Student Paper Award

The Best Student Paper Award will be attributed to a student author for writing a remarkable paper and making an outstanding presentation at ECOC 2015.

In addition to the first prize winner, two honorable mention winners will be selected. The first prize winner will receive 2000€ while both honorable mention winners will receive 1000€ each.

The awards will be announced on-site by the Sponsor representative at the ECOC 2015 closing ceremony.

To compete for the Best Student Paper Award:

• The principal author should be a student at the time of submission of his/her paper.

• The student should apply by ticking the appropriate box in the on-line paper submission form.

• The student should be registered for the conference. No financial help will be provided for conference registration, transportation and accommodation by the conference organizers.

• The student author should be the presenter of his/her work at the conference.

The Student Paper Award is sponsored by ADVA

Winner

Seyed Reza Sandoghchi

 
"High Dynamic Range Technique for Discrete and Distributed Scattering Loss Measurement in Microstructured Optical Fibres.”

 Seyed Reza Sandoghchi¹, David Robert Gray¹, Yong Chen¹, Natalie Wheeler¹, Tom Bradley¹, John Richard Hayes¹, Eric Rodrigue Numkam Fokoua¹, Gregory Teofil Jasion¹, Seyed Mohammad Abokhamis Mousavi¹, Marco Petrovich¹, Francesco Poletti¹;

¹University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

Two honorable mention winners

Fernando Guiomar

“Ultra-Long-Haul 400G Superchannel Transmission with Multi-Carrier Nonlinear Equalization”.

 Fernando Guiomar¹, Sofia Amado¹, Jacklyn Reis², Sandro Rossi², Andrea Chiuchiarelli², Juliano Oliveira², António Teixeira¹, Armando Pinto³;

¹Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal, ²CPqD, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil ,³Instituto de Telecomunicações, Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

M. Sezer Erkilinc

“Polarization-Insensitive Single Balanced Photodiode Coherent Receiver for Passive Optical Networks”

M. Sezer Erkilinc¹, Domanic Lavery¹, Robert Maher¹, Milen Paskov¹, Benn C. Thomsen¹, Polina Bayvel¹, Robert I. Killey¹, Seb J. Savory¹;

¹University College London, London, United Kingdom.