ECOC 2014 - The 40th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication ECOC

Technical scope
Fibres, Fibre Devices and Fibre Amplifiers
This area focuses on optical fibres, their design, fabrication and characterization, the physics of light propagation in optical fibres, fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers, as well as fibre based devices for telecommunication, data communications and other applications.
Waveguide and Optoelectronic Devices
This area focuses on the design, fabrication, testing or performances and reliability of devices and components used to generate, amplify, detect, switch, or process optical signals for information transport and processing, routing and interconnecting. Technologies include planar waveguides, bulk optics, based on various material systems.
Digital and optical processing
This area focuses on the modeling, design, and implementation of optical, optoelectronic, or electrical devices and techniques, for fixed or adaptive operation. It includes digital signal processing for coherent transceivers, error coding and performance monitoring, optical regeneration, and techniques for impairment mitigation.
Subsystems for Optical Networking and Datacoms
This area focuses on the modelling, design, and implementation of optical, optoelectronic, or electrical subsystems, including transponders, , add-drop multiplexers, optical switches, optical packet routers and optical interconnects. In addition, the area considers integrated interconnection architectures that address the unique challenges of Datacom and Computercom.
Point-to-Point Transmission Systems
This area focuses on the modeling, design, lab and field implementation of optical transmission fiber links, highlighting system-level implications of physical impairments and impairment mitigation techniques. Contributions to this area are concerned with aspects such as capacity, reach, flexibility, of optical transmission systems and solutions to overcome the current limitations. Papers illustrating the transmission benefits of novel fibres, devices and subsystems are encouraged but papers focused on fibre, device or subsystem design and/or their more general properties/performance should be submitted elsewhere.
Core, Metro and Data CenterNetworks
This area focuses on the modeling, design, architecture, and planning of optical circuit and packet switched core, metro, inter and intra data center networks. This includes control and management functions and integration with higher layer services. It also covers aspects of energy savings, successful commercial network deployments and field trials. We particularly encourage submissions that focus on new application areas and cutting-edge network level innovations.
Access, Local Area and Home Networks
This area focuses on networking aspects of broadband optical access, local-area and home networks. It covers FTTx, passive optical networks, radio-over-fibre systems, optical wireless and free space systems, hybrid wireless/optical solutions, in-building networks. It also comprises aspects of energy savings, successful commercial mass deployments, field trials, and applications of optical communication technologies in public, private and enterprise networks.