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PSC 2026 –  Keywords

P1. Photonic Switching Devices, Systems and Networks
Devices and Components
  • Optical switching
  • Photonic switching fabrics
  • Silicon photonics
  • Integrated photonics
  • Optical interconnects
  • Photonic integrated circuits (PICs)
  • Optical modulators
  • Optical transceivers
  • Wavelength-selective switching
  • Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs)
  • Optical amplifiers
  • Tunable lasers
  • Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)
  • Optical filters
  • Plasmonic devices
  • Nonlinear photonic devices
  • Electro-optic devices
  • MEMS photonics
  • Hybrid photonic integration
Systems and Architectures
  • Optical communication systems
  • Elastic optical networks
  • Disaggregated optical networks
  • Optical packet switching
  • Optical circuit switching
  • Optical burst switching
  • Space-division multiplexing
  • Coherent optical systems
  • Data center networks
  • Optical fronthaul and backhaul
  • Edge-cloud optical infrastructure
  • Optical metro and core networks
  • Software-defined optical networking (SDON)
  • Network virtualization
  • Digital twins for optical networks
Network Intelligence and Control
  • AI for optical networks
  • Machine learning for photonics
  • Autonomous optical networks
  • Cognitive networking
  • Network orchestration
  • Optical network automation
  • Performance monitoring
  • Optical telemetry
  • Intent-based networking
  • Energy-efficient optical networking
  • Green photonics
  • Resilient optical networks
  • Network security in optical systems
Photonic Computing Technologies
  • Optical computing
  • Photonic computing
  • Neuromorphic photonics
  • Photonic AI accelerators
  • Optical neural networks
  • In-memory photonic computing
  • Reservoir computing
  • Analog photonic computing
  • Nonlinear photonic computing
  • Microwave photonics
  • Optical signal processing
  • Optical matrix multiplication
  • Tensor photonics
  • Ultrafast photonic processing
  • Optical memory
  • Nonvolatile photonic devices
Architectures and Integration
  • Co-packaged optics
  • Optical chiplets
  • Heterogeneous integration
  • Photonic-electronic co-design
  • HPC interconnects
  • AI datacenter interconnects
  • Optical I/O
  • Optical memory interfaces
  • Scalable photonic architectures
  • Energy-efficient computing
  • Cryogenic photonics
  • 3D photonic integration
Applications
  • AI hardware
  • Machine learning hardware
  • High-performance computing
  • Scientific computing
  • Edge AI
  • Optical sensing
  • LiDAR systems
  • Biomedical photonics
  • Imaging systems
  • RF photonics
  • Optical beamforming
  • Terahertz photonics
  • Photonics for 6G
  • Quantum-inspired photonics
Quantum Communications and Networking
  • Quantum communications
  • Quantum networking
  • Quantum internet
  • Quantum key distribution (QKD)
  • Quantum repeaters
  • Quantum entanglement distribution
  • Entanglement swapping
  • Quantum teleportation
  • Secure quantum networks
  • Quantum network architectures
  • Satellite quantum communications
  • Integrated quantum photonics
Quantum Computing and Information
  • Photonic quantum computing
  • Quantum information processing
  • Quantum processors
  • Quantum photonic circuits
  • Linear optical quantum computing
  • Continuous-variable quantum systems
  • Single-photon sources
  • Single-photon detectors
  • Quantum memories
  • Quantum error correction
  • Fault-tolerant quantum computing
  • Quantum algorithms
  • Quantum simulation
Enabling Technologies and Applications
  • Quantum sensing
  • Quantum metrology
  • Quantum machine learning
  • Quantum-classical co-design
  • Cryogenic quantum systems
  • Quantum control systems
  • Quantum hardware integration
  • Quantum software stacks
  • Quantum benchmarking
  • Post-quantum networking
  • Quantum-secure communications