Enabling Technologies for Optical Communications and Networking
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Communication and Network".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2025 | Viewed by 9595
Special Issue Editors
Interests: long-haul coherent optical systems; datacenter interconnections; digital signal processing; optical fiber sensing; optical performance monitoring
Interests: coherent optical transmission; passive optical networks; digital signal processing; machine learning; advanced modulation; optical performance monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Both internet-based applications and industrial production facilities rely on complex optical communication and network infrastructures to meet connectivity requirements. With the development of cloud computing, IOT, 4K/8K video streaming, VR and other high-bandwidth services, optical communications require higher bandwidth and data transfer rates to support massive data streams. Therefore, it is necessary to design the advanced architectures of optical communication systems and networks, efficient signal processing algorithms and reasonable network resource optimization schemes to improve the operation efficiency of the entire network. Meanwhile, faced with complex network architecture, a more effective optical network control and management schemes are needed to realize performance monitoring, intelligent operation, and autonomous alarm analysis. In recent years, high-order modulation formats, constellation shaping, advanced coding/decoding, faster-than-Nyquist, machine-learning-assisted signal damage mitigation, anomaly impairment perception, integrating optical communication with sensing, optical layer security, network architecture optimization, and resource management techniques have been researched and developed to accommodate the exponential growth of traffic and support resilient, secure, and cost-effective networking.
This Special Issue aims to publish papers on emerging and enabling technologies for huge-capacity optical transmission, high-speed optical access, low-cost optical performance monitoring, and efficient optical networking.
In this Special Issue, both original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Backbone/Core/Access /Indoor /Data center networks;
- Optical transmission systems and subsystems;
- Network architectures, control and management of optical networking;
- Signal processing and impairment mitigation;
- Artificial intelligence for optical communication and networking;
- Optical performance monitoring;
- Integrating optical communication with sensing;
- Theory of optical communications;
- Optical layer security;
- Photonics for RF and free-space optics applications;
- Quantum technologies, systems, and networks.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Xian Zhou
Prof. Xue Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical transmission
- optical access
- optical networking
- signal processing and impairment mitigation
- artificial intelligence for optical communication and networking
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