Personal profile

Wei Xiaoming is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology. He is a National Outstanding Youth Talent and an overseas high-level introduced young talent. He serves as an editorial board member of the Optical Society of America's Optics Express journal (in the field of fiber lasers) and is a member of the 10th Basic Optics Professional Committee of China. He has published over 120 journal papers, including in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, Light: Science and Applications, and Science Advances. He holds 7 authorized US invention patents and over 30 Chinese patents. He was awarded the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award in 2023 and the Five-Year Excellent Achievement Award in Fiber Lasers from the Chinese Optical Engineering Society in 2023.

Research directions

High repetition rate ultrafast fiber laser and its applications.

Education and Work Experience

September 2019 - present  South China University of Technology

May 2017 - August 2019    California Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow

September 2012 - April 2017   The University of Hong Kong, Optics, PhD & Postdoctoral Fellow, Supervisor: Professor Kenneth K.Y. Wong

September 2009 - June 2012   South China University of Technology, Optics, Master's Degree, Supervisor: Academician Yang Zhongmin

September 2005 - June 2009   South China University of Technology, Optical Information Science and Technology, Bachelor's Degree

Representative paper results 

1. Y. Yang†, X. Chen†, W. Lin†, X. Hu, H. Xu, Y. Ma, Z. Liang, L. Ling, Z. Xiong, Y. Guo, T. Liu, X. Wei*, and Z. Yang*，”Polarization symmetry breaking of GHz dissipative solitons”, Physical Review Letters 134, 213803 (2025).

2. L. Ling†, W. Lin†, Z. Liang†, M. Pan, C. Wei, X. Chen, Y. Yang, Z. Xiong, Y. Guo, X. Wei*, and Z. Yang*, “Practical GHz single-cavity all-fiber dual-comb laser for high-speed spectroscopy”, Light: Science & Applications 14, 133 (2025).

3. X. Chen†, W. Lin†, X. Hu†, W. Wang, Z. Liang, L. Ling, Y. Yang, Y. Guo, T. Liu, D. Chen, X. Wei*, and Z. Yang,*“Dynamic gain driven mode-locking in GHz fiber laser”. Light: Science & Applications 13, 265 (2024).

4. H. Xiu†, Y. Fan†, T. Wang, W. Wang, W. Lin, X. Wei*, and Z. Yang*, 2-kW all polarization-maintaining fiber ultrafast laser at a GHz repetition rate, Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 031402- (2025).

5. Z. Liang, M. Pan, W. Lin, N. Zhang, J. Wen, X. Chen, L. Ling, Z. Li, X. Wei*, Z. Yang*, “All-fiber GHz few-cycle pulse generation at 2µm”, Opt. Lett. 49, 5356-5359 (2024).

Contact Information

E-mail：xmwei@scut.edu.cn