11th Annual High-capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technologies (HONET 2014)

The HONET–PfE 2014 is envisioned to cover photonics for energy production, harvesting renewable resources and intelligent monitoring based on smart grids. The expanded scope for the HONET meeting will cover R&D topics ranging from new materials and device technologies to intelligent systems consisting of communication networks, cyber-security, e-applications and social networks. Global Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) networks enable the high-speed internet by utilizing various photonic- and RF wireless technologies and networks spanning millions of fiber-optic links over the vast landscape and numerous satellites hovering over our planet. This technology base is the workhorse for ICT from the architectural, security, signal transport and application perspectives. Photonic, Optoelectronic, and Wireless modes of communication complement each other and enable various communication technologies that are now the life-lines of our increasingly interconnected world. These are the disciplines that have emerged from the “fundamental electromagnetic phenomena and light-matter interaction” and are the enablers of numerous engineering applications. The foundations are electromagnetic-wave generation, propagation, and detection. In both RF and optical regimes semiconductors and optical materials are utilized in the form of nano- and meta-materials. Process advances in micro/nano-fabrication of photonics devices, components, and functional modules and sub-assemblies enable the rapid progress in these technical areas.