Digital twin (DT) has revolutionized optical communication networks by enabling their full life-
cycle management, including planning, prediction, optimization, upgrade, and …

This paper presents a linear least squares method for fiber-longitudinal power profile
estimation (PPE), which estimates the optical signal power distribution throughout a fiber …

A flexible coherent passive optical network (FLCS-CPON) is a promising solution for the
future access network. By offering increased speed, sensitivity, and flexibility, it enables …

Digital coherent transceivers have developed to the stage that they can monitor the physical
state of an optical network and thus are capable of generating data to build measurement …

High-accuracy physical layer models enable intelligent, self-driving optical networks. The
dynamic wavelength-dependent gain characteristics of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers …

Entanglement routing in near-term quantum networks consists of choosing the optimal
sequence of short-range entanglements to combine through swapping operations to …

The co-route optical fibers, comprising both co-cable and co-trench fibers, pose a significant
potential risk to network service quality assurance by operators. They are incapable of …

Optical in-phase and quadrature (IQ) constellations enclose valuable information regarding
the optical elements traversed by the optical signal. Such information can be extracted and …

Network automation has become crucial in supporting services in 6G networks. This mainly
derives from the complexity of the composition of numerous distributed virtual network …

Bridging the gap between the real and virtual worlds, a digital twin (DT) leverages data,
models, and algorithms for comprehensive connectivity. The research on DTs in optical …