OFC’s technical conference
Postdeadline Papers
OFC’s postdeadline papers, presented on the final day of the conference, highlighted the very latest research developments in optical networking and communications. Drawn from late-breaking submissions, these presentations spotlighted important new results and advances that will help shape the future direction of the field. This year’s postdeadline papers included research on the following topics:
aircraft-to-geostationary-satellite links
OpticsGPT as a vertically pre-trained foundation model for optics and optical communication
high-resolution trans-oceanic distributed acoustic sensing
field-validated orbital-angular-momentum-based submarine communication
barium titanate enabling 1.6T on silicon photonics
“From the technical program and post-deadline papers to the discussions taking place across the conference, OFC 2026 highlighted the value of bringing research and industry together in one forum,” said OFC General Chair Johannes Fischer, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Inst. “That exchange is essential to advancing the insight, side-by-side evaluation and interoperability that help move important technologies closer to real-world deployment.”