From artificial intelligence to active inference: the key to true AI and the 6G world brain [Invited]

Martin Maier

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 18(1), A28-A43 (2026)  View: HTML | PDF

Optical Home LAN innovations to meet past, current, and future needs [Invited]

Philippe Chanclou, Fabienne Saliou, Gaël Simon, Jérémy Potet, Stéphane Le Huérou, and Hugues Le Bras

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 18(1), A1-A8 (2026)  View: HTML | PDF

Simplified coherent TDM-PON in upstream burst-mode detection with enhanced DC leakage tolerance

An Yan, Renle Zheng, Penghao Luo, Yongzhu Hu, Junhao Zhao, Shuhong He, Aolong Sun, Xuyu Deng, Ouhan Huang, Jianyang Shi, Yingjun Zhou, Zhixue He, Nan Chi, and Junwen Zhang

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 18(1), A9-A18 (2026)  View: HTML | PDF

Single-laser bidirectional coherent PON with hybrid SC and DSC transmission for flexible and cost-effective optical access networks

Haipeng Zhang, Zhensheng Jia, Luis Alberto Campos, and Curtis Knittle

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 18(1), A19-A27 (2026)  View: HTML | PDF

Task scheduling strategy for mitigating cold start impact in serverless edge computing optical networks

Shan Yin, Shuyao Wang, Chenyu You, Rongxuan Guo, Mengru Cai, and Shanguo Huang

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 17(12), D192-D208 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

Evaluating QoT-aware hybrid grooming schemes in dynamic C + L-band optical networks

Farhad Arpanaei, Mohammadreza Dibaj, Amirhossein Dibaj, Hamzeh Beyranvand, John S. Vardakas, Christos Verikoukis, José Manuel Rivas-Moscoso, Juan Pedro Fernández-Palacios, Alfonso Sánchez-Macián, David Larrabeiti, and José Alberto Hernández

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 17(12), 1059-1071 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF

High-fidelity quantum entanglement distribution in metropolitan fiber networks with co-propagating classical traffic

Matheus Sena, Mael Flament, Shane Andrewski, Ioannis Caltzidis, Niccolò Bigagli, Thomas Rieser, Gabriel Bello Portmann, Rourke Sekelsky, Ralf-Peter Braun, Alexander N. Craddock, Maximilian Schulz, Klaus D. Jöns, Michaela Ritter, Marc Geitz, Oliver Holschke, and Mehdi Namazi

J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 17(12), 1072-1081 (2025)  View: HTML | PDF