P1. Photonic Switching Devices, Systems and Networks
Photonic devices for switching and interconnects
- On-chip optical interconnection and networking
- On-board optics and co-packaged optics (CPO) for high-capacity interconnects
- Silicon photonics and heterogeneous/hybrid integration technologies for switching
- Switching devices using nanophotonic material, plasmonic, or novel material platforms
- Photonic switches for fast, broadband, and/or large-scale switching
- Photonic switching devices for space/mode division multiplexing
- Parallel data links and space division multiplexing for high-density interconnection
- Novel materials and phenomena for switching
- Novel optical devices for amplification, monitoring, filtering, shaping, and/or routing
- Large-scale switching technologies for data center (DC) and high-performance computing (HPC) systems
Photonic switching systems and networks
- Switching systems, architectures, and network integration for emerging applications, including intra/inter-DC, fog/cloud/edge computing, converged mobile and optical access, non-terrestrial networks (NTN), and IoT.
- ML/AI-aided optical network systems enhancing availability, reliability, programmability and/or disaster recovery
- Quality of transmission (QoT) estimation and/or management
- Advanced modulation and coding/decoding techniques
- Optical network virtualization technologies, including software defined networking (SDN), OpenFlow, GMPLS, network function virtualization (NFV), and network digital twin technologies
- Optical network design, control, management, and security
- Photonic network testbeds and field trials
