Roadmap of optical communications

Authors: Erik Agrell, Magnus Karlsson, A.R. Chraplyvy, David J. Richardson, Peter M. Krummrich, Peter J. Winzer, Kim Roberts, Johannes Fischer, Seb J. Savory, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Marco Secondini, Frank R. Kschischang, Andrew Lord, Josep Prat, Ioannis Tomkos, John E. Bowers, Sudha Srinivasan, Maïté Brandt-Pearce, Nicolas Gisin - Journal of Optics 2016 cited by 597

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 highcapacity networks, which constitute the backbone of the internet, to the massively parallel