Next-Generation Optical Communication Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the ever-increasing mobile data traffic generated by various emerging applications and services such as VR/AR, Internet of things, and Industry 4.0, the future communication systems need to have abundant spectrum resources and support very high-speed data transmission. To this end, optical communication technologies have revealed great potential due to their ability to achieve high data rates via both wired and wireless means. This Special Issue focuses on the development of next-generation optical communication technologies. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Optical fiber transmission;
• Optical wireless communication (OWC);
• Visible light communication (VLC);
• Visible light positioning (VLP);
• Optical camera communication (OCC);
• Radio-over-fiber (RoF) communication;
• Underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC);
• Integrated sensing and communications with OWC;
• Digital signal processing (DSP) techniques for optical communication;
• Machine learning/artificial intelligence (ML/AI)for optical communication

Dr. Bangjiang Lin
Dr. Xiong Deng
Dr. Chen Chen
Guest Editors

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