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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