Modules and Sub-Systems for All Optical Network

Dear Colleagues,

The development of all optical networks is the foundation of the information society. The enabling technologies for all optical networks include wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing, wavelength switching, fiber channel switching, fiber link managing, optical power managing, optical transmitting and receiving, and optical fiber amplifying. These technical functions are realized through different modules and sub-systems.

This Special Issue invites manuscripts that introduce the recent advances in modules and sub-systems for all optical networks. All theoretical, numerical, and experimental papers are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing, such as arrayed waveguide grating (AWG), optical interleaver, etc;
• Wavelength switching, such as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM), wavelength selective switch (WSS), etc;
• Fiber channel switching, such as matrix optical switch, optical cross connect (OXC), high-speed optical switch, multi-cast switch (MCS), etc;
• Fiber link management, such as optical performance monitor (OPM), optical channel monitor (OCM), etc;
• Optical power management, such as dynamic channel equalizer (DCE), dynamic gain equalizer (DGE), array of variable optical attenuator (VOA), etc;
• Optical transmitting and receiving, such as tunable laser source (TLS), high-speed optical transceiver, coherent optical transceiver, etc;
• Optical fiber amplification, such as erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA), Raman fiber amplifier (RFA), semi-conductor optical amplifier (SOA), C+L-band fiber amplifier, etc.

Dr. Zhujun Wan
Prof. Dr. Haining Yang
Guest Editors

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• reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM)
• wavelength selective switch (WSS)
• optical cross connect (OXC)
• arrayed waveguide grating (AWG)
• optical performance monitor (OPM)
• dynamic gain equalizer (DGE)
• tunable laser source (TLS)
• erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA)
• semi-conductor optical amplifier (SOA)
• coherent optical transceiver