{"id":11179,"date":"2026-06-16T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:21:20","slug":"detail_2119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/en\/detail_2119\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher Hameeda R. Ibrahim and colleagues from the Koyama Laboratory received the Best Contributed Paper Award at ISLC2026\uff08June 16, 2026\uff09"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"tableLayout02\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #043c78;\" width=\"120\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Award Recipients<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Koyama Laboratory Former Researcher Hameeda R. Ibrahim<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Former Researcher Ahmed M. A. Hassan<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Researcher Gu Xiaodong<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/en\/member\/core3\/#koyama\">Honorary Professor Fumio Koyama (Quantum Photonics and Optoelectronics Research Core)<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #043c78;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Conference<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/events.tuni.fi\/islc2026\/\">The 30th International Semiconductor Laser Conference\uff08ISLC2026\uff09<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #043c78;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Award<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Best Contributed Paper Award<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #043c78;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Title<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Record 60-GHz Bandwidth 1060-nm Single-Mode Metal-Aperture Coupled-Cavity VCSEL Enabling 256-Gbps PAM4 Direct Modulation<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: #043c78;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 12px;\"><strong>Date<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">June 16, 2026<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Summary of the Award<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The Best Contributed Paper Award is presented to the contributed paper receiving the highest evaluation score among all contributed papers presented at ISLC2026.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The award-winning paper reported a record 60-GHz modulation bandwidth and demonstrated 256-Gbps PAM4 direct modulation using a 1060-nm single-mode metal-aperture coupled-cavity vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). The result represents one of the highest-speed modulation performances ever achieved with a VCSEL and provides an important pathway toward ultra-low-power optical interconnects for future AI datacenter networks.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Teacher in charge<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Honorary Professor Fumio Koyama (Quantum Photonics and Optoelectronics Research Core)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vcsel-www.pi.titech.ac.jp\/\">http:\/\/vcsel-www.pi.titech.ac.jp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/koyama_20260616.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">koyama_20260616<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #f3f3f2; padding: 10px; border: none; border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Related Site<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n\u25b6<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Institute of Integrated Research\uff08IIR\uff09<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award Recipients Koyama Laboratory Former Researcher Hameeda R. Ibrahim Former Researcher Ahmed M. A. Hassan Researcher Gu Xiaodong Honorary Professor Fumio Koyama (Quantum Photonics and Optoelectronics Research Core) Conference The 30th International Semiconductor Laser Conference\uff08ISLC2026\uff09 Award Best Contributed Paper Award Title Record 60-GHz Bandwidth 1060-nm Single-Mode Metal-Aperture Coupled-Cavity VCSEL Enabling 256-Gbps PAM4 Direct Modulation Date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/?p=11170","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11181,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions\/11181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.first.iir.isct.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}