• Mid-infrared Lasers
• Ultrafast Laser Science and Technology
• Laser manufacturing
• High Intensity Lasers and High Field Phenomena
• Quantum Electronics and Laser Science
• Quantum Information and Measurement
• Biomedical and Therapeutic Laser Applications
• Laser Spectroscopy and Microscopy
• Fiber Lasers and Applications
• Waveguide Lasers
• Semiconductor Lasers and LEDs
• Plasma Technologies

• Integration of Optical and Wireless Networking
• Radio over Fiber Technologies
• Visible Light and Free-space Optical Communication
• Under Water Optical Communications
• High-Capacity Coherent Optical Communication
• High-Speed Optical Access Technologies
• Short-Reach Optical Interconnect for Data Center Networks
• Advanced Digital Signal Processing
• Optical Modulation and Signal Processing
• Lasers and Photonic Components
• Space Division Multiplexing Technologies
• New Optical Fiber Technologies
• Optical Networks Performance Modeling
• Emerging Network Architecture in 5G and Edge Computing
• Design, Control and Management of Optical Networks
• Secure Optical Communication

• Infrared detector materials and devices
• Infrared cameras and systems
• Infrared detectors and imaging applications
• Semiconductor materials for infrared and mid-IR lasers
• Novel infrared semiconductor lasers and related applications
• Novel infrared materials for photovoltaics
• Information acquisition & signal processing technologies
• Testing and simulation technologies
• Environment characteristics of target and atmospheric transmission
• Applications in remote sensing, navigation, communication, environmental protection, public security, medicine and industrial inspection
• Smart and fiber-optic sensors
• Nondestructive tests and evaluation
• Near-, mid-, and long-wavelength systems

• Quantum communications
• Quantum computing
• Quantum metrology and quantum sensing
• Quantum interactions of light with matter
• Cold atoms and cold molecules
• Single-photon sources and detectors
• Entangled photons and other non-classical
• Quantum measurement and control
• Quantum algorithms and protocols
• Quantum Internet and Quantum Networks

• Micro- and nano-structured fibers
• Soft glass fibers
• Crystal fibers
• Fiber designs and theory
• New processes for fiber manufacturing
• New methods for fiber measurement
• Active fibers for high power lasing
• Fibers for ultrafast lasers/ supercontinuum generation
• Fibers for high energy delivery
• Fibers for sensing
• Fibers for gyroscopes
• Fiber for diagnostics and therapy
• Fibers for wearable devices
• Fibers/bundles for imaging
• Fibers for optical communication
• Fibers for optical signal processing

• Millimeter, submillimeter, and far-infrared detectors and instrumentation
• Ultra-violet, visible and infrared sensing and imaging technology
• Combination of active and passive optical sensing
• Cryogenic optics technology
• Adaptive Optoelectronics
• Optometry
• Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging
• Optical Instrumentation
• Optics in Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Spectroscopy, Imaging and Metrology
• Photorefractive Effects, Materials and Devices
• Optical Materials and Devices
• Light-matter Interaction
• Data center optics beyond 400G
• Applied Industrial Optics

• Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy
• Optical coherence tomography: light sources, systems, and applications
• Nonlinear microscopy, coherent Raman scattering microscopy, and high-resolution microscopy techniquesLasers, supercontinuum lasers, fiber lasers and their biomedical applications
• Photoacoustic tomography or microscopy, acousto-optical imaging
• Biomedical optical spectroscopy and imaging: systems and applications
• Optical trapping and manipulation, and their applications in biophotonics
• Lasers, supercontinuum lasers, fiber lasers and their biomedical applications
• Clinical and Translational Biophotonics
• Microscopy, Histopathology and Analytics
• Cardiac Optogenetics
• In-Vivo Label-Free Optical Spectroscopy

Technologies for DCI/DCN applications:

• Optical transceiver
• Transceiver architecture and modulation
• Subsystem and digital signal processing
• Forward error correction
• Electronic devices and optoelectronic devices
• Photonic integration
• Advanced co-packaging and on-board optics
• Network control and management
• SDN and NFV
• Modeling and monitoring
• Digital twin
• AI and ML