High-speed Optical Transmission

Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure, and an honour, to present this Special Issue of Applied Sciences, “High-Speed Optical Transmission 2020”. Transmission in optical fibres was the most significant technology vehicle that made current broadband internet services an everyday reality around the globe. Although optical transmission is at a high level of maturity, because of the demand for a continuous increase in the amount of data that travel per second along optical fibres, the upgrade of transmission systems is vital in order to avoid the well-known threat of capacity crunch. The Special Issue’s main goal is to present the recent advances in the investigation, design, and implementation of state of the art techniques and subsystems in order to enhance the capacity of optical transmission systems. Critical aspects that must be considered in the design of next generation high speed optical transmission systems are cybersecurity, cost, and energy footprint.

All papers need to present original, previously unpublished work, and will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review processes of this journal. There is the possibility of accepting a few review papers; prospective authors are encouraged to submit their review proposals. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Modulation formats, multiplexing schemes, and coding
• Transmission with massive and dense space and/or wavelength division multiplexing
• Digital signal processing techniques to mitigate distortions from nonlinear fiber propagation effects, including machine learning techniques
• Security aspects of optical transmission systems
• All-optical signal processing techniques, including new paradigms such as reservoir computing, for the mitigation of transmission impairments
• Novel transceiver configurations (Kramers–Kronig receivers, etc.)
• Optical transmission in new bands (O-band, E-band, etc.)

Prof. Adonis Bogris
Prof. Charis Mesaritakis
Guest Editors

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• Optical transmission
• Coherent detection
• Wavelength division multiplexing
• Space division multiplexing
• Digital signal pre- and post-compensation
• Forward error correction
• Neuromorphic computing
• Reservoir computing
• O-band optical amplifiers
• Optical phase conjugation
• Kramers-Kronig coherent receiver
• Probabilistic shaping
• Machine learning in optical transmission systems
• Nonlinear signal processing
• Mitigation of nonlinear propagation effects…