Journal of Lightwave Technology Paper Awards

About the award

This award is given annually by the Journal’s Steering and Coordinating Committee to the top-cited original papers published in the Journal two to three years prior to the award. As such, the award given in 2020 takes into account all original papers published in the Journal of Lightwave Technology in 2017. A variety of citation metrics and databases are used by the Committee to determine the winner.

Award Winners

SSBI Mitigation and the Kramers–Kronig Scheme in Single-Sideband Direct-Detection Transmission With Receiver-Based Electronic Dispersion Compensation

by Zhe Li, Sezer Erkilinc, Kai Shi, Eric Sillikens, Lidia Galdino, Benn Charles Thomsen, Polina Bayvel, and Robert Killey

Rate Adaptation and Reach Increase by Probabilitically Shaped 64 QAM: An Experimental Demonstration

by Fred Buchali, Laurent Schmalen, Patrick Schulte, Wilfried Idler, Georg Boecherer, Fabien Steiner

Replacing the Soft-decision FEC Limit Paradigm in the Design of Optical Communication Systems

by Alex Alvarado, Erik Agrell, Domanic Lavery, Robert Maher, and Polina Bayvel

VCSEL Based Interconnects for Current and Future Data Centers

by Jim Tatum, Deepa Gazula, Luke Graham, James Guenter, Ralph Johnson, Jonathan King, Gary Landry, Ilya Lyubomirsky, Andy MacInnes, Edward Shaw, Kasyapa Balemarthy, Roman Shubochkin, Durgesh Vaidya, Man Yan and Frederick Tang

Monolithic Silicon Integration of Scaled Photonic Switch Fabrics, CMOS Logic, and Device Driver Circuits

by B. G. Lee, A. V. Rylyakov, W. M. Green, S. Assefa, C. W. Baks, R. Rimolo-Donadio, D. M. Kuchta, M. H. Khater, T. Barwicz, C. Reinholm, E. Kiewra, S. M. Shank, S. L. Schow, and Y. A. Vlasov

Time- and Wavelength-Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Network (TWDM-PON) for Next-Generation PON Stage 2 (NG-PON2)

by Luo, Yuanqiu; Zhou, Xiaoping; Effenberger, Frank; Yan, Xuejin; Peng, Guikai; Qian, Yinbo; Ma, Yiran

Mode-Division Multiplexing Over 96 km of Few-Mode Fiber Using Co-herent 6x6 MIMO Processing

by R. Ryf, S. Randel, A. Gnauck, C. Bolle, A. Sierra, S. Mumtaz, M. Esmaeelpour, E. Burrows, R. Essiambre, P. Winzer, D. Peckham, A. McCurdy, and R. Lingle, Jr.

Modeling of the Impact of Nonlinear Propagation Effects in Uncompen-sated Optical Coherent Transmission Links

by A. Carena, V. Curri, G. Bosco, P. Poggiolini, and F. Forghieri.

Elastic Bandwidth Allocation in Flexible OFDM-Based Optical Networks

by K. Christodoulopoulos, I. Tomkos, and E. A. Varvarigos.

On the Performance of Nyquist-WDM Terabit Superchannels Based on PM-BPSK, PM-QPSK, PM-8QAM or PM-16QAM Subcarriers

by G. Bosco, V. Curri, A. Carena, P. Poggiolini, and F. Forghieri.