Christy K. Y. Fung was awarded the Best Student Paper of Section at the 16th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2011) held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 4-8, 2011. The paper was entitled "Distributed Bragg Reflector Based on Shallow-Etched Side Cladding Grating" by Christy K.Y. Fung, Xia Chen and Professor Hon Ki Tsang.