2^nd Nanophotonics for All-Optical Networking Workshop
NAON 2007

Optical communication, i.e. the communication systems using optical (visible, infrared and ultraviolet) radiation as a carrier wave, is steadily becoming the most perspective and promising means of future communication. It comprises not only the well known fibre communication (covering already with a dense fibre network most of the densely populated Earth areas) but also the wireless (free-space) communication (important in the space and probably the most perspective for a future personal use) and the under-water communication. The NAON Workshop, organised in association with COST Action 288 'Nanoscale and Ultrafast Photonics', is intended to offer a discussion forum for designers, manufacturers and users of optical-communication devices from basic fundamental research to system applications. The Workshop will focus on new challenges arising from a need of still more rapid, more capacious, more reliable and cheaper optical-communication systems.

Workshop topics of relevance include but are not limited to:

• Designing and fabrication of sources and receivers for optical communication
• Optimising of devices to meet requirements of optical communication
• Edge-emitting and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
• Modelling of an operation of devices for optical communication
• Photodetectors
• Devices for high-speed-modulation optical communication
• Optical fibres and coupling issues
• Under-water optical communication
• Wireless (free-space) optical communication

NAON Technical Program Committee:

Workshop Chair: Judy M Rorison, COST 288 Chairperson
Co-Chairs: Trevor M Benson, Wlodzimierz Nakwaski
Members: Katia Gallo, Valerii K. Kononenko, Marian Marciniak, Krassimir Panajotov, Phillip Sewell

Paper submission - in WORD and pdf format to icton@itl.waw.pl according to ICTON submission rules available at http://www.itl.waw.pl/icton/, please state 'NAON submission' in the subject line when submitting your contribution.

Publication - all accepted NAON papers will be included in ICTON 2007 Proceedings (IEEE publication).

COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research, http://www.cost.esf.org.

COST Action 288 Nanoscale and Ultrafast Photonics, http://www.een.bris.ac.uk/cost288/home.html.