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Optical Network Technologies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Shawn Yohanes Siew
Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
2
Yitong Chen
Xidian University
3
Hamed Arianfard
Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology
4
Abdulhalim Fayad
Magyar Madártani és Természetvédelmi Egyesület
5
Chengli Wang
Xi'an Jiaotong University
6
Lu Tang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
7
Chaoyang Zhu
North China Electric Power University
8
Bibhatsu Kuiri
Chandigarh University
9
Shiyue Hua
OptiGrate (United States)
10
Olivier Spitz
Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies

Rising Stars Papers

1
Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing
Nature|2024
200 cit.
2
An integrated large-scale photonic accelerator with ultralow latency
Nature|2025
145 cit.
3
An innovative process design and multi-criteria study/optimization of a biomass digestion-supercritical carbon dioxide scenario toward boosting a geothermal-driven cogeneration system for power and heat
Energy|2024
126 cit.
4
On the exact soliton solutions and different wave structures to the (2+1) dimensional Chaffee–Infante equation
Results in Physics|2024
95 cit.
5
Bifurcations, chaotic behavior, and optical solutions for the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation
Results in Physics|2024
87 cit.
6
Toward 6G Optical Fronthaul: A Survey on Enabling Technologies and Research Perspectives
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials|2024
86 cit.
7
Ultrabroadband thin-film lithium tantalate modulator for high-speed communications
Optica|2024
55 cit.
8
Energy-Efficient Joint User and Power Allocation in 5G Millimeter Wave Networks: A Genetic Algorithm-Based Approach
IEEE Access|2024
28 cit.
9
Optical solitons perturbation and traveling wave solutions in magneto-optic waveguides with the generalized stochastic Schrödinger–Hirota equation
Optical and Quantum Electronics|2024
20 cit.
10
Qualitative Analysis, Chaotic Behavior and Optical Solitons Perturbation for the Coupled Fokas-Lenells System in Birefringent Fibers
Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems|2025
19 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Maik Stappers
University of Münster
2
Daniel Brunner
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems
3
Hamed Saghaei
Islamic Azad University of Shahrekord
4
Nelson Costa
Infinera (United States)
5
Vigneswaran Dhasarathan
KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology
6
R. Joseph Weiblen
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
7
Parthiban Kandappan
Infinera (United States)
8
Mehmet C. Günendi
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
9
Lin Yang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
10
Z. Sanjabi Eznaveh
University of Central Florida

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Photonic neuromorphic computing using vertical cavity semiconductor lasers
Optical Materials Express|2022
79 cit.
2
Penrose tiling-inspired graphene-covered multiband terahertz metamaterial absorbers
Optics Express|2023
42 cit.
3
Ultra-fast tunable optoelectronic 2-to-4 binary decoder using graphene-coated silica rods in photonic crystal ring resonators
Optical and Quantum Electronics|2022
34 cit.
4
Ultra-fast tunable optoelectronic full-adder based on photonic crystal ring resonators covered by graphene nanoshells
Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures|2022
32 cit.
5
Combining one and two photon polymerization for accelerated high performance (3 + 1)D photonic integration
Nanophotonics|2022
30 cit.
6
Sinusoidal and rectangular Bragg grating filters: Design, fabrication, and comparative analysis
Journal of Applied Physics|2022
28 cit.
7
Graphene-based hybrid plasmonic optical electro-absorption modulator on InP platform
Optical and Quantum Electronics|2024
27 cit.
8
Computational metrics and parameters of an injection-locked large area semiconductor laser for neural network computing [Invited]
Optical Materials Express|2022
19 cit.
9
Employing metamaterial and Ti3C2Tx (MXene) material for cancer cells detection using defective 1D photonic crystal
Optical and Quantum Electronics|2023
19 cit.
10
Polarization-Independent Reconfigurable WDM-MDM Hybrid Multiplexer on Silicon Photonics Platform
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters|2023
15 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
P. St. J. Russell
Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
2
Biswanath Mukherjee
Soochow University
3
David J. Richardson
Microsoft (United Kingdom)
4
John E. Bowers
University of California, Santa Barbara
5
Alan E. Willner
University of Southern California
6
Juerg Leuthold
ETH Zurich
7
Michal Lipson
Columbia University
8
S. J. Ben Yoo
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
9
David Moss
Australian Research Council
10
Joseph M. Kahn
Stanford University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Terabit free-space data transmission employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing
Nature Photonics|2012
4.6k cit.
2
Photonic Crystal Fibers
Science|2003
3.8k cit.
3
Wireless infrared communications
Proceedings of the IEEE|1997
3.3k cit.
4
Space-division multiplexing in optical fibres
Nature Photonics|2013
3.3k cit.
5
Endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fiber
Optics Letters|1997
2.8k cit.
6
Fading correlation and its effect on the capacity of multielement antenna systems
IEEE Transactions on Communications|2000
2.5k cit.
7
Micrometre-scale silicon electro-optic modulator
Nature|2005
2.4k cit.
8
Optical communications using orbital angular momentum beams
Advances in Optics and Photonics|2015
1.9k cit.
9
New CMOS-compatible platforms based on silicon nitride and Hydex for nonlinear optics
Nature Photonics|2013
1.8k cit.
10
Photonic-Crystal Fibers
Journal of Lightwave Technology|2006
1.7k cit.

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