The general chair of ACP 2014 is Professor ZuyuanHe, the director of state key laboratory of advanced optical communication systems and networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a distinguished expert of “one thousand plan”. Professor Shaohua Yu from Wuhan institution of posts and telecommunications scienceis the TPC chair. Moreover, Professor Connie Chang-Hasnain from The University of California, Berkeley, Professor Lena Wosinska from The Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, and Professor Yasuhiko Arakawa from The University of Tokyo, are the general co-chairs. Professor Yi Dong from Shanghai Jiao Tong University is the chair of the local organization committee. The conference is supported by ShanghaiJiao Tong University, Peking University, and the national Natural Science Foundation of China. And the conference is  sponsored by Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications, China Fiber Optic Network System Group LTD.,Luster LightTech and so on.

In the opening ceremony, Prof. Hong Mei, the vice President of SJTU,and Prof. Philip Bucksbaum, the chairman of the optical society of Americagavea speech on behalf of the organizer and academic society, respectively. ACP2014 has invited the worldwide famous scientists and experts including Prof. Hequan Wu, ex-vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Prof. MasatakaNakazawa from Tohoku university, Prof. John Bowers from the University of California,Santa Barbara, and Prof. Philip Russell fromMax-Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany. Excellent talks covering the topics includingbroadband strategy and technology of china, large capacity optical transmission, silicon photonics, and microstructure fiber, were given during the plenary session.