Photonics Technologies for Smart Quantum Networks
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2022) | Viewed by 7493
Special Issue Editor
Interests: quantum key distribution systems; deployment-oriented QKD integration; integrated photonics for QIP applications; converged fiber/wireless networks for 5G and beyond
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Dear Colleagues,
In the last quarter of the 20th century, streams of millions of photons per each classical symbol started travelling along the fiber networks to realize the backbone of digital infrastructure. Approaching the era of practical and scalable quantum information processing, single photons are ready to undertake their new challenge by encoding and distributing quantum states along the communication infrastructure of quantum internet1.
This new mission for photonics requires the mobilization of research groups and synergies between classical and quantum optical communication engineers, working together on the development of practical building blocks and network segments for secured quantum-based infrastructure. Building upon the legacy of classical optical communications, quantum blocks and networks will leverage advances in prototypes and product developments of devices and subsystems to use photonic integrated circuits, advanced digital transmission ecosystems, and software-defined optical networking.
This Special Issue of Photonics, entitled “Photonics Technologies for Smart Quantum Networks”, welcomes articles addressing, among others, the deployment of a practical quantum toolbox enabling (sub)systems and quantum-enhanced secured networks and infrastructures. We expect to cover a variety of topics, including the following:
- Novel optical systems for QKD and QIP building blocks;
- Photonic integration in support of quantum technological blocks;
- QKD-enabled infrastructure including fiber/terrestrial FSO/satellite quantum links;
- Quantum secured infrastructure for networks;
- QKD and PQC integration and interfaces;
- Quantum networks and applications beyond QKD;
- DV-/CV-QKD and quantum safe security for future optical/wireless networks;
- Advanced features (SDN/NFV/AI/ML) for smart multinode connectivity;
- Entanglement distribution deployments and networks;
- Sources of entanglement for practical quantum nodes.
1 Wehner et al., Science 362, 303 (2018).
Dr. Giannis Giannoulis
Guest Editor
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