{"title":"Introduction to the ECOC 2025 special issue","authors":"Andrew Lord","doi":"10.1364/JOCN.609139","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2025 was the 51st ECOC and was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 28 September and 2 October 2025. Overall, the event welcomed 8100 attendees, of whom 2100 attended the technical part of the conference. Papers presented consisted of tutorials, invited, and regular submissions. The very best of these, where the focus was on optical networks, were invited to submit an expanded paper to the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, and this Special Issue is the result, comprising 13 papers.","PeriodicalId":50103,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Optical Communications and Networking","volume":"18 7","pages":"ECOC1-ECOC1"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1000,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11581415","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Optical Communications and Networking","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11581415/","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/6/29 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2025 was the 51st ECOC and was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 28 September and 2 October 2025. Overall, the event welcomed 8100 attendees, of whom 2100 attended the technical part of the conference. Papers presented consisted of tutorials, invited, and regular submissions. The very best of these, where the focus was on optical networks, were invited to submit an expanded paper to the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, and this Special Issue is the result, comprising 13 papers.
期刊介绍:
The scope of the Journal includes advances in the state-of-the-art of optical networking science, technology, and engineering. Both theoretical contributions (including new techniques, concepts, analyses, and economic studies) and practical contributions (including optical networking experiments, prototypes, and new applications) are encouraged. Subareas of interest include the architecture and design of optical networks, optical network survivability and security, software-defined optical networking, elastic optical networks, data and control plane advances, network management related innovation, and optical access networks. Enabling technologies and their applications are suitable topics only if the results are shown to directly impact optical networking beyond simple point-to-point networks.