Optics Express Focus Issue highlights research to increase Internet bandwidth capacity

摘要

Optical fiber communication is the backbone for the telecommunications infrastructure that supports the Internet. Fueled by emerging bandwidth-hungry applications and increases in computer processing power, Internet traffic has sustained exponential growth and this trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. To highlight research being carried out to ensure that the capacity of fiber-optic communication systems can handle this rapidly increasing demand, and thus to address the Internet capacity crunch, the editors of the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal Optics Express, published a special Focus Issue on Space Multiplexed Optical Transmission. The issue is organized and edited by Guifang Li of the University of Central Florida and Xiang Liu of Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent.