On September 17, 2025, Nature featured our center’s recent achievement titled “Ultrabroadband on-chip photonics for full-spectrum wireless communications” in its Research Analysis column under the headline “A photonic chip enables ultrabroadband wireless communication.”

 Each week, this column selects three to four research papers published in Nature that demonstrate significant industrial impact and technological advancement, and provides in-depth interviews and authoritative analyses in the form of Research Briefings.

 In the report, the Nature editors highly praised this work as “a major contribution to advancing the frontiers of optical communication.” They noted:

 “To achieve intergenerational signal transmission from 5G to 6G and beyond, the development of compact, ultrabroadband on-chip devices has become a global research focus. This study successfully miniaturizes the transceiver system on an integrated photonic platform. Its demonstrated wideband, high-speed data transmission capability highlights its tremendous potential for future wireless communication.”

 The report also cited the reviewers’ strong endorsement of the research:

 “The authors present a photonics-based radio-frequency transceiver that leverages the broadband nature of optics to achieve tunability across an exceptionally wide frequency range—a remarkable feat for a rack-scale system, let alone a chip-scale one. This device opens up numerous possibilities for future communication networks. The proposed optoelectronic oscillator overcomes one of the major obstacles in ultrabroadband wireless communication—the generation of local oscillators—making information encoding and decoding significantly easier.”

link：A photonic chip enables ultrabroadband wireless communication