Online Submission of Post-Deadline Papers - Submission deadline : 1 September 2008

The ECOC2008 technical programme has scheduled time-slots for Post-Deadline Papers highlighting very recent progress and breakthroughs. The Technical Programme Committee therefore invites such submissions of original, unpublished, clear, accurate and relevant papers in any of the proposed topics areas. Prospective authors should submit a two-page paper using the online submission process, latest by 1 September 2008. Papers must be submitted using the template provided here. The template is available in MsWord but submission should be done solely using PDF.

Authors must also accept the copyright conditions which can be found on the on-line submission tool.

Final contributions will be published as part of the Conference Proceedings complete with ISBN reference number and will be available to all conference delegates. Papers will be published on the IEEExplore and the IET INSPEC websites.

Contributed papers will be welcome on the following topical areas:

1. Fibres, Fibre Devices and Amplifiers

This area focuses on optical fibres, their fabrication, the physics of light propagation in optical fibres and fibre subsystems, optically-pumped fibre amplifiers and lasers, as well as fibre-based devices.

2. Waveguide and Optoelectronic Devices

This area focuses on devices (incl. planar-waveguide optical components, bulk-optical technologies, and photonic bandgap devices) and semiconductor components for processing of optical signals, optical signal generation, amplification, switching, and detection. Technologies needed to develop commercial devices are also covered.

3. Subsystems and Network Elements for Optical Networks

This area focuses on various aspects of modelling, design, and implementation of optical subsystems and network elements, including fixed & adaptive impairment compensation subsystems, performance monitoring, packet labeling, buffering, add-drop multiplexers, optical packet and circuit switches.

4. Transmission Systems

This area focuses on various aspects of modelling, design, and implementation of optical transmission systems (WDM, TDM, FDM, CDM, line coding) including transmission links. 

5. Backbone and Core Networks

This area focuses on various aspects of modelling, design, control, management, protocols, architectures and implementation of optical backbone and metro-core networks, including WDM networks, as well as packet-based networks. It also focuses on issues for successful commercial deployments, field trials and applications of optical communication technology in networks.

6. Access and Local Area Networks

This area focuses on the exploration and demonstration of novel optical networks and networking aspects for broadband access and short-range networks. This area covers specifically FTTx, passive optical network and fibrewireless network solutions, encompassing local area and in-building networks. It also focuses on issues important to successful commercial mass deployments, field trials, business planning, and applications of optical fibre communication technology in public, private and enterprise networks.

7. CLEO Focus Meeting: Physics in Optical Communications.

The CLEO Focus Meeting invites contributions on new ideas and developments relating to the physics of phenomena and devices of potential relevance for optical communications. These include topics within nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, plasmonics and near-field optics, quantum optics, photonic metamaterials, nonlinear dynamics, chaos etc.

Submit your paper through the on-line Paper Submission system here

- ECOC 2008 uses the Oxford Abstract Submission System
- this system will require separate registration and login
- re-submission of updated versions of your paper is allowed until 1 September 2008

The deadline for paper submission is 1 September 2008. The corresponding author will be informed about the acceptance of her/his submitted paper at the ECOC2008 conference on Monday 22 September 2008.

Only electronic paper web submission is possible, according to the instructions given below.

Before submission, papers should be converted to Adobe Acrobat files (PDF-files) which, in case of acceptance of the paper, will be used for the Conference Proceedings and CD-ROM without any further processing.

Writing the paper

Use of the ECOC 2008 template is mandatory, and only papers following the instructions provided below will be considered.

Language: English

Programme: Microsoft Word 6.0 (or later version)

Paper template: download the ECOC 2008 paper template. (518 KB) Do not change font or font-size or leading (line spacing). Keep the size of the page to A4 (21 cm x 29.70 cm) and not Legal (21.59 cm x 27.94 cm).

Click here to upload the template. 

Paper title : In the title of the paper the initial letters should be capitalised in all words except articles and prepositions (e.g.: in, a, an, and, the, there, their, do, on, of, from, with, at etc.). E.g. "Er-Doped Si Nanocrystals as a Candidate for Optical Amplification"
Authors identification: include affiliations of all authors, and full address including e-mail of the corresponding author.

Abstract : include an abstract of maximum 30 words in italic typeface.

Length: Maximum 2 pages (including figures) and no page numbers.

Font : use Arial size 9 throughout, except for the title which should be Arial 14.
Colours: Be aware that, when printed in black, colours in figures and text may be invisible.

Special characters : when inserting special characters in text use Insert Symbol (avoid code-numbers for the symbols).

Figures : Insert the figures and/or the tables in the text as 'picture'.
File-format of figures should be Jpg (300-600 dpi) or Tiff (up to 1200 dpi).

Before submission

PDF file
Papers should be converted via Adobe Acrobat 5.0 or 6.0 to PDF-files in Print Optimised version, which will be used in the Conference Proceedings and CD-ROM without any further processing.

If you have access to Adobe Acrobat 5.0 (6.0) you can generate a PDF-file directly from your Word-document - please remember to choose the Print Optimised version (avoid using the Japanese version 4.0 of Acrobat), and please also note that the PDF-file must not be locked (i.e. do not save the file as 'read-only').

Adobe Acrobat Reader is not able to convert to PDF, but only to read PDF-files. It is also possible, from the Adobe Web-site ( www.adobe.com ), to generate a PDF-file from a Word document. New users can convert up to five Word documents for free: see Adobe PDF Online ( www.createpdf.adobe.com ) .

After the conversion: please print a paper copy of the PDF-file and check for conversion errors.

Please note that our paper submission system is only able to handle PDF-files up to 2.0 MB (Megabyte).

Submitting your paper

Material needed
Before submission, make sure that the following material is ready:

• Title, author's names, affiliation and a 30 word biography. If your title and abstract contains no special characters, and no sub- or sup scripts, the text can be copied and pasted from your Word-document or typed in directly.
• Full paper (2 page max.) including title, names, affiliation and abstract in PDF-format (file size maximum 2.0 MB - Megabyte).
• Preferred Topical area (the Technical Programme Committee (TPC) reserves the right to change the authors' choice of topical area).
  

Once you have the material listed above ready, proceed with the electronic submission of your paper.

The on-line submission tool for regular papers will be open until 1 September 2008.

If you have difficulties in submitting your PDF-file, please try to shorten its file-name.

Submit your paper through the on-line Paper Submission system here

- ECOC 2008 uses the Oxford Abstract Submission System
- this system will require separate registration and login
- re-submission of updated versions of your paper is allowed until 1 September 2008

After submission

All submitting authors will be informed ad valvas at the ECOC2008 conference about acceptance of their paper..

How to use the online paper submission system

1. Submitting a paper

Log in to the submission system when your paper is completed and ready to send. To log in, enter your email address and the password you chose when you registered with the system.
When you click the "log in" button you will be taken to a screen from which the submission process starts. Please read the instructions on this screen carefully. If you have not yet submitted a paper to the system you should click the link that says "Click here to submit a new paper".

Submitting a paper is a multi-step process. Each step goes through several questions. Fill in answers to any other questions on this screen and then click the "Next" button. Finally your paper file will be sent to our system – this can take a few seconds if you have a fast internet connection, but may take longer if your connection is slow or you have included lots of graphics in your paper. Please be patient!
All questions are mandatory. We cannot accept your paper until these questions have been answered.
Final step: once you have completed this step click the "Finish" button. If you have answered all the mandatory questions then your paper will be assigned a reference number and you will receive email confirmation. If you have not answered all the mandatory questions your paper will be held in temporary storage until you return later and complete all the questions.

2. Amending a submission

You may wish to change your answers to some of the questions on the submission form, or even to change the paper file itself.
Log in to the submission system
You will see a list of the paper that you have submitted. Click on the paper that you wish to change.
The process of amending a paper is the same as the original submission process, except that the submission form will be automatically filled in with the answers that you gave previously – you don’t have to change an answer if you don’t want to.
If you want to change your paper file you can click the "Browse" button to locate the revised file on your PC’s hard disk, then click "Next" to send it to the paper system. If you don’t want to change the file, just press "Next" to bypass this step.
When you reach the final step and press "Finish" you will be sent an email confirming that your paper has been amended – provided you have answered all the mandatory questions.

3. Withdrawing a paper

If you want to withdraw a paper please contact the conference administrator.

ECOC 2008 Copyright Agreement :

This agreement relates to any material published concerning ECOC 2008 such as, but not limited to, Technical Digest, USB and CD ROM or other electronic forms.
In submitting a paper to ECOC 2008 the authors assign to the IBBT copyright ownership to the submitted work, this assignment to be effective as of the day of registration of the material at ECOC 2008. The copyright trasnfer is carried out by ticking the appropriate box in the on-line submission tool..

The IBBT shall have the right to grant reprint permission to third parties and to receive reasonable royalties in such instances.