Benyuan Zhu joined Bell Laboratories at Holmdel, NJ, USA in 1999, and he is currently a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in OFS Laboratories, Somerset, NJ, USA. He has been primarily working on high-speed DWDM transmission systems, and his current interests include beyond 100-Gb/s optical coherence transmission systems, novel fiber and advanced optical amplifier technologies. He has authored/ coauthored more than 140 journal and conference papers, and one book chapter in the field of optical fiber communications, and he holds +10 patents. Benyuan Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Bath University, Bath, UK, in 1996.