applications
- Radio over Fiber subsystems
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This category focuses on long term research & innovation in network architectures and protocols for optical core networks, including network design and networking aspects of the constituent elements and systems.
Topics include:
- Network architecture and performance
- Algorithms and protocols (e.g., wavelength routing, provisioning)
- New techniques for network modeling and simulation
- Traffic grooming, including multi-granularity switching
- Network protection and restoration
- Network control and management
- Data-aware photonic networks (e.g., IP/WDM)
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| I. Access Networks |
J. Network Experiments and Non-Telecom Applications |
This category focuses on long term research and innovation in network architectures and protocols for optical access networks, including network design and networking aspects of the constituent elements and systems.
Topics include:
- Optical access network architectures
- Future FTTx network architectures
- Wireless (free-space) access networks
- Hybrid wireless-optical networks
- OCDMA networks
- Novel access techniques
- Future WDM-PON architectures
- Radio over Fiber access networks
- Long-reach broadband access
- Optical Ethernet
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This category covers long term research experiments and demonstrations, and novel applications in non-telecom areas.
Topics include:
- Optical network experiments
- PON and WDM-PON network experiments
- Demonstrations of non-telecom optical network applications
- Optical transmission experiments (over installed fiber plants)
- Optical network control plane experiments
- Optical grids
- Optical packet switching and optical burst switching networks
- Distributed optical computer networks
- Optical backplanes and computer-room connectivity
- Novel applications of optical fiber communication technologies in non-telecom areas
- Network measurement and traffic characterization techniques
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| 1. Optical Networks and Services |
2. Network Technologies |
This category focuses on the design and operation of mature optical communications at the network level, with a focus on the near- to mid-term architecture, applications, deployment and services. These networks include long-haul, metro, access and enterprise.
Areas covered include:
- Network architecture and applications
- Network planning and planning tools
- Network reliability, restoration and protection
- Network design and optimization: CAPEX/OPEX, utilization
- Definition, development and application of services
- Application of network standards and protocols in optical and for multilayer networks
- High speed packet services and applications
- Network control, operations and management
- Actual field deployment and trial demonstration
Topics covered:
- FTTx network architecture and applications
- PON networks and applications (1/10 GPON, WDM)
- Multilayer network control plane and GMPLS
- Optical mesh and multi-layer restoration/protection/reliability
- Service resilience and availability
- 10–40–100 G ROADM networks
- Next generation MSPP/SONET/DCS networks
- IPTV and triple play networks
- Emerging industry standards and applications to networks and services
- Dynamic bandwidth and wavelength services
- Pt-pt and multi-point Ethernet and packet services
- Convergence of optical and higher layer transport networks
- Convergence of optical and TDM layers and packet/Ethernet layers
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This category concentrates on mature technologies and applications with focus on the near- to mid-term availability of such technologies. Areas considered include: technologies for emerging access, metro and long haul networks, high speed systems design and implementation, and technologies and protocols facilitating convergence of optical and higher layer transport networks.
- Near term network technologies issues
- Network engineering and deployment
- Optical transport and switched systems
- System performance emulation techniques
- Modulation techniques and error correction codes for high speed transmission
- Control plane protocols and technologies for optical and multi-layer networks
- Emerging industry standards
- High-speed Ethernet technologies
- PON Technologies
- 40 – 100 G transport
- Device, components and equipment
- Components, sub-systems, systems
- Reliability
- Testing and diagnostics
- Infrastructure, fiber and cabling
- Installations
- Manufacturability
- Physical inter-networking
- Field trial demonstration of beta capabilities
- Carrier/operator network technology requirements
- Technology economic analysis
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