Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
· Theory of passive, active and nonlinear waveguide devices
· Simulation and design of photonic integrated systems
· Waveguide grating structures
· Input/output waveguide coupling aspects
· Photonic bandgap structures and photonic crystals
· Photonic nanostructures and metamaterials
· Plasmonics
· Advances in numerical methods
· Progress in mode solvers
· Mathematical models and numerical methods
· Device and system-oriented modelling
· Coupling of electronic, photonic, elastic and thermal effects
· Solid-state lasers and light-matter coupling in waveguides