Quantum-Enabled Optical Communications and Networks
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2025 | Viewed by 746
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advancements in quantum-enabled systems present a variety of new opportunities and challenges. Quantum-enabled optical communication promises to efficiently solve many of the existing problems in classical communication by exploiting the quantum properties of photons. Indeed, the versatility of off-the-shelf optical components and the rapidly advancing integrated photonics technology has opened the way to applications ranging from satellite quantum communications to fiber-based local area quantum networks. As technologies advance, researchers across the globe continue to work on developing local area quantum networks for applications in fields such as cryptography, telecommunications, and distributed computing, to form a quantum internet. All these developments open a wide range of potential new research areas in optical devices, communications, networks, and sensing applications, spanning both the near and long term.
This Special Issue welcomes broad research on key emerging areas, including topics such as quantum-enhanced security technologies in optical transmission systems, wavelength conversion and quantum computer/memory interfaces, quantum-enhanced receivers, quantum repeater network architectures for multi-partite entanglement distribution and teleportation, single-photon sources and single-photon detectors, quantum sensor networks, and distributed quantum applications.
Dr. M. V. Jabir
Guest Editor
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