WUHAN, China (January 3, 2020) - Wuhan Optoelectronics Forum No. 164 was successfully held in Auditorium A101 at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) on the morning of January 3. Prof. Lin Zhang from Aston University delivered an exciting talk entitled “Advanced fibre grating devices and applications”. Prof. Xuewen Shu, from WNLO chaired the forum. Prof. Dan Zhu awarded Prof. Lin Zhang the forum medal.
Prof. Lin Zhang gave an overview of the research activities at AIPT with the emphasis on fabrication techniques and applications of advanced optical fibre grating devices created in normal and special optical fibers by UV and femtosecond laser inscription.
In the report, Prof. Lin Zhang introduced the team's work on fiber gratings, including devices and systems based on Bragg gratings, long-period gratings and tilted fiber gratings. Prof. Lin Zhang mainly reported on the characteristics and applications of tilted fiber gratings, and systematically reported the characteristics of tilted gratings with different angles. She particularly emphasized the extremely polarizing characteristics of 45o tilted gratings, which can be applied to single-polarization high-power fiber lasers, all-fiber polarizers, and mode-locked lasers.
Finally, she pointed out that the fiber gratings can be applied in novel optical fibers such as multi-core fibers and D-type fibers in biomedical fields. This new type of grating device is bound to be applied in different fields and promote the development of various industries.
Prof. Lin Zhang was the Head of Electrical, Electronic and Power Engineering Department at Aston University from 2013 to 2017, and the Deputy Director of AIPT from 2012 to 2019. Her research interests are primarily in the field of optical fiber grating devices and applications in optical communications, signal processing, biophotonics, fiber lasers and smart sensing. Her research output so far includes ~480 research papers published in peerreview journals and international conferences with a total of ~12900 citations and h-index 59. She is also an OSA Follow.
