Contributed papers are solicited in the following topical areas:

SC1 Core/Access Networks and Switching Subsystems
• Optical core/metro network architecture, design, control, and management
• SDN / NFV for service provider and data center networks
• Network Functions Virtualization in optical networks.
• Field trials and interoperability demonstration of optical networks
• Control and Management of multi-layer and multi-domain networks.
• High-speed optical access networks and applications
• Future PON architectures, including WDM-PON, high rate TDM-PON,
TWDM-PON, OFDMA-PON, and Hybrid PON
• Advanced modulation format for future optical access network
• Optical backhaul/fronthaul networks and fixed-mobile convergence
• Radio-over-fiber (RoF) subsystems and systems
• Optical-wireless integration, including multi-technology converged networks
• Visible light and free-space optical communication systems

SC2 Transmission Systems and Their Subsystems
• High-capacity optical transmission systems
• Long-haul optical transmission systems
• Transmission experiments including field trials
• Optical modulation formats, coding, and multiplexing schemes
• Investigation and compensation of linear and nonlinear transmission effects
• Modeling of optical transmission systems
• Optical or digital signal processing technique
• Coherent transmission system
• Transmission technology based on space-division multiplexing
• Transmission technologies for data-center networks
• Optical performance monitoring
• Optical transceivers for flexible optical networks
• Optical wireless transmission systems
• Secure transmission technologies

SC3 Optical Fibers, Fiber Amplifiers, and Related Devices
• Optical fiber design and fabrication
• Photonic crystal fibers and related topics

• Polymer fibers and non-silica fibers
• Fibers for high power applications
• Fibers for optical interconnection
• Fibers for switching and nonlinear signal processing
• Fiber characterization and measurement techniques
• Fiber cabling, installation, and maintenance
• Fiber gratings and related devices
• Rare earth-doped fibers and other active fibers
• Fiber amplifiers
• Fiber lasers
• Fiber sensors
• Novel fiber devices

SC4 Optical Active Devices and Modules
• Light emitters, semiconductor lasers and amplifiers
• Optical detectors, modulators and switching devices and modules
• Photonic integrated circuits devices and modules
• Silicon photonics and III-V/silicon integrated devices
• Coherent and direct-detection transceivers
• New wavelength light emitters/detectors
• Optical sensors, sensor systems and networks
• Quantum dots, nano-structured photonic devices
• Novel photonic materials, structures, devices and modules
• Photonic crystals, plasmons, metamaterials and nanophotonics
• Quantum communication devices
• Advanced photonic packaging

SC5 Passive Devices and Modules
• Optical waveguide integrated devices and planar lightwave circuits
• Plasmonics and Metamaterials
• Optical interconnection and optical printed circuit board
• New waveguide materials and fabrication method
• Glass/ferroelectric/polymer optical modulators and switching devices
• Photonic crystal
• Optical MEMS
• Micro-optics, microfluidics, and related topics
• Silicon photonics
• Liquid crystal devices for photonic networks
• Advanced 2D Materials for Photonics