Paper submission deadline is extended from June 26, 2014 to July 26, 2014!

Plenary talks 

	Prof. Rodney S. Tucker (IEEE/OSA Fellow) University of Melbourne, Australia Title: Towards a Green Internet
	Dr. Ori Gerstel (IEEE Fellow, EiC of JOCN) Founder / Chief Consultant at SDN Solutions Ltd, Israel Title: Likely and unlikely directions for the evolution of the optical layer
	Dr. Peter J. Winzer (IEEE/OSA Fellow, EiC of JLT) Optical Transmission Systems and Networks Research Department, Bell Labs Title: Spatial Multiplexing: The Final Frontier in Optical Network Capacity Scaling

News: The authors of a number of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to Special Issues of the Springer journal of Photonic Network Communications (a formal review process will be carried out; however, the first decision on each submitted paper will be out within 2 months).

Paper submission: Prospective authors must submit original papers of not more than four (4) pages in standard IEEE format (or using the ICOCN2014 template) using the EDA submission system, https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18241. Note that there are three tracks in the paper submission main webpage, and for each track, there are two entrances respective for regular paper submission and invited paper submission. Please choose the links according to the categories.

Welcome to Suzhou! (Call for papers)

The 13th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN) will be held during November 9-10, 2014 at Suzhou, one of the most beautiful cities in China (see Wikipedia introduction). The conference and symposium aim to provide a premier opportunity for professionals, experts, engineers, scientists and industrial people worldwide in the field of research, development and applications of photonics to share and exchange their experience. Three will be three tracks including (1) Optical networks, (2) Optical transmission subsystems and techniques, (3) Photonic devices and integration.

History of ICOCN