A Third of a Century of Lightwave Technology January 1983–April 2016 (Editorial)

The papers in this special issue comprise a selection of papers from the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT) from 1983-2016. This selection is based on various citation and journal metrics analyses. For a third of a century, the JLT has been publishing breakthrough research across all aspects of guided-wave optical science, technology, engineering, and applications, including theoretica...