Transportation from the Václav Havel Airport Prague
Convenient way is the trolleybus Line 59 from Prague Airport (the bus stops in front of both Terminals) to Nádraží Veleslavín station (it is the end stop of trolleybus Line 59).
Then take subway line A (green line) from Nádraží Veleslavín station to Dejvická station (2nd station in Depo Hostivař direction), where the conference venue Hotel Diplomat is located.
You can use a 50 CZK ticket (this ticket is valid for 90 min after validating it in the bus). You can find information or buy tickets in public transport info centers at the airport.
The info centers are located at the arrivals hall of both terminals and are open daily from 7:00 to 21:00. They offer all the relevant information on the operation of public transport in Prague, its routes, timetables and fares (free of charge). In addition to information, they offer in particular: Single-trip and short-term time tickets valid for 24 hours or for 1, 3 days respectively, timetables for trams and buses (from whatever stop), a map of Prague complete with its public transport network.
26th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON 2026
and 16th Sub-Wavelength Photonics Conference (SWP)
and 6th Conference on Advanced Fibre Lasers and Coherent Sources (AFLaser)
Prague, Czech Republic, July 12-16, 2026
Co-located with:
- 23rd European Symposium on Photonic Crystals (ESPC)
- 23rd Workshop on All-Optical Routing (WAOR)
- 21st Global Optical & Wireless Networking Seminar (GOWN)
- 20th Anniversary Optical Wireless Workshop (OWW)
- 20th Anniversary Photonic Integrated Components & Applications Workshop (PICAW)
- 20th Anniversary Reliability Issues in Next Generation Optical Networks Workshop (RONEXT)
- 19th Nanophotonics for All-Optical Networking Workshop (NAON)
- 19th Workshop on Photonic Microresonators and Resonant Devices (PMRD)
- 19th Special Session on Novel Glasses for photonic devices
- 16th Workshop on Broadband Access and Edge Networking
- 15th Anniversary Workshop on Communication in Transportation Systems (CTS)
- 14th Workshop on Green Optical Communications (GOC)
- 14th Special Session on Microwave Photonics (MWP)
- 11th Workshop on 6G Network Operation (6GNeO)
- 10th Anniversary Workshop on Technology for Data Center Interconnects (DACINT)
- 10th Anniversary Workshop on Datacenter Networks (DCN)
- 10th Anniversary Workshop on 5G Transport Networks (5GT)
- 9th Workshop on Fiber-Wireless Network Technologies and Architectures towards 5G and Beyond (FiWiN5G)
- 9th Workshop on Quantum Photonics (QPhot)
- 9th Workshop on Multi-Layer Network Orchestration (NetOrch)
- 8th Workshop on Novel Optical Amplifiers (NOA)
- 8th Workshop on Super-Resolution Imaging and Sensing (SRIS)
- 8th Workshop on High Capacity SDM-WDM Optical Networking (SDM-WDM)
- 8th Workshop on Flexible and High-Capacity Optical Networks (Flex-ON)
- 7th Workshop on Optical Microscopy Techniques (OMT)
- 6th Workshop on Integration of Optical and Satellite Communication Systems into 5G Edge Networks (OSCto5G)
- 6th Workshop on Quantum Communications (QC)
- 6th Workshop on Multi-band Open Optical Networks (MOON)
- 6th Workshop on Machine Learning for Optical Communications (MALOC)
- 6th Workshop on THz Photonics (THzPho)
- 5th Anniversary Workshop on Progress in Nonlinear Photonics and Applications (PNPA)
- 5th Anniversary Workshop on Innovative Photonic Technologies for the Future High Capacity Metro Network (PhotoMAN)
- 5th Anniversary Workshop on SDN-NFV Challenges and Solutions (SDN-NFV)
- 5th Anniversary Workshop on Softwarization and Virtualization of Optical Access Networks (OptSoft)
- 5th Anniversary Workshop on Microstructured Optical Fibers (MOF)
- 4th Special Session on Space-Division Multiplexing for High-Capacity Transmission (SDM)
- 4th Workshop ‘Women in telecommunication and optical networks: Highlighting diverse voices in optical networks’ (WeInTel)
- 4th Workshop on Enabling technologies toward 6G Networks (TECHto6G)
- 3rd Special Session on Novel Optical Fiber Sensing Techniques (NOFSeT)
- 3rd ICTON Demo Zone
- 2nd Workshop on Photonic Metasurfaces
- 2nd Workshop on Trustworthiness and Physical Layer Security (TPLS)
- 2nd Workshop on Programmable Photonics and their Applications
- Workshop on Laser Technologies for Smart Manufacturing, Space and Bio-Tech Applications (LasApp)
- NEW! EWOC final conference on optical-wireless convergence for future 6G networks
- NEW! Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensing of Critical Infrastructures
The National Institute of Telecommunications, Optical Communications division in Warsaw, Poland, together with the Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences, and the IEEE Photonics Society Poland Chapter are pleased to announce the 26th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON 2026 in Prague, Czech Republic, July 12-16, 2026. Technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Photonics Society is foreseen.
Being the capital of Czech Republic, Prague is filled with historical sites and cultural events. Prague is one of the most attractive cities in Europe, with a number of interesting sites to visit. Prague is easily reachable by plane, Václav Havel Airport Prague is just around the corner!
ICTON 2026 will be held as an in-person-only meeting.
The scope of the Conference and co-located events is focused on the applications of transparent and all-optical technologies in telecommunications, computing, sensing, imaging, and quantum applications. Conference topics include but are not limited to:
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