Coherent 100G Field Trial Over Installed Fiber Links: Investigating Key Network Scenarios and Applications [Invited]. - Yu Rong Zhou; Kevin Smith; Mark Wilkinson; Roger Payne; Andrew Lord; Tex Bennett; Michael Frankel (JOCN, 2012)

Field trial demonstration and evaluation of coherent 100G IP over WDM alien wavelength across 769km of multiple WDM infrastructures without regeneration. - Yu Rong Zhou; Kevin Smith; Roger Payne; Andrew Lord; Walid Wakim; John Keens; Lars Hanson (OFC/NFOEC, 2013)

40/100/400 Gb/s mixed line rate transmission performance in flexgrid optical networks. - Liangjia Zong; Gordon Ning Liu; Andrew Lord; Yu Rong Zhou; Teng Ma (OFC/NFOEC, 2013)

Field Trial Demonstration and Evaluation of a Coherent 100G IP Over WDM Alien Wavelength Across 769 km of Multiple WDM Infrastructures Without Regeneration [Invited]. - Yu Rong Zhou; Kevin Smith; Roger Payne; Andrew Lord; Walid Wakim; John Keens; Lars Hanson (JOCN, 2013)

First quantum secured 10-Gb/s DWDM transmission over the same installed fibre. - Iris Choi; Yu Rong Zhou; James F. Dynes; Zhiliang Yuan; Andreas Klar; Andrew W. Sharpe; Alan Plews; Marco Lucamarini; Christian Radig; Jorg Neubert; Helmut Griesser; Michael Eiselt; et al. (ECOC, 2014)

1.4Tb real-time alien superchannel transport demonstration over 410km installed fiber link using software reconfigurable DP-16QAM/QPSK. - Yu Rong Zhou; Kevin Smith; Roger Payne; Andrew Lord; Lutz Raddatz; Marco Bertolini; Tony Van De Velde; Claudio Colombo; Eyup Korkmaz; Michele Fontana; Steve Evans (OFC, 2014)

Real-time gridless 800G super-channel transport field trial over 410km using coherent DP-16 QAM. - Yu Rong Zhou; Kevin Smith; Roger Payne; Andrew Lord; Glenn Whalley; Tex Bennett; Eric Maniloff; Alexander Savchenko; David Boymel (OFC, 2014)

Field demonstration of up to 3Tb/s real-time superchannel transport over 359km using a fully managed flexible grid infrastructure with net spectral efficiency of 5.97bit/s/Hz. - Yu Rong Zhou; Kevin Smith; Roger Payne; Andrew Lord; Jonathan Hopewell; John Weatherhead; Jingxin Chen; Jiankang Yao; Wei Liu; Chen Zhao; Yong Xiong; Zhimin Xiao; et al. (OFC, 2015)

Field trial demonstration of real-time optical superchannel transport up to 5.6Tb/s over 359km and 2Tb/s over a live 727km flexible grid link using 64GBaud software configurable transponders. - Yu Rong Zhou; Kevin Smith; S. West; M. Johnston; John Weatherhead; P. Weir; J. Hammond; Andrew Lord; J. Chen; Weiwei Pan; C. Cao; R. Yang; et al. (OFC, 2016)

Field trial demonstration of novel optical superchannel capacity protection for 400G using DP-16QAM and DP-QPSK with in-service OTDR fault localization. - Yu Rong Zhou; Kevin Smith; Paul Weir; Andrew Lord; Jingxin Chen; Weiwei Pan; Nian Zhou; Zhimin Xiao (OFC, 2016)

Demonstration of Real-Time 400G Single-Carrier Ultra-Efficient 1.2Tb/s Superchannel over Large Aeff Ultra-Low Loss Terrestrial Fiber of 150km Single Span and 250km (2×125km Spans) Using only EDFA Amplification. - Yu Rong Zhou; Kevin Smith; Mike Gilson; Jingxin Chen; Weiwei Pan; Youhui Chang; Shuangyuan Wu; Shipeng Wu; Ian Davis (OFC, 2018)

Field Trial Demonstration of Real-Time 400GbE Optical Transport over Both Conventional and Non-Contiguous Superchannels using Configurable Modulation Formats. - Yu Rong Zhou; Kevin Smith; Mike Gilson; Weiwei Pan; Wei Huang; Lihong Shen; Wei Peng; Kunxu Peng; Paul Brooks; Chris Cole; Chengpin Yu (OFC, 2019)

High Capacity Innovations Enabling Scalable Optical Transmission Networks. - Yu Rong Zhou; John Keens; Walid Wakim (OFC, 2022)

Demonstration of 400G High Power ZR+ IP over WDM in Key Network Scenarios with End-to-End 400GE Traffic. - Yu Rong Zhou; John Keens; Martyn Allen (OFC, 2024)

Demonstration of 400G Optical Interoperability in IP over WDM Network Scenarios over Single Span WDM System with and without Optical Amplifiers. - Yu Rong Zhou; A. Smith; M. Phelan; R. Davey; John Keens; M. Allen; A. Malik; N. Manolov; J. Lucek; L. Luna (OFC, 2025)