ECIO27 welcomes contributions covering the full breadth of integrated optics, optoelectronics and nano-photonics, organised into the following sub-committee areas:
SC1: Active Photonic Devices: Modulators, Detectors, Sensing, Lasers and other Emitters
- Light sources and active components, including laser arrays, amplifiers and detectors
- Fast, nanoscale and low-energy modulators (silicon, III-V and electro-optic)
- Integrated photodetectors and on-chip lasers
- Waveguide and microcavity sensors, and bio/chemical sensing transducers
- Bio-photonic platforms, and low-power, high-speed active device design
SC2: Photonic Materials and Hybrid Integrated Materials: Nonlinear materials, Topological Photonics, 2D materials, Colloidal materials and Organic materials
- Plasmonics, nanophotonics, photonic crystals and metamaterials
- 2D materials, phase-change materials, and dielectric/polymer photonics
- Nonlinear effects and materials, including Raman and Brillouin gain
- Topological photonic devices, and quantum dots/colloidal nanocrystals
- Membrane photonics, photonic MEMS/NEMS and optomechanical devices
- Magneto-optic, piezoelectric and ferroelectric material devices
- Energy-efficient, ultra-compact photonic materials and enhanced light-matter interaction
SC3: Photonic Platforms: Si, SiN, III-V, AlN
- Silicon and silicon nitride photonics
- AlN, III-V and other compound-semiconductor optoelectronics
- Lithium niobate and other electro-optic materials
- Wafer/die bonding, and hybrid or heterogeneous integration
SC4: Photonic Circuits: Switch fabrics, Neural Networks and Optical Computing
- Functional circuit elements – programmable filters, switches, buffers, polarization control – and large-scale circuits
- Inverse and computer-aided photonic design, plus new modelling and simulation techniques
- Coupling light into photonic integrated circuits, and generic foundry manufacturing approaches
- Merging electronics and photonics, including control and connectivity layers
- Plasmonic waveguides and devices beyond conventional limits
SC5: Microwave and Terahertz Photonics
- Waveguides and technologies spanning the visible, infrared and terahertz ranges
- Microwave photonics, and integrated microwave/terahertz sources and modulators
- Terahertz imaging, spectroscopy, and terahertz/microwave communication
SC6: Quantum Photonics: Emitters, Detectors, Computing and Sensors
- Generating, controlling and detecting single photons on photonic chips
- Quantum computing and chip-based quantum communication
- Quantum dot and colour-centre emitters, and tunable quantum light sources
- Superconducting nanowire and waveguide-integrated single-photon detectors
- Integrated quantum circuits, quantum transducers and on-chip entanglement generation