Welcome to PGC 2023

Call For Papers

Track 1. Semiconductor and Integrated Optical Devices

Chairs: Jianguo Liu, Institute of Semiconductors, CAS, China
               Yuefei Cai, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
               Richard Schatz, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden



  • Design, fabrication, and characterization of novel integrated devices
  • Device packaging, performance and reliability test
  • Silicon and hybrid III-V/silicon photonics
  • Large-scale photonic integrated systems
  • High speed light sources, modulators, and detectors
  • Waveguide and other passive optoelectronic devices
  • Semiconductor materials growth and device development
  • Lasers for Datacom/Telecom wavelength
  • VCSEL and LIDARs
  • MicroLEDs and applications

Track 2. Optical Subsystems, Systems and Networks

Chairs: Freddy Hongyan Fu, Tsinghua University, China
               Jianqiang Li, LightsAI Solution, China
               Qirui Huang, Huawei International Pte Ltd
               Xijia Zheng, Google LLC, Sunnyvale, CA, USA



  • Modelling, Analysis, Design, Implementation of Subsystems and systems
  • Subsystems for Modulation, Detection, Estimation
  • Subsystems for Wavelength, Space and Time Division Multiplexing (WDM, SDM, TDM)
  • Optical Wireless Communication
  • Sensing, Positioning, Navigation
  • Optical transmission systems and subsystems
  • Core/Metro Network and Subsystem
  • Optical Access Network and Subsystem
  • Data Center Network and Subsystem
  • Optical Networking for Computing Applications
  • Converged Network

Track 3. Silicon Photonics

Chairs: Wei Jiang, Nanjing University, China
               Jianji Dong, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China


  • Passive silicon photonic structures & devices
  • Modulators, detectors, switches, light sources on silicon
  • Devices for optical communications and interconnects
  • Lidar and optical phased arrays
  • Devices and circuits for optical computing
  • Advanced packaging and co-packaged optics
  • Hybrid integration with compound semiconductors
  • Integration with polymers, 2D materials, phase change materials etc.
  • Nonlinear optical devices
  • Electronic and photonic integration
  • Device modeling and design tools

Track 4. Microwave Photonics

Chairs: Hao Hu, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
               Xianbin Yu, Zhejiang University, China
               Zixiong Wang, Tianjin University, China
               Lei Deng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China


  • Photonics generation of microwave signals
  • Photonics processing of microwave signals
  • Photonic true time delay beamforming for phased array antennas
  • THz commuications

Track 5. Advanced Materials for Photonics

Chairs: Xiaolong Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
               Mingyu Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
               Jinshui Miao, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
               Kai Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
               Aung Ko Ko Kyaw, Southern University of Science and Technology, China


  • Two-dimensional layered materials
  • Pervoskite
  • Flexible materials
  • One-dimensional materials
  • Quantum dots
  • Infrared materials
  • Other advanced materials

Track 6. Biophotonics and Optical Biomedicine

Chairs: Junle Qu, Shenzhen University, China
               Sihua Yang, South China Normal University, China
               Aaron Ho-Pui Ho, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
               Gina Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology, China


  • Biomedical optical spectroscopy and imaging: systems and applications
  • Optical coherence tomography: light sources, systems, and applications
  • Nonlinear microscopy, coherent Raman scattering microscopy, and high-resolution microscopy techniques
  • Photoacoustic tomography or microscopy, acousto-optical imaging
  • Optical trapping and manipulation, and their applications in biophotonics
  • Lasers, supercontinuum lasers, fiber lasers and their biomedical applications
  • Clinical and Translational Biophotonics
  • Microscopy, Histopathology and Analytics
  • Cardiac Optogenetics
  • In-Vivo Label-Free Optical Spectroscopy

Track 7. Fiber-Based Technologies and Applications

Chairs: Sze Y. Set, The University of Tokyo, Japan
              Yiyang Luo, Chongqing University, China
               Wenjun Ni, South-Central Minzu University, China
               Dajuan Lyu, Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company, China


  • Micro/nano-structured fibers
  • Soft glass fibers
  • Crystal fibers
  • Fiber designs and theory
  • New processes for fiber manufacturing
  • Active fibers for high power lasing
  • Fibers for ultrafast lasers/supercontinuum generation
  • Fibers for high energy delivery
  • Fibers for sensing applications
  • Fibers for gyroscopes
  • Fibers for diagnostics and therapy
  • Fibers for wearable devices
  • Fibers for optical communication
  • Fibers for optical signal processing

Track 8. Plasmonics and Metamaterials

Chairs: Qingfeng Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology of China, China
               Yanjun Liu, Southern University of Science and Technology of China, China
               Longqing Cong, Southern University of Science and Technology of China, China


  • Plasmonics and nano-optics
  • Photothermal and photoelectric nanophotonics
  • Optical antennas and plasmonics-based devices
  • Plasmon-enhanced photovoltaics, photocatalysis, and solar fuels
  • Super-resolution imaging
  • Linear and nonlinear metamaterials
  • Chiral and hyperbolic metamaterials
  • Acoustic and thermal metamaterials
  • Metamaterial-based devices
  • Metasurfaces and flat optics
  • AI for metamaterial design

Track 9. Optical Sensors and Systems

Chairs: Changyuan Yu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
               Zhiyong Zhao, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China


  • Distributed optical fiber sensors based on Rayleigh, Brillouin and Raman scattering, and sensor networking
  • Discrete optical fiber sensors, and sensor array
  • Fiber Bragg grating sensors, Long period grating sensors, Tilted fiber Bragg grating sensors
  • Optical fiber interferometric sensors (Mach-Zehnder Interferometer, Michelson interferometer, Fabry-Perot interferometer, Sagnac interferometer, etc.)
  • Optical fiber laser sensors
  • Specialty fiber optic sensors, Photonic crystal fiber sensors
  • Surface pasmon resonance fiber sensors
  • Micro/nanofiber sensors
  • Microwave photonics sensors
  • Silicon photonics sensors
  • Optical sensors for chemical, environmental, biological and medical applications
  • Optical sensors for structural health monitoring, security, defense and industrial applications
  • New elements (fibers, devices and subsystems), effects (e.g., plasmonics), technologies (including nanophotonics), materials (e.g., meta- and structured-materials) and signal processing (e.g., machine learning) for photonic sensing

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