Trends In Opto-electro & Optical Communication

About the Journal

Trends in Opto-electro & Optical Communication

Trends in Opto Electro & Optical Communication [2231-0401(e)] is a peer-reviewed hybrid open-access journal launched in 2011 focused on the rapid publication of fundamental research papers on all areas of Opto Electro & Optical Communication.

Focus & Scope

Optical Communication Systems: Optical transmitters and receivers, optical links, modulation and detection techniques, coherent communication, intensity-modulation systems, high-capacity optical transmission, and system performance analysis.
Fiber-Optic Communication: Single-mode and multimode fibers, specialty fibers, plastic optical fibers, fiber dispersion, attenuation, nonlinear effects, optical link design, fiber characterization, and long-haul communication.
Optical Networks: Optical network architecture, wavelength-routed networks, metro and access networks, backbone networks, optical packet switching, optical circuit switching, and high-capacity network design.
Wavelength-Division Multiplexing: WDM, DWDM, CWDM, wavelength routing, wavelength assignment, wavelength conversion, optical add-drop multiplexers, reconfigurable optical networks, and spectrum-efficient transmission.
Passive Optical Networks: PON, GPON, EPON, XG-PON, NG-PON, fiber-to-the-home, fiber-to-the-building, access-network architectures, and broadband optical access technologies.
Free-Space Optical Communication: Free-space optics, atmospheric optical links, terrestrial optical wireless communication, building-to-building links, beam propagation, turbulence mitigation, and hybrid RF/FSO systems.
Visible Light and Optical Wireless Communication: Visible-light communication, LiFi, infrared communication, optical wireless systems, indoor optical networking, vehicle-to-vehicle optical communication, and underwater optical communication.
Optoelectronic Devices: LEDs, laser diodes, photodetectors, photodiodes, optical modulators, optical amplifiers, optical switches, wavelength converters, photonic sources, and integrated optoelectronic devices.
Photonics and Integrated Photonics: Silicon photonics, silicon nitride photonics, photonic integrated circuits, optical waveguides, ring resonators, photonic crystals, integrated lasers, modulators, and photodetectors.
Optical Amplification: Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, Raman amplifiers, semiconductor optical amplifiers, hybrid amplifiers, gain control, amplifier noise, and optical signal regeneration.
Optical Signal Processing: Optical filtering, optical switching, optical logic, optical computing, optical signal regeneration, optical Fourier processing, photonic signal processing, and real-time optical processing.
Optical Modulation and Detection: Direct and coherent detection, QPSK, QAM, OFDM, PAM, advanced modulation formats, digital coherent receivers, modulation optimization, and receiver architectures.
High-Speed and Long-Haul Optical Transmission: Terabit transmission, coherent optical systems, ultra-long-haul links, dispersion compensation, nonlinear impairment mitigation, high-speed transceivers, and capacity enhancement.
Optical Network Survivability and Reliability: Protection, restoration, self-healing optical networks, fault-tolerant architectures, ring protection, mesh protection, failure recovery, resilience analysis, and service continuity.
Optical Network Management: Network monitoring, fault management, configuration management, service provisioning, performance management, software-defined optical networking, network orchestration, and automation.
Software-Defined Optical Networks: SDN-enabled optical networks, programmable optical infrastructure, network virtualization, network slicing, control-plane technologies, orchestration, and intelligent network management.
Artificial Intelligence in Optical Communication: Machine learning for network optimization, fault detection, impairment prediction, traffic forecasting, adaptive modulation, routing, anomaly detection, and AI-assisted optical system design.
Optical Network Security: Physical-layer security, fiber tapping detection, secure optical transmission, encryption, quantum-safe optical networks, intrusion detection, network vulnerabilities, and secure optical infrastructures.
Quantum Communication: Quantum key distribution, quantum networks, quantum repeaters, quantum memories, quantum channels, entanglement distribution, quantum cryptography, and quantum-secure optical communication.
Quantum Photonics: Single-photon sources, photon detectors, integrated quantum photonic circuits, quantum interference, entangled photon generation, photonic quantum processors, and quantum optical devices.
Optical Sensors and Sensing Networks: Fiber-optic sensors, distributed optical sensing, interferometric sensors, temperature and strain sensing, biomedical optical sensors, environmental monitoring, and optical sensor networks.
Biophotonics: Biomedical imaging, optical diagnostics, biosensing, optical microscopy, laser-tissue interaction, photodynamic techniques, optical coherence tomography, and photonic applications in healthcare.
Microwave Photonics: Photonic generation and processing of microwave signals, radio-over-fiber, optical RF links, photonic filters, millimeter-wave photonics, and communication applications.
Optical Interconnects and Data Centers: Optical interconnects, data-center optical networks, chip-to-chip optical links, board-level photonics, high-speed optical transceivers, optical switching fabrics, and low-latency optical communication.
Optical Communication for 5G/6G Networks: Fronthaul, midhaul, backhaul, fiber-wireless integration, radio-over-fiber, optical access for 5G/6G, ultra-low-latency networks, and optical support for dense wireless systems.
Satellite and Space Optical Communication: Laser communication, satellite optical links, inter-satellite optical communication, deep-space optical systems, atmospheric effects, pointing and tracking, and optical ground stations.
Underwater Optical Communication: Blue-green optical communication, underwater channel modelling, optical transceivers, attenuation, scattering, underwater sensor networks, and marine optical links.
Optical Communication Components and Packaging: Optical connectors, couplers, splitters, circulators, isolators, filters, packaging technologies, photonic assembly, alignment, and reliability.
Optical Measurement and Testing: Optical spectrum analysis, optical time-domain reflectometry, bit-error-rate testing, eye-diagram analysis, fiber characterization, network testing, and optical performance monitoring.
Energy-Efficient Optical Networks: Green photonics, low-power transceivers, energy-efficient routing, sleep-mode optical networks, sustainable network architectures, and energy-aware communication systems.
Emerging Optical Communication Technologies: Space-division multiplexing, orbital angular momentum communication, multicore fibers, few-mode fibers, programmable photonics, neuromorphic photonics, photonic AI accelerators, and next-generation optical networks.

Keywords

Optical Communication, Fiber-Optic Networks, Photonics, Optical Networks, Optoelectronics, Wavelength-Division Multiplexing, Quantum Communication, Silicon Photonics, Optical Wireless Communication, Integrated Photonics