The 2026 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series is a conference dedicated to variours topics on technology and applications in the field of photonics, including:
Signal Reconstruction Using Photonics
Photonic time stretching techniques for wideband signal acquisition
Ultrashort pulses analysis and broadband signal characterization in temporal, spectral, and spatial domains
Photonic and opto-electronic reservoir computing
Photonic-enhanced compressed sensing
Phase retrieval methods such as self-referencing, optical alternative projection and optical random projection
Photonic-based supervised and unsupervised learning for image classification
Integrated photonics for combinatorial optimization problems
Kramers-Kronig relations and optical full field reconstruction for communication
Image recovery after scattering medium
Remote sensing and ghost imaging
Quantum signal processing and computing
Coherent Optics for Short Reach Network
Novel concepts for coherent reception
Opto-electronic devices for coherent data transmission
Analogue signal processing
Novel schemes for efficient higher-order modulation
Coherent optical interconnects and intra-datacenter networks
Cost/energy performance analyses for coherent network applications
Performance trials in lab and field
Space Division Multiplexing (SDM)
Progress in integration of transceivers, amplifiers, switches, mux/demux, and other components for SDM
Progress in SDM transmission and SDM fiber design
Propagation modelling and fundamental limits of various SDM fibers: cross-talk and random-mode coupling, modal dispersion, mode-dependent loss, nonlinear effects, interplay between various effects, time dynamics
Initial investigations of field-deployed SDM fibers with focus on the INCIPICT project in L`Aquila
Using SDM technologies in "non-conventional" SDM applications: Quantum communications, signal processing / RF fronthaul / 5G / satellite communications / astronomy and endoscopy
Progress in digital signal processing for SDM fibers
Silicon Integrated Mid-Infrared Photonics
Structure Light Interaction with Matter and the Environment
Optical matter interactions with structured light
Optical control and characterization technologies for structured light
Orbital Angular Momentum
Scattering medium, complex media, and metasurfaces
Remote sensing of air, marine or space environments
Spin-orbit interactions with materials
DSP technologies for information retrieval from structured light
Quantum and classical sensing
Non-linear interactions in novel optical fibers, waveguides, and materials
Waveguides and fibers supporting structured/multimode light
Multimode fibre amplifiers and novel gain media for structured light
