Speaker
Professor
Xiupu
Zhang
Concordia
University
Title
InP Quantum Dot Semiconductor Lasers
Abstract
InP quantum dot (QD) lasers are emerging. This presentation reviews InP QD lasers, including muti-wavelength lasers, coherent frequency comb, DFB single-mode lasers, and mode-locked lasers, accomplished by NRC and Concordia.
Speaker's biography
Xiupu Zhang received the B.Sc. degree from the Harbin Institute of Electrical Technology (now Harbin University of Science and Technology), Harbin, China in 1983, the M.Sc. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark in 1996, all in electrical engineering. Upon earning the B.Sc. degree in 1983, he spent two years in one research institute of China manufacturing fibers and fiber cables. Following his study toward the M.Sc. degree with the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, from September 1985 to June 1988, he was engaged in construction of telecommunication networks in Beijing, China, for four-and-a-half years. In December 1992, he began his study toward the Ph.D. degree with the Center for Broadband Telecommunications (later DTU-fotonik), Technical University of Denmark. He then spent approximately one-and-a-half years with the Laboratory of Photonic Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, performing research on high-speed fiber-optic transmission. From July 1998 to May 2002, he was involved in the fiber-optics industry, including design of repeaterless fiber-optic transmission systems, design of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and fiber Raman amplifiers, design of optical transmitters and receivers, and design of metropolitan optical networks, in North America (including Montreal, QC, Canada, and Ottawa, ON, Canada, and Piscataway, NJ). In June 2002, he joined Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada, as an Associate Professor. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University. He has authored or coauthored over 150 refereed technical publications, including about 90 journal publications published in IEEE, Optical Society of America (OSA), Institution of Engineering Technology (IET), and other related journals, and over 70 conference presentations in IEEE related conferences such as the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC). His current research interests include radio over fiber systems, photonic integrated circuits, and quantum-dot semiconductor lasers.
Invited by Professor Dayan Ban