NICT has been the first to receive the Nature Photonics Best Postdeadline Paper Award at ECOC 2015

At the 41st European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2015, September 27 to October 1), one of the biggest international conferences related to optical fiber technology, the results of a 2.15 Petabit/s transmission experiment over 31 km of multicore fiber carried out by Ben Puttnam and members of the Photonic Network System Laboratory at NICT received a high evaluation and, as previously announced, their paper was selected to be presented at the conference’s postdeadline session. The postdeadline session is the highest profile conference session comprised of papers submitted only a few weeks before the conference to give researchers an opportunity to present some of the latest and hottest research topics in a highly competitive way.