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The 2018 JLT Best Paper Award awarded to UNLOC paper

The 2018 JLT Best Paper Award awarded to UNLOC paper

20 March 2018
The 2018 JLT Best Paper Award has been awarded to the UNLOC paper "Replacing the Soft-Decision FEC Limit Paradigm in the Design of Optical Communication Systems" authored by Alex Alvarado, Erik Agr...

13 UNLOC papers accepted for OFC 2018

12 December 2017
Gigantic contribution from UNLOC to the next Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) to be held in San Diego, California, 11 – 15 March 2018. Below a list of the 13 accepted manuscripts:...
UNLOC has a new Nature Communications paper

UNLOC has a new Nature Communications paper

05 December 2017
05 December, 2017 A new Nature Communications paper by the title "Bidirectional Wavelength-Division Multiplexing Transmission Over Installed Fibre Using a Simplified Optical Coherent Access T...
UNLOC PhD student to undertake internship at NICT, Japan

UNLOC PhD student to undertake internship at NICT, Japan

07 July 2017
07 July, 2017 Daniel Elson, UCL Optical Networks Group (ONG), will join NICT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) from September 2017 to January 2018. Daniel, who ...
IEEE Graduate Student Fellowship Award for Zhe Li

IEEE Graduate Student Fellowship Award for Zhe Li

04 July 2017
04 July, 2017 The IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) have awarded UCL PhD student, Zhe Li, a Graduate Student Fellowship Award, 2017. The IPS Graduate Student Fellowship Program provides Graduate Fe...
PhD student, Zhe Li, wins prestigious IET scholarship

PhD student, Zhe Li, wins prestigious IET scholarship

12 June 2017
12 June, 2017 Zhe Li, UCL Optical Networks Group, has won a prestigious postgraduate scholarship of £2500 from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The IET postgraduate scholar...
UNLOC celebrates achievements in optical communications research

UNLOC celebrates achievements in optical communications research

07 June 2017
07 June, 2017 On Friday 2 June 2017, we hosted Beyond state-of-the-art optical communications alongside The Photonics Hyperhighway programme.  > Watch all the talks from the day on YouTub...
UNLOC research fellow awarded China Scholarship Council prize

UNLOC research fellow awarded China Scholarship Council prize

05 May 2017
05 May, 2017 Aston University-based UNLOC research fellow Mingming (Tommy) Tan attended a ceremony at the Chinese Embassy on Friday 28 April. Tommy was formally presented with his China Schola...
Seb Savory receives multiple honours at OFC 2017

Seb Savory receives multiple honours at OFC 2017

06 April 2017
06 April, 2017 Prof Seb Savory, University of Cambridge, received multiple honours at OFC 2017. At OFC 2017, Prof Savory was officially presented fellowships by two prestigious societies; The...