Call for Papers

Track 1. Optical fiber and waveguide technologies

Chairs: Alicja Bachmatiuk, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Joanna Cybinska, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Jarosław Myśliwiec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
               Xialong Cheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

• Physics, modelling, processing and characterization of luminescent materials
• Phosphors, quantum dots and low dimensional materials for lighting and displays
• Advances in scintillator development and upconversion materials
• Luminescent materials for photovoltaic applications
• Infrared materials
• Ternary halide and chalcogenide materials (including perovskites)
• Low-dimensional materials (two-, one-. And, zero-dimensional materials)
• Other advanced materials

Track 2. Optical communications and networks

Chairs: Detlef Hommel, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Lukasz Janicki, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Robert Kudrawiec, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Didit Yudistira, IMEC, Belgium
               Jianguo Liu, Institute of Semiconductors, CAS, China

• III-V photonics
• Design, fabrication, and characterization of novel integrated devices
• Device packaging, performance and reliability test
• Silicon and hybrid III-V/silicon photonics
• Large-scale photonic integrated systems
• High speed light sources, modulators, and detectors
• Waveguide and other passive optoelectronic devices
• Semiconductor materials growth and device development
• Lasers for Datacom/Telecom wavelength
• VCSEL and LIDARs
• MicroLEDs and applications

Track 3. Optical Sensors and Measurement

Chairs: Anna Szerling, Lukasiewicz – IMIF, Poland
               Małgorzata Guzik, University of Wroclaw, Poland
               Somnath Mahato, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Aung Ko Ko Kyaw, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

• Design approaches to increase bending flexibility of photonic structures
• Stretchable photonics: lessons learnt from stretchable electronics
• Polymer synthesis
• Polymer for photovoltaics and light-emitting devices
• Materials design considerations for flexible photonics
• Transfer printing of semiconductor nanomembrane structures and devices
• Monolithic integration on plastic substrates
• Optical links for board-level interconnects
• Broadband tunable photonic devices
• Flexible detector/LED arrays

Track 4. Optoelectronic integration and devices

Chairs: Freddy Hongyan Fu, Tsinghua University, China
               Jianqiang Li, LightsAI Solution, China
               Qirui Huang, Huawei International Pte Ltd
               Xijia Zheng, Google LLC, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

• Modelling, Analysis, Design, Implementation of Subsystems and systems
• Subsystems for Modulation, Detection, Estimation
• Subsystems for Wavelength, Space and Time Division Multiplexing (WDM, SDM, TDM)
• Optical Wireless Communication
• Sensing, Positioning, Navigation
• Optical transmission systems and subsystems
• Core/Metro Network and Subsystem
• Optical Access Network and Subsystem
• Data Center Network and Subsystem
• Optical Networking for Computing Applications
• Converged Network

Track 5. Advanced lasers and applications

Chairs: Hao Hu, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
               Xianbin Yu, Zhejiang University, China
               Zixiong Wang, Tianjin University, China
               Lei Deng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

• Photonics generation of microwave signals
• Photonics processing of microwave signals
• Photonic true time delay beamforming for phased array antennas
• THz communications
• Flexible waveform generation and propagation of millimeter-wavelength radio signals for 5G and beyond-5G applications
• Tunable photonic filters with features suitable to microwave applications
• Photonics-based measure of backscattered microwave signals
• In-field implementation of photonics-based radar networks
• Programmable microwave photonics
• Quantum communication application

Track 6. Energy photonics and advanced materials

Chairs: Shuwen Zheng, University of Technology of Troyes, France
               Christophe Dujardin, University of Claude Bernard Lyon, France
               Michal Makowski, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Gina Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

• Biomedical optical spectroscopy and imaging: systems and applications
• Optical coherence tomography: light sources, systems, and applications
• Nonlinear microscopy, coherent Raman scattering microscopy, and high-resolution microscopy techniques
• Photoacoustic tomography or microscopy, acousto-optical imaging
• Optical trapping and manipulation, and their applications in biophotonics
• Lasers, supercontinuum lasers, fiber lasers and their biomedical applications
• Clinical and Translational Biophotonics
• Microscopy, Histopathology and Analytics
• Cardiac Optogenetics
• In-Vivo Label-Free Optical Spectroscopy

Track 7. Light-matter interactions

Chairs: Yiyang Luo, Chongqing University, China
              Wenjun Ni, South-Central Minzu University, China
               Dominik Kowal, Lukasiewicz– PORT, Poland
               Abdul Kuddus Sheikh, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland

• Micro/nano-structured fibers
• Soft glass fibers
• Crystal fibers
• Fiber designs and theory
• New processes for fiber manufacturing
• Active fibers for high power lasing
• Fibers for ultrafast lasers/supercontinuum generation
• Fibers for high energy delivery
• Fibers for sensing applications
• Fibers for gyroscopes
• Fibers for diagnostics and therapy
• Fibers for wearable devices
• Fibers for optical communication
• Fibers for optical signal processing

Track 8. Light field manipulation and applications

Chairs: Muhammad Danang Birowosuto, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               Husin Alatas, IPB University, Indonesia
               Mateusz Slowikowski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
               Landobasa Tobing, A*Star, Singapore

• Plasmonics and nano-optics
• Photothermal and photoelectric nanophotonics
• Optical antennas and plasmonics-based devices
• Plasmon-enhanced photovoltaics, photocatalysis, and solar fuels
• Super-resolution imaging
• Linear and nonlinear metamaterials
• Chiral and hyperbolic metamaterials
• Acoustic and thermal metamaterials
• Metamaterial-based devices
• Metasurfaces and flat optics
• AI for metamaterial design

Track 9. Ultrafast and nonlinear optics

Chairs: Krzysztof Rola, Lukasiewicz – PORT, Poland
               York Haemisch, Varex Imaging, Germany
               Dennis Schaart, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
               Hendradi Hardhienata, IPB University, Indonesia

• Distributed optical fiber sensors based on Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman scattering, and sensor networking
• Discrete optical fiber sensors, and sensor array
• Fiber Bragg grating sensors, long period grating sensors, tilted fiber Bragg grating sensors
• Optical fiber interferometric sensors (Mach-Zehnder Interferometer, Michelson interferometer, Fabry-Perot interferometer, Sagnac interferometer, etc.)
• Optical fiber laser sensors
• Specialty fiber optic sensors, Photonic crystal fiber sensors
• Surface pasmon resonance fiber sensors
• Micro/nanofiber sensors
• Microwave photonics sensors
• Silicon photonics sensors
• Optical sensors for chemical, environmental, biological and medical applications
• Optical sensors for structural health monitoring, security, defense and industrial applications
• New elements (fibers, devices and subsystems), effects (e.g., plasmonics), technologies (including nanophotonics), materials (e.g., meta- and structured-materials) and signal processing (e.g., machine learning) for photonic sensing

Track 10. Microwave photonics

Track 11. Plasmonics and metamaterials

Track 12. Optical materials

Track 13. Optical imaging, display and storage

Track 14. Optoelectronics based on organic and nanostructured materials

Track 15. Biophotonics and optofluidics