BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA — Advanced Photonics Nexus has selected the best paper from last year as the recipient of its inaugural Editor-in-Chief Choice Award.
Established in 2022, Advanced Photonics Nexus is a Gold Open Access international journal that publishes novel results of high significance and broad interest in all areas of optics and photonics. The journal, co-produced by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Chinese Laser Press (CLP), publishes high-quality original papers, letters, and review articles, reflecting important advances in fundamental and applied aspects of optics and photonics.
Advanced Photonics Nexus is the sibling journal of the highly selective international journal Advanced Photonics. Available online in the SPIE Digital Library and at CLP’s Researching site, Advanced Photonics Nexus has an Impact Factor of 6.0.
Xiao-Cong (Larry) Yuan, of Shenzhen University and Zhejiang Lab, Anatoly Zayats, of King's College London, and Weibiao Chen, of the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, jointly serve as the founding co-editors-in-chief for the journal. The new Advanced Photonics Nexus Editor-in-Chief Choice Award recognizes exceptional papers based on the importance of the work to the optics and photonics field. Articles published between December 2023 and December 2024 were eligible for the honor.
The winning research article, “100 Gb/s coherent chaotic optical communication over 800 km fiber transmission via advanced digital signal processing,” was published in December 2023 and authored by Lilin Yi, Zhao Yang, Yunhao Xie, Mengyue Shi, Qunbi Zhuge, and Weisheng Hu, all of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China.
“This work provides a feasible approach to promoting applications of chaotic optical communication in practice,” notes Yuan, “with guarantees of highly encrypted security at a hardware physical layer.”
“This pioneering paper demonstrates coherent chaotic optical link that combines deep-learning-based chaos synchronization with advanced digital signal processing,” says Zayats. “The authors not only advance the state of the art in novel secure communication, but also achieve record bit-rate–distance performance for chaos-encrypted systems. The work provides a practical framework for integrating chaos-based encryption into existing coherent optical infrastructures, with profound implications for the future of high-capacity networks.”
“We are greatly honored to receive the Editor-in-Chief Choice Award from Advanced Photonics Nexus,” said the winning authors. “We sincerely thank the editor-in-chief and the editorial team for recognizing and supporting our work. Chaotic optical communication is regarded as a promising approach to enhancing physical-layer security in fiber-optic systems. However, its development has long been constrained by challenges such as limited chaos synchronization and signal degradation over long-haul transmission. In this work, we made a significant breakthrough by employing pilot-aided and training-sequence-based coherent digital signal processing, together with deep learning techniques. This enabled us to demonstrate 100 Gb/s chaotic optical transmission over 800 km of standard single-mode fiber. We believe this represents an important step forward toward practical deployment and compatibility of chaos-based secure communication with commercial optical systems.”
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