An outstanding paper award was presented to Optoelectronics Lab members in the International Symposium on Technology Fusion of Optoelectronic and Communications, Taipei, May 17-22, 2005 for the paper entitled "Optical Pulse Repetition-Rate Multiplication by Spectral Elimination Using a Birefringence Loop Mirror Filter" by M. P. Fok, W. W. Tang, and C. Shu.

Moreover, Mable Fok has been awarded the 2005 IEEE/LEOS Student Travel Grant. This a global competition that competes for a total of 16 grants to present work at one of the 7 major LEOS sponsored conferences: LEOS Annual Meeting, OFC, CLEO, CLEO/Pacific Rim, CLEO/Europe, OECC, and ECOC.