Recently, the Optical Society announced the list of newly elected Fellows for 2025. A total of 121 renowned experts from 27 countries were elected. Established in 1916, the Optical Society is the most authoritative international academic organization in the field of optics. In addition to optics and photonics, it provides high - level professional services for experts and scholars in many fields, including physics, biology, medicine, electrical engineering, communications, astronomy, meteorology, materials science, mechanical engineering, and computing. The title of OSA Fellow is an extremely high academic honor in the field of optics. The selection process is very strict. Only those who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of optics and photonics ("served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics") can be elected as Fellows.

Optical communication, as the core technology for information transmission, plays an extremely important role in the era of artificial intelligence (AI). With the exponential growth of AI's demand for data scale, transmission speed, and real - time performance, the high - bandwidth, low - latency, high - reliability, and low - energy - consumption characteristics of optical communication have become the key infrastructure to support the development of AI. Among the newly elected OSA Fellows in 2025, three experts from China's optical communication field are on the list:

1. Dr. Li Han, China Mobile

Elected for pioneering contributions to the research and development of optical transport networks and slicing packet networks.

2. Professor Ma Xiongfeng, Tsinghua University

Elected for contributions to practical quantum cryptography and quantum communication, and for linking them to foundational quantum theory.

3. Professor Zhang Fan, Peking University

Elected for outstanding contributions to fiber nonlinearities and high - speed fiber - optic communications.

In today's AI era, optical communication is not only the "information superhighway" but also the core engine driving the intelligent revolution and the cornerstone of the digital economy and intelligent society. It is believed that peers in China's optical communication field will make great achievements and benefit society in this era!

Related links:

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https://www.optica.org/about/newsroom/news_releases/2025/optica_announces_2025_fellows_class/

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https://www.optica.org/get_involved/awards_and_honors/fellow_members/elected_fell