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 five reviewers to receive the inaugural PTL Outstanding Reviewer Award.

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

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 2019 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, based on four criteria; Originality, Technical Content, Impact, and Presentation, one best paper published in 2016 is selected.

Paper:
High Bandwidth GaN-Based Micro-LEDs for Multi-Gb/s Visible Light Communications

Publication:
IEEE Photon. Technol. Letters, vol. 28, no. 19, pp. 2023-2026, Oct. 2016.

Authors:
R. X. G. Ferreira, Enyuan Xie, Jonathan J. D. McKendry, Sujan Rajbhandari, Hyunchae Chun, Grahame Faulkner, Scott Watson, Anthony E. Kelly, Erdan Gu, Richard V. Penty, Ian H. White, Dominic C. O’Brien, and Martin D. Dawson

The IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2018 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, based on four criteria; Originality, Technical Content, Impact, and Presentation, one best paper published in 2015 is selected.

Paper:
A 71-Gb/s NRZ Modulated 850-nm VCSEL-Based Optical Link

Publication:
IEEE Photon. Technol. Letters, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 577-580, Mar. 2015.

Authors:
Daniel M. Kuchta, Alexander V. Rylyakov, Fuad E. Doany, Clint L. Schow,
Jonathan E. Proesel, Christian W. Baks, Petter Westbergh, Johan S. Gustavsson, and Anders Larsson