This award is presented by the Journal’s Editor in Chief to reviewers who stand out for the ability to provide timely, in-depth reviews of a significant number of submissions, thereby playing a crucial role in fulfilling the journal’s mission to disseminate cutting-edge, high-quality research. The award recognizes researchers who consistently provided comprehensive, insightful, high-quality reviews over the course of a year.
This award is given annually by the Journal’s Steering and Coordinating Committee to the top-cited original papers published in the Journal two to three years prior to the award. As such, the award bestowed in 2025 takes into account all original papers published in the Journal of Lightwave Technology in 2023. A variety of citation metrics and databases are used by the Committee to determine the winner.
Digital Subcarrier Multiplexing: Enabling Software Configurable Optical Networks
Dave Welch; Antonio Napoli; Johan Bäck; Sanketh Buggaveeti; Carlos Castro; Aaron Chase; Xi Chen; Vince Dominic; Thomas Duthel; Tobias A. Eriksson; Sezer Erkilinç; Peter Evans; Chris R. S. Fludger; Ben Foo; Thomas Frost; Paul Gavrilovic; Steven J. Hand; Aditya Kakkar; Ales Kumpera; Vikrant Lal; Robert Maher; Fabio Marques; Fady Masoud; Atul Mathur; Ray Milano; Miguel Iglesias Olmedo; Magnus Olson; Don Pavinski; João Pedro; Amir Rashidinejad; Parmijit Samra; Warren Sande; Azmina Somani; Han Sun; Norman Swenson; Huan-Shang Tsai; Amin Yekani; Jiaming Zhang; Mehrdad Ziari
WaveFlex Biosensor-using Novel Tri-Tapered in Tapered Four-Core Fiber with Multimode Fiber Coupling for Detection of Aflatoxin B1
Xuecheng Liu; Ragini Singh; Guoru Li; Carlos Marques; Bingyuan Zhang; Santosh Kumar