"My research is 'controlling the light.'" Wu Rengmao, a youngteacher at Zhejiang University ’s College of Optical Science and Engineering,explained his work, “By designing a high free degree, flexible curved surface,'holding' the beam spread by the way and the characteristics we need. "
Not long ago, this ”Light controller” won thesecond “Ali Dharma Academy Orange Award”, who can receive a bonus of onemillion yuan and a full directional research and development resource support.
Wu Rengmao majored inmachinery in undergraduate and master's degree studies rather than optical.When he studied for the master's degree, the research team needed to complete aproject related to the auto adaptive front-lighting system. Everyone learnsmachinery, without any optical background, so this is a big problem. Wu Rengmaotook this heavy responsibility. Because of this occasional opportunity, hefound his interest, and forged an inextricable bond with optics. For furtherstudies, he passed the doctoral degree of Zhejiang University's OptoelectronicsCollege in 2009. "It was also from then on that I really entered the worldof optics." said Wu Rengmao.
According to memory of Wu Rengmao, it was far more difficult than expectedwhen he was first exposed to free-formcurved beams. By the first half of 2012, no research ideas for effectivelysolving the problem of free-form beam control had been formed. He said, “I feelthat research must start with theoretical innovation. It only makes sense to applyit around this theoretical innovation." So, he continued to derive theformula. After more than three months, he finally managed to achieve abreakthrough in the second half of 2012.
Under the guidance of Juan C. Miñano and Pablo Benítez, two top-levelinstructors in the field of non-imaging, he successfully completed his firstyear postdoctoral at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and then, have beenstudying postdoctoral at the University of Arizona (one of the three majoroptical centers in the United States) for two years. During this period, WuRengmao made great achievements in free-form imaging and non-imaging optics: Tosolve the difficult non-zero-elongation beam adjustment problem in thenon-imaging field, he proposed a direct design method based on anon-zero-elongation beam control in multiple aspheric surfaces in threedimensions, which achieved high performance and miniaturization of the beamcontrol system (Optica 3, 840, 2016).
Wu Rengmao has published 36 SCI papers in Laser & Photonics Reviews,Optica, Optics Letters, Optics Express and other journals, 26 of which he wasthe first author or corresponding author.