Optical and Quantum Electronics-OQE
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Information".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2022) | Viewed by 2512
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical metrology; sensors and actuators; special lighting; optical engineering; quantum optics; interferometric and diffractive devices
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Dear Colleagues,
It is well know that the origin of Quantum Theory comes from Max Planck (1900) through his celebrated formulation of the radiation spectral density as frequency and temperature functions of a blackbody ideal concept, using the Boltzmann´s probabilistic interpretation of entropy. After that, the mathematical theory of information and communications was established (Shannon, 1949) by statistical explanations and predictive dynamics. Today, new engineering fields are established with emerging developments: quantum computing, sensor and actuator networks (IoT), robotic machines, adaptive structural materials, etc. All these complex systems require recent and innovative technologies supported by optical and quantum electronic–OQE-components and devices. The incidence of this actual evolution is global, and there are many different affected fields: energy, automotive and mobility, autonomous drive systems, biomedicine and neurosciences, environment actions, Earth sciences, manufacture industry and business, social and economic, etc.
This requires us to enable managed development, and this managed development requires general supports on which to base its decisions: the analysis of optical and quantum electronic systems by statistical thermodynamic turns out to be an excellent method for it. This Special Issue is a call to focus our effort on entropy, information theory of optical and quantum electronics complex systems: lidars, attenuators, couplers, multi/demulti-plexers, omnidirectional stereo and hyperspectral cameras, micro and nano electromechanical systems, and other components, that could be analyzed in efficiency and/or performances by this way. Additionally, these would be relevant to be applied on the development of renewable energy systems, new logical interface human-chips, or in environmental prevention sensors.
It would be fundamental to extend this statistical thermodynamic analysis to the new quantum metrological standard.
Dr. Eusebio Bernabeu
Dr. María Ana Sáenz-Nuño
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Keywords
- quantum bases, coherence and statistical physics of OQE
- semiconductor and photorefractive materials
- quantum dots
- adaptative structural materials
- fiber optics and integrated optics devices
- axicons and DOEs
- interferometric and diffractive systems
- ellipsometry and polarimetry devices
- omnidirectional and hyperspectral cameras
- MENS and NEMS
- photodetectors and photovoltaic devices
- thera sources, antennas and arrays
- femto and atto laser pulses
