Dr. Chang-Qing Xu

Dr. Chang-Qing Xu

Professor
Department of Engineering Physics

McMaster University
1280 Main Street West, Hamilton
Ontario, Canada  L8S 4L7

office: JHE/A417
email: cqxu@mcmaster.ca
voice: (905) 525-9140 x 24314
FAX: (905) 527-8409

Lab: JHE-214

B.Sc., M.Sc., (University of Science and Technology of China), D. Eng. (Toyko), L.E.L.

Education, Experience, Awards & Affiliation, Teaching Courses, Research Interests,
Group Member, Summer students, Funding, Recent Publications, Links,

Education
  • Ph.D. Applied Physics Department, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 1991

M.Sc. Physics Department, University of Science and Technology of China, P.R. China, 1987
B.Sc. Physics Department, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, P.R. China, 1985

Experience

• Nov., 2001–present, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada;
• May, 2000-Nov. 2001, Associate Professor, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;
• April, 1991 - May, 2000, Research Scientist, R&D Group, Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Awards & Affiliation

• Senior Member of IEEE;
• Member of Optical Society of America (OSA);
• The Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA) (Ontario), 2002;
• International Who’s Who of Professional from Who’s Who in the World, 1999;
• The 20th century award for achievement from American Biography Institute, 2000.

Teaching Courses

4S04-Introduction to lasers and electro-optics
• 3W04- Acquisition and Analysis of Experimental Information (1/2)
• 4U04-Modern and Applied Physics Laboratory-Optics and electro-optics

Research Interests

Optoelectronics, nonlinear optics, photonic devices based on dielectric materials, semiconductors and fibers for telecommunication and biomedical applications, passive and active optical devices, optical sensors.

Group Member

Name Year Research Topic
John Bracken M2 Quasiphase matched wavelength converters
Fangfang Zhang M2 Development of waveguide wavelength converters and their applications
Jinsong Zhang M2 fiber Bragg gratings on multi-mode fibers
Honggang Yu D2 Bragg grating semiconductor lasers
Bo Chen D2 All-optical wavelength converters
Jian Yang D1 Optical fiber sensors
Jorge Fonseca Campos D1 Coherent light generation
Yong Wang PDF Fiber Bragg gratings and fiber lasers
Wanguo Liang PDF Waveguide devices and their system applications

Summer students

Student Year summer Sponsor
Jon Markle B4 2002, 2003 NSERC
Robert Farkas B3 2003 NSERC
Matthew D. Minnick B1 2003 NSERC
Frances Verleyen B4 2003 BIMR

Funding

• National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC);
• Canadian Institute for Photonics Innovations (CIPI);
• Photonics Research Ontario (PRO);
• Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI);
• Ontario Phonic Consortium (OPC);
• The Premier's Research Excellence Award (PREA).

Recent Publications

C. Q. Xu, J. A. Bracken, B. Chen, “Intra-cavity all-optical wavelength conversions employing LiNbO3 QPM waveguide and EDFA”, in press, Journal of the Optical Society of America, B, vol.20, pp.2142-2146, 2003.
• C.Q. Xu, B. Chen, “Cascaded wavelength conversions based on sum-frequency and difference frequency generations”, in press, Optics Letters., 2003
• Yong Wang, Chang-Qing Xu, and Hong Po, “Thermal Effects in Kilowatt Fiber Lasers”, in press, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2003.
• J. A. Bracken, C. Q. Xu, “All-Optical Wavelength Conversions Based on MgO Doped LiNbO3 QPM Waveguides Using an EDFA as a Pump Source”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol.5(7), pp.954-956, June, 2003.
• B. Zhou, C. Q. Xu, B. Chen, “Comparison of difference frequency generation and the cascaded ?(2) based wavelength conversions in LiNbO3 qasiphase matched waveguides”, Journal of the Optical Society of America, B, vol.20, Issue 5, pp.846-852, May, 2003.
• B. Chen, C. Q. Xu, B. Zhou, X. H. Tang, “Analysis of cascaded second-order nonlinear interaction based on quasiphase matched optical waveguide”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol.8 (3), pp. 675 -680 2002.
• B. Chen, C. Q. Xu, B. Zhou, Y. Nihei, and A. Harada, “All-Optical Variable-in Variable-out Wavelength Conversions by Using MgO:LiNbO3 Quasiphase Matched Wavelength Converters” ”, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol.40, No.12B, pp.L1370 - L1372, 2001.
• B. Chen, C. Q. Xu, B. Zhou, Y. Nihei, and A. Harada, Y. Wang, Y. L. Lam, “Temperature characteristics of 1.5 ?m-band MgO doped LiNbO3 quasiphase matched wavelength converters”, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol.40, No.6B, pp.L612 - L614, 2001.
• B. Zhou, C. Q. Xu, B. Chen, Y. Nihei, and A. Harada, Y. L. Lam, “Efficient 1.5 ?m-band MgO doped LiNbO3 quasiphase matched wavelength converters”, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol.40, No.8A, pp. L796-798, 2001.
• C.Q. Xu, B. Zhou, Y.L. Lam, S. Arahira, Y. Ogawa, and H. Ito, “All-optical demultiplexing by using LiNbO3 quasiphase-matched wavelength converters”, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol. 40, Part 2, no. 8B, pp. L881-L883 , 2001.
• C.Q. Xu, B. Zhou, Y.L. Lam, S. Arahira, Y. Ogawa, and H. Ito, “Fixed-in variable-out wavelength conversion using LiNbO3 quasiphase-matched wavelength converter”, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol.40, pp.158-159,2001.


Links

NSERC: http://www.nserc.ca/

CIPI: http://www.cipi.ulaval.ca/

PRO: http://www.oce-ontario.org/centres/photonics/whoweare.html

CFI: http://www.innovation.ca/

Osaka University: http://laser.ele.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/English/

Tohoku University: http://www.ito.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/english/

Stanford University: http://www.stanford.edu/group/ByerFejer/

Paderborn University: http://www.physik.uni-paderborn.de/ag/ag-sol/ag-sol.htm