ZHIGANG CHEN

Education & Experience:

Research Interest:

Nonlinear Optics and Photonics, Spatial Solitons and Waveguides, Surface and Defect States, Optical Trapping and Manipulation, Photorefractive Materials, Pattern Formation and Spatiotemporal Chaos.
Currently, there are several projects carried on in our Optics Research Lab , including photonic structures and bandgap guidance, optical rotating and accelerating beams, modulation instability of incoherent waves, dynamics of high-order optical vortices, discrete and gap solitons.

Selected Publications:

M. Mitchell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 490, 1996.
Z. Chen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 2948, 1997.
Z. Chen et al., Science, 280, 889, 1998.
D.N. Christodoulides et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 5113, 1998.
T.H. Coskun et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2374, 2000.
Z. Chen et al., the Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA , 99, 5223, 2002.
H. Martin et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 123902, 2004.
D. Neshev et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 123903, 2004.
Z. Chen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 143902, 2004.
J. Yang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 113902, 2005.
X. Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 083904, 2006.
I. Makasyuk et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 233903, 2006.
X. Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 123907, 2007.
C. Lou et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 213903, 2007.
X. Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 243901, 2007.
Click here for Recent Publications from our group. Take a look: Incoherent light forms guide and photonic lattices in our Optics Research Lab.

Teaching:

Phys 240: General Physics III

Phys 321: Modern Physics Lab

Phys 480: Modern Optics

Phys 715: Lasers & Quantum Optics