HotOptics - Hot Topics on Optical Communications

The slowdown of Moore's law has motivated exploration of optical hardware to sustain the ever-growing traffic demands, such as silicon photonic, Tbps optical I/O, smart optical transceivers capable of photonic computing, and optically reconfigurable TPU to build high-performance networked systems to accelerate machine learning workloads. This line of work blends emerging optical hardware into the existing cloud networked systems at the crossroads of multiple research areas, e.g., silicon photonics, fiber optics, FPGA, programmable data plane, scheduling, synchronization, congestion control, and network optimization, which requires cross-disciplinary insights and knowledge.

This workshop embraces the synergistic history between the optics community and networking community and explore the next exciting opportunities that lie at the intersection of these two areas. We invite leading experts and call for submissions to discuss state-of-the-art advances in both areas.