Roadmap of optical communications
Roadmap of optical communications
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DOI：
10.1088/2040-8978/18/6/063002
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发表时间：
2016-06-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Gisin, Nicolas
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作者：
Agrell, Erik;Karlsson, Magnus;Gisin, Nicolas
光波通信是信息时代的必需品。光链路提供了巨大的带宽，光纤是唯一能够满足现代社会长距离传输大量数据需求的介质。应用范围从构成互联网主干的全球高容量网络，到在数据中心和超级计算机内部提供数据连接的大规模并行互连。光通信是一个多样化且快速变化的领域，光子学、通信、电子和信号处理领域的专家并肩工作，以满足对更高容量、更低成本和更低能耗的不断增长的需求，同时使系统设计适应新的服务和技术。由于这个丰富的研究领域的跨学科性质，光学杂志邀请了16位研究人员，每个人都是各自子领域的世界领先专家，为这篇特邀评论文章贡献一个部分，总结他们对光通信最新技术和未来发展的看法。
Lightwave communications is a necessity for the information age. Optical links provide enormous bandwidth, and the optical fiber is the only medium that can meet the modern society's needs for transporting massive amounts of data over long distances. Applications range from global high-capacity networks, which constitute the backbone of the internet, to the massively parallel interconnects that provide data connectivity inside datacenters and supercomputers. Optical communications is a diverse and rapidly changing field, where experts in photonics, communications, electronics, and signal processing work side by side to meet the ever-increasing demands for higher capacity, lower cost, and lower energy consumption, while adapting the system design to novel services and technologies. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of this rich research field, Journal of Optics has invited 16 researchers, each a world-leading expert in their respective subfields, to contribute a section to this invited review article, summarizing their views on state-of-the-art and future developments in optical communications.