OFC 2027 - Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition

Los Angeles Convention Center

Mar 7 - 12, 2027

Los Angeles Convention Center

Los Angeles, United States

Mar 7 - 12, 2027

Los Angeles, United States

About the Conference

OFC’s five-day technical conference features a plenary session with esteemed industry luminaries, peer-reviewed presentations and more than 130 invited and tutorial speakers, representing thought leaders across the industry. Additional technical programming throughout the week includes workshops, special programs, short courses, Demo Zone and special events. OFC is held in-person but offers on-demand content at the conclusion of the conference. All technical program sessions will be available on-demand to Full Technical Conference registrants.

Subject Areas

D1: Advanced Prototyping, Packaging and Integration D2: Photonic Integrated Circuits, Micro-optics, Nanophotonics, and Switching Devices D3: Active Optoelectronic Components D4: Fibers, Connectivity, Characterization and Propagation Physics D5: Fiber Devices, Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, and Nonlinear Waveguides S1: Datacom Subsystems and Systems S2: Subsystems for Transmission S3: Transmission Systems S4: Fiber-Sensing and Microwave Photonics S5: Free-space Optical, Satellite and THz Communications for Space and Other Non-terrestrial Domains N1: Advances in the Development of Networks, Systems and Services N2: Optics and Photonics for Data Center and Computing Applications N3: Architectures, Control and Management of Optical Networks N4: Optical Access Networks for Fixed and Mobile Services N5: Market Watch, Network Operator Summit and Data Center Summit (Invited Program Only) SC-Q: Quantum Devices, Systems, Networking and Optical Communications

Important Dates

TBD Call for Papers Opens · July 2026

2026-10-20 Abstract and Summary Submission and Dataset Paper Deadline · Tuesday, 20 October 2026, Noon, 12:00 EDT (UTC-04:00) NEXT

2026-11-17 Demo Zone Submission Deadline · Tuesday, 17 November 2026, Noon, 12:00 EST (UTC-05:00)

2026-12-14 Author Notification Letters Sent · 14 - 18 December 2026

2027-02-05 Advance Registration Deadline

2027-02-23 Postdeadline Paper Deadline

2027-03-07 Present at OFC · 07 - 11 March 2027

Call For Papers

D1: Advanced Prototyping, Packaging and Integration

Commercial or Engineering Samples (Optoelectronic or Passive Optical Chips and Modules, TOSA/ROSA, Amplifiers, other) Deployment Trends of New Fibers and Connectors High-Capacity TX/RX Modules, Multi-Mode, Single-Mode, WDM, Parallel-Channel, VCSELs Electronic Driver and Receiver Circuits for Energy-Efficient Transmitters and Receivers Photonic Network Elements and Enabling Hardware (Wavelength-Selective Switches, ROADMs, Other) and Performance Monitoring Advanced Co-Packaging Technology and On-Board Optics Large-Scale Foundry PDK Development Large-Scale Electro-Optic Integration and Packaging Components, Devices, Modules, Integrated Circuits for Data Centers, Telecom, and LIDAR Applications Modeling and Testing Techniques of Large-scale Electro-optic Integrated Systems

D2: Photonic Integrated Circuits, Micro-optics, Nanophotonics, and Switching Devices

Single Mode and Multimode Photonic Integrated Circuit Building Blocks on Existing and Emerging Fabrication Platforms for Telecom, Datacom, Mid-IR, Visible, UV, etc. Planar and 3D Optical Circuits, Optical Signal Processing or Conditioning Components, and Non-Reciprocal Devices Photonic Components, Fabrication Methods and Platforms Incorporating Novel Substrates, Thin Films and 2D Materials Low Speed (> nanosecond) and Programmable Optical Phase Shifters, Spatial Light Modulators, Nonvolatile Devices, MEMS/NEMS, Including Reconfigurable Photonic Circuits and Switches Integrated and Micro-Optical Components for WDM, CWDM, OFDM, PDM, SDM, or MDM Systems 2D and 3D Integrated and Free-Space Switches, Optical Cross Connects, Optical Phased Arrays and Beamsteering Devices Engineered Photonic Components Incorporating Subwavelength Structures, Metamaterials, Metasurfaces, Plasmonics, and Topological and Non-Hermitian Concepts Photonic Components and Integrated Circuits Optimized by Fabrication Aware Methods, Inverse Design, and Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Low loss Chip-to-Free-Space, Chip-to-Fiber, Chip-to-Chip Coupling Solutions Photonic Devices for Cryogenic, Space, High Temperature and Other Harsh Environments

D3: Active Optoelectronic Components

Lasers and Amplifiers using Semiconductor Gain Material (Excluding Rare-Earth Doped or Nonlinear) Absorption, Mach-Zehnder and Ring Modulators (incl. Plasmonic, InP, Si, GaAs, LiNbO3, BTO, Polymer) for IM-DD and Coherent Schemes Pin, UTC and APD type Photodetectors (incl. Plasmonic) and Receivers Active Wavelength Converters and Comb-Sources Nonlinear Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors (SOA-Based/Resonant Nonlinearity, Other) Active Semiconductor-Based Switches Active Devices for Fiber Sensing and Other Photonics-based Sensing (see also N1, N4, S4, or S5) Small Scale Optoelectronic Hybrid and Monolithic Integration, Including Active Components Heterogeneous Integration Optoelectronic Device and Wafer-Level Testing Optoelectronic Devices Based on Graphene or Other 2D Metamaterials Reliability Studies in Active Components

D4: Fibers, Connectivity, Characterization and Propagation Physics

Optical Fiber and Fiber Cables Design, Fabrication, Reliability and Testing Hollow-Core, Micro-Structured, Multi-Core, and Multi-Mode Optical Fibers Optical Fibers for New Wavelength Ranges Optical Fibers and Measurement Methodologies for Sensing Nonlinear Effects, Scattering, and Propagation-Related Transmission Impairments Propagation, Dispersion, and Polarization Properties in Fibers and Free-Space Novel Optical Fiber Materials, incl. Non-Silica and Multi-Material Fibers Power-over-fiber and Non-Transmission Use of Specialty Optical Fibers Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Optical Fibers Neural Networks and Machine Learning applied to Fiber Manufacturing and Design Fiber Characterization and Measurement Techniques

D5: Fiber Devices, Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, and Nonlinear Waveguides

Doped Fiber and Waveguide Amplifiers Fiber Lasers and Short-pulse / Supercontinuum / Comb-Sources Raman, Brillouin and Parametric Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices Fiber and Waveguide-based Sensing Devices (e.g., FBGs, interferometers, etc.) Fiber Gratings and Couplers Spatial-mode multiplexers and Multicore Multiplexers Phase-sensitive and –insensitive Amplifiers Nonlinear Device Evaluation and Assessment Machine Learning for Device Design, Optimization and Fault Detection Devices Based on Hollow-Core, Micro-Structured, Multi-Core, Multi-Mode and Specialty Optical Fibers Non-Telecom Fiber-Based Devices and Sensors for Bio-photonics, Astro-photonics, Imaging, Avionics, and Automotive.

S1: Datacom Subsystems and Systems

Modulation and Detection (IM/DD, Field Modulation-Coherent Reception, Hybrid and Other Approaches) Signal Processing (Analog, Digital, Hybrid) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) Wavelength, Space, Polarization and/or Time Division Multiplexing (WDM, SDM, PDM, TDM) VCSEL, DML, EML and other Transceiver Technologies Photonics Integration: Si PIC, InP PIC, GaAs VCSEL Arrays, Other Integration Approaches Optical Switching for Datacenter Connectivity Co-Packaged and Pluggable Subsystems Optics for AI/Machine Learning Clusters Datacenter Resource Disaggregation on the Physical Layer Standards-Driven Innovations and Technologies with Reach up to and Including 120 km Lab and Field Demonstrations with Reach up to and Including 120 km

S2: Subsystems for Transmission

Modulation and Demodulation Subsystems Multiplexing and Demultiplexing Subsystems Forward Error Correction and Coded Modulation Subsystems Designs for Coherent/Direct Detection and Space-Division Multiplexing Systems Standards-Driven Subsystems Innovations and Technologies for Systems Targeting more than 120 km Reach Electronic Digital-to-Analog and Analog-to-Digital Converters Electro-Optical Subsystem Integration Real-Time Implementation in FPGAs and ASICs Machine Learning for Subsystem Modeling, Impairment Mitigation and Performance Monitoring Digital and Opto-Electronic Signal Processing for System Impairment Mitigations System-Level Demonstrations Featuring Novel Transceiver Subsystems System Characterization based on Digital Techniques

S3: Transmission Systems

Metro, Long-haul and Submarine Transmission Modulation, Detection, Estimation (IM/DD, Coherent, other) Wavelength, Space and Time Division Multiplexing (WDM, SDM, TDM) Transmission Transmission Demonstrations using New Amplifiers (including Multiband Transmission) Signal Processing (Analog, Digital, Hybrid) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) Applications of Machine Learning in System Design, Provisioning and Monitoring Linear and Nonlinear Impairments Mitigation Nonlinear Transmission Techniques (including NFT and Soliton transmission) Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Implementation of Transmission Systems Capacity Limits Optical Performance Monitoring and Optical Fiber Tomography Lab and Field Demonstrations

S4: Fiber-Sensing and Microwave Photonics

Distributed/Discrete Fiber Sensing Methods, Interrogators and Systems Signal Processing (Analog Optical/Electrical and Digital) for Fiber Sensing In-Lab Demonstrations and Field-Trials Focusing on Sensing Systems Exploiting Telecom-Related Fibers and Components for Novel Sensing Applications Beyond Telecommunications Microwave, mm-Wave and Terahertz Photonics Using Optical Processing for Non-Telecom Applications Stable Laser Systems and Time/Frequency Transfer Over Optical Fibers and Free-Space

S5: Free-space Optical, Satellite and THz Communications for Space and Other Non-terrestrial Domains

Free Space Optical Communication Through and Above the Atmosphere Satellite Communication in Earth Orbit and Beyond for Spaceborne Network Applications (e.g. Data Centers) Lab and Field Demonstrations for Wireless Optical Communication Techniques6G Enabling Technologies Including Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) Visible Light Communication (VLC) System Level Demonstrations of PIC Technologies for FSO and RoF Applications Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) Systems for Free-space Optical & THz Communications in Space and Other Domains Microwave, Millimeter-Wave, and THz Optical Fronthaul Systems Beamforming (Analog, Digital, Hybrid) Machine Learning Applied to Free-space Optical & THz Communications in Space and Other Domains Time and Frequency Transfer Over Optical Wireless & THz LinksSatellite Laser Communication

N1: Advances in the Development of Networks, Systems and Services

Field Trials, Demonstrations and Pilots in Optical Networks (incl. Non-Traditional Wavebands) Network Engineering and Deployment, incl. Quality of Service, Performance Evaluation and Installation Techniques Operational Aspects of Open and Disaggregated Networks, including Multi-Vendor Interoperability Tests Operational Aspects of Emerging Networks Applications, incl. SDN, NFV, Network Management, Monitoring, and Analytics (AIOps) Demonstrations of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Optical Networks Sensing Applied to Optical Networks, incl. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) and OTDR for Network Optimization and Monitoring (incl. Field Trials) Applications of Coherent Transceivers for Sensing, Telemetry and Machine Learning (incl. Field Trials) Fixed and Mobile Converged Networks, incl. 5G/6G and Multi-Access Edge Computing Networks to Support High-Bandwidth Video and Low-Latency Virtual Reality (VR) & Augmented Reality (AR) Services Applications of Network Timing and Clock Distribution Services over Optical Networks Field Trials and Demonstration of Non-Terrestrial and Space-Based Optical Networks

N2: Optics and Photonics for Data Center and Computing Applications

Demonstration of Novel Programmable and/or Configurable Architectures for Photonic Computing Advanced Photonic Computing Technologies, including Optical Matrix-Vector Multiplication, Photonic Tensors, and validated PIC/Chiplet-based Accelerators Photonic Computational Primitives, including photonic memory, weight banks and photonic Nonlinear Activation Functions Brain-Inspired and Neuromorphic Optical Computing and Photonic Neural Networks Unconventional Photonic Computing and Optical Hard-Problem Solvers, including Ising Machines Packaged and/or Prototyped Photonic Interconnects, Transceivers, Switches, Processing and Storage Units in Data Centers specifically optimized for AI-driven Computing Applications Photonic-Based Data Center Connectivity and Networks, including enablement of Resource Disaggregation at the Die-, Chip-, Board-, Rack-, and System-Level On-Chip, On-Board, and Board-to-Board Optical Technologies and Architectures for Accelerated Computing Optical Scale-Up/-Out Network Prototypes and Metric Tradeoffs, Focusing on Latency, Energy Efficiency and Bandwidth Density

N3: Architectures, Control and Management of Optical Networks

Access, metro, core, and Inter-DC Architectures and Networks, for Emerging Services SDN and NFV in Optical and Multi-Layer Networks Open/Disaggregated Optical Core and Metro Networks Metro and Core Networks for Fixed and Wireless Convergence, including Optical X-Haul Networks Elastic Optical and Flexible Grid Networks Scalable Control and Management of Pluggables and IP Over WDM Space Division Multiplexed and Optical Multi-Band Fiber Networks Architectures and Control of Non-Terrestrial Optical Networks, including Satellite, Drone, and High-Flying Platform Networks Architectures for Optical Space-Terrestrial Integration Networks Optical Inter-Satellite Links and Their Integration to 6G Networks Optical Node Architectures for High-Degree Connectivity with Multi-Fiber/Core/Band Networks AI/ML, Data Analytics, and Digital Twins for Optical Network Design, Control, and Management, including Foundation Models Optical Network Design including Planning, Optimization, and Techno-Economic Studies Operational Aspects incl. Energy-Efficiency, Security and Service Assurance Reliability, Service Restoration, and Protection Dynamic Optical Networking and Service Orchestration Computing and Network Resource Allocation for Optical Networks Open and Intent-based APIs and Network Functions for Core and Metro Networks New Information and Data Models, Description Languages and Management Protocols (e.g. NETCONF/RESTCONF and YANG) for Metro and Core Optical Networks

N4: Optical Access Networks for Fixed and Mobile Services

High-Speed Optical Access System Technologies (Coherent, Signal Multiplexing, Modulation Formats, DSP, FEC, ML, etc.) Network Architectures, Applications, and Services to Residential and Business Customers Optical X-Haul Architectures Supporting Mobile and IoT/Sensor Networks Access Architectures and Technology for Heterogeneous Signal Transmission Over Fiber in Support of Future Mobile Networks Operation Aspects of all PON Variants incl. TDM-PON, TWDM-PON, and WDM-PON Reliability, Protection and Security PON Virtualization, including SDN and NFV aspects Low-Latency Solutions for Time Sensitive Fronthaul and User Plane Services Application of ML/AI Techniques to Access Networks Optical Wireless Indoor Networks and Applications Technology, Architecture and Protocols for Energy Optimization in Optical Access Networks Hybrid-Fiber-Coaxial (HFC) Access Networks and Applications Architectures, Protocols, Control Planes and Physical Layer for Convergence of Access and Metro Networks and Convergence of Fixed and Mobile Networks Optical Local Area Networks (LANs) and Applications Multi-Dimensional (Time, Wavelength, Space, Polarization) Capacity Increase and Sharing Access Networks for Edge Processing

N5: Market Watch, Network Operator Summit and Data Center Summit (Invited Program Only)

Keynote Address by Provider Luminary on Hot Industry Topics and Their Application in Service or Content Provider Networks State of the Optical Industry in the Eyes of the Analysts Standardization Bodies and Trends Network Technology Requirements for Network and Data Center Operators and Content Providers Trends in Service and Content Provider Networks: Industry Consolidation, Cloud Computing Enablement, Content Distribution, Network Service Virtualization New Architectures for Legacy Infrastructure and Services Trends at Data Centers, Demands, Enablers, Architectures Disaggregation Options and Trends in Optical Networks and Data Centers Cloud Data Centers and Servers with High-Speed Connectivity Optical Technology Progression in Data Center Interconnects - both Inside and Between Data Centers AI Impact Inside and Outside of Data Centers Optical Components and the Latest Integration Trends: Emerging Technologies and Their Market Impact on Network Deployment Energy Efficiency Solutions for Data Centers and Optical Networking Pluggable Optics and its Enabling Technologies and Applications IP/Optical Integration Solutions Network Orchestration and Control Architectures Practicality of Network Convergence, SDN Architectures and NFV Applications Enablers for Optical Network Automation and Predictive Maintenance, Including AI Applications Engineering and Deployment of Latest Bandwidth Products Ways to Monetize the Network Infrastructure Access Networks and PON How Optical Networks Will Support the Mobile Network’s Progression beyond 5G 5G/B5G, Emerging 6G and IoT Applications and Use Cases Optical Solutions for Mobile Fronthauling and Synchronous Networking Quantum Technologies and Quantum Key Distribution

SC-Q: Quantum Devices, Systems, Networking and Optical Communications

Quantum Networks for Distributed Quantum Computing, Quantum Computing Interconnects and Cryogenic Optical Interconnects Quantum Networks Supporting Classical Applications Such as Position Verification, Decision Coordination, Time Synchronization, Security and Alerting Quantum Communication and Networking with Multipartite and Bipartite Entanglement Hybrid Quantum–classical Networks, Including Teleportation Free-space and Satellite-based Quantum Communications Modeling, Simulation and Design Tools for Quantum Networking Compilation, Transpilation and Error Correction Algorithms for Networked Quantum Systems Control, Management, and Orchestration and Algorithms for Quantum Networks Quantum Networking and Communication Protocols Quantum Network Monitoring Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Systems and Networks Including Hybrid QKD–PQC Networks Network Architectures for Security in the Post-quantum Era Quantum Protocol Implementations Other Non-quantum Physical (Optical) Layer Security Techniques (non-QKD) Optical Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF), Optical Fingerprinting Physical-layer Encryption and Key Distillation Optical Covert Communication (Steganography) and Eavesdropping Detection Quantum Repeater Technologies Including Quantum Memories, Photonic Quantum Gates, Protocols and Related Applications Mechanisms for Quantum Link Stabilization Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for Quantum Subsystems, Systems and Networks Quantum Photon Sources Single and Entangled), Detectors and Quantum Random Number Generators(QRNGs) Optics and Photonics for Quantum Transduction and Frequency Conversion Photonic Devices Supporting Qubit Modalities (Ions, Neutral Atoms, Solid-state Defects and Others)

Publication & Indexing

PublisherOptica Publishing Group

ProceedingsOFC Technical Digest

IndexingEi Compendex, Scopus, Google Scholar

Conference Organization

Co-organized by

Optica IEEE Communications Society IEEE Photonics Society

Committee

General Chairs

Mei Du

Tata Communications, USA

Lara Garrett

SubCom, USA

Xiaodan Pang

Zhejiang Univ., China

Program Chairs

John Ballato

Clemson Univ., USA

Alan Pak Tao Lau

Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong SAR, China

Werner Weiershausen

Deutsche Telekom, Germany

D1 Subcommittee Chair

Antonio Tartaglia

Ericsson, Italy

D1 Subcommittee Member

Ji Chen

Marvell Technology, China

Gloria Hoefler

Saar Consulting, USA

Marika Immonen

TTM Technologies, Inc., China

Kejia Li

Cisco/Acacia, USA

Tiger Ninomiya

Accelink, USA

Akihiro Noriki

AIST, Japan

Sabarni Palit

Mixx Technologies, USA

Hari Potluri

Broadcom, USA

Marco Romagnoli

CamGraphics, EMEA

Sudip Shekhar

Univ. of British Columbia, Canada

Sylvia Smolorz

Amazon, USA

Anne Tauke-Pedretti

DARPA, USA

Yating Wan

King Abdullah Univ. of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Marcus Yang

SiPhi, USA

D2 Subcommittee Chair

Mario Dagenais

Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA

D2 Subcommittee Member

Matteo Cherchi

Xanadu, Canada

Shai Cohen

NVIDIA, Israel

Tingyi Gu

Univ. of Delaware, USA

Takako Hirokawa

Global Foundries, USA

Sean Hooten

Hewlett Packard, USA

Duanni Huang

Intel Labs, USA

Arnan Mitchell

RMIT Univ., Australia

Francesco Morichetti

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Chris Poulton

Beacon Photonics, USA

Joris Van Campenhout

IMEC, Belgium

Laurent Vivien

Univ. Paris Saclay, CNRS, Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, France

Yi-Kuei Ryan Wu

Broadcom, USA

Ai Yanagihara

NTT Corp, Japan

Linjie Zhou

Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China

D3 Subcommittee Chair

Patrick Runge

Fraunhofer HHI, Germany

D3 Subcommittee Member

Tatsurou Hiraki

NTT, Japan

Claudia Hössbacher

Polariton, Switzerland

Jonathan Klamkin

Aeluma & UC Santa Barbara, USA

Christos Kouloumentas

Optagon Photonics & Univ. of the Aegean, Greece

Daniel Kuchta

NVIDIA, USA

Jie Liu

Sun Yat-sen Univ., China

Liu Liu

Zhejiang Univ., China

Mizuki Shirao

Mitsubishi Electric, Japan

Anna Tatarczak

Coherent, USA

Bassem Tossoun

HPE Labs, USA

Geert van Steenberge

Ghent Univ., Belgium

Chao Xiang

Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

HP Xiao

WinFoundry, Taiwan

Lars Zimmermann

IHP, Germany

D4 Subcommittee Chair

Chiara Lasagni

Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy

D4 Subcommittee Member

Sidi-Ely Ahmedou

Prysmian Group, France

Lauren Dallachiesa

Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Md Selim Habib

Florida Tech, USA

Kerrianne Harrington

Univ. of Bath, UK

Yuki Kawaguchi

Sumitomo Electric, Japan

Andrey Kobyakov

Corning Inc., USA

Poul Kristensen

Lightera, Denmark

Takuya Oda

Fujikura Ltd., Japan

Austin Taranta

Univ. of Southampton, UK

Jiajing Tu

Jinan Univ., China

Masaki Wada

NTT Corp., Japan

Fatih Yaman

NEC, USA

D5 Subcommittee Chair

Atsushi Nakamura

NTT, Japan

D5 Subcommittee Member

Enkeleda Balliu

Cobolt AB, Sweden

Haoshuo Chen

Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Peter Dragic

Univ. of Illinois, USA

Vladimir Gordienko

Aston Univ., UK

Sijing Liang

Univ. of Southampton, UK

Filipe Marques Ferreira

Univ. College of London, UK

Aldo Minardo

Univ. of Campania, Italy

Tetsu Morishima

Sumitomo Electric, Japan

Mark Pelusi

AIST, Japan

Yi Sun

Lightera, USA

Robert Tench

RET and Associates LLC, USA

Kenneth Kin-Yip Wong

Univ. of Hong Kong, China

Yiwei Xie

Zhejiang Univ., China

S1 Subcommittee Chair

Brandon Buscaino

Ciena, USA

S1 Subcommittee Member

Shuang Yin

Google, USA

Nebojsa Stojanovic

Huawei, Germany

Scott Yin

Ghent Univ., Belgium

Fabio Bottoni

Cisco, Italy

Ying Zhao

Aloe Semiconductor, USA

Kangping Zhong

Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong

Paraskevas Bakopoulos

Nvidia, Greece

Aaron Maharry

Lucidean, USA

Li Liangchuan

Beijing Inst. of Tech, China

Qian Hu

Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Siamak Amiralizadeh

Meta, USA

S2 Subcommittee Chair

Yi Cai

Soochow Univ., USA

S2 Subcommittee Member

Georg Böcherer

Ciena, Germany

Bin Chen

HFUT, China

Stella Civelli

CNR, Italy

Christian Häger

Chalmers, Sweden

Shota Ishimura

KDDI Research, Japan

Cho Junho

Nokia, Canada

Noriaki Kaneda

Coherent, USA

Keisuke Kasai

Tohoku Univ., Japan

Zhixin Liu

UCL, UK

Timo Pfau

Cisco, USA

Ann Margareth Rosa Brusin

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Hai Xu

Marvell, USA

Chen Zhu

Baidu, China

S3 Subcommittee Chair

Olga Vassilieva

1Finity, USA

S3 Subcommittee Member

Gabriel Charlet

Huawei Technologies, France

Andrea d'Amico

NEC Laboratory America, USA

Fukutaro Hamaoka

NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, Japan

Boris Karanov

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Julia Larikova

Nokia, USA

Haik Mardoyan

Nokia Bell Labs, France

Darli Mello

Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil

Pavel Skvortcov

Cisco, USA

Ruben Soares Luis

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan

Deepa Venkitesh

Indian Institute of Technology, India

Danshi Wang

Beijing Univ. of Post and Telecommunications (BUPT), China

Qunbi Zhuge

Shanghai Univ., China

S4 Subcommittee Chair

Prince Anandarajah

Dublin City Univ., Ireland

S4 Subcommittee Member

Juna Diego Ania

Instituto de Óptica, CSIC, Spain

Steinar Bjørnstad

Tampnet AS, Norway

Antonella Bogoni

CNIT, Italy

Adonis Bogris

Univ. of West Attica, Greece

Thomas Clark

Michigan State Univ., USA

María Fernández-Ruiz

Universidad de Alcalá, Spain

Sterenn Guerrier

Nokia Bell Labs, France

Abel Lorences-Riesgo

Huawei, France

Takeo Sasai

NTT, Japan

Yaxi Yan

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

S5 Subcommittee Chair

Boon Ooi

King Abdullah Univ. of Sci & Technology, Saudi Arabia

S5 Subcommittee Member

Kasia Balakier

European Space Agency, UK

Liam Barry

Dublin City Univ., Ireland

Michael Eiselt

Eiselt Consulting, Germany

Hany Elgala

Univ. of Albany, USA

Andrew Ellis

Aston Univ., UK

Fernando Guiomar

Lisbon Univ., Portugal

Dominic O'Brien

Univ. of Oxford, UK

Simon Rommel

Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands

Kevin Shortt

Airbus, Germany

Abderrahmen Trichili

Univ. of Northumbria, UK

Murat Uysal

NYU-Abu Dhabi, UAE

Zhengyuan Xu

USTC, China

Jianping Yao

Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

Xianbin Yu

Zhejiang Univ., China

N1 Subcommittee Chair

Md Saifuddin Faruk

Bangor Univ., UK

N1 Subcommittee Member

Abdallah Ali

Microsoft, UK

Jean-Christophe Antona

ASN, France

Elie Awwad

Télécom Paris, France

Xiang Li

China Univ. of Geoscience (Wuhan), China

Carmen Mas Machuca

Uni BW, Germany

Jasper Müller

Adtran, Germany

Giuseppe Rizzelli

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Rene Schmogrow

Attotude, USA

Yu Sun

Google, USA

Cen Wang

KDDI, Japan

N2 Subcommittee Chair

Angelina Totovic

Marvell, Greece

N2 Subcommittee Member

Guangwei Cong

AIST, Japan

Matej Hejda

Hewlett Packard Labs, Belgium

Chaoran Huang

The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China

Xianshu Luo

A*STAR, Singapore

Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios

Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece

Osamu Moriwaki

NTT Corporation, Japan

Daniel Pérez-López

iPronics, Spain

Patty Stabile

Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands

Liming Wang

Google, USA

Yuyang Wang

Univ. of Connecticut, USA

Nathan Youngblood

Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

Zhichao Zhang

Intel Corporation, USA

N3 Subcommittee Chair

Ricard Vilalta

CTTC, Spain

N3 Subcommittee Member

Paola Iovanna

Ericsson, Italy

Mariam Kiran

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Patricia Layec

Nokia Bell Labs, France

Yi Lin

Huawei Research Center, France

Nicola Sambo

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Behnam Shariati

Fraunhofer HHI, Germany

Massimo Tornatore

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Xiaonan Xu

Nokia, USA

Ahsaan Yousaf

Google, USA

Shuangyi Yan

Univ. of Bristol, UK

Jiawei Zhang

Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecom, China

N4 Subcommittee Chair

Gaël Simon

Orange, France

N4 Subcommittee Member

Frank Effenberger

Futurewei Technologies Inc., USA

Devika Dass

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Gabriele Di Rosa

Adtran, Germany

Imali Dias

Deakin Univ., Australia

Vincent Houtsma

Nokia Bell Labs, USA

Luyao Huang

China Telecom Research Institute, China

Zhensheng Jia

CableLabs, USA

Ryo Koma

NTT, Japan

Luiz Anet Neto

IMT Atlantique, France

Yanni Ou

Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecom (BUPT), China

Anna Tzanakaki

National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens, Greece

Zhaopeng Xu

Pengcheng Laboratory, China

N5 Subcommittee Chair

Balagangadhar Bathula

AT&T, USA

N5 Subcommittee Member

Vipul Bhatt

Coherent, USA

Tim Doiron

Nokia, USA

Christian Ilmi

Open Photonics, USA

Di Liang

Univ. of Michigan, USA

Qingyun (Wendell) Liu

AT&T, USA

Anuj Malik

Cisco, USA

Stephen Neidlinger

Adtran, Germany

Kumi Omori

NEC, Japan

Francesca Parmigiani

Microsoft, UK

Fabienne Saliou

Orange, France

Atul Srivastava

NTT, USA

SC-Q Subcommittee Chair

Reza Nejabat

Cisco, USA

SC-Q Subcommittee Member

Davide Bacco

Univ. of Florence, Italy

Yuan Cao

Nanjing Univ. of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Virginia D'Auria

Université Côte d’Azur, France

Marija Furdek

Chalmers Univ., Sweden

Helmut Grießer

Adtran, Germany

Natalia Herrera Valencia

Heriot-Watt Univ., UK

John Jarman

Nu Quantum, USA

Siddarth Joshi

Univ. of Brisol, UK

Prem Kumar

North Eastern Univ., UK

Andrew Lord

BT, UK

Makan Mohageg

Boeing, USA

Taofiq Paraiso

Toshiba, UK

Matheus Ribeiro Sena

Deutsche Telekom, Germany

Demo Zone Subcommittee Chair

Paola Parolari

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Demo Zone Subcommittee Member

Nicola Calabretta

Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands

Kiyo Ishii

National Institute of Advance Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Christina Lim

Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

Paolo Monti

Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden

Annachiara Pagano

FiberCop, Italy

Lihua Ruan

Peng Cheng Lab, China

Marco Ruffini

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Vincent Sleiffer

Adtran Networks SE, Sweden

Michela Svaluto Moreolo

Centre Tecnològic Telecom de Catalunya, Spain

Shuyi Yan

Cisco, USA

Georgios Zervas

Univ. College London, UK

Ligia Zorello

Meta, USA

Steering Committee

Jun Shan Wey

Chair · Verizon Communications Inc., USA

Keren Bergman

Columbia University, USA

Ramon Casellas

Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain

Andrew Lord

BT Applied Research, UK

Biswanath Mukherjee

Univ. of California Davis, USA

Loukas Paraschis

IEEE Communication Society, USA

Massimo Tornatore

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Doug Zuckerman

IEEE Communications Society, USA

Jörg-Peter Elbers

Adtran, Germany

Fatima Garcia Gunning

Tyndall National Institute, Ireland

Ampalavanapilla Thas Nirmalathas

Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

Elaine Wong

Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

John Ballato

Clemson University, USA

Mei Du

Tata Communications (America) Inc., USA

Lidia Galdino

Corning Inc., UK

Lara Garrett

SubCom, USA

Sagi Mathai

HPE Labs, USA

Takashi Matsui

NTT Corporation, Japan

David Millar

Google, USA

Paolo Monti

Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden

Xiaodan Pang

Zhejiang University, China

Alan Pak Tao Lau

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

Werner Weiershausen

Deutsche Telekom, Germany

Qiong (Jo) Zhang

Amazon Web Services, USA

Budget Committee

Loudon Blair

Ciena Corp., USA

Elizabeth Nolan

Optica, USA

Douglas M. Razzano

IEEE Photonics Society, USA

Seb Savory

Univ. of Cambridge, UK

Harold Tepper

IEEE Communications Society, USA

Jun Shan Wey

Verizon Communications Inc., USA

Long Range Planning Committee

Jörg-Peter Elbers

Chair · Adtran, Germany

Fred Bartholf

Comcast, USA

Stu Elby

MSG Ventures, USA

Lynn Nelson

AT&T, USA

Elizabeth Nolan

Optica, USA

Loukas Paraschis

Banais Labs, USA

Douglas M. Razzano

IEEE Photonics Society, USA

Harold Tepper

IEEE Communications Society, USA

Vijay Vusirikala

Arista Networks Inc., USA

Glenn Wellbrock

Verizon Communications, Inc., USA

Jun Shan Wey

Verizon Communications Inc., USA

Peter Winzer

Nubis Communications, USA