• 1. Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, ChinaInstitute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
• 2. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• 3. School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, ChinaSchool of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
• 4. University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu 610054, ChinaUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu 610054, China
• 5. QXP Technologies Inc., Xi’an 710117, ChinaQXP Technologies Inc., Xi’an 710117, China

Author Bio:

• Wei Wang is a professor of Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the Department of Physics, Beijing University in 1960. His research interests include DFB lasers, VCSEL, electro-absorption modulated lasers and other InP based Photonic Integrated Circuits. Professor Wang is an elected Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Lingjuan Zhao received the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Semiconductor Physics from Tianjin University in 1985 and 1988. She is currently a Professor of Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research interests focus on high speed semiconductor lasers and photonic integrated circuits.
• Dan Lu received his Ph.D. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He is currently a professor at the Institute of Semiconductors, CAS. His research interests include the development and application of semiconductor lasers, photonic integrated circuits, and microwave photonics. Dr. Lu is a member of the IEEE Photonics Society, and the SPIE Society.
• Jianping Yao is a Distinguished University Professor and University Research Chair in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, an Advisory Editorial Board Member of Optics Communications, and a Steering Committee Member of IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. Dr. Yao is a Fellow of IEEE (2012), the Optical Society of America (OSA) (2010), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) (2012), and the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) (2018). His research interests focus on microwave photonics, fiber optics and biophotonics.
• Weiping Huang received his Ph.D. in 1989 from MIT in electrical engineering. He was a professor of University of Waterloo and then McMaster University, Canada. He also worked at Nortel (Canada) and NTT (Japan) and consulted with several companies in North America and Asia. He founded Apollo Photonics Inc. to develop software design tools for photonic integrated circuits in 1995. He co-founded Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technologies Inc. in 2003, and the company is now a leading supplier of optical transceivers ranking No. 3 globally in 2020. He is Chairman of Qingdao Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technology Co. He also is the dean, School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University. He is internationally known for his contributions and expertise for photonic devices and integrated circuits.
• Yong Liu is a Professor at the University of Electronic Science & Technology of China (UESTC). He received his Ph.D. degree from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2004, and stayed at the same university as a researcher. Since 2007, he became a professor at UESTC. He received Chinese National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2009 and Chinese Chang Jiang Scholar in 2013. His research interests are mainly focused on high-speed optoelectronic devices and optical fiber technologies.
• Brent Little received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Advanced Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1994. He has held research potions at MIT, University of Maryland, Infinera, and Fujitsu. In 2000 he was the founder and CTO Little Optics Inc. Currently he is a visiting professor at the Xian Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of CAS in Xian, China, as well as the co-founder and CTO of QXP Technologies Inc. He has been a pioneer in photonics and optical telecommunications, having co-authored more than 400 journal publications, and holding more than 50 patents.

• Wei Wang
• Lingjuan Zhao
• Dan Lu
• Jianping Yao
• Weiping Huang
• Yong Liu
• Brent Little

 Corresponding author: Wei Wang, wwang@semi.ac.cn; Lingjuan Zhao, ljzhao@semi.ac.cn; Dan Lu, ludan@semi.ac.cn; Jianping Yao, jpyao@uottawa.ca; Weiping Huang, wphuang_canada@hotmail.com; Yong Liu, yongliu@uestc.edu.cn; Brent Little, brent.little@qxptech.com