Everything about Optical networking
Means of communication using light
Optical networking is a means of communication that uses signals encoded in light to transmit information in various types of telecommunications networks. These include limited-range local-area networks (LAN) or wide area networks (WANs), which cross metropolitan and regional areas as well as long-distance national, international and transoceanic networks. It is a form of optical communication that relies on optical amplifiers, lasers or LEDs and wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) to transmit large quantities of data, generally across fiber-optic cables. Because it is capable of achieving extremely high bandwidth, it is an enabling technology for the Internet and telecommunication networks that transmit the vast majority of all human and machine-to-machine information. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Optical networkingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Space-efficient optical computing with an integrated chip diffractive neural networkInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Intelligent Robotics and ApplicationsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Elastic optical networking: a new dawn for the optical layer?Cited 1,378 times
- Go sideways: Wavelength-division multiplexingA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Fiber-optic communicationA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Elastic optical networking: a new dawn for the optical layer?
Quantum Networking with Optical Fibres
Optical burst switching: a new area in optical networking research
MONET: multiwavelength optical networking
Optical Networking: Past, Present, and Future
Optical networking update
Multiflow optical transponder for efficient multilayer optical networking
Optical Networking Beyond WDM
🆕 Influential since 2022
Space-efficient optical computing with an integrated chip diffractive neural network
Optical Fiber Sensors and Sensing Networks: Overview of the Main Principles and Applications
Optical neural networks: progress and challenges
Image sensing with multilayer nonlinear optical neural networks
TransUNetCD: A Hybrid Transformer Network for Change Detection in Optical Remote-Sensing Images
📚 Books worth reading
Intelligent Robotics and ApplicationsHonghai Liu · 2010
Pattern RecognitionCheng-Lin Liu · 2012
Neural Information ProcessingTingwen Huang · 2012
Advances in Computational IntelligenceIgnacio Rojas · 2013
Fiber optic communicationsJoseph C. Palais · 1984
Multiwavelength optical networksThomas E. Stern, Krishna Bala · 1999- 📕CablingAndrew Oliviero, Bill Woodward · 2009
The ComSoc guide to passive optical networksStephen B. Weinstein · 2012
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