The papers receiving these awards were selected from a set of outstanding papers, based on the quantitative and qualitative classifications as well as comments provided by the program committee reviewers, their final classification as full paper and their oral presentation at the conference.

2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

OPTICS 2018

Best Paper Award

Generation of High Stability Microwave Signal using Optoelectronic Oscillator based on Long Fibre Delay Line
Mohamed Mousa, Abdelrahman E. Afifi, Mohamed Abouelatta and Kamel M. Hassan

OPTICS 2017

Best Paper Award

Intrusion Location with Breaking-the-Pulse-Width-Limit Spatial Resolution and High Robustness based on φ-OTDR and Spatial Frequency Analysis
Zhou Sha, Hao Feng, Yi Shi and Zhoumo Zeng

OPTICS 2016

Best Paper Award

Slightly Tapered Optical Fiber with Inner Air-cavity for Simultaneous Refractive Index and Temperature Sensing
D. N. Wang, Lei Zhang, Jibing Liu and H. F. Chen

Best Student Paper Award

Evaluation of Multi-band Carrier-less Amplitude and Phase Modulation Performance for VLC under Various Pulse Shaping Filter Parameters
Petr Chvojka, Paul Anthony Haigh, Stanislav Zvanovec, Petr Pesek and Zabih Ghassemlooy

OPTICS 2015

Best Paper Award

Performance Analysis of a WDMA Protocol with a Multiple Tunable Receivers Node Architecture for High-speed Optical Fiber Lans
Peristera A. Baziana

OPTICS 2014

Best Paper Award

Initial Alignment Scheme and Tracking Control Technique of Free Space Optics Laser Beam
Takeshi Tsujimura, Shigeki Muta, Yuichiro Masaki and Kiyotaka Izumi

OPTICS 2013

Best Paper Award

Experimental Distribution of OFDM-UWB Radio Signals along Directly Modulated Long-reach Pons Indicated for Sparse Geographical Areas
Tiago M. F. Alves and Adolfo V. T. Cartaxo

OPTICS 2012

Best Paper Award

High Repetition Frequency Mode-locked Semiconductor Disk Laser
Yanrong Song, Peng Zhang, Jinrong Tian, Zhigang Zhang, Hark Hoe Tan and C. Jagadish

OPTICS 2011

Best Paper Award

PHOTONIC ANALOGUE-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER BASED ON WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING TECHNIQUE
Tiago Alves and Adolfo Cartaxo

OPTICS 2010

Best Paper Award

CONVERGED OPTICAL NETWORKS FOR VIDEO AND DATA DISTRIBUTION IN HOSPITALITY ENVIRONMENTS