CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The National Institute of Telecommunications,
Warsaw, Poland, together with
the Instituto de Telecomunicacoes and University of Aveiro, and the
IEEE/LEOS Poland Chapter are pleased to announce the 11th International
Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON 2009 which will
be kindly hosted by University of Azores,
City of Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, June 28 – July 2, 2009. ICTON 2009 is
receiving technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Lasers
and Electro-Optics Society.
São Miguel Island, known
as "The Green Island", is the largest and most populated island of the
Azores. The Ponta
Delgada Airport receives daily flights from Lisbon and has direct weekly
flights to major European and American cities.
The scope of the Conference is concentrated on the applications of transparent
and all-optical technologies in broadband telecommunication networks, systems, and
components, and includes:
- Digital All-Optical Networks
- Ultra-dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing
- Ultra-fast Optical Time Domain Multiplexing
- Next Generation Networking
- Optical switching & routing (WAOR)
- Optical Packet Networks & Services
- Optical memories and data storage
- Quality of Service issues
- Optical transparency & network scalability
- Network reliability & availability (RONEXT)
- Wireless & Optical Networking (GOWN)
- Radio-over-fibre transmission
- Analogue transmission systems
- Broadband metro and access networks
- Industry and Standardisation
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- Photonic Band-Gap structures (ESPC)
- Photonic crystal fibres
- Nonlinear & active PBG devices
- Nanoscale & ultrafast photonics (NAON)
- VCSELs and other novel light sources
- Microresonators & Photonic Molecules
- New fibre types, Plastic fibres
- Novel glasses
- New transmission windows
- Polarisation Mode Dispersion
- Photonic component integration (PICAW)
- Modelling of optical systems and components
- Network planning and design tools
- Non-conventional optical communications
- Other relevant topics
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Dead Lines:
Submission: April 15, 2009
4 pages (Word+pdf) for Poster/Oral to icton@itl.waw.pl
Notification of Acceptance: May 5, 2009
Post Dead line (Relevant new results): June 2, 2009
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Ambitious technical and social programs and friendly relations are traditional ICTON
goals. We are looking forward to the pleasure of welcoming you once again, this time
in Azores. June 2009!
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Marian Marciniak
Conference Organiser
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Antonio Teixeira
ICTON 2009 General Chairman
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