Innovations on Free Space Optical Communications and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 313
Special Issue Editor
Interests: networking; network measurement; switching; routing; peer-to-peer
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is a Special Issue of MDPI's Applied Sciences on Innovations in free-space optical communication (FSOC). This issue aims to publish high quality research on different and novel approaches to free-space optical communications, also known as optical wireless. Light is becoming the ultimate frontier for communications, due to its high bandwidth and far-reaching range, and has been empowering communication networks to provide high data rates that in turn enable applications requiring distant responses and big-data communications in many different scenarios. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts within the scope of the Special Issue, which includes but is not limited to the following topics:
- Optical wireless communication applications for future networks
- Free space optics for UAV communications
- Free space optics for underwater communications
- Optical networks on power grid communications
- Flexible-grid elastic optical networks
- Protection, restoration, and security in optical networks
- Hybrid radio frequency/free-space optical communication systems and networks
- Acquisition, tracking, and pointing for free-space optical communications
- Devices, electronics, and circuits for free-space optics
- Software defined networking for optical networks
- Virtualization of optical networks
- Energy-efficient/green optical communications and networks
- Optical communications, systems, and devices for data-center networks
- Optical communications in health and medicine
- New paradigms and position ideas on light communications
Prof. Dr. Roberto Rojas-Cessa
Guest Editor
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