Loi Pinel 2020 - Ecoc 2010

The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) is the major European conference on optical materials, devices, and systems for applications in telecommunications and networking. ECOC is one of the most respected and long-standing events in the field, and has provided over the years an exciting forum to present new developments and new results. Scientific contributions and a large exhibition offer to ECOC attendees a comprehensive view of optical communications.

The 36th ECOC will be held at the Lingotto Congress Centre in Torino, Italy, from Sunday September 19 to Thursday September 23, 2020 loi pinel . As to the ECOC tradition, a major exhibition related to the scope of the conference will be organized at the nearby Lingotto Fiere Exhibiton Center from Monday September 20 to Wednesday September 22.

1) Fibres, Fibre Devices, and Amplifiers

This area focuses on optical fibres, their fabrication and characterization, the physics of light propagation in optical fibres, fibre amplifiers and lasers, as well as fibre based devices for communication and sensor applications.

Optical fibre design, and fabrication
Splices, connectors, and fibre coupling
Fibre characterization and measurement techniques
Fibre-based dispersion compensation
Specialty optical fibres
Polymer optical fibres
Highly nonlinear fibres
Microstructure and photonic bandgap fibres
Fibre-based devices (e.g., gratings, interferometers, sensors)
Fibres for switching and nonlinear optical processing
Propagation effects in fibres (including slow light)
Nonlinear and polarization effects in fibres
Raman, Brillouin, and parametric processes in fibre
Optical fibre amplifiers
Fibre lasers
Supercontinuum sources
Optical meta-materials

2) Waveguide and Optoelectronic Devices

This area focuses on the fabrication, performance testing, and reliability of devices and components used to generate, amplify, detect, switch, or process optical signals. Technologies include planar-waveguides, bulk-optics, and photonic bandgap structures based on various material systems.

Optoelectronic devices: fabrication, integration, packaging, testing, and reliability
Waveguide materials and fabrication
Silicon Photonics
Polymer waveguides
Lithium Niobate devices
Photonic bandgap devices
MEMS-based devices
Planar lightwave circuits (PLCs)
Rare-earth doped waveguide amplifiers
Semiconductor optical amplifiers
Laser sources, detectors, and modulators
Wavelength monitoring and wavelength locking devices
Non-linear devices, regenerators, wavelength converters, and switches
Dispersion compensation devices
Polarization control and monitoring devices
Optical performance monitoring devices
Fixed or tunable filters and gain equalizers
Reconfigurable Add Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) technologies
On-chip optical communications
Terahertz technologies
Plasmonics

3) Subsystems and Network Elements for Optical Networks

This area focuses on the modelling, design, and implementation of optical, opto-electronic, or electrical subsystems and network elements for fixed or adaptive impairment mitigation, performance monitoring, add-drop multiplexing, and optical packet processing.

Transmitter and receiver subsystems for direct detection and for coherent systems
Multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems
Modulation and demodulation subsystems for single-carrier and multi-tone formats
Optical and electronic signal processing and impairment mitigation subsystems
Subsystems for the emulation and compensation of linear and nonlinear impairments
Coherent detection subsystems and algorithms
Clock and data recovery
Analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue conversion
Forward error correction (FEC) techniques
Performance estimation and performance monitoring techniques
Technology, design and performance of network nodes
Subsystem aspects of reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers
Optical regeneration and wavelength conversion subsystems
Optical delays, optical buffering, bit-, and label-processing subsystems
Chip-to-chip and optical backplane communication subsystems

4) Transmission Systems

This area focuses on the modelling, design, and implementation of optical fibre or free-space transmission links, highlighting system-level applications of subsystems and networking elements as well as system-level implications of physical impairments and impairment mitigation techniques. It further covers applications of quantum information technologies.

WDM transmission system design, modelling, and experiments
High-speed optical transmission systems
High-spectral-efficiency optical transmission systems
Free-space optical communication systems
Impact of fibre non-linearity on transport system performance
System aspects of static and dynamic polarization effects (PDL, PMD)
Implications of modulation formats, subcarrier multiplexing, and OFDM on system performance
Implications of coherent detection on system performance
System implications of digital signal processing and forward error correction (FEC)
Transmission aspects of WDM system upgrades and mixed bit rate systems
System implications of optical and electronic fixed and adaptive impairment compensation schemes
Transmission aspects in multimode fibre systems
Quantum communication, quantum information, and quantum cryptography

5) Backbone and Core Networks

This area focuses on the modelling, design, architecture, and scaling of optical WDM and packet-based backbone and metro-core networks, including control and management functions and protocols as well as the application of optical communication technologies in core networks. It also covers aspects of successful commercial deployments and transport field trials.

Optical backbone and metro-core networks: architecture, design, performance, control, and management
Architectures of backbone and metro-core switches and routers
Backbone network reliability and availability
Protection and restoration
Cross layer optimized network design
IP-over-optical networks and architectures
Optimization of converged optical network infrastructures
Optical networking in the future Internet
Optical packet/burst/flow switching networks
Algorithms and protocols (e.g., routing, wavelength assignment, grooming)
Architectures and solutions for content distribution applications (e.g., video)
Support for end-to-end optical services across different network segments and width different QoS requirements
Switching, protocols, and standards related topics for 100G and Terabit Ethernet
Backbone and metro-core network demonstrations and field trials
Interoperability demonstrations
Optical networks integrating grid computing and storage services
Energy efficiency and power consumption of optical networks
Techno-economic comparison between different backbone and metro-core network architectures and technologies

6) Access Networks and LAN

This area focuses on networking aspects of broadband optical access and local-area networks. It covers FTTx, passive optical networks, radio-over-fibre systems, hybrid wireless/optical solutions, and in-building networks. It also comprises successful commercial mass deployments, field trials, and applications of optical communication technologies in public, private and enterprise networks.

Optical access systems: architecture, design, performance, control, and management
Optical access network experiments
Optical access network demonstrations and field trials
Local area networks (LANs) at 10G and beyond
In-house optical networks
High-speed optical interconnects for consumer electronics
Rack-to-rack optical communications
Optical networks for automotive applications
Optics in storage area networks (SANs)
Multimode and plastic optical fibre systems
Optical Ethernet access networks
Fibre to the X (FTTx)
Passive optical networks (PONs)
Hybrid wireless-optical access networks
Microwave photonics
Analogue optical systems
Multiple access techniques (e.g., code-division multiple access (CDMA))
Interoperability demonstrations
Access system reliability, availability, and security
Techno-economic comparison between different access network architectures and technologies