1. Intelligent mode-locked fiber laser is nominated as the Chinese Top 10 Photonics advancements in 2019 by Chinese Laser Press.

  2. The work titled "Intelligent programmable mode-locked fiber laser with a human-like algorithm" of OSPAN published on Optica.

  3. On Jan. 24th, 2019, OSPAN successfully held the annual meeting in Beiqiao Cheng (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/IL9C9I9tV733HLdHkVvU0A).

  4. In Sep. 2018, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited by ECOC 2018 to give a report, "Machine learning for 100Gb/s/λ PON", which was spoken highly of.

  5. Congratulations to OSPAN Group for all the 8 papers submitted to OFC 2018 being accepted (including 3 collaboration papers).

  6. Congratulations to PhD. student Wei Wei for wining The Chinese Institute of Electronics Excellent Master Thesis Nomination Award with his master thesis "High-precision tunable narrowband rectangular optical filter design and its applications".

  7. Congratulations to PhD. student Wei Wei for wining MWP 2017 Best Student Paper Award with his paper “GHz-wide arbitrary-shaped microwave photonic filter based on stimulated Brillouin scattering using directly-modelated laser”.

  8. In Oct. 2017, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited as TPC member of MWP 2018, which will be held during Oct. 22nd-25th, 2018 in Toulouse, France.

  9. In Oct. 2017, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited as TPC co-chair of session "Optical Signal Processing" of CLEO-PR 2018, which will be held held during Jul. 29th-Aug. 3rd, 2018 in Hongkong, China.

  10. In Sep. 2017, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited as TPC member of OSA SPPCom 2018, which will be held during Jul. 2nd-8th, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland.

  11. In Jun. 2017, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited as TPC member of session "Core/Access Networks and Switching Subsystems" of OECC 2018, which will be held during Jul. 2nd-6th, 2018 in Jeju, South Korea.

  12. In Apr. 2017, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited as TPC member of session "Optical Transmission Systems and Networks" of ACP 2017, which will be held during Nov. 10th-13th, 2017 in Guangzhou, China.

  13. In Mar. 2017, Prof Lilin Yi was invited as TPC member of session "Transmission Systems and Networks" of ICOCN 2017, which was held during Aug. 7th-10th, 2017 in Wuzhen, China.

  14. Congratulations to PhD. Zhengxuan Li obtaining Shanghai Jiaotong University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award nomination.

  15. Congratulations to Master Honglin Ji and Tongtong Hou graduating from Shanghai Jiaotong University.

  16. In Mar.2017,Master Lei xue's paper "First Demonstration of Symmetric 100G-PON in O-band with 10G-Class Optical Devices Enabled by Dispersion-Supported Equalization"was awarded as the OFC 2017 Top Scored Paper.

  17. In Mar.2017, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited to serve as the OFC2018 access network branch TPC members.

  18. In Feb.2017, Prof. Yves Jaouen from the French Telecom ParisTech joined OSPAN group for a four-month academic exchange visit.

  19. In Feb. 2017, Prof. Lilin Yi gave an academic report in ECOC2017 workshop "Which is the right path for PON beyond 10G single wavelength?"

  20. In Feb. 2017, Master student Honglin Ji was selected as the Chinese Optics Letters Second cover story by the paper entitled "Upstream Dispersion Management of 25-Gb/s Duobinary and PAM-4 Signals to Support 0-40km Differential Reach".

  21. In Feb. 2017, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited to attend the Photonics West conference in San Francisco and gave a special report entitled "First demonstration of real-time 100G-PON".

  22. In Jan. 2017, PhD Wei Wei, Master student Tongtong Hou and Honglin Ji achieved Fiber Optics National Award for Excellence Award.

  23. In Dec. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi attended the OFC TPC conference in Washington, USA, during which he visited Bell Labs and gave an academic report.

  24. In Nov. 2016, Prof. Moshe Tur from Aviv University of Israel visited the OSPAN Group and made an academic report.

  25. In Nov. 2016, Prof Lilin Yi attended IWOO conference in Japan and made a special report entitled "Enabling technologies for 100G-PON".

  26. In Nov. 2016, PhD Junxiang Ke, Master student Honglin Ji and Lei Xue attended the ACP conference and made academic reports. Lei Xue's paper "First Real-Time Demonstration of Symmetric 100G-PON"was received as a PDP paper, Honglin Ji's paper "700G/280G SDM-TWDM-PON over 20km Seven-Core Fibre based on 10G-Class Optical Components" won the Best Student Paper Nomination Award.

  27. In Nov. 2016, Prof Lilin Yi attended the ACP conference in Wuhan and made an invitation report.

  28. In Nov. 2016, Haosuo Chen and Nicolas Fontaine from American Bell Labs visited OSPAN group and made academic report.

  29. In Oct. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi attended the second session of Chaotic Secure Communications Conference, in Changsha.

  30. In Oct.2016, Prof. Lilin Yi attended the Photonics Asia Conference in Beijing and made a special report entitled "DML-based 100G-PON demonstration".

  31. In Sep. 2016, PhD student Wei Wei achived Intel scholarship.

  32. In Sep. 2016, PhD student Wei Wei completed the 1-year joint-PhD program in Telecom ParisTech and returned to Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

  33. In Sep. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi gave a plenary talk in national PhD students forum of information and communication engineering held in Chengdu, China.

  34. In Sep. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi gave an invited talk entitled "Maximizing the security of chaotic optical communications" in ICOCN2016 held in Hangzhou, China.

  35. In Sep. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi gave an oral presentation entitled "Field-trial of a real-time 100 Gb/s TWDM-PON based on 10G-class optical devices" in ECOC2016 held in Dusseldorf, German.

  36. In Sep. 2016, the first paper about chaotic optical communications in OSPAN group "Maximizing the security of chaotic optical communications" has been accepted by Optics Express.

  37. In Sep. 2016, master student Kai Hu, Zehao Xiao and Wenqian Xu joined OSPAN group.

  38. In Sep. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi visited South China Normal University and gave an academic report entitled "Research progress of 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s passive optical network".

  39. In Sep. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi visited Sun Yat-Sen University and gave an academic report entitled "Software-defined optical processor based on stimulated Brillouin scattering: design and applications"and a course report entitled"Introduction of semiconductor optical amplifier: from industry applications to research frontier".

  40. Congratuations on Dr. Zhengxuan Li for achieving her first grant from NSFC.

  41. In Aug. 2016, master student Roya Noorani joined OSPAN group.

  42. From Jul. to Aug. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi visited the Univeristy of Melbourne and gave a talk entitled "Stimulated Brillouin scattering based optical signal processing for optical communications and microwave photonics".

  43. In Jul. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited to attend Light conference young scientists forum, and give a talk entitled "Software-defined microwave photonic filter with high resolution".

  44. In Apr. 2016, Dr. Qi Yang, Vice director of State Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Technologies and Networks, Wuhan Research Institute of Posts & Telecommunications and Prof. Daoxin Dai from Zhejiang University visited OSPAN group and gave academic lectures.

  45. In Apr. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi was selected as the TPC member of transmission systems and networks (T2) in ICOCN2016.

  46. In Mar. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi was selected as the TPC member of transmission and subsystem session (T2) in ACP2016.

  47. In Mar. 2016, PhD students Peixuan Li and Guoqing Pu joined OSPAN group.

  48. In Mar. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi attended IEEE 802.3 plenary conference in Macau, and submitted a 100G PON proposal and gave a talk about the proposal.

  49. In Mar. 2016, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Fiberhome jointly held "100G PON field demonstration and technical release conference". OSPAN team is the main contributor of the project "100G PON prototype development". Prof. Lilin Yi introduced the main features of the developed 100G PON system and demonstrated the field trial.

  50. In Feb. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi was selected as the TPC member of access session (N4) in OFC2017.

  51. In Jan. 2016, Prof. Lilin Yi was promoted as a full professor.

  52. In Jan. 2016, PhD student Zhengxuan Li passed the PhD oral defense. Congratuations for her achievements!

  53. In Dec. 2015, PhD student Wei Wei achieved the SKL excellent PhD scholarship.

  54. In Dec. 2015, Prof. Lilin Yi visited Wuhan Research Institute of Posts and Telecommunications and gave an invited talk.

  55. In Dec. 2015, Prof. Jiajia Chen from KTH, Sweden, Prof. Songnian Fu and Prof. Ming Tang from Huazhong University of Science and Technology visited OSPAN group and gave academic lectures.

  56. In Dec. 2015, PhD student Juan Sebastián Rodríguez Páez from DTU metro-access group joined OSPAN group for two-week joint experiment.

  57. In Oct. 2015, Ph.D student Wei Wei joined Telecom ParisTech in France for a 1-year joint-PhD program.

  58. In Sep. 2015, Ph.D student Zhengxuan Li achieved  the National scholarship for postgraduates. 

  59. In Aug. 2015, Lilin Yi’s invited paper entitled “Polarization-independent rectangular microwave photonic filter based on stimulated Brillouin scattering” was accepted by Journal of Lightwave Technology.

  60. In Aug. 2015, Lilin Yi gave an invited talk entitled “Experimental demonstration of 100G PON” in Chinacom 2015.

  61. In Aug. 2015, master students Lei Xue and Ye Hu joined OSPAN group.

  62. In Aug. 2015, Lilin Yi’s invited paper entitled “Design and performance evaluation of narrowband rectangular optical filter based on stimulated Brillouin scattering” was accepted by Photonic Networking Communications and published online with open access.

  63. In Jul. 2015, Lilin Yi attended WOMBAT2015 in Sydney, and gave an oral presentation entitled “Rectangular microwave photonic filter based on stimulated Brillouin scattering”. He visited Prof. Benjamin Eggleton’s group and Prof. Xiaoke Yi’s group after the workshop.

  64. In Jul. 2015, Lilin Yi attended PEIRS2015 in Prague，and gave an invited talk entitled “Experimental demonstration of 100Gb/s TWDM-PON”.

  65. In Jul. 2015, Lilin Yi attended ICOCN2015 in Nanjing, and gave an invited talk entitled “Rectangular microwave photonic filter based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in fiber”.

  66. In Jul. 2015, Special symposium “Frontier in stimulated Brillouin scattering” was successfully held in OECC2015, including three sessions: Fundenmentals, Materials & Devices, Applications. 7 well-known experts in SBS field gave invited talks and attracted more than 40 audiences.

  67. In Jul. 2015, PhD student Simon Rommel from DTU metro-access group joined OSPAN group for two-week joint experiment.

  68. In Jun. 2015, Zhengxuan Li’s PhD thesis “Research on key technologies in TWDM-PON” has passed internal evaluation and distributed for blind review.

  69. In Jun. 2015, Lilin Yi attended POEM2015 in Wuhan, and gave an invited talk entitled “Fabrication and applications of a graphene polarizer with strong saturable absorber”.

  70. In May 2015, Ph.D student Wei Wei achieved the financial support from Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) and will join Telecom ParisTech in France for a 1-year joint-PhD program.

  71. In May 2015, Prof. Lilin Yi's "Top Scored" paper in OFC2015 was recommended to submit to IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology as an invited paper.

  72. In Apr. 2015, Ph.D student Wei Wei's paper "High Resolution Programmable Optical Filter Based on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering: Design and Applications" has been accepted as invited talk by OECC 2015.

  73. In Apr. 2015, Prof. Christophe Peucheret from University of Rennes 1 in France visited our lab and gave an academic lecture.

  74. In March 2015, Prof. Lilin Yi and PhD student Wei Wei went to Los Angeles in USA to attend OFC2015 and gave oral presentations. The paper about rectangluar microwave photonic filter based on SBS was ranked as "Top scored" paper.

  75. In March 2015, Prof. Lilin Yi's invited talk in ICOCN2014 was recommended to submit to Photonic Network Communications as invited paper.

  76. In Jan. 2015, Prof. Fei Xu from Nanjing University visited our lab and gave an academic lecture.

  77. In Dec. 2014, Zhengxuan Li and Wei Wei achieved the SKL excellent Ph.D and master scholarship respectively.

  78. In December 2014, two papers were accepted by OFC2015 as oral presentation.

  79. In November 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited to be the executive member of the optical communication theme in CIOP2015.

  80. In November 2014, Prof. Yves Jaouën from Telecom ParisTech in France visited our lab for 3 days.

  81. In November 2014, Mater student Wei Wei won the best student paper award of ACP2014.

  82. In November 2014, Prof. Juan José Vegas Olmos and his Ph.D student from DTU visited our lab.

  83. In November 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi attended ICOCN2014 in Suzhou and gave an invited talk.

  84. In November 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi completed the 10-months joint research with Telecom ParisTech and returned.

  85. In October 2014, master student Wei Wei attended Photonics Asia2014 in Beijing and gave an invited talk.

  86. In October 2014, Master student Wei Wei won the National scholarship for postgraduates.

  87. In October 2014, Ph.D student Zhengxuan Li won the Tung OOCL Scholarship.

  88. In October 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi visited Metro and access group of DTU and gave an invited talk.

  89. In October 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi visited Prof. Luc Thenevazand’s group in EPFL and gave an invited talk.

  90. In September 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi attended ECOC2014 in Cannes, France and made an oral presentation.

  91. In September 2014, master student Wei Wei completed the 5-months joint research with Telecom ParisTech and returned.

  92. In August 2014, master student Ran Zheng attended PIER2014 held in Guangzhou and gave an invited talk.

  93. In July 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited as one of the first generation youth editors for "Chinese Optics".

  94. In July 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited as TPC co-chair of the Optical Networking and Switching Technologies Track in OECC2015.

  95. In June 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi attended POEM2014 in Wuhan and gave an invited talk.

  96. In June 2014, Prof. Luc Thenevaz from EPFL in Switzerland visited our lab.

  97. In May 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi visited optical communication group of Telecom Bretagne in France.

  98. In May 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi visited optical transmission and access group of Orange Lab in France.

  99. In April 2014, Master student Wei Wei went to France for a 5-months joint research with Telecom ParisTech .

  100. In April 2014, Prof. Yves Jaouën from Telecom ParisTech of France visited our lab for 3 weeks.

  101. In March 2014, Ph.D student Li Zhengxuan and Master student Wei Wei went to San Francisico in USA to attend OFC2014 and gave oral presentations.

  102. In March 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi was appointed as the secretary of the local organizing committee of ACP2014.

  103. In March 2014, Prof. Lilin Yi went to Telecom ParisTech for joint research funded by the French goverment through project of "Futur et Ruptures".

  104. In December 2013, Ph.D student Zhengxuan Li won the National scholarship for postgraduates.

  105. In November 2013, Prof. Lilin Yi’ paper about access-related work was accepted by ACP2013 as post-deadline paper.

  106. In November 2013, Prof. Lilin Yi attended ICICS2013 in Taiwan and gave an invited talk.

  107. In November 2013, Prof. Lilin Yi attended the Frontier forum on Information Photoelectronics in Wuhan and gave an invited talk.

  108. In October 2013, Prof. Lilin Yi was invited as TPC co-chair of the optical network and switching theme in ICCC2014.

  109. In October 2013, Prof Jesper Bevensee Jensen from DTU visited our lab.

  110. In October 2013, Prof. Lilin Yi attended IWOO2013 in England and gave an invited talk.

  111. In September 2013, Prof. Lilin Yi attended ECOC2013 in England and made a presentation.

  112. In August 2013, Prof. Lilin Yi achieved the support by National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of China.

  113. In June 2013, Prof. Lilin Yi attended POEM2013 in Wuhan and gave an invited talk.