ZHIGANG CHEN

Education & Experience:

Research Interest:

Nonlinear Optics and Photonics, Spatial Solitons and Waveguides, Photorefractive Materials, Pattern Formation and Spatiotemporal Chaos.
Currently, there are several projects carried on in our Optics Research Lab , including photonic structures and bandgaps, modulation instability of incoherent waves, dynamics of high-order optical vortices, soliton pixels and waveguide arrays, and nonlinear optical studies of photorefractive polymers.

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.
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Teaching:

Phys 240: General Physics III

Phys 321: Modern Physics Lab

Phys 480: Modern Optics

Phys 715: Lasers & Quantum Optics