TOPIC 2 
SPECTROMETERS 

• Passive sounders for atmospheric monitoring
• Imaging spectrometers
• Hyperspectral instruments
• Multi-object spectrometry
• Miniaturized spectrometers 
• Echelle spectrometers 
• Etalon spectrometers  

TOPIC 3
LIDARS AND LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) 

• Wind, cloud, and aerosol measurement
• Green-house gasses monitoring (DIAL or other)
• Altimetry and ranging
• Composition of planetary geological bodies
• Multispectral Lidars 
• Synthetic aperture LIDAR 
• LIC and LIDT

TOPIC 4
METROLOGY (SENSORS, ATTITUDE CONTROL, NAVIGATION, INTERNAL METROLOGY) 

• Star-tracker sensors
• Earth and sun sensors
• Laser and fibre gyroscopes
• Attitude measurement systems
• In-flight measurement and calibration (active control and metrology)
• Rendez-vous and docking sensors
• Clocks and Frequency references
• Inertial sensors (accelerometers, gradiometers, gravimeters) classical and cold atoms
• Metrology for interferometers 
• Line of sight calibrations

TOPIC 5
SCIENTIFIC AND FOCAL PLANE INSTRUMENTATION 

• Nulling interferometry
• Integral field spectrograph 
• Astrometry 
• Coronagraphy

TOPIC 6
TELESCOPES AND LARGE OPTICS

• Technologies for large lightweight mirrors
• New materials and associated technologies
• Active large aperture telescopes
• Optical simulation and performance predictions
• Thermo-optical modeling
• Novel optical systems design
• Advances in metrology for large optics, wavefront sensing
• Actuation technologies for deformed mirrors
• Gamma and X-Ray
• VUV and EUV
• Far and Near Infra Red, sub millimetre
• Visible
• Multiple aperture optical systems

TOPIC 7
LASERS

• Semiconductor lasers
• Fiber lasers
• High power/energy solid state lasers
• Frequency combs
• Laser subcomponents (pump diodes, Pockels cells)
• Frequency Stabilised Lasers 
• Supercontinuum Lasers 

TOPIC 8
DETECTORS AND FOCAL PLANE TECHNOLOGIES 

• Detectors for visible wavelength: CCD, CMOS, EMdetectors, new concepts
• Detectors for infrared wavelength, cooled and uncooled : MCT, InGaAs, InSb, APD, QWIP, QCD, µbolometers…
• Detectors for UV wavelength: Silicon, intensified detectors, EB detectors, high bandgap materials
• Detectors for high energy (Xray, gray) : µcalorimeter,Silicon, narrow bandgap materials, massive materials
• Detectors for Submm and mm, for coherent detection :,bolometers, TES, KID, STJ, SSPD
• Advanced detector concepts
• Advanced concepts and components for detection electronics : readout circuits, AFE; architectures
• New materials for detectors
• Complex focal planes
• Spectral separation and filters
• Electronics for focal plane (ASIC's, COTS, hybrids, module, qualification) 
• Avalanche Photod- Diodes in HgCdTe 
• Measurement methods for performance assesment 

• TOPIC 9
• FIBER OPTICS AND MICROPHOTONICS
• Photonic Communications (analog and digital)
• Photonic Sensing (sensors and interrogation units)
• Photonic Microwave Signal Processing (signal generation-frequency conversion-switching-filtering-beam forming) 
• Photonic speciality applications (optical wireless, imaging fibers, opto-pyrotechnics)
• Photonics in Launchers 
• Acousto-optic and electro-optic modulators 
• Photonic Integrated Circuits 
• Qualification of optelectronic and active photonic components (transceivers, fiber amplifiers) and Qualification Standards

TOPIC 10
PASSIVE OPTICAL COMPONENTS

• Polarizing components and polarisation control
• Thin-films coatings, Dense Coatings
• Lenses and Collimatos
• Diffractive and reflective optics
• Waveguides, Photonic Crystal Fibers
• Fiber Cables and Fiber Connectors
• WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) and splitters
• Faraday isolators
• Frequency doubling and conversion
• Qualification of passive optical components and Qualification Standards

TOPIC 11
OPTICAL AND QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS

• In-orbit and ground demonstrations and missions
• Present and future optical communication systems and technologies
• Optical feeder-links
• Optical communication systems for satellite constellations
• Deep-space optical communication 
• Quantum Key Distribution
• Direct to Earth Links
• Optical Ground Station technologies
• Optical Feeder Links

TOPIC 12
OTHERS

• Light scattering-straylight
• Defect and sub-surface damage detection
• Optical systems contamination measurement and control
• Cryogenic optical systems
• Optical verification methods Optical Ground support Equipment
• Packaging of Optoelectronics & Photonics