Academic Qualifications:

• B.Sc., Wuhan University, China, 01/09/2001-30/06/2005

• Ph.D, Wuhan University, China, 01/09/2005-30/06/2010

Academic Positions Held:

• Lecturer, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 01/07/2010-31/08/2011

• Postdoc research fellow, McMaster University, Canada, 01/09/2011-31/08/2012

• Lecturer, WNLO, HUST, China, 01/09/2012-31/10/2013

• Associate professor, WNLO, HUST, China, 01/11/2013-31/10/2020

• Professor, WNLO, HUST, China, 01/11/2020-present

Research Interests:

Dr Chen’s research focuses on plasmonics, metamaterials, topological photonics, silicon photonics, and their applications. He has authored and co-authored more than 60 research papers in journals such as Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Advanced Optical Materials, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review B, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Journal of Lightwave technology and so on. These papers have received more than 1500 times citations from Science, Nature Photonics, Nature Review Materials, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters and so on. Since 2010, his research work has been supported by National Key Research and Development Project of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and industrial programs.

Social Affiliations:

Dr Chen is a recipient of the second prize of Natural Science Award of Hubei province in 2020, and currently a member of Optica/SPIE/Chinese Optical Society. He has been invited to serve as an Associate editor for Optical Materials Express (a journal published by Optica), and a youth editorial board member for ACTA PHOTONICA SINICA.

Teaching Courses:

Physical Optics

Selected Publications:

1. Xiaoqian Shu, Aodong Li, Guangwei Hu, Jian Wang*, Andrea Alù*, and Lin Chen*, Fast Encirclement of an Exceptional Point for Highly Efficient and Compact Chiral Mode Converters. Nat. Commun.  (accepted)

2. Weiming Hao, Jian Wang, and Lin Chen*, Meta-coupler arrays linking propagating waves and photonic topological modes on a chip. Opt. Lett. (accepted)

3. Junhao Li, Guangwei Hu, Lina Shi, Nan He, Daqian Li, Qiuyu Shang, Qing Zhang*, Huange Fu, Linlin Zhou, Wei Xiong*, Jianguo Guan, Jian Wang, Sailing He, Lin Chen*, Full-color enhanced second harmonic generation using rainbow trapping in ultrathin hyperbolic metamaterials. Nat. Commun. 12, 6425 (2021)

4. Weiming Hao, Jian Wang, and Lin Chen*, Compact broadband silicon-integrated Airy beam emitter. Opt. Lett. 46, 4084-4087 (2021)

5. Ming Deng, Tangxuan Ren, Jian Wang, Lin Chen*. Doublet achromatic metalens for broadband optical retroreflector. Chinese Optics Letters, 19(2): 023601 (2021)

6. Zezhao Ju, Jing Wen, Lina Shi, Binbin Yu, Ming Deng, Dawei Zhang*, Weiming Hao, Jian Wang, Shuqi Chen, Lin Chen*, Ultra-Broadband High-Efficiency Airy Optical Beams Generated with All-Silicon Metasurfaces. Adv. Optical Mater. 9, 2001284 (2021)

7. Hao, W., Wang, J., Chen, L. *, Plasmonic Metasurfaces Enabled Ultra-Compact Broadband Waveguide TM-Pass Polarizer. ANNALEN DER PHYSIK, 533, 2000422 (2020)

8. Aodong Li, Jianji Dong, Jian Wang, Ziwei Cheng, John S. Ho, Dawei Zhang, Jing Wen, Xu-Lin Zhang, C. T. Chan, Andrea Alù*, Cheng-Wei Qiu*, and Lin Chen*, Hamiltonian Hopping for Efficient Chiral Mode Switching in Encircling Exceptional Points. Physical Review Letters 125, 187403, (2020).

9. Lin Chen*, Tangxuan Ren, Yang Zhao, Qiang Yu, Zengli Huang, Kai Zhang*, Jing Wen, Feng Lin*, Shuqi Chen, Polarization-Independent Wavefront Manipulation of Surface Plasmons with Plasmonic Metasurfaces. Adv. Optical Mater. 8, 2000868 (2020)

10. Chen, L. *, Li, H., Hao, W., Yin, X. & Wang, J. Hyperbolic metamaterials for high-efficiency generation of circularly polarized Airy beams. Chinese Physics B 29, 084210, (2020).

11. Zezhao Ju, Ming Deng, Jian Wang, and Lin Chen*, Reconfigurable multifrequency and wide-angle directional beaming of light from a subwavelength metal slit with graphene metasurfaces, Opt. Lett. 45, 2882-2885 (2020)

12. Zhengsen Ruan, Nan Zhou, Shuang Zheng, Xiaoping Cao, Yun Long, Lin Chen*, Jian Wang*, Releasing the light field in subwavelength grating slot microring resonators for athermal and sensing applications. Nanoscale 12, 15620-15630, (2020).

13. Tianlong Wu, Wei Li, Jin Yang, Jie Ma, Lin Chen, Jianguo Guan, Inhomogeneous substrate metamaterial absorbers with broadband absorption spanning low and high frequency bands. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 53, 105003, (2019).

14. Hua Zhu, Shuqi Chen, Jing Wen, Jian Wang, and Lin Chen*, Graphene-based metasurfaces for switching polarization states of anomalous reflection and focusing, Opt. Lett. 44, 5764-5767 (2019)

15. Tangxuan Ren and Lin Chen*, Slow light enabled high-modulation-depth graphene modulator with plasmonic metasurfaces, Opt. Lett. 44, 5446-5449 (2019)

16. Li, H., Hao, W., Yin, X., Chen, S., Chen, L. *, Broadband Generation of Airy Beams with Hyperbolic Metamaterials. Adv. Optical Mater. 7, 1900493 (2019)

17. Hua Zhu, Ming Deng, Shuqi Chen, and Lin Chen*, Graphene-based meta-coupler for direction-controllable emission of surface plasmons, Opt. Lett. 44, 3382-3385 (2019)

18. Hao, W., Deng, M., Chen, S*. & Chen, L. *, High-Efficiency Generation of Airy Beams with Huygens' Metasurface. Physical Review Applied 11, 054012, (2019).

19. Junhao Li, Huijie Guo, Tao Xu, Lin Chen*, Zhihong Hang, Lei Zhou, Shuqi Chen, Multiple-Beam Interference-Enabled Broadband Metamaterial Wave Plates. Physical Review Applied 11, 044042, (2019).

20. Xiang Yin, Hua Zhu, Huijie Guo, Ming Deng, Tao Xu, Zhijie Gong, Xun Li, Zhi Hong Hang, Chao Wu, Hongqiang Li, Shuqi Chen, Lei Zhou*, Lin Chen*, Hyperbolic Metamaterial Devices for Wavefront Manipulation. Laser & Photonics Reviews 13, 1800081, (2019).

21. Li, J., Zhang, T. & Chen, L*. High-Efficiency Plasmonic Third-Harmonic Generation with Graphene on a Silicon Diffractive Grating in Mid-infrared Region. Nanoscale Research Letters 13, 338, (2018).

22. Hua Zhu, Tao Xu, Zhuo Wang, Junhao Li, Zhihong Hang*, Lei Zhou, Shuqi Chen, Xun Li, Lin Chen*, Flat metasurfaces to collimate electromagnetic waves with high efficiency. Optics Express 26, 28531-28543, (2018).

23. Yin, X., Chen, L. * & Li, X. Polarization-controlled generation of Airy plasmons. Optics Express 26, 23251-23264, (2018).

24. Lin Chen*, Xianmin Ke, Huijie Guo, Junhao Li, Xun Li, Lei Zhou*, Broadband wave plates made by plasmonic metamaterials. Scientific Reports 8, 1051, (2018).

25. Zhang, T., Ke, X., Yin, X., Chen, L. * & Li, X. Graphene-assisted ultra-compact polarization splitter and rotator with an extended bandwidth. Scientific Reports 7, 12169, (2017).

26. Zhu, H., Yin, X., Chen, L. * & Li, X. Directional beaming of light from a subwavelength metal slit with phase-gradient metasurfaces. Scientific Reports 7, 12098, (2017).

27. Zhou, X., Zhang, T., Yin, X., Chen, L. * & Li, X. Dynamically Tunable Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Graphene-Based Coupled Micro-ring Resonators. IEEE Photonics Journal 9, 1-9, (2017).

28. Ke, X., Zhu, H., Li, J., Chen, L. * & Li, X. Double-stacked hyperbolic metamaterial waveguide arrays for efficient and broadband terahertz quarter-wave plates. Scientific Reports 7, 574, (2017).