ICTON 2027

International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Call for Contributions

27th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON 2027

and

17th Sub-Wavelength Photonics Conference (SWP)

and

7th Conference on Advanced Fibre Lasers and Coherent Sources (AFLaser)

Ischia Island (Naples), Italy, July 4-8, 2027

Co-located with:

24^th European Symposium on Photonic Crystals (ESPC)
24^th Workshop on All-Optical Routing (WAOR)
21^st Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications (OWC)
21^st Photonic Integrated Components & Applications Workshop (PICAW)
20^th Anniversary Nanophotonics for All-Optical Networking Workshop (NAON)
20^th Anniversary Workshop on Photonic Microresonators and Resonant Devices (PMRD)
20^th Anniversary Special Session on Novel Glasses for photonic devices
16^th Workshop on Communication in Transportation Systems (CTS)
15^th Anniversary Workshop on Green Optical Communications (GOC)
15^th Anniversary Special Session on Microwave Photonics (MWP)
12^th Workshop on 6G Network Operation (6GNeO)
11^th Workshop on Technology for Data Center Interconnects (DACINT)
11^th Workshop on Data Center Networks (DCN)
10^th Anniversary Workshop on Fiber-Wireless Network Technologies and Architectures towards 5G and Beyond (FiWiN5G)
10^th Anniversary Workshop on Quantum Photonics (QPhot)
10^th Anniversary Workshop on Multi-Layer Network Orchestration (NetOrch)
9^th Workshop on Novel Optical Amplifiers (NOA)
9^th Workshop on Super-Resolution Imaging and Sensing (SRIS)
9^th Workshop on High Capacity SDM-WDM Optical Networking (SDM-WDM)
9^th Workshop on Flexible and High-Capacity Optical Networks (Flex-ON)
8^th Workshop on Optical Microscopy Techniques (OMT)
7^th Workshop on Quantum Communications (QC)
7^th Workshop on Multi-band Open Optical Networks (MOON)
7^th Workshop on Machine Learning for Optical Communications (MALOC)
7^th Workshop on THz Photonics (THzPho)
6^th Workshop on Progress in Nonlinear Photonics and Applications (PNPA)
6^th Workshop Workshop on Microstructured Optical Fibers (MOF)
5^th Anniversary Special Session on Space-Division Multiplexing for High-Capacity Transmission (SDM)
5^th Anniversary Workshop ‘Women in telecommunication and optical networks: Highlighting diverse voices in optical networks’ (WeInTel)
5^th Anniversary Workshop on Enabling technologies toward 6G Networks (TECHto6G)
4^th Special Session on Novel Optical Fiber Sensing Techniques (NOFSeT)
4^th ICTON Demo Zone
3^rd Workshop on Photonic Metasurfaces
3^rd Workshop on Trustworthiness and Physical Layer Security (TPLS)
3^rd Workshop on Programmable Photonics and their Applications

The National Institute of Telecommunications, Optical Communications Group in Warsaw, Poland, together with the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy, and the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy, and the IEEE Photonics Society Poland Chapter are pleased to announce the 27th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON 2027 in Ischia island (Naples), Italy, July 4-8, 2027. Technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Photonics Society is foreseen.

The conference venue is the Hotel Continental Ischia, Via M. Mazzella 70, 80077 Ischia, on the island of Ischia. To reach this beautiful island, You may fly directly to Naples International Airport – Capodichino (NAP), or alternatively to Rome Fumicino Airport (FCO) and then take a fast train from Rome Termini central station directly to Naples. Ischia island is conveniently reachable from Naples within 1-2 hours sea connection.

ICTON 2027 will be held as an in-person-only meeting.

The scope of the Conference and co-located events is focused on the applications of transparent and all-optical technologies in telecommunications, computing, sensing, imaging, and quantum applications. Conference topics include but are not limited to:

Photonics, Nanophotonics
Molecular photonics, Biophotonics
Nonlinear optics
Digital all-optical networks
Ultra-dense wavelength-division multiplexing
Ultra-fast optical time domain multiplexing
Next generation networking
Optical switching and routing
Optical packet networks and services
Optical memories and data storage
Optical transparency and network scalability
Network reliability and availability
Free-space optical communications
Radio-over-Fibre transmission
Broadband metro and access networks
Merging of optical and microwave technologies
Microwave Photonics
Terahertz Photonics
Photonic band-gap structures
Photonic crystal fibres
Optical sensing, Fibre sensing
Nonlinear and active PBG devices
Nanoscale and ultrafast photonics
Photonic microresonators
Quantum photonics
Quantum communications
Quantum computing
VCSELs and other novel light sources
Fibre lasers
High power lasers
Novel glasses and photonic materials
New transmission windows
Polarisation Mode Dispersion
Photonic component integration
Network planning and design tools
Big data analytics and network optimization
Non-conventional optical communications
Sub-wavelength photonic devices
Communication in transportation systems
Optical microscopy and nanoscopy techniques and applications
Optical inspection of transparent samples: quantitative phase imaging
3D optical imaging and display
Polarization-resolved optical microscopy
Image processing
Label-free super-resolution and sensing
5G to 6G communications
Space communications
Programmable photonics
Other relevant topics

Authors are cordially invited to submit their contributions preferably in the standard IEEE conference style, or alternatively in the traditional ICTON style (recommended length four A4 pages in editable MS Word or LaTeX file accompanied by a PDF version) for Regular and Poster Sessions to icton@itl.waw.pl by March 31, 2027.

The authors will be notified on the acceptance by April 30, 2027. Post-deadline papers with hot results may be submitted till June 1, 2027.

The full camera-ready IEEE-Xplore compliant papers will be requested also by June 1, 2027.

Students, PhD students and young scientists are especially encouraged to contribute and/or to participate.

We are looking forward to offer a warm welcome to all of you for the 27th Edition of the ICTON Conference, this time in the beautiful island of Ischia. Traditionally, an ambitious technical programme will be accompanied by an attractive selection of social events!

Nunzio Cennamo & Francesco Dell’Olio (General Chairs)
Luigi Zeni (Honorary Chair)
Trevor Benson (ICTON Scientific Committee Honorary Chairman)
Michał Murawski (IEEE Photonics Society Poland Chapter Chairman)
Crina Cojocaru (Student Participation Chair)
Marian Marciniak (ICTON Originator)