Co-located with:

• 8^th European Symposium on Photonic Crystals, ESPC^*
• 8^th Workshop on All-Optical Routing, WAOR
• 6^th Global Optical & Wireless Networking Seminar, GOWN
• 5^th Reliability Issues in Next Generation Optical Networks Workshop, RONEXT
• 5^th Photonic Integrated Components & Applications Workshop, PICAW^*
• 4^th Nanophotonics for All-Optical Networking Workshop, NAON^*
• Euro-FOS NoE Workshop
• SARDANA-BONE Workshop on Access/Metro Networks

Special sessions on:

• 4^th Special Session on Microresonators and Photonic Molecules: trapping, harnessing and releasing light, MPM^*
• 4^th Special Industrial Session
• 3^rd Special Session on Novel glasses for photonic devices^*
• 2^nd Special Session on Market in Telecommunications (MARS)

* denotes Sub-Wavelength Photonics (SWP) section

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

The National Institute of Telecommunications in Warsaw together with the University of Aveiro, and the IEEE/LEOS Poland Chapter are pleased to announce the 11^th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON 2009 which will be kindly hosted by University of Azores, City of Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, June 28 - July 2, 2009.

ICTON 2009 is receiving technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society.

São Miguel Island, known as "The Green Island", is the largest and most populated island of the Azores. The Ponta Delgada Airport receives daily flights from Lisbon and has direct weekly flights to major European and American cities.

The scope of the Conference is concentrated on the applications of transparent and all-optical technologies in broadband telecommunication networks, systems, and components, and includes:

Authors are cordially invited to submit the contributions (max. of 4 pages in electronic form, MS Word accompanied by a PDF version) for Regular and Poster Sessions to icton@itl.waw.pl by April 15, 2009. The authors will be notified on the acceptance by May 5, 2009. Post-deadline papers with very recent results are requested by June 2, 2009.

Ambitious technical and social programs and friendly relations are traditional ICTON goals. We are looking forward to the pleasure of welcoming you once again, this time in Azores in June 2009!