| Physics of light propagation in optical fibres |
| Optical fibre design, fabrication and characterisation |
| Specialty optical fibres for improved transmission performance |
| Low-latency fibres and fibres for new wavelength ranges |
| Fibre-based devices |
| Fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers |
| Multimode & multicore fibre and fibre amplifiers |
| Highly nonlinear fibres and their applications |
| Fibres for sensing applications |
| Novel material platforms and structured materials |
| Integrated III-V devices |
| Design, fabrication and characterisation of novel integrated devices and functionalities |
| Detectors and sources, directly modulated lasers and VCSELs |
| Silicon and hybrid III-V/silicon photonics |
| Nanophotonics |
| Optoelectronic devices |
| Large-scale photonic integrated circuits |
| Packaging of devices, testing of performance and reliability |
| Co-packaged optical and electronic ICs (2D, 2.5D and 3D) |
| System-on-a-chip (SoC) and on-chip networks |
| Advanced analog and digital electronic/optical co-integrated circuits |
| Photonic circuits for Neuromorphic applications |
| Sources and detectors for quantum communication systems |
| Nonlinear waveguides for optical signal processing |
| Photonic Integrated Circuits for Artificial Intelligence |
| Reconfigurable Photonic Integrated Circuits |
| Algorithms for DSP in optical transmission systems |
| Experimental demonstration of digital signal processing |
| Design, implementation & implications of reduced complexity DSP algorithms |
| Optical MIMO DSP |
| Machine Learning based DSP for optical transmission |
| New transmission system modelling methods |
| Capacity, reach, flexibility limits of optical transmission systems |
| System level implications of physical impairments and impairment mitigation techniques |
| Novel error correction coding |
| Advanced data encoding and signal shaping |
| Information theory for optical communications |
| Modelling and design of digital signal processing |
| Lab/field demonstrations of optical transmission links deploying novel fibres, devices, subsystems and multiplexing techniques |
| Link system demonstrations using novel signal modulation techniques |
| Analog and nonlinear signal processing subsystems demonstrating transmission enhancements |
| Multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems for improved transmission |
| Demonstration of spatially multiplexed transmission links |
| Core, metro and converged networks |
| Long reach and high capacity transport optical networks |
| Underwater networks and cable deployment |
| High connectivity node architectures including protection and failure recovery |
| Network deployments and field trials |
| Inter data centres interconnect networks |
| Subsystems for network functionalities (2R/3R regeneration, OADMs, OXCs, ...) |
| Optical performance monitoring techniques and subsystems |
| Optical switching and routing in long haul and core networks |
| Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTx) and optical access networks |
| Passive optical networks |
| In-building optical networks |
| Intra data centre interconnect networks |
| High performance computer networks |
| Backhaul, midhaul and fronthaul networks for mobile applications |
| Highly parallel network and interconnect demonstrations |
| Photonics for Cloud and low latency servicesOptical switching and routing in short-reach networks |
| Microwave Photonics subsystems |
| Millimetre-wave and THz photonics signal generation/detection |
| Demonstration of optics-based THz wireless subsystems |
| Demonstration of analog radio-over-fibre systems for 5G and beyond |
| Optical wireless communication (susystems and networks |
| LiFi and VLC communication networks |
| Satellite photonic communication links |
| Lab/field demonstration of free-space optical wireless transmission |
| Photonic wired/wireless communication network solutions |
| Control, orchestration, and management of optical networks |
| Optical network architectures, design and modelling |
| Planning and scaling of hybrid optical/optoelectronic networks |
| Machine learning and artificial intelligence for advanced optical networking, performance monitoring and advanced network troubleshooting |
| Integration of optical transmission network layers with higher-layer network services |
| Network reliability, survivability, security and disaster recovery |
| Driven optical layers for network functions virtualization and software defined network applications |
CLEO®/Europe Focus Meeting
| Quantum optics and quantum communication |
| Quantum sensing and metrology |
| Photonic quantum computing and simulations |
| Quantum nanophotonics |
| Quantum optomechanics |
| Quantum interfaces |
| Coherent transfer from the optical to the microwave domain |
| Quantum memories for photons |
| Quantum networks |
| Quantum light sources and detectors |
| Theory of quantum communication systems |
| Demonstration of quantum communication systems |
| Quantum cryptography lab/field demonstration |
| 2D photonic materials |
| Metamaterials and metasurfaces |
| Nanophotonic materials |
| Novel nonlinear optical materials |
| Plasmonic effects |
| Optical memristive effects |
| Ultrafast devices and technologies |
| Plasmonic devices |
| Frequency combs and microresonators |
| Optical computing |
| Photonic memristive devices and circuits |
| Non-reciprocal photonics |
| Inverse design for photonic devices |
| Nanolasers |
ECOC 2022 Basel
The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) is the continent’s largest event in the field and one of the most prestigious and traditional events on optical communications worldwide.
The ECOC Exhibition is the key meeting place for everyone in the optic communication industry.