''Journal of Optical Communications and Networking'' is a

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co-published monthly by Optica and

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. It covers advances in

optical networking Optical networking is a means of communication that uses signals encoded in light to transmit information in various types of telecommunications networks. These include limited range Local area network, local-area networks (LAN) or wide area networ ...

. Established in 2002 under the name ''Journal of Optical Networking'', it was subsequently retitled to its current name in 2009. The

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of the journal is Andrew Lord.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2023

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of 4.0.

References

External links

*{{official website, url=opg.optica.org/jocn/home.cfm Optica (society) academic journals Optical Communications and Networking, Journal of Optics journals English-language journals Monthly journals Academic journals established in 2002 Telecommunications engineering journals Optical communications