OCOIP 2023 is soliciting original submissions on a wide range of optical communications and optical information processing, spanning both theoretical and practical research.

Submission Types

During the submission process, make sure to select one type of submissions from the following 2 options.

Submission Type	Description and Details
Full paper submission	Full paper submissions should be prepared in English (DOC) and formatted according to the formatting instructions in the paper template. Primary screening and peer review will be made. Peer-reviewed accepted and registered papers will be published in OCOIP 2023 conference proceedings. For each accepted paper, at least one author must attend the conference and present the paper. Authors of all accepted papers must prepare a final version for publication, a poster presentation or a short video/live oral presentation.
Abstract submission	Abstract submissions should be prepared in English (DOC or PDF), including Title, Authors, Affiliation(s), Abstract and Keywords. Once approved by the conference committee, the extended abstract can be presented at the conference, but NOT published in proceedings.

Submit Flow

Submit full paper/abstract to info@ocoip.com for preliminary screening, along with your full name, affiliation, telephone (in the Chinese Mainland) or alternate mailbox (out of the Chinese Mainland). We will reply you in 1-2 working days.

For suitable submission authors, we will guide you to the online submission and reviewing system of the publisher for double peer review process. The whole review process may take about 1 month, including first-round comments, authors' modification, further comments and acceptance.

The status "Pending" means your paper is waiting for reviewers or under review with reviewers and you need to wait. Please contact info@ocoip.com for more details about paper status.

You will get paper decision letters through info@ocoip.com with detailed guidelines for following steps, until final publishing. Hope you can add info@ocoip.com in your email white list.

• Step 1.To keep scientific integrity, one of our editors will check if it has potential problem of plagiarism. Papers not passing the plagiarism check will be desk rejected immediately.
• Step 2.Then the editor will conduct initial check to ensure the submission falls within the scope of the conference and decide if it merits further review in 1-2 working days after submission. Once passed the initial check, the manuscript will be assigned to reviewers for double-blind peer review.
• Step 3.Each selected submission will be reviewed by at least two or three independent expert reviewers in the field on originality, validity, quality and academic merit, and readability.
• Step 4.The peer review reports received from the experts will be judged by the editor with international scientific standards.
• Step 5.The logical and valid peer review reports will be sent to the authors for them to revise the manuscript accordingly. For invalid reports, the editor may either assign a new reviewer or make a judgement based on his/her own.
• Step 6.Authors are required to respond to the peer review comments in details and revise their paper according to the points raised.
• Step 7.The revised manuscript will then be evaluated by the editor whether the points raised by the reviewers have been fully addressed or not.
• Step 8.Then the editor will send the revised manuscript to the reviewers again for re-evaluation.
• Step 9.If the reviewers approve the revised version of the manuscript, then the Editor-in-Chief will make a final decision on acceptance for the publication.

Note

All submitted articles should report original research results, experimental or theoretical, not previously published or under consideration for publication elsewhere. Articles submitted to the conference should meet these criteria. We firmly believe that ethical conduct is the most essential virtue of any academics. Hence, any act of plagiarism or other misconduct is totally unacceptable and cannot be tolerated.