The primary goal of FOAN is to bring together and present the latest research in fiber optics technologies aimed at end-users, both residential and business. The workshop is designed to create an opportunity for learning by gathering scientists and experts from academia, industry, and network operators who will share their knowledge, experience and ideas.

Venue

Regional Centre for Innovation &

Technology Transfer

Szczecin, Jagiellonska 20-21 Street

West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, 70-363

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How to reach Szczecin

✈️ By air

Szczecin–Goleniów Airport (SZZ), located approximately 30 minutes from the city center, offers regular international flights to Norway, Ireland, and the United Kingdom, as well as domestic connections from Warsaw and Kraków. Transport from the airport to Szczecin is available by bus or train.
Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) (Willy Brandt), one of the largest airports in Europe, is situated around a two-hour drive from Szczecin. Regular shuttle bus services to the city are provided by Follow Me. Alternatively, you may arrive via Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW) and continue your journey to Szczecin by domestic flight or by train. | Check train timetables

🚗 By car

Szczecin is easily accessible via well-developed motorway and expressway networks connecting it with both Poland and Germany.

🚌 By bus or train

Szczecin’s main railway and bus stations provide direct connections from major cities in Poland and neighboring countries.

We look forward to welcoming you to Szczecin!

Previous FOAN Workshops

Invited/Keynote Speakers

Following successful workshops in

Moscow (2010), Budapest (2011),

St. Petersburg (2012), Almaty (2013),

Brno (2015), Lisbon (2016), Munich (2017), Sarajevo (2019), Ljubljana (2021),

Valencia (2022), Ghent (2023), and Athens (2024).

Invited/Keynote Speakers

The invited speaker has not submitted a paper for the FOAN 2025 proceedings.
Keynote speakers are selected from among the authors of peer-reviewed, accepted papers.
Based on the invited talk, the speaker will be invited to publish in the journal Fiber and Integrated Optics.

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Invited/Keynote Speakers

Note

Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

All previously published proceedings are indexed in the Web of Science (Core Selection) and Scopus databases.

The journal Fiber and Integrated Optics will publish a special issue based on presented papers/presentations.

Author's area

Deadline

Abstract submission: May 1
Full paper submission: May 14
Notification of acceptance: June 30
Camera-ready: August 10
Date of FOAN2025: September 9-11

Register yourself

Authors of accepted papers must register and pay the registration fee before August 1, 2025 (early registration deadline). All registration and payment transactions will be handled via the EDAS conference system using a credit card. If you need to use a wire transfer, please contact the conference chair.

Submit your paper for review in IEEE format

Follow these steps to upload the final version of your paper and present it:

1. Carefully proofread your paper before submitting.

2. Prepare the PDF file with the following specifications:

IEEE single-spaced, two-column format
Paper must be formatted to fit A4 size
No page numbers (they will be added automatically)
Do not insert footers or headers
Do not apply any PDF security features

3. Ensure that your paper is created using the IEEE templates (see above).

Prepare the PDF file according to the IEEE PDF specifications.
You can download the template from this link: IEEE Template (A4)
The proceedings producer will insert page numbers, so make sure they are not included in your submission.
Do not insert footers, headers, or the IEEE copyright notice.
Ensure your PDF is fully accessible and editable for numbering and production purposes.
Do not include hyperlinks in the text.

Template can be downloaded from:

https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/conferences/conference-template-a4.docx

Submit your paper

Registration fees

Registration fees include lunches and other standard conference amenities.

Authors - early; before August 1.

no IEEE member: - 350 EURO

IEEE member: - 320 EURO

Author - late; after August 1.

no IEEE member: - 490 EURO

IEEE member: - 450 EURO

No paper attendees

Early, before August 1 - 540 EURO

Late, after August 1 - 650 EURO

Student registration:

We encourage students to attend FOAN.

There are several possibilities for students from the academy:

Two days - 110 EURO
One day - 60 EURO

Large discount on recommendation of professor/supervisor (member of TCP);

One day registration

No paper attendee - early - 290 Euro

Student: - 60 Euro

Accompany person

One day - 105 Euro

Two days - 195 Euro

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Topics

ACCESS NETWORKS

new opportunities with FOAN technologies such as XGPON, XSGPON, 10GEPON, NGPON2, UDWDMPON, Passive Optical LANs (POLANs), Colored PON, FTTx, EP2P, AE, and 50G PON
coexistence of different PON systems
standardization efforts related to 100G PON
experimental research on 100G PON, 200G PON, 300G PON, and 400G PON
predictions and theoretical analyses for 400G PON and 1T PON
flexibility in PON networks, PON virtualization
hybrid networks
integration of different network technologies: fiber, FSO, wireless, and Wi-Fi 6/7
new architectures and topologies
latency and other performance parameters in access and metro networks
wavelength routers
new types of splitters

ACCESS NETWORK EXPLOITATION

cost-effective upgrades and transition strategies for access systems
flexible network architectures
legacy system compatibility
regulatory standards and their impact on access network development
network overlaps, such as FTTH and mobile backhaul

SHORT-DISTANCE FIBER OPTICS AND PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS

intra-company networking
in-house networking
in-vehicle communications
optical wireless communication
photonics in Industry 4.0

BACKHAUL

mobile backhaul and fronthaul
integration of mobile and FTTH networks
fiber optics in 5G networks
cloud RAN

SENSOR AND SENSOR NETWORKS

fiber optic sensors
sensors in broadband networks
IoT sensors and actuators for home/office applications
free-space optics (FSO) sensors
plasmonic nanostructures in fiber sensing applications
fully optical sensor networks
hybrid sensor networks

PHOTONICS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (PICs) in ACCESS AND METRO NETWORKS

cost- and energy-efficient systems
GaAs/InP, LiNbO3, SiN, SOI, and other materials
hybrid InP/SOI integration
PICs for PON networks
high-capacity radio systems based on microwave and millimeter-wave frequency bands
plasmonic nanostructures in fiber optics applications
photonic network-on-a-chip

OPTICAL WIRELESS AND RADIO OVER FIBER

optical wireless communications for indoor access networks
free-space optics (FSO) for metro and in-building applications

IoT - INTERNET OF THINGS

applications where IoT extends access networks
IoT architectures in urban and home environments
massive IoT, IoT in 5G/6G networks
energy harvesting for IoT devices
IoT protocols and security

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Committees

General Chair

Edvin Skaljo, BH Telecom&University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

TPC chair

Gerd Keiser, Boston University & PhotonicsComm Solutions, USA

Publication Chair

Emir Karamehmedovic, International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Local Organising Committee

Patryk Urban, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin

Błażej Jabłoński, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin

Eliza Miśkiewicz, West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin

Steering Committee

Bostjan Batagelj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Petr Munster, Brno University of Technology & CESNET, Czech Republic

Kimio Oguchi, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Henri Hodara, Symbioptix, USA

Emir Karamehmedovic, International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Patryk Urban, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland

Technical Program Committee

In alphabetical order

Farhad Arpanaei, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Bostjan Batagelj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Sergey B. Biryuchinskiy, Vigitek, Inc., USA

Damir Breskovic, Hrvatski Telekom, Croatia

Ali Butt, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Nicola Calabretta, COBRA Research Institute, The Netherlands

Francesco Da Ros, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Ronald Freund, HHI Fraunhofer, Germany

Giannis Giannoulis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Tomas Horvath, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Giannis Kanakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Kyeong Soo Kim, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University China

Hideaki Kimura, Chubu University, Japan

George S. Kliros, Hellenic Air-Force Academy, Greece

Tamara M. Knyazyan, National Polytechnic University of Armenia

Deepak Kumar, University of the Cumberlands, USA

Thomas Lagkas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Shien-Kuei Peter Liaw, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Adriana Lipovac, University of Dubrovnik, Croatia

Petar S Matavulj, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Francesco Matera, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy

Aljo Mujčić, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Petr Munster, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Kimio Oguchi, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Ricardo Oliveira, IT - Aveiro, Portugal

Oskars Ozoliņš, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Christophe Peucheret, University of Rennes, France

Jurgis Porins, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Claudio Porzi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy

Jakup Ratkoceri, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Simon Rommel, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Harjeevan Singh, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, India

Sandis Spolitis, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Erna Sugesti, Telkom University, Indonesia

Shirmohammad Tavangari, University of Cambridge, USA

Antonio Teixeira, DETI, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Adrian J Torregrosa, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Spain

Patryk Urban, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland

Shuwen Zeng, French National Centre for Scientific Research

Marian Marciniak, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland

Jarosław P. Turkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Non-academic Committee

to be formed soon

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Said about FOAN

Cristina Contero Almagro, Partner en @Aphaia, Portugal

Cornel Barbut VicePresident of AFOR Association of Fiber Optic Romania

FOAN2019 was an enriching experience we are very grateful to have been part of, and we are already looking forward for FOAN2020!

Cornel Barbut VicePresident of AFOR Association of Fiber Optic Romania

FOAN 2021 which I saw it as an excellent high quality event on Fiber Optics in Europe. On my opinion I can put it at the same level with FTTH Council Europe conference and ECOC on top 3 yearly events on Fiber Optic in Europe for the fiber optic specialists.

Anis Maslo Head of Access network Department at BH Telecom

Cornel Barbut VicePresident of AFOR Association of Fiber Optic Romania

Anis Maslo Head of Access network Department at BH Telecom

What Messi and Ronaldo are to the world of football, the FOAN invited speakers are the same to the world of fiber optics.

Venue

Previous FOAN Workshops

Invited/Keynote Speakers

Invited/Keynote Speakers

Invited/Keynote Speakers

Invited/Keynote Speakers

Invited/Keynote Speakers

Note

Invited/Keynote Speakers

Note

Author's area

Topics

ACCESS NETWORKS

ACCESS NETWORK EXPLOITATION

SHORT-DISTANCE FIBER OPTICS AND PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS

BACKHAUL

SENSOR AND SENSOR NETWORKS

PHOTONICS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (PICs) in ACCESS AND METRO NETWORKS

OPTICAL WIRELESS AND RADIO OVER FIBER

IoT - INTERNET OF THINGS

Committees

General Chair

TPC chair

Publication Chair

Local Organising Committee

Steering Committee

Technical Program Committee

Non-academic Committee

Partners and technical co-sponsors

Sponsors

Said about FOAN

Cristina Contero Almagro, Partner en @Aphaia, Portugal

Cornel Barbut VicePresident of AFOR Association of Fiber Optic Romania

Cornel Barbut VicePresident of AFOR Association of Fiber Optic Romania

Cornel Barbut VicePresident of AFOR Association of Fiber Optic Romania

Cornel Barbut VicePresident of AFOR Association of Fiber Optic Romania

Cornel Barbut VicePresident of AFOR Association of Fiber Optic Romania

Anis Maslo Head of Access network Department at BH Telecom

Cornel Barbut VicePresident of AFOR Association of Fiber Optic Romania

Anis Maslo Head of Access network Department at BH Telecom

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