The new "World's 2% Top Scientists" ranking for 2022 has been recently published by Stanford University ed Elsevier using the Scopus database: we are proud that 5 members of the OptCom group are present in this list! (Proff.

Congratulation to Ann Margareth Rosa Brusin, Ph.D. student in the OptCom group under the guidance of Prof. Andrea Carena, for being selected as a recipient of the Corning Women in Optical Communications Scholarship.

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The OptCom Group, in collaboration with Southampton University, the Links Foundation and CISCO Photonics, has been awarded a prestigious Post-Deadline paper presentation at ECOC 2019 (PD.1.5). The paper reports on a breakthrough and record-setting transmission experiment on the revolutionary “hollow-core” fiber that Optoelectronics Research Center of Southampton has recently fabricated. This fiber holds the promise for increasing the capacity vs. standard fiber by a factor of up to ten, or more. The paper will be presented by Pierluigi Poggiolini on Thursday, Sept. 26^th.