Advancements in Optical Information Processing and Communication Technologies
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 868
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ultra-high-speed coherent optical transmission; next-generation optical access network; optical network performance monitoring; wired/wireless fused optical communication
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: photonic signal processing; optical parametric amplifier; nonlinear optics; nonlinear optical devices; phase-sensitive amplifier
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the breakthrough of low-loss optical fiber in 1970, optical communication has become one of the most popular communication methods due to its high bandwidth, low loss and large transmission range. Since then, optical communication has changed the way the world is connected. Optical communication technology has been widely applied in various fields of industry and life, and it involves many important disciplines. Its connectivity covers a variety of scenarios, including transoceanic transmission, fixed networks, free space communications, and converged access. With the increasing demand for bandwidth, new optical communication theories and technologies are constantly being explored, including emerging disciplines such as multi-band optical transmission, optical information processing, and integrated photonic devices that have developed in recent years. The advantages of optical information processing technology include its high speed, high precision, non-contact, non-destructive quality, and other characteristics. It is applied to various scenarios including optical computing, optical recognition, optical storage, and optical transmissions. It combines communication and optics, successfully solving many scientific problems and injecting new vitality into the field, hence becoming a very active research direction.
With the advent of digital transformation, digital economy, and digital society, the fields of optical information processing and communication will face a new round of active periods and important technological changes. At the same time, optical information processing and communication technology will be widely applied in fields such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence.
Several key topics in the field of optical information processing and communication include the following:
- Optic communication systems and subsystems;
- Advanced optical transmissions and interconnections;
- Photonic signal processing;
- Optical computing for AI acceleration;
- The integration and packaging of optical devices.
Dr. Tao Yang
Dr. Jiabin Cui
Dr. Kunpeng Zhai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical transmissions
- optical interconnections
- optical information processing
- optical computing
- integrated photonic devices
- nonlinear optics
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