OECC 2012 - 17th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC2012)

SC1. Core/Access Networks and Switching Subsystems
- Optical core/metro network architecture, design, control, and management
- Optical core/metro network reliability and protection & restoration
- Optical packet/burst/flow switching networks and switching subsystems
- Optical cross-connects/add-drop multiplexers and switching subsystems
- Grid/cloud computing over optical networks
- Energy-efficient optical networks
- Field trials and interoperability demonstrations of optical networks
- Optical access network architecture, design, control, and management
- Future PON architectures including WDM PON and OFDM PON
- Radio-over-fiber access networks
- Hybrid wireless-optical access networks
- Optics in home area networks, local area networks, storage area networks, and data center networks
- Monitoring techniques for optical access networks
SC2. Transmission Systems and Subsystems
- Large-capacity optical transmission systems
- High-speed optical transmission systems
- Free-space optical communications systems
- Advanced optical modulation formats
- Optical orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing techniques
- Space-division-multiplexing techniques
- Digital signal processing techniques for optical communications
- Optical signal processing techniques for optical communications
- Optical regeneration and wavelength conversion subsystems
- Impact of dispersion, PMD, PDL, fiber nonlinearities, and their mitigations
- Optical transmitter and receiver subsystems
- Electronic analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters
- Optical performance monitoring subsystems
- Multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems
- Quantum communications and quantum cryptography
SC3. Optical Fibers, Cables, and Fiber Devices
- Fiber design and fabrication
- Micro-structured fibers and related topics
- Polymer fibers and non-silica fibers
- Fibers for high power applications
- Fibers for optical interconnection
- Fibers for switching and nonlinear optical processing
- Fiber characterization and measurement techniques
- Fiber cabling, installation, and maintenance
- Fiber gratings
- Fiber/waveguide amplifiers and lasers
- Fiber sensing
- Other novel fiber devices
SC4. Optical Active Devices and Modules
- III/V-based and silicon-based active photonic devices and modules for optical communication/interconnection
- Light emitters, semiconductor lasers, and amplifiers
- Semiconductor detectors, modulators, and switching devices
- Optoelectronic integrated circuits and modules
- Photonic materials, devices and modules for information, industry, and biomedical applications
- New wavelength light emitters/detectors
- Optical sensors, sensor systems, and networks
- Display applications
- Novel photonic materials and structures
- Quantum dot, nano-structured photonic devices
- Photonic crystals, plasmons, metamaterials, and nanophotonics
- Nonlinear optics
SC5. Optical Passive Devices and Modules
- Optical waveguide integrated devices and planar lightwave circuits
- SPP (Surface plasmon polariton) waveguides
- Optical interconnection and optical printed circuit board
- New waveguide materials and fabrication method
- Glass/ferroelectric/polymer optical modulators and switching devices
- Photonic crystal waveguide
- Optical MEMS
- Micro-optics and related topics
- Silicon photonic waveguide
- Liquid crystal devices for photonic networks
SC6. CLEO Focus Session
- Advanced photonics material
- High power laser
- Display
- Bio-photonics
- Quantum entanglment
- Plasmonics
- Optical coherent tomography
- Silicon photonics
- Photonic crystal
- Surface plasmonics
- Non-linear optical phenomena