时间：2010年9月23日（星期四）上午10:00—11:30
地点：浙江大学光电系玉泉校区教三326
报告人：Dr. Yinlan Ruan
报告题目：
Emerging optical fibres: new fibre materials, structures and applications
Abstract
New classes of optical fibres such as micro- and nano-structured fibres are rapidly emerging that allow fibres to be used well beyond their established role in data transmission. Soft glasses have high linear and nonlinear refractive indices and low softening temperature. New fabrication techniques such as extrusion processes can be used to create flexible and complex structures within these glasses fibres for new applications. An overview of recent progress in a range of areas including new transmission fibres in mid-infrared spectrum, highly nonlinear fibres, chemical and biological sensing with new fibres and novel fibre lasers will be reviewed. All the works are performed in our recently established Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) in University of Adelaide, Australia.
报告人简介：
Dr. Yinlan Ruan gained her PhD from the Australian National University, Australia in 2005 with her thesis focusing on low loss chalcogenide planar waveguide devices for all-optical processing. She demonstrated the first low optical loss chalcogenide waveguides fabricated by dry etching and the developed method has been widely referred. After her PhD, she joined Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS) in University of Adelaide, Australia. She firstly worked in fluoride glass development, then transferred to biosensing. She is currently working in an Australian Research Council (ARC) granted project as an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (APD). This project is to model, fabricate and characterise light enhancement within nano size core hole in soft glass microstructured fibers and explore its applications in high nonlinearity, high resolution imaging and sensing. Currently centralised core holes with minimum 20nm have been achieved, the smallest holes fabricated within the core of an optical fibre to date. Dr Ruan is receipt of Australian Cheung Kong Award, and Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Self-financed Students Studying Abroad.
