In the context of information applications calling for high-bandwidth networks, I focus on optical fiber transmission systems and their key technologies, focusing on damage compensation theory and system optimization methods. Presided over 1 National Natural Science Foundation General Project, 1 National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project, 1 Beijing Natural Science Foundation Youth Project, and received funding from the 2013 "Xiangjiang Scholars Program" project (from 553 nationally involved 32 first-level projects) Among the subject applicants, he was awarded the only funding quota in the field of Information and Communication Engineering (total funding of 50 people) that year, and participated in a number of Huawei R&D projects as a technical backbone during the public exchange in Hong Kong. In terms of data center optical interconnection, Co-created a number of high-speed transmission experimental records; published more than 80 SCI/EI papers, of which nearly 40 were included in SCI, including one invited paper on Opt. Express optical interconnect transmission, the top journal in the field, and IEEE J. Lightw. Technol. 1 review paper), 2 highly cited papers; served as a coordinating member of the Youth Working Committee of the Chinese Institute of Communications, the Secretary-General of the Xiangjiang Scholars Association, a member of the Young Scientists Forum of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and a member of several international conferences and co-chairs of the TPC branch , TPC members, special invitation/group reports, etc.

[1]Jiahao Huo, Xian Zhou*, Kang Ping Zhong, Jiajing Tu, Jinhui Yuan, Changjian Guo, Keping Long, Changyuan Yu, Alan Pak Tao Lau, Chao Lu. "Transmitter and receiver DSP for 112 Gbit/s PAM-4 amplifier-less transmissions using 25G-class EML and APD.” [J]. Optics Express, 2018, 26(18): 22673-22686. (SCI indexed, impact factor: 3.587)

[2]Kangping Zhong, Xian Zhou*, Jiahao Huo,Changyuan Yu,Chao Lu,Alan Pak Tao Lau, "Digital Signal Processing for Short-Reach Optical Communications: A Review of Current Technologies and Future Trends," [J] Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2018, 36(2): 377–400. (SCI indexed, impact factor: 2.862)

[3]Xian Zhou*, Jiahao Huo, Kangping Zhong, Faisal Nadeem Khan, Tao Gui, Hongyu Zhang, Jiajing Tu, Jinhui Yuan, Keping Long, Changyuan Yu, Alan Pak Tao Lau, Chao Lu, “Single Channel 50 Gbit/s Transmission Over 40 km SSMF Without Optical Amplification and In-Line Dispersion Compensation Using a Single-End PD-Based PDM-SSB-DMT System,"[J] IEEE Photonics Journal, 2017, 9(5): 1-11. (SCI Retrieval, impact factor: 2.627)

[4]Kangping Zhong, Xian Zhou*,Yiguang Wang, Liang Wang, Jinhui Yuan, Changyuan Yu, Alan Pak Tao Lau, and Chao Lu, “Experimental demonstration of 608Gbit/s short reach transmission employing half-cycle 16QAM Nyquist-SCM signal and direct detection with 25Gbps EML." [J] Optics Express, 2016, 24(22): 25057-25067. (SCI indexed, impact factor: 3.587)

[5] Dongxu Lu, Xian Zhou*, et al. "Theoretical CSPR Analysis and Performance Comparison for Four Single-Sideband Modulation Schemes with Kramers-Kronig Receiver." [J] IEEE Access, 2019.

[6]Xian Zhou*, Kangping Zhong, Jiahao Huo, Lei Gao, Yiguang Wang, Liang Wang, Yanfu Yang, Jinhui Yuan, Keping Long, Li Zeng, Alan Pak Tao Lau, and Chao Lu, “112 Gb/s transmission over 80 km SSMF using PDM-PAM4 and coherent detection without optical amplifier,” [J] Optics Express, 2016, 24(15): 17359-17371. (SCI indexed, impact factor: 3.587)

[7]Xian Zhou*, Kangping Zhong, Jiahao Huo, Jinhui Yuan, Feng Li, Liang Wang, Keping Long, Alan Pak Tao Lau, Chao Lu, "Polarization-Multiplexed DMT With IM-DD Using 2× 2 MIMO Processing Based on SOP Estimation and MPBI Elimination, "[J] IEEEPhotonics Journal, 2015, 7(6). (SCI indexed, impact factor: 2.627)

[8]Xian Zhou*, Kangping Zhong, Yuliang Gao, Qi Sui, Zhenghua Dong, Jinhui Yuan, Liang Wang, Keping Long, Alan Pak Tao Lau, and Chao Lu, "Polarization-interleave-multiplexed discrete multi-tone modulation with direct detection utilizing MIMO equalization," [J] Optics Express, 2015, 23, 8409-8421. (SCI indexed, impact factor: 3.587)

[9]Xian Zhou*, Kangping Zhong, Yuliang Gao, Chao Lu, Alan Pak Tao Lau, Keping Long “Modulation-format- independent blind phase search algorithm for coherent optical square M-QAM systems” Optics Express, 2014, 22 (20 ), 24044-24054. (SCI indexed, impact factor: 3.587)

[10]Xian Zhou*, Chao Lu, Alan Pak Tao Lau, Keping Long, "Low-complexity carrier phase recovery for square M-QAM based on S-BPS algorithm," [J] IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2014, 26 ( 18): 1863-1866. (SCI indexed, impact factor: 2.446)

[11]Xian Zhou*, Xiaolong Yang, Rui Li, Keping Long "Efficient Joint Carrier Frequency Offset and Phase Noise Compensation Scheme for High-Speed Coherent Optical OFDM Systems" [J]. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2013, 31(11) : 1755-1761. (SCI indexed, impact factor: 2.862)

[12]Xian Zhou*, Zheng Yan, Xue Chen, Keping Long, "Simple and Robust Chromatic Dispersion Estimation for RGI-CO-OFDM System," [J] IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2013, 25(13): 1222-1225 . (SCI indexed, impact factor: 2.446)

[13]Xian Zhou*, Keping Long, Rui Li, Xiaolong Yang, Zhongshan Zhang "A simple and efficient frequency offset estimation algorithm for high-speed coherent optical OFDM systems" [J]. Optics Express, 2012, 20(7): 7350-7361. (SCI indexed, impact factor: 3.587)

[14]Xian Zhou*, Xue Chen, Keping Long, "Wide-range frequency offset estimation algorithm for optical coherent systems using training sequence," [J] IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2012, 24(1): 82-84. ( SCI search, impact factor: 2.446)

[15]Xian Zhou*, Xue Chen, Weiqin Zhou, Yangyang Fan, Hai Zhu, Zhiyu Li, "All-Digital Timing Recovery and Adaptive Equalization for 112 Gbit∕ s POLMUX-NRZ -DQPSK Optical Coherent Receivers" [J], Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 2011, 984 (990): 984-990. (SCI indexed, impact factor: 2.742)

[16]Xian Zhou*, Xue Chen "Parallel implementation of all-digital timing recovery for high-speed and real-time optical coherent receivers," [J] Optics Express, 2011, 19, 9282-9295. (SCI search, impact Factor: 3.587)

[1] National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Project, Polarization Multiplexing Theory and Key Technology Research Based on Direct Detection in Short-distance Optical Transmission, 2017.01-2020.12, person in charge

[2] National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Project, Method Research on High Dispersion Robustness of High-speed Optical Interconnection Transmission in Data Center, 2019.01-2022.12, main participant

[3] National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Project, Research on Dynamic Optical Transmission Theory and Optimization Algorithm Based on Flexible Modulation Format, 2015.01-2017.12, principal

[4] China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, Xiangjiang Scholars Program-Digital Signal Processing Technology in Ultra-High Speed Optical Transmission System, 2014.02-2016.02, principal

[5] Beijing Natural Science Foundation, Research on Digital Signal Processing Algorithm of Dynamic Optical Transmission System Based on Flexible Modulation Format, 2017.01-2018.12, person in charge

[6] Fundamental scientific research business expenses of central universities (FRF-TP-16-013A3): Research on the performance of direct detection optical transmission system based on advanced multi-system debugging technology, 2012.01-2013.12, person in charge

[7] Fundamental scientific research business fees of central universities (FRF-TP-15-028A2): Flexible multi-band optical modulation and error correction coding technology in dynamic optical transmission system, 2015.09-2016.09, person in charge

[8] Pre-research project of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., low-cost metropolitan area coherent solution research, 2015.08-2016.01, co-researcher

[9] Pre-research project of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., 1TE integrated optical module metropolitan area coherent solution research and development of multi-wavelength light source, 2015.08-2016.01, co-researcher

[10] Pre-research project of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., short-distance optical transmission 400GE solution research, 2014.05-2014.11, co-researcher

In 2013, won the 2013 Xiangjiang Scholars Award

In 2012, he was awarded the 2012 "Excellent Postdoctoral" by University of Science and Technology Beijing