Paper Submission Guideline

Paper Submission due date:
23:59:59 ~~February 28~~ March 12, 2025 (JST, UTC+9)

How to register a new account

Paper submission system will be closed temporarily
on the schedule below due to maintenance.
~~February 13, 2025 (Thu) JST~~

Step 1 : Prepare your manuscript using the template

Each author is requested to write a 35-word abstract and a three-page paper using the designated template.
However, a reference page can carry over into the 4th page.
Please DO NOT change the layout or font pre-set on this template.

Step 2 : Create PDF file

Authors must create a PDF file to submit the manuscript.
The PDF file MUST be IEEE Xplore compliant to be published on it. To ensure this, we strongly recommend to use the IEEE PDF eXpress at https://ieee-pdf-express.org
You will need the Conference ID for OECC/PSC 2025.
Conference ID: 62146X

[ Instruction for PDF eXpress ]

First-time users should do the following:

Select the New Users - Click Here link.
Enter the following:

- 62146X for the Conference ID
- your email address
- a password

Continue to enter information as prompted.

An Online confirmation will be displayed and an email confirmation will be sent verifying your account setup.

Previous users of PDF eXpress need to follow the above steps, but should enter the same password that was used for previous conferences. Verify that your contact information is valid.

Step 3 : Submission

The submission will be made via the on-line submission system, "Confit."
Go to the system from the button at the top of this page. Procedure on the system is as follows;

Log in with Confit Log-in ID and password. If you don't have the Confit account, create a new account.
Click “New Submission” and follow the procedure filling in the “Authors/Affiliations”, “Presentation Information”, “Copyright Transfer” and “File Upload” pages.
You can add another submission or edit the previous submission by logging in your account until the submission deadline.

Topic Category

During the submission procedure, you have to choose one of following categories for presentation in the proper technical session.

OECC

O1. Core/Access/Data Center Networks and Subsystems
O2. Transmission Systems and Subsystems
O3. Optical Fibers, Cables, Fiber Devices and Fiber Sensing
O4. Optical Active Devices and Modules
O5. Optical Passive Devices and Modules

PSC

P1. Photonic Switching Devices, Systems, and Networks
P2. Photonics for Computing and Deep Learning Applications

Copyright

All rights are reserved by the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (the "IEICE"), for all accepted contributed and invited papers.
In the event the submitted paper is not accepted or is withdrawn by the author(s) before acceptance, the agreement of copyright transfer becomes null and void. For further information, please refer to the “Copyright Transfer” page on the submission system.

IEEE Xplore

The accepted and presented papers will be published in the OECC/PSC2025 Proceedings and will be available on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. (No-show papers will not be published on IEEE Xplore.)

Important Notice for Authors

- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the Conference by May 14, 2025 for the paper to be presented in the Conference. In other words, if no author registers for the conference, the paper will not be included in the Technical Digest.
- Please note that the number of presentations per fully registered person is limited to three including invited papers.
(Presentation at the workshops is not included to this limit.)

OECC/PSC 2025 Program Office
c/o JTB Communication Design, Inc
E-mail: oeccpsc2025-p@jtbcom.co.jp