Title: Photonic crystal fibers: the manipulation of light for novel applications
Speaker：Dr. Xin Jiang in the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Time: 10:00 am, April.5,2012
Place: Room 302 of Institute of Optical Communication Materials , SCUT North Campus
Sponsor: School of Materials Science and Engineering
A short biography of Dr. X Jiang:
Dr. Jiang studied Physics, Optics and Nano-science and technology at Capital Normal University in China and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. He was fully funded with scholarships during his study abroad. After earned his PhD in Material Engineering at the University of Leeds (PhD project was funded by an industrial project provided by GlaxoSmithKline，(GSK： one of the largest pharmaceutical company in the world), focused on infrared fibers for sensing applications), Dr. Jiang joined Prof. Philip Russell’s division at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light in Germany. He has been the group leader of development and fabrication of soft glass/compound-glass photonic crystal fibers for two years, and recently developed the word first hollow-core photonic crystal fiber from a compound glass. This work was reported in CLEO 2011 in Munich, published in Optics Express in July 2011 and highlighted by the Laser Focus World in 2011 September issue. The following points highlight Dr. Jiang’s expertise and background. 1. Fabrication of photonic crystal fibers (SC and HC-PCFs): including fiber design, modelling and simulation, fiber drawing and characterization. 2. Supercontinuum (SC) generation from silica and compound glass PCFs. 3. Design and fabrication of large mode area, endless-single-mode (ESM) fibers made from compound glasses. 4. Specialize in designing and building up fiber related optical devices such as fiber sensors, fiber lasers and amplifiers. 5. Specialize in the fabrication of soft/compound glasses: heavy metal oxides, fluoride and chalcogenide glasses, including materials purification, glass synthesis and characterization.