ECOC 2025
Organising Committees
General Chairs
Peter Andrekson
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe
Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
Technical Program Chairs
Magnus Karlsson
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Bera Pálsdóttir
OFS Fitel Denmark, Denmark
Michael Galili
Technical University of Denmark (DTU),
Denmark
ECOC 2025
Technical Program Subcommittees
SC 1: Novel fibres, fibre devices and amplifiers
Subcommitte description
- Physics of light propagation in optical fibres
- Optical fibre design, fabrication and characterization
- Optical fibres for improved transmission performance
- Fibres for new wavelength ranges
- Fibre amplifiers
- Multicore and multimode fibres
- Microstructured fibres
- Highly nonlinear fibres and their applications
- Fibres for fibre lasers, sensing applications and devices
- Fibre installation, connectors, splicing and reliability
- Fibres for improved energy efficiency
Tommy Geisler, Chair
OFS Fitel Denmark, Denmark
Patrice Mégret
University of Mons, Belgium
Rogerio Nogueira
Instituto De Telecomunicacoes
, Portugal
Marco Santagiustina
Università di Padova, Italy
Lei Wei
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Natalie Wheeler
ORC, United Kingdom
Kazuhide Nakajima
NTT, Japan
Alexander Heidt
University of Bern, Switzerland
Lutz Rapp
Adtran Networks SE, Germany
Ivana Gasulla
Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Leslie Rusch
Université Laval, Canada
Marianne Bigot
Prysmian, France
SC 2: Discrete photonic devices and technologies
Subcommitte description
- Novel material platforms and structured materials
- Design, fabrication and characterisation of novel devices and functionality
- Detectors and sources, directly modulated lasers and VCSELs
- Hybrid III-V/Group IV materials and devices for silicon photonics
- Nanophotonics
- Optoelectronic devices
- Nonlinear waveguides
- Ultrafast devices and technologies
- Optical switching devices
Selina Farwell, Chair
Lumentum, United Kingdom
Eric Bernier
Huawei, Canada
Chaoran Huang
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong"
Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dan Marom
Hebrew University, Israel
Despoina Petousi
Adtran Networks SE, Germany
Antonio Fincato
STMicroelectronics, Italy
Wilfried Meineult
Coherent, Switzerland
Romain Brenot
Huawei, France
Yuriko Maegami
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Mircea Guina
Tampere University, Finland
Seppo Honkanen
HyComCore, Finland
Francisco Diaz-Otero
Universidad de Vigo, Spain
SC 3: Photonic integrated circuits, assemblies and packaging
Subcommitte description
- Large-scale photonic integrated circuits
- Packaging of devices, testing of performance and reliability
- Co-packaged optical and electronic ICs (2D, 2.5D and 3D)
- System-on-a-chip (SoC) and on-chip networks
- Advanced analogue and digital electronic/optical co-integrated circuits
- Reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits
- Photonic integrated circuits for neuromorphic applications and artificial intelligence
- Integrated frequency combs
- Optical processors, neuromorphic and reservoir computing
Francesco Da Ros, Chair
Technical University of Denmark
Folkert Horst
IBM , Switzerland
Nobuhiko Nishiyama
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Marianna Pantouvaki
Microsoft, United Kingdom
Claudio Porzi
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Keijiro Suzuki
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Anna Lena Schall-Giesecke
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Sylvie Menezo
Scintil photonics, France
Niels Quack
University of Sydney, Australia
Bart Kuyken
Ghent Univ, Belgium
Ripalta Stabile
EHCI - Eindhoven University, Netherlands
Dan Kuchta
IBM Research, United States
Robert Halir
Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Janet Chen
NVIDIA, United States
SC 4: Signal processing for optical communication and computing
Subcommitte description
- Algorithms for DSP in optical transmission systems
- Modelling and design of DSP
- Experimental demonstration of DSP
- Design, implementation and implications of reduced complexity DSP algorithms
- Comparison of machine learning techniques with conventional DSP
- Real-time DSP implementations for optical communications
- Analogue electrical and optical signal processing
- Novel error correction coding
- Novel constellation shaping approaches
- Implementation complexity analysis of DSP algorithms and computational effort
- Analogue-based and digital-based machine-learning techniques for optical communication
Elie Awwad, Chair
Télécom Paris, IP Paris, France
Manabu Arikawa
NEC, Japan
Darli Mello
U. Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Hae Young Rha
MIROandI,Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34140, South Korea, Korea
Bernhard Spinnler
Infinera Corporation, Germany
Jianming Tang
Bangor University, United Kingdom
Sjoerd van der Heide
Effect Photonics, Netherlands
Fatih Yaman
NEC Labs, USA
Fan Zhang
Peking University, China
Gertjan Coudyzer
Imec - Ghent University, Belgium
Darko Zibar
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Andrea Carnio
Nokia, Italy
SC 5: Optical transmission systems
Subcommitte description
- Lab/field demonstrations of optical transmission links deploying novel fibres, devices, subsystems and multiplexing techniques
- Link system demonstrations using novel signal modulation techniques, signal processing and subsystems
- Transmission enhancements by analogue and nonlinear signal processing subsystems
- Multiplexing and demultiplexing subsystems for improved transmission
- Demonstration of spatially multiplexed transmission links
- Submarine links and cable deployment
- Novel transmission system modelling methods
- Capacity, reach, flexibility limits of optical transmission systems
- System level implications of physical impairments
- Impairment mitigation techniques
- Information theory for optical communications
Jeremie Renaudier, Chair
Nokia Bell Labs, France
Paul Harper
Aston University, United Kingdom
Junjie Li
China Telecom Research Institute, China
David Millar
Infinera Corporation, USA
Georg Rademacher
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Kouki Shibahara
NTT, Japan
Fan Yu
Huawei, China
Christian Rasmussen
Cisco, Denmark
René-Jean Essiambre
Nokia Bell-Labs, USA
Chiara Lasagni
Parma Univeristy, Italy
Sang-Kook Han
Yonsei University, Korea
Tomoyuki Kato
Fujitsu, Japan
SC 6: Architecture, modelling and performance of optical networks
Subcommitte description
- Core, metro and transport optical network architectures
- Optical switching and routing architectures
- Submarine optical networks
- Satellite optical networks
- Optical network resilience and security
- Optical network deployments and field trials
- Inter data centre interconnection architectures
- Physical layer performance and technology integration in optical networks
- Multi-layer and multi-technology optical networks
- Planning and scaling of hybrid fibre/free space optical networks
- Performance monitoring techniques in optical networks
Carmen Vazquez, Chair
Universidad Carlos III, Spain
Alejandra Beghelli
UCL, United Kingdom
Takehiro Tsuritani
KDDI Research Inc., Japan
Vittorio Curri
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Carmen Mas Machuca
University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany
Paolo Monti
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Camille Delezoide
Nokia Bell-Labs, France
Konstantinos Christodoulopoulos
University of Athens, Greece
Teresa Gomes
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Kiyo Ishii
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
SC 7: Access, indoor and short-reach systems for data centres and mobile networks
Subcommitte description
- Fibre-to-the-X and optical access networks
- Passive optical networks
- In-building optical networks
- Intra data centre interconnect networks
- Optical networks for high performance computing
- Backhaul, midhaul and fronthaul networks for mobile networks
- Highly parallel network and interconnect demonstrations
- Photonics for cloud and low latency services
- Optical switching and routing in short-reach networks
Lena Wosinska, Chair
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Derek Nesset
Huawei, United Kingdom
Paola Parolari
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Gaël Simon
Orange Labs, France
Salvatore Spadaro
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech, Spain
Michela Svaluto Moreolo
Centre tecnologic de telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain
Changyuan Yu
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Rene Bonk
Nokia Bell-Labs, France
Noriko Iiyama
NTT, Japan
Stefan Dahlfort
Ericsson, Sweden
Oded Raz
EHCI - Eindhoven Univ., Netherlands
Michael Vanhoecke
Nvidia, Belgium
SC 8: Sensing and microwave photonics
Subcommitte description
- Fibre-based optical sensing (e.g., DAS, OTDR)
- Free-space optical sensing (e.g., LiDAR, OCT)
- Joint communication and sensing
- Microwave photonics subsystems
- Millimetre-wave and THz photonics signal generation/detection
- Demonstration of optics-based THz wireless subsystems
- Demonstration of analogue radio-over-fibre systems for 5G/6G and beyond
- Telecom network field-trials on optical fibre sensing
- Integration and applications of optical sensing in telecom networks
Steinar Bjørnstad, Chair
Tampnet, Norway
Miguel Drummond
Instituto de Telecomunicações Aveiro, Portugal
Ming-Fang Huang
NEC Labs, USA
Oskars Ozolins
RISE, Sweden
Jasmin Smajic
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Patryk Urban
West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland
Chris Vagionas
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Guy Torfs
imec - Ghent University, Belgium
Colm Browning
mBryonics Ltd, Ireland
Sebastian Randel
KIT, Germany
Keisuke Kasai
Tohoku University, Japan
SC 9: Free-space optics and optical wireless technologies
Subcommitte description
- Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial FSO communications
- Acquisition, Pointing, and Tracking (APT) systems
- Underwater and ship-to-ship/shore FSO communication
- LiFi communication systems and networks
- FSO intra-data center links
- Hybrid RF-FSO communication and Radio over FSO
- Integrated FSO communication and APT systems
- Atmospheric turbulence modelling, measurements and mitigation
- Lab and field trials using all-FSO or hybrid RF-FSO technologies
- FSO networking and control/management
- Integration of FSO and LiFi with back- and fronthaul over transmission media (e.g. POF, SMF, PLC)
- New PICs and drivers for FSO and LiFi
Eduward Tangdiongga, Chair
EHCI - Eindhoven University, Netherlands
Anjali Agarwal
CACI, USA
Liam Barry
Dublin City University, Ireland
Antonio D'Errico
Ericsson, Italy
Volker Jungnickel
Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Hidenori Takahashi
KDDI, Japan
Sergei Popov
Royal University of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Chia-Chien Wei
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Belgium
Anaëlle Maho
Thales Alenia Space, France
Christina Lim
University of Melbourne, Australia
Martin Lavery
Univerisity of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Yan Li
BUPT (Beijing University of Posts & Telecom), China
SC 10: Control and management of optical networks
Subcommitte description
- Control, orchestration, and management of optical networks
- Multi-layer network control and management
- SDN/NFV enabled optical networking
- Protocols and signalling in optical network control and management
- Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in monitoring, control and management of optical networks
- Field trials and demonstrations with optical network hardware and software
- Protocols and software tools for network reliability, survivability, privacy, security and disaster recovery
- Open source testbeds, implementations and demonstrations
Marija Furdek Prekratic, Chair
Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), Sweden
Raul Muñoz
Centre technologic de telecommunicacions de catalunya, Spain
Yvan Pointurier
Huawei , France
Marco Ruffini
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Behnam Shariati
Fraunhofer HHI, Germany
Karl Tran
Genexis, Netherlands
Yusuke Hirota
NICT, Japan
Marco Quagliotti
Telecom Italia, Italy
Shuangyi Yan
Bristol University, United Kingdom
SC 11: Quantum communications and quantum computing
Subcommitte description
- Quantum optics and quantum communication
- Quantum nanophotonics
- Quantum interfaces
- Coherent state transfer between the optical and the microwave domain
- Quantum memories for photons
- Quantum network architectures, switching, routing and protocols
- Quantum light sources and detectors
- Theory of quantum communication systems
- Use case and demonstration of quantum communication systems
- Quantum cryptography lab/field demonstration
- Quantum computing interconnect
- Quantum repeaters
- Quantum Internet
- Co-existence of quantum and classical network
- Comparison of classical and quantum physical layer security
Catherine White, Chair
BT, United Kingdom
Amirhossein Ghazisaeidi
Nokia Bell Labs, France
Rachel Grange
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Takeshi Umeki
NTT, Japan
Caterina Vigliar
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Laurent Schmalen
KIT, Germany
Wenjia Zhang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Konrad Banaszek
University of Warsaw, Poland