The “44th European Conference on Optical Communication” (ECOC 2018) will be held in Rome, Italy, on September 23-27, 2018.

ECOC is the leading European conference in the field of optical communication, and one of the most prestigious and long-standing events in this field. Here, the latest progress in optical communication technologies will be reported in selected papers, keynotes, presentations and special symposia.

Parallel to the scientific conference, the ECOC exhibition covers a wide range of optical communication products and services.

Therefore, ECOC is open to a variety of interested participants like researchers and students, product developers, sales managers and telecommunication market developers. Every year this international forum attracts more than 1,000 scientists and researchers from research institutions and companies from across the world.

ECOC 2018 is organized by CNIT, the Consortium of Italian universities for telecommunication. EUREL is owner of the registered trademark ECOC. EUREL is the Convention of National Associations of Electrical Engineers of Europe representing ten member associations in ten countries in greater Europe.

ECOC 2018 Sub Committee Topics

SC1 - Fibres, Fibre Devices and Fibre Amplifiers

Optical fibre design, fabrication and characterisation

Physics of light propagation in optical fibres

Fibre amplifiers and fibre lasers

Fibre based devices for telecommunication, sensing and other applications

Highly nonlinear fibres and their applications for nonlinear optical signal processing

Specialty optical fibres for improved linear and/or nonlinear transmission performance

Low-latency fibres and fibres for new wavelength ranges

Multimode and multicore fiber and fiber amplifiers for spatial division multiplexing

SC2 - Integrated Optoelectronic Devices and Optical Processors

Design, fabrication and characterisation of novel integrated devices and functionalities

Integrated light sources, directly modulated lasers and VCSELs in bulk, quantum well, quantum dot or other materials

Integrated III-V, including InP and GaAs, data modulators, detectors, amplifiers and switches

Silicon and hybrid III-V/silicon photonics for data modulation, detection, amplification, switching and interconnecting

Sources and detectors for quantum communication systems

Packaging of advanced novel devices, testing of performance and reliability

Novel material platforms and structured materials such as photonic crystals, plasmonics, graphene and others

Integrated nonlinear waveguides on various material platforms for optical signal processing

Large-scale photonic integrated circuits for flexible, reconfigurable and scalable communication and processing systems

SC3 - Digital Signal Handling Techniques for Optical Communication Systems

Modelling, design, and implementation of digital signal processing for long-haul, medium- and short-range optical communication systems

Novel digital signal processing algorithms for optical transmitters and receivers, and DSP algorithms with reduced complexity

Novel error correction coding, advanced data encoding and signal shaping for optical communication links

Schemes for impairment mitigation, increased spectral efficiency and mutual information, including nonlinear Fourier transformation and digital back-propagation

SC4 - Point-to-Point Optical Transmission Systems, Subsystems and Technologies

Modelling, design, implementation and test of optical, optoelectronic, or electrical (incl. DAC/ADC) subsystems

Line terminals, optical transmitter and receiver subsystems for advanced modulation formats and increased speed and/or capacity

Multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems for advanced and/or spectrally efficient data formats including DMT, OFDM, OCDMA and Nyquist-WDM

Optical performance monitoring techniques and subsystems

Transmission system modelling

Lab and field implementation of optical fibre transmission links

Lab and field implementation of free-space optical and optics-based THz wireless transmission links.

Satellite communication links

Transmission system level implications of physical impairments and impairment mitigation techniques

Capacity, reach, flexibility limits of optical transmission systems and solutions to overcome the current limitations

Demonstrations of combined novel fibres, devices, subsystems and multiplexing techniques in transmission experiments

Quantum communication systems

SC5 - Photonic and Microwave Photonic Subsystems

Subsystems for network functionalities, including e.g. wavelength-selective switching, add-drop multiplexing, optical switching, optical packet routing, system-on-a-chip (SoC) and on-chip networks

Analog signal processing subsystems and novel schemes of nonlinear optical signal processing for subsystem-functionalities

Machine learning for optical signal processing

Microwave Photonics Subystems for 5G e.g. optical beamforming, opto-eletronic oscillators, clock distribution, photonics-based RF signal up- and down- conversion, photonics-based RF filtering

Millimeter-wave and Terahertz photonics

Photonic Subsystems for dual use in RF systems i.e. communication and sensing

SC6 - Datacentre and Computercom Networks

Demonstrations, network deployments and field trials using novel architectures and/or novel switching schemes and technologies, including SDN over WDM, TDM, SDM optical switching and/or hybrid electronic/optical or all-electronic switching

Architecture and control of data centre and HPCS (High Performance Computing System) specific hardware, including VCSEL based parallel links with advanced modulation, hybrid integrated electronic/optical engines for broadband interconnecting and WDM/CWDM interconnects

Demonstrations using novel network devices, including nanophotonic high-density components for on-chip networks, as well as integrated spatial multiplexers for high-density parallelism, novel interconnects and transceivers

High capacity optical transmission for data center intra-connections

Architecture, planning and scaling of optical transport for data centre and HPCS networks

Network management, control plane design and orchestration of data centres and HPCS for photonic and hybrid photonic/electronic interconnects

Energy, scalability, latency considerations for data centre and HPCS networks

SC7 - Core, Metro, and Convergent Networks

Networking aspects of architecture, planning and scaling of broadband optical transport for optical circuit- and packet-switched core, metro and inter-data centre networks, including cost and energy considerations

Control, orchestration, and management functions, as well as integration with higher layer network services

Machine learning and artificial intelligence for advanced networking and monitoring

Design of high connectivity contentionless node architectures, including protection and failure recovery

Network deployments and field trials

Energy efficiency considerations

SC8 - 5G, Access, Local Area and Indoor Networks

Optical backhaul/fronthaul networks

Photonics for Cloud services

Fibre-to-the-premises (FTTx)

Passive optical access networks

In-building optical networks

Radio-over-fibre systems

Optical wireless communication networks

Hybrid wireless/optical wireless communication network solutions

CLEO Focus Meeting:

Digital and optical signal processing

Nano- and microphotonics

Optoelectronics

Metamaterials

Novel devices

Silicon photonics

Waveguide and fiber optics

Nonlinear optics

Plasmonics

Nonlinear dynamics and quantum optics

Quantum cryptography and communication

Emerging ultrafast technologies

New concepts in optical generation including supercontinuum sources and VCSELs

Big data and optical real-time data analytics and compression

Frequency combs

Monolithic microresonators

Coherent transfer from the optical domain to microwave signals

Novel diagnostic and metrology techniques, and other optical communication and processing related topics