Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)

Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom)

SPPCom covers the state-of-the-art advances in digital, analog, electronic, and optical signal processing techniques for photonic communication systems. SPPCom brings together researchers and engineers from the academic and corporate world to share their knowledge, to present their cutting-edge research, and their vision for the future of signal processing.

The scope of this meeting includes the following categories:

Next Generation Transmission Systems

• Advanced modulation schemes, forward error correction, and coding
• Algorithms for DSP in optical transmission systems
• Channel characterization and equalization
• Advanced data encoding and signal shaping
• Performance monitoring and signal characterization
• Flexible and sliceable transceivers
• Real-time demonstration and field trials
• Space-division multiplexing (SDM)
• Digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters
• Demonstration of high capacity transmission

Machine Learning (ML) in Optical Communication

• Channel estimation and equalization
• Signal & component characterization, performance monitoring, failure prediction
• Physical layer optimization
• Optical signal processing for neural networks
• Photonic neural networks, neuromorphic computing

Quantum Communications

• QKD (signal processing, channel estimation, device calibration, error correction, and privacy amplification)
• Quantum random number generation
• Protocols beyond QKD (quantum digital signatures, quantum authentication)
• Quantum imaging
• Quantum repeaters
• Quantum networks

Photonics for RF and Free Space Optical Communication

• Analog radio-over-fiber systems for 5G and beyond
• Optical-wireless communication
• Visible light communication systems
• Lab and field demonstration of free-space optical wireless transmission
• Space and stratosphere optical communication (inter-satellite, inter-HAPS, ground-to-satellite/satellite-to-ground, etc.)
• Underwater optical wireless communication

Access Networks - Passive Optical Networks (PON)

• Advanced PON architectures (Coherent PON, WDM-PON, TWDM-PON, OFDMA-PON, etc.)
• Burst mode signal processing
• In-building optical networks
• Digital, electronic and optical processing for PON systems
• Signal processing for optical backhaul/fronthaul networks
• Signal processing for long-reach broadband access networks

Optical Signal Processing

• Passive and active all-optical signal processing subsystems
• Microwave photonic subsystems
• Optical signal processing with photonic integrated circuits
• Optical digital-to-analog and analog-to-digital converters
• Optical buffering, bit-, and label-processing subsystems
• Optical packet and burst switching subsystems
• Performance monitoring and signal characterization based on optical techniques
• Optics in computing