Advanced Optical Communications

As technology progresses, demand for information has become more immediate, driven by the Internet. The exponential increase of data traffic over the past few decades has facilitated the development of technologies capable of delivering higher capacities. Optical fiber communications have heralded a revolution in the high-speed transmission of information across the globe, in perfect synergy with the advent of world-changing concepts such as the worldwide web, big data transmission and processing, video communication or high-definition on-demand entertainment. The capacity of fiber optic communication systems has experienced a steady and rapid growth over the years, adapting to the ever-growing requirements of society. In recent years, however, worries have arisen regarding the theoretical capacity limits of fiber-optic technology, and several methods have been proposed to overcome the barrier posed by the nonlinear Shannon limit. 

This Special Issue on “Advanced Optical Communications” in Applied Sciences aims for solutions that allow higher capacity transmission using novel optical amplifiers, advanced algorithms for digital coherent detection and encoding, as well as advanced computational and experimental methods for the compensation of nonlinear effects that will allow for accommodating less noise-resistant high-level modulation formats to handle capacity requirements in a single and multimode optical fibers. 

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• novel optical amplifiers
• digital coherent detection
• nonlinear compensation
• digital backpropagation
• Raman amplification
• digital signal processing