Another paper, titled 'Experimental Demonstration of a Dual-Arm Drop Element-based Soft-ROADM for Future Optical-Wireless Converged Access Networks', written by Omaro Gonem (PhD student), Dr Roger Giddings (Deputy Operations Director) and Prof Jianming Tang (Operations Director), has been accepted for presentation at the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference / The International Photonics and OptoElectronics Meetings (ACPPOEM2023) this year.

ACPPOEM is one of the largest conferences in the Asia-Pacific region on optical communication, photonics and relevant technologies. It provides the opportunity for researchers to share their recent research outcomes, as well as the opportunity to meet academics, scientists and researchers from different parts of the world. The conference will be taking place from 4th-7th November 2023 in Wuhan, China. More information can be found at ACPconf.com.