The purpose of OPTICS 2010, the International Conference on Optical Communication Systems, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on any of the optical communication components of an optical communication system, or the system itself. An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the message from the received optical signal.

Optical fiber is the most common type of channel for optical communications, although other types of optical waveguides are used within communication networks.
The transmitters in optical fiber links are generally light-emitting diodes (LEDs) or laser diodes. The signal encoding is typically simple intensity modulation, although historically optical phase and frequency modulation have been demonstrated in the lab.

Ideas on how to analyze and approach problems by combining optical technologies, electronic interfaces, and communication technologies, either in the scope of R&D projects, engineering or network management, are welcome. Papers describing new methods or technologies, advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of OPTICS, with an ISBN. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Both full research reports and work-in-progress reports are welcome. There will be both oral and poster sessions.
The best papers will be selected to appear either in an international journal or in a book to be published by Springer-Verlag.

Special sessions, case-studies and tutorials dedicated to technical/scientific topics related to the main conference are also envisaged: researchers interested in organizing a special session, or companies interested in presenting their products/methodologies or researchers interested in holding a tutorial are invited to contact the conference secretariat.

› Optical Networking Technologies
› Design and Management of Optical Networks
› QoS in Optical Networks
› Optical Interconnections
› Optical Transmission Technologies
› Fairness Control in Optical LANs and MANs
› Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS)
› Photonic Switching and Routing
› Optical MEMs
› IP over WDM
› FTTx Networks and Systems
› Optical Signal Processing
› Optical Fiber Technologies
› Optoelectronic Communication Devices
› Reliable Optical Networking
› Optical Modulation and Signal Processing
› Lasers and Photonic Components
› Ultrahigh speed Optical Measurements
› Dispersion Compensators
› Optical Network Test Beds
› Simulation Software for Optical Communications and Networks
› Performance Evaluation Studies

OPTICS 2010 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

Authors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits.
The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.

Papers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism.

Remarks about the on-line submission procedure:
1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity.
LaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted.
2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author.

Paper submission types:
Regular Paper Submission
A regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary means that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster".

Position Paper Submission
A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".

Camera-ready:
After the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. The authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support.
A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book.
The proceedings will be indexed by Conference Proceedings Citation Index, INSPEC and DBLP.
The proceedings of OPTICS 2010 will be considered by EI after their publication.

› Conference date: 26-28 July, 2010

› Regular Paper Submission: February 26, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (regular papers): April 08, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 22, 2010 (deadline expired)

› Position Paper Submission: March 25, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Authors Notification (position papers): April 26, 2010 (deadline expired)
› Final Position Paper Submission and Registration: May 06, 2010 (deadline expired)

OPTICS Secretariat
Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq.
             2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +44 203 014 5432
e-mail: optics.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.optics.icete.org/

Greece, located in the southeastern Europe, is a very beautiful country that offers top quality tourist attractions to the visitor. Consisting of the main land and several islands, it offers beautiful beaches, lovely mountain landscapes, many picturesque villages, and a wealth of archaeological sites and treasures.
Piraeus, Greece's third largest urban centre and now part of the Athens metropolitan area, is located a few minutes away from the center of Athens - Greece's capital named after Athena, the goddess of wisdom, is a very attractive and busy city.
Piraeus has the biggest harbour in all Greece and one of the most important in the mediterranean. At the top of that harbour, many little picturesque and lively bays may be found having many excellent cafeterias and traditional Greek restaurants and taverns.
Piraeus is an ideal place to start off excursions both for island cruising and mainland sightseeing. There are many boats that start off their journey to the numerous beautiful Greek islands from the harbour of Piraeus which is the main connection point to all of the Greek islands.
The conference will be held at the University of Piraeus, which was founded in 1938 under the title of the “School for Industrial Studies” and located in a modern building in the centre of Piraeus (one of the 8 universities in the region of Athens), in collaboration with the department of informatics. The department began operating in 1992 and focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects and advancements of computer science.

Petros Nicopolitidis, Aristotle University, Greece

Davide Careglio, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Adolfo Cartaxo, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Walter Cerroni, Università di Bologna, Italy
Cees de Laat, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jitender Deogun, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States
Yi Dong, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Christian Gaumier, Ecole Polythechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Marco Genoves, INRIM, Italy
Masahiko Jinno, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Japan
Ken-Ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan
Sergej Kulik, Moscow University, Russian Federation
Franko Küppers, University of Arizona, United States
Byoungho Lee, Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of
Zhaohui Li, Jinan University, China
David Q. Liu, Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. Fort Wayne, United States
Yi Luo, Tsinghua University, China
Xavier Masip-Bruin, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Amalia Miliou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
John Mitchell, University College of London, United Kingdom
John O'Brien, University of Southern California, United States
Josep Prat, Universitad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Malin  Premaratne, Monash University, Australia
João Rebola, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
Chava Saradhi, Create-Net, Italy
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Essex, United Kingdom
SURINDER SINGH, Sant Longowal Instituite of Engg. & Tech, Longowal, Punjab, India, India
Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Naoya Wada, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Stuart Walker, University of Essex, United Kingdom
Xu  Wang, Heriot Watt University, United Kingdom
Xiaohua Ye, Agiltron Inc., United States
Yabin Ye, Huawei Technologies Deutschland GmbH, Germany
Changyuan Yu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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