Photonic Networks and Devices (Networks)

Network Control and Management
Software-defined networks and network function virtualization (SDN/NFV)
Machine learning approaches for advanced network management
Network control and orchestration
Network performance monitoring and analytics
Optical white box systems for deeply programmable networks

Technologies, Components, Systems and Interconnects for Data Centers and High Performance Computing
Optical networks to support inter data center communication and cloud applications
Disaggregated Data Center and HPC architectures, algorithms and protocols
Resource provisioning schemes for intra- and inter-datacenter communication
Cost effective and energy efficient devices for on-chip and chip-to-chip interconnects

Network Design and Operations
Optical network architectures and protocols for metro, access and backbone networks
Optical routers and switches, including ROADM, WSS, cross-connects and optical packet/burst switching
Energy efficient and sustainable optical networks
Resilience and security of optical networks
Techno-economic studies
Advanced High-capacity Transmission Systems and Enabling Technologies
Transmission systems with record capacity
Methods to achieve multi-terabit capacity networking
Point-point transmission or shared bus/tree topologies, burst transmission
5G transport networks and convergence applications
Advanced optical modulation formats
Future Networks
Quantum communications network architectures and enabling devices
SDM-based network applications, network elements and unique applications using the spatial dimension
Free-space optics and terahertz technology for short- and long-reach applications including balloon and drone-aided communications