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P1. Photonic Switching Devices, Systems, and Networks

1) Photonic switching devices and building blocks

• Integrated photonic technologies for switching subsystems and modules
• Silicon photonic switching devices using monolithic and heterogeneous integration technologies
• Nanophotonic metamaterial and plasmonic switching devices
• Novel materials and phenomena for switching
• Tunable devices for wavelength switching and routing
• All-optical, electronic, and hybrid-optoelectronic technologies for switching
• 2D and 3D MEMS/LCOS switches and wavelength-selective switches
• Optical cross-connects and ROADMs
• Optical switches for space/mode division multiplexing

2) Photonic switching systems and functionalities

• Optical signal processing, regeneration, impairment compensation, and performance monitoring
• Advanced modulation and coding/decoding techniques
• Modelling, design, implementation, impairment mitigation, algorithms for advanced switching functionalities
• Microwave photonic devices and systems
• Converged mobile and optical access networks
• SDM technologies for photonic switching and networking

3) Photonic switching networks and controls

• Energy-efficient switches, network architectures, and algorithms
• Switching systems, architectures, and network integrations
• Optical circuit-, burst-, slot-, and packet-switching systems and networking
• Optical grooming and aggregation techniques
• Software defined networking (SDN) and control plane integration for photonic networks
• Next-generation GMPLS and OpenFlow
• Optical network control, management, and security
• Machine learning in optical communication network
• Photonic network testbeds and field trials

P2. Photonics for Computing and Deep Learning Applications　

1) Photonics for innovative computing

• Photonics in neuromorphic computing and machine learning devices
• Optical neural networks and reservoir computing
• Silicon photonic and nanophotonic devices for computing applications
• Highly parallelized scalable photonic computing architectures and devices
• Ising machines and building blocks
• Photonic enabling technologies and devices for quantum computing and communication
• Optics to memory and optical RAM
• Photonic ASIC/FPGA for computing

2) Photonic technologies for datacenter and high-performance computing

• On-chip optical interconnection and networking
• On-board optics and co-packaged optics for high-capacity interconnects
• Parallel data links and space division multiplexing for high-density interconnection
• Large-scale switching technologies for data center (DC) and high-performance computing (HPC) systems
• Inter- and hyper-scale intra-DC networks

3) Photonic networks for computing and big data applications

• Fog/edge computing infrastructure and applications
• Network function virtualization (NFV) at edges/datacenters
• Internet of Things (IoT) aware systems and applications
• Photonic networking/switching system designs and architectures for computing and big data
• Availability/reliability/disaster recovery in big data-oriented computing systems
• Resource provisioning/metering/monitoring of computing and big-data-oriented systems
• Software defined networking (SDN) for computing and big data control
• Green systems for computing and big data environment
• Optical network requirements for machine learning and distributed deep learning