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09/2026 Xin JIN and Shuyang XIE join our group for their PhD studies. Welcome!

08/2026 Our work on the universal photonic processor for structured light manipulation (shaping, switching, and ROADM) was accepted by Optica. Congratulations to Zengqi Chen, Wu Zhou, and Hao Chen!

07/2026 Xianyi and Wu's work on efficient, broadband, and polarization-diversity multicore fiber-chip interfaces was published by ACS Photonics. Congratulations!

06/2026 Hao Chen, Zengqi Chen, and Kaihang Lu successfully defended their Ph.D thesis. Congratulations!

06/2026 Kaihang Lu's work on 3.2-Tbps DWDM O-band silicon microring modulators was featured as an oral talk by the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2026). Welcome to our presentation on Sep 23, in Málaga, Spain!

05/2026 Yuxiang Yin's work on the ultra-dense 98-Channel Chip-Fiber Optical I/O was accepted by Journal of Lightwave Technology. Congratulations!

04/2026 Dr. Yeyu Tong has been elevated to IEEE Senior Member. Congratulations!

03/2026 Wenzhang Tian's work on high-resolution reconstructive spectrometer was featured as a Top-Scored paper by OFC 2026 in Los Angeles, USA. Congratulations!

02/2026 The work collaborated with Peking University on ultra-wideband fibre–wireless communication with integrated optics was published in Nature. Congratulations!

12/2025 Four papers were accepted by the Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2026 (OFC 2026). We invite you to join our presentations on March 15, in Los Angeles, USA. Congratulations to Xianyi Feng, Wenzhang Tian, Wu Zhou, and Zengqi Chen!

11/2025 Yiyang Su's work on nanophotonic device simulator was accepted by DATE 2026 (Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference) in Verona, Italy. Congratulations!

10/2025 Kaihang Lu's work on the reconfigurable Polarization/Wavelength (De)Multiplexer for fiber communications was accepted by Journal of Lightwave Technology. Congratulations!

10/2025 Wu Zhou's work on 448-Gbps-per-λ fiber communications was upgraded to an invited talk by the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2025). Welcome to our presentation on Oct 2, in Copenhagen, Denmark!

09/2025 Wenzhang Tian's work on the spectrometer with a bandwidth-to-resolution ratio of over 20,000 has been accepted by Laser & Photonics Reviews. Congratulations!

09/2025 Xianyi FENG and Zihan HE join our group for their PhD and MPhil studies. Welcome!

09/2025 Hao Chen's work on the picometer-resolution spectrometer with a hybrid fiber-chip system was published by Journal of Lightwave Technology. Congratulations!

08/2025 Zengqi Chen's work on multidimensional optical processing and switching on chip has been accepted by Laser & Photonics Reviews. Congratulations!

07/2025 Yiou Cui's work was accepted by IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC 2025) for an oral talk. Welcome to our presentation on Nov 9 in Singapore. Congratulations!

07/2025 Kaihang Lu's work on the 110-GHz silicon microring modulator with a free spectral range of 4.5 THz was published by Journal of Lightwave Technology. Congratulations!

06/2025 Mingyuan Zhang's work on the camera-free speckle spectrometer with a silicon photonic chip was published by APL Photonics. Congratulations!

05/2025 Our invited paper has been published in Photonics Breakthroughs 2024 special issue of IEEE Photonics Journal. Congratulations to Xianyi Feng!

05/2025 We have five technical oral presentations at CLEO 2025 in Long Beach, USA. Congrats to Yuxiang Yin, Zichun Lin, Hao Chen, Wu Zhou, and Mingyuan Zhang.

04/2025 Wu Zhou's work on the highly-efficient (−2.54 dB) 2D diffraction grating fabricated with 193-DUV lithography has been accepted by IEEE Photonics Journal. Congratulations!

03/2025 Four papers were accepted by the Optical Fiber Communication Conference 2025 (OFC 2025). We invite you to join our presentations on March 30, in San Francisco, USA. Congratulations to Kaihang Lu, Wu Zhou, Hao Chen, and Zengqi Chen!

02/2025 Our work on the adaptive fiber beam structure control using programmable photonics was published in Optica. Congratulations to Wu Zhou and Zengqi Chen!

11/2024 Hao Chen's work on photonic design automation has been accepted by DATE 2025 (Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference) in Lyon, France. Congratulations!

10/2024 Hao Chen's work on always-feasible and fabrication-constrained inverse design has been published in ACS Photonics. Congratulations!

09/2024 Yiou CUI, Yuxiang YIN, and Yiyang SU join our group for their PhD and MPhil studies. Welcome!

07/2024 Kaihang Lu's work on mode-multiplexed PAM-4 fiber optical interconnects has been accepted by IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC 2024) for an oral presentation in Rome, Italy. Congratulations!

04/2024 Our work on the integrated photonic processor for high-dimensional fiber optic system has been published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to Kaihang Lu, Zengqi Chen, and Hao Chen!

02/2024 Wu Zhou's first work on silicon photonics multichannel Optical I/O has been published in Laser & Photonics Reviews. Congratulations!

02/2024 Mingyuan Zhang's first work on transverse stress sensor has been accepted by the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2024) in Charlotte, USA. Congratulations!

01/2024 Wenzhang TIAN join our group for his PhD study. Welcome!

10/2023 Hao Chen's first work on Tbps single-λ interconnect has been featured as a Top-Scored oral presentation by the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2024) in San Diego, USA. Congratulations!

11/2023 2023 Optical/Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems (OPTICS) international forum was successfully organized by Dr. Minkyu Kim (imec), Dr. Luca Ramini (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), and Dr. Yeyu Tong!

09/2023 Wu ZHOU, Mingyuan ZHANG, Xianyi FENG, and Zichun LIN join our group for their PhD and MPhil studies. Welcome!

07/2023 The work collaborated with Yun Zheng, Chonghao Zhai, Prof. Jianwei Wang from Peking University and Dajian Liu, Prof. Daoxin Dai from Zhejiang University has been published in Science. Congratulations!

09/2022 Hao CHEN, Kaihang LU, and Zengqi CHEN join our group for their Ph.D. studies. Welcome!

08/2022 Wu ZHOU from Sun Yat-Sen University joined our group as a research assistant. Welcome!

05/2022 SiPh‑X Lab led by Dr. Yeyu Tong starts at HKUST(GZ)!