The IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Outstanding Reviewer Award is awarded based on three criteria; Quality of Comments, Timeliness of Reviews, and the Number of Reviews completed. Nominated by the Associate Editors, the selection committee has chosen the reviewers to receive the PTL Outstanding Reviewer Award.

2021 Award Recipents:

Baldemar Ibarra-Escamilla, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica, Mexico
Metodi Yankov, Technichal University of Denmark
Kaikai Xu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Tianwai Bo, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

 

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2019 Award Recipents:

Ted Masselink, Humboldt University, Germany
Yasuhide Tsuji, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Zhi-Chao Luo, South China Normal University, China
Shilong Pan, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Tianwai Bo, Institution: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

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2018 Award Recipients:
Thai-Chien Bui, University of Rome, Italy
Songnian Fu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Ding Liang, Inphi Corporation, USA
Arthur Lowery, Monash University, Australia
Hans Wenzel, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Germany

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award

The IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Best Paper Award is awarded to the paper considered the best among the papers published in the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters during the previous three calendar years. Reviewed by the PTL selection committee, the best paper is selected annually based on four criteria; Originality, Technical Content, Impact, and Presentation.

 

2021 Best Paper Selection:

Paper:

1.3-μm reflection insensitive InAs/GaAs quantum dot lasers directly grown on silicon

Publication:
IEEE Photon. Technol. Letters, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 345-348, March 2019

Authors:

Jianan Duan, Heming Huang, Bozhang Dong, Daehwan Jung, Justin C. Norman, John E. Bowers, and Frédéric Grillot

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Paper:

Toward the integration of CV quantum key distribution in deployed optical networks

Publication:

IEEE Photon. Technol. Letters, vol. 30 no. 7, pp. 650-653, April 2018

Authors:

Fotini Karinou, Hans H. Brunner, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Lucian C. Comandar, Stefano Bettelli, David Hillerkuss, Maxim Kuschnerov, Spiros Mikroulis, Dawei Wang , Changsong Xie, Momtchil Peev, and Andreas Poppe

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