New Trends in Optical Networks

Dear Colleagues,

A photonics-enhanced information and communication infrastructure will be the key enabler that the future digital society, industry, and economy will rely upon, shared by humans and machines. This infrastructure will be connected to a myriad of connected devices. It will require unprecedented capacity, energy, and cost efficiency and ultrafast responsivity for time-sensitive applications for humans and robots.

This Topical Collection covers recent advances and new trends in the research and standardization of optical networks with high impact on the future digitized society and economy, encompassing all network layers, from new optical components to smart network operations. Covered topics include, but are not limited to, the following: new materials, technologies, and production processes for integrated photonics devices, for example, graphene and CMOS photonics modulators, photodectors, and switches; ultra-high-speed optical transport networks, beyond terabit/s; broadband optical amplification; high bandwidth density and energy-efficient interconnection systems; co-packaged electrical and optical ICs; photonics applications for broadband radio systems; optical generation and detection of millimeter waves and THz; optical wireless communications; optical beamforming; new switching paradigms for flexible capacity scaling, low latency, and time-deterministic networking; new network architecture and control paradigms; self-configuring optical networks; virtualized highly flexible network control; integrated fixed-mobile architectures; convergence of mobile, optical, and cloud computing; evolution of NFV, SDN, and AI-based network control; multi-domain routing; secure optical networking; quantum secure networks. Survey papers and reviews are welcome.

Dr. Fabio Cavaliere
Prof. Dr. Luca Potì
Collection Editors

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